The new OHSU Library web site is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, July 7. The new site will share the unified look and feel of the OHSU web site and will be easier to navigate.
To the left is a thumbnail picture giving an idea of the new look and feel of the site.
If you have questions about this upcoming change, or if you have other questions about the OHSU Library Web site, please contact the OHSU Library Web Managers at library@ohsu.edu.
The OHSU Library will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2009 and Saturday, July 4, 2009 in observance of Independence Day. The library will resume regular hours on Sunday, July 5. For additional information on library hours see http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml.
OHSU Library is participating in a free trial of a new product from Elsevier, BrainNavigator (http://www.brainnav.com). The trial will run through July 15, 2009. The trial requires free, individual, online registration at www.brainnav.com for each user. Every user is required to login to BrainNavigator to have access to BrainNavigator’s custom features like personalized workspace annotation, calibration, notes sharing, 3D slice configuration and saving of 3D model configurations. Additional information is available in the announcement from Elsevier, included below.
The Library is actively seeking feedback on this product, to judge its usefulness to OHSU researchers. Questions or comments can be sent to Sara Piasecki, Head of Historical Collections & Archives (piasecki@ohsu.edu or 503-418-2287) or to Emily McElroy, Head of Collection Development (mcelroye@ohsu.edu or 503-494-6659).
BrainNavigator is a marriage of traditional book content with cutting edge technology. This workflow tool is rooted in information from ScienceDirect and brain atlases such as George Paxinos and Charles Watson’s “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates”. The true innovation could not have been accomplished without close collaboration with the non-profit organization, The Allen Institute for Brain Science. Their cutting edge 3-D technology meshed with Elsevier content creates the most powerful and prolific tool for neuroscience research to date.
When this product was first introduced last year during the Neuroscience Conference in Washington D.C., jaws dropped. As a result numerous videos and web discussions have emerged. Below is a link to a 60 second clip and short article that can provide a glimpse of how this can change research.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97274006
We hope you will find BrainNavigator intuitive to use, and if you run into questions, its extensive help files are available. When in BrainNavigator, simply click the “Help” button in the top navigation bar to open a window where you can search by the topic, or you can browse the index.
Also within the “Help” area within BrainNavigator are tutorials to get you started with both the 2D and 3D applications.
More information on BrainNavigator can be found at http://www.brainnav.com/info
The OHSU Library currently has access to a trial of “Access World News: Research Collection” http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ from NewsBank. Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and “my personal” functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects.
This expanded access to the resources available in NewsBank’s “America’s Newspapers” collection will last through the end of December 2009.
Questions?
Contact Sara Piasecki
Head, Historical Collections & Archives
(503) 418-2287
piasecki@ohsu.edu
