The Insider Express

A monthly e-newsletter of the HAM-TMC Library

Vol.3 (7) July 2005

The Insider Express communicates Library news to our users and the Texas Medical Center community. To subscribe or to be removed from this list, please send a message to liblines@library.tmc.edu

Hot Topics: Find-It! Direct Link to Electronic Journal Content; Dinner with…Houston’s Most Fascinating – Save the Date October 27; Bookshelf: Electronic Books with Links to PubMed; Library Class Schedule.

Find It! Direct Link to Electronic Journal Content

When you find the citation for an article through one of the library’s online databases, such as OVID Medline or Academic Search Premier, it is now possible to “click through” directly to the online journal and retrieve the article.

Visit the Library website for more information: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/

Dinner with…Houston’s Most Fascinating – Save the Date October 27

On Thursday, October 27, 2005, the Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library will present Dinner With . . . Houston’s Most Fascinating in the ballroom of the Houston Country Club. This festive fundraising event, held biannually, has been very successful in producing generous support for the endeavors of the Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library.

Individual and table reservations for this worthwhile event are available by contacting Delores Scott at 713-799-7108 or dscott@library.tmc.edu

Full story available at: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/pubs/art/friends_gala.html

Bookshelf: Electronic Books with Links to PubMed

Bookshelf, is a collection of biomedical textbooks from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in collaboration with authors and publishers.

The book collection currently includes 39 titles that can be searched directly using any search term or phrase in the Entrez retrieval system or through links to PubMed abstracts.

Some books in the Bookshelf are available to download to a handheld device. Note that this requires MobiPocket Reader.

For a list of books available on PDA versions and to install MobiPocket Reader go to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/Books.live/Help/mobile.html

For more information and to access the Bookshelf go to:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books

Library Class Schedule

Free classes on EndNote, Navigating Full-Text Journals, SciFinder Scholar-Chemical Abstracts and TOXNET are offered in the Library classroom.

For a complete list of classes, check the Library web site at: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/class/schedule.php

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