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		Volume I, Number 1 September - October 2003 Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of the Insider, our new web-based newsletter produced bi–monthly by the Information Services Division of the HAM–TMC Library This publication has been designed to give you the "inside" information of Library news and events. Featured articles will highlight key medical information resources, HAM–TMC Library services and special events/projects sponsored by the Library and associates. read more Library of Menninger Clinic Available in Houston The Houston Academy of Medicine–Texas Medical Center Library is the proud recipient of the Menninger Foundation′s Library of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. read more HAM-TMC Library Outreach Project Featured for National Librarians Month Camp For All Connection, a library outreach project, is featured on the National Library of Medicine, National Medical Librarians Month web site as one of the noteworthy projects in the South Central Region. read more BioMed Central–Taking Publishing and Research in a New Direction Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and The University of Texas Health Science Center–Houston (UTHSC) authors can now publish articles in BioMed Central peer–reviewed journals without a fee. read more MEDLINE Gets Bigger and Older The National Library of Medicine announced the addition of older citations (1953–1965) to the MEDLINE database. read more Library Class Schedule The library offers free classes throughout the year on different topics. read more It's a Brave New World-Challenges in Scholarly Communication The Web cast of the 7th Annual Houston Conference on Health Informatics, Challenges and Opportunities in Scholarly Communications sponsored by the HAM–TMC Library can be viewed at: http://www.library.tmc.edu/hchi/2003/hchi03.html Genetics Home Reference A new database Genetics Home Reference from the National Library of Medicine focuses on genetic conditions and the genes responsible for these conditions. read more Version of this Issue of the Insider (230kb.pdf) Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of the Insider The Insider is one of three publications produced by the Library. You will always be able to find it from the HAM–TMC Library homepage http://www.library.tmc.edu by clicking on Library Publications. Other Library publications include: Library Lines – printed quarterly, archived issues available in PDF at: http://www.library.tmc .edu/liblines/index.html Insider Express - an email publication distributed monthly. If you would like to be added to the email list to receive the InsiderExpress, please send an email message to Liblines@library.tmc.edu. back to top HAM-TMC Library Outreach Project Featured for National Librarians Month Camp For All partners with Texas Woman's University and the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library to facilitate access to electronic health information at the Camp For All (CFA) camping facility in Washington County, Texas. More information can be found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/lo/profiles03/scr.html or visit Camp for All Connection at: http://hhw.library.tmc.edu/~campforall/ BioMed Central-Taking Publishing and Research in a New Direction Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston (UTHSC) authors can now publish articles in BioMed Central peer–reviewed journals without a fee. Through financial support from the HAM-TMC Library and SCAMel (South Central Academic Medical Libraries) Consortium, BCM and UTHSC faculty, staff and students will be allowed to submit their manuscripts online for peer-review and publication upon acceptance. What you may NOT know is that BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com) is one of the leading open access publishers in the world, providing access to over 90 journals in medicine and the life sciences. It is also a rich research source, with a powerful search engine, easy access to full–text, and additional features such as direct export of search results to EndNote and Reference Manager databases. For those "on-the-go", the latest news and research article abstracts can be downloaded to your PDA through the AvantGo service. Next time you are performing a literature search, consider augmenting your usual PubMed or CINAHL searches with a search of the BioMed Central website. back to top Library Class Schedule For more information and to register, go to: http://hhw.library.tmc.edu/lib200/classes/Cart/ back to top MEDLINE Gets Bigger and Older The National Library of Medicine announced the addition of older citations (1953-1965) to the MEDLINE database. OLDMEDLINE consists of over 1.5 million citations to articles published in international biomedical journals in the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied sciences. These citations were originally published in the hardcopy of Index Medicus. For more information on how to search for these citations in MEDLINE go to: http:/ /www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so03/so03_oldmedline.html back to top Genetics Home Reference A new database Genetics Home Reference from the National Library of Medicine focuses on genetic conditions and the genes responsible for these conditions. This database offers information on 84 genetic conditions and 75 genes. The information is oriented to patients and families with relatives who may have a genetic disease. The database includes an introduction to genetic conditions and genes summaries, a section called Help me Understand Genetics, that provides basic information on genes and how they work. Additional sections include information on genetic disorders, genetics consultation and where to find a genetics professional in your area. Genetic testing and gene therapy information is also provided. A glossary of terms to help you understand the terminology of diseases and genetics as well as links to different genetic, patient, and educational resources are included. You can search this database by disease or condition. If you are not sure of the name of the disease, you have the option to browse conditions by name or category (i.e. bones, brain, cancer) or browsing genes, by symbol, full name or category (biological process, cellular component, molecular function). For more information and to access Generics Home Reference go to: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ back to top