In the months since passage of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) mandatory public access policy in late December of 2007, the number of submissions to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) repository, where authors are now required to deposit their NIH-funded research papers, has risen significantly. http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6581624.html?nid=2673#news1 [posted on Library Journal Academic Newswire July 24, 2008] scb

The July 16th Breezing Along with the RML recording is available here:

https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p41554068/

Jim Honour, Wyoming Liaison, discussed rural areas in the MidContinental region. Do they have unique problems with access to biomedical information? How may librarians assist? Are we on the frontier?

Dana Abbey, Colorado/Consumer Health Liaison, reviewed the NIH mandate for researchers to publish in PMC, and the role of the library in an open access environment. [SD]

Beginning April 8, 2008, the MCRML will be offering a free online class on using Routing Tables in DOCLINE.

This 60 minute online class will provide an in-depth look into DOCLINE Routing Tables.

Participants will learn about using their Borrowing Preferences, explanation of copyright compliance, editing Routing Tables, M/A/N Map, setting up Lending Options, and more!

The live class is taught the second Tuesday of each month starting at 10am (Mountain Time). This class is for beginning and intermediate level DOCLINE users but all DOCLINE users are welcome to attend!

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Attention LINKOUT libraries!

The Library Submission Utility will be updated to a new version in the first week of April. There will be a shut down of the current utility the morning of April 1 (Tuesday) to convert all participants’ holdings information to the new utility. (This is NOT an April Fools event!)

If all goes according to plans, the new utility will be up and running on April 4 (Friday).

Important Note! The functioning of your library icons and links in PubMed will NOT be affected during this period!

The new version of the utility has an improved layout and offers new functions, including a management interface for Outside Tool and Document Delivery Service, in addition to LinkOut.

Click here for more information

Should you have any questions, please write to lib-linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov