Library of Congress, British Library to Support Common Archiving Standard for Electronic Journals:

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-097.htmlIn large part this advocacy and statement of direction is in response to pressure on both libraries from the publishing community to have national libraries agree on a common format for deposit.

In large part this advocacy and statement of direction is in response to pressure on both libraries from the publishing community to have national libraries agree on a common format for deposit.Caroline Arms
Library of Congress

Tip sheets, newsletters and more:

http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_download.html

Four new books from the American Society for Microbiology have been added to the Bookshelf:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma06/ma06_technote.html#7

The information displayed in MedlinePlus comes from your library’s DOCLINE institution record. The MedlinePlus Consumer Health libraries page is updated weekly on Monday night. Changes you make to your record appear on the following Tuesday morning. To update your library’s information displayed in MedlinePlus, please follow the instructions on this page:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_cons_health_update.html

Earth Day celebrates its 36th anniversary Saturday, April 22nd, and just in time for that occasion, the National Library of Medicine has spruced up its interactive mapping site, TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov).

The National Library of Medicine just released a new database, LactMed, on drugs and breastfeeding (see note below). It is part of TOXNET (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov) and can be searched together with all the TOXNET database or separately (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT).

The April issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/. 

http://www.blc.org/authorsrights.html

The Boston Library Consortium site on Authors’ Rights and Publishing.

Some of the most difficult issues related to the management of electronic resources revolve around licensing. To help ease the pain, many are calling for a new set of industry standards to express license terms more clearly and simply. More details at:

http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006a.spring/abstracts/PB-farb-standardised.html

The First Annual University Research Symposium for Understanding Fundamental Disparities in Health will be held on Monday, April 24, from 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Low Library Rotunda at Columbia University.

Keynote Speakers will be Antonia C. Novello, MD, MPH, DrPH, New York State Health Commissioner and 14th Surgeon General of the United
The purpose of the symposium is to stimulate thinking about the underlying themes or fundamental social causes of health disparities and to initiate the development of cross-disciplinary Working Groups that could coalesce and continue after the Symposium.

Advance registration is required. To register, please visit:
http://www.columbiacchp.org/cchp-home/rsvp

Please register early, as space is limited.