[Scholarly Communication] 

Until May 31, the NIH is requesting comments on the implementation of the recently enacted Public Access Policy. The NIH is particularly interested in your answers to the following questions:

1. Do you have recommendations for alternative implementation approaches to those already reflected in the NIH Public Access Policy?

2. In light of the change in law that makes NIH's public access policy mandatory, do you have recommendations for monitoring and ensuring compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy?

3. In addition to the information already posted, what additional information, training, or communications related to the NIH Public Access Policy would be helpful to you?

Share your feedback and view all comments received so far.

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[Scholarly Communication] 

Since 2000, authors who publish in the Journal of Cell Biology (as well as other publications from the Rockefeller University Press) have been able to post the final versions of papers on their own websites, in addition to publishing in the journal. However -- as with most scholarly journals -- authors were required to sign over their copyright to the press.

From this point forward, authors who publish in JCB are able to retain copyright control over their work. Instead of relinquishing their copyright, authors provide the journal with a license to publish. Beyond providing this one-time license, authors are freely available to reuse their work however they wish.

Under the new policy, authors also permit noncommercial reuse of their materials after six months of publication. For this purpose, authors will sign the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license provided by the San Francisco-based Creative Commons.

For further information about this policy, read the JCB editorial, "You wrote it; you own it!"

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[New Resources] 

UCSF researchers typically read about the latest medical advances or parse promising genome sequences, and the Library has many resources to aid discovery in these important areas. But we also strive to serve the cultural and leisure needs of UCSF's students, faculty, and staff.

The Library has recently secured online access to many new databases in the arts and humanities. Interested in learning about the history of early English books? Want to see full reproductions of important pieces of art? Are you a film buff who needs more biographical information on your favorite stars? You can learn all of this and more in our Arts & Humanities databases collection.

You can also access this collection by browsing "Arts & Humanities" in the Databases area.

Interested in more leisure reading? Our recently developed Popular Reading Collection, located on the main floor of the Parnassus Library, provides access to popular books, newspapers, and magazines.

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[General] 

Let us know what you think of the new Popular Reading section located on the main (3rd) floor of the Parnassus Campus Library. Take a minute to complete the survey online.

Paper surveys are also located in the Popular Reading section.

Your feedback will help us determine how to build the collection. The collection is constantly updated by adding new titles each month and returning ones that are no longer popular. Help us identify new titles to include and less popular titles to return.

The survey will be available until May 16, 2008.

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[Art and Music] 

Wednesday, May 21, noon-1 p.m.
Lange Room
Free admission

Bay Area singer/songwriter Curt Yagi crafts well-written songs with a unique sound. Yagi's percussive guitar playing, breathy vocals, and driving bass lines are both impressive and soothing.

Presented by Campus Life Services Arts & Events and sponsored by the Sarah B. Childs Fund.

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[Classes] 

The class schedule for May - August 2008 is now available. The Library continues to offer basic and advanced training in PubMed@UCSF, EndNote, and RefWorks. Other hands-on classes include Advanced Googling and Grants and Funding Sources. All of the classes are free.

A variety of bioinformatics classes are offered at Mission Bay. These three-part series cover NCBI databases, Entrez Programming Utilities, and BLAST, among other subjects.

Four classes are scheduled at SFGH, including Information Resources for Nurses and PubMed Insights Plus Online Journals.

Sign up online to attend one of these free sessions. For more information about classes, contact us.

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[New Resources] 

The UCSF Library has a new blog, In Plain Cite, which we'll use to share news and information about EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero, and other reference management software.

We invite you to share your own questions, news, or tips with other UCSF users. Use the comments links in each post or contact David Owen.

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[General] 

To prepare for construction of a new education center on the Library's 2nd floor, we are moving some materials from the collection to a regional library facility located in Richmond, CA. The materials will be moved between April and July 2008.

The new education center will integrate the educational computing facilities already housed in the Library with new clinical skills and simulation labs, as well as classroom spaces. This state-funded project is a collaboration among all four schools and the Library to create a state-of-the-art center to support education at UCSF.

Construction of the facility will begin in early 2009 and will be completed in spring 2010. As the project progresses, we will share more detailed plans with the campus and publicize events as they affect our library users.

To identify books to move to the Northern Regional Library Facility, we will look at:

- Books published before 1920
- Fragile and damaged books published before 1970
- Books that have previous editions (current edition will remain in the Library)
- Multiple copies of the same book
- Foreign language books published before 1970, including all books in the East Asian Collection that are in the vernacular.

In summer 2008, the Library will move the journals on the 2nd floor to the 1st floor, as well as consolidate our book collections. Details on this move will be publicized as they become available.

We welcome your feedback. Please send any comments to Julia Kochi, Director, Digital Library & Collections.

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[Scholarly Communication] 

On April 17, 2008, the UC Office of the President presented a webinar entitled "PubMed Central: UC Implementation of the new NIH Policy." View PowerPoint and hear audio from the webinar.

Please be advised that there is some static on the first 8 minutes of the audio presentation, after which point the remaining audio in the hour-long presentation comes through clearly.

If you have any questions about UCSF's implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy, please contact us or visit our web page, Public Access to NIH-Funded Research.

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