A listserv about scholarly communication

If you want to read lively comment, posting, etc. about scholarly communication, you may consider joining the liblicense listserv. The list serve is maintained by Yale and you can sign up at: http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/email.shtml

Fakes, Parodies and Hoaxes on the Internet

Click on the link below, you will find a guide on bogus websites created by Sue MacDonald.

http://zakta.com/zakta/view_1_5_3426_Fakes,_Parodies_and_Hoaxes_on_the_Internet#login_form_anchor

New OvidSP

Some new features in the latest OvidSP

1. You may switch between Search, Journals, Books, and My Workspace anytime you want without losing the searches you have done under the Search function.

2. The Filter By widget on the right-hand side allows you to filter your results by publication year, subject, author, journal, and publication type. If you would like the filtered results to show up in the Search History area, you can simply click on “Add to Search History” which is underneath “Filter By”.

3. “Keep Selected” feature is nice. After you select the desired results, you just need to click on “Keep Selected” and those selected results will be kept and shown in the Search History area.

4. New results management options: users can export their results to Word document, PDF, text file, Citavi, EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manger, RefWorks, BRS/Tagged, Reprint/Medlars, RIS, or XML.

5. New email features: you may choose to email your results in one of the eight styles: AMA, APA, Chicago (Author,Date), Chicago (Humanities), MLA, Vancouver, Ovid Labled Citation, or Ovid Citation.

6. The “drag-and-drop” feature: To drop it to the desired place, you have to make sure that the red stop icon () has changed into green tick ().

7. The neatest thing is My Workspace. There are four components in My Workspace:

1) My Projects. In My Projects, users can store citations and/or full-text documents they found in Ovid databases, and they can also add citations and upload full-text documents from outside Ovid databases. The maximum storage space for items from outside Ovid is 50 MB. Uploaded files will be kept at Ovid servers. The Upload File function can be turned off if the institution does not want their staff to upload files to servers that are outside of their organization. A project will be moved to Trash a year after its creation date and will be kept in Trash for a month. After that, the project will be deleted permanently. But a notice will be sent to the account owner eleven months after the creation date of the project and the account owner can choose to activate the project to prevent it from being deleted. There are no collaboration features with My Projects for now, but it is something that Ovid will add in the future.

2) My Searches and Alerts. All the saved searches and alerts created in the old version are kept here. You actually can add the auto alerts created in the old version to My Projects if you like.

3) My eTOCs. All the eTOCs created in the old version are kept here.

4) Install Toolbar. You may install the Ovid toolbar from here. I could not install it in my IE, but I was successful with FireFox. The Ovid Toolbar only works after you have logged into the new OvidSP. With Ovid Toolbar, you may add citations and/or full-text documents when you are working with resources that are outside Ovid databases, e.g. PubMed, or the Internet, etc.

There is a side-by-side screen comparison of Old OvidSP and New OvidSP available at:
http://www.ovid.com/site/pdf/side_by_side/sidebysidecomparison-April5_newheader.pdf

If you would like to attend the training sessions, you can find the information at:
http://www.ovid.com/site/resources/training_ovidsp.jsp

Grey Matters - CADTH

CADTH Workshop

• The link to CADTH Grey Matters Workshop Webcast:

http://events.startcast.com/events6/Default.aspx?EID=cb7423b7-1be2-482b-848f-a35871639801

To access the Webcast, people need to fill out the registration form first. After the registration form being submitted, the Webcast will open right away.

• The link to the Grey Matters Checklist:

http://www.cadth.ca/index.php/en/cadth/products/grey-matters

Finding OT and PT Cochrane Reviews

Check out the informaiton on the website of University of Manitoba Health Science Libraries at:

Finding OT and PT Cochrane Reviews

Citing an altered image

An image has been altered for educational purpose (eg. presentation), so Fair Use applies. How should the "new" image be cited?

Courtesy to Julie Stielstra, Knowledge Resource Library, Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL, here is how the "new" image was cited:

iStockphoto [Internet]. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Getty Images c2009 -
[retrieved 2009 September 1]. Original available from:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-6388736-human-lung.php. Edited
by: Cook S, 2009.

One publisher, Rebecca Lawrence from Product Manager, F1000 Pharma, also made comments on this:

As a publisher, we always look at how much has changed from the original
image. If there was very significant change to the point that you could
claim that you created the image yourself then you probably are ok for
fair use. If it is a more minor change based on an obvious copy of the
original image (which it sounds like this will be) then you should get
permission not just from the author (which is out of politeness rather
than necessity), but if the image is copyright-protected, then also
written permission from the publisher, which in some cases can incur a
small fee. The citation would normally read:

For a copied image: 'Reproduced with kind permission from [the normal
reference citation of the document from which the original image came]'

For an altered image 'Based on, with kind permission from [the normal
reference citation of the document from which the original image came]'

Or similar wording to that effect. As there is such a standard
structure to the lungs and there are hundreds of drawings of them which
are all going to look similar by default, she might be better to get the
whole image redrawn in-house so that as long as it looks different to
the original image then she should be completely free of copyright
issues.

Free TOC for scholarly journals

Scholarly journals - new free service makes keeping up-to-date easy

ticTOCs (http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/) is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service.

It's free, it is easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent
tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400
publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else
keep up-to-date with what hass being published in the most recent
issues of journals on almost any subject. Using ticTOCs, you can find
journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest
TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where
institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and
save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free
registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs).
ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular
feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and in addition you can
import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal
subscriptions allow). You select TOCs by ticking those of interest -
thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs.)