UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library blog

A pilot programme has been jointly established between Academic Health Science Centres (including UCL Partners) and key science, technology and medicine publishers, co-ordinated by JISC Collections (the UK academic community e-content procurement and negotiation service). The pilot allows universities at the centre of AHSCs to extend access to selected subscribed content for their partner NHS organisations. The pilot is running until the end of 2011 in the first instance. Access is available for all staff of Great Ormond Street to the following UCL subscribed resources to the end of 2011 in the first instance: • ca. 60 Nature Publishing Group journals • ca. 250 Adis and Lippincott journals via OVID Online • Several hundred journals and the Scopus database from Elsevier (ScienceDirect) • ca. 1,900 SpringerLink journals • Thomson-Reuters Web of Knowledge databases, including Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports and BIOSIS Previews, as well as EndNote Web NHS Athens accounts are r...

Please follow the link below to find where colour printers for UCL students and staff are available: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/students/workrooms/printing/colour

2010 JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS is now available through the Web of Knowledge . JCR has even more regional content than the previous editions and provides a combination of impact and influence metrics, and millions of cited and citing journal data points that comprise the complete journal citation network of Web of Science. The 2010 JCR includes: •More than 10,000 of the world’s most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 238 disciplines •Nearly 2,500 publishers and 84 countries represented •Over 1,300 regional journals •1,075 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor

Software can be downloaded from the UCL software page at the link below: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/common/software (Staff Link) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/students/windows/software (Students) Please note the terms and conditions regarding the licensing of the software. The majority of the software is for use on UCL owned computers only. You will need a UCL used ID and password to access the software. All software CD’s have now been removed from the library

A water fountain is now available in the corridor outside the library on the second floor. Please Remember that no other food or drink is allowed in the library, only bottled water.

1-Before you do anything, insert your encrypted stick in the USB slot. 2-Wait till you get the USB Locked Icon, then click where it says USB Locked, click here. 3-Now log in and enter your password to unlock the device. 4-Minimize the MXI software window and click launch journals to access the e-resources as normal. 5-To save your articles click on: USB drive # 1 (X:) if you have an old GOSH encrypted stick USB drive # 2 (Y:) if you have a new GOSH encrypted stick 6-When you are finished, log out of the electronic resources, then click on the USB icon to log out of MXI access as well and lock your device.

Both GOSH encrypted sticks are now working on the library e-access machines. We recently had problems as the e-access machines wouldn’t recognize the new GOSH encrypted stick. The problem has now been resolved by UCL ISD and GOSH staff can use both encrypted sticks in order to download UCL ejournals articles

Details of how to access non-UCL libraries can be found on the UCL Library Services website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/otheraccess.shtml