Friday, July 25, 2008

T-Space - how UofT authors submit articles

Hi all,
The Faculty of Medicine Research Office, working through the Discovery Commons in conjunction with Rea at T-Space, has now created an easy to use page for UofT authors to submit their articles to T-Space.
See: http://admin.med.utoronto.ca/research/default.cfm
Submissions go first to the Discovery Commons where they are 'massaged' as necessary and then are fully submitted to T-Space.
The Faculty of Medicine is holding a session about T-Space and submission to same for Hospital Research Institute Directors/VPs Research and HRI administrators /communications managers who may be responsible for CIHR/NIH Open Access information/compliance at the various UofT related institutions.
Elena will attend on our behalf and report back about anything of particular interest to us which occurs.
In the meantime, please be aware that all those working on the Research side of the Info Desk should know why UofT authors need to comply with CIHR and NIH open access policies and how they can do so.
See the link to 'Open Access' at the top of the submission form for more info.
See a background article about this in the Gerstein news: http://content.library.utoronto.ca/gerstein/newsletter/volume9/issue1/article2.html
Thank you.
Sandra - July 25, 2008

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

All staff, As a result of the closure of the Dunlap Observatory Library Gerstein is acquiring some additional astronomy material.
One particularly valuable collection, the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, will arrive in the next few weeks. Please see link below for more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Society_-_Palomar_Observatory_Sky_Survey
The glass plate collection and instruments for reading the plates will be placed in a locked room (B126) off the Heritage Wing hall where Dan, Carla & Rea used to have their offices.
Bonnie will arrange for a catalogue entry to be made so staff and patrons can locate them. Thanks.
Sandra - July 25, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008

Chemistry Library summer service

Just thought I would update everyone on our summer hours -this year is a bit different than in the past.
For July 21st to Aug 8th te library will be open from 12-4:30 Monday to Friday and from Aug 11 to Sept 1 the library will be closed completely!
We reopen on Sept 2nd.

I have closed the ILL and ICD requests on VDX from July 30th to Sept 2nd.

Patricia - July 18, 2008.

GovPub reference service merged with Robarts

As of July 2nd, 2008, Government Publications reference service will be provided from the Robarts Reference desk on the 4th floor. A core Government Publications collection will remain on the 5th floor of Robarts. Data and GIS Services on the 5th floor of Robarts will expand to become the Data, Map and GIS Centre.

Debbie Green - July 15, 2008