BioMed Central Cancellation Information

Occasionally questions have come in from faculty/researchers asking about U of T's subscription to Biomed Central.

UofT Libraries had a BMC supporter membership for a number of years. However, in 2009 financial pressures resulted in the library discontinuing its membership. The library continues to support open access publishing through its institutional repository, T-Space, and encourages all UofT authors, whether publishing in non-open access or open access scholarly journals to:

a) retain rights to their intellectual property by requesting that an author addendum be appended to the contract they sign with each journal (More info about this at http://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/resources-for-authors.htmlhttp://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/resources-for-authors.html) and
b) to deposit in T-Space via the Faculty of Medicine's Office of Research and International Relations: http://www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/

For more information please contact Sandra Langlands, Director of the Gerstein Science Information Centre, at s.langlands.melvin@utoronto.ca or 416.978.6370.

Cheers, Allison
Jan 28, 2010

ChEMBLdb - Open access drug discovery database launches

ChEMBL is a database of ca. 500,000 bioactive compounds, their quantitative properties and bioactivities (binding constants, pharmacology and ADMET, etc). The data is abstracted and curated from the primary scientific literature and the data made available due to funding by the Wellcome Trust.

Direct link to the database website:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembldb/

The database is part of the ChEMBL resources at the EMBL-EBI (European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute).

Press release at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/News/pdf/Press18Jan10.pdf" "ChEMBLdb is a unique resource because of its focus on drug discovery and its size: information on an additional 100,000 compounds has been added to the database for its launch, taking the number of small molecules to over 520,000, and it contains over 2.4 million records of their effects on biological systems. The data include information about how small molecules bind to their targets, how these compounds affect cells and whole organisms, and information on the molecules' absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity."

This is a new resource and the creators invite feedback so that they can make future improvements.

Keep up to date with ChEMBL news and data releases by subscribing to the chembl-announce mailing list.

Gail Nichol
Jan 26, 2010

Visitor card - reason for refund

Very occasionally a user purchases a visitor card by mistake, usually
they think they are adding money to their TCard. Starting immediately
we will refund this money to them. Here is the process.

1.The user hands over the visitor card to the staff member.

2.The staff member fills out a TCard claim form.
Where the form says Reason for Refund in the Notes field on the right
say "card purchased in error"
HAVE THE USER SIGN THE FORM. It doesn't matter where

3.Attach the visitor card to the TCard claim form and give it to Peter
or Renata

4.Give the user $5 _from the float of $5 bills_

5.Peter or Renata will leave a note on the $5 float, alerting staff that
the float will not be $100.
Peter or Renata will send the TCard claim form and the card to Julian
and who will return the funds to Peter or Renata.

WE DO NOT REFUND MONEY IF TOO MUCH VALUE WAS ADDED TO A VISITOR OR TCARD

Renata, Jan 8, 2010.

NEJM Videos in Clinical Medicine

NEJM Videos in Clinical Medicine
Link to the videos through the EIR: http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=893655&T=M&FID

They are also available via the Highwire version of the NEJM, they are easy to find by typing 'videos' in the search box at top of the page.

About this title: Since April 13, 2006 the New England Journal of Medicine added a new journal feature, Videos in Clinical Medicine. The Journal's table of contents includes this new type of article. For optimal viewing, the instructional videos will be displayed as streaming video in a version that includes chaptering and captions. The videos will also be available both in a downloadable file (of about 20 MB) and in a version compatible with handheld digital devices.

Each video will be from five to eight minutes long and will be accompanied online by a printable summary to supplement the video. Access to the Videos in Clinical Medicine is limited to subscribers, including all those who access the Web site with institutional subscriptions such as UofT.