Science Express

We now have access to Science Express as part of our online subscription to Science. This means that scholars can access the full text of preprint articles.

From the Science website: Science Express provides electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print. Some editorial changes may occur between the online version and the final printed version.

For more info see: http://www.sciencemag.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/feature/express/introduction.dtl

Of course this is only available from the link called: Full text from: Highwire Press American Association for the Advancement of Science and not from the Gale, Expanded Academic, or Proquest links to Science.


Gail Nichol
June 30, 2010

Top Ten Consumer Health Websites Updated 2010

We are pleased to announce the list of the Top Ten Canadian Consumer Health Websites created by the Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG) and based on the survey we sent out in March. The list was presented as a poster presentation at the Canadian Health Libraries Association annual conference in Kingston in early June. If you submitted a website to our survey we thank you.

There was no clear favourite: the top 3 recommendations tied at 10 votes each. Submitted websites had different focuses. They tended to fall into a few categories such as women, children, disease-specific, and health promotion. We decided to compare the websites in each category and selected the ones that stood out. Because our choices were the best in different subject areas, we felt that we couldn’t rank them as 1, 2, 3. Instead we chose to list them alphabetically.

A copy of the poster as well as summary of the results of the survey can be found at our website: www.chipig.ca.
The websites that made it into the Top Ten for 2010 are:

AboutKids Health http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca
Canada Safety Council http://safety-council.org
Canadian Cancer Society http://www.cancer.ca
Caring for Kids http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca
Dietitians of Canada http://www.dietitians.ca/
Heart and Stroke Foundation http://www.heartandstroke.ca
Here to help http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca
PasseportSanté http://www.passeportsante.net
Sexualityandu.ca http://www.sexualityandu.ca
Women’s Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca


Mary Anne Howse
June 28, 2010

Collection move during Robarts construction

Click on the link below to view "a memo for faculty regarding temporary and longer-term relocations of material from Robarts Library to storage (Downsview, B2 and Government Publications storage locations) and procedures for requesting this material. It is intended to facilitate easier access to relocated materials."

P. Bellamy
June 9, 2010
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/43502934/?key=NTQ3YmEzMzIt&pass=NDQ3MS00Yzdl

MaRS Research Services

MaRS Market Intelligence typically only works with researchers who are actively involved in commercialization. We can provide service, to a limited extent, to requests where commercialization is not on the immediate horizon on a courtesy basis, but our priority would be responding to our core client groups.

If the researcher is employed by a member institution of MaRS Innovation (see the list below), please feel free to refer him or her to my colleague, Xuefei Mao [ smao@marsinnovation.com ].

MaRS Innovation also offers highly specialized life sciences and technology patent searching capabilities which could be tapped if appropriate.

MaRS Innovation members institutions include:

* Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
* BioDiscovery Toronto
* Bloorview Kids Rehab
* Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
* MaRS Discovery District
* Mount Sinai Hospital
* Ontario College of Art and Design
* Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
* Ryerson University
* St. Michael's Hospital
* Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
* The Hospital for Sick Children
* The New Women¹s College Hospital
* Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
* University Health Network
* University of Toronto

Helen Kula

Eduroam

From Heather:

I wanted to make you aware of a new service for faculty, staff and students called eduroam (education roaming). This allows faculty, staff and students to use their UofT wireless login credentials in order to use wireless networks when they are visiting other participating universities (see a list for Canadian universities: https://wiki.bc.net/atl-conf/display/CANEDUROAM/Using+eduroam; see worldwide universities: http://www.eduroam.org/)

UofT faculty, staff or students visiting another participating institution should contact the Information Commons Help Desk – help.desk@utoronto.ca, 416-978-HELP (4357) for technical support to configure their laptop BEFORE they go to another university.

And, visitors from other participating universities should be able to use their own credentials to login to the wireless when at UofT libraries. Visitors to UofT should contact their home institution's IT support for assistance. Technical support for eduroam will be provided by one's home institution.

If there are questions about eduroam at the Info Desk, UofT faculty, staff and students can be directed to the Information Commons Help Desk. Visitors from other universities can be assisted by directing them to their own university's web page to find their IT contact info.

Information about eduroam appears on several library webpages:

Gerstein's "All services" page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/services/all-services
Gerstein's Services to faculty page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/faculty/services-for-faculty

UTL web page: Computers & accessing eResources: http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/services/computing-connecting

eduroam @ UofT: http://eduroam.utoronto.ca/