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ABOUT THE CONSUMER'S BOSTON AIDS INFORMATION OUTREACH PROJECT The Consumer's Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project is funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) through the New England Regional Medical Library. The Alumni Medical Library, Boston University Medical Center, in collaboration with the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), is facilitating access to biomedical information on HIV and AIDS by providing information skills training to staff from the approximately 60 Title I and City of Boston Prevention, Education, and Care funded programs. The Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project grant runs from October 2001 - March 2003.The Alumni Medical Library serves the faculty, staff and students of the Boston University Medical Center, including the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, the School of Graduate Dentistry, and the hospitals of the Boston medical Center. The AIDS Program of the Boston Public Health Commission provides funding and monitoring of AIDS Service Organizations/Community Based Organizations (ASO/CBOs) programs in Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. The Consumer's Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project provides consumers and the affected HIV/AIDS community with training in accessing Internet-related, MEDLINEplus and other AIDS information resources, and in searching the National Library of Medicine's databases (MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS, and others) via PubMed. The Consumer's Boston AIDS Information Outreach Program also provides document delivery via Loansome Doc and Alumni Medical Library Interlibrary Loan, facilitating document delivery during the period of the project by providing the service at reduced, in-house rates. Additionally, AIDS-focused Web pages have been developed on the Alumni Medical Library's Website, providing training materials, Web links, and other information useful to Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire HIV/AIDS consumers.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS AND SCHEDULE The Alumni Medical Library is offering free-of-charge training opportunities to staff of the agencies and programs participating in the Consumer's Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project. The training program includes two workshops, which are intended to be taken in sequence. In the first workshop, Introduction to Database Searching: MEDLINE & AIDS-Related Databases, you will learn to use several premiere biomedical databases to locate HIV and AIDS information in the medical literature. The second workshop, Introduction to Finding and Evaluating HIV/AIDS Resources on the World Wide Web, will strengthen your WWW searching skills, and help you find and evaluate relevant Web sites more efficiently and effectively. Workshops are three hours long, with refreshments provided. All workshops will be held at the Alumni Medical Library computing classroom, 80 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118. When you register for a workshop, a librarian will contact you to provide directions to the Library, and information on parking or public transportation options. For more detailed information about the workshops, contact Joseph Harzbecker at 617-638-4205 or refquest@med-libwww.bu.edu.
Workshop Schedule
If you would like to
request training for yourself or members of your organization's staff, contact
Joseph Harzbecker at 617-638-4205 or harzbeck@bu.edu.
You can also register on the Web at http://med-libwww.bu.edu/library/baiopregistration.html.
Consumers should select the December 5 training dates, and providers
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II: Introduction to Finding and Evaluating HIV/AIDS Resources on the World Wide Web |
Consumers: Tuesday, December 5 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Providers: Monday, January 8 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
RESEARCH AND REFERENCE ASSISTANCE
Librarians are available to answer questions about specific information resources, perform literature searches, assist with research, recommend resources, and help with accessing materials through interlibrary loan or other channels. Feel free to contact the reference desk or any of the reference staff listed below:
Reference Desk
LOANSOME DOC DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE
Loansome Doc was developed by the National Library of Medicine and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) as a document ordering service. Loansome Doc allows PubMed users to order articles while searching.The Alumni Medical Library offers Loansome Doc service to individuals with the Consumer's Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project. Service is provided Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
The fee for Loansome Doc service is $3 per article. Articles will be supplied to you over the Internet, by fax, or the U.S. mail. A rush fax service is available for an additional $12 per article.
In order to use the Loansome Doc service, Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project participants must first set-up a $30 deposit account with the Alumni Medical Library.
For more information on Loansome Doc or to set-up an account, contact Joseph Harzbecker, MS(LS), AHIP at 617-638-4205 or harzbeck@bu.edu. Or, link to any of these publications for more information:
Using
Loansome Doc for a detailed overview of the program
Loansome
Doc: First Step
Loansome
Doc Factsheet from the National Library of Medicine
INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Journal articles, books and book chapters, and other materials not held at the Alumni Medical Library are available through interlibrary loan (ILL). Interlibrary loans cost $3 for each item ordered, and usually take 5-10 working days to arrive. Payment options include cash, check, departmental account numbers or grant numbers. You can submit your interlibrary loan requests on the WWW at http://med-libwww.bu.edu/library/illrequest.html. Library staff will contact you when the requested item arrives. Interlibrary loan materials can be mailed directly to you, or held at the Circulation Desk for pick-up.
PHOTOCOPY MACHINES AND SERVICES
Self-Service Photocopy Machines
Seven photocopy machines are available at the Alumni Medical Library for use during all regular library hours. Only copycards are used, the machines do not accept coins.
A self-serve copy card dispenser/encoder is installed next to the Circulation Desk. Initially, a copy card costs $1.00 ($.50 for the card plus 6 copies). Thereafter, the cards can be encoded in the following amounts: $1, $5, $10, $20. As the amount of money that is encoded on the card increases, the number of copies received per dollar also increases. The copy card machine accepts bills only, and does not give change. Receipts are not issued for copy card machine purchases. If you need a receipt, you can purchase a copy card at the Circulation Desk.
Photocopy Service
A photocopy service is also available at the Alumni Medical Library. Library staff will photocopy pages from materials located in the library's collection for a fee of $.20 per page copied. Copies are usually ready within 2-5 days. Payment options include BU, Harrison Ave. or East Newton St. Campus grant or account numbers, personal checks or cash. No credit cards are accepted. Rush requests for in-house journal articles and book chapters cost an additional $6.00 per article and takes 24-48 hours to fill.
Photocopy request forms are available at the Circulation Desk or on the WWW at http://med-libwww.bu.edu/library/illrequest.html. One photocopy request form must be submitted with each item requested. Library staff will contact you when the requested item are ready. They can be mailed to you, or held at the Circulation Desk for pick-up.
WEBPAC, BU's ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOG
WEBPAC provides access to materials owned by all of the Boston University libraries. Holdings listed in WEBPAC include book and journal titles, dissertations, microfilms, musical scores and recordings. Items not included in WEBPAC include historical materials, realia and non-cataloged items such as maps or pictures.
WEBPAC allows you to search for materials by author, title or subject, call number or title words (keywords). Each WEBOPAC record provides a complete bibliographic description of the book or journal, library and call number, and circulation status. Other information including library hours, lending policies, end-user databases and other search options are also available.
Access From Home and Office ComputersWEBPAC is available on the Web at: http://library.bu.edu
Or, use the dial-up version of the online library catalog:
What are the differences between Internet Grateful Med and PubMed?
In 1997, the National Library of Medicine announced that its MEDLINE database would be accessible free-of-charge on the World Wide Web. Two Web-based products, Internet Grateful Med and PubMed provide this access:
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CONSUMER'S HIV AND AIDS RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
Guides to locating HIV and AIDS Sites on the Internet
Misc. Internet Sites
Clinical Trials
Consumer Health
Databases
Drugs, Prescribing and Pharmaceuticals
Electronic Newsletters & Journals
Hotlines and Telephone Support
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
To subscribe to the mailing list, send a blank message to preventionews-subscribe@cdcnpin.org.
To remove your name from the mailing list, send a blank message to preventionews-unsubscribe@cdcnpin.org
.To subctibe, send an e-mail to HIVnews@cybersupport.org with the word SUBSCRIBE as the subject of your message.
To subscribe send e-mail to HIV-Docs-Approval@Web-Depot.com
in subscription message type personal request
Organizations and Agencies
Teaching and Learning
ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE TOOLS
CITING INTERNET RESOURCES IN A BIBLIOGRAPHY
A typical citation for Internet sites follows this pattern:
Author/editor. (Year). Title (edition), [Type of medium].
Producer (optional). Available Protocol (if applicable): Site/Path/File [Access
date].
Consider these examples:
For more detailed example, use the online textbook Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information. A print edition of this textbook is also located at the Medical Library Reference Desk, shelved under the call number: T 11 L693e 1996.
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