Archived Announcements

Extended Hours Trial

The Health Sciences Library will be commencing another trial of extended hours beginning Friday, January 25 and running through Sunday, March 9.  In addition to staying open until 11:00 PM on Friday and Saturday nights, we will be opening at 10:00 AM on Sunday morning, and opening at 7:30 AM Monday - Friday.  These extended hours are reflected on the library's hours calendar, which can be found online at http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/hours/display/calendar/hsl.  

New E-Journals

With the start of the new year, the Health Sciences Library has some new e-journal subscriptions. Some of these include International Immunology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Science's STKE (now called Science Signaling as of January, 2008).

Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) Now Accessible via TOXNET

CPDB, the Carcinogenic Potency Database, was developed by the Carcinogenic Potency Project at the University of California, Berkeley, and by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It reports analyses of animal cancer tests on 1547 chemicals. Results for each chemical are now searchable via the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET(r)). http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

CPDB includes 6540 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests (both positive and negative for carcinogenicity) from the general published literature as well as from the National Cancer Institute and the National Toxicology Program. Such tests are used in support of cancer risk assessments for humans. Information that is important in the interpretation of bioassays is reported in CPDB for each experiment.

Users can search for results on each chemical in TOXNET via chemical name or name fragment, or by Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (RN). Results include a summary for each sex-species tested, including carcinogenicity, target organs, and carcinogenic potency values. Detailed results from each experiment on the particular chemical are given in a plot format suitable for screen viewing. Chemical structure, InChI (http://www.iupac.org/inchi/), and SMILES codes (http://www.daylight.com/smiles/) are reported.

Website has Changed

The library's website has a new and improved design and organization. If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail Jessica Tapia.

Free Print Subscription to Cell

Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell. As a benefit of the site license to Cell Online managed by the Library, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with our institution is entitled to receive a print subscription--normally a $179 value--absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub

PubMed LinkOut Now Available Off-Campus

Users now have access to our full-text journal subscriptions when searching PubMed from remote locations. Be sure to enter PubMed through our library website, and to display results so that the abstracts show. Any articles that show a WV Full-Text icon should link to the full-text article through that icon. Users will be asked to enter their usernames/passwords for remote access to library resources. If you have any questions about this, please call the Reference Desk at 293-6810.