Duplicate copies of Bracken titles are free for the taking and you’ll find these on shelves next to the Reference Desk. Please take as many of these books as you’d like.

To facilitate electronic renewal, and better meet patron’s needs, the book borrowing limit for graduate students, staff and faculty has been raised from 50 to 100 items. The fine limit (at which point renewal or borrowing privileges are blocked) has been raised from $20 to $50 for graduate students and to $100 for staff and faculty. This will allow more flexibility for electronic renewal.The overdue book limit (at which point renewal or borrowing privileges are blocked) has been raised from 5 to 50 for students and from 5 to 100 for staff and faculty. This will allow electronic renewal of overdue material.

Books signed out from the Bracken Library stacks during the period of December 5-23, 2002 will be due on Monday, January 7, 2003. The normal two-week loan period will resume on December 24.

Currently, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is working on its MEDLINE global data reload. The reload, which occurs annually, is the time when the controlled language MeSH thesaurus is updated and other changes to the database fields are made. While this maintenance is being performed, no new records are added to MEDLINE.Since the data is not being updated by the NLM, AutoAlert searches in MEDLINE are not being generated by Ovid. Once Ovid receives and has processed the data, the AutoAlerts will be run again. The search results generated at that time will include all new data added since the previous update.

Please note that you will continue to receive AutoAlerts that run in either PREMEDLINE alone or in files that include both MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE. However the alerts for combined MEDLINE/PREMEDLINE files will ONLY include PREMEDLINE records.

If you have any questions concerning this information, please contact the Bracken Library Reference Desk at 533-3176 or webmed@library.queensu.ca.

When you receive your new staff card, you need to go to a Queen’s library to have a new patron barcode placed on your card and linked to your computer record. If you choose to come to Bracken Library, this procedure can only be done during the hours of 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday as the evening and weekend staff do not have the authority to link the barcode to your record.

Full-text of the journal “Drugs” is now available through the Ovid Databases. Access is also enabled through QCAT and the Electronic Journals Database.

Check out the approximately 105 health sciences electronic books available in the fields of medicine, nursing and pharmacology.

Overdue notices for Queen’s University Libraries materials are now sent by email to your official Queen’s email address.In order to ensure the delivery of these notices, it is strongly recommended that you do not forward your mail from your official Queen’s address to a non-Queen’s address.

Ovid OpenLinks has now been activated! This “linking solution” connects the citations in our Ovid databases with the remote full text to which Queen’s University Libraries subscribes electronically. Where full text is available, you will see “OpenLink Full Text (PDF)” and/or “OpenLink Full Text (HTML)”, and “Journal’s Website” below a bibliographic citation. Clicking on either of the full text links will connect you to the full text of the specific article of interest. Clicking on the journal website link will take you to the homepage of the journal or publisher. You will be leaving your Ovid session so take note of the “Ovid timer” and “Return to Ovid session” buttons.Not all of our electronic journals will be accessible through the Ovid databases, so remember to check QCAT and the Electronic Journals Database.

There are now more than 1600 electronic journals available for the health and life sciences!

Are you curious about the history of anatomy at Queen’s Medical school? What about women medical students and their access to anatomy classes? Would you like to view some of the “tools of the trade”? Check out our new exhibit located upstairs next to the Bracken Library Teaching Centre entitled “Boning up on Anatomy: the Early Years at Queen’s”.