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Sent: 11 August 2004 11:34
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Subject: Latest news from BIOME
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BIOME Newsletter Summer 2004 Issue 10
New Internet Resource Booklet
An updated and reprinted version of our ever popular "Internet Resources for Health and Medicine" booklet is now available in time for the new academic year. This free 16 page booklet (produced with the support of The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine) gives a flavour of the many resources within the OMNI and NMAP Gateways.
If you would like copies of the booklet, instructions for ordering are available from http://biome.ac.uk/about/publications.html, where this booklet is also available for downloading in PDF format.
New BIOME and Gateway Fliers
In addition to our new Internet resource booklet, new and revamped Gateway and BIOME leaflets are hot off the press. All of our fliers are available free of charge for distribution amongst your students and staff and describe the main features of our services. Please go to http://biome.ac.uk/about/publications.html for details of how to order and for PDF copies for you to print out or download.
Win Blackwell's and Amazon Vouchers!
BIOME is committed to providing a user-responsive service. To inform our development plans, an online questionnaire will be appearing on the BIOME site in September and October. Each month six lucky respondents will be picked at random to win £30 worth of Blackwell's or Amazon vouchers.
BIOME Reaches 25,000 Resources!
The BIOME database continues to grow and develop and now contains over 25,000 records. To see the weekly additions go to BIOME "What's New"
http://biome.ac.uk/whatsnew/index.html#newrecords
BIOME Straight to Your Desktop
We continue to develop new features for the BIOME website. The latest feature to be added to the site is an RSS newsfeed of the latest headlines from BIOME. RSS allows news headlines to be shared between different websites; they can be embedded directly into your own or you institutional web page very simply.
The BIOME Search Box can also quickly and easily be placed on your sites, allowing you to search across the BIOME internet resource catalogues from within your own website. RSS feeds giving the latest additions to the BIOME subject gateways are in development and will be made available shortly.
Details on these services can be found at http://biome.ac.uk/about/contribute.html
Resource Guide for Health and Life Sciences
It is with regret that we announce that the popular Resource Guide for the Health and Life Sciences initiative ended on the 31st of July 2004.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the two Resource Guide Advisers for the Health and Life Sciences - Jo Badge and Rachael Stacey - for all their hard work and dedication to the Initiative and we wish them all the best for the future.
The project has been a great success in raising the awareness of electronic resources with thousands of printed guides distributed, thousands of hits a month to the online website, and many talks and presentations given at both national and international conferences across the country. In particular the series of Roadshows held around the UK and Scotland in spring and summer of 2004 were highly successful and produced excellent feedback.
BIOME hopes to run at least three further sessions, in close partnership with local librarians, over the coming year. If you would be interested in helping us run a roadshow in your area then please get in touch with Donald Mackay, BIOME Service Manager - [log in to unmask]
The team at BIOME can also come to your institution to provide you with information and practical sessions on using BIOME and its gateways, covering aspects such as what BIOME and the gateways are, what they can do for you, how to get the best out of them, and pointers to other useful resources including the Virtual Training Suite. We can focus the session down onto one gateway, or more, depending on your subject interests. We will come to your institution; you provide the training facilities - basically an Internet-connected machine per person / pair - and we bring the materials and presentations.
If you are interested in discussing what we can offer further, please contact us at: [log in to unmask]
Changes at BIOME
Nicola Smart, NMAP Service Officer left the BIOME Service at the end of June 2004. She has taken up a new post at Nottingham City Hospital. We'd like to thank her for her hard work and wish her good luck in her new job. We are currently advertising for new Service Officer (see below).
Frances Singfield returned from maternity leave in June 2004.
The BIOME Service has recently recruited a number of new Content Providers. They are subject experts from backgrounds in all fields of the health and life sciences and they work on a part time consultancy basis. They contribute records to the BIOME database and help to review existing records ensuring that our links to Internet Resources stay as up-to-date as possible.
BIOME Service Officer - Fixed-Term Appointment
BIOME is a JISC funded service that provides access to high-quality health and life science Internet resources for the UK higher and further education communities (see: http://biome.ac.uk). A Service Officer is required to help develop our service over the next year. The successful candidate will be responsible for the selection, evaluation, cataloguing, description and review of Internet resources for addition into the BIOME catalogue, and will be required to contribute to the development and maintenance of additional services and training and support materials. Duties will also include co-ordinating and checking the work of external content providers as well as a range of marketing and liaison activities.
Candidates must have a first degree or postgraduate qualification (or equivalent) in librarianship/information science. At least two years' experience in an area of the health and life sciences is also required, as are demonstrable experience in the use or development of web based information services, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to undertake a range of marketing activities. Salary will be within the range £22,774 - £27,194 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience (salary can progress to £32,471 per annum, subject to performance). This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract until 31 July 2005 and is open to job share.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Donald M Mackay, BIOME Service Manager, tel: 0115 849 3251 or Email: [log in to unmask] Further details and application forms are available from the Human Resources Department, Highfield House, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Tel: 0115 951 3262. Fax: 0115 951 5205. Please quote ref. JLM/067. Closing date: 31 August 2004.
Come and Talk to BIOME Staff
Members of the BIOME team will be present at the following events:
NeLH Roadshow 11th August 2004
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/dlnet/roadshows04.asp [6]
9th European Conference for Medical and Health Libraries (BIOME paper)
20 - 25 September, Santander, Spain https://ibio.humv.es/biblioteca/eahil/ [7] Paper to be given by the BIOME Service Manager, Donald Mackay https://ibio.humv.es/biblioteca/eahil/
About BIOME
BIOME is a collection of gateways which provide access to evaluated, quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners. BIOME is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.
BIOME is a hub within the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) (http://www.rdn.ac.uk), and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Vicky Wiseman
BIOME Portal Development Officer
Greenfield Medical Library
QMC - University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2UH.
0115 9249924 ex. 43998
http://biome.ac.uk
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