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Medline Global Update Due, Thomas A. Ipri

Library Faculty Publications

If you use OVID to search Medline, have you noticed it has been stuck on the "December week 4 1999" update for several weeks?

Normally, MEDLINE is updated weekly and runs a couple of weeks ahead of the calendar. What is going on? Every year in January, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) updates its Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to reflect growth and change in medical language. OVID programs the changes, releases a "global update" at the end of January, then resumes our normal weekly updates in February.

U.S. Federal Government Cios: Information Technology's New Managers--Preliminary Findings, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Publications

The Clinger-Cohen Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 (Clinger-Cohen Act) has changed the dynamics of how federal agencies view and manage their information technology. The mandated provision for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) is to act as information change agents and technology “watchdogs” for their agency. To observe how government is reacting to employing CIOs, field studies were conducted by e-mail with eight agencies to discover the successes and the challenges of this new information initiative. Four of the agencies contacted were mandated by the Clinger-Cohen Act and four were non-mandated. The results of this study depict varying levels of …

Minor Y2k Headaches For Reference Manager Uses, Thomas A. Ipri

Library Faculty Publications

While the much-hyped predictions of Y2K disaster turned out to be a big yawn for most of us, some minor problems have cropped up. If you use an older version of one of the popular citation management programs, you may be having some date problems. Fortunately, there is a solution.