INFORMATION SERVICES
November 2004
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Announcements from the Bulletin, Today, Notification-L
11/30/04, Update on NIH Proposal
Congress again affirmed its support for the National Institute of Health
(NIH) to enhance public access to NIH-funded research information. This
support was expressed via language in the Conference Report accompanying
the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 4818, H Rept 108-792),
legislation that includes nine appropriations bills.
The conference report language restates the NIH proposed policy of
making research articles based on NIH funding available to the public
free-of-charge. These articles would be publicly available via in PubMed
Central within six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
The language also requests that NIH provide an annual cost accounting
for implementing this policy as well as work with publishers of
scientific journals to maintain the "integrity of the peer review
system." The text is included below and is available via Thomas (page
104 of the Statement of the Managers). The report will also be available
in the Congressional Records in the next day or two:
FY05 Omnibus Appropriations Conference Report (NIH, Office of Director,
excerpted from the Statement of the Managers)
"The conferees are aware of the draft NIH policy on increasing public
access to NIH-funded research. Under this policy, NIH would request
investigators to voluntarily submit electronically the final, peer
reviewed author's copy of their scientific manuscripts; six months after
the publisher's date of publication, NIH would make this copy publicly
available through PubMed Central. The policy is intended to help ensure
the permanent preservation of NIH-funded research and make it more
readily accessible to scientists, physicians, and the public. The
conferees note the comment period for the draft policy ended November
16th; NIH is directed to give full and fair consideration to all
comments before publishing its final policy. The conferees request NIH
to provide the estimated costs of implementing this policy each year in
its annual Justification of Estimates to the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees. In addition, the conferees direct NIH to
continue to work with the publishers of scientific journals to maintain
the integrity of the peer review system."
A link to Thomas: http://thomas.loc.gov/ [Bulletin], also 12/3
11/23/04, How to Remove or Change Your Default BCC: Message
One of Mulberry's sending options is BCC:, Blind Carbon Copy. This
permits you to send a message to recipient A and carbon recipient B
without A's knowledge. When you do this, person B gets a copy of the
message with some text pasted at the top. By default, the text reads
this way:
IMPORTANT! This message has been blind-carbon-copied to you.
Do not reply-to-all or forward it without the author's permission.
If you want to turn this text off completely, open Mulberry and follow
these steps:
11/20/04, E-Mail and Calendar
On Friday night 11/19, we experienced a problem with the server that delivers
directory information to our e-mail and calendar services. C.I.T. staff
fixed it early Saturday morning 11/20. Our systems depend on each other and so
failure of a supporting service, such as directory information,
manifests itself in more visible ones, such as e-mail. [Notification-L]
11/19/04, CARS, Web Info Systems down 11/26
The central Jenzabar/CARS administrative system and the Web
Faculty/Student Information Systems will be unavailable Friday November
26 from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The systems are being taken down so that we
may refresh crucial data. Because Web Registration is part of the
Faculty and Student Information Systems, it will be unavailable as well.
Please call Ramón Rentas at x.6633 if you have questions.
[Notification-L]
11/19/04, CorporateTime Server Will Be Down 2:00 PM Today
This is a notification to let you know that we will be taking the
CorporateTime Server down for unscheduled maintenance at 2:00 PM this
afternoon. It has a configuration error which requires a restart to fix.
It should be back up within 5 minutes. [Notification-L]
11/19/04, Phone Directories at Your Fingertips
You can have the local Qwest phone directories available on your
computer. If you are a PC user, go to
http://www.dexpages.com/indexnn.htm; Macintosh users, go to
http://www.dexpages.com/. Either way, you should see "click here to
begin download." Follow the prompts and in just a few minutes, you
should have the phone books ready to use from your desktop. Not every
computer or search engine works the same way, so if you have any
questions or experience difficulties, please call Telecommunications at
x6566. [Bulletin, also 11/23]
11/19/04, Micro Fund Information Update
You may be wondering about computer replacements through the Micro
Fund. In the coming weeks, people will be contacted directly via e-mail
if they have computers or workgroup printers that are eligible for
replacement in the first round of this year's Fund. You will also
be contacted directly if you have equipment that is not eligible for
Micro Fund replacement, so that you may make other arrangements. Full
details about the Micro Fund are on the Web:
http://www.macalester.edu/cit/basics/funding.html
If you are considering requesting a replacement for a computer that is
not yet at the end of its duty cycle, or if you want to request new
equipment (for needs that have newly arisen), you can do so using a Web
form linked from the pages above.
If you have questions about the Micro Fund, please call David Sisk at
x.6745. Faculty members, please call your Academic Information Associate,
as follows:
Humanities: Mark Lewis, x.6887
Sciences: Barron Koralesky, x.6623
Social Sciences: Pete Rogan, x.6180
Fine Arts and Languages: Tom Browne, x.6336
[Bulletin, also 11/23]
11/15/04, New E-Mail System for Campus - Open
Meetings Today and Tuesday
Please join CIT staff in the John B. Davis auditorium to give your
feedback on a new e-mail system for the campus. We will have some
examples to show and questions for you concerning what you want (and
don't want) in an e-mail solution for campus. The sessions are open to
all and are at 4:30 p.m. today, November 15, and again at noon tomorrow,
Tuesday, November 16. [Bulletin Flash]
11/12/04, Laptops R Us
Going to a conference? Working from home? Have we got a service for you!
The DeWitt Wallace Library Reserves Desk will now circulate a limited
number of Dell PC and Apple Macintosh laptop computers to faculty and
staff for a checkout period of up to two weeks.
Faculty and staff members must sign a Borrower's Agreement the first
time they wish to check out a laptop. They must present a valid
Macalester ID in order to check out these computers.
In addition, there is a pilot program to "book ahead" or reserve a
laptop for use at a particular time in the future.
Please contact Janet Sietmann x6545 (e-mail sietmann@macalester.edu) for more
information about the laptop checkout and booking service. [Bulletin, also 11/16]
11/10/04, MacLinks Button Problems Resolved
The problems with the "MacLinks" button and interlibrary loan have been
resolved. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience. Always let us
know if you notice any interruption in library e-resources services. If
you have questions, please contact Angi Faiks at x.6208 or
faiks@macalester.edu. [Notification-L]
11/09/04, Problem With "MacLinks" Button
The Library is experiencing a problem with the "MacLinks" button and
interlibrary loan. Certain library databases are currently not linking
correctly to our interlibrary loan request form. If you receive an error
screen while trying to request an item directly, we suggest opening a
new window and entering your citation information manually via the
ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system:
www.macalester.edu/library/about/policies/interloan.html
We are working on this problem, and apologize for any inconvenience.
If you have questions, please call Angi Faiks at x.6208 or send
e-mail to faiks@mac.
[Notification-L]
11/09/04, E-Mail Migration: Open Meetings With The Community
A CIT selection committee has been working hard to identify a new e-mail
system for campus, one that will replace Cyrusoft's Mulberry as the
College's standard supported e-mail package. The selection committee
has scheduled two open meetings so that you may meet them, hear about
the group's goals and the decision's time frame, and understand some
different capabilities of the e-mail clients under review. These
clients include Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Oracle Collaboration
Suite and Novell Groupwise.
We recognize that e-mail is critically important to the community. We
want and need your feedback in order to choose the best possible
solution - please come and tell us what you think. Both of our open
meetings will be held in the John B. Davis Auditorium of the Campus
Center:
11/05/04, Student Learning and Library Spaces
Yale University Librarian Emeritus Scott Bennett will be speaking at
4:30 PM Wednesday, November 17, in the OEC Auditorium at the University of
St. Thomas. Bennett is the author of "Libraries Designed for Learning"
published by CLIR in 2003 (copies are available at
www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub122/pub122web.pdf). If you are
interested in attending, please notify Terri Fishel at x6343 or
fishel@macalester.edu. Deadline for RSVP is November 11.
[Bulletin], also 11/9
11/02/04, New Telecom Web Page
Yes, it's finally available to you - a Macalester Telecommunications Web
site! Go to: www.macalester.edu/Telecom/. You can also find it
via the online directory, linked from Administrative Offices and linked
from both the Information Services and CIT Web sites. Please check it
out; we hope you find it informative. If you have any questions, find
any misprints, or don't find the information you are looking for, please
contact Telecommunications at x6566.
[Bulletin], also 10/29
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