Cambridge University Press has completed their site maintenance; journals are now accessible without interruption.

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is currently working on their website, and patrons attempting to access CUP journals will receive the following message: "Please note that Cambridge Journals Online is currently not available due to essential maintenance work."

CUP has not indicated how long their site will be under maintenance. We will notify our patrons as soon as this information becomes available. Thank you for your patience while the publisher completes this maintenance work.

Elsevier, publisher of Science Direct and Scopus, has notified HAMTMC Library of scheduled downtime for two of their databases. Please note the dates and times in the following Elsevier alert:

"To support scheduled maintenance, ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable for approximately 12 hours from 8pm Central Daylight Time on Saturday, November 1, 2008, to 7am Central Standard Time on Sunday, November 2, 2008. We apologize for the inconvenience."

October brings Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations, by John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., and Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

For therapists treating patients with borderline personality organization, transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) has proven to be a remarkably successful approach that effectively targets the pathology of character. The product of more than 25 years of development, it draws on advances in object relations theory and attachment theory with the goal of not merely treating symptoms but changing the patient's underlying personality and quality of life.

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations describes principles of intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the analysis of the transference, showing how to help patients relax their defenses and become active participants in the therapeutic process. The authors describe techniques for seeing past the wall of behavioral and cognitive dissonance typically thrown up by the borderline patient, identifying a patient's conflicting self-conceptions and object representations, and immersing oneself in the turbulent currents of the borderline narrative stream while maintaining the clinical distance required to be a constructive force in patients' lives.

You can access the Book of the Month from the home page, at www.PsychiatryOnline.com. You'll have access to Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality as a PDF download for the month of October.

Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source offers 683 full-text journals focusing on the study of nursing and allied health professions, including specialities such as emergency medicine, pediatrics, gerontology, administration, management, pallative care and much more.

RefWorks, the bibliographic management tool for Educational and Clinical Partner users, has posted a schedule of Webinars for October. These online classes are free, but registration is required. Visit the RefWorks public website and choose from the Webinars list at lower right to sign up for classes of interest to you. RefWorks in 15 minutes, RefWorks for beginners and advanced users, RefShare instruction and Converting an EndNote Database to RefWorks are some of the classes on offer.

ProQuest Health Management™ is a newly-acquired HAM-TMC Library database. Health Management is a rich resource for researchers in the field of health administration. It provides content on a wide range of topics: hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, management, ethics, health economics and public health administration. More than 640 key journals and 4,500 doctoral dissertations and theses are covered here.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source has been added to HAM-TMC Library databases. Nursing and Allied Health Source provides full text of scholarly articles, dissertations, reports and evidence-based resources (notably from the Joanna Briggs Institute) that support the study of nursing and allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene and clinical laboratory sciences.

This database also features "Study Paths" (collections of resources particularly relevant for either RN or LPN students); evidence summaries; MMWR reports on public health issues; and practice guidelines.

PubsHub is a useful resource for authors of biomedical and medical articles and papers they wish to present at conferences. General submission guideline information- for instance, what kinds of articles are accepted, typical time between submission and acceptance, links to specific author guidelines and a linked display of journals covering the same field- are examples of the kinds of information provided by this service. The Congresses tab includes similarly detailed meeting information organized by medical specialty, and includes abstract submission deadlines.

Individual registration in PubsHub enables use of a "watch" service for journals and conferences of enduring interest to the author.

The Informaworld site is back up for now, but will be down periodically on Saturday, Sept. 27th while routine maintenance is performed. The following notice was issued by Informaworld: "Customers may experience intermittent access to Informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 to allow us to complete some essential maintenance. We are expecting two short periods of downtime throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes.

The Informaworld team would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this might cause."

HAM-TMC Library now provides access to backfiles for over 140 Science Direct titles, some beginning in the early 1960's. Click on the link for a complete list of these newly added Science Direct backfiles .