LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Medical Libraries category. http://www.libworm.com/rss/index.php/Medical-Libraries/12/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:30:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/06/14/the-iowa-city-book-festival/ The festival is a day-long celebration of books, reading, and writing presented by the University of Iowa Libraries on Saturday, July 18. It will be held in Gibson Square outside the Main Library’s south entrance. See all of the activities that you will be able to participate in as well as volunteer opportunities and book vendor registrations at this website. (Source: Hardin News) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:36:01 +0100 746019 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/06/14/alltop-all-the-time/ Alltop is a website which is described as an “online magazine rack” of popular topics.  Hardin Library has created a list of medical journals and magazines to assist in finding exactly what you need. You can find the link to Hardin Library’s list right here  (Source: Hardin News) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:22:31 +0100 746020 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/06/12/calculate-your-parking-charges-online-or-from-your-smart-phone/ You can now calculate your parking charges before you exit the ramp by using this application: http://m.uiowa.edu/home/parking/ This is provided by Information Technology Services as part of UI’s Mobile Beta project. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:53:46 +0100 745417 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/06/08/remember-reimagine-rebuildflood-anniversary-june-15/ The University of Iowa will commemorate 2008’s flood on Monday, June 15, at the Old Capitol Museum. Old Capitol Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the event. A formal program begins at 12:15 p.m. on the museum’s west steps. The event is free and open to the public. List of activities and more information can be located at this link (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:53:12 +0100 743820 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/26/icon-not-available-wednesday-630am-100/ Icon will be down for an upgrade.  For information about all ITS outages, see the Help Desk Alerts page. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 27 May 2009 01:51:54 +0100 739823 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/22/follow-us-on-twitter/ Hardin Library is now sending tweets on Twitter.  If you want to follow us, our name on Twitter is HardinLHS.  (http://twitter.com/hardinlhs)  If you are interested in twittering yourself, stop by the Information Commons on Fridays from 10am-Noon or contact us for help. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:15 +0100 738719 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/12/hardin-student-workers-2009-graduates/ Of Hardin Library’s student employees, five will be graduating this year!   Alexa Groff is graduating with a BA in English.  She plans to attend grad school at the University of Iowa in order to get her MAT degree. Adnan Fazal graduated with a MHA Health Administration Degree.  He has already moved to Marshalltown where he is the manager of Iowa Home Care. Elizabeth Nummela received her MA in Library and Information Science.  She is currently seeking a librarian position. Janice Kim graduated with a BS in Psychology and is returning home to Korea. Matt Walleser graduated with a BA in History and a BA in International Studies.  His next move is to Bethlehem, where he plans to work with the Palestinian Community, NGO’s and continue to study Arabic. Congratulations to all graduates! (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 12 May 2009 18:35:04 +0100 735292 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/11/john-martin-rare-book-room-open-house/   The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the University Libraries invites you to an Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room -De Partu Hominis- Obstetrics Books From Six Centuries A “hands-on” look at obstetrics texts and atlases from the 16th through the 20th centuries Thursday, May 14; 4:30- 7:30pm John Martin Rare Book Room 4th Floor, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences This event is open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 11 May 2009 21:57:24 +0100 735001 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/08/free-coffee-and-pop/ Need a Study Break? Come Play Nintendo Wii!  -Or-  Watch the NBA Playoffs! 8pm- MIDNIGHT Friday, May 8th & Saturday, May 9th Information Commons East **FREE Coffee and Pop Provided! (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 08 May 2009 19:37:29 +0100 734253 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/06/rvap-volunteers-needed/ Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) Advocate Training begins on June 1st to prepare area volunteers to help victim/survivors of sexual assault.  Advocates provide support, information and referral over the phone, as well as respond to calls for supporting a survivor at the hospital or law enforcement.  Volunteer Advocates take calls from home, and scheduling is flexible.  Please contact Katryn Duarte at RVAP, volunteer-coordinator-rvap@uiowa.edu or 335.6001, if interested in applying.  If you would like to more learn about RVAP, please visit:  http://www.uiowa.edu/~rvap/ (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 06 May 2009 21:02:45 +0100 733451 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/05/04/ncbi-biosystems-database-now-available/ The NCBI BioSystem, a new pathways database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosystems/) is now public. The database can be searched directly or accessed via links from databases such as Entrez Gene, Protein, PubChem Compound, and more.   Ready to get started?  A quick start guide is available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/biosystems/docs/biosystems_how_to.html (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 04 May 2009 21:36:43 +0100 732703 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/30/partnering-for-patient-empowerment-through-community-awareness-ppeca-article/ Rhonda Reimer, the Special Project Coordinator of the Pella Regional Health Center in Pella, IA and Chris Childs, from the Hardin Library recently collaborated on an article for the Focus On Patient Safety, the official newsletter of the National Patient Safety Foundation.  The article, entitled “Hospital Uses PPECA “Train the Trainer” Program to Help Community Groups Empower Patients,” discusses the PPECA presentation made at the hospital and how the staff took the knowledge gained and created their own community outreach program on patient safety. You can read this article by going to http://npsf.org/paf/npsfp/fo/pdf/Focus_Volume_12_%20Issue_1.pdf (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:39:41 +0100 731378 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/29/rescheduled-event-a-more-perfect-nation/ The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear: Kathryn Gaskill, UI honors candidate in History speak on: “A ‘More Perfect’ Nation: The Midwest’s Role in the Eugenics Campaign to Eradicate Degeneracy” Tuesday, May 5th 5:30- 6:30 pm Information Commons East Hardin Library for the Health Sciences *Light Refreshments will be served **Rescheduled from an earlier date (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:47:23 +0100 730921 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/17/university-of-iowa-history-of-medicine-society-annual-banquet/ The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society will hold its annual banquet on Friday, April 24 at the UI Hospitals and Clinics. David M. Lubin, PhD Professor of Art at Wake Forest University will speak on, “World War I, Plastic Surgery and the American Beauty Revolution.”  Lubin is a leading scholar of 19th- and 20th-century American art, film, and popular culture.  His lecture circuit has included stops at colleges, universities, and art museums throughout the U.S., Europe, China and Australia. He earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and taught art history and American studies at Colby College before assuming his current position as Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest in 1999. His 2003 book, Shooting Kennedy; JFK and the Culture of Images, received the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art.  The banquet reception will begin at 6:00 pm at the Patient & Visitor Activity Center on the 8th floor of the UIHC, followed by dinner and presentation at 7:00 pm. For additional information and registration form, please visit: http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed or contact Donna Sabin at 335-6706. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:30:24 +0100 726772 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/17/power-down-for-the-planet-contest/ The University of Iowa is currently apart of the Power Down for the Planet sustainability challenge.  The contest challenges students to reduce computer energy use, and to get more of their student population involved than the opposing schools.  The challenge is put on by Climate Savers Computing Initiative, with hopes to lower energy bills and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Students, faculty and staff are all encouraged to participate by pledging to use green computing practices at: http://www.powerdownfortheplanet.org/ Pledge to Power Down and help the University of Iowa win the challenge! (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:16 +0100 726773 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/15/against-the-odds-making-a-difference-in-global-health/ The Hardin Library is hosting The National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibition, “Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health” through April 21.  The exhibition earned a best exhibit blue ribbon at the American Public Health Association (APHA) meeting which featured 550 booths at its 2008 expo.  The colorful display highlights the revolution taking place in villages and towns around the world as scientists, advocates, governments, and international organizations, take up the challenge to prevent disease and improve quality of life for people in every continent.  For more information, including podcasts, quizzes, and opportunities for involvement in this important enterprise, visit the “Against the Odds” web site at:  http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/againsttheodds (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:33:32 +0100 725751 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/13/two-new-exhibits-at-hardin-care-of-lincoln-and-care-of-books/ Two new exhibits on two very different subjects have been installed near the Hardin Library main entrance.  “His Wound is Mortal – Trauma Care, April 14, 1865” offers a look at the medical measure taken after the shooting of Abraham Lincoln, including excerpts from first-hand reports of the assassination and its aftermath.  The exhibit also raises the issue of whether or not the advances of present day trauma care might have saved the president’s life.   “Book Conservation—A Healing Art” is an introduction to book repair and preservation couched in medical terms.  Organized under categories such as, “anatomy,” “disability,” “therapy,” and “pandemic,” University of Iowa Conservator, Gary Frost provides descriptions and examples of books that need special care and protection to recover from various “illnesses.”  The display includes a cutaway model showing the structure of a book and several real-life examples of works that have been “rehabilitated” after various kinds of trauma. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:32:10 +0100 725182 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/10/seeing-the-picture-revisited/ Since the launching of the Seeing the Picture blog in July, 2008, postings have been added at the rate of about one per week. As the announcement of the blog stated, the general theme is the unique aspects of pictures on the Web, using the background of work with pictures in Hardin MD. Themes discussed include Google Book Search, digitization efforts in libraries, Google Flu Trends, eBooks, iPhone, thumbnails, and zooming/panning interfaces. The blog has served as a vehicle for discussion of pictures, especially color pictures, in eBooks, including the copyright status of pictures in Google Book Search. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:00:43 +0100 724235 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=336439 Op zoek naar klinische lessen?Via Google vind je van alles, maar handiger is toch om even in de NAZ te zoeken op klinische les. Dan vind je handzame informatie, o.a. uit het tijdschrift TVV, over allerlei onderwerpen waar je uit kunt kiezen. Voor het gemak is deze zoekvraag ook te vinden in onze catalogus met in het abstractveld alle klinische lessen uit het tijdschrift TVV. Een aantal zijn ingescand, dan kun je gelijk doorklikken naar de full text. Is dat niet het geval, dan zijn ze via de bibliotheek op te vragen. De klinische lessen uit NAZ, afkomstig uit het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Evidence Based Practice, zijn wel fulltext beschikbaar in pdf. Informatie voor klinische lessen is ook te vinden door in NAZ op het woord "Ziektebeeld" te zoeken. Dan zie je dat het tijdschrift Bijzijn veel relevante informatie bevat. Handig is ook om je bij dit tijdschrift persoonlijk te registreren.Dan heb je toegang tot de dossiers e.d. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:52 +0100 725393 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/06/mario-kart-wii-event/   Need a study break? Come and play MARIO KART on Nintendo Wii!   Thursday, April 9th Noon- 2pm Information Commons East Hardin Library for the Health Sciences   (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:52:48 +0100 722886 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/04/06/normal-weekend-hours/ Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will have normal weekend hours, this weekend, April 10th-12th. Friday: 7:30am- 8pm Saturday: 10am- 8pm Sunday: Noon- Midnight (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:26:41 +0100 722887 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=336254 Deze keer in the picture de Google custom search zoekmachine "Netting the Evidence". De maker is Andrew Booth, hoofd van de Information services at the school of health and related research (Scharr) van the university of sheffield. De zoekmachine doorzoekt 107 sites die gelieerd zijn aan de methodologie van evidence based practice, dus geannoteerde bronnen. De zoekmachine is toegevoegd in onze catalogus en is ook te vinden onder Dossier Evidence based practice bij nummer 1, de synopses bronnen.Bij de synopses bronnen staat o.a.ook TRIP. Het is aan te raden om beide bestanden te doorzoeken. Zoekvolgorde, eerst TRIP en daarna deze zoekmachine, want volgens een expert "Andrew's search engine is much more selective and produces smaller results, including some from websites which Trip does not search- so it is safest to search both- Trip first, then netting the evidence!" (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:42:08 +0100 721365 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=336203 Dit Dossier in opgedeeld in :Eigen "CAT"s van medewerkersBestaande databases die Antwoorden op klinische vragen inventariseren, samenvatten, beoordelen en becommentariëren.Bij 1 is een nieuwe CAT van de LCZ toegevoegd: Hoe te handelen bij een te hoge INR bij ouderen?Bij 2 zijn twee nieuwe databanken toegevoegd:Attract en BestBETs.Attract is ontstaan in 1997 in Gwent (Wales) en voorzag in de behoefte aan snelle, evidence antwoorden op vragen die vanuit de klinische praktijk ontstonden. Artsen ontbrak daarvoor de tijd om uitputtend literatuuronderzoek te doen. Clinici van de Welsh General Practice kunnen hier vragen stellen; de vraag wordt in spoedgevallen binnen 6 uur beantwoord in de vorm van een handzaam A-4tje waarop kort het bewijs (evidence), de samenvatting (summary) en de beoordeling (appraisal) staat vermeld. Gelet op de tijdsspanne zijn deze cat's GEEN systematic reviews. Daarvoor bestaan andere bronnen.In Attract is in 2003 onderdeel gaan uitmaken van de Welsh National Public Health Service. Jon Brassey is directeur van Attract . (Lees ook: Information in practice : BMJ 2001;322:529-530 ( 3 March en zijn wiki )De beoordelingscodes zijn:Rank Methodology 1 = Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses 2 = RCTs 3 = Cohort Studies, Case-Control Studies, Cross Sectional Surveys, Case Reports 4 = Expert Opinion G = Published Guidelines BestBETs geeft antwoord op klinische vragen in ziekenhuizen, speciaal op het gebied van eerste hulp. Geeft ook zoekstrategie en kwaliteitsbeoordeling van de best available evidence (CAT - critical appraisal topic). Er kan specifiek (specialty) gezocht worden op psychiatrie. Is echter beperkt. ... Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:25:29 +0100 721366 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/31/tour-john-martin-rare-book-room-wednesday-april-8-at-noon/ A Tour of and introduction to the  John Martin Rare Book Room is once again part of the “Gem Series” offered by UI Human Resources Learning & Development unit.  The tour is free and open to any UI faculty or staff member and will feature a “hands-on” introduction to some of the more fascinating books in the collection.  There is still time to register for this spring’s session on Wednesday, April 8 from noon to 1:00 in room 446 (Rare Book Room) in the Hardin Library.  For more information and registration click on the “Gem Series” link.  Be sure to choose the April session.  (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:40:19 +0100 720611 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/30/simulation-center-advisory-group-co-chair-wins-ui-teaching-award/ Four University of Iowa professors were chosen as winners of the 2009 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence.  The award was given to George Bergus, Kenneth Brown, Randall Bezanson, and Kathleen Kamerick.  The recipients were recognized for their years of outstanding teaching.  The award was given by the UI Council on Teaching. Bergus, a Simulation Center Advisory Group Co-Chair, also holds the Dr. William and Sondra Myers Family Professorship, and has taught in the Department of Family Medicine at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine since 1990.  He has also been named “teacher of the year” four times by his peers, and in 2008 he received the Collegiate Teaching Award.  Brown is an associate professor of management and organizations in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business. Bezanson is the David H. Vernon Professor of Law in the UI College of Law. Kamerick has taught in the Department of History in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences since 1996. Dr. Bergus co-chairs the Hardin Library Simulation Center Advisory Group.   (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:02:08 +0100 720327 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/26/celebration-of-excellance-and-achievement-among-women/ The University of Iowa invites you to celebrate the excellence and achievement among women!  The event will be a public reception and awards ceremony featuring keynote speaker Wallace Loh, the Executive Vice-President and Provost at the University of Iowa.  Program and more information available here. Wednesday, April 1st, beginning at 3:30pm Senate Chamber, Old Capital Museum (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:21:57 +0100 719523 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=335882 Het is vaak lastig zoeken in Pubmed, met name op ons netwerk omdat de back toets in Pubmed nog steeds problemen geeft. Daar zijn wel oplossingen voor bedacht, maar het blijft vervelend. Bovendien is Pubmed traag (in elk geval op ons netwerk).Een snel en handig alternatief (?) is Mednar. Deze vrij te gebruiken federatieve medische zoekmachine is eind 2008 als beta op de markt gebracht. De extensie NAR verwijst naar "Notably accelerated Research" en is afkomstig van de firma Deep Web Technologies. Zoals de naam al aanduidt geeft hij :"access to an array of databases that are simply not mined by other health search engines, also called "The Invisible Web" (gray literature and similar hard-to find content)". Bij AltSearchEngines staat hij op nummer een van de top 10 beste medische zoekmachines in 2008. De kenmerken: Zoekt alleen in gerenommeerde medische bronnen.Mogelijkheid om zoekresultaten te filterenAttenderingsmogelijkheid (alerts) na registratieDe pagina met resultaten is mooi overzichtelijk, met bronvermelding Advanced zoeken (incl. uitdunning op bronnen)5 sterren rankingSnelle indexering Vergeet niet even te kijken bij advanced. Daar is dus te zien in welke bronnen hij zoekt, o.a. ook in Google Scholar en Pubmed en vele andere. Pubmed, Mednar of Google (Scholar)? Probeer het uit en/of lees de discussie hierover in de the first edition of MedLib's Round. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:52:52 +0100 719394 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/26/celebration-of-excellance-and-achievement-among-women/ The University of Iowa invites you to come celebrate the excellence and achievement among women!  The event will be a public reception and awards ceremony featuring keynote speaker Wallace Loh, the Executive Vice-President and Provost at the University of Iowa. Wednesday, April 1st Senate Chamber, Old Capital Museum (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:52:04 +0100 719077 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/25/upcoming-exhibits-at-hardin/ In April and May, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will be hosting two National Library of Medicine events.  Both exhibits will be held on the 3rd floor of the Hardin Library. The First Event exhibit, Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Surgeons, will be held April 1st- May 15th. The second exhibit, Against the odds: Global Public Health, will be April 15th-21st. Don’t forget to checkout both exhibits! (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:55:29 +0100 718594 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/25/updates-to-the-iowa-digital-library-posted/ Lavater’s Essai sur la physiognomonie has been added to the Iowa Digital Library.  The works were added to the John Martin Rare Book Room image collection, and include a set of 652 engravings from Lavater’s Essai sur la physiognomonie.  Originally, the engravings were published in 4 volumes, dating from 1781- 1786. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:17:30 +0100 718595 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/24/new-health-reform-website/ Americans that disapprove of the U.S. health care system finally have a place to be heard.  Earlier this month, the U.S. government launched healthreform.gov, a website dedicated to improving health care policies and procedures.  The website includes a section on the White House Health Forum, a place for Americans to contribute their thoughts on the many issues of health care reform and the ability to support the Obama White House’s commitment to health care reform by electronically signing a statement. The website can be viewed at: www.healthreform.gov (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:12:59 +0100 718153 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=335722 Op de Bibliotheeksite is bij Dossiers een nieuwe rubriek aangemaakt:Antwoorden op klinische vragen.Deze bevat zogenaamde CAT's van eigen literatuursearches door medewerkers. Maar ook externe verwijzingen naar de databanken TRIP Answers en Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) en ook naar artikelen uit MGV - Beproefd)Het Pubmedgroepje van de LCZ is al langer actief. Eind vorig jaar is besloten om de resultaten van de (evidence) zoekacties ook vast te leggen in een soort CAT-formulier. Zo beklijft het meer en doen we ook aan kennismanagement. Een leeg invulformulier is bij dit dossier toegevoegd. Er volgen nog wat kleine aanvullingen.Sinds kort komt er ook een groepje vaktherapeuten bij elkaar in het computerlokaal in Venray en vanaf april starten ook een aantal arts-assistenten. De resultaten zijn in te zien door te klikken op de Antwoorden van de LCZ-groep of van de Vaktherapie. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:50:39 +0100 718043 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=335402 Regelmatig wordt hier gevraagd hoe en waar je de bibliotheekcatalogus vanuit thuis kunt benaderen. We geven dan de rechtstreekse URL, of geven door dat hij ook via de site van GGZNML te benaderen is via .. "ga direct naar", via deze weblog etc.Een heel snelle methode is een extra toolbar toevoegen aan je werkbalk in Explorer of Mozilla firefox. Mijn collega Henny heeft er een voor de bibliotheek aangemaakt, geleerd op een cursus bibliotheek 2.0, aangereikt door het UMC van de RUG.Hoe te handelen?Klik op de toolbar en download hem op je pc.Vul een zoekterm in het lege vakje rechts naast het zoekplaatje en zoek in de verschillende bestanden, t.w. Onze catalogus, TRIP, Pubmed, PsycInfo, Picarta, Mednar (de nummer een van de tien beste zoekmachines op het gebied van de gezondheidszorg), NAZ etc. Tegelijkertijd kan helaas niet. Dus:Zoekterm(en) invullenDatabank selecterenKlik op GoSommige bestanden vragen de eerste keer om een wachtwoord. Die staan vermeld op onze bibliotheeksite (toegangscodes buiten netwerk). Thuis kun je die wachtwoorden makkelijk laten vasthouden door de browsers. De toolbar wordt nog verder uitgebouwd met relevante RSS feeds. De RSS bevat nu nog alleen een link naar deze weblog. Dus vergeet niet hem t.z.t te vernieuwen! Nog beter, kom even naar de bibliotheek voor meer uitleg (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:20:16 +0100 718044 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/11/watch-the-iowa-vs-michigan-basketball-game-312/ Want to watch the 10th-seeded Hawkeyes take on 7th-seeded Michigan in the first round of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament? Come to the Hardin Library! Thursday, March 12, 2009 Starting at 1:30 p.m. Information Commons East The game will be shown on the plasma screen in the Information Commons East! GO HAWKS!         (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:11:02 +0100 713492 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/09/celebrate-womens-history-month/ Celebrate Women’s History Month with a reception put on by the UI Council on the Status of Women and the Iowa Women’s Archives!  The Women’s History Month reception will feature guest speaker Professor Leslie Schwalm and introductions by Professor Linda Kerber. Tuesday, March 10th. 5 p.m.- 6 p.m. Iowa Women’s Archives 3rd Floor of the UI Main Library *Refreshments will be served (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:39:20 +0100 712736 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/06/sciencedirectmany-ejournals-not-available-saturday-sunday/ ScienceDirect will be temporarily unavailable on Saturday, March 7th due to maintenance by Elsevier. The scheduled shut-down will be from Saturday, March 7th starting at 5pm to approximately 6:30am Sunday, March 8th. ScienceDirect provides many of Hardin’s electronic journals so you may notice this. (Source: Hardin News) Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:34:10 +0100 712017 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/05/basics-of-endnote-workshop-330/ Have trouble citing?  EndNote can help!  Come to the free workshop on Monday, March 30, 2009 from 3-4pm.  The class will provide a hands-on introduction on how to use EndNote to gather, organize, and insert formatted citations into papers.  No prior experience with EndNote is needed. Although the class is free of charge, pre-registration is required. (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:46:40 +0100 711569 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/05/hardin-scholarly-communication-news-discontinued/ The Hardin Scholarly Communication News, which has been published for the University of Iowa health science campus over the past 4 1/2 years, is being discontinued.  It has now merged with Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI community, a newsletter which serves the entire UI campus.  Although Transitions is not completely dedicated to the health sciences, it will still carry many health field-related articles. To see the spring edition of Transitions, or to set up an RSS feed, please visit: http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/ (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:36:28 +0100 711570 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/05/sciencedirect-will-be-temporarily-unavailable/ ScienceDirect will be temporarily unavailable on Saturday, March 7th due to maintenance by Elsevier.  The scheduled shut-down will be from Saturday, March 7th starting at 5pm [Central Standard Time] to approximately 6:30am Sunday, March 8th. (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:39:40 +0100 711571 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/04/news-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-activities-of-daily-living/ Activities of Daily Living– While fads and fancies in health and medicine come and go, the underlying essentials of wellbeing, including, rest, nutrition, exercise, and moderation have gone unchallenged for millennia. One of the more popular works outlining keys to basic fitness is the Tacuini sanitatis by the eleventh century Iraq physician, Ibn Butlān (d. ca. 1068). Before the age of printing, Ibn Butlān’s writings were incorporated into stunning illuminated manuscripts.  However, the early printed editions are attractive in their own way. This 1531 edition, for instance, shows the early use of tabular formatting to codify items such as trees, foods, and flowers. However, its most charming feature is the fanciful set of miniature woodcuts showing everyday activities involved in the maintenance of health. Ibn Bultān practiced in Mossul, Egypt, Constantinople and Antioch where he entered a monastery and converted to Christianity. The John Martin Rare Book Room also includes facsimiles of early brilliantly colored codices based on Ibn Butlān’s texts.   (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:56:40 +0100 711494 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=334741 Informatie mbt het onderwijs aan de arts-assistenten (aios) is nu te vinden via de bibliotheekcatalogus - Dossiers - A-opleiding. Hier vind je formulieren, de Informatiemap, Onderwijsprogramma's, reglementen, al of niet verplichte literatuur en relevante links voor AIOS. Deze link kan eventueel op meerdere plekken worden geplaatst, ook ons intranet en op de (beschermde) site van de aios. Buiten ons netwerk zijn wel de inlogcodes van de bibliotheek vereist. Deze staan standaard op de homepage van de bibliotheek vermeld. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:49:31 +0100 711500 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2009/03/05/hardin-scholarly-communication-news-has-merged-with-transitions-scholarly-communication-news-for-the-ui-community/ Hardin Scholarly Communication News, which has been published for the past 4 1/2 years specifically for the University of Iowa health science campus, is being discontinued.  The newsletter has now merged with Transitions: scholarly communication news for the UI community, which serves the entire campus of the University of Iowa.  In Transitions, you will find many relevant articles related to health sciences.  Questions regarding the discontinuation of Hardin Scholarly Communication News may be directed to Linda Walton. My sincerest appreciation for all the loyal readers out there.  Please visit our spring issue of Transitions, where you may set up an RSS feed for notifications of new content. Karen Fischer, editor, HSCN and Transitions (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:52:54 +0100 711490 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/04/news-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-activities-of-daily-living/ Activities of Daily Living– While fads and fancies in health and medicine come and go, the underlying essentials of wellbeing, including, rest, nutrition, exercise, and moderation have gone unchallenged for millennia. One of the more popular works outlining keys to basic fitness is the Tacuini sanitatis by the eleventh century Iraq physician, Ibn Butlān (d. ca. 1068). Before the age of printing, Ibn Butlān’s writings were incorporated into stunning illuminated manuscripts.  However, the early printed editions are attractive in their own way. This 1531 edition, for instance, shows the early use of tabular formatting to codify items such as trees, foods, and flowers. However, its most charming feature is the fanciful set of miniature woodcuts showing everyday activities involved in the maintenance of health. Ibn Bultān practiced in Mossul, Egypt, Constantinople and Antioch where he entered a monastery and converted to Christianity. The John Martin Rare Book Room also includes facsimiles of early brilliantly colored codices based on Ibn Butlān’s texts.   (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:37:05 +0100 710998 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/03/03/iowa-city-flood-digital-collection-now-online/ The University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to announce that the Iowa City Flood Digital Collection is now available for viewing online. The collection uses mixed multimedia, including photographs and audio interviews, to document the flood that many on campus are still feeling the effect of today, over six months later. The collection can be viewed at: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/flood (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:08:38 +0100 710704 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/02/20/new-collaborative-online-medical-resource-available-%e2%80%93-medpedia/ A new collaborative online medical resource is now available, Medpedia.  Medpedia is an up-and-coming website seeking to bring together those in the medical fields and their respective research.  It currently is looking for members to contribute to its growing repository, and at its young age, is already a useful resource tool. It can be found at: http://www.medpedia.com/ (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:43:27 +0100 706805 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/02/20/medical-aspects-of-the-lincoln-assassination/ The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society Invites You to Hear: Blaine Houmes, M.D., Cedar Rapids Emergency Medicine Physician speak on: “Medical Aspects of the Lincoln Assassination” Dr. Blaine Houmes is known for his extensive knowledge of Abraham Lincoln and is an avid collector of Lincoln literature and artifacts.  As an emergency medical physician he has a special interest in the medical events relating to Lincoln’s assassination. Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:30-6:30 p.m. Room 2032, Main Library *Light refreshments will be served (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:18:21 +0100 706806 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=333916 Bron: Nieuwsbrief Walaeus BibliotheekSinds 2008 is de Walaeus Bibliotheek tevens de bibliotheek van het Nederlands Instituut voor Forensische Psychiatrie en Psychologie (NIFP). Inmiddels is de boekencollectie op dit gebied flink geactualiseerd. In onze eigen bibliotheek zijn ze bijna alle in de kast te vinden bij de rubriek W 740, of via onze catalogus. Zoeken via het vakgebied Forensische psychiatrie, geeft de meeste resultaten. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:10:34 +0100 706186 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=333493 Goed nieuws!.Meestal komen er op een trial/demo weinig tot geen reacties. Deze keer was het anders. Mede daardoor is vorige week een jaarlijks contract ondertekend. Zoals eerder vermeld is toegang alleen mogelijk via ons netwerk (of token).UpToDate is inmiddels rechts in het openingsscherm van de bibliotheekcatalogus toegevoegd bij de externe databanken.De datank is een soort textboek, niet echt evidence based, maar daar zijn andere bronnen geschikt voor. Het is erg gebruikersvriendelijk en heeft een duidelijk toegevoegde waarde voor de dagelijkse klinische praktijk. Hieronder nog wat informatie mbt het specialisme psychiatrie afkomstig van de accountmanager van UpToDate:"Neurologie (inclusief psychiatrie) wordt dit jaar (=2009) geintroduceerd, maar is al grotendeels aanwezig in UpToDate . Geriatrie als zodanig komt voorlopig niet in ons systeem (als apart specialisme), maar voor alle aandoeningen wordt ook de aanpak bij ouderen beschreven (zie hieronder).Als artsen dus zoeken op syndroom of aandoening dan is voldoende hoogwaardige informatie aanwezig. Bovendien gaat het er in ons systeem ook juist om dat men informatie kan vinden over aandoeningen op het niet eigen specialistische gebied. Vele patienten hebben namelijk meerdere problemen en om een verantwoord beleid te maken is daarvoor meer informatie nodig (bijvoorbeeld een psychiatrische patient met hoge bloeddruk of met COPD). " (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:51:44 +0100 703736 http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20090211salzberg.mp3 One of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (lovingkindness) are the foundations of her work. Sharon Salzberg has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, and has led meditation classes and retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion in a non-sectarian, inclusive framework. Sharon has played a crucial role in bringing meditation practice to the West, and is committed to exploring the role of spiritual awareness in daily life and in issues of social justice. In this Medical Center Hour she will lead a conversation about “Empathy, Compassion, and Balance” in our lives and work. During these times of uncertainty and turmoil — whether regarding world economics, job losses and struggles in the US, war, famine, or natural disasters, the pain and suffering among the world’s inhabitants is great. Also in the setting of health care where attention to disease often predominates, there is great suffering among the ill as well as their care givers. How can this suffering be faced day after day? How can we remain interested, engaged and open-hearted? Can compassion for ourselves and others be enhanced? How is it possible to maintain balance in the face of such need? Sharon Salzberg will discuss this complex area bringing new awareness and opportunities. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:00:00 +0100 707449 http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20090128shepherd.mp3 In 1997, Jean-Dominique Bauby’s book, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, acquainted readers around the world with the state of being “locked in.” Incapacitated by a devastating stroke, the 43-year-old Frenchman, editor of Elle magazine, was completely paralyzed, “imprisoned inside [my] own body, unable to speak or move,” trapped in a body he characterized as a hermetically sealed diving bell. But Bauby had a small window - he could blink his left eye - and this enabled him to communicate, painstakingly, by eye-blinks in response to recited letters of the alphabet. Thus he “wrote” his book, giving voice to both his severely limited physical existence and his illimitable memory and imagination. Persons who are locked in as a result of severely paralyzing neurological illness or injury face overwhelming challenges to communication. Few can manage as did Bauby. A lively mind in an immobilized body — how is one to register needs and wants, connect with others, express one’s thoughts, emotions, and creativity? This Medical Center Hour explores new research by UVa psychologists that uses a locked-in person’s brain signals to facilitate communication, in one case helping an artist with advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to paint digitally. What is the promise of this research and associated technology, for patients, families, and clinicians? (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:00:00 +0100 704504 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/02/04/introducing-iowa-research-online/ Iowa Research Online is a newly created online repository of scholarly work from the members of the University of Iowa community.  Iowa Research Online provides open access to all interested in research, and is also a resource for those looking to submit their work.  The University of Iowa Libraries staff works with university departments, research centers, and individual faculty to select, submit, and manage content. Members of the academic community are invited to contribute their completed scholarship for long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility. If you are interested in learning more about the repository, please contact the site administrator at lib-ir@uiowa.edu. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:06:54 +0100 700928 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/02/02/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-birthing-in-the-16th-century/ Birthing in the 16th Century Jakob Rüff (1500-1558) was not the first physician to write a birthing manual for midwives but his book, De conceptu et generatione hominis, first published in 1554 in both Latin and German was certainly one of the most famous and widely used. Lithotomist, surgeon, obstetrician and playwright, was the town physician of Zurich where his book was obligatory reading for anyone delivering a child in the canton. To modern eyes, the crude woodcuts used to illustrate the position and placement of the fetus appear somewhat whimsical but the anatomical drawings of the reproductive organs (many based on Vesalius) are often quite accurate. Rüff covers every aspect of labor, delivery, and postnatal care, including advice for treating the newly pregnant: “Before all things let them be of a merry heart, …them give their endevour to moderat joyes and sports …them use moderate exercise, let them not leape, or rise up suddenly, let them not runne also, neither dance nor ride, neither let them lace or gird in themselves hard or straight, or lift up any heavie burden with their hands.” All images from 1580, Frankfurt edition. Book is available for view in the John Martin Rare Book Room. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:45:46 +0100 700209 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/02/02/iowa-go-local-poster-on-display-at-ala-virtual-poster-session/ Hardin Library’s Iowa Go Local project is currently featured on the American Library Association’s new Virtual Poster Session website.  Iowa Go Local is a free online directory that connects Iowan’s to healthcare providers in any of the 99 counties across the state. You can view the poster at http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Iowa_Go_Local (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:14:00 +0100 700115 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/01/30/nlms-health-services-research-public-health-information-programs-website-has-been-updated/ The National Library of Medicince’s Health Services Research & Public Health Information Programs website has recently been updated.  Go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html to find collaborative projects, databases, subject access projects, outreach and training, and publications pertaining to health services research and public health.  Highlights include: ·         Health People 2010 Info Access Project (pre-formulated searches): http://phpartners.org/hp/   ·         Selected Data Tools and Stats: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/datasites.html   ·         A Guide to Finding and Using Health Stats: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.htm   ·         Provider Portal: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/healthcare.html   ·         Researcher Portal: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/researchers.html   ·         Funding: http://phpartners.org/grants.html   ·         Self-study and outreach resources: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/outreach.html     (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:39:09 +0100 699214 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/01/29/drop-in-help-now-available-for-wireless-devices/ This semester, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will begin offering “drop-in” help sessions for wireless devices such as PDAs, Smartphones, iPhones, and iTouches.  The Hardin Library will help patrons set up their devices for wireless, as well as help them access library subscriptions to PDA resources.    The help sessions will be every Friday from 10am-2pm in the Information Commons East.    Although the help will always be available if patrons need it, individuals that need a lot of help, or would like their devices completely configured for them, should plan to stop by on Fridays.   A library guide to accessing wireless device resources can be found at: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/content.php?hs=a&pid=10066   (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:39:54 +0100 698808 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=332569 Zowel de verpleegkundige website van het tijdschrift TVZ (Tijdschrift voor Verpleegkundigen) als die van het NTvG (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde) zijn per ingang van 2009 geheel vernieuwd. Op de website van TVZ is te lezen dat een week voor het verschijnen van een nieuw nummer de inhoudsopgave op de site wordt gepresenteerd, met daarin verwijzigingen naar extra informatie. Ook prettig is dat via Dossiers thema's als Advanced Nursing Practice, het verpleegkundig onderwijs, ouderenzorg en de eerstelijnszorg zijn uitgediept. Ze verwijzen naar oude artikelen uit TVZ die nu in pdf zijn uit te printen. Dit is vergelijkbaar met de handige Dossiers in het tijdschrift Bijzijn. Daar moet je je wel eerst registreren (en daarna inloggen) om bij de artikelen van Dossiers te kunnen.De vernieuwde website van het NTvG is tijdelijk vrij toegankelijk. Dit om iedereen te laten wennen aan de nieuwe site. Artikelen worden eerst op het net gepubliceerd; het tijdschrift zelf is verdeeld in katernen. Er zijn 6 katernen: Nieuws, Opinie, Onderzoek, Klinische praktijk, Perspectief en Varia. Ook de papieren editie oogt nu heel modern met een geïllustreerde cover. Zowel de webeditie als de gedrukte geeft extra kaders met achtergrondinformatie. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:43:45 +0100 698722 http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20090128shepherd.mp3 In the winter of 2005, the world watched as Terri Schiavo, a young woman in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) since 1990, became the focal point of debate and decisionmaking regarding the rights and care of persons in minimally conscious states. Emotions ran high within Schiavo's family circle but also in advocacy groups across the sociopolitical spectrum as state and federal courts and even the Florida governor and legislature grappled with questions of continuing or discontinuing life support—to feed or not to feed?—for this young woman. In the end, a local court's decision to remove Schiavo's feeding tube was carried out, and she died shortly thereafter. The actions taken and decisions made during Terri Schiavo’s last years assumed a life of their own, however, even as medicine has become more adept at sustaining life after devastating neurological injury and we understand better, though far from perfectly, the neuroscience of minimally conscious states. This Medical Center Hour explores the ways in which the Schiavo case continues to have repercussions for all of us—for persons nearing death, to be sure, and their families, but also for health care professionals, attorneys, lawmakers, clergy, researchers, disability advocates, bioethicists, the media, and anyone contemplating appointing a surrogate decision-maker or making their last wishes known in an advance directive. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100 701455 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/01/27/come-watch-house-on-fridays/ Beginning this Friday, Fun Fridays @ Hardin Presents: HOUSE Every Friday starting @ 3pm It will be played in the Information Commons East. Come relax and watch a great medical show every Friday!  All are welcome! (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:34:12 +0100 697972 http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20090121goldsmith.mp3 In 2006, the first baby boomers in the U.S. turned 60. Concern was voiced then about the affordability of retirement—including health care expenditures—for this unusually large segment of our population; indeed, there were gloomy predictions that, in retirement, the boomers would be such an albatross around society’s neck that, barring major reforms, Social Security and Medicare simply could not accommodate this generation's needs, much less those of succeeding generations. But conventional wisdom may not hold true for boomers, whose roadmap for the future seems not to call for retirement en masse or at the earliest opportunity. Indeed, there are ways to see the baby boom as a wave of seniors who will bring considerable resources, financial and otherwise, into their later years. Can the nation craft social policies that will foster a pro-work, pro-savings, pro-health improvement culture for boomers in retirement and for later generations? Social scientist and futurist Jeff Goldsmith takes an optimistic view of this situation, particularly in his latest book, The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation (2008). But what about now, when the U.S. faces its gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression? Is it all gloom and doom, or might there be ways to reconceive and manage the boomers’ retirement and health care in constructive, socially beneficial ways? Indeed, in these first days of the Obama administration, can we be hopeful on this front, too? This Medical Center Hour features Jeff Goldsmith and Carolyn Engelhard, health policy analyst and co-author of Health Care Half-Truths, and their views on what retirement for the baby boom can or will look like, especially with respect to health care. Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100 699841 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=331625 De zaterdageditie van de Volkskrant van 10 januari wijdde er een hele pagina aan. AMC-psychiater en hoogleraar Damiaan Denys maakt op 23 januari op een symposium in Amsterdam de eerste resultaten bekend van zijn DBS-behandeling bij patiënten met ernstige dwangneurosen oftewel obsessief-compulsieve stoornissen. Bij diepe hersenstimulatie worden twee gaatjes in de schedel geboord en twee elektrodes geïmplanteerd in het brein, om precies te zijn in het BNST (bed nucleus van de stria terminalis). Het apparaatje, een neurostimulator, werkt op batterijen en kan met een afstandsbediening aan- en uit worden gezet. Nogal spectaculair allemaal, reden waarom hij dinsdag ook aanwezig was in de uitzending van Pauw & Witteman om een en ander nader uit te leggen. Het filmpje hieronder laat zien hoe een en ander in zijn werk gaat. Patienten met dwangneurosen worden binnen onze organisatie behandeld op de Kliniek voor Gedragstherapie (KGT), nu Centrum voor Angst- en Dwangstoornissen geheten. Psychotherapie en medicatie zijn de gangbare behandelingsmethoden. Doorverwijzing van zeer ernstige vallen, waarbij de diagnose OCS (met angstkenmerken) ondubbelzing is vastgesteld en de gangbare behandelingen geen effect hebben, behoort dan tot de mogelijkheden. Via deze link vind je literatuur over dwangneurosen in onze catalogus, waaronder het Handboek obsessieve-compulsieve stoornissen onder redactie van Damiaan Denys en de referentie naar het krante-artikel en de tv-uitzending (ook te leen op dvd). Voor meer persoonlijke informatie over Damiaan (oud arts-assistent van ons instituut) kun je terecht bij het mooie kerstnummer van Medisch Contact uit 2006, nr. 51/52 .. getiteld: Twee artsen op één kussen.. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:30:10 +0100 693602 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/01/13/nominations-accepted-for-jean-y-jew-womens-rights-award/ The Women’s Resource & Action Center and the Council on the Status of Women are accepting nominations for the 2009 Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award.  The award, given annually by the Council on the Status of Women and the Women’s Resource and Action Center, honors a faculty, staff, or student member of the University community who has demonstrated outstanding effort or achievement in improving the status of women at the University.  The award will be granted at the Annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women on April 1, 2009, at 3:30 pm in the Old Capital Museum. Some of the previous Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award Recipients include: Susan Buckley, Pre-Vocational Training Rusty Barceló, Office of the Provost Nancy Hauserman, Management & Organizations Clara Oleson, UI Labor Center Yvonne “Bonnie” Slatton, Sport, Health, Leisure and Physical Studies Christine H. B. Grant, Women’s Athletics             Susan R. Johnson, College of Medicine Jean Martin, Motor Vehicle Maintenance Service   Susan Beckett, Engineering Computer Network Pat Cain, College of Law Chris Brus, WISE Criteria Candidates should have a strong record of support for women’s rights in a broad sense, a commitment to women’s rights at The University of Iowa, and one or more of the following related to women’s rights:     * Particular contributions to The University of Iowa     *  Long-standing record of leadership, effort, and activism.     * Accomplishments with national scope or impact    Information about the award and the nomation form is available online at http://www.uiowa.edu/~wrac/scholarships.htm . (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:40:43 +0100 695355 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/01/06/interlibrary-loandocument-delivery-unavailable-beginning-jan-6/ Update:  12:45 p.m., Wednesday, 1/7 The upgrade is still in progress, and ILL/Document Delivery services are still not available.  At this point, we do not have a timeline for availability. ________________________________________________ The UI Libraries Interlibrary Loan system will be undergoing a software upgrade beginning at 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 6.  During the upgrade, the system will be shut down.  Library users will not be able to submit new interlibrary loan requests, ask for renewals, or view already posted documents while the system is down. This will effect library users on the Main campus as well as at Hardin. If the upgrade goes smoothly, the system will be back up by 12:00 noon on Wednesday, January 7.  However, it is possible that the system will need to be shut down for a longer period.  If that is the case, it will be announced here.. For any questions, please contact the Hardin staff.           (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:47:36 +0100 690629 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=331192 Geheel onverwachts is Siegfried, waarnemend opleider en onderzoeker binnen onze organisatie, overleden aan een herseninfarct tijdens zijn vakantie in Tibet. Een groot verlies voor de bibliotheek.Siegfried was een expert in literatuuronderzoek- en searches. Zo wilde hij precies weten hoe groot de overlap en de verschillen waren tussen EMBASE, Medline en PsycInfo. Dat leidde er weer toe dat we het abonnement op EMBASE/Psychiatry annuleerden en al in een vroeg stadium een licentie voor PsycInfo afnamen. Dat laatste is inmiddels ook verplicht voor de opleidingen psychologie. Ook was hij actief als reviewer bij het Dutch Cochrane center. Hij begeleidde het onderzoek en de referaten van de arts-assistenten. Dat kon ook makkelijk buiten werktijd, sommige arts-assistenten ontvingen rond middernacht nog een mail vanuit Amsterdam met redactionele opmerkingen en tips betreffende hun referaat. Ook de bibliotheek gebruikte zijn prive-email standaard op de dagen dat hij niet in huis was. En op zijn initiatief werd er eindelijk gestart met het importeren van alle onderzoeksliteratuur in Endnote. Op de woensdag en donderdag was hij op het instituut aanwezig; druk met onderzoek en publicaties.Hij had volop ideeën en plaatste veel ziektebeelden in een historische context. Zo hebben we dankzij hem alle oude drukken van de DSM bewaard of in huis gehaald. Je kunt dan bijvoorbeeld achterhalen wanneer precies homofilie als psychiatrische ziekte uit de DSM verdwenen is. Siegfried wilde ook graag zijn mail voorzien van een handtekening met een link naar zijn publicaties. Gelukkig had ik dat net geleerd op de PubMed III cursus en kon ik dat geleerde meteen in de praktijk toepassen.Hierbij gevoegd als eerbetoon een lijst van zijn publicaties in de Pubmed.Op donderdag 15 januari om 16.00 uur is er de Kapel aan de Stationsweg een korte herdenkingbijeenkomst. Medewerkers en patiënten zijn welkom. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:13:41 +0100 690536 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2009/01/05/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-lorthopedie/ The simple image of a crooked tree splinted to a wooden pole is one of the most recognizable symbols in medicine.  Its first appearance was as an engraving in Andry de Bois-Regard’s 1741publication,  L’orthopédie; ou, “L’art de prévenir et de corriger dan les enfans, les difformités du corps* *Orthopaedia: or the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformities in Children.  In naming his book, Andry (1658-1742) coined the word “orthopaedics.”  Born in Lyon, Andry was a physician and administrator at the College of Medicine in Paris but was eventually forced to resign as dean because of his spiteful and irascible nature.  Much of his scorn was directed at the barber-surgeons of his day whom he forbade to operate unless in the presence of a physician. Andry’s earlier and somewhat curious work on works in humans (a book also in the Martin collection) while earning him the title of the “father of parisitology” in some circles, also prompted his detractors to label him the “worm man.”  L’orthopédie is more overview than original.   It includes sections on surface anatomy, postural and limb deformities and abnormalities of the head.  The accompanying engravings give the work an added measure of charm.      (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:42:47 +0100 689896 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/12/24/library-closed-december-25-28-january-1-for-holidays/ The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will be closed December 25-28 for holidays, and also closed January 1 for New Year’s Day, and January 19.  The library will be open shorter hours December 20-January 18.  A complete schedule is available online. An unstaffed 24-hour study area and computer lab are available when the library is closed. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:25:28 +0100 687348 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/12/18/bad-weather-the-library-is-still-open/ The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will be open until 12am (Midnight), Thursday, December 18.  An unstaffed 24-hour study is also available. The Main Library will be open 24 hours. (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:17:41 +0100 685435 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/12/15/who-owns-knowledge-event/ The rich array of collaborative technologies now available has underscored the critical issue of who owns knowledge–a question that brings to light intellectual and practical challenges for university faculty members concerned about teaching and learning. On Friday January 16, 2009 ITS-Instructional Services, the Center for Teaching, and the University of Iowa Libraries will host an event to explore the issues posed by the question “Who owns knowledge?” We will consider some of the teaching technologies that can widen the creation and sharing of knowledge as they also challenge instructors and students to possibly rethink their roles in the academy, education, and society. If you are a faculty or staff member who teaches, please join us for 4CAST ‘09 The Open Academy: “Who Owns Knowledge?” Events will include:    * small-group roundtable discussions    * posters by ITS staff and UI faculty members    * small group sessions for faculty members to showcase how they incorporate some of these teaching technologies into courses    * breakout sessions for “hands-on” technology training   Friday January 16, 8:45-3:30 Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided University Conference Center 2520-D, Seminar Room     *To register please visit the 4CAST website at http://at.its.uiowa.edu/4cast or call 335-6048. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:32:50 +0100 683980 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=329753 Vanwege hun jubileum zijn nu ALLE artikelen van alle jaargangen, dus vanaf het eerste nummer in 1959, online in te zien op hun website. In dit jubileumnummer zijn de samenvattingen van oude spraakmakende artikelen over een bepaald onderwerpsgebied geselecteerd en op gekleurd papier op de linkerpagina afgedrukt. Hierop voortbordurend geven vooraanstaande auteurs in korte bijdragen hun visie op de ontwikkelingen van dit vakgebied in de afgelopen 25 jaar.In het redactioneel wordt nader ingegaan op de meest opvallende veranderingen, zoals de nadruk op de biologische psychiatrie, de opleiding tot psychiater waarbij de wetenschappelijke evidentie meer nadruk krijgt, de bopz en de toename van het aantal tbs'ers etc.Allemaal digitaal in te zien, maar toch mooi dat er een gedrukt exemplaar van is. Echt een nummer om te bewaren. We bestellen een extra exemplaar voor in de kast, dus je kunt het hier ook lenen. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:55:39 +0100 682108 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=329630 Op verzoek van de arts-assistenten hebben we een trial aangevraagd voor UpToDate, een medische databank voor artsen. De trial loopt tot 1 februari 2009 en is alleen toegankelijk binnen ons netwerk.Let op! Voordat je start moet je eerst de licentie accepteren. De licentie van UPTODATE verbiedt namelijk expliciet het downloaden van substantiele stukken van de database om misbruik te voorkomen.Meer algemene informatie:UpToDate is een full text databank met topic reviews op het gebied van de interne geneeskunde en andere specialismen. De informatie is bedoeld voor de drukke klinicus die geen tijd heeft om zelf te zoeken naar allerlei literatuur en behoefte heeft aan een gemakkelijk te doorzoeken databank met een gebruiksvriendelijke navigatie.De databank bevat klinisch bewezen (evidence based) informatie: diagnostische en therapeutische aspecten van ziekten. Ook is er veel informatie over geneesmiddelen te vinden in de Drug Database.Volgens de leverancier wordt er gewerkt aan een specialisme psychiatrie.Naast de UpToDate versie voor artsen bestaat er ook een gratis versie UpToDate voor patienten met meer dan 350 bijdragen over medische aandoeningen en de mogelijke behandelingen. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:19:50 +0100 681550 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/12/01/congratulations-jonathan/ Jonathan Koffel, education and outreach librarian, recently received special recognition from the UI College of Pharmacy for his teaching and outreach efforts.  The award was based on votes and comments from Pharmacy students and was awarded at the College’s annual reception held to honor scholarship recipients and Teacher of the Year award winners.    Jonathan is the Library’s liaison to the College of Pharmacy and holds an adjunct faculty appointment within the College.  He teaches information use skills to students in the Pharmacy Practice Lab course sequence, creates customized resource guides on pharmacy topics, and selects pharmacy-related materials for the library’s collection. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:42:53 +0100 680297 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=329001 Arts-assistenten in opleiding (AIOS) kunnen ook een half jaar stage lopen in het buitenland. Een van onze psychiaters heeft daarvoor in Frankrijk (Bretagne) terrein verkend en de eerste contacten zijn gelegd. Bij terugkomst bleek hij ook voor de bibliotheek het nodige te hebben aangeschaft. We zijn nu voorzien van een mooie collectie recente Franse psychiatrie-boeken. Allemaal voor het eerst in het landelijke GGC-systeem ingevoerd. Dat is wel veelzeggend hoe weinig er nog in de Franse taal wordt aangeschaft. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:08:11 +0100 678865 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/11/21/electronic-book-collection-under-evaluation/ The R2 Library, a collection of electronic books in the health sciences from Rittenhouse Book Distributors, is currently being evaluated by the Hardin Library.  Books in the collection come from a wide variety of publishers, including Wiley, Thomson Healthcare, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, and many others. The books in the collection can be browsed or searched. All artwork, including tables, graphs, charts, illustrations and photographs, may be used for educational purposes in the classroom. The R2 Library is available for evaluation through December. For off-campus access, you will be required to enter your HawkID and password. Please send comments, including recommendations on individual book titles that you find useful, to Janna Lawrence (janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu). (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:37:50 +0100 675374 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/11/20/new-books-added-to-statref/ New books were recently added to Stat!Ref, an electronic resource which is accessible through the Hardin Library homepage. New titles include: http://online.statref.com/titleinfo/fxid-282.html http://online.statref.com/titleinfo/fxid-239.html http://online.statref.com/titleinfo/fxid-4.html http://online.statref.com/titleinfo/fxid-5.html The list in its entirety can be seen at: http://statref.typepad.com/ (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:31:33 +0100 674992 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081119emanuel.mp3 "The American healthcare system is a dysfunctional mess." So begins physician-bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel's new book, Healthcare, Guaranteed. Despite the vast sums of money paid out for health care in the U.S.—one of every six dollars spent in this country—the health status of our citizens is, in a word, "sickly" when measured against the health status of populations in other industrialized nations. Across the U.S., even in affluent communities like Charlottesville-Albemarle, diabetes, obesity, infant mortality, substance abuse, cancer, and communicable infections take a toll, individually and socially. Beyond these specific health concerns, screening and prevention play too small a role in Americans' care, medicines are priced beyond many citizens' pocketbooks, and lack of sufficient (or any) insurance works against many people seeking timely, appropriate medical attention for serious physical or mental conditions. What's to be done? Calls for health care reform are ubiquitous these days, from persons of every political persuasion. But, while there's consensus that our "system" is broken, proffered solutions are many and varied, with bedeviling details. In this Medical Center Hour, Ezekiel Emanuel outlines the essential elements of an effective, sustainable health care system and makes the case for comprehensive change. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:00:00 +0100 696757 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/11/19/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-bleeding-by-the-numbers/ Pierre Louis’ 1835, Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires, et sur l’action de l’émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie is one of the less impressive looking books in the John Martin Rare Book Room, but it was instrumental in laying the foundation for what we now term, “evidence based medicine.” For over 2000 years the practice of bloodletting (phlebotomy) was a mainstay of therapeutics. In fact it is difficult to identify a disease for which this practice was not recommended at some time. Bleeding had its roots in the classical Hippocratic/Galenic medical paradigm which held that the cause of illness was the result of an imbalance of humors (blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile). Just as important as the volume of blood removed was the site of the bleeding; some of the earliest medical illustrations depict the most appropriate bleeding points for various ailments. When Pierre Louis (1787-1872) placed the practice under statistical scrutiny, using “la methode numerique” he was thus swimming against the tide of centuries of tradition and authority. In Recherches sur les effets de la saignée…, Louis measured the effectiveness of bloodletting in pneumonia in 77 previously healthy patients and came to the general conclusion that bloodletting had no benefit and was even deleterious in certain groups. Just as importantly, Louis lays down in a few simple sentences the rationale large scale evaluation and in so doing paves the way for the modern clinical trial: “Let us further remark that the objection made to the numerical method, to wit, the difficulty or impossibility of forming classes of similar facts, is alike applicable to all the methods that might be substituted. It is impossible to appreciate each case with mathematical exactness, and it is precisely on this account that enumeration becomes necessary. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:14:54 +0100 674357 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/11/17/new-issue-of-hardin-scholarly-communication-news-available-now/ The November 2008 issue of Hardin Scholarly Communication News is available at http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/. Topics this month include author’s rights, copyright, open access and more! (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:47:09 +0100 673486 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/hardin-scholarly-communication-news-november-2008/ A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa November 2008 | Issue 3.08 Hardin Scholarly Communication News brings together a variety of topics that affect the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new developments, open access and alternative publishing models in the health sciences. This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Table of Contents: Congress’s copyright fight puts open access science in peril Open Access: it’s “just good science” Health Commons - changing the way basic science is translated to help human health Scientific publishing might create a winner’s curse Does online access change citation practices? Publisher-Author Agreements and the NIH Public Access Policy Read publisher policies on copyright, and more… Author’s Rights, Tout de Suite In Boost for NIH Policy, Major Autism Research Organization Mandates Public Access Medical Wiki Backed by Prominent Colleges Will Go Live by Year’s End (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:35 +0100 673476 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/congresss-copyright-fight-puts-open-access-science-in-peril/ By John Timmer | Published: September 16, 2008, Ars Technica News Desk Backlash against open access In recent years, scientific publishing has changed profoundly as the Internet simplified access to the scientific journals that once required a trip to a university library. That ease of access has caused many to question why commercial publishers are able to dictate the terms by which publicly funded research is made available to the public that paid for it. Open access proponents won a big victory when Congress voted to compel the National Institutes of Health to set a policy of hosting copies of the text of all publications produced by research it funds, a policy that has taken effect this year. Now, it appears that the publishing industry may be trying to get Congress to introduce legislation that will reverse its earlier decision under the guise of strengthening copyright protections. Under existing law, the products of federally funded research belong to the scientists that perform it and institutions that host them. Academic journals have traditionally had researchers transfer the copyright of publications resulting from this research to the journals. The current NIH policy requires that authors they fund reserve the right to place the text and images of their publication in an NIH database hosted at PubMed Central (PMC). To protect commercial publishers, papers submitted to PMC are not made accessible until a year after publication, and are not required to include the formatting and integration of images performed by the publisher. This one-year limit is longer than that required by other governments and private funding bodies such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Wellcome Trust. Many publishers have embraced this policy, and allow the fully formatted paper to be made available, sometimes after a shorter embargo. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:29:01 +0100 673477 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/open-access-its-just-good-science/ Carmeron Neylon is at School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton as Lecturer in Chemical Biology.  Read about his dedication open access to scientific research. Cameron Neylon, Where does Open Access stop and ‘just doing good science’ begin?, Science in the open, October 14, 2008. I had been getting puzzled for a while as to why I was being characterised as an ‘Open Access’ advocate. … This came to a head recently when I was being interviewed for a piece on Open Access. We kept coming round to the question of what it was that motivated me to be ’such a strong’ advocate of open access publication. I must have a very strong motivation to have such strong views surely? And I found myself thinking that I didn’t. I wasn’t that motivated about open access per se. It took some thinking and going back over where I had come from to realise that this was because of where I was coming from. … The debate [about OA] has placed, or perhaps re-placed, right at the centre of the discussion of how we should do science, the importance of the quality of communication. It has re-stated the principle of placing the claims that you make, and the evidence that supports them, in the open for criticism by anyone with the expertise to judge, regardless of where they are based or who is funding them. And it has made crystal clear where the deficiencies in that communication process lie and exposed the creeping tendency of publication over the past few decades to become more an exercise in point scoring than communication. There remains much work to be done across a wide range of areas but the fact that we can now look at taking those challenges on is due in no small part to the work of those who have advocated Open Access from its difficult beginnings to today’s success. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:28:44 +0100 673478 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/health-commons-changing-the-way-basic-science-is-translated-to-help-human-health/ The Health Commons is a coalition of parties interested in changing the way basic science is translated into the understanding and improvement of human health. Coalition members agree to share data, knowledge, and services under standardized terms and conditions by committing to a set of common technologies, digital information standards, research materials, contracts, workflows, and software. These commitments ensure that knowledge, data, materials and tools can move seamlessly from partner to partner across the entire drug discovery chain. Science Commons’ John Wilbanks lays out the argument for the Health Commons - how the existing drug discovery process is broken, and where to look for inspiration in how to fix it.  Take a look at this great video and find out more about Health Commons. The Health Commons was founded by: Science Commons CommerceNet Public Library of Science CollabRx (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:28:25 +0100 673479 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/scientific-publishing-might-create-a-winners-curse/ By John Timmer, Published: October 13, 2008, Ars Technica News Desk Scientific publishing may be having some difficulty as a business model, but there are also plenty of questions regarding how well it functions from a scientific perspective. Scientifically, the function of publishing is to get accurate, reproducible information and its interpretations into the hands of the scientific community, and there has always been some debate about whether the peer review and impact factor-driven world of publishing is the optimal way to achieve it. A paper that was published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine has now examined scientific publishing using economic concepts and concluded that the way things are done now is inevitably problematic. The paper makes what may be its most tenuous claim up front: scientific information can be treated as a commodity. It may be really difficult to put a monetary value on this commodity, but it’s clear that lots of groups—fellow scientists, policy makers, commercial entities—want access to high-quality scientific data. The publishers act as intermediaries in this process, determining what research will grace their pages and attracting “buyers” of the information in the form of subscribers. The authors argue that this situation makes the publishers, as they try to attract the hottest research to their pages, in a position analogous to bidders at an auction, and the authors analogous to sellers. This is where the economic model comes in. Auction bidders are prone to suffering a “winner’s curse,” where the true value of an item is probably closer to an average of the bids, which means that the winner (the highest bidder) probably offered too much for it. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:27:48 +0100 673480 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/does-online-access-change-citation-practices/ by Philip Davis, The Scholarly Kitchen, Oct. 13, 2008 Excerpt: Earlier this year, Davis reported on a study by sociologist James Evans suggesting that online access to scientific journals is leading to more recent citations and a narrowing of the diversity of those articles which are cited. This study was not taken at face value, and three information scientists (Vincent Larivière, Yves Gingras, and Éric Archambault) all at the University of Quebec in Montreal have released a new analysis taking aim at the diversity claim. Their manuscript, “The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900-2007,” deposited September 30th in the arXiv, uses a simpler methodology. They report the percentage of papers that received at least one citation, the percentage of papers needed to account for 20%, 50%, and 80% of total citations, and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, a measure used to estimate market concentration. . . . What makes this controversy interesting is that both studies make theoretical sense.  A narrowing of science conforms to attention economics and preferential attachment (why the cited get more citations and the rest get ignored); a broadening of science conforms to information foraging theory, the principle of least effort, and the increasing ease of retrieving relevant articles.  The results of both studies imply something different about the state of science, whether scientific information is being disseminated efficiently, and whether the literature is reflecting more diversity of opinion or more conformity. Read the entire post at: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/10/13/citation-controversy/ Read more commentary on the topic at: Great minds think (too much) alike. Economist; 7/19/2008, Vol. 387 Issue 8589, p89-89, 2/3p (available to UI affliates only) (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:27:03 +0100 673481 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/publisher-author-agreements-and-the-nih-public-access-policy/ ARL News Release from: August 15, 2008 Washington DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released “PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy,” by Ben Grillot, MLS (Maryland 2002), second-year student at the George Washington University Law School, and legal intern for ARL. To help authors make informed choices about their rights, Grillot compares how the agreements of 12 publishers permit authors to meet the requirements of the recently revised National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy and share their works while they are under embargo. The NIH Public Access Policy requires authors of NIH-funded research to deposit their works in PubMed Central and make them publicly available within 12 months of publication. Grillot focuses his analysis on how the agreements differ in: the terms and procedures of deposit of the work, the length of any embargo period, and the rights of the author to use and share the work during the embargo period. Grillot presents summary tables that clearly show the similarities and differences across agreements. He also analyzes the implications of these agreements. Grillot concludes that the significant variability in publisher agreements requires authors with NIH funding to closely examine publisher agreements and the rights granted and retained when deciding where to publish their research. His analysis of these 12 agreements will help authors determine what to look for in an agreement and what questions to ask before signing. “PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights” is available for free download from the ARL Web site at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/grillot-pubmed.pdf (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:26:29 +0100 673482 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/read-publisher-policies-on-copyright-and-more/ SHERPA, a consortium of UK libraries, investigates issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research. SHERPA has several resources for authors to use: RoMEO: Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher’s copyright transfer agreement.  Additionally, you will find many sample publication agreements on this site. Publishers allowing the deposition of their published version/PDF in Institutional Repositories. There is often a question about the use of the publishers own PDF version of research articles and whether these can be archived. It is often believed that all publishers prohibit the use of their own PDF: in fact the situation is very different. Use this site to find out what you can do with your article post-publication. Publishers’ paid open access options often allow authors to immediately deposit their articles in open access repositories upon payment of a fee. The same publishers may also allow authors to deposit after an embargo period without payment of a fee. Use this site to find out if a publisher has an OA option, and the cost. (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:26:12 +0100 673483 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/authors-rights-tout-de-suite/ Authorʹs Rights Tout de Suite, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., is designed to give journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of authorʹs rights and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites. Additionally, University of Iowa authors can find a trove of information on author rights (why you should retain copyright for your creative output) on the Transforming Scholarly Communication web site at the University of Iowa Libraries. (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:44 +0100 673484 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/in-boost-for-nih-policy-major-autism-research-organization-mandates-public-access/ When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) created its groundbreaking public access policy this year, advocates expressed the belief that it the policy would spread, and other major research organizations would follow. Today, Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism advocacy organization, became the first U.S.-based non-profit advocacy organization to develop a public access requirement. As of December 3, all researchers accepting grants from the organization will be required to deposit any resulting peer-reviewed research papers in the PubMed Central online archive, and make them available to the public within 12 months of journal publication. Positive reinforcement The move constitutes significant—and very public—support of the NIH public access policy. In 2007, Autism Speaks committed an unprecedented $30 million in new research funding to autism research. It has also generated significant attention to its cause via outreach efforts and resources for families. And, the group clearly has friends in Congress. Last year, Congress approved full funding of the Combating Autism Act, providing $162 million for programs at the NIH, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The new policy comes at a crucial time for public access advocates. In September 2008, the NIH policy came under attack from the publishing community, whose support yielded the Fair Copyright in Research Act, which would prohibit the government from instituting public access policies like the one at NIH. In addition, Elias Zerhouni, the NIH executive director who spearheaded the public access policy and strongly defended it in hearings this year, announced in October that he will step down. Adding a major new proponent to the public access cause is a welcome development for advocates, as indications are that the Fair Copyright in Research Act, shelved for now, will likely be revived in the next Congress. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:22 +0100 673485 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/11/17/shorter-hours-for-thanksgiving-holiday/ Don’t forget about the shorter Thanksgiving Hours!  They will be in effect Nov. 22-29: Saturday, November 22 10:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 23 Noon-4:00pm Monday, November 24 7:30am-6:00pm Tuesday, November 25 7:30am-6:00pm Wednesday, November 26 7:30am-6:00pm Thursday, November 27 CLOSED for holiday Friday, November 28 CLOSED for holiday Saturday, November 29 10:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 30  [regular hours resume] Noon-9:00pm (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:25:19 +0100 673441 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081112peake.mp3 The City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County have recently completed a comprehensive study of our community's health. The study was done through the Thomas Jefferson Health District under the auspices of Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), a community-wide assessment and strategic planning tool for improving health, developed jointly by the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data show that our city-county community is growing and evolving, and these processes are presenting new challenges to achieving and maintaining health. We are fortunate to have some resources that are not always available in other communities—two major hospitals, an ample supply of physicians, a free clinic, and a not-for-profit children's dental clinic. And in many instances, we have been able to make substantial improvements in community health through new programs, campaigns, laws, and other mechanisms. But, despite many successes, our community still struggles with issues that affect the quality of our citizens' health—and in turn, the quality not only of individuals' lives but of our collective life. What are the biggest health-related challenges facing Charlottesville-Albemarle? How will all sectors of our locality—government and social service agencies, health care organizations and professionals, educational institutions, businesses and employers, churches and volunteer organizations, individual citizens—come together to respond to the MAPP assessment's "diagnoses," and how do we then, all of us, care for our community? (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 +0100 675730 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=327381 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:27:17 +0100 671465 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081105disch.mp3 Our current health care system is profoundly dysfunctional, inaccessible to some, and unaffordable to many. And while cost, financing of and access to health care are vitally important issues deserving attention, real reform lies in dramatically changing the health care delivery system. As noted in a Letter to the Editor in Health Affairs (Mar/Apr, 2008), Joanne Disch noted: Health care reform is destined to – and deserves to – fail if we do not diagnose and treat the right problem – the dysfunctional health delivery system… Finding better ways to finance, access or measure results within the current paradigm is not the good news – or the right answer. What is needed is to move from the physician-dependent, hospital-based, acuity-oriented system to one that is safe, convenient, effective, efficient and personalized. How do we achieve real, sustainable health care reform? By listening to and working with the American public. They show us on a daily basis what they want in a health care system, and what we need to do. Our challenge is to maneuver through the landmines of historical tradition, professional competition, and personal preference to deliver on this responsibility. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:00:00 +0100 672315 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=326846 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:53:34 +0100 671141 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081029theodorescu.mp3 Cancer has been a prime target of intensive biomedical and pharmaceutical research for the last half-century, with promising results in the treatment of many malignancies and improved survival times for many patients. But looking beyond even our most sophisticated trial-and-error treatments, cancer researchers now see a new breakthrough on the horizon: patient-specific, individualized therapy, which allows for each cancer patient to receive treatment tailored to his or her physiology, disease type and stage, and overall health status. In this Medical Center Hour, UVA urologist and investigator Dan Theodorescu explores the new frontier of personalized medicine—where are we in the quest for such customized cancer treatment, and what will the benefits be, for medicine, for patients, for society? Dan Theodorescu, M.D., received his MD degree from Queen’s University in 1986, did his residency in Urology at the University of Toronto and then a fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. At the University of Virginia his research interest concentrates on molecular biology of prostate and bladder cancer and his clinical practice and his clinical practice focuses on prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers and their therapies. He is a Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and the Director of the Paul Mellon Prostaste Cancer Institute. W. Jeffrey Elias, M.D. graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wake Forest University and attended the University of Virginia for medical school and neurosurgical training. He completed intramural fellowships in neuropathology and spinal surgery before spending a year in Plymouth England as a senior registrar. Following his neurosurgical residency, he pursued additional training in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. ... Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:00 +0100 669694 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/23/ui-professor-to-discuss-history-of-health-reform-in-us/ Prepare to vote using insider knowledge! This is your chance to quickly review the history of Health Care Policy interactions with U. S. Elections and what the two current Presidential candidates’ proposals will potentially mean for health care in the U.S. in the next four to 8 years. Professor of History Colin Gordon’s second book, Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America is a history of health care policy in the United States across the twentieth century. Please plan to join the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society, Tuesday evening, October 28th, as Professor Gordon presents, “Raising the Dead?  History, Health Reform and the 2008 Election.”  Professor Gordon will provide a brief background on health care policy and its interaction with Presidential politics, prior to facilitating what we hope will be a lively discussion by all those in attendance. Date and Time:  5:30 to 6:30, Tuesday, October 28th Place: Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Information Commons, 2nd floor.  For more information, see:  http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/index.html Come, learn, discuss, opine! (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:02:07 +0100 664755 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/23/stay-informed-presidential-candidates-plans-on-healthcare/ With election season in full swing, The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted the healthcare reform positions of both presidential candidates. Accompanying the candidates’ plans are also commentary and critiques of the proposals by individuals with differing political views. The positions were posted on The New England Journal of Medicine website beginning Sept. 24th and in print in October. Obama and McCain’s plans and the critiques are posted on The Journal’s site and can be viewed at: http://content.nejm.org/content/vol359/issue15/index.shtml (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:15 +0100 664710 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081022myers.mp3 For Americans coming of age in the late 1960s, "Plastics, my boy. Plastics," the advice given young Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) in "The Graduate," was a code phrase betokening an exciting, transformational future in which inexpensive petrochemicals replaced many natural materials. A full generation later, we're seeing a darker aspect of plastics: are some of them making us sick? New research using tools of modern molecular genetics is revealing that some environmental contaminants, among them certain plastics and plasticizers, can alter gene expression even at levels far below what has been considered toxic by traditional standards. Research findings implicate some plastics in significant trends in human disease, including metabolic disorder, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, as well as cancers of the prostate and breast. Conventional regulatory toxicology and epidemiology used for decades may be blind to these mechanisms and their effects and may have yielded false negatives, with the result that current health safety standards inadequately protect public health. This Medical Center Hour, featuring experts in environmental health science and environmental law, inquires into how new scientific insights can yield both more appropriately precautionary health standards and important health benefits. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:00:00 +0100 668496 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081015quayson.mp3 Each of us knows well that we are all creatures of our cultural context. And yet, are we fully aware of the extent to which culture shapes our attitudes, world-view, and ideas? And what if we are not? In this Medical Center Hour, the Ghana-born literary scholar Ato Quayson focuses on his own development as a disability studies scholar. He looks closely at his previously unexamined attitudes toward disability, attitudes particularly colored by his cultural upbringing in Africa where there are taboos on talking about disability. But this alone does not address some quite problematic cultural attitudes towards persons with disability that still persist unexamined. What happens when Professor Quayson places his own cultural blindness within the wider context of attitudes toward disability in Africa and elsewhere, paying particular attention to the unexamined belief systems and attitudes that underwrite particular therapeutic itineraries, both biomedical and otherwise? The point of this inquiry, and the brief commentary that follows from the perspective of bioethics, will be to open up discussion rather than to impose closure. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:00:00 +0100 665803 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/09/one-community-one-book-discussion/ On Wednesday, October 22, Kristi Bontrager and Lisa McDaniels will be hosting a book discussion at the Main Library for the One Community, One Book selection, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah.  It wil be held in the 2nd floor study lounge (located above the North Circulation Desk) at 8pm.  It is an open, on-campus discussion of the book and treats will be provided!  (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:26:00 +0100 658883 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/09/stay-informed-presidential-candidates-platforms-on-healthcare/ With election season in full swing, The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted the healthcare reform positions of both presidential candidates.  Accompanying the candidates’ plans are also commentary and critiques of the proposals by individuals with differing political views.  The positions were posted on The New England Journal of Medicine website beginning Sept. 24th, however won’t be fully in print until Oct. 16th.  Obama and McCain’s plans and the critiques are posted on The Journal’s site and can be viewed at: http://content.nejm.org/content/vol359/issue15/index.shtml (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:53:36 +0100 658885 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/2008108pignone.mp3 The complexity and sophistication of health care today can be daunting to any patient, but, even for the well-educated and well-informed among us, health literacy may also be an issue. Indeed, it is estimated that nearly 90 million Americans have trouble reading, understanding, and following through on health information and instructions. Research shows that poor health literacy contributes to health disparities: persons with low health literacy tend to have more health problems and less knowledge about available health care services. Yet, often, busy physicians and other health professionals don't have a good appreciation of which of their patients have low literacy levels, nor may they know how to address or remedy the problem. What are the literacy-related barriers to maintaining and improving health? What can health care institutions, communities, libraries, and individual health professionals do to promote and help improve health literacy among patients and our populace? Co-presented with the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library's Health Literacy Working Group (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 +0100 661918 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=324720 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:28:46 +0100 657524