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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/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:30:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 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://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 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/06/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-the-nuremberg-chronicle/ While the production of the Guttenberg Bible in the mid 15th century constitutes the most important milestone in the history of printing, the happy marriage of moveable type and mechanized illustration is best represented by the 1493 book, Liber Chronicarum, more popularly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. The University Libraries is fortunate to have not one but two copies of this splendid work, both of them in Latin (A German version was published later the same year). The first is located in the Special Collections Department at the Main Library while the second resides in the John Martin Rare Book Room. The text (a seven part history of the world) is the work of Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), a German physician and scholar, while the hundreds of woodcuts come from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut (1434 – 1519), a German printmaker.  Birth of Adam It is probable that many of the illustrations were the work of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) one of the most important artists of the renaissance. Because wood-cut blocks (like metal type) employ a raised printing surface (unlike engravings), the metal type and the wood blocks can be set in the same printing chase. The impressions made using this arrangement allow text and illustration to be shown side-by-side. The Nuremberg Chronicle contains over 645 distinct illustrations (with many illustrations used more than once), including a variety of biblical scenes, stylized cityscapes, iconic genealogic trees, battle depictions, and maps (the New World being conspicuous by its absence). The Hardin Library’s copy is available for examination in the rare book room. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:45:56 +0100 657259 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/02/newly-added-recycling-bin/ A Recycling Bin is now located outside of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.  It is for plastic bottles and can be found outside of the 3rd Floor Entrance Doors!   (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:23:37 +0100 655839 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/10/02/community-education-family-tradition-latinos-in-iowa/ The Main Library Welcomes you to a celebration of their newest exhibit: Community, Education, Family, Tradition: Latinos in Iowa. Wednesday, October 8, 2008 12:30-2:30pm Main Library North Exhibition Hall (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:06:53 +0100 655842 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20081001koste.mp3 Study of anatomy has for centuries been an integral—and often highly charged—part of medical education. Anatomical instruction and dissection were inculcated in American medical education in 1765, with the founding of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. As other medical schools formed in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century, they also incorporated anatomical dissection into their formal instructional program. Both the University of Virginia and the Medical Department of Hampden Sydney College, later the Medical College of Virginia, took pride in their anatomy classes. Of course, anatomical study required a ready supply of cadavers. In the period before the 1884 passage of the Virginia Anatomical Act, legislation which legalized procurement of dead bodies for anatomical study, the two schools both cooperated and competed in their quests to obtain appropriate human dissection material for instructional purposes. This Medical Center Hour explores the two schools’ stories of deception, dissection, and resurrection and affords insight into anatomical instruction in 19th-century Virginia. Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:00:00 +0100 660947 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=324428 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:54:48 +0100 655047 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/30/wiley-encyclopedia-of-clinical-trials-new-e-book/ The Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials is now available online.  The encylopedia is a compendia of basic concepts, methodologies, and applications in clinical trials. Topics include: overview & basic statistical concepts concepts of design and analysis of clinical trials methodologies and issues for clinical data analysis (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:21:26 +0100 654631 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20080918colgrove.mp3 Vaccination raises unique ethical, political, and legal questions. Like any medical intervention, vaccination carries with it the small risk of adverse reactions. Unlike other procedures, however, it is performed on healthy people, most commonly children, and, importantly, vaccination has been mandated by law because of its community-wide benefits. For much of the life of this country, and especially during the past 150 years, public health and medical professionals have sought to achieve high levels of vaccine use in the U.S. population against a growing catalogue of infectious diseases. Nevertheless, vaccination policy and practices have always been subject to challenges by individuals and groups and, even today, controversies swirl in association with efforts to vaccinate our population. While the science of vaccination has often seemed clear and straightforward, the politics of vaccination is quite another matter, and this Medical Center Hour inquires into that complex situation across our country's history and into the present moment. Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:00:00 +0100 652967 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/24/2008-writing-science-conference-the-writing-university-october-7-10/ Everyone is invited to attend an interdisciplinary and cross-collegiate convocation on science writing that hopes to project the University of Iowa’s self-conception as “The Writing University” to all forms of science writing.  The major participants will feature three Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professors including journalists, nationally acclaimed science writers, literary science writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and scientists who have become effective writers for public audiences.   Session Topics include: Communicating Science in Writing: Journalism and Other Genres Scientist Meets a Writer: A Discussion The Role of Writing in Learning Science Writing Science Textbooks Science and Subjectivity Sandra Steingraber : Writing Rivers in the Footsteps of Rachel Cardon Science and Creative Writing Articulating the Animal–Writing the Life and Mind of Primates All events are free and open to the public.  For a complete schedule of events, see http://poroi.grad.uiowa.edu/conferences/2008/writing-science-at-the-writing-university . (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:08:44 +0100 652230 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=324099 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:50:21 +0100 654089 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=324033 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:09:38 +0100 651675 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/12/sigmaplot-has-arrived/ SigmaPlot, a scientific graphing and data analysis software, has finally arrived!  Used for creating professional graphs, analyzing data and executing statistical and mathematical analyses, it is now available on all of Hardin’s Windows computers.  The software was recently purchased by ITC and is also available on all ITC machines, for up to 25 concurrent users.  To learn more about SigmaPlot, visit their website at: www.sigmaplot.com To learn more about ITC, other programs available through ITC, and the location of ITC machines, visit their website at: http://itc.uiowa.edu/ (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:48:18 +0100 647500 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/11/voter-registration-forms-now-available/ Don’t forget to register to vote! Voter registration forms are now available at the service desks at The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. Information about US elections and voting guides are also available through the Iowa Libraries web-page at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/us/elections.html (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:07:54 +0100 647113 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/11/new-to-iowa/ New to Iowa? Looking for Something to do? Check out this link created by the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/ref/guides/iafacts.htm (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:32:32 +0100 647114 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/11/one-community-one-book/ Join us for One Community One Book this Fall! The UICHR’s One Community, One Book program, in conjunction with an expanded outreach to all first-year undergraduate students, will host a multitude of programming this semester to encourage a common reading and learning experience about human rights for all campus and community members. The selected book this year, “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, is the memoir of a former child soldier, Ishmael Beah. Mr. Beah is now a world renowned activist on children’s rights. Mr. Beah will visit campus as part of the program, in conjunction with the UI Lecture Committee series, to give a public lecture on October 29, 7:30 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church in Iowa City. Information about discussion forums, films and other opportunities for UI students, staff, faculty, alumni, and broader community member engagement, can be found at www.uichr.org. Several Discussion Groups that might be of particular interest to the Hardin community include: September 18, 11:30 am-1 pm, UIHC Patients’ Library, 8th JCP Solarium October 22, 8:00 pm, UI Main Library, 2nd Floor Study Lounge Please plan to attend the lecture and/or other events in the program. We look forward to your participation! (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:26:41 +0100 647115 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/11/dont-forget-to-check-out-the-new-smallpox-exhibit/ Don’t forget to check out the latest exhibit posted near the 3rd floor entrance! It’s the history of Smallpox, and is quite informative! Smallpox has claimed more lives than any other disease in history, ravaging humankind for thousands of years. During the 18th century, smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans every year. Even those who were fortunate enough to survive (the mortality rate for the most virulent form ranged from 20 to 60 percent) were usually scarred or deformed in some way for the remainder of their lives. Following the advent of Jenner’s cowpox vaccine at the beginning of the 19th century, the number of cases declined significantly but as late as 1967, The World Health Organization estimated that two million died from smallpox that year, mostly in underdeveloped countries. Finally, in 1980, Following a mass vaccination, surveillance and containment effort, The World Health Assembly announced the global eradication of smallpox, the only naturally occurring disease to be eliminated by humans. (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:10:08 +0100 647116 http://hsl.virginia.edu/podcasts/audio/20080910friedman.mp3 The news media regularly highlight incidents in which adolescents with serious, even life-threatening, illnesses challenge medical recommendations and refuse efficacious life-saving treatment. Such cases, aside from their celebrity, often represent wrenching, potentially divisive dilemmas for families and pose difficult ethical and legal challenges to health professionals and health care systems. In 2007, Virginia passed "Abraham???s Law," which allows teenagers fourteen years or older and their parents or guardians to refuse medical treatments for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses without such decisions being deemed neglectful or abusive and the parents or guardians being charged with neglect. The trend is clear: our courts and state legislatures are becoming more tolerant of permitting minors to refuse efficacious treatment for life-threatening illness, particularly when the minor and his or her parents (or legal guardians) are in agreement with one another. What liberties to refuse treatment are we as a society comfortable granting minors and families? How do case-specific clinical circumstances, including severity of illness and arduousness and efficacy of treatment, affect whether physicians honor or take issue with an adolescent's refusal of therapy? Are courts and state legislatures enlightened or mistaken in allowing teenaged minors and their families to say no to potentially life-saving medical care? Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life (Source: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:00:00 +0100 650430 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=323372 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:41:26 +0100 646453 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/09/04/calling-all-flood-stories/ After witnessing firsthand the kindness and generosity of Iowa flood volunteers, Nancy Baker from the University of Iowa Main Library has decided that the greatest way to repay all those that helped is by giving back to the community, just as they did.  Her solution to this is to enlist StoryCorps, an oral history recorder that is funded by the national government.  Due to her efforts of gratitude, StoryCorps will be on the University of Iowa’s campus Tuesday, September 30, Wednesday, October 1 and Thursday, October 2.  They will also be at the Iowa City Public Library on Tuesday, October 7 and Thursday, October 9, and the Coralville Public Library on Saturday, October 11.  To date, StoryCorps has nationally recorded over 15,000 interviews.  The Iowa flood stories will be archived in the Iowa Digital Library in addition to the Library of Congress.  Any community member with a story to tell is encouraged to participate and help history not be forgotten. For more information on StoryCorps visit: http://www.storycorps.net/  (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:07:09 +0100 644096 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/08/29/library-closed-for-labor-day-holiday/ The Hardin Library will be closed on Monday, September 1 for the Labor Day holiday, and open reduced hours the weekend before.  The 24-hour study area will be open. Saturday, August 30 the library will be open from 10am - 2pm. Sunday, August 31 the library will be open from 12pm - 4pm. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:15:43 +0100 641735 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/08/20/intensive-english-course-for-professionals/ Iowa Intensive Communication Skills for Professionals (IIE 103:002) will be offered during the fall 2008 semester. This course is designed for international professionals at UI (visiting scholars, post-docs, researchers). Students will improve conversational fluency and practice language skills for professional disccusions and presentations. For more information, contact ESL Programs, 1112 University Capitol Centre, 335-5630 or iiep@uiowa.edu Information is also available at the IIEP website: http://www.uiowa.edu/iiepesl/IIEP/professionals.html (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:42:45 +0100 638102 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/08/20/24-hour-study-is-open/ The 24-hour study, located on the third floor of the library, is available again - and now with new carpet! For information on other study areas within the library, visit http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/studyareas.html (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:15:54 +0100 638103 http://smhsl.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-statref-resource-drugpoints.html DrugPoints® system, recently added to our STAT!Ref online textbook collection, provides direct access to the exact level of drug information you need to do your job. This evidence-based resource helps healthcare professionals prescribe, administer and monitor drugs safely and efficiently. Contains more than 1,400 concise, unbiased synopses on drugs.New MonographsDiphtheria, Tetanus, Acellular Pertussis, and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine Diphtheria, Tetanus, Acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Poliovirus, and Hib Vaccine Levoleucovorin Calcium Metformin Hydrochloride/RepaglinideTo use DrugPoints, click the link above, or use the STAT!Ref link in the right-hand column of the Library Intranet page. (Source: Library News) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 637920 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/08/18/play-wii-at-hardin-library/ Have you tried Nintendo’s latest game console, Wii? Come play at Hardin Library! These events are free and open to novices and experienced gamers alike. Games available include Wii Sports, WarioWare Smooth Moves, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. We will be ready to play in the Info Commons East classroom on the following days: Thursday, August 21st 1-3pm Monday, August 25th 2-4pm Wednesday, August 27th 12-3pm Thursday, August 28th 3-5pm Hardin Library is conveniently located on the health sciences campus. For a map, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~maps/h/hlhs1.htm (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:57:34 +0100 637159 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/08/08/24-hour-study-will-be-closed-for-new-carpet/ The 24-hour study will be closed from August 11-August 17 in order to replace carpeting.  The Galleria area is available with wireless access. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:46:00 +0100 633772 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/08/06/iowa-go-local-at-the-iowa-state-fair/ Iowa Go Local connects citizens with healthcare providers across Iowa, empowers them with quality information about their health and helps them access services including hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies and assisted living facilities.  Iowa Go Local is available through MedlinePlus, a web site that offers free, high quality health information in English and Spanish.  Health professionals choose materials that are current, accurate, and reliable. Iowa Go Local is being exhibited at the Iowa State Fair on August 11 from 9am-3pm.  Look for the UI booth in the Varied Industries Building.  Stop by for a demonstration of Iowa Go Local and MedlinePlus or contact lib-hardin@uiowa.edu if you would like us to make a presentation in your area. Iowa Go Local is produced by the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences in partnership with the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Patient’s Library with funding from the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Visit Iowa Go Local on the web at www.medlineplus.gov/Iowa. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:36:58 +0100 632685 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/28/play-wii-this-wednesday-noon-2pm/ Everyone is invited to come and play Wii on Wednesday from Noon - 2pm in the Information Commons East classroom. No experience?  We’re here to help. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:57:53 +0100 628925 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/23/improved-visualdx-interface/ VisualDx will be upgraded on July 23. The new version 6.0 will no longer require Java and thus will work on any system, including Macs and iPhones. The software’s simple design allows the user to generate a differential diagnosis through the module main menu or search for a specific diagnosis using the search box. Intuitive tabs enable quick and easy switching between differential diagnosis and compare views. Additionally, new tracking tools will help you save your work and share it with others. Free online training events are available at http://www.logicalimages.com. For more information or assistance, please contact Kathryn Skhal at 335-7636 or kathryn-skhal@uiowa.edu (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:50 +0100 627172 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/22/seeing-the-picture-hardin-md-blog/ A new blog — Seeing the Picture — has just been launched, for discussion of issues relating to work on Hardin MD. As the title suggests, much of the discussion will center on the unique aspects of pictures on the Web, and how pictures are being handled in digitization efforts by libraries and other groups, including Google Books. The first posting, Think Different : Pictures, gives a good overview of the subject. Other postings have been on digitization at NY Public Library, use of the word “pictures” instead of “images,” and Hardin MD Gallery Collections. (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:40:01 +0100 626740 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=314161 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:30:51 +0100 626397 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/18/iowa-go-local-at-the-johnson-county-fair/ Iowa Go Local connects citizens with healthcare providers across Iowa, empowers them with quality information about their health and helps them access services including hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies and assisted living facilities. Iowa Go Local is available through MedlinePlus, a web site that offers free, high quality health information in English and Spanish. Health professionals choose materials that are current, accurate, and reliable. Iowa Go Local is being exhibited at the Johnson County Fair from July 21st-July 24th. Look for booth #38 next to the Iowa City Public Library. Stop by for a demonstration of Iowa Go Local and MedlinePlus or contact lib-hardin@uiowa.edu if you would like us to make a presentation in your area. Iowa Go Local is produced by the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences in partnership with the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Patients’ Library with funding from the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Visit Iowa Go Local on the web at http://medlineplus.gov/iowa. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:17:18 +0100 625096 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/14/play-wii-hardin-tuesday-july-15th/ Everyone is invited to come and play Wii on Tuesday from 11am-1pm in the Information Commons East. No experience?  We’re here to help. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:27:41 +0100 623129 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/09/facility-tours-available/ During the summer months, the University of Iowa welcomes a large number of incoming faculty, staff, and students. Hardin Library staff strongly desire to serve these newcomers and are happy to offer tours of the building. Please schedule your tour today by contacting Cassie Reed Thureson at (319) 335-7221 or catherine-reed@uiowa.edu. Staff at the information desks are available to direct you, and useful maps and directions are acessible here. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:07:18 +0100 621229 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/07/08/hardin-library-staff-offer-their-expertise-on-iowa-public-radio/ Talk@12, an Iowa Public Radio news program that hosts a mix of guests and newsmakers across the state, recently interviewed Linda Walton, Director of Hardin Library, and Janna Lawrence, Assistant Director for Collections & Outreach. Their conversation with the radio show’s host, Katherine Perkins, addresses finding reliable medical information online. Originally aired on July 7, this show is now accessible via podcast by visiting Talk@12’s website. (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:57:53 +0100 620910 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=312517 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:42:14 +0100 621598 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/30/come-play-wii-this-thursday/ Need a break?  Come play Nintendo Wii at the Hardin Library.  Challenge your friends or take on one of the Iron Librarians.  This Thursday, July 3rd 11am-1pm in the Information Commons East.  Contact jonathan-koffel@uiowa.edu with questions. (Source: Hardin News) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:32:37 +0100 617709 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/27/hardin-library-open/ The Hardin Library is open regular summer hours.  The Main Library remains closed, so some services are currently interrupted: Smart Search is down because campus utitilites are strained. Delivery requests for Main Library materials  may be filled if needed for teaching or research, but they may be delayed .  You may request materials via Interlibrary Loan. Information Commons West is temporarily closed.  Evacuated employees are using it as office space. First floor space is being used by Main Library employees, and the hallway is more crowded and noisy than usual. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:20:40 +0100 616973 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/27/flood-2008-public-health-fact-sheet-available/ The UI College of Public Health and University Hygienic Laboratory has produced a Flood 2008 Public Health Fact Sheet. This document includes information about mental health, environmental hazards, infectious disease risks, and more. Check it out at http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/icphp/flood-resources.html. Look for the “Flood 2008 Public Health Fact Sheets” listing under the heading Resources. Additionally, a hard copy is on display at Hardin’s Info/Reference desk on the third floor. (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:26:58 +0100 616789 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/26/new-libguide-about-flood-recovery-now-available/ The Hardin Library offers a wide variety of online resource guides on a variety of topics such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and general reference. These LibGuides are listed on our homepage at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/find.html. We have recently added a guide with information on flood recovery - and with special attention to public health issues. This guide is available at http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery. All of these resources are available to the public. (Source: Hardin News) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:18:49 +0100 616344 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=311831 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:14:11 +0100 616308 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/25/hardin-library-open-regular-hours-some-services-limited/ The Hardin Library reopened at 7:30am on Monday, June 23.    The Main Library remains closed, so some services are currently interrupted: Smart Search is down because campus utitilites are strained. Delivery requests for Main Library materials will not be filled as staff do not have access to the building yet.  You may request materials via Interlibrary Loan. Information Commons West is temporarily closed.  Evacuated employees are using it as office space. First floor space is being used by Main Library employees, and the hallway is more crowded and noisy than usual. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:53:52 +0100 615977 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/25/wireless-access-changes/ Please note that the UI-Wireless-WEP service is being retired for security reasons on June 30, 2008 and will no longer work to access the UI Wireless network. WEP should be replaced by the more secure and standards-based WPA2 security protocol. At this time, the University provides wireless access via dynamic-WEP for devices that cannot support WPA2. This service is deprecated, and it should only be used when a client cannot support WPA2. The UI Wireless network is currently accessible using WPA2 (UI-Wireless-WPA2), which is supported by many modern wireless devices. Please see http://helpdesk.its.uiowa/edu/wireless for more information about the WEP retirement and UI Wireless configuration instructions using the UI-Wireless-WPA2 network. If you have questions or need assistance, ask at the Information Commons East on the second floor, visit the ITS Wireless Support Center, call the ITS Help Desk at 319-384-HELP or email its-wireless@uiowa.edu. ITS Help Desk’s telephone support is available Monday – Thursday: 8 AM - 10 PM, Friday: 8 AM - 5 PM, Saturday: 12 PM - 5 PM, and Sunday: 6 PM - 10 PM. Hardin Library for the Health Sciences has a wireless zone that covers the public areas in the building and outside areas around the building to some extent. Please remember that wireless capable laptops are available for checkout in the Information Commons East for three days at a time. Check with staff for availability. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:22:22 +0100 615878 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/25/rearranging-bound-journals-at-hardin/ Library staff are currently moving the bound journals dated 1980-present that are accessible electronically into storage. The remaining journals on the third floor are being condensed into a smaller stack area. Please go to the Information/Reference desk on the third floor if you need assistance finding materials. Current plans for the third floor space where these journals used to be include installation of new carpet and eventual conversion to study areas. Please note that bound journals dated pre-1980 are unaffected by this change. They are still shelved on the first floor. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:58:10 +0100 615879 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/24/changing-access-sites-for-psychology-databases/ For years, the library system has provided faculty, students, and staff access to Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Mental Measurements Yearbook, PsycINFO, and ERIC through OVID Technologies. The recent invoice from OVID Technologies showed steep price increases. Given our desire to provide our users with the most access to a variety of research and teaching resources within our budgetary constraints, we sought alternatives. With the changes that we are making, we are saving $6,000-$8,000 to spend on other materials. Beginning July 1, 1) Health and Psychosocial Instruments and Mental Measurements Yearbook + Tests in Print will be available via EBSCOhost. 2) PsycINFO will be available via PsycNET (American Psychological Association interface). 3) ERIC will be available via EBSCOhost or CSA. You will have a choice of interface. There is access for no additional cost. On July 1, links from library web pages will take you to the new access sites. If you have created bookmarks, it will be necessary for you to make your changes. If you have set up an account and saved your searches or if you have created alerts through OVID, please print off your search strategies and enter them into the new interface on July 1 or later. If you have any questions, please contact Dottie Persson, Head Librarian of the Psychology Library: (319)335-3080 or dorothy-persson@uiowa.edu. (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:04:59 +0100 615298 http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/information/newsletter/archives/2008_06.html IN THIS ISSUE: Website Launch - July 1 Here Now! Online Health Information for the Affiliated Summer Hours Summer Workshops NLM Resources: Update PubMed's New Features Green Database Available Staff Publications & Presentations Reach Out and Read Informers Softball (Source: HS/HSL Connective Issues) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 614124 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=311344 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:09:51 +0100 614920 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/15/hardin-library-closed-until-june-23/ The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is closed until June 23. The library is not flooded, but all campus libraries have closed because of the University closure. Electronic databases and journals may remain available if the University continues to have electricity.  The library servers were moved from the Main Library on Friday, June 13. (Source: Hardin News) Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:48:55 +0100 611616 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/11/hardin-remains-open-during-flood/ Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is currently unaffected by the Iowa River flooding and will continue normal operations. As always, our circulation services can check in and transfer library materials from any of the University of Iowa libraries. For example, if you have materials from the Art and Music libraries that are currently closed, please feel free to return them to Hardin. Current University of Iowa libraries news is available at http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news. Further University of Iowa flood information is available at http://uiflood.blogspot.com. We encourage visitors traveling to Hardin to remain alert for changing conditions in the Iowa City/Coralville area. Please refer to the Johnson County website for current road closure information as well as the Iowa City River Watch for information regarding public transit detours, sandbagging, and other disaster assistance efforts. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:08:33 +0100 609919 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=310883 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:21:30 +0100 609921 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=310882 (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:20:01 +0100 609851 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/10/summer-hours-at-hardin/ During the 6/8 Week Summer Session, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is proud to be open during these hours: Monday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Tuesday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Wednesday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sunday Noon - 9:00 p.m. Don’t forget our 24 Hour Study! A section of the library’s third floor is available all night. Access to this area is simple - all you need to do is swipe your University ID at the door. The building will be closed on July 4th, which is a University holiday. (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:30:27 +0100 609434 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/03/more-than-mickey-mouse/ Visitors to the John Martin Rare Book Room are often bemused when they spot a View-Master resting on one of the bookcases. If you’re under the age of sixty-five you probably owned one of these devices along with several View-Master reels depicting far-off countries, cartoon characters or comic book heroes rendered in 3-D. But why a viewer in the rare book room? In 1962, Dr. David L. Bassett, anatomist from the University of Washington, working with William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master created the “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy” — over 1,500 slides of three-dimensional color images of human dissection. Nearly fifty years later the 25 volume collection remains a marvel of relatively simple technology that still elicits gasps of wonder from viewers as they behold in stark clarity the “in-depth” photographs of body structures and cavities. Each of the slides is accompanied by commentary written by Dr. Bassett (the lone dissector) and a line diagram that labels all of the structures. The Hardin Library is fortunate to own a complete set of this amazing work which is beginning to arouse the curiosity of anatomists interested in using high-tech solutions to bring 3-D to desktop computers. In the meantime the marvelous handiwork of Mr. Gruber and Dr. Bassett are at your disposal. You can read about and view more images of Dr. Bassett’s work here. (Source: Hardin News) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:25:26 +0100 606505 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/06/03/more-than-mickey-mouse/ Visitors to the John Martin Rare Book Room are often bemused when they spot a View-Master resting on one of the bookcases. If you’re under the age of sixty-five you probably owned one of these devices along with several View-Master reels depicting far-off countries, cartoon characters or comic book heroes rendered in 3-D. But why a viewer in the rare book room? In 1962, Dr. David L. Bassett, anatomist from the University of Washington, working with William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master created the “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy” — over 1,500 slides of three-dimensional color images of human dissection. Nearly fifty years later the 25 volume collection remains a marvel of relatively simple technology that still elicits gasps of wonder from viewers as they behold in stark clarity the “in-depth” photographs of body structures and cavities. Each of the slides is accompanied by commentary written by Dr. Bassett (the lone dissector) and a line diagram that labels all of the structures. The Hardin Library is fortunate to own a complete set of this amazing work which is beginning to arouse the curiosity of anatomists interested in using high-tech solutions to bring 3-D to desktop computers. In the meantime the marvelous handiwork of Mr. Gruber and Dr. Bassett are at your disposal. You can read about and view more images of Dr. Bassett’s work here. (Source: Hardin News) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:18:26 +0100 606247 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/2008/05/30/hardin-scholarly-communication-news-issue-208/ A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa May 2008 | Issue 2.08 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: Harvard FAS and Law School Pass Open Access Mandates Rockefeller University Press Gives Away Copyright on Journal Articles Progress Towards Public Access to Science - Harold Varmus on the NIH Policy Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research Are Impact Factors Inflated? Comparison of SCImago Journal Rank Indicator with Journal Impact Factor Introduction to the Health Commons The Importance of Open Access for Taxonomy Research Four Elsevier Perspectives on Open Access Medical Patients Share Data to “get help, give help” (Source: Hardin News) Fri, 30 May 2008 20:00:58 +0100 604640 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/hardin-scholarly-communication-news-may-2008/ A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa May 2008 | Issue 2.08 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: Harvard FAS and Law School Pass Open Access Mandates Rockefeller University Press Gives Away Copyright on Journal Articles Progress Towards Public Access to Science - Harold Varmus on the NIH Policy Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research Are Impact Factors Inflated? Comparison of SCImago Journal Rank Indicator with Journal Impact Factor Introduction to the Health Commons The Importance of Open Access for Taxonomy Research Four Elsevier Perspectives on Open Access Medical Patients Share Data to “get help, give help” (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Fri, 30 May 2008 18:50:49 +0100 604622 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/harvard-fas-and-law-school-pass-open-access-mandates/ A Shot Heard ‘Round the Academic World: Harvard FAS Mandates Open Access In a historic measure, the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in February unanimously approved a motion that compels Harvard researchers to deposit their “scholarly articles” in an open access (OA) repository to be managed within the library and to be made freely available to anyone via the Internet. Faculty members, however, can opt-out of compliance by obtaining a waiver, a point some OA advocates say could potentially undermine the policy’s effectiveness. Nevertheless, the Harvard vote provided a resonant “shot heard ’round the world” for the open access movement. “This is a large and very important step,” said Stuart Shieber, professor of computer science at Harvard, who put forth the motion. “It should be a very powerful message to the academic community that we want and should have more control over how our work is used and disseminated.” In a statement released following the vote, Shieber cited serials costs that have “risen to such astronomical levels,” forcing cancellations and “reducing the circulation of scholars’ works.” Specifically, the Harvard motion resembles a publishing contract of sorts; it compels faculty to give Harvard non-exclusive, irrevocable permission to distribute their articles online, which Harvard intends to do, as well as permitting others to use the works as well, as long as those uses are non-profit. In legal terms, the permission granted by each Faculty member is “a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. ... Fri, 30 May 2008 18:43:28 +0100 604623 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/rockefeller-university-press-gives-away-copyright-on-journal-articles/ It may be a first for scientific journals that are not published under an open-access philosophy: Rockefeller University Press has announced that it will allow authors to retain copyright to the papers they publish in its three journals. Under the new policy, instead of giving up their copyrights to the journals, authors will now provide the journals with licenses to publish their papers. The authors may reuse their work any way they like, as long as they provide attribution to the journals. Six months after publication, third parties may use and redistribute the papers under a Creative Commons license. The press places one thing off-limits: creating Web sites that mirror the contents of a journal within six months of its publication. The press hopes to retain subscribers because of that six-month delay. In the world of scientific publishing, the three journals — The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology — may be unique in that they are maintaining subscription access but are giving up copyright. Many open-access scientific journals also allow authors to keep copyright. —Lila Guterman The Chronicle News Blog, May 5, 2008 Emma Hill and Mike Rossner, You wrote it; you own it! Journal of Cell Biology, April 30, 2008. An editorial. Excerpt: Authors of papers published in Rockefeller University Press journals (The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, or The Journal of General Physiology) now retain copyright to their published work. This permits authors to reuse their own work in any way, as long as they attribute it to the original publication. Third parties may use our published materials under a Creative Commons license, six months after publication…. ... Fri, 30 May 2008 18:43:23 +0100 604624 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/progress-towards-public-access-to-science-harold-varmus-on-the-nih-policy/ Harold Varmus, Progress toward Public Access to Science, PLoS Biology, April 8, 2008. An editorial. Varmus is the President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, co-founder of the Public Library of Science, former director of the NIH (1993-1999), and the 1989 Nobel laureate for physiology or medicine. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is about to cross an important threshold. Starting April 7th, the authors of research reports that describe work supported by the NIH will be required to deposit accepted manuscripts into PubMed Central (PMC), the NIH’s public digital library of full-text articles, with the understanding that the articles will be freely available for all to view no later than 12 months after publication. This is a landmark event from several perspectives. Most obviously, it further accelerates the world-wide movement toward greater access to the scientific literature, markedly increasing the number of articles freely available to read online. By taking this step, the NIH will join other funding agencies—including the Wellcome Trust, the UK Research Councils, the European Research Council, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute—all of which have recently required their investigators to deposit publications in PMC or equivalent public libraries, such as UKPMC, within six months to a year. Since NIH-supported investigators publish about 80,000 papers each year, many of them in journals that currently do not contribute their articles to PMC, the library will soon grow at about twice its already impressive rate. With an enlarged PMC, the virtues of full-text searches and ready access will be more obvious, encouraging still greater participation by authors of work not funded by the agencies that mandate deposition. As we all know, scientists want their work to be found, read, and cited. ... Fri, 30 May 2008 18:43:12 +0100 604625 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/journals-find-fakery-in-many-images-submitted-to-support-research/ By JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2008 Excerpt: Kristin Roovers was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with a bright career ahead of her—a trusted member of a research laboratory at the medical school studying the role of cell growth in diabetes. But when an editor of The Journal of Clinical Investigation did a spot-check of one of her images for an article in 2005, Roovers’s research proved a little too perfect. The image had dark bands on it, supposedly showing different proteins in different conditions. “As we looked at it, we realized the person had cut and pasted the exact same bands” over and over again, says Ushma S. Neill, the journal’s executive editor. In some cases a copied part of the image had been flipped or reversed to make it look like a new finding. “The closer we took a look, the more we were convinced that the data had been fabricated or manipulated in order to support the conclusions.” As computer programs make images easier than ever to manipulate, editors at a growing number of scientific publications are turning into image detectives, examining figures to test their authenticity. And the level of tampering they find is alarming. “The magnitude of the fraud is phenomenal,” says Hany Farid, a computer-science professor at Dartmouth College who has been working with journal editors to help them detect image manipulation. Doctored images are troubling because they can mislead scientists and even derail a search for the causes and cures of disease. (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Fri, 30 May 2008 18:42:54 +0100 604626 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/are-impact-factors-inflated/ In a new working paper published in the California Digital Library’s eScholarship repository, economist Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara) and colleagues look at Differences in Impact Factor Across Fields and Over Time. The Abstract: The impact factor of an academic journal for any year is the number of times the average article published in that journal in the previous two years are cited in that year. From 1994-2005, the average impact factor of journals listed by the ISI has been increasing by an average of 2.6 percent per year. This paper documents this growth and explores its causes. Thanks to AccessDenied blog. (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Fri, 30 May 2008 18:42:41 +0100 604627 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/comparison-of-scimago-journal-rank-indicator-with-journal-impact-factor/ Matthew E. Falagas and three co-authors, Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor, FASEB Journal, April 11, 2008. Abstract: The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the incorporation of the “quality” of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). We retrieved relevant information from the official Web sites hosting the above indices and their source databases. The SJR indicator is an open-access resource, while the journal IF requires paid subscription. The SJR indicator (based on Scopus data) lists considerably more journal titles published in a wider variety of countries and languages, than the journal IF (based on Web of Science data). Both indices divide citations to a journal by articles of the journal, during a specific time period. However, contrary to the journal IF, the SJR indicator attributes different weight to citations depending on the “prestige” of the citing journal without the influence of journal self-citations; prestige is estimated with the application of the PageRank algorithm in the network of journals. In addition, the SJR indicator includes the total number of documents of a journal in the denominator of the relevant calculation, whereas the journal IF includes only “citable” articles (mainly original articles and reviews). A 3-yr period is analyzed in both indices but with the use of different approaches. Regarding the top 100 journals in the 2006 journal IF ranking order, the median absolute change in their ranking position with the use of the SJR indicator is 32 (1st quartile: 12; 3rd quartile: 75). ... Fri, 30 May 2008 18:42:36 +0100 604628 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/introduction-to-the-health-commons/ John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons, has made a 6.5 minute video on his vision for a Health Commons. It is a succinct overview of the obstacles slowing down the development of new cures and the solution he’s proposing. For more detail, see the white paper Wilbanks co-authored with Marty Tenenbaum, Health Commons: Therapy Development in a Networked World, May 2008. Tenenbaum is the founder of CommerceNet and CollabRx. Excerpt: The current path to drug discovery also perpetuates old traditions of information and intellectual property control. This deeply set inability to capture collective learning dooms everyone to revisit infinitely many blind alleys. The currency of scientific publication encourages individual scientists to hoard rather than share data that they will never have the time or resources to exhaustively mine. And, the wealth of “negative” information gleaned from clinical trial data is mostly lost to the need for companies to safeguard their commercial investments. Although computational and systems biology, aided by Moore’s law, make it feasible to systematically search the vast space of targets, leads, and interactions, this potential is limited in practice by lack of access to data, compound libraries, specimens, and shared services essential for economies of scale. As a result, many biological promising leads, and the knowledge surrounding them, are ultimately discarded. Thankfully, we have a rare moment in time where we can change the entire system in one motion by establishing a collaborative ecosystem of knowledge and research services that can be rapidly assembled to develop new therapies with unprecedented efficiencies and economies of scale. ... Fri, 30 May 2008 18:42:23 +0100 604629 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/the-importance-of-open-access-for-taxonomy-research/ from Open Access News by Peter Suber, May 29, 2008 Kevin Zelnio, PLoS ONE Publishes First Taxonomic Paper, The Other 95%, May 28, 2008. Excerpt: [PLoS ONE just published its first species description:] an excellent paper by Fisher and Smith on the ants of Malagasy region…. Why should one support open access publishing of taxonomic papers? Visibility is important to the field of systematics, where the relevance is often lost amidst the taxonomic jargon. By removing the subscription barrier, taxonomists make their work accessible and noticeable to researchers all over the world. Increasingly, the need has never been greater for high quality taxonomy. The treatment of neglected tropical diseases relies on proper identification a the pathogen or parasite. Species form the fundamental unit of much of evolution and ecology. Sound knowledge of species and their attributes is basic to all other fields of biology ranging from the molecular to the metacommunity. While scientists might not agree on what a species is, there is no doubt about their importance and the necessity to identify and describe them. The time is now for taxonomy and taxonomists to enter the digital age. New web technologies can prove effective at linking papers, potentially increasing readership and bringing disparate fields together. For instance, a paper describing a new species of pathogenic nematode can have hyperlinked keywords that summarize the findings, i.e. “Nematoda” “Genus species sp.nov.” “Genus species (of host)” “Pathogenesis” “Endoparasite” “Locality Information”, etc. Other articles of interest with hyperlinked keywords can be linked together for researchers to uncover. Species names themselves can be linked to the original paper, so one can find basic information about that species. ... Fri, 30 May 2008 18:42:08 +0100 604630 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/05/30/four-elsevier-perspectives-on-open-access/ The May issue of Elsevier’s Editors’ Update focuses on Access and Dissemination. Here are the OA-related articles. (The blurb’s are Elsevier’s.) * Gary Rudland, Models for better access and dissemination. “Director of Strategy, Nick Fowler, reviews existing and new models for disseminating scientific information.” * Kirsten Spry, Disseminating science & health research to a wider audience. “Subscriptions drive Elsevier’s successful publishing machine. But did you also know that there are initiatives underway to test new access models?” * Francis Cox, Behind the Scenes…Funding Bodies. “How funding Body Agreements provide wider access to research.” [PS: Focusing on the Wellcome Trust.] * Toni Bellanca, Internet Innovations. “Elsevier’s most recent innovations in Internet dissemination & online access.” Thanks to Open Access News, May 12, 2008 (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Fri, 30 May 2008 18:41:55 +0100 604631 https://bibliotheekggznml.iuplog.com/default.asp?item=309999 Gebruik NIET www.pubmed.org!Waarom? Doorlinken naar de full text van onze abonnementen is dan niet mogelijk!Klik altijd op de link naar de Pubmed in de bibliotheekcatalogus: Pubmed,[Help] of gebruik deze rechtstreekse link.Onze abonnementen zijn dan herkenbaar aan het icoon of de filter in Pubmed. Het icoon verschijnt meteen rechts in beeld als je op de titel klikt. De filter met de tekst Aanwezig bij GGZNML staat onder display.Het doorlinken werkt echter alleen goed op ons netwerk en wanneer je thuis de catalogus raadpleegt met de token. Raadpleeg je de catalogus vanaf buiten direct middels www.ggznml.nl dan is doorlinken vanuit Pubmed helaas niet mogelijk.De Medline is ook te raadplegen middels EBSCO. Daar kun je uiteraard ook doorlinken naar de full text van onze abonnementen, maar is niet te zien dat sommige articles free zijn. (In de Pubmed is dit wel zichtbaar middels de bekende groene/oranje balk). Ook zijn de meest recente artikelen (in process and epubs ahead of print) in de Medline van Ebsco nog niet toegevoegd. (Source: Bibliotheek GGZ Noord- en Midden Limburg (GGZNML)) Wed, 28 May 2008 12:48:47 +0100 603484