NIH Open Access Policy Update

The NIH Public Access Policy will continue to be in effect in 2009 and “thereafter,” according to a provision in the recently approved federal appropriations bill.
“The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter [emphasis added] that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted [...]

Personal Health Tools

Ever wonder about the proper way to floss your teeth? The personal health tools at healthfinder.gov can show you how to floss, assess your risk of diabetes or calculate how much you spend on alcohol each month.
healthfinder.gov is a government Web site that presents health information and tools for individual use, either for yourself or [...]

New Technologies in the Library

Enhanced Catalog Feature
You may have noticed that the catalog has more images and more information than before. That’s because information from Google Book Search has been loaded into UVM Libraries’ online catalog, Voyager.

More Information About This Book
Many of the books in the catalog now have an image of the cover of the book, and a [...]

Dana Wants to Hear from YOU!

The Dana Medical Library cares about what you think. We want your voice to be at the heart of our planning and assessment efforts as we evaluate library services, including such things as electronic journal access, library employees’ ability to solve problems, the new library web page, and the quality of the physical facilities.
On Monday, [...]

Free Online Resources for Alumni & Non-UVM Clinicians

With the recent launch of the new Dana Medical Library website, http://library.uvm.edu/dana/, many of the helpful subject-based web resource guides have also been updated.
The featured guide this month is the Free Resources to Support Clinical Care guide, a collection of websites that do not require a UVM affiliation. Alumni, healthcare providers in the general community, [...]

Find Out More About Top Ranking Journals

Are you thinking of submitting a manuscript to Plant Cell but don’t know how high that journal is ranked in your field? Do you want to know more about the top journals in your field?
Journal Citation Reports can help! This resource allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 [...]

Celebrating 10 years of Service to Middlebury Area Hospital

“It’s a great service to pick up the phone and get what you need,” says Elaine Coon, coordinator of education services at Porter Medical Center, a small hospital that serves the health care needs of Middlebury, VT and surrounding communities.
Ten years ago, the Dana Medical Library started sending a librarian to Porter Medical Center  for [...]

Community Medical School Is Back for Its 10th Year

The Community Medical School lecture series began in 1998 and was designed to provide people in the community with an opportunity to share in the medical learning experience. Offered each semester, Community Medical School consists of seven weekly lectures on such diverse subjects as heart failure, DNA, food allergies, asthma, melanoma, stem cell transplants, [...]

Featured Resource: Nursing Reference Center

Nursing Reference Center (NRC) is a comprehensive reference tool designed for nurses and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. It provides evidence-based information about diseases and conditions, plus drugs, laboratory & diagnostic tests, practice guidelines, patient education handouts, continuing education modules, and more. It is published by EBSCO and made available by [...]

Take a Class in April!

Google Scholar
Share favorite sites and handy tips.

Wednesday
April 1, 2009
Noon-1pm

NIH Public Access Policy Compliance
Review procedures and tools at UVM.

Wednesday
April 8, 2009
Noon-1pm

Endnote
Learn the basics of Endnote. This demonstration could include creating a list of references in Endnote, downloading records from online databases such as PubMed, creating a bibliography, or adding citations to [...]