A Smart Resolution: Attend a Library Workshop

Happy New Year!  Why not start 2013 off on a positive note by attending a library workshop?  Our workshops are open to all UVM and FAHC faculty, staff, and students and are held in the Main Conference Room.  This semester, we’ll be covering:

 

Managing References with EndNote Wednesday, January 23:  Noon-1pm Wednesday, February 13:  Noon-1pm Tuesday, February 26:  4:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, April 10:  Noon-1:00pm	PubMed: Basics and Beyond Wednesday, January 30:  Noon-1:00pm Friday, February 8:  7:30am-8:30am Tuesday, February 12:  5:00pm-6:00pm
The Cochrane Library: New and Improved Wednesday, February 6:  Noon-1:00pm Friday, February 22:  7:30am-8:30am	How to Stay Up to Date:  Alerts Wednesday, February 20:  Noon-1:00pm
Introduction to Google Scholar Wednesday, February 27:  Noon-1:00pm Friday, March 22:  7:30am-8:30am	Rx for PowerPoint Wednesday, March 13:  Noon-1:00pm Friday, April 5:  7:30am-8:30am
Managing References with Zotero Wednesday, March 20:  Noon-1:00pm	Introduction to Mendeley Wednesday, March 27:  Noon-1:00pmLit Search Clinic Wednesday, April 3:  Noon-1:00pm

In addition to our face to face workshops, we will be offering two online workshops for the first time this year.  “Rx for PowerPoint” will be held on Tuesday, March 12 from 7:00pm-8:00pm and “Managing References with EndNote” will be offered on March 25 from 7:00pm-8:00pm.  Sit back and participate in both of these workshops from the comfort of your own couch!

For more information about all of the workshops, please see the Schedule of Library classes on the Dana Library website.

Don’t forget, we can create a custom workshop for you and that workshop can be held here in the library or someplace more convenient for you.  If that sounds like something you’d like to learn more about, please contact Gary Atwood at gatwood@uvm.edu or 802-656-4488.

New Year, New Resources

The Dana Medical Library wants to maintain a dynamic and relevant collection of books, journals, and databases for our health sciences patrons at UVM and FAHC.  Requests are submitted by faculty, staff, and students.

Each year the Collections Team sits down with the “wish list” of items requested by our users, and after evaluating their price, impact factor, and other evaluative measures, decides which ones to add to our collection.

This year, the Dana Medical Library added the following electronic journals:

• Nature Reviews Endocrinology
• Journal of  Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
• Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)- Clinical & Translational Medicine and
• JoVE- Neurosciences
• Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
• Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British edition (new title)

In addition, the Library added another simultaneous user for the title Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics as a result of high numbers of patrons being turned away.

Still under consideration is another segment of the MEDU database, which offers virtual patient cases for use in medical education. CORE provides educational cases designed for use in radiology. Dana Library has subscribed to this resource for trial this month to evaluate its usefulness.

A collection of streaming videos for use with psychiatry clerkship students as well as residents has been also added.  It can be found in our catalog under the title Symptom Media.

And, of course, the Library regularly adds book titles– print and eBooks. An up to date list of new books at Dana can always be found at: http://library.uvm.edu/dana/newbooks/index.php/.

Dana to Host Research Support Workshop Series

A workshop series From Funding to Publication will be held in the Dana Medical Library Computer Classroom from September 22 – October 28 on six consecutive Wednesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1 pm.

Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will learn about software, web sites and databases that facilitate finding, managing, and publishing the results of scholarly research. The series is especially appropriate for graduate students, fellows, and junior faculty.

September 22 and 23: Advanced literature review skills. Discover expert search techniques to refine and focus your literature searches. Use MyNCBI to set up automatic e-mail updates, and save searches, bibliographies, and settings.
Instructors: Fran Delwiche and Donna O’Malley, Dana Medical Library

September 29 and 30: Managing references with EndNote. Create a list of references in EndNote, download records from online, add citations to a paper using EndNote and Microsoft Word.  Instructor: Angie Chapple-Sokol, Dana Medical Library

October 6 and 7: Sources and databases beyond PubMed. Explore other high quality databases and data sources in the biomedical sciences.  Instructors: Nancy Bianchi and Donna O’Malley, Dana Medical Library

October 13 and 14: Preparing posters. Learn guidelines for creating legible, attractive, and effective scientific posters. Identify sources of medical images and discuss associated copyright issues.  Instructor: Raj Chawla, Medical Photography, College of Medicine

October 20 and 21: Scholarly publishing. Evaluate approaches to assessing journal quality, determine author’s rights, explore alternative publishing models.  Instructors: Gary Ward, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Jeanene Light, Dana Medical Library

October 27 and 28: Identifying funding. Learn to use the grant seeking and grant writing resources available to you at UVM.  Instructor: Hilda Alajajian, Office of Sponsored Programs

Space is limited. To register for these sessions, please contact Donna O’Malley, 656-4415.

Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Sessions Offered

Bring your lunch and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for our Brown Bag Lunch and Learn sessions on Wednesdays from noon – 1 pm (unless otherwise noted). Workshops are open to all UVM and FAHC faculty, staff and students. The following workshops are available during the fall semester:

Orientation to the Library and Website – Wed., September 15; Thurs., September 16
Clinical Databases – Wed., November 3
Research Databases – Wed., November 17
EndNote – Wed., September 8; November 10; December 1
Keeping Up To Date with Electronic Alerts – Wed., December 8

For more information see the Schedule of Library Classes on the Dana website.

We can also custom design a workshop for you, for your class or for your workgroup. Workshops can be held in the Library or in another location more convenient to you. Call 656-4415 or email Donna O’Malley for more information or to schedule a class.

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 for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.”

The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires eligible NIH-funded researchers to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into PubMed Central. Full texts of the articles are then made publicly available online in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication in a journal. Nature reports in its online News section that the “Open-access policy flourishes at NIH,” (April 7, 2009.) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/458690a]

The Dana Medical Library presentation NIH Public Access: Submissions, copyright, and compliance is available for UVM and FAHC audiences. If you would like to schedule this presentation for your own department, lab, or other group please contact Donna.Omalley@uvm.edu. Information from the presentation is also available on the Dana Medical Library web site: NIH Public Access Policy [http://danaguides.uvm.edu/NIHPublicAccess].

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 a paper using Endnote and Microsoft Word. The last 15 minutes is reserved for in-depth questions.	Wednesday April 15, 2009 Noon-1pm

Our workshops are open to UVM and FAHC faculty, staff and students.

We can custom design a workshop for you, for your class, or for your workgroup. Workshops can be held in the Library or in another location more convenient for you. Call 656-4415 or email donna.omalley@uvm.edu for more information or to schedule a session. Workshops on these topics are readily available, or request a customized combination of topics.

PubMed Google Ovid Medline CINAHL Endnote PsycInfo Electronic Journal Troubleshooting Evidence-Based Practice Tools Navigating the Virtual Library

Citation and E-Journal Troubleshooting MD Consult FirstCONSULT Clinical Pharmacology UpToDate Advanced MEDLINE Consumer Health on the Web Web of Science

Questions? Call 656-2201, or send an email to danaref@uvm.edu.