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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Take a class this month!

The following classes are offered at the Library in the month of March.

CINAHL
CINAHL® (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) has switched to a new interface. Find out how to search using CINAHL subject headings, and enjoy the many searching improvements included in this new version.
Wednesday
March 4, 2009
Noon-1pm

Search the Biomedical Literature with PubMed or [...]

Featured Online Research Guide: Family Medicine

With the new web site, patrons will see many new online research guides as well (such as the one pictured at right).
These are websites that bring together all of the pertinent information and resources on a given topic on one page so that you don’t have to look all over the web site to find [...]

Dana Supports Administrative Personnel

A handful of brave souls came out on a stormy day in January to attend a reception held by Dana Library Liaisons for administrative personnel across the College of Medicine, College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Fletcher Allen. This was the second year Dana librarians hosted such an event in the hopes of educating [...]

“No fee” policy continues for Dana InterLibrary Loan

Dana Library will continue indefinitely the “no fee” policy for UVM faculty, staff and students, and Fletcher Allen employees needing to borrow journal articles and books from other libraries (Interlibrary Loan). Since the elimination of fees last September, health science students, faculty researchers and clinicians have taken advantage of their ability to obtain information resources [...]

New Year’s Resolution: Do a Better Search, Ask a Research Question

With the new semester starting, it’s great to see so many students in the Dana Library getting a jump on research papers, board exams, and study.
Are you working on a research project? A literature review is a normal part of the research paper. It requires that you find authoritative journal articles, books and websites on [...]

Lunch and Learn Series Spring Schedule

Bring your lunch and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for our Brown Bag Lunch and Learn sessions, Wednesdays at noon.
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 [...]