The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences has three Windows 7 beta test machines available on the 3rd floor. Try them out and report your problems to Information Technology Services.
This hands-on session will demonstrate how to use CINAHL effectively to find high quality nursing and allied health literature. An explanation and demonstration of how to select the most appropriate search terms will be provided. Search practice will be conducted at the end of the session to reinforce what was demonstrated. Anyone who has an interest in learning how to use this tool should consider attending; no prior experience with searching this database is needed.
The class is Wednesday, February 10, from 11-12pm in the Information Commons East. Register online for this class or our other free classes online.
NIH changed their application forms and instructions with shorter page limits. This also applies to resubmissions.
More information is available online.
This session provides information on the use of NCBI bioinformatics databases for research projects or advanced study applications. Available NCBI resources will be demonstrated, including basic molecular, genome and pathway databases and basic tools for location and comparison of the researched items.
Material covered will include a very brief introduction to NCBI site and its structure and function, followed by practical hands-on exercises on finding data sets. There are no prerequisites or restrictions for UI students or staff.
The class is from 4-5pm, Thursday February 4 in the Information Commons East.
Interested in learning about EndNote, Refworks, or something else? Sign up for one of our free classes.
Due to construction taking place on the 1st floor, the Psychology Collection will be unavailable beginning Monday, Feb. 8 through Friday, Feb. 12. If you require materials from the Psychology Collection during that time, please stop by the 3rd floor desk to discuss your options.
We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
The National Library of Medicine has made more changes to PubMed. Limits (including language, years, ages, publication type, and others) are now found on a separate page and are no longer located on the Advanced Search page. A link to Limits is found above the search box on each PubMed page. Search History, which shows you what you have searched in this session and allows you to combine search statements, is still located on the Advanced Search page. Advanced Search also include a Search Builder which can be used to construct a search.
More information about these changes can be found in the Jan-Feb 2010 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin.
The University Libraries is seeking nominations for the Arthur Benton Excellence in Reference Services Professional Development Award. The award is given biennially to a University Libraries* professional staff member who has demonstrated outstanding commitment in providing reference services for the University community. The $1,000 award, made possible by a generous endowment from Dr. Arthur Benton, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, will support the recipient’s professional development activities related to the advancement of library reference services.
Faculty, staff, or students may write a letter of nomination using the Award Nomination Form, briefly indicating why they feel an eligible library staff member is qualified based on two or more of the criteria noted below. Paper copies of the nomination form are also available at any University Libraries’ service desk or the Main Library Administrative Offices.
Nominations are due by Friday, March 12, 2010.
Excellence in two or more of the following areas comprise the criteria for the award:
If you have questions about the award, contact Hope Barton, Associate University Librarian & Director, Services, 335-5867.
Past winners are Kathy Magarrell, Head, Reference and Library Instruction; Kären Mason, Curator, Iowa Women’s Archives; John Schacht, Reference Librarian; Dave Martin, Head, Pomerantz Business Library, and Edward Miner, International Studies Bibliographer.
* The University Libraries includes the Main Library, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, and the Art, Biological Sciences, Business, Engineering, Geoscience, Music, and Physics libraries.
(Professional staff in the Law Library, Curriculum Lab, and other campus departmental library staff are not eligible for this award.)
January 2010
Issue 1.10
Welcome to the winter issue of Transitions.
The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments informnig the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement, and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communication refers to the full range of formal and informal means by which scholars and researchers communicate, from email discussion lists to peer-reviewed publication. In general, authors are seeking to document and share new discoveries with their colleagues, while readers–researchers, students, librarians and others–want access to all the literature relevant to their work.
While the system of scholarly communication exists for the benefit of the world’s research and educational community and the public at large, it faces a multitude of challenges and is undergoing rapid change brought on by technology. To help interested members of the UI community keep up on these challenges and changes we plan to put out 4 issues per year of this newsletter. Please visit our web site, Transforming Scholarly Communication, to find out more about this topic.
This newsletter is designed to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu.
Visit our newsletter to read the articles:
Public Access to Federally Funded Research – Public input
University Press survival… through open access
Compact for Open Access Publication Equity (COPE)
PLoS One to be indexed by Web of Science
Optical Society of America – a pioneer in scholarly publishing innovation
Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act
Open Access Encyclopedias
Who will pay for Arxiv?
Studies on Access – a review
Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting
Scholarly and Research Communication, a new OA journal
Wellcome Trust calls for greater transparency
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear Patrick T. O’Shaughnessy, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, speak on “Malaria and DDT: the History of a Controversial Association” on Tuesday, January 19th, 5:30 to 6:30, room 2032 Main Library.
Dr. O’Shaughnessy observes: “Although it helped prevent millions of cases of malaria after its widespread use in the 1950’s, the pesticide DDT was banned from use in the United States and fell out of favor as an agent to reduce cases of malaria around the world. This history of the events associated with the effort to eradicate malaria, as well as the environmental movement that led to the ban on DDT, will center on the story of a story that incorporated both issues and grew into a modern myth still seen in books and multiple websites today.”
The session is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
The Psychology Library closed December 18, 2009, and by January 13, 2010, all materials were moved. The collection was divided among the Biological Sciences Library, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, and the Library Annex.
Is there a librarian for Psychology and Education students and faculty? Yes. Dottie Persson will have offices in Seashore Hall (E201 SSH, 335-3080) and the Lindquist Center (N426 LC, 335-5232) to serve the Psychology Department and the College of Education. As a result of closing some branch libraries, the library system is joining other academic institutions in moving to the concept of an embedded librarian, a librarian who performs research consultations, reference, user instruction and collection management in an electronic environment and who responds to faculty, student and staff who report library related technical or service problems.
What materials formerly housed in the Psychology Library will be housed in the Biological Sciences Library? Selected reference materials from the current reference collection, multimedia and some journals with call numbers, from the Psychology Library, along with the reserve collection for the Psychology Department. (Older reference materials were sent to the Library Annex.) The Biological Sciences Library will also receive new multimedia and reference books purchased from the Psychology collection fund.
What materials went to the Library Annex? Little used books, published before 1995, older reference materials, microforms, and journals that are available electronically, pre-1980, or little used were sent to the Library Annex. It will take several months for location changes to be made in the online catalog. During this time, Interlibrary Loan staff will obtain needed items for library users. Once all location codes have been updated, library users will be able to request items from the Annex for check-out.
What about reserve materials? Starting second semester, the College of Education and Sociology Department instructors will submit their reserve requests to Main Library Circulation, Reserve and Media Department. The Psychology Department instructors will submit their reserve requests to Dottie Persson; their reserve will be housed at the Biological Sciences Library.
Where are the Psychology Department Honors Theses? These honors theses have been transferred to the Library Annex. The Psychology Department will be responsible for psychology honors theses that are completed this academic year forward.
Where is the Psychology Library Test Collection? The Psychology Department started the test collection with a donation to the Psychology Library years ago and has continued to donate to it. At the department’s request, this collection was returned to the department for departmental use. The American Psychological Association is currently developing an electronic test file and a licensing agreement. Dottie Persson hopes to be able to fund access to this new database when it becomes available in the next 1-2 years.
Where will newly purchased materials be located? Except for multimedia and reference books, paper materials purchased from the Education or Psychology collection funds or education and psychology gifts will be cataloged for the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. For multimedia, items purchased from the Education collection fund will go to the Main Library Circulation, Reserve and Media Department. Multimedia items purchased from the Psychology collection fund will go to the Biological Sciences Library. For reference books, items purchased from the Education collection fund will go to the Reference and Library Instruction Department. Reference items purchased from the Psychology collection fund will go to the Biological Sciences Library.
