Hardin News

Please join us for an important opportunity to network with your colleagues and learn about UIHC efforts in patient safety including a new collaborative program designed to improve the safety of patients in Iowa communities.

Mary Kay Brooks, from the Office of Clinical Quality, Safety, and Performance Improvement will be discussing the importance of collaboration to sustain awareness about patient safety at the community level.

The National Patient Safety Week reception and introduction to the Iowa-based Empowering Public Health/Patient Safety Outreach through Community Partnerships (PPECA-II) train-the-trainer workshop program series will be held:

Thursday, March 6th
Program: 4:15pm-5:00pm
Reception: 5:00pm-6:00pm
It will be held at the Nursing Clinical Education Center
UI Hospitals and Clinics

For more information:
visit www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/ppeca

Chris Childs joined the Hardin Library Staff as Education and Outreach Librarian for Consumer and Public Health in late February. Chris comes to the University of Iowa from the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center at Odessa, where he began his career in health sciences libraries as an assistant director.

While working in Texas, Chris had the opportunity to do some outreach for the university and found that of all his responsibilities, this was his favorite. He is very excited about being part of the Hardin staff and having the opportunity to focus on outreach.

Chris enjoys traveling and has taken many trips across the country, spending most of his time in the National Parks. While he did live in Indiana for a few years, he didn’t have the opportunity to travel and explore this region of the country. He is looking forward to wandering around Iowa and the surrounding states.

The public is invited to a University of Iowa History of Medicine talk on “Physicians of the Deaf: Treatment, Prevention and the AMA’s War on Quackery 1910-1940″ at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 26, in Room 401 of the UI Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

The speaker will be Emily Alden, Student, Interdepartmental Studies Program, UI

Light refreshments will be served. The lecture is part of a series of presentations sponsored by the UI History of Medicine Society.

Shorty after the turn of the 20th century, the American Medical Association began a media campaign to combat nostrums, quackery and patent medicine as part of its efforts to professionalize the practice of medicine, arguing that “unorthodox” medicine was a synonym for ineffective. Alden will focus of the interplay between this campaign and physicians of the deaf during the period between 1910 and 1940

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Ed Holtum at 319-335-9154 or edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu.

For directions to Hardin Library and information on parking, visit http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/getting.html.

For more information about the UI History of Medicine Society lecture series, visit http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/

Hardin Library will be hosting the Medical Library Association (MLA) webcast titled “Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web.”

This webcast will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM CST at Hardin Library in Room 401.

Participation if free but you must register by contacting Brooke Billman at brooke-billman@uiowa.edu or 319.335.8554

For more information regarding webcast goals, presenters, or CE contact hours, please visit http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/web2.0/

Please free to contact Brooke Billman with any questions regarding this event.

The sponsorship of this webcast site has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. NLM-N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Iowa Orthopaedic Journal is now available in PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s open-access journal archive, from volume 19, 1999 to present. The Iowa Orthopaedic Journal is published annually by the residents and faculty of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and is indexed in Medline. Older volumes are available on the department’s website.

Articles in PubMed Central are available for students, researchers and member of the public to read without charges or login restrictions. 49,851 unique users downloaded 69,079 articles in the five months that the journal has been available in PubMed Central.

This project is a collaboration between the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Digital Library Services and Information Commons Production Services.

The University Libraries is seeking nominations for the Arthur Benton Excellence in Reference Services Professional Development Award. Funded by a generous endowment and presented in alternating years, this prestigious award recognizes a member of the Libraries’ professional staff who provides exemplary reference services for the University community. The recipient of the award receives $1,000 to be used for professional development activities.

An@tomy.tv provides 3-D interactive human anatomy and pathology images that can be rotated and zoomed from different angles. Dissection videos and slides, MRI images, x-rays, and slides are also available. In addition to images, An@tomy.tv includes extensive explanatory text and interactive quizzes.

To try An@tomy.TV, log in to STAT!Ref and select the Resources tab. The tutorial demonstrates the features of Anatomy.TV.

Feedback is appreciated and can be sent to Janna Lawrence at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu.

The Hardin Library was awarded a $40,000 public health subcontract from the National Library of Medicine’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region to provide patient safety awareness to consumers in Iowa communities. The project, Partnering for Patient Empowerment through Community Awareness, or PPECA, has a networking focus, matching libraries and hospitals together in order to help educate communities about the many different aspects of consumer healthcare, and specifically to encourage patients to play an active role in their medical well-being. The project partners include the UIHC Patients’ Library and the Clinical Outcomes & Resource Management Department; the College of Public Health & its Institute for Quality Care; Consumers Advancing Patient Safety; and Zipperer Management. Targeted communities include Pella, Waverly, Iowa City, Fairfield and Keosauqua.

With Love from the Libraries - Winners Announced!
Patricia Grieg, a graduate student in Speech Pathology and Audiology compared the communication breakdowns between Romeo and Juliet and their families and the communication difficulties of stroke patients suffering from aphasia. For her entry, Patricia won first prize - two tickets to dinner and a performance of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Hancher.

A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa

February 2008 | Issue 1.08

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:

NIH Mandates Open Access to Researchers’ Publications
NIH Public Access web site
What’s Next, Post-NIH Mandate?
Jane: A Tool for Suggesting Journals and Finding Experts (and Facilitating Peer-Review)
Questioning the Impact Factor (and new alternatives)
Harvesting and Organizing OA Blog Discussions of Peer-reviewed Research
Together Again: Springer, Max Planck Agree To New “Experimental” Deal
Open Access Portal to Medical Education
Students for Free Culture - FreeCulture.org
Cost Profiles of Alternative Approaches to Journal Publishing
Ethics of Open Access in Biomedical Research
Petition to Free Up Access to the Cochrane Library