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NIH on Friday formally requested input from the community regarding the NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting From NIH-Funded Research (NIH Public Access Policy). An identical notice will be published in Monday’s Federal Register. The request for information (RFI) seeks input on the Public Access Policy. Comments are due by May 31, 2008. The NIH will post analysis and results from this RFI for public view by September 30, 2008.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-060.html

Jonathan Koffel, Kathy Skhal, and Mindy Egeland will be providing instructional services in the 8th Floor Solarium, this Friday, March 28 from 10:00am-3:00pm.

Try out new electronic resources or get your library-related questions answered.

Please join Fun Fridays @ Hardin for a film screening of:
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

It will be shown at:
2pm, March 28th
401 Hardin Library Conference Room

The film captures the spirit of ancient Chinese magic, romance, and everything in between.
*In both English and Chinese

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Catherine Reed Thureson in advance at 319.335.7221.

Due to a new grant, the UI Police are now adding a weeknight route to their Nite Ride Van Service. The new “academic route” will be available from most campus buildings to student’s place of residence between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays. Beginning March 30, it can be utilized by calling the phone number, 319.384.1111. The weekend hours will also remain intact, operating from 11 p.m. Fridays to 3 a.m. Saturdays and 11 p.m. Saturdays to 3 a.m. Sundays.

The academic route Nite Ride will pick up passengers at any UI parking lot, ramp or building (except for residence halls and University Housing) and drop off at any UI parking lot, ramp or building including residence halls, University Housing and apartments within the specified boundaries.

For both the academic and weekend services the Nite Ride van operates within an area bounded by Summit Street to the east, University Housing (Hawkeye Campus) to the west, Highway 6 and Melrose Avenue to the south and Highway 6/Park Road/Foster Road to the north.

An added bonus for those seeking to use the service from the HLHS is that the van will be parked in the Hardin Library parking lot when in between pick up and drop offs.

RefWorks has just implemented a new feature which allows you to attach images, articles, and other files to your citations. For instance, this will allow you to keep a copy of the full-text article with your citation and have it be accessible from any web-connected computer.

To attach a file, simply click on “Edit” to the right of each citation, look for the field labeled “Attachments,” and browse for and select the article that you want to attach. Multiple files can be attached to each citation. Once you attach the file, you can view it by clicking on “View” to the right of each citation and then selecting the file.

Each account can hold 100MB of files. If you have any questions or need additional storage space, please contact jonathan-koffel@uiowa.edu.

Recently, the John Martin Rare Book Room acquired a rare copy of Edward Tyson’s 1699 book, Orang-outang, sive, Homo sylvestris, or, The anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man… The book constitutes of the most important works in the history of comparative morphology.
Physician, Edward Tyson, studied at Oxford and Cambridge and was a frequent lecturer on anatomy; he made several important contributions to medicine including the discovery of the sebaceous glands of the corona glandis (“Tyson Glands”). As a hospital administrator, Tyson was responsible for introducing female nurses to Bethlehem Hospital. Tyson’s reputation, however, rests largely with his anatomical studies which, in addition to the present investigation, included the porpoise and the opossum.

The “Orang-Outang” Tyson describes is actually a less than mature male chimpanzee from Angola that died a few months after its arrival in London. Also, his use of the word “Pygmie” denotes a group of small mythical beings whose supposed existence Tyson attributes to sightings of chimpanzees made in antiquity. Tyson’s “Pygmie” is completely unrelated to the name now given to the short-statured groups of people in Central Africa whose existence was unknown to Europeans until the 19th century.

As the first to dissect this species, Tyson noted the great morphological similarity between the animal and humans and termed it “an intermediate link” between ape and man. In doing so, Tyson did not mean to suggest a common lineage or descent but rather was referring to the “links” in the “Great Chain of Being,” the classical conception of a hierarchical universe from the simplest elements through the plants and animals and culminating in humans and finally God.

Tyson writes that the animal is “…of a higher degree above any of [the other apes and monkeys] we yet know, and more resembling a man. But at the same time I take him to be wholly a Brute, tho’ in the formation of the of the Body, and in the sensitive or brutal soul, it may be, more resembling a man, than another other anima; so that in this chain of the creation, as in intermediate link between an ape and a man, I would place our Pygmie.” The remarkable plates are executed in a style very similar to those in Vesalius’ Fabrica further underscoring Tyson’s thesis.

The copy in the John Martin Rare Book Room was once owned by William Musgrave (ca 1655-1721), former secretary of the Royal Society, physician, and noted historian. The skeleton of the chimpanzee dissected by Tyson remains on display at The Natural History Museum of London.
For additional images, click on links.
Musculature
Skeleton

Many of the pictures in Hardin MD are public-domain, meaning that they are not copyrighted. One useful source for pictures that are not copyrighted is classic medical books that are old enough that their copyright has run out. Hardin MD has pictures from three of these books, described below.

Dermochromes, by Jerome Kingsbury, pictures by Eduard Jacobi, 1914.
This book is in the Hardin Library collection, and images were specially scanned for use on Hardin MD pages. Pictures in Hardin MD are on Leprosy, Ringworm, and Lupus (the picture to the left). These realistic pictures were made in Germany using an unusual wax modeling technique.

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Thomas Addison’s book containing the first description of Addison’s Disease, 1855
This book is in the Hardin Library John Martin Rare Book Room, and images were scanned for placement in the University of Iowa Digital Library. They are also on Hardin MD pages.

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Atlas of diseases of the skin, Franz Mracek, 1899
Pictures in Hardin MD are of Psoriasis. These pictures are from the Google Books version, which was scanned at Harvard University

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It has been especially gratifying to make these pages available for Internet users because the pictures from these books are often highly ranked in Google Image search, and get heavy use from this. See for example, Google Image searches on lupus and addison’s disease.

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The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its annual four-session Mini Medical School, “Making Sense of Your Health: See More. Hear More. Do More.” in April on the UI campus.

Librarians Kathy Skhal and Chris Childs will teach a session called “Your What Hurts?: Research Health Questions on the Web” at the Hardin Library on April 29th. 

The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences Simulation Center in the Information Commons will be featured in the April 29th program.

The sessions will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays April 8, 15, 22 and 29 in the Dr. Prem Sahai Auditorium in the Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF). Map to MERF.

This year, Mini Medical School will focus on age-related changes in vision, hearing and mobility. UI researchers and clinicians will lead sessions on glaucoma, macular degeneration, hearing loss, aging and mobility, and osteroarthritis.

The Mini Medical School program is offered through the UI Carver College of Medicine in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, based in the UI Center on Aging.

Mini Medical School is designed for anyone who is interested in the scientific basis of health and disease. No science or medical educational background is needed to take part in the program.

This event is open to the public. Participation is limited to the first 250 registrants. A $5 fee for course materials will be collected during the first session. Registration is for all four of the Mini Medical School sessions.

For more information, visit http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/minimedicalschool or call toll free 877-MED-IOWA (877-633-4692).

The public is invited to a University of Iowa History of Medicine talk on “Elmer L. DeGowin, MD, Blood transfusions in war and peace” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in Room 401 of the UI Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

The speaker will be Dr. Ronald Strauss, Professor, DeGowin Blood Center, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Light refreshments will be served. The lecture is part of a series of presentations sponsored by the UI History of Medicine Society.

Dr. Strauss will discuss Elmer DeGowin’s many contributions to the understanding of blood storage and transportation and his lifetime efforts to make blood transfusions safe and effective.

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/

Periodically, we review the software provider for some of the databases. This year, we are reviewing OVID for PsycINFO. We are also checking again on interest in PsycBOOKS and PsycEXTRA. We are comparing the OVID software to the PsycNET software.

If you would like to review PsycINFO, PsycBooks, or PsycEXTRA on PsycNET, please go to http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/evaluation.html and click on the title of the database.

These are the questions:

1) Should we keep the PsycINFO subscription with OVID or move it to PsycNET? We are looking at software preference. Which software (OVID or PsycNET) is easier to use or meets your research needs better and why?

2) If there is money, do you think that the Psychology Library should subscribe to PsycBOOKS and/or PsycEXTRA? If you like both databases, rank order your choices. Which database, PsycBOOKS or PsycEXTRA, would be more important to subscribe to first?

Your input is important to us. Subscription renewal time is approaching. We must make a decision by May 1. Therefore, we need your input by April 14, 2008.

I look forward to your response.Send your comments to dorothy-persson@uiowa.edu.