NIH is seeking comments regarding the implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy. NIH would like comments from researchers and those who are facilitating implementation of the policy. The deadline for submitting comments is 5pm EST on Monday, March 17, 2008.
Information Technology Services (ITS) has informed us that they need to replace the network routers in Main Library and Hardin Library (as well as many other campus buildings). The upgrade is currently scheduled for Hardin Library on Tuesday, March 4, and Main Library on Thursday, March 6. Unfortunately, spring break is not an option.
Planned outages are as follows:
• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:00am-6:30am
Hardin Library building-wide outage
No network traffic in or out of the building
Local services that depend on remote network sources (e.g., network printing) unavailable
• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:30am-8:00am
Hardin Library rolling outages, one telecommunications closet at a time
Each area will experience approximately 20-30 minutes downtime
• Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:00am-6:30am
Main Library building-wide outage
No network traffic in or out of the building
Local services that depend on remote network sources (e.g., network printing) unavailable
• Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:00am-8:00am
Libraries-wide server outage (overlaps with building outage)
Nearly all library web servers and file storage unavailable
Will have broad impact on users outside Main Library trying to access library resources
• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:30am-8:30am
Main Library rolling outages, one telecommunications closet at a time
Each area will experience approximately 20-30 minutes downtime
We all apologize in advance for the disruption. As usual, all of the end times are a bit generous to allow for unforeseen complications, so the actual outages may be shorter.
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.
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
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
I’m writing to alert you to a new funding announcement from the National Library of Medicine, PAR 08-080. This is an announcement for investigator-initiated R01 research grants in biomedical informatics and bioinformatics. These grants will be reviewed by NLM’s study section, the Biomedical Library & Informatics Review Committee.
Highlights of the NLM Express Research Grant in Biomedical Informatics that make it different from PA 07-070, the NIH parent announcement that is currently used for R01 applications to NLM:
Electronic grant submission information at http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/
NIH on Friday posted its revised — and now mandatory — Public Access policy. The changes in policy correspond to recently enacted legislation, which reads “The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require 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 of 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.” Under the policy notice posted on Friday:
1. The NIH Public Access Policy applies to all peer-reviewed articles that arise, in whole or in part, from direct costs funded by NIH, or from NIH staff, that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008.
2. Institutions and investigators are responsible for ensuring that any publishing or copyright agreements concerning submitted articles fully comply with the Policy.
3. PubMed Central (PMC) is the NIH digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles. Its content is publicly accessible and integrated with other databases (see: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/).
4. The final, peer-reviewed manuscript includes all graphics and supplemental materials that are associated with the article.
5. Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates.
Also, the Scientific Council of the European Research Council posted on Friday its Guidelines for Open Access. The guidelines require that all peer-reviewed publications from ERC-funded research projects be deposited when published into an appropriate research repository where available, such as PubMed Central, ArXiv or an institutional repository, and subsequently made Open Access within 6 months of publication.
