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Feb 2 2018

PubMed Workshops | Beginning Thursday, Feb. 8, 10-11am

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 26 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one-hour session will show you how to improve your search results by using subject headings (MeSH) and advanced keyword searching techniques.

Instructor Matt Regan, Clinical Education Librarian

Our Spring workshops:

Thursday, February 8th, 10:00-11:00am, East Commons
Tuesday, March 6th, 2:00-3:00pm, East Information Commons
Wednesday, April 4th, 11:00am-12:00pm, West Information Commons

Register online: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/workshop/

Need training but no time for class?  Contact your subject librarian for instruction.

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 call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

 

Feb 2 2018

Hardin Open Workshops : Learn Systematic Reviews, PubMed, EndNote, Open Refine and More

Hardin Open Workshops are free and anyone may register online at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/workshop/

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 call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

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Jan 26 2018

Tour & Get Health Sciences Mobile Resources | Tues., January 30, 10-11am

Take a tour of some new (and some well-established) apps for your mobile device or smart phone!

Instructor Matt Regan, Clinical Education Librarian

At this informal brown bag technology meeting, you’ll not only be shown a variety of tools for both academic and clinical use but also invited to share your own examples and experiences.

Tuesday,  January 30, 10-11am, Information Commons East

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.

No time for the workshop?  See our mobile resources guide.  Many apps are provided free from library subscriptions including DynaMed Plus and UpToDate.

Jan 26 2018

Learn APA Style | Workshop Wed., January 31, 12pm-1pm

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Jen DeBerg, Instructor

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) provides guidelines for formatting papers/manuscripts followed by nursing and most allied health sciences disciplines.

In this hands-on session, attendees will have the opportunity to learn basic rules of APA formatting as well as gain experience applying APA formatting to journal, book, and web references. Resources for future referral will also be provided.

Our next session:
Wednesday, January 31st, 12:00-1:00pm, West Information Commons

Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.

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 call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

Jan 23 2018

Meet the Expert: Mirko von Elstermann, Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences Librarian

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Mirko von Elstermann

Mirko von Elstermann, Biomedical Sciences Librarian

Ph.D., Physiology
M.Sc., Biology
M.A., Philosophy (all from the University of Cologne, Germany)
M.A.S., Library & Information Sciences (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Three years biomedical publishing experience

Areas of expertise:

    • Project consultation, teaching and training
    • Literature and information searching in biomedicine
    • Impact of research and researchers
    • Biomedical publishing trends; understanding and writing publications
    • NCBI bioinformatics tools
    • Research integrity–replicability & reproducibility
    • Tools for keeping current

His interests in biomedicine include metabolism research, cancer biology, and neuroscience.
@biomedrevon is his Twitter account about publications in biomedicine.

Outside the sciences and the library:
Mirko enjoys music and reading, swimming and walking.  Before arriving here, he lived in some non-U.S. countries, most recently for more than two years in Peru.  In Iowa City he lives with his Peruvian wife and their daughter.

Jan 22 2018

Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy | History of Medicine Lecture | January 25, 5:30pm

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The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by  Marquis Berrey, Associate Professor in Classics, University of Iowa

Ancient Surgery in Early Modern Italy: Celsus, Benivieni, Morgagni
Thursday, January 25, 2018, 5:30-6:30
MERF Room 2117 (Medical Education and Research Facility)

European medical professionals from the 15th through the early 19th centuries treated the De Medicina “On Medicine” by the ancient Roman encyclopediast Aulus Cornelius Celsus (fl. 30 CE) as a standard medical reference equivalent to the works of Hippocrates and Galen. Celsus’ stylish Latin text with its detailed clinical and surgical instructions found wide readership over the early modern period among notable practitioners, from the Florentine surgeon Antonio Benivieni (1443-1502) to Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), professor of anatomy at Padua. This lecture considers how Benivieni and Morgagni put Celsus’ De Medicina to work in medical ethics, in identifications of syphilis, and in specific surgical interventions.

Marquis Berrey bio

Please consider donating online to the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society to sponsor events.

Donate online to Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

University of Iowa History of Medicine Society calendar 2017/2018

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 call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

Jan 22 2018

Faculty Calculate Your Scholarly Impact, Impact Factors | Workshop Tuesday, Jan. 23

This hands-on workshop will give attendees an overview of traditional and recent ways to measure

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Mirko von Elstermann, PhD, MA, MAS
Instructor

scholarly impact of journals, individual researchers, and articles. Afterward, it will be clearer how different ‘impact factors’ now offered both by the Web of Science and Scopus are determined.

 

We will discuss the features of these factors as well as the evaluation of researchers through the h-index

and other methods. Article-related impact through citations and social media will also be explained.

Workshop
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2:00-3:00pm, East Information Commons

For individual support related to these topics, please contact your liaison librarian Mirko von Elstermann, Ph.D., at 319-335-9153 or mirko-vonelstermann@uiowa.edu. Or stop by his office on the second floor of Hardin Library, 207A.