Need to Know

WHO COVID-19 Research Database

“The global literature cited in the WHO COVID-19 Research Database is updated daily (Tuesday through Saturday) from searches of bibliographic databases, hand searching, and the addition of other expert-referred scientific articles. This database represents a comprehensive multilingual source of current literature on the topic. While it may not be exhaustive, new research is added regularly.”

This free database does not integrate with our subscription vertification/add on products. We recommend that you use it on campus or log on the VPN if off campus.

The WHO COVID-19 Research Database includes citations from some databases the UI Libraries do not subscribe to.
The focus of this database is science, and it includes many pre-print articles that are not yet peer-reviewed.
This database also includes citations for traditional medicine.

English user guide

French user guide

Spanish user guide

If you find an article you want to read, click on full-text. If we subscribe or the article is available for free, you should be able to access it. If the article is not available, you may request it via Interlibrary Loan.

“The WHO Global COVID-19 Database is a composite of other databases and citations captured directly from publishers’ websites. Citations have NOT been standardized across the various sources and there may be variations in journal titles, author names, and other fields. While some citations have been enhanced with MeSH and other keywords, this is a work in progress. ” MeSH subject headings are only available for MEDLINE-indexed publications. We do not recommend using MeSH terms right now.

Jonathan Reeder | Researcher in Ancient Mental Health | History of Medicine | Video Available

photo of Jonathan Reeder, white man, blue shirt, green background

Jonathan Reeder is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Iowa. He teaches courses in ancient medicine and a variety of others concerning the ancient world. His research centers on the interface between medicine and philosophy in Greek and Latin literature. Currently his focus is on ancient approaches to mental health and the reception of Greco-Roman psychology. Dr. Reeder holds a B.A. in Communication Arts from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from Florida State University.

Dr. Reeder presented at Hardin on Tuesday, October 18 at 5:30pm.

Video of talk available: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui:29997

Mental Health and the Weight of the Past: How Early Modern Physicians Read Greek Psychology

This talk begins with a brief survey of the history of scientific discourse on mental health, then focuses on the intellectual and professional dilemma faced by early modern physicians: either repeat Greek psychology and suppress one’s own originality or challenge the giants of Greek medicine along with their scientific and cultural weight. The lecture tells the story of how some authors of the John Martin Rare Book Room collection grappled with the authority of the past against the backdrop of an area of medicine which is of great concern in our own time.

Newton Road Sidewalk Closed October 10 through 21

map: to enter library from VA Loop bus stop, walk on Newton Road to the sidewalk by the parking lot

The sidewalk between the Hardin Library bus stop and Hardin’s parking lot beginning Monday, Oct. 10. The closure is expected last through Friday, Oct. 21. Access to the first floor entrance will be available only from the direction of the parking lot. Please be careful if you must make your way from the VA Loop bus stop area.

Homecoming Week | Hardin Closed Sat, Oct 29 | Bus Service Disrupted Fri Afternoon, Oct 28 | Downtown Parade Route

Homecoming is here once again.

Hardin Library will be closed on Saturday, October 29 due to the home Iowa vs. Northwestern football game. Kickoff is 2pm. The 24-hour study is available.

Cambus routes will detour Friday afternoon starting about 4pm. More information

Iowa City Transit will move the downtown interchange to Court Street starting Friday morning until the end of the day. More information

Many streets in downtown Iowa City will begin closing at about 4:30-5pm to accommodate the parade which begins at 5:45pm. More information

October is Medical Librarians Month | Make Better Decisions Faster

For better data, research, costs, and patient outcomes: consult your medical librarian.

Aitken, E. M., Powelson, S. E., Reaume, R. D., & Ghali, W. A. (2011). Involving Clinical Librarians at the Point of Care: Results of a Controlled Intervention: Academic Medicine, 86(12), 1508–1512. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e31823595cd
Banks, D. E., Shi, R., Timm, D. F., Christopher, K. A., Duggar, D. C., Comegys, M., & McLarty, J. (2007). Decreased hospital length of stay associated with presentation of cases at morning report with librarian support. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 95(4), 381–387. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.95.4.381
Brettle, A., Maden, M., & Payne, C. (2016). The impact of clinical librarian services on patients and health care organisations. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 33(2), 100–120. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12136
Brettle, A., Maden-Jenkins, M., Anderson, L., McNally, R., Pratchett, T., Tancock, J., Thornton, D., & Webb, A. (2011). Evaluating clinical librarian services: a systematic review: Evaluating clinical librarian services. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 28(1), 3–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00925.x
Marshall, J. G., Sollenberger, J., Easterby-Gannett, S., Morgan, L. K., Klem, M. L., Cavanaugh, S. K., Oliver, K. B., Thompson, C. A., Romanosky, N., & Hunter, S. (2013). The value of library and information services in patient care: results of a multisite study. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 101(1), 38–46. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.101.1.007
McGowan, J., Hogg, W., Campbell, C., & Rowan, M. (2008). Just-in-Time Information Improved Decision-Making in Primary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS ONE, 3(11), e3785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003785
Weightman, A. L., & Williamson, J. (2005). The value and impact of information provided through library services for patient care: a systematic review. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 22(1), 4–25.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2005.00549.x

Construction @ Hardin

Beginning this month, construction will begin in Hardin Library that will transform the space into one that we hope will be more welcoming and more relevant to your needs. By the end of the project, which will take two years:

quiet study space on the 4^th floor will be expanded,
3^rd floor study space will be upgraded, and
Hardin staff offices will all be located in a central area on the 3^rd floor (except for the Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room).

Among the anticipated improvements include the addition of more group studies on the 2^nd and 3^rd floors and updating of the individual study rooms on the 4^th floor. The 4^th floor improvements are thanks to a grant funded by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

The first activity you will notice at Hardin will be on the 4^th floor. Beginning August 8, most of the print books published before 2010 will be removed and sent to the Library Annex to accommodate the expansion of study space on the that floor. The book move will take place in two stages, each lasting about a week, in August and in December. Most of the current books in Hardin’s collection are electronic and so will continue to be easily accessible from anywhere. If you need an older print item, books at the Annex can be requested and delivered to Hardin for pick-up or even sent to your office or home (although not to dorm rooms). Older books with high use can be permanently returned to Hardin.

Later in the month, beginning approximately August 22, work will begin on the 1^st floor to build offices for the Vice President for Research’s Environmental Health and Safety group. Also this fall, public restrooms on the 3^rd and 4^th floor will be enlarged and improved. Restrooms on the 1^st and 2^nd floor are scheduled for upgrades next year.

The gender neutral restroom on the 3rd floor is being remodeled and after remodeling Hardin Library will have 2 gender neutral restrooms.

We know that construction will be disruptive, but Hardin will remain open and metered parking will continue to be available in our lot. We have asked that the noisiest work be done overnight, when it will disturb the fewest number of people. Earplugs are available at the 3^rd floor service desk and in the 24-hour study. We will keep you updated through signage and blog posts.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, you can use our anonymous feedback form or contact any Hardin staff member. You can always contact me directly at janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu or at 319-335-9870.

Janna Lawrence, MLIS, AHIP, FMLA

Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

How To Set Up EndNote To Find Full Text

Here is how to set up EndNote to find full text so you can save entire articles in your library.

To set up Find Full Text:

From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
Click on Find Full Text.
In the Open URL Path box, enter:
https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/openurl/01IOWA/01IOWA_SERVICES
If you are using EndNote from off-campus, you will need to enter https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu beside the box labeled Authentication URL.

NOTE: It is advised that you do not select the box “automatically invoke find full text on newly imported references” that appears at the bottom of the box. Attaching full text for all references is often unnecessary and will interfere with use of library during the process.

Find Full Text:

Select the desired references in your EndNote Library.
Right click and then select Find Full Text from the pop-up menu.
Click OK on the copyright notice. EndNote will begin looking for full-text and will track its progress in the blue side panel.
When EndNote finds a PDF, a paperclip appears in the attachment column, and the PDF appears in the File Attachments field of the reference. Click on the PDF to open the article. PDFs are stored in the Endnote library’s .data file, in a folder called PDF.
If EndNote can only find an HTML version of the article, a link to that version appears in the reference’s URL field.

Enable UI Link

By enabling UI Link in EndNote, you can easily get to the full-text of an article from the EndNote record

From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
Click on URLS and Links.
Paste the following into the box labeled ISI Base URL:
https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi
You can now click OK.
To use UI Link, click on a record, then go to the References menu and select URL and then OpenURL Link. Use UI Link to find full text, or to launch an interlibrary loan request, if the item is not available electronically.

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Set up EndNote to Find Full-Text

EndNote can attempt to locate the full text (PDF or HTML) of articles in your library. Full text availability is limited to journals to which the UI Libraries subscribe electronically and for which full text is available. If the Find Full-Text function does not locate a given article, try the UILink option below. (NOTE: this service produces error messages when used off-campus. Clicking either “yes” or “no” on error messages and signing in when you see the login screen should allow this to work from off-campus)

To set up Find Full Text:

From the EndNote menu, select Preferences.
Click on Find Full Text in the left frame.
In the Open URL Path box, enter:
https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/openurl/01IOWA/01IOWA_SERVICE
If you are using EndNote from off-campus, you will need to enter https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu beside the box labeled Authentication URL.

To find full-text:

Select the desired references in your EndNote Library.
From the References menu, select Find Full Text.
Click OK on the copyright notice. EndNote will begin looking for full-text and will track its progress in the side panel.
When EndNote finds a PDF, a paperclip appears in the attachment column, and the PDF appears in the File Attachments field of the reference. It also appears in the far right pane when the reference is open. To open the PDF, click the icon in the File Attachments field or click the “book” icon in the lower corner of the open reference. PDFs are stored in the Endnote library’s .data file, in a folder called PDF.
If EndNote can only find an HTML version of the article, a link to that version appears in the reference’s URL field.

By enabling InfoLink in EndNote, you can easily get to the full-text of an article from the EndNote record, without attaching the PDF.

Enable UI Link

From the EndNote menu, select Preferences
Click on URLS and Links
In the box labeled ISI Base URL, copy and paste this into the field:
https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi

To use UI Link, select a record, then go to the References menu and select URL and then OpenURL Link. The UI Link window should appear.

Linking PDFs or Other Files to EndNote References

Sometimes, EndNote won’t be able to locate a PDF. In that case, if you have the PDF, you can manually attach it. You can also attach other types of files to citations. The file can be on your own computer or on the Internet.

Open the reference to which you wish to link.
To link to a file on your computer, select a citation, go to the References menu and choose File Attachments and then Attach File…. Locate the file and click Open.
To link to a file on the Internet, simply type (or paste) the URL into the reference’s URL field.

Need personalized help? Contact your librarian!

UI Libraries Favorite Banned Books | Banned Books Week 2022

celebrate banned books week September 18-26, 2022

Libraries respect everyone’s freedom to read what they choose. Staff across all University of Iowa Libraries selected some of their favorite banned books this year:

1984	George Orwell
The 1619 Project	Nicole Hannah-Jones
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Sherman Alexie
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X and Alex Haley
120 Banned Books	Nicholas J. Karolidas
All American Boys	Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
All Boys Aren’t Blue	George M. Johnson
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque
And Tango Makes Three	John Richardson and Peter Parnell
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison
Barefoot Gen	Keiji Nakazawa
The Best Little Boy in the World	Andrew Tobias
Bless Me, Ultima	Rudolfo Anaya
Blood and Chocolate	Annette Curtis Klause
Bone (GN Series)	Jeff Smith
The Book Thief	Zusak
Books Under Fire	Pat R. Scales
Born a Crime	Trevor Noah
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown
Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey
Carrie	Stephen King
Catch-22	Joseph Heller
Charlotte’s Web	E.B. White
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier
The Color Purple	Alice Walker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time	Mark Haddon
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
Drama	Raina Telgemeier
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Forever	Judy Blume
Fun Home: A family tragicomic	Alison Bechdel
gender queer	Maiai Kobabe
George	Alex Gino
The Giver	Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle: a memoir	Jeannette Walls
Go Tell It On the Mountain	James Baldwin
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling
The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas
His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
In the Dream House	Carmen Maria Machado
In the Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
A Light in the Attic	Shel Silverstein
Maus	Art Spiegelman
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs
The New Jim Crow	Michelle Alexander
Nickel and Dimed	Barbara Ehrenreich
Olive’s Ocean	Kevin Henkes
Out of darkness	Ashley Hope Perez
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton
A People’s History of the United States	Howard Zinn
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
Rainbow Boys	Alex Sanchez
A Separate Peace	John Knowles
Sex is a Funny Word	Cory Silverberg
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut
Something Happened in our town	Marianne Celano, et al
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You	Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien
Thirteen Reasons Why	Jay Asher
This Day in June	Gayle Pitman
Ulysses	James Joyce
What My Mother Doesn’t Know	Sonya Sones
When I was Puerto Rican	Esmerelda Santiago
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeline L’Engle
You Can’t Say that	Leonard S. Marcus (editor)
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty	Greg Neri

Welcome New Librarian Mary Thomas! Liaison for Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Neurology

Mary Thomas, white woman, blond hair, in front of trees

photo of Mary Thomas, white woman, blond hair, in front of trees — Mary Thomas, MLIS

Welcome to Mary Thomas, Hardin’s newest liaison librarian! Mary joined the Hardin staff on August 15, 2022 and is a recent graduate of the Master of Library Science program at Emporia State University and did an internship at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Boulder Labs Library. Mary was also a member of the 2021-2022 cohort of the Research Training Institute of the Medical Library Association, a competitive online program designed to provide training in advanced research methods to health sciences librarians. Mary’s research on the use of Mental Health First Aid training for library staff resulted in a virtual poster presented at the 2022 conference of the Medical Library Association in May.

Mary previously lived in Boulder, Colorado, where she received bachelor degrees in Psychology and English are from the University of Colorado. While working as a high school English teacher, she realized she could combine her interests in information literacy and health information in one job as a medical librarian.

After several weeks of orientation and training at Hardin, May will become the liaison to several departments, including Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Neurology, and will join other Hardin librarian in teaching Hardin Open Workshops sessions. Mary is excited to be able to use her teaching and librarian skills with her new community at Hardin.

Looking for Print Book at Hardin?

by Janna Lawrence, Hardin Library director

As part of the construction projects currently underway at Hardin, most print books published before 2010 will be moved to the Library Annex.

In August, 40,000 books were permanently moved to the Annex; these were from the beginning of the call number range, starting with A and going through QR92 L5 C66. The remainder of the pre-2010 collection, approximately 50,000 books, will be moved to the Annex in December.

After ingestion into the Annex, which may take several months, you will be able to request these books through the InfoHawk+ catalog for pick up at Hardin or another campus library, or even delivered to your office or home (although currently not to residence halls).

If you require a book that you believe has been moved to the Annex but is not yet available there, please request a copy through Interlibrary Loan. We will obtain a copy for you from another library, at no cost to you.

Because e-books make up the majority of books in Hardin’s current collection, we hope that this change will have minimal impact on users. If a book located at the Annex is used frequently or is needed for course reserve, it can be returned to Hardin’s shelves. Hardin books published before 1980 have been located at the Library Annex for several years.