Open Access to scientific literature is one of the most hotly debated topics in scholarly publishing. This workshop will provide an overview of what scientists need to know when making their research open access. We will cover the basics of what we mean by open access, how open access relates to the NIH Public Access policy, open access journals in the biomedical sciences, predatory publishing scams, and best practices for evaluating your open access options.

This session is hands-on and free for UI students and affiliates. There will be time for questions at the end.

Our next session is:

Monday, March 31, 2-3 pm

Location: Hardin Library EAST Information Commons

Register here.

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Questions? Contact us at lib-hardin@uiowa.edu or by calling (319) 335-9151.

Join us tomorrow Wednesday March 26th for a 15 minute class on using–Protein Database:  3-D Protein structures.  The class will be held at 2:30 in the Engineering Library (2001C SC) http://goo.gl/N9eS1v

Taught by Chris Childs (Health Sciences Education and Outreach Librarian, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences)

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An interesting opinion piece from Chemistry World asks “Is the pressure to publish making chemists cut corners?”

The University of Library History of Medicine Society invites you to

Incunabula in a Medical Context

Open House

Thursday, March 27, 4:30-7 pm

  Incunabula are early printed books dating from 1450 to 1500, immediately after the introduction of the printing press.

The John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will be opening its doors on the evening of Thursday, March 27 to let guests take a stroll through the 15th century.  Attendees will be allowed to page through and photograph our 32 incunabula along with select medieval manuscripts and facsimiles (copies), from 1500-1520.

To learn more, visit the Rare Book Room site. Contact Rare Book Room Curator Donna Hirst at (319) 335-9154 or by email at donna-hirst@uiowa.edu.

Don’t miss this chance for a unique glimpse into centuries-old medical scholarship!

Incunabula page from the editio princeps of Lactantius (Italy, 1465).

Manuscript belongs to Cambridge University Library’s Incunabula Project.

 

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to medical literature and includes over 22 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This 30-minute session will show you how to find relevant articles fast using some of the basic features in PubMed. This class is free for UI students and affiliates.

Our next session is:

Thursday, March 27

Location: Hardin Library for the Health Sciences (EAST Information Commons classroom)

Sign up here. Pressed for time? Check out our tutorial for basic searching tips.

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In Camp at London Tenn.
22 March 1864.
Dear Brother Frank:

Day before yesterday, I received yours of the 14th inst. For some considerable time past I have awaited a letter from you and wondered why it came not, but that you have been marching explains the delay. I have been anxious to hear from you on Sammy’s account. I vainly hoped to hear of his whereabouts through you. I can get nothing definate about him. About a month ago he was in Springfield. We have received the description rolls of some 14 or 15 recruits and only three of them have arrived at the Battery. Some of these have been a month and a half on the road and one young man – you knew him, E.W. Gower, died in Indiana on his way to our company. I wish Sammy could get here. It is ten fold harder and more unpleasant for a new soldier to be knocking around in barracks than to go at once into the field to his company. The same mail in which your letter came, brought me a good long one from Mary. The people at home were will. All is quiet in this vicinity. We are preparing with all possible dispatch for the Spring campaign. We are temporarily in the Dept. of the Ohio: and the only Battery in this department that is equipped for marching and as a consequence, if there is a movement made soon in this section of the country, we will be called out. I hope that we may have from 30 to 60 days longer in which to prepare. It is quite difficuld to get the necessary equipments here. We are pretty well supplied with horses. Cousin James Murphy is now in Chattanooga, employed on the bridges there. He used to live in Grundy Co. Ill. call on him the first chance you. He will be glad to see you. I presume you remember Dick Martin who used to live in Pontiac: he is here working at the bridge. It is snowing rapidly now, and has fallen to the depth of two or three insches already. The weather has been unusually fine, for the season, all winter. In Marry’s letter I received a photograph of herself and Frankie. Mollie has changed perceptibly since I saw her last. How does Sergt. Yetter prosper? Give him my compliments the first time you see him. What company is Saml. McGooden in? Write me as often as convenient.

Afftly your Brother
Wm J Murphy

Head Qurs., 1st Brig., 1st Div., 11th A.C.
Lookout Valley, Mch. 22nd 1864
My Dear Wife

We were very much surprised on getting up this morning to find snow eleven & 1/2 inches deep. This “Sunny South” passes all understanding; ever since we came here it has been extremely cold.¹ We may look for mud of course. The train has just worked its way through.

I have not recd. my mail for this morning yet. As I recd. no letters yesterday I hope for some to-day. I just recd. yours of the 16th inst., and am most happy to hear that you were well.² I had forgotten when your birth day was, but will try and remember it hereafter.³

I do not understand why Capt. Hoskins has not given you the letter I sent. I enclosed a letter to you with his leave of Absence, & he surely received it. The papers you sent have not come to hand yet. My health is very good. We are trying to make ourselves comfortable & it requires a good deal of effort.⁴ Write to me often. May God bless you.

Your Affect. Husband
J. F. Culver

1. Private Dunham of Company C, writing his mother on the 22d, reported, “It has been very cold heare for several days. It snowed all last night and all day today and the snow is now all of a foot deep. I have hurd people talk about the suny South but for my part I have seen enough of it to satisfy my appetite.” Through the South with a Union Soldier, p. 110.
2. Mary Culver’s letter of March 16 is missing from the Culver Collection.
3. Mary Culver’s 22d birthday had occurred on March 17. Culver, “Robert Murphy and Some of His Descendants,” p. 107.
4. According to Private Dunham, the enlisted men of the 129th had built comfortable four-man log huts. Fireplaces had been erected, but the one in his hut “smokes so that we can hardly stand it some times.” Through the South with a Union Soldier, p. 110.

Camp Yates Springfield
March 22nd, 1864
Dear Sister Mary

Yours of the 2nd inst I received in due season and was glad to hear from you. I would have written to you as soon as I got it but I expected to leave here soon and thought I wait and write when I got to another place They have sent away the Inft and Cav. recruits and I think the Art will leave soon, but I have thought so for some time. I am the only one for Battery “M” that is here and I would rather be with it than here. Have you heard from Jack lately. I have not received a letter from him for about four months. I am not sure that I will stay here this week, but may possibly and I wish you would send any letters that are at Pontiac for me. I have not received but one letter since I enlisted and that was yours. I would be a treat if I could receive a bundle of them this week.

The weather has been cold here for a few days past, but it is getting warmer now and begins to look like spring. I suppose it is quite warm down in Dixie now. Camp Yates is situated one mile west of Springfield It is a pretty nice place for a camp. and we have good water The Governors mansion is just a little way from camp as my knee does not make a very good writing desk I will close for the present Write by return mail. and address.

S.A. Murphy
Battery “M” 1st Ill Art.
Camp Yates.
Springfield Ills.