This class will teach participants how to use tools such as Ulrich’s, Journal Citation Reports, Web of Sciences, and Scopus to determine the impact that journals, articles, and authors have had on a particular field. Topics such as impact factors, Eigenfactors, and H-indices will also be discussed.
Our next session is:
Tuesday, November 19 from 12-1 pm
Kotorabia is a compendium of early works of an astounding variety of disciplines from important Arab writers, spanning fields from feminism and social theory, to classics of literature, history, and the sciences. Includes works by the Four Imams of the Sunni Sect, the Al Azhar Modern Sheikhs; various authors of the Modern Arab Enlightenment, and rare works by the former Egyptian royal family.
Please send additional comments to Edward Miner.
The libraries and archives that feature historic mustache images — from NYPL to the Smithsonian to our own Special Collections — are kicking into high gear in honor of Movember, so we thought we’d join in. Stealing from In tribute to the Library of Congress’ collection, we present some of the great mustaches of the Iowa Digital Library. Special thanks go to Wendy Robertson for her mustache-searching expertise.
UI President Charles A. Schaeffer, 1893 | University of Iowa Yearbooks
W.S. Hosford, 1908 | Dentistry College Class Photographs
Unidentified man, circa 1879 | Pioneer Lives
J.L. Small, 1885 | Dentistry College Class Photographs
General James B. Weaver, 1907 | Traveling Culture – Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th C.
Billy Brooks, 1930s | Mujeres Latinas
Personal favorite:
L.K. Fullerton, 1885 | Dentistry College Class Photographs
Mustache manuscript:
Leigh Hunt letter to Charles Ollier, 1854 | Leigh Hunt Letters
“I have not been idle, nor has my beard been growing for nothing. Had it not vented its energies this way, it would assuredly have struck towards the table, with the intention of growing through it, like the dead Emperor’s that was found sitting in the mausoleum. Seriously, it is a curious & hopeful coincidence, at any rate, that my cough has continued to grow better & better, though my beard is but of a month’s existence. I cannot afford to confine myself to the moustache &c., as you do; for I have, or have had, a regular cough, which you have not. Moustaches may do well enough for occasional coughs; but the cough proper demands the whole hairy investment.”
ACO Music Data & Analysis is a new database which measures the impact of music on society and culture. It enables evidence based research across all genres of music from pop to classical, jazz and world music going back 60 years which means that scholars can look at trends over time. Using statistical analysis, for the first time researchers can find evidence to test and demonstrate their theories about the impact of music on society.
Please send additional comments to Amy McBeth.
Xpress Class Today November 14th: Web of Science (30 Minutes). Registration: 2:30 http://ow.ly/qOK6p and 5:30 http://ow.ly/qOKrh . Open to all!
Women’s History Wednesday!
Around this date in 1910, Iowa women were tying on their driving scarves, preparing to motor off to the women’s suffrage state convention in Corydon. While their efforts to pass statewide legislation ultimately failed, Iowa women kept rallying, and eventually received the right to vote in 1920 through the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Iowa Digital Library: Suffrage documents, 1910s
IWA online exhibit: Iowa Suffrage Scrapbook
*This post is duplicated from the Iowa Women’s Archives Tumblr.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Submitted by Bill Voss
This neo-Sumerian clay tablet, recording the sacrifice of a kid goat dates to ca. 2050 B.C. and is frequently shown to students as an early example of writing in cuneiform accompanied by the impression of a cylinder seal. Due to its frequent use it was decided to create a custom box which would keep the object secure and viewable behind a small window, but which also has the option of being further opened to allow the object to be removed from the enclosure. The tablet rests in a fitted recess in a block of ethafoam covered with cotton and hollytex (spun polyester) and can be seen through a window of polyester sheeting. To remove the object a flap secured by embedded magnets is lifted revealing the tablet as well as a second recess containing a pair of cotton gloves for safe handling.
Want some help writing your next paper? Stop by Hardin’s class on RefWorks and learn more about this web-based bibliographic management tool. In this class, you’ll learn how to import citations from PubMed, enter references, create a quick bibliography, and use Write-n-Cite to add end and footnotes. Sign up to learn more about Refworks and save time on your next paper.
Our next session:
Wednesday, November 13 from 1-2 pm (Location: Hardin Library East Information Commons)
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.
Our next session:
Tuesday, November 12 12-12:30 pm (Location: East Information Commons, Hardin Library)
Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.
No time for a class? Check out our PubMed tutorial.
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear:
E. A. Franken, Jr., Emeritus Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine
speaking on:
“The Foundation of Radiology with an emphasis on the University of Iowa”
Thursday, November 21, 2013, 5:30-6:30
Room 401 Univ. of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences