PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 22 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.
Our next session:
Monday, October 14 3-4 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.
Twitter is more than just a social media tool. It has developed into a vibrant real-time information network used by health care providers, scholars, and scientists. Come to this hands-on session to learn the basics of twitter, advanced techniques such as searching, and examples of its use in the Health Sciences.
Our next session:
Monday, October 14 10-11 am (Location: East Information Commons, Hardin Library)
Register online or by calling 319-335-9151.
No time for a class? Contact your librarian for individual instruction.
Open Access makes scholarship more accessible. Celebrate Open Access Week with our activities including a lecture and panel discussion: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/openaccess/
What is Open Access?
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review. OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers.
(from A Very Brief Introduction to OA by Peter Suber)
How to Get Help With Fees
To encourage the University community to publish their research in Open Access platforms, the Office of the Provost and University Libraries have established a fund to pay the processing fees related to open access publishing.
What if I have more questions?
Contact Janna Lawrence, Assistant Director, Hardin Library.
Does Iowa have an institutional repository?
Yes: Iowa Research Online.
The University of Iowa has partnered with KNODE Inc. to help connect researchers at Iowa and elsewhere and to provide direct links to scientific content.
KNODE is a Cloud-based tool which provides a comprehensive view of a researcher’s expertise. Currently, KNODE is focused on researchers in the life sciences. Researcher profiles are automatically generated from a variety of data sources, including MEDLINE/PubMed journal articles, NIH grant projects, biomedicine patents, and ClinicalTrials.gov.
KNODE automatically generates and continuously updates expert profiles, eliminating the requirement for manual editing. If you wish, you call also claim your automatically generated profile to update certain information. There are currently 3 million profiles available in KNODE.
What does 3D printing have to do with food scarcity and climate change?
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/09/2757331/3d-printing-food/
Underground climate change causing the “drunken” forests of Alaska.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/09/2759181/alaska-permafrost-arctic-hudson-bay/
Library Xpress class tomorrow Thursday 2:30 pm and 5:00 pm October 10, Standards. Register at: goo.gl/SXaKbz
The Hardin Library is a sponsor of the forum:
Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland 6 : Public-Private Sector Strategies
The forum will be held in Des Moines, from 8am-3pm, Tuesday, October 15. The forum is non-artisan and focuses on significant health-related changes, challenges and opportunities within the State of Iowa. For more information or to register see: http://rebalancinghealthcare.uiowa.edu/
Image: eLifesciences.org
The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James E. Rothman, Thomas C. Sudhof and Randy W. Schekman for their research on cell transport systems. This work has strengthened the medical community’s understanding of neurological diseases, diabetes, and immunological disorders. Schekman, a Cell Biologist at the University of California at Berkeley, is a prominent support of Open Access publishing and is the Editor-in-Chief at eLife, an innovative Open Access journal in the biomedical sciences. eLife joins The Public Library of Science and PeerJ in offering a cutting-edge Open Access publishing platform for prestigious scientists to share their work, data, and rich media. eLife is currently free to publish (no author-side fees). For more information, please visit the journal’s website or watch the video.
Oxford University Press and the Social Explorer team will open up access to Social Explorer http://www.socialexplorer.com/ for the next two weeks. Social Explorer offers users Census data from 1790 to 2010 and American Community Survey data from 2005 to 2012. Just set up a username and password to use the database.
From:
Marianne Mason
mailto:marianne-mason@uiowa.edu
Federal Information Librarian
Research and Library Instruction
The University of Iowa Libraries
