By Willow Fuchs During the month of Open Access Week (October 19-25) we will be highlighting a number of guest posts from University of Iowa Faculty and Staff who have personal experience making their work Open Access. We appreciate their contributions. The first guest post is by Associate Professor, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Ph.D. University of Iowa, Continue reading “Open Access is the way that new knowledge is made easier | Faculty guest post”
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Hardin Librarians activity at Midwest Chapter, Medical Library Association Meeting | 2015
Hardin Library staff will be presenting posters and papers at the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The conference theme is Librarians + Evidence = Proof. Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu will present a paper Food Diet & Nutrition: A Tricky Search in PubMed. This paper details theirContinue reading “Hardin Librarians activity at Midwest Chapter, Medical Library Association Meeting | 2015”
August Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
MARCELLO MALPIGHI (1628-1694). De pulmonibus observationes anatomicae. In Thomas Bartholin’s De pulmonum substantia & motu diatribe, Copenhagen, 1663 Anatomist, embryologist, physiologist, and microscopist, Malpighi was instrumental in the development of embryology and histology and also a great microscopic anatomist. Malpighi made many scientific contributions, but many consider his discovery of the pulmonary circulation the most important. De pulmonibusContinue reading “August Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
University of Iowa Libraries Open Access Policy Statement
On June 18, 2015 the University of Iowa Libraries adopted an Open Access Statement. Library staff will make their publications freely available and ensure long-term preservation and findability. This policy complements the Libraries’ support of open access to scholarship. For more information about scholarly publishing, open access and author’s rights, please see our guide.
June Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GREGOR REISCH (ca. 1467-1525). Margarita philosophica. 2nd ed. [Freiburg?: Johannes Schottus, 1504]. Reisch was a Carthusian prior at Freiburg and confessor to Emperor Maximilian I, as well as assistant to Erasmus. Margarita philosophica, might be called the first modern encyclopedia. Its twelve divisions cover the trivium, the quadrivium, and the natural and moral sciences. The illustrations are fineContinue reading “June Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Honoring Dr. David Sackett, father of evidence-based-medicine
Last week Dr. David Sackett, considered by many to be the father of evidenced-based medicine, passed away. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics in the world at McMaster University, Ontario in 1967 and established the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in the UK in 1994. In honor of Dr. Sackett’s tremendous impactContinue reading “Honoring Dr. David Sackett, father of evidence-based-medicine”
Learn to conduct a systematic review literature search with our free workshop Wed., April 22, 12-1pm
This class focuses on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics include: learn to develop a search strategy deciding which databases to search how to seek out grey literature for a given topic selecting journals for hand searching documenting search strategies saving and organizing references.Continue reading “Learn to conduct a systematic review literature search with our free workshop Wed., April 22, 12-1pm”
Learn to save your research citations and format your papers with EndNote Basic, Tues. April 21 – 10-11am
Learn how to use EndNote Basic at our free workshop on Tuesday, April 21. EndNote Basic is a web-based citation management software available free to download. EndNote Basic lets you import, organize and format citations for papers or articles. You can format your citations in seven different styles, including MLA and APA. The workshop willContinue reading “Learn to save your research citations and format your papers with EndNote Basic, Tues. April 21 – 10-11am”
Birthing, Midwifery, Obstetrics books available in the John Martin Rare Book Room
Bibliography of books featured in the John Martin Rare Book Room Open House, March 26, 2015 1. Eucharius Roeslin (ca. 1490-1526). De partu hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt, adeoque, de parturientum & infantium morbis atque cura. Frankfurt: Apud Chr. Egenolphum, [1551]. First published in German in 1513 as, “Der swangern Frauwen und hebammen Rosegarten,” thisContinue reading “Birthing, Midwifery, Obstetrics books available in the John Martin Rare Book Room”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room : Gautier’s Anatomy
JACQUES FABIAN GAUTIER D’AGOTY (1717-1785). Anatomie de la tête. Paris: Chez le sieur Gautier, M. Duverney, Quillau, 1748. Gautier, a French printmaker, was an assistant to Le Blon and, like Ladmiral, claimed the color printing process as his own. Gautier published some ten collections of colored plates of various portions of the anatomy, and he wasContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room : Gautier’s Anatomy”