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Category Archives: New Resources
Curriculum-Based Library Instruction Book edited by Amy Blevins published
Amy Blevins, Clinical Education Library at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences and adjunct faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine edited Curriculum-Based Library Instruction: From Cultivating Faculty Relationships to Assessment. The book is part of the Medical Librarian Association Book Series published by Rowman and Littlefield. Chapters were also written by University of Iowa LibrariesContinue reading “Curriculum-Based Library Instruction Book edited by Amy Blevins published”
New Exhibit in the John Martin Rare Book Room
Syphilis and Paul Ehrlich: an Historical Case Study Sahachiro Hata, working in Paul Erlich’s laboratory in 1908, discovered the arsenic compound arsphenamine (later known as Salvarsan), which was the first effective treatment for syphilis. The disease, which is transmitted either sexually or congenitally, begins as a superficial affliction but can lead to serious complications includingContinue reading “New Exhibit in the John Martin Rare Book Room”
How to Determine Your Scholarly Impact: Learn HOW
Hardin Open Workshops is offering a hands-on class to teach participants how to use tools such as Ulrich’s, Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, 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. HOW workshopsContinue reading “How to Determine Your Scholarly Impact: Learn HOW”
Hardin Open Workshops: Systematic Reviews
This free, hands-on workshop for UI students and affiliates will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search, and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will alsoContinue reading “Hardin Open Workshops: Systematic Reviews”
Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators
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 toContinue reading “Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators”
Patent Searching, Applications, and Trademarks
The purpose of this hands-on class is to introduce several resources found on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website that may be used to locate information on patents, trademarks, and patent applications. Google’s patent-searching feature will also be highlighted as a source for finding information on patents. Our next session takes place: Thursday, AprilContinue reading “Patent Searching, Applications, and Trademarks”
An Introduction to Gene Variation Databases
This session provides an overview of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases that contain information on gene variations. Learn how to search for short genetic variations, genome structural variation studies, genotype/phenotype interaction studies and human variations of clinical significance. This class is hands-on and free for UI students and affiliates. There will beContinue reading “An Introduction to Gene Variation Databases”
Finding Evidence-Based Resources
This class will focus on creating a clinical question using PICO, the difference between publication types, and the different resources where one can find evidence based information. The class will also discuss the difference between searching Cochrane, PubMed, National Guideline Clearinghouse and UpToDate. This session will be hands-on and is free for UI students andContinue reading “Finding Evidence-Based Resources”
Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators
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 AccessContinue reading “Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators”