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Faculty: Affordable Textbook Alternatives Discussion | Thurs. March 8, 11a-12pm

                    The average university student spends over $1,000 a year on textbooks. If you are interested in exploring viable alternatives, this workshop is for you. Scholarly Communications Librarian Mahrya Burnett will show you several open textbook repositories and discuss ways that you can lower—or even eliminate—studentContinue reading “Faculty: Affordable Textbook Alternatives Discussion | Thurs. March 8, 11a-12pm”

Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017

The Midwest Chapter of The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Michigan Health Science Library Association joint annual conference is in Yipsilanti, Michigan this year.  Our librarians are going to be busy! Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian and Mahrya Carncross, Scholarly Communications Librarian for UI Libraries will present Picture This! Teaching Ethical Use of Health Sciences Images, aboutContinue reading “Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017”

Happy National Library Week!

This year, National Library week is April 12-18, 2015 and National Library Assistants Day is April 14, 2015. This is a time to celebrate your local library personnel. Library staff members and student workers keep the library running by doing a wide variety of things like interlibrary loan, stack maintenance, circulation, etc. They also answerContinue reading “Happy National Library Week!”

Embase Now Available

Embase, an important biomedical database, is now available for all University of Iowa users. Sometimes called the “European MEDLINE,” Embase is another resource for supporting evidence-based medicine, the creation of systematic reviews, and, particularly, pharmacology-related information. Embase can be accessed from the Health Sciences Resources page.  For assistance in searching Embase, contact your Hardin liaison.

Free Open Workshops: PubMed

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to 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. This session is hands-on and free for UI students and affiliates. ThereContinue reading “Free Open Workshops: PubMed”

NIH Public Access Compliance: Working with NCBI My Bibliography and Progress Reports

Do you have NIH-funded grants?  If so, this session, taught by Oliva Smith of the UI Office of Research, will show you how to use the NCBI My Bibliography module to manage citations of NIH-supported research publications, as well as look at how it is used in NIH RPPR electronic progress reports, as well asContinue reading “NIH Public Access Compliance: Working with NCBI My Bibliography and Progress Reports”

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, 2014

BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS (1697-1770). Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. Leiden:  1747 This work is perhaps the most monumental and finest anatomical atlas ever published. The plates, although probably derived from Vesalius, were drawn with painstaking accuracy by Wandelaer and are dated between 1739 and 1747. Albinus described in his preface the methods used inContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, 2014”

2,000 Year History of Scabies

Russell W. Currier, past president of the American Veterinary Medical History Society will speak on: “2,000 Year History of Scabies:  From Humoral Beliefs to Contagion to Modern Understanding” Thursday, October 24, 2013, 5:30-6:30 Room 401 Univ. of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences The transition from Hippocrates’ humors and Galenic dogma to microscopic causesContinue reading “2,000 Year History of Scabies”