Carpenter Library News

ILLiad webpages upgraded

2009-07-14T16:20:00.002-04:00

Our ILLiad system for Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery has been upgraded with new web pages. You'll find a few new features, and a cleaner look. Let us know what you think!

Direct Link to ILLiad

or click "Request Article" from the Library homepage.

Renovations Update

2009-07-12T20:45:00.002-04:00

The Library's front entrance has reopened and the lobby renovations are nearly complete. The PCs will be moved to the upper reading room next week.

NLM Swine Flu page

2009-04-28T09:17:00.009-04:00

The National Library of Medicine has released a new web page on swine flu:

This web page contains information from several US and international agencies and organizations, treatment information, genetic sequence data, information in Spanish, searches of PubMed, the NLM Catalog, and more.
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/swineflu.html

Swine Flu - Links to Updated Information

2009-04-27T14:38:00.009-04:00

The NLM Office of the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) and the librarians on the Disaster Librarians listserv (List DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB) have been actively exchanging information all weekend. The following resources may be of use during the next several days as we watch how the Swine Flu (H1N1) moves around the world.

Here are some information resources that are frequently updated with Swine Flu outbreak and mitigation developments:

CDC web page on Swine Flu. This site is kept updated with recent facts and status on Swin Flu. There is a link on the page to the facts and figures about the current investigation.
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/

A transcript of the April 24 press briefing about the Swine Flu situation is located at:
http://www.cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t090424.htm?s_cid=tw_epr_53

Some recent articles in the MMWR on swine flu in California.

Update: Swine Influena A (H1N1) Infections - - California and Texas, April 2009 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm58d0424a1.htm
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2009 Apr 24; 58(Dispath);1-3.

Swine Influenza A (H1N1) infection in two children--Southern California, March-April 2009 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2009 Apr 24;58(15):400-2.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm58d0421a1.htm

For those of you who follow events on social media sites, CDC has a Twitter feed that contains updates on the Swine Flu:
http://twitter.com/cdcemergency

You can also add the following RSS feed on Swine Flu to your feed reader to get regular updates:
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/rss/?s_cid=tw_epr_54

Latest CDC Health Advisory
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/pdf/HAN_042509.pdf

Information updates from World Health Organization http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

From NYC Health Dept - Chart: steps required to confirm suspected cases of swine flu

If you are interested in the view from overseas - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
http://ecdc.europa.eu/

see also: Dynamed's constantly updated page

Carpenter Library Spring Newsletter

2009-04-20T10:13:00.002-04:00

The latest Carpenter Library News is now available. Spring 2009 stories include;

New Study Rooms

Library Remodeling

NIH Public Access

Bioinformatics

North Tower Photos

http://www1.wfubmc.edu/Library/About+the+Library/Newsletter/

Free Classes at Carpenter Library

2009-03-25T12:48:00.004-04:00

The Spring & Summer 2009 class schedule is now available on our web site at www.wfubmc.edu/library/classes

Library Receives Latest Edition of Faculty Salaries Reference Book

2009-03-24T09:55:00.001-04:00

The Library has just received the most recent (2007/08) edition of the AAMC "Report on Medical School Faculty salaries". Ask for it at the front desk.

New Study Rooms

2009-03-03T12:53:00.003-05:00

Carpenter Library has recently added two new small group study rooms. In order to facilitate registration and use of all our study rooms, we have renamed the rooms using colors. These include the Red Study (formerly SGI room), Orange Study (formerly Classroom D) and Blue Study (formerly Library Conference Room), and Purple Study and Green Study (new rooms off the History of Medicine Room). Classrooms A and B have not been renamed. Maps are available at the Information Desk. Call 716-4414 with questions or to reserve a room.

Understand Impact Factors

2009-02-19T11:23:00.008-05:00

To help users understand the various impact factors that can be used to help evaluate publication quality, Carpenter Library has launched a new page detailing four different impact factor metrics with explanations on how to use each. Impact factor metrics highlighted are Journal Citation Reports, Eigenfactor, h-index, and Cited Reference Search.

However, as you hopefully know, all impact factor metrics have their shortcomings. To give you a better idea of your "true" impact factor, we believe this comic from PhD Comics is particularly useful:

"Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham

http://www.phdcomics.com/

Library Closed for MLK Holiday

2009-01-15T15:32:00.002-05:00

Carpenter Library will be closed on Monday, January 19th, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. We will be open regular hours over the weekend.

New Admittance Policy

2009-01-07T11:10:00.001-05:00

Beginning Saturday, January 10th, Carpenter Library will be closed to the public, except by prior arrangement. For more information, please call the Circulation Desk at 716-4414.

Library Textbook Relocation

2008-12-23T11:10:00.002-05:00

As of now, all textbooks published after 2005 (previously located on the 6th floor of the library stacks) will be shelved with the Reserve collection up in the newer section of the library. These books are still available for one month checkout. Books with yellow RESERVE or REFERENCE stickers must still be used in the library.
If you have questions, just ask at the front desk or call the library at 716-4691.

Weekend Schedule

2008-11-24T13:53:00.002-05:00

Carpenter Library will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 27th & 28th, for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We'll be open normal hours over the weekend.

New Meeting Room

2008-11-11T16:48:00.002-05:00

The Library has a new small meeting room available to reserve, currently called the History of Medicine Meeting Room. It fits four comfortably.

Food For Fines Drive Now Underway

2008-10-27T14:29:00.004-04:00

The Carpenter Library is now accepting cans of food in lieu of money for patrons who have accumulated overdue fines on their library items over the past year. One can of food is equivalent to $1.00 in library fines. All canned goods will be delivered to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. The Food Bank in particular could use cereal, cans of tuna fish and meat products. The Food for Fines drive will end December 31, 2008.

Ingenuity training workshop October 22

2008-10-14T12:16:00.001-04:00

Ingenuity Pathways Analysis
WORKSHOP DETAILS:

These training workshops are a hands-on way to learn the use cases and workflows in IPA. Example use-cases will be used to highlight functionality. Special topics, Q&A and individual usage discussions will follow the formal instruction. Users are encouraged to bring their own datasets to upload and analyze during this portion of the workshop. Attendees must bring a laptop computer and have an IPA user account.

If you need an IPA user account, please request one from support@ingenuity.com by10/20/08.
If you will be using a Macintosh computer, please indicate this when registering.

SESSION ONE Search & Explore

When: 9:00 am – 11:30 pm
Where: Comprehensive Cancer Center (Outpatient Building)
Conference Rooms 1A-1B

SESSION TWO Large Scale Data Analysis

When: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where : Pathology Conference Room 4 (2nd Floor, Watlington)

For additional information and to register for either of the workshops, please contact:
Laurie Martensen lmartensen@ingenuity.com 760-294-0811

Open Access Day

2008-10-14T09:02:00.004-04:00

Have you heard of open access? Do you know what it is? If you’re a clinician, do you think it has something to do with free clinic hours? Do you already know that it is a movement to change the often restrictive nature of scholarly publishing? Even if you do know about open access, there’s likely more you could know – and do!

In honor of the first Open Access Day, sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Research Coalition), Students for Free Culture and the Public Library of Science (an open access publisher), the WFU Libraries want to bring your attention to the open access movement, how open access is affecting the Wake Forest community, and what resources you have available to support personal open access pursuits.

Open access is a movement to remove the price and permission barriers for accessing and reusing scholarly research publications. The open access movement does not work against the fundamentals of copyright or peer review. Rather it aims to work with the necessary features of established scholarly publishing, albeit with major changes to subscriptions and accessibility.

There are two main routes to open access – gold and green. Gold open access is open access publishing: rather than have the subscribers pay to access the content, limiting distribution to only those institutions and individuals who are able to afford access, open access publishing shifts the cost of distribution to the content providers, the authors. Many authors have funds available from either institutions or awards to cover costs, with the end result being wider distribution and access to their scholarly output, as access to these publications are not limited to the pool of subscribers. Green open access is open access archiving: authors place copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based digital archive or repository where they are freely accessible, usually after an embargo period specified by the publishers. Many publishers already give authors permission to archive the pre-print (pre-peer review version) or post-print (post-peer review version incorporating changes from peer review but not yet formatted for final publication), and some even grant permission to archive the final published version.

Although green open access removes price barriers, it does not necessarily remove permission barriers. Gold open access publishing removes permission barriers by granting in advance the rights to reuse and redistribute articles for non-commercial uses, and occasionally even commercially. Sometimes even derivative works are allowed. There is great flexibility within the various open access options to meet authors’ needs and comfort-levels regarding distribution and reuse of their works. For more information on open access, see Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview.

Here at Wake Forest, the WFU Libraries are working to raise awareness of open access among faculty, students and staff. Both the Z. Smith Reynolds Library and the Coy C. Carpenter Medical Library have resource pages on scholarly communication issues (ZSR, Carpenter) and open access (ZSR, Carpenter). A group of librarians, with input from faculty and research administrators, are working to build an institutional repository for Wake Forest that will enable us to better collect, highlight and disseminate the world-class research conducted at our University. Faculty members from both campuses are already publishing in open access journals and hybrid access journals (traditional journals with article-by-article optional open access), and submitting to subject-based repositories, such as PubMed Central. Through compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, many faculty researchers are realizing that they are able to retain many of their rights as copyright owners in their works when seeking publication, without forfeiting the opportunity to be published in premiere journals.

For more information on open access and what you can do, talk to your librarians at ZSR and Carpenter Libraries. And stay tuned for more news about the WFU Libraries’ growing support for open access pursuits at Wake Forest!

Autumn Newsletter

2008-09-29T13:37:00.001-04:00

Carpenter Library News for Autumn has been posted and is available online here

Contents:

Personal Librarian Program
Epocrates
Exam Prep
Free Classes
Creating Stable Links for Online Journal Articles
Kemper Collection
Patient Blogs

Medical Blogs for Patients

2008-09-24T17:06:00.004-04:00

Methodology: I took MedGadget’s (the internet journal of emerging medical technologies) 2007 MedBlog awards page and looked at all of the nominated sites (@100 unique sites). I immediately eliminated any blogs that were outside of the U.S. and blogs that were exclusively written for other physicians, medical students, or nurses. I evaluated the consumer-oriented blogs by noting who wrote them, what their coverage was and whether the blogs contained advertisements. Coverage info was gathered from the blog’s subjects over several months. I have listed the ones I found to be of interest below with their urls in case anyone would like to view them for themselves. The order in which I have placed them is alphabetical; I made no attempt to rank the ones I found to be of the most interest but I have included my reasons about each one to assist your evaluation.

AETIOLOGY http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/
Focus: epidemiology
Hosted by: Tara C. Smith, PhD in microbial pathogenesis
Coverage: general epidemiology, vaccines medicine, public health, pseudoscience, and health care policies.
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: although not written specifically for consumers this blog provides thoughtful analyses of current health news from a scientific perspective

BELARAY DERMATOLOGY http://www.belaray.com/blog
Focus: dermatology
Hosted by: Jeffrey Ellis, MD and Amy Sleer, MD
Coverage: skin cancers, skin care, online store selling protective clothing, sun block, etc.
Advertisements: no ads bur several blog messages discuss specific commercial products\
David’s reasoning: even though this blog is from a clinic directed to that clinic’s patients, I felt the topics and the quality of the information in those topics would be of broader interest than just to the patients of the Belaray Clinic

BRASS AND IVORY http://brassandivory.blogspot.com
Focus: healthcare, public policy, multiple sclerosis
Hosted by: Lisa Emrich
Coverage: mental illness and depression, MS, list of other health and medical blogs
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: patient blogs make me wary but this one seems to speak directly and truthfully about what it is like to have MS so I thought it would be of value to other MS patients

CORAZON HISPANO http://www.corazonhispano.blogspot.com/ Focus: cardiology information for Spanish speaking patients
Hosted by: Juan J. Rivera, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Coverage: Spanish language medical web sites, doctor-patient communication, infectious diseases, tropical diseases, childhood obesity, nutrition
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: even though I don’t read Spanish a blog written by a physician for Spanish speaking patients is too good to pass up

DIABETES MINE http://diabetesmine.com/
Focus: living with diabetes
Hosted by: Amy Tenderich, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 37
Coverage: anything related to diabetes, patient advocacy
Advertisements: Yes
David’s reasoning: another patient blog that has won several awards and again I think provides useful and pertinent information for the diabetic patient

DOCTOR DAVID’S BLOG http://doctordavidsblog.blogspot.com
Focus: pediatric oncology
Hosted by: David Loeb, MD
Coverage: cancer research, cancer treatments, pain management
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: good information on topical medical news from a physician’s perspective

DR. SHOCK MD PHD http://www.shockmd.com/ Focus: electroconvulsive therapy
Hosted by: anonymous physician from the Netherlands
Coverage: depression, psychiatry, neuroscience
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: I know I said I didn’t include anything written outside of the US but just take a look at the past posts listed under ’Categories’ (located on the right-hand side of the page in the gray column) and tell me I was wrong in including this site

EVERYTHING HEALTH http://www.everythinghealth.net/ Focus: medical issues related to a healthy life and longevity
Hosted by: Toni Brayer, MD
Coverage: genes, omega 3 FFA, medical tests, reducing stress, antibiotics
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: more helpful health and medical news information explained in easy-to-understand terms by a physician

FINDING OPTIMISM http://www.findingoptimism.com/
Focus: mental illness
Hosted by: James Bishop, patient with bipolar disorder
Coverage: allergies, mental illness, caregiver information, exercise, wellness, nutrition, sleep and relaxation
Advertisements: yes - ads are for the bloggers’ own software that helps the patient monitor depression
David’s reasoning: another patient’s blog but the topics are presented in a very even-handed and temperate manner, no soapboxes here

IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH http://insicknessinhealth.blogspot.com
Focus: “couples going through an illness experience”
Hosted by: Barbara Kivowitz, consultant, ex-psychotherapist
Coverage: Alzheimer’s, caregivers, chronic illness, finances, care management
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: another patient blog but written with objectivity yet not without passion which I think fellow suffers would find helpful

INSUREBLOG http://insureblog.blogspot.com/
Focus: health insurance
Hosted by: Mike Feehan (Human Resources), Bob Vineyard (CLU Consulting), William Halper (Insurance Broker – Employee Benefits), H.G. Stern (Benefits Specialist)
Coverage: health insurance, health benefits
Advertisements: yes
David’s reasoning: what I like about this site is that they post to stories from the NYTimes and Wall Street Journal and have a lengthy list of other blogs dealing with insurance and taxes as well as related web sites

THE DERM BLOG http://thedermblog.com
Focus: dermatology
Hosted by: Jeffrey Benabio, MD
Coverage: skin care, health and beauty, skin cancer, nail care
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: skin care information from a Wake Forest graduate, the last word in quality!!

THE FITNESS FIXER http://www.healthline.com/blogs/exercise_fitness
Focus: fitness
Hosted by: Julie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Coverage: fitness, osteoporosis, nutrition, stress, yoga
Advertisements: yes
David’s reasoning: very good expert information in a subject area frequently habituated by charlatans and quacks

WOMEN’S HEALTH NEWS http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com
Focus: “current women’s health topics including policy, legislation, news, and events …”
Hosted by: Rachel Walden, MLIS at Vanderbilt University
Coverage: abortion, abuse, rape & safety, body image and eating disorders, cancer, HPV, infectious diseases, pregnancy
Advertisements: none
David’s reasoning: a blog hosted by a librarian, do I need to say more about quality?

PubMed Alert

2008-09-24T15:22:00.002-04:00

My NCBI will be unavailable for several hours beginning at 2pm on Thursday, September 25, 2008, for the release of a new version.

My NCBI is the personal account option in PubMed that enables users to save search strategies and collections of references, turn on search term highlighting, set display preferences, and set up publication alerts. Once the new version is released, new features will include:
-Remember my username login option;
-I forgot my username recovery;
-I forgot my password recovery;
-My NCBI partner organization login options; and
-My Bibliography.
More information on the new release can be found in the Sept. 16 NLM Technical Bulletin.

For help with My NCBI or PubMed, contact the Information Desk at 713-7100.

United Way Raffle - win a massage!

2008-09-23T10:41:00.003-04:00

Win a Gift Certificate to Body Complete Therapeutic Massage for a 1-hour Swedish or Deep Tissue Massage - a $65.00 value.

Just $1 to enter, and 3 people will win!
3 tickets will be drawn October 1st.
Proceeds to benefit United Way.

For more information, please call Jamall Grice 6-4414 or Bev Booe 6-4313

Cell Phone Drive

2008-09-03T09:25:00.002-04:00

The Women's Health Center of Excellence is sponsoring a cell phone drive for victims of domestic violence. Cell phones will be distributed to victims who may need access to emergency services.

Donate your used cell phone during the month of September by bringing it to Carpenter Library and placing it in a box located at the Circulation desk.

PMID : PMCID Converter

2008-08-19T12:20:00.003-04:00

For articles that fall under the Public Access Policy, NIH-funded authors are required to cite the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) on grant applications, proposals and progress reports. To better identify PMCIDs, the NIH has released the PMID : PMCID Converter.

The converter will easily provide you with either the PMID (the PubMed reference number) or the PMCID, depending on which number you already have. Numbers can be added to the converter individually or in groups, allowing for convenient batch processing.

Service Interruption - ILLiad System

2008-07-03T14:54:00.002-04:00

The ILLiad System for Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery will be down on Monday, July 7th, at 1pm, for a migration to a new server. We expect the downtime to be less than two hours. For urgent requests, please call the Document Delivery department at 6-4378 or 6-9315.

Reference Desk Moving

2008-06-30T14:01:00.004-04:00

Beginning July 1, reference desk staff will be located at the front desk to provide better service to users entering the library. The reference desk telephone number 3-7100 and the reference desk's email address will remain constant.