KUMC Dykes Library News

Students, looking for a part-time job?

noreply@blogger.com (Stacey) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:14:00 +0000

The library is currently hiring for a part-time Student Assistant. You must maintain a minimum of 6 credit hours per semester to qualify. Work schedule is 8-12 hours each week with shifts in the evenings and on weekends.

Duties include:

Picking up and shelving library materials.
Assisting patrons in locating items.
Checking items in and out for patrons, entering and maintaining patron records, placing and canceling holds, and collecting overdue fees.
Maintaining photocopiers and assisting with use of scanners.
Pulling journals and books for interlibrary loan requests.
Shelf reading books and journals to maintain order.
Assisting with opening and closing the library on evenings and weekends.
Answering basic reference questions including how to use databases.
Working on special projects as assigned.

If interested, please apply in person at the front desk, or email the hiring manager at dykescirc@kumc.edu for the application packet.

Thank you!

Henry Stewart Talks - February update

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:37:00 +0000

LOEX Registration- Going . . . Going . . . but not yet gone

noreply@blogger.com (Heather Collins) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:54:00 +0000

LOEX is one of the premier larger higher-education information literacy conferences. Registration is extremely competitive. It usually opens only for one day, and often all 250-300 spots are taken within 15 minutes. Registration, or, "hunting" begins on Friday at high noon.

http://www.loexconference.org/

Digital Data: OSTP Comments posted

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:21:00 +0000

Scholarly Publishing: OSTP comments posted

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Bioethics

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:26:00 +0000

Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., Chair, and James W. Wagner, Ph.D., Vice Chair, of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, have authored an essay in the new issue of Lancet titled, "Moral science and the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues." They call for swift action on the Commission's recent human subjects protection recommendations, highlighting some of the recommendations related to the increasingly globalized nature of medical research.
http://tinyurl.com/86l77p2

NCI: Provocative questions initiative

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:20:00 +0000

In the new issue of Nature, Drs. Harold Varmus and Ed Harlow of the National Cancer Institute discussed the provocative questions initiative, an innovative effort to open up neglected areas of oncology research.
http://tinyurl.com/7hlmle6

KIAMS - Key Indicators in Academic Medicine

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:58:00 +0000

The February issue of Academic Medicine is now available on-line. This issue introduces a new annual feature called Key Indicators in Academic Medicine (KIAMS). Seven distinct indicators are highlighted.http://tinyurl.com/yjybhlm

1. A Suggested Framework for Analysis
2. Physician Workforce in the United States
3. Number of Program Year 1 Residents in Accredited Residency Programs
4. Matriculants to Medical Schools in the United States
5. Education Costs and Student Indebtedness at U.S. Medical Schools
6. Gender Diversity in Medical School Applicants and Matriculants
7. Ethnic Origin and Racial Composition of Hispanic Medical School Applicants and Matriculants

NIH funding

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:56:00 +0000

John R. Raymond Sr., M.D., president and CEO of the Medical College of Wisconsin, authored an op-ed column in Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the role of NIH in funding medical advances. After discussing the important health and economic benefits of the nation's biomedical research investment, Dr. Raymond concluded, "We all want to reduce the deficit. But let's not jeopardize the next generation of cures, and further stress the economic health of our communities today, by cutting funding for medical research. Please encourage our representatives to oppose cuts to NIH funding."http://tinyurl.com/7lph5hg

Primary Care physicians and Wellpoint

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:50:00 +0000

Friday's issue of the Wall Street Journal featured an article on Wellpoint's investment in primary care. According to the article, "The nation's second-largest health insurer is shaking up its approach to paying doctors, putting a major investment behind the idea that spending more for better primary care can save money down the road. Starting this summer, WellPoint Inc., which insures some 34 million Americans, will offer primary-care doctors a fee increase, typically of around 10%, with the possibility of additional payments that could boost what they get for treating the patients it covers by as much as 50%. The new approach could pour an additional $1 billion or more into primary care, which WellPoint is betting will pay off in the form of fewer emergency-room visits and hospital stays."http://tinyurl.com/7crgk2w

Open Science: ongoing discussion

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:10:00 +0000

Recently introduced legislation to reverse the NIH's public access policy has reignited the debate over both the NIH's policy and the open access publishing model. An article in the New York Times reported on advocates of "open science." According to advocates, the current scientific publishing "system is hidebound, expensive and elitist, they say. Peer review can take months, journal subscriptions can be prohibitively costly, and a handful of gatekeepers limit the flow of information. It is an ideal system for sharing knowledge, said the quantum physicist Michael Nielsen, only 'if you’re stuck with 17th-century technology.' Dr. Nielsen and other advocates for 'open science' say science can accomplish much more, much faster, in an environment of friction-free collaboration over the Internet. And despite a host of obstacles, including the skepticism of many established scientists, their ideas are gaining traction."http://tinyurl.com/78apwyy

Public Health: Polio

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:06:00 +0000

The World Health Organization reported last week that "India appears to have interrupted wild poliovirus transmission, completing one year without polio since its last case, in a 2-year-old girl in the state of West Bengal, on 13 January 2011. India was once recognized as the world’s epicentre of polio." If confirmed, "the number of polio-endemic countries, those which have never stopped indigenous wild poliovirus transmission, will then be reduced to a historical low of three: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan."http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2012/polio_20120113/en/index.html

Educating future physicians

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:59:00 +0000

Behavioral and social sciences play an important role in educating future physicians, according to a new report from the AAMC. The report explains how physicians can apply concepts from these disciplines in clinical care to improve individual and public health. The report builds upon previous work to offer educators competency frameworks, methods for evaluating professional behaviors, educational strategies, and performance outcomes. The expert panel that developed the report was chaired by Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., of Columbia and a past chair of the AAMC Council of Academic Societies. The report has informed the recommendations of the MCAT review panel and complements the AAMC-HHMI report, the "Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians.http://tinyurl.com/87k8zta
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/pdf/08-209_AAMC-HHMI_report.pdf

Library Hours this Monday

noreply@blogger.com (Sara) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:06:00 +0000

In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the library will be open from 6-11 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16 for KUMC patrons only.

We will resume regular hours on Tuesday, Jan. 17.

What Will ORCID Do For Me?

noreply@blogger.com (Jason) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:09:00 +0000

What is ORCID?

ORCID stands for Open Researcher & Contributor ID. ORCID aims to solve the author or contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

As of 2012, 300 organizations had joined ORCID as participants. Dykes Library is excited to participate in ORCID and to help realize the potential benefits to KU.

What will ORCID do for us?

The contributor ambiguity problem is one many of us encounter every day, whether in the classroom, the laboratory, or the library. Here are some of the tangible outcomes we should expect from participating in ORCID:

Help discovery systems and people doing research more reliably identify authors of works.
Help authors submit articles while filling out fewer forms.
Help institutions better assess researcher and research activity.
Expand understanding of what goes into doing research and more accurately assess activity, making it possible to better reward researchers for activities that currently go unseen such as curating data, writing software, and making unpublished contributions.

What will Phase 1 do?

Lay the foundation for the ORCID system.
Focus on self-asserted claims, claims that a researcher makes about himself.
Seed the system with data from existing institutional or other systems.

Phase 1 code release is targeted for March 2012. API specifications and a mock API were released in 2011.

Phase 2 will address the complexities of allowing 3rd parties to make assertions about researchers.

See the videos and interviews at orcid.org for more discussion of the ORCID strategy and the problems it addresses.

A Call to Action: Office of Science and Technology Policy

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:27:00 +0000

The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 calls upon the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate with agencies to develop policies that assure widespread public access to and long-term stewardship of the results of federally funded unclassified research.

The OSTP has put out two formal Requests for Information; one on the subject of “Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications” and the other on “Public Access to Digital Data.”

The deadline for comments is January 12, 2012. The A. R. Dykes Library will be submitting comments to both requests. The library staff is available to provide assistance to any faculty, staff or students who choose to respond.

1. We recommend you tailor your responses to be as personalized and direct as possible. Include examples and supporting documentation where appropriate.

2. This is your opportunity to influence public policy, so please consider taking time to craft a response.

Please contact those listed below for more information:

Crystal Cameron-Vedros - cvedros@kumc.edu
Rachel Gyore - rgyore@kumc.edu
Jason Stirnaman - jstirnaman@kumc.edu
Karen Cole, Director - kcole@kumc.edu

2011 Interesting Medical Facts from the AMA

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +0000

And finally...American Medical News, published by the AMA, has posted "Our most intriguing medical facts of 2011," drawn from the pages of American Medical News. They also included a link to last year's edition, which remains of interest.http://lists.aamc.org/t/153809/795361/15346/0/ http://lists.aamc.org/t/153809/795361/15347/0/

Unpublished Evidence

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:43:00 +0000

In a study that investigated the challenges of disseminating clinical research findings in peer-reviewed biomedical journals, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that fewer than half of a sample of trials primarily or partially funded by the National Institutes of Health were published within 30 months of completing the clinical trial. The findings appear in the January issue of the British Medical Journal, which focuses on the topic of unpublished evidence. http://lists.aamc.org/t/153809/795361/15343/0/

Clinical Trials in India: ethical challenges?

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:40:00 +0000

The Washington Post and Associated Press on Monday featured an article about ethical challenges in clinical trials being conducted in India. The article reported, "Since India eased guidelines for conducting drug trials in 2005, the number of Indians participating has shot up to 150,000 from close to zero, as international drug companies take advantage of lower costs here. But questions about the consent process have fueled fears that many Indians are entering the trials without knowing the risks." An Indian journal editor quoted in the article said, ""India is emerging as a hub for drug trials, and Indian patients are like guinea pigs...The ethical review panels are bogus...The drug control authority approves almost all the trial applications without rigorous scrutiny. And poor, unsuspecting patients get duped, while doctors and hospitals earn money."http://lists.aamc.org/t/153809/795361/15339/0/

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues: Washington Post editorial

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:36:00 +0000

An editorial in Monday's Washington Post reviewed some of the major recommendations of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues in its new report, ""Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research."http://tinyurl.com/7y9da2e http://lists.aamc.org/t/153809/795361/15110/0/

Intellectural Property rights changing at Univ of Minnesota and Penn State

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:52:00 +0000

Pennsylvania State University and the University of Minnesota recently announced major changes in their approach to intellectual property rights related to their research mission. PSU announced that "Effective Friday (Dec. 16), intellectual property that results from industry-sponsored research no longer is mandated to be owned by the University." Hank Foley, vice president for Research, said "In short we are doing it because we consider the net present value of the interactions and relationships that our faculty and students have with industrial professionals to be very important and therefore greater than the apparent future value of the proceeds from such intellectual property." http://live.psu.edu/story/56887

Medical student wellness at Vanderbilt: "A Medical School More Like Hogwarts"

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Cole) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:49:00 +0000

Dr. Pauline Chen authored a New York Times web posting on Thursday titled, "A Medical School More Like Hogwarts." The article discussed medical student wellness programs, highlighting initiatives taken by Vanderbilt. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/a-medical-school-more-like-hogwarts/?ref=health

Extended Deadline for Public Access and Digital Data RFIs

noreply@blogger.com (Crystal Cameron-Vedros) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:40:00 +0000

1. We recommend you tailor your responses to be as personalized and direct as possible. Include examples and supporting documentation where appropriate.

2. This is your opportunity to influence public policy, so please consider taking time to craft a response.

Please contact those listed below for more information:

Crystal Cameron-Vedros - cvedros@kumc.edu
Rachel Gyore - rgyore@kumc.edu
Jason Stirnaman - jstirnaman@kumc.edu
Karen Cole, Director - kcole@kumc.edu

Hours for the New Year's Holiday

noreply@blogger.com (Archie Dykes Library Staff) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:50:00 +0000

Please note the library's modified hours for the New Year's holiday below:

Friday, Dec. 30th: 8am -3pm
Sat., Dec. 31st - Mon., Jan. 2nd: Closed

Normal hours will resume Tuesday, Jan. 3rd.

Have a safe, happy New Year's holiday!

CINAHL and Health Business Fulltext Elite

noreply@blogger.com (Heather Collins) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:28:00 +0000

On November 29, 2011, EBSCO Publishing released the new EBSCOhost Android app. This app enables Android users to access CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Health Business Full Text Elite content through their library's database subscriptions. KUMC faculty, staff, and students can now connect to A.R. Dykes Library's EBSCO databases through this new mobile tool. The new app includes enhanced web-based search and storage features which bring several of the web-based characteristics to your pocket. For more information visit http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=16346