SEA Currents

NLM History of Medicine Division Planning Upgrade to Improve Access

SEA Currents — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:05:59 +0000

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/) is planning an upgrade to improve access to and usage of its Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) database, the main online access point to over 70,000 digital images from our historical collections. We invite you to take part in a brief [...]

WHAT WE LEARNED – DOCLINE: MLA 2013, Boston

SEA Currents — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:23:27 +0000

By: PJ Grier, Outreach/Access Coordinator The DOCLINE presentation given at MLA 2013, by Maria Collins – NLM, is now available to view from the DOCLINE presentations page at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/doclinepresentations.html. The presentation includes speaker notes. There were about 35 attendees at the DOCLINE User Group Meeting held on Sunday, May 5th. The “MLA 2013 DOCLINE Update” [...]

The “Human Touch” in NN/LM Partnership Express Training Projects

SEA Currents — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:08:39 +0000

by Dr. Mary Howrey, Director of Library Services, DeVry University South Florida Library, Miramar, FL How do you measure the impact of an Express Training Project? It’s through the relationships you build with your colleagues and the people served both during and after your training project. The “human touch” is easily measured by the training [...]

NIH Policy Support Statement

SEA Currents — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:26:36 +0000

The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries and the Medical Library Association urge journal publishers to fully support authors who are federally mandated to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy. Many authors are confused by the varied approaches and policies of different journals for submitting articles to PubMed Central. This issue will become even [...]

Casting call for June 19 Beyond the SEA webinar

SEA Currents — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:57:39 +0000

by Kimberley Barker, MLIS, Andrea Wright, MLIS Do you work in a health sciences or hospital library setting? If so, have you, when faced with a barrier to the use of technology, gone around/leapt over/burrowed under or otherwise smashed through it in a creative way? If so, please contact me about participating in a SE/A [...]