Deselection List 12 – WB Medicine

Deselection List 12 – WB Medicine

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items October 30, 2009. If you would like any of these book, mark those you are interested in on the list and bring to the library or send the marked list to Dianne Olson at dolson@lumc.edu or rm 1723, bldg 101

In order to maintain a vital collection that meets the needs of our users and utilizes the limited space we have in the stack areas, the Health Sciences Library periodically deselects materials from our collection. The Library will begin this process in May and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of books slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

When a book is de-selected from the collection, it must meet one or several of the following criteria:

• The item no longer meets the mission of either the Health System or University.
• The item contains out-of-date information, has incorrect information, or is being replaced by a newer edition.
• The item is physically redundant as in the case of multiple copies of the same item.
• The item is not used or infrequently used (excluding historically significant or “rare book” material).

Items chosen for de-selection will, at some point, be placed on our “give away” shelf or sent to Better World Books (Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide.).

A critical component of any de-selection project is to consult with our users about the books we have identified for de-selection. If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Dianne Olson at dolson@lumc.edu.

New online bookstore through eCampus

The library is pleased to announce a new online bookstore experience for our students through eCampus.com!

eCampus offers a large selection of new and used textbooks and a variety of textbook alternatives including digital textbooks, purchasing from sellers on the marketplace, or simply renting your textbooks for the semester (all alternatives are subject to availability). Plus, you are also able to sell your used books back through the textbook buyback program—they will even pay for shipping!

To get started, follow this link, click “Shop by Course…” and then select your new or used book. Currently, eCampus has booklists available for the Stritch School of Medicine and the Graduate School.

November Library Classes

Having trouble finding the information you want?Are your database searches missing vital information?  Does it take more time to find information than you have?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider taking one of the Library’s training classes.

Loyola Health Sciences Library offers a variety of classes to improve your skill levels. All classes are free and available to LUHS faculty, residents, staff, and students. The library also offers orientations, tours, and curriculum- based seminars on a prearranged basis. Library seminars may be customized to specific department/user needs. For more information or to schedule a class, contact Jeanne Sadlik at ResearchServices@lumc.edu.

November Classes

Thursday, November 5th, Using Refworks 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Wednesday, November 11th, What’s at Your Library noon – 1:00 PM

PubMed Class

Is now full!!!!

It is not too late to sign up for the day-long PubMed class which will be held in the Library’s electronic classroom  on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.  This class will be taught by representatives from the National Library of Medicine who are experts in teaching Medline, PubMed and other NLM databases.  The class will be held 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  This class is not limited to the Loyola community.  Anyone can sign up.   To register, go to http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/regions.html#Greater%20Midwest.  If you have any questions, please call us at 708-216-9192 or e-mail Research Services at researchservices@lumc.edu.

Do you recognize these sisters?

While evaluating books for our deselection project, I pulled a book entitled The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses by Dorothy H. Crawford.  The last time this book was returned to the Library was December 2004.   Inside the front cover, I found the picture below. Our circulation system wipes out all patron records as soon as we discharge a book. There is no way we can identify the last users of this book to return the photo.

Anyone recognize these sisters?  If you do, stop by the library’s Circulation Desk. or e-mail Jan Behnke at jbehnke@lumc.edu.  We will hold the picture till the end of the year.

Ebook news

MD Consult is currently offering complimentary access to over 80 titles in addition to our regular collection.  These include titles in the fields of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, and many more.  Access to these titles is only available until October 14.

A few titles in our regular MDConsult collection have been updated to new editions : DeLee and Drez’s orthopaedic sports medicine, 3^rd ed, 2009.; Ferri’s clinical advisor, 2010.  A new title has been added as well: Massachusetts general hospital comprehensive clinical psychiatry, 2008.

New titles have also been added to the Henry Stewart talks series as follows:

List of talks available:

1. Copy number variation

Prof. Stephen Scherer – Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada

2. Array comparative genomic hybridization to characterize copy number variation in the human genome

Dr. Nigel Carter – The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

3. CNVs in human genomes

Prof. Chris Ponting – University of Oxford, UK

4. Population genetics of structural variation

Dr. Don Conrad – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

5. Genomic disorders: mechanisms for copy number variation and clinical implementation of high-resolution genome analysis

Prof. James Lupski – Baylor College of Medicine, USA

6. Databases for CNV in control and disease populations

Dr. Lars Feuk – Uppsala University, Sweden

7. CNVs and clinical diagnosis

Dr. Brynn Levy – Columbia University Medical Center, USA

8. Quantitative CNV testing in molecular diagnostics

Prof. Martin Somerville – University of Alberta, Canada

9. Williams-Beuren syndrome locus: a model of CNV affecting gene dosage and phenotypes

Dr. Lucy Osborne – University of Toronto, Canada

10. Mendelian CNV mutations

Prof. Joris Vermeesch – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

11. Copy number variation in mental retardation

Dr. Joris Veltman – Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

12. The case for offering all women amniocentesis and chromosomal microarray analysis

Prof. Arthur Beaudet – Baylor College of Medicine, USA

13. Structural variants and susceptibility to common human disorders

Prof. Xavier Estivill – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

14. Copy number variation in neuropsychiatric disorders

Dr. Christian Marshall – Hospital for Sick Children, Canada

15. Copy number variation in association studies of human disease

Dr. Steven McCarroll – Broad Institute, USA

16. Indels, CNVS and the spectrum of human genome variation

Prof. Samuel Levy – J. Craig Venter Institute, USA

17. The future of CNVs: sequence based resolution and links to human disease

Prof. Evan Eichler – University of Washington, USA

Topical Talks

List of talks available:

1. Risk communication in the post-cox2 era

Dr. Frederic Bouder – King’s College London, UK

2. Molecular biology of viruses

Prof. Andrew Easton – University of Warwick, UK

Non-Clinical Testing for Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals

New talks added:

1. Introduction to toxicogenomics and example case studies

Dr. Cindy Afshari – Amgen Inc., USA

2. Regulatory guidance on toxicity testing of pharmaceuticals: ICH

Dr. John Kapeghian – Preclinical Safety Associates, USA

Click here for access www.hstalks.com/access

NIH Public Access Policy Update

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to published results of NIH funded research. Awardees are required to provide NIH with evidence of compliance for applicable papers that are authored by the Principal Investigator (PI) or that arise from the PI’s NIH-funded research.

As described in a recent Guide Notice, effective August 21, 2009, the NIHMSID may be used to demonstrate compliance on NIH applications, proposals or reports, for up to three months after a paper is published. Three or more months after publication, a PubMed Central® reference number (PMCID) must be provided. Only the PMCID signifies that all steps of the NIH Public Access submission process are complete and that the paper is ready for posting at PubMed Central.

This Notice also reminds awardee institutions of the actions they can take to ensure compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Its release corresponds to an update and simplification of the NIH Public Access Web site.

NIH Public Access Update: Clarifying Use of the NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number (NIHMSID). NLM Tech Bull. 2009 Jul-Aug;(369):e7.

Spotlight on: ISIHighlyCited

ISIHighlyCited.com is a free database that lists those researchers whose work has made “fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology.” Researchers from 21 areas of study, including life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences, are listed on this website.

ISIHighlyCited.com Lists the following for each researcher:

• Biographical information: education, faculty and professional posts research interests, and contact information.
• Appointments and Afflications
• Honors, Awards, Memberships
• Full listing of the researcher’s publications

How this website determines “highly cited” is explained on this webpage: http://isihighlycited.com/isi_copy/howweidentify.htm.  Searching this database is simple and straightforward.  Search options include search by name, category, country, or institutional affiliation.

To access ISIHighlyCited.com click here or ot to the Library’s homepage at http://library.luhs.org and click on the E-Resources tab and choose Databases.