July 2011

Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries

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San Antonio
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Jesse H. Jones Comprehensive Where can you find the best information to support clinical decision making? In June, third year medical students learned about clinical decision support tools in Research Library
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preparation for their 3rd year clerkships. Find the story on page 2.

In the news this month:

Harlingen
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Laredo
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Information Mastery: Class provides orientation for third year medical students at the beginning of clerkship rotations Journal cancellation list: For review Report documents growth in open access journals Website redesign: Refworks 2.0 John Weed will serve on library storage facility task force Librarians attend meeting of the Medical Library Association An invitation to visit the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library Save these dates: Events sponsored by the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library in coming months Library classes in July and August Clinical Safety and Effectiveness: Librarians complete course UT Health Science Center Library-Downtown to close July 28 Online databases facilitate communication about research funding opportunities On display in the Briscoe Library July 7: Art of ancient Mexico Best idea for staying cool this summer: READ New books on the shelves of the Briscoe Library

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Information Mastery: Class provides orientation for third year medical students at the beginning of clerkship rotations
On Friday, June 24, more than 200 third year medical students in San Antonio and Harlingen received instruction in library resources that support clinical decision making. As a way of sharpening their information-seeking skills, they worked through a series of case-based scenarios. Before beginning their 3rd year clinical rotations, the students must complete the Information Mastery class, a part of their Clinical Foundations course. Information Mastery was presented by a team of instructors in San Antonio which included: Glen Medellin, M.D., Associate Professor and Director of Medical Student Education in the Twenty MS3s completed the Information Department of Pediatrics; Eric Willman, Systems Librarian; and Mastery class at the Ramirez Library in Harlingen. Angela Myatt, Curriculum Liaison Librarian. Kathy Carter, Ramirez Library Librarian, presented the class in Harlingen. The growing collection of mobile websites that are available to assist students in clinical decision making is just one of many important components that were highlighted.

Journal cancellation list: Please take time to review possible titles

In the May issue of the newsletter, we posted a list of possible journal and database cancellations for 2012. If you have not reviewed the list and sent comments, please take the time to do so. Comments can be sent to John Weed, Head of Collection Resources, weedj@uthscsa.edu. The cancellation website can be found at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/ about/subscribed.cfm.
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Report documents growth in open access journals

A recent issue of PLoS ONE (http://www.plosone.org) includes an article summarizing the growth in open access (OA) journals. Since the early 1990s the number of OA journals has grown significantly, with more than 6,000 titles now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org). These journals rely on fees paid by authors and other sources of revenue in place of subscription fees. The article reports that the number of OA journals has increased by 18% annually since 1993, while the overall number of journal titles has increased 3.5% annually in the same time period. The article is available from PLoS ONEs website: Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Bjrk B-C, et al. 2011 The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20961. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/ journal.pone.0020961 Since January 2008 NIH has required that any report of research sponsored by NIH be available from PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.gov) within 12 months of its publication in a journal. For more information about the NIH public access policy, visit http://publicaccess.nih.gov/. Journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals are included in the librarys E-Journal list and individual articles can be retrieved by using the Find at UTHSCSA button in many databases. Keith Cogdill Director of South Texas Regional Information Services

Website redesign: Refworks 2.0

Just a reminder that in July, RefWorks 2.0 will become the default interface for UT Health Science Center RefWorks users. The classic version will still be available, and all references stored in current accounts will be accessible through the new interface, so current users will not lose any information. RefWorks users who are comfortable with the current classic version should have little trouble adapting to the new clean version, which makes use of icons, tabs, and a Quick List for easy navigation. Tasks such as editing references by browsing your computer and adding attachments like links to PDF articles or a JPG are even easier than before. New features such as citation information have been added as well. If you have questions about the new RefWorks interface, contact the library Information Desk at 7-2450 or via email to askalibrarian@uthscsa.edu. Linda Levy Assistant Director for Branch Libraries and Database Services
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John Weed will serve on library storage facility task force

John Weed, Head of Collection Resources in the Briscoe Library, has been selected to serve on a newly-created Joint Library Storage Facility Policy and Procedure Task Force. The task force is charged with developing operating guidelines for a planned one million-volume library storage facility, which will be built on the Texas A&M Riverside campus in College Station. The storage facility is a project of University of Texas System and Texas A&M University. UT System and Texas A&M libraries will be able to store books and journals in this facility using the Resource in Common principle: If one library deposits a book or journal volume in the storage facility, other libraries will be able to discard the book or journal if they hold it in their collection, yet still claim ownership of the book or volume.

Librarians attend meeting of the Medical Library Association

The Medical Library Association held its annual meeting on May 13-18 in Minneapolis. Two UT Health Science Center librarians, Jonquil Feldman, Director of Briscoe Library Services, and Keith Cogdill, Ph.D., Director of South Texas Regional Information Services, attended the meeting. Jonquil Feldman served on a panel discussing resources for managing scholarly publications. She spoke on SciVal Experts, a resource that identifies campus expertise and enables collaboration. She also judged research papers for the Research Awards Committee and completed a term on the Awards and Scholarship Committee, where she participated on the Jury for the David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship. The Kronick Fellowship is named for David A. Kronick, Ph.D. , the Briscoe Librarys first director. Keith Cogdill, a 2010 recipient of the Kronick award, made a presentation on his study of libraries at four new medical schools which he visited in connection with the award. He also presented a paper on the Frontera Collaboration of health sciences libraries along the US-Mexico border, and participated in events related to his fellowship this year in a leadership program organized by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) with sponsorship from the National Library of Medicine.

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Visit the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library: Get acquainted with the book as artifact
Hold the book in your hands, feel its weight, turn its pages, admire its binding and the texture of the paper, breathe in the musty smell of age, delight in the illustrations, read the inscriptions and learn of its provenance. Only this way, first-hand, can you truly appreciate a great book. Visit the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library and get to know some of the finest books in the history of medicine, nursing, dentistry and the sciences. For more information, contact Pennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian, at Borchers@uthscsa.edu.

Illustration: Bartisch, Georg, Ophthalmodouleia : das ist, Augendienst. 1583. Holdings of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library

Save these dates: Events sponsored by the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library in coming months
Friends Presentations
What's In a Name? An Informal Approach to 'Hispanic' Genetics and History Richard F. Luduea, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Biochemistry Monday, August 8, 12:00 noon, Howe Conference Room, Briscoe Library Anatomists and Their Art Charleen M. Moore, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology Thursday, October 5, 12:00 noon, Howe Conference Room, Briscoe Library

41st Annual Meeting, Dinner and Presentation Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
Fernando A. Guerra, M.D., M.P.H.,.F.A.A.P, retired director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, will speak on the topic Doctors and Dollars May Not Always Be Enough! Monday, November 7, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., Doubletree Hotel

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Library classes for July and August

All library classes are free and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated but not required. If you would like to request a class or schedule a consultation at any HSC campus, please contact the library at (210) 567-2450 or email AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu. If you would like to request a special class or orientation for your department or group at other days/times, please contact us! To register for a class or to read class descriptions, visit the online class schedule. When you register for a library class, your registration confirmation email includes a file that you can save as an appointment into your electronic calendar. Briscoe Library San Antonio

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Introduction to PubMed: July 6, 2011, 11:00 a.m. - 12 noon, LIB 2.011 Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session: July 7, 2011, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LIB 4.074, Collaboratory Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: July 11, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., LIB 2.011 Introduction to EndNote: July 14, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., LIB 2.011 Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: July 21, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., LIB 2.011 Introduction to RefWorks: July 25, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., LIB 2.011 Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: August 17, 2011, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., LIB 2.011 Introduction to RefWorks: August 23, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., LIB 2.011 Introduction to PubMed: August 24, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., LIB 2.011

Scan this code with your smartphone camera QR reader app for example ScanLife to find library classes online.

Texas Research Park San Antonio Citation Information: Tracking Research and Journals: July 27, 2011, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., IBT Building 3.002. Registration is required for this special class at the TRP. Register online at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/gethelp/classDescriptions.cfm#906 by 1:00 p.m. on July 26. Katie Prentice Head of Education and Information Services
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Clinical Safety and Effectiveness: Librarians complete course

Throughout the last six months, librarians Chris Gaspard, M.S.L.S, Angela Myatt, M.Sc., and Katie Prentice, M.S.I.S., AHIP participated in the UT System Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Education Program provided through the Center for Patient Safety & Health Policy at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. The purpose of the course, which is one of several programs run by the Center for Patient Safety and Health Policy, http://www.uthscsa.edu/cpshp/ Katie Prentice, Chris Gaspard, Dr. Danet Lapiz-Bluhm index.asp, is to provide physicians, other clinicians and administrators the skills and knowledge required and Angela Myatt show their certificates after completing the CS&E Course. to lead breakthrough change initiatives. For their course project Utilization of Evidence-Based Practice Resources by Junior Nursing Students, the librarians partnered with M. Danet Lapiz-Bluhm, Ph.D., R.N. of the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing to develop and conduct a quality improvement project. The project aim was to study and increase the self-reported use of evidence-based practice resources by junior nursing students during the spring 2011 semester. At the conclusion of the project in May, results were presented to nursing faculty at the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and also to a group of UT Health Science Center librarians.

UT Health Science Center Library-Downtown to close July 28

After a rich history of service to the UT Health Science Center and to University Health System (UHS), the UT Health Science Center Library-Downtown will close on July 28. The library began as the Robert B. Green Hospital Library and continued its presence when the hospital became the Brady Green Clinic and then the University Health Center-Downtown. The library has always focused on maintaining a collection that would be most useful for UT Health Science Center physicians and residents. Over the years, library staff members taught many classes and consultations on using traditional library resources such as PubMed and even brought popular Emerging Technologies Brown Bag sessions like Medical Applications for Smart Phones and Using eBook readers to the downtown library. The library has served as a convenient gathering place for many residents over the years as well. As part of the UHS plans to remodel the UHC-D facility, the building housing the library will be torn down. Although formal library space is not planned in the new facility, we will continue to provide reference services and electronic resources to faculty and staff, and we will continue to offer training opportunities and special technology programs through the cooperation of UHC-D. Linda Levy Assistant Director for Branch Libraries and Database Services
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Health Research Funding: Online databases facilitate communication about research funding opportunities
Each year, numerous research proposals for promising new treatments make their way through a peer-review process but do not receive funding, although they have the potential to make significant contribution to scientific discovery. The National Health Council (NHC), with input from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has developed a web database designed to bring researchers together with patient advocacy organizations and other funding sources. Its called HealthResearchFunding.Org. How it works: Researchers whose proposals have been peer reviewed by either the NIH or by an NHC member patient advocacy organization will be invited to register with HealthReseachFunding.Org and add an abstract. They will have the ability to also search for NHC member organizations that fund research. NHC member organizations will be able to search for research proposals, search for individual researchers, and search and view other funding organizations. They will also be able to upload requests for proposals, including posting ideas for collaboration with other funding sources. The site will eventually expand to include corporations and private investors.

On display in the Briscoe Library July 7: Art of ancient Mexico

The UT Health Science Center Libraries are pleased to be able to host an exhibit of artwork from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM-San Antonio), beginning July 7th, 2011. The featured art reproductions of funerary artifacts from the cultures of West Mexico will be on display in the School of Medicines Lecture Hall Commons through the end of August. According to Paula Gortari, who is mounting the exhibit for UNAM, the items to be displayed represent a vast area that includes parts of the present-day states of Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. The art that will be exhibited can be dated back to the years between 100 B.C and 300 B.C. The figurines are made from reddish or orange clay with geometric decorations in red, white, black and yellow. They depict pregnant women or women preparing food, musicians, dancers, flutists and warriors, all going about their daily activities. A unique and interesting feature of these figurines is their adornments: oversize ear and nose ornaments in the shape of a bar or a half moon, as well as bracelets and necklaces of several strands.
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Best idea for staying cool this summer: READ Suggestions from the staff of The Libraries
Major Pettigrews Last Stand, by Helen Simonson: Recommended by Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries I love the main characters in this book Major Pettigrew, the English widower with the stiff upper lip, and Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani widow shopkeeper. These two with little on the surface to make them compatible, find companionship and love in the English countryside. In a way, the book could have been written by a 21st century Jane Austen. A great summer read if you are looking for interesting characters and great prose writing.

Ice Station Zebra, by Alistair Maclean Recommended by Ken Wise, Access Services Library Assistant: because you asked for something cool The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she succeeds -- that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage, and that one of the survivors is a killer! (Product Information)

Dogs: A Natural History, by Jake Page Recommended by Susan Hunnicutt, Special Projects Librarian Dogs are amazing creatures, as everyone who loves them knows. Jake Page writes about the wolf-dog connection, and about the co-evolution of dogs and human beings going all the way back to before the dawn of recorded history. Where did the first domestic dogs come from? How did they get to be the dogs they are today? How do dogs see the world? What do they think about us? This book is full of interesting and useful information, yet you will feel like you are wasting time, in the best sense of the word.

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New to the shelves in the Briscoe Library...

Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. W 50 S359w 2011. Out of practice : fighting for primary care medicine in America / Frederick M. Barken. Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, c2011. W 84.6 B254o 2011.

Adler's physiology of the eye, 11th ed. / editors, Leonard A. Levin ... [et al.] ; managing editors, Paul L. Kaufman, Albert Alm. Edinburgh ; New York : Saunders/ Elsevier, c2011. WW 103 P5772 2011.

Emergency orthopedics, 6th ed. / editors, Robert R. Simon, Scott C. Sherman ; contributing author, Ghazala Q. Sharieff ; with illustrations by Susan Gilbert. New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2011. WE 800 S596e 2011.

Andrea N. Schorr Cataloging and Acquisitions Librarian

News from the UT Health Science Center Susan Hunnicutt, Editor: hunnicutt@uthscsa.edu Libraries is published at the beginning of each Kelley Minars, Web Editor: minars@uthscsa.edu month to highlight the programs, services and Pennie Borchers and Katie Prentice, Copy Editors resources offered by The Libraries. Walter Creech, Katie Prentice and Robert Zuniga, Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries: Photographers tobia@uthscsa.edu
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