The Calder Library faculty and staff will continue to offer services through the end of the year. Our adjusted holiday schedule is as follows:

December 24-26 – library closed
December 27-30 – 7:30 am to 6 pm
December 31 – 8 am to 6 pm
January 1-2 – library closed

The UMH Library will be closed between December 23 and January 3, but the UMH librarians will continue to offer clinical information services. Please call (305) 243-6648 for assistance.

We look forward to seeing you at the library and wish you all the best in 2012!

Pictured: first year medical students Rachel Franklyn and Nicole Mandel.

University of Miami President Donna Shalala’s address on the “Future of Health Care” at the Eleventh Biennial Ralph H. and Ruth F. Gross Lecture on November 17, 2011, was a resounding success. The video may be viewed at: http://med.miami.edu/news/president-shalala-shares-her-optimism-for-health-care-reforms-future.

Dr. Mary Moore, Chair of the Department of Health Informatics and Executive Director of Medical Librarians and Biomedical Communications, provided the opening comments on the history of the Gross Lecture, thanking the Gross Family, Mrs. Patricia Bergman, Mrs. Carol Gross Clarkson, Ms. Joanna Clarkson, and family friend, Mr. Lou Compton. She introduced Dean Pascal Goldschmidt as an innovative leader, a prolific researcher and writer, and honored Tenth Biennial Gross Lecturer.

Dean Pascal Goldschmidt welcomed the group, saying, “We are very lucky at the Miller School of Medicine to have … [the Calder Library] bringing information to our fingertips.” He then introduced President Donna Shalala as someone “…ranked with the superstars – Super Woman!”

President Shalala immediately won over the audience with her opening statement: “I love libraries,” and by sharing a personal story about pouring over the biographies of famous women at her local library when she was a young child.

Her lecture traced the history of initiatives to gain healthcare for everyone in the United States. As she circulated through the audience, engaging all who listened, she brought to life the story on the beginning of Medicaid, from Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson. She turned the discussion to current events by talking about the importance of health coverage for everyone.vShe said it was important to help people without coverage who might wait too long to see the doctor, ending up even sicker before finally going to the hospital, where the cost of healthcare is significantly higher.

At the reception that followed, some audience members stated that this was the first time they understood what the health care plan was about. President Shalala distilled the information in a clear way that met the needs of those familiar with the plan, as well as those who understood the details for the first time. Betty Gordon, a UNICO employee at the University of Miami, said, “I do not get to hear the President speak very often because I am trying to keep the area clean, but this time I got to listen. Her presentation touched my heart. She is a great woman.”

The Calder Library faculty and staff thank the Gross Family, President Shalala, Dean Goldschmidt, our friends and colleagues who attended the event, our hardworking partners in Medical Development, Medical Communications, and Facilities and Support Services, and all the many others who helped make the event a success.

Last Friday's Open Access event, attended by library committee members, faculty, residents, students, and staff, highlighted the benefits of retaining copyright for your published works and making your research available to everyone, regardless of access barriers. As Dean Goldschmidt emphasized in his opening remarks, "Our job is to make access to knowledge as easy as it can be."

Dr Mary Moore introduced our engaging, invited speaker Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Ms Joseph illustrated the current state of the publishing industry by comparing the prices of licensing journals with luxury items. For example, the cost of a year's worth of access to the Journal of Econometrics is $2,155, equivalent to the price of a MacBook Air, the Journal of Geophysical Research costs $5,760 a year, equivalent to a Tiffany diamond ring, and the journal Brain Research costs $21,744, the same as a new Honda Accord. In total, the scientific, technical, and medical journal industry is a $9 billion market, comparable to the NFL. Clearly something needs to be done to regulate the exponentially rising journal prices.

The Budapest Open Access Initiative, established in 2001, was the first attempt to unify over this issue of providing access to research to everyone. To date there are now 7,000 journals available in the Directory of Open Access Journals, including journals with the highest impact factors in their field. Half a million people are accessing freely-available articles in PubMed Central every day. This movement is growing, but Heather Joseph stressed the need for our support and diligence to see it continue to flourish.

To this end, John Renaud, Director of Collection Strategies and Scholarly Communication at the Richter Library, showcased the University of Miami's Scholarly Repository, where UM faculty and students are invited to share their published works, theses, and other research materials (as allowed by their copyright agreements). Please contact John Renaud or your Calder librarian to learn how you can share your work in the repository, increasing access to and visibility of your research. Many thanks to the Calder Library's Scholarly Communications Committee (Jenny Garcia-Barcena, Brenda Linares, Vedana Vaidhyanathan, and JoAnn Van Schaik) for organizing this outstanding event.

The current issue of Academic Medicine contains essays responding to the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) 2011 question of the year "What improvements in medical education will lead to better health for individuals and populations?" The response written by Dr Mary Moore, Chair of the Department of Health Informatics and Executive Director of the Calder Memorial Library, on behalf of the Association of American Health Sciences Libraries, was accepted for inclusion in the issue. Her article, entitled Teaching Physicians to Make Informed Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty: Librarians and Informaticians on the Health Care Team, addresses the role librarians play in the health care team and led to an invitation to Dr Moore to present at the AAMC conference this weekend. Read this article and more, ranging from translational science implications to personalized medicine, in the November issue, which is available to both subscribers and non-subscribers.

Many who question the Open Access movement do so out of the belief that if they do not relinquish their copyright to the publisher, their article will not get published. This is not the case. Retaining copyright is important because it allows authors to control their own intellectual output. Publishers understand the importance of retaining copyright, which is why they often ask to hold the copyright of an article. Still, a great many publishers allow their authors to retain their copyright and to put copies of their publications into repositories, once the article has been a published (a post-print). Fewer publishers allow for depositing pre-prints (articles which have not yet been published) but some publishers do allow this to happen even while they are publishing the article. In some cases the article in the repository may not contain all of the images or extra information that the final published article contains, but it may provide information which can lead to better science.
To view publishers’ copyright and archiving policies, visit the following website: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Myth 1: 
Open-access journals are not peer-reviewed and they publish low quality articles.

◊ The reality is that open access journals (e.g. PLoS Biology, BMC Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Molecular Systems Biology, etc.) follow similar peer-review guidelines as do other high quality, scholarly journals. The selection criteria of more than 7000 journals published in The Directory of Open Access Journals is that their journals "should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board, and/or a peer-review system" criteria. Just like any journal, quality of an open access journal is judged by the content of its articles.

Myth 2: 
Open-access journals have lower Impact Factors.

◊ The reality is that high impact factors are found in open access journals across many disciplines. Search them in The Directory of Open Access Journals or browse through the titles in Ulrichsweb.

Myth 3: 
Open-access articles are not copyrighted.

◊ The reality is that if you publish in an open access journal you may be able to retain copyright of your article, or be required to grant the publisher copyright, in the same manner that if you published in a controlled access (traditional subscription) journal. Many open-access journals allow authors to retain copyright of their work, yet most controlled access journals have agreements requiring transfer of copyright to the publisher. The publisher, in turn, could restrict you from reusing the content of your work in teaching and in other publications. There is no final settlement regarding a copyright policy and all open access journals. Yet, an author, when self-publishing on the Internet, can attach a Creative Commons License and instruct readers what he/she allows as far as copying, distributing, printing, or linking his/her work.

To find about more Open Access myths:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths/?myth=all
http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/top5myths.phtml
http://guides.lib.unc.edu/content.php?pid=121319

Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, will lecture on open access publishing and its implications for research and scholarly communication at the Calder Memorial Library History of Medicine Room (3rd floor) on Friday, October 28, at 3:00 PM.

Open access has been a hot news topic recently, with faculty from Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Duke and others opting to maintain the copyright on their own publications, for the purpose of increasing worldwide access to their work. For more information, see the Library’s portal on open access.

The event will include remarks by Miller School of Medicine Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., and a brief demonstration of the University of Miami Institutional Repository by John Renaud, M.L.S. Light refreshments will be served.

Ms. Joseph has served as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition since 2005. In that capacity, she works to support broadening access to the results of scholarly research through enabling open access publishing, archiving and policies on a local, national and international level.

Prior to coming to SPARC, she spent 15 years as a publisher in both commercial and not-for-profit publishing organizations. She served as the publishing director at the American Society for Cell Biology, which became the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s pioneering open repository, PubMed Central, and subsequently served on the NIH/National Library of Medicine National Advisory Committee for the project.

Ms. Joseph serves on the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations, and recently completed a term as the elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

The Louis Calder Memorial Library is hosting the National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibit, Changing the Face of Medicine, through November 6.

The exhibit highlights the contributions of female physicians and researchers to the practice and study of medicine from Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., the first female doctor in the United States, to Antonia Novella, M.D., the nation’s first female surgeon general. Calder Library invites you to come learn more about the lives and accomplishments of the many female physicians featured in this outstanding exhibit, including a special section on the contributions of University of Miami female physicians and researchers.

Please contact Kimberly Loper for further details.

We are pleased to announce that Biomedical Communications has a new team member – photographer Jorge Perez.  Jorge has over ten years of experience as a senior photographer with the City of Miami and has covered thousands of major events, including visits by U.S. Presidents and Senators, foreign heads of state, stars of the entertainment industry, and leaders of the University of Miami. 

Please do not hesitate to contact Biomedical Communications at 305-243-6783 or biomed@med.miami.edu to request any of our services, including medical, surgical, and on-site photography, as well as photographic restoration.

It's that time of year again! The popular Calder Library book sale is back! Come to the library and see what gems you can find! All books will be priced between $1 and $5, and the proceeds will benefit United Way and the library. The books will be on sale between Wednesday, October 5, and Wednesday, October 26, in the library's lobby on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, please call 305-243-6901.