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AMA Manual of Style and Natural Standard
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The AMA Manual of Style Online now provides periodic updates to new and revised policies. Web-only examples include downloadable quick style guides, and learning resources include word-of-the-month and tip-of-the month features. Functionality has been enhanced to include search and browse options, conversion calculators for metric measures, and SI conversions for selected laboratory tests. Glossaries of statistical and publishing terms are also included. Remote access is available for this product.
Natural Standard refers to its database as “the Authority on Integrative Medicine." This product aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies worldwide. Its comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales serve to provide information that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, using the expertise of a multidisciplinary Editorial Board. The reliable and objective information aids healthcare providers, patients, and institutions to make safer and informed therapeutic decisions. Natural Standard covers the following areas but does not recommend specific therapies or practitioners. Remote access is available for this product.
EndNote Now Available
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The University of Miami is pleased to offer EndNote to all faculty, researchers, students, and staff. If you are interested in downloading a copy of EndNote, please visit this page.
With EndNote you can:
- Automatically format your bibliography and create in-text citations
- Easily pull citation information from the PDFs on your computer
- Download the PDFs of a list of citations with a single click
- View and annotate PDFs and citations in your EndNote database
If you are interested in learning more, please contact the Reference and Education Department. Happy citing!
Psychiatry E-Books Available to You
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Find these and other related books from the American Psychiatric Association in the library's catalog and at PsychiatryOnline.
Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, c2010
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry by Dan G. Blazer, c2009
Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury by Jonathan Silver, c2011
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, 4th Edition, c2008
American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, 4th Edition, c2009
Open Access Event Speakers Highlight Research Applications
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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.
Health Informatics Chair Addresses Academic Medicine Question of the Year
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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.
Copyright and Open Access
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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/
Addressing Three Open Access Myths
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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
Calder Library Brings National Expert on Scholarly Publishing to the Miller School for Open Access Week
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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.
Exhibit at the Calder Library Features Women in Medicine
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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.
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New Photographer in Biomedical Communications
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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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request any of our services, including medical, surgical, and on-site photography, as well as photographic restoration.
Library Book Sale is Back
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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.
