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Below is a list of electronic journal subscriptions cancelled for 2012. Cancellations are based on high cost and low overall use. The resulting cost per use for these titles greatly exceeds what the library’s budget can bear.  Many of these journal subscriptions were increasing in price by 10 percent or more beginning in January.

 

  • ACP medicine (Decker)
  • Acta haematologica (Karger)
  • AHFS Drug Information (Amer Soc. of Hospital Pharmacists)
  • American journal of nephrology (Karger)
  • Annals of nutrition and metabolism (Karger)
  • British journal of nutrition (Cambridge)
  • Cardiology (Karger)
  • Chemotherapy (Karger)
  • Cytogenetics and genome research (Karger)
  • Developmental neuroscience (Karger)
  • Digestion (Karger)
  • European neurology (Karger)
  • Gerontology (Karger)
  • Hormone and metabolic research (Thieme)
  • Hormone research in paediatrics (Karger)
  • Human heredity (Karger)
  • Journal of medical biography (Royal Society of Medicine Press, Ltd)
  • Journal of vascular research (Karger)
  • Neuroimmunomodulation (Karger)
  • Pharmacology (Karger)
  • Psychopathology (Karger)
  • Psychotherapy and psychosomatics (Karger)
  • Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology (Taylor & Francis)
  • Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases (Informa Healthcare)

 

The following print subscriptions were cancelled for 2012.  Some of these titles are available electronically as open access journals, and others are available electronically through a Calder Library paid subscription.

 

  • Advanced technology in libraries
  • Computers in libraries
  • Consumer reports
  • Environmental health and chemical safety
  • Florida handbook
  • Information outlook
  • JAMA (paid electronic access available)
  • Lancet (paid electronic access available)
  • Library journal
  • Linux journal
  • Medical reference services quarterly (paid electronic access available)
  • Nature (paid electronic access available)
  • Newsweek
  • Online
  • Portable CAMH
  • Science (paid electronic access available)
  • Time

 

All Miller School of Medicine students, faculty, and staff may request journal articles through the Calder Library Interlibrary Loan (ILL) office at no charge.

http://calder.med.miami.edu/forms/journal_photocopy_request_patron.html

Please send any comments about these subscription cancellations and format changes to JoAnn Van Schaik at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The Calder Library invites you to attend and participate in the Live Simulcast of TEDMEDLive 2012 Free!

Live HD Simulcast in 1st Floor Collaboratory See the world's most creative minds talk about the future of health and medicine.

 

TEDMED is where the world's most creative minds meet healthcare's most innovative science. Participants include global leaders from science, research, technology, academia, business, government, and the arts. Come watch what many have called a "life-changing experience."

 

 

 

Session Schedule

Session 1 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Tuesday April 10th
Session 2 – 8:45am – 10:30am, Wednesday April 11th
Session 3 – 11:15am – 12:45pm, Wednesday April 11th
Session 4 – 2:15pm – 4:00pm, Wednesday April 11th
Session 5 – 5:00pm – 6:45pm, Wednesday April 11th
Session 6 – 8:45am – 10:30am, Thursday April 12th
Session 7 – 11:15am – 12:45pm, Thursday April 12th
Session 8 – 2:15pm – 4:00pm, Thursday April 12th
Session 9 – 5:00pm – 6:45pm, Thursday April 12th
Session 10 – 8:45am – 10:30am, Friday April 13th
Session 11 – 11:15am – 1:00pm, Friday April 13th

Click here for further details

 

Participate

Remote participants (Calder attendees) can employ the TEDMEDConnect mobile application to connect "live" to the speakers on the TEDMED stage. TEDMEDLive participants can ask the speakers questions or transmit comments to them. They can also use the app to participate in live polls and games that are part of the TEDMED conference.


The TEDMEDConnect application will be made available approximately one week before the conference and will be available in the Apple App Store, the Android App Store and accessible as a mobile optimized web application.
Check www.tedmed.comfor updates.


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Learn about TEDMED at www.tedmed.com

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The Calder Library is pleased to announce that two electronic products are back by popular demand and through more reasonable pricing.

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.

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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!

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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

 

 

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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.

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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.

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copyright 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/

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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

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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.

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Women in Medicine exhibit

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further details.

 

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