UpToDate Online, from Wolters Kluwer Health
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_5589994
Deemed a “must have” resource by clinicians, UptoDate Online is an evidence-based knowledge system authored by physicians to help clinicians make the right decisions at the point of care. All UpToDate Online content is written and edited by a global community of physicians who are experts in their specialties; the content is continually reviewed to ensure it is based on the latest evidence. Only available from on-campus.
Access Medicine, from McGraw-Hill
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6711342
Provides access to more than 65 medical textbooks containing thousands of images and illustrations, tutorials, drug information, a diagnostic tool, patient information flyers, and more. Textbooks include such classics as Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2012, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 12 ed., and more. Completely searchable.
The Cochrane Library, from John Wiley & the Cochrane Collaboration
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6831495
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews -- the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care.
Oxford Textbook of Medicine, from Oxford University Press
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_6811569
Often found on shelves in physicians’ offices, this massive work is unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties. Use is limited to one user at a time.
MedlinePlus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
You’ve all used PubMed [aka Medline], but this resource from the NIH is geared at providing consumers with free, quality links to information. Use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
Health Information Portal
http://www.library.illinois.edu/health/
This locally created website will point you toward the best databases, books, journals, and web resources on over 30 health related topics, ranging from aging and neuroscience to genetics, public health, psychology, toxicology, and more.
Scientific American. We recently acquired electronic access to the full run of Scientific American and Scientific American Mind from Nature. Please use the J&D (above) for the link.
OpenHelix. Based on feedback from the research community at the U of I, we now subscribe to OpenHelix. Here you will find tutorials, teaching aids, and other guides for bioinformatics and genomics tools. Tell your students about this resource! Please use the J&D (above) for the link.
JoVE. We now have electronic access to all sections of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), including Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, Clincial & Translational Medicine, Bioengineering, and Basic Protocols. Please use the J&D (above) for the link to JoVE.
Faculty of 1000. The Faculty of 1000 (F1000) site now includes reviews on articles in both biology and medicine. In addition to evaluated articles you will find two new open access journals, F1000 Reports Biology and F1000 Reports Medicine. Please use the J&D (above) for the link to Faculty of 1000.
Global Health. Recently we added a subscription for Global Health to our CAB Abstracts account. Use Global Health to augment your Medline (PubMed) searches with a more universal outlook, including citations from developing countries. Please use the J&D (above) for the link to CAB Abstracts and Global Health.
BIOSIS Citation Index. We recently upgraded our subscription for Biological Abstracts to BIOSIS Citation Index. Unlike Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Citation Index includes review journals and scientific meetings. And, like Web of Science, also includes citations to cited references. Find a link to Biosis Citation Index in the J&D (above).
Tip: Search “Web of Knowledge” (all databases) to search simultaneously Web of Science, BIOSIS Citation Index, CAB Abstracts & Global Health, Medline, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, and Zoological Abstracts. Find a link to Web of Knowledge in the J&D (above).
Fields for which data is presented:
Field Name (Number of Programs)
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology (157)
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering (74)
Cell and Developmental Biology (120)
Genetics and Genomics (66)
Immunology and Infectious Disease (68)
Integrated Biological and Biomedical Sciences (113)
Microbiology (71)
Neuroscience and Neurobiology (93)
Nutrition (45)
Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Environmental Health (117)
Physiology (58)
“The 2010 release features the largest ever JCR with 10,196 journal listings in 238 disciplines of Science and Social Sciences. 2,494 publishers from 84 countries are represented, some for the first time. A total of 1,075 journals receive their first Journal Impact Factor in the latest JCR release.”
News Release: http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/science/JCR-impact-factor-2010
Access the Journal Citation Reports database:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258273
Not sure what Impact Factors are? Here’s a link to a presentation I’ve used for a Library Savvy Researcher workshop on the topic:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/biotech/docs/ImpactFactors.ppt
Note: Many open access journals are pulling quite decent impact factors. For instance:
• PLOS Biology - 12.469
• PLOS Medicine - 15.617
• PLOS Computational Biology - 5.515
• PLOS Genetics - 9.543
• PLOS Pathogens - 9.079
• PLOS One - 4.411
• Genome Biology - 6.885
• BMC Bioinformatics - 3.028
• BMC Medicine - 5.750
• BMC Biology - 5.203
• BMC Genomics - 4.206
• BMC Plant Biology - 4.085
• Breast Cancer Research - 5.785
• Molecular Neurodegeneration - 5.361
• Nucleic Acids Research - 7.836
On the other hand (top tiered, but not open access):
• Cell - 32.401
• PNAS - 9.771
• Science - 31.364
• Nature - 36.101
New open access title Scientific Reports launches today with the publication of its first articles. The fifteen articles published today range in scope from graphene to coral disease to viral nanoparticles. More articles will be published in the coming days, under Scientific Reports' rapid continuous publication schedule. An online-only, open access, multidisciplinary publication from Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Scientific Reports covers all areas of the biological, chemical, physical and earth sciences.
Scientific Reports is led by a team of 17 Editorial Advisory Panel members, who are supported by more than 330 Editorial Board members. A streamlined peer-review system ensures papers are rapidly and fairly peer-reviewed: the current average time from submission to first decision is under 30 days. An internal publishing team works with the board and authors to ensure manuscripts are processed for publication as quickly as possible.
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With the launch of Scientific Reports, NPG adds to its growing portfolio of open access options. Scientific Reports publishes technically sound, original research papers of interest to specialists within their field.
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All articles published in Scientific Reports will be open access and subject to an article-processing charge (APC). The 2011 APC is US$1,350. Authors have a choice of two non-commercial Creative Commons (CC) licenses. (Note: $1,350 represents a 20% discount on the APC for manuscripts accepted for publication before 31 December 2011. From January 2012, the APC will be US$1700.)
NPG makes an annual donation to Creative Commons, equivalent to $20 per APC paid for publication in Scientific Reports and the 19 other journals owned by NPG that offer an open access option. (Total annual donation from NPG will be up to $100,000.00)
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Scientific Reports joins more than 40 titles published by NPG offering an open access option. More information, about NPG's open access activities and policies, is available from NPG's January 2011 open access position statement.
Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/scientificreports
Read the full announcement.
Read the full news bulletin
Search for books at the NAP site.
Among the recent books that may be of interest...
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May 13, 2011
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has published an expanded list of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields that qualify foreign students for an extended stay in the United States after graduation. The program, known as Optional Practical Training, allows graduates on student visas to work after they receive their degrees. Most graduates are allowed to stay on for an additional 12 months, but students in specific STEM fields can stay for 17 months beyond that. In a press release, the White House said the expansion was made to deal with shortages of certain high-tech scientists and technology experts.
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Read the list of STEM fields that qualify (additions are listed in BOLD):
STEM-Designated Degree Program List [pdf]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a strategic plan to guide the agency's priorities and investments for the next five years. Empowering the Nation Through Discovery and Innovation: NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2011-2016 [pdf] sets the pathway for the agency's future, refining NSF's vision statement, refocusing its strategic goals and drawing upon new approaches and methods for assessing and evaluating the performance of NSF's investments in science and engineering research and education.
"NSF can play a significant role in helping the United States retain global leadership in discovery, in innovation, in advancing the frontiers of science and engineering, and in educating new generations of scientists and engineers," said NSF Director Subra Suresh. "Our new strategic plan provides a road map that guides us and keeps the agency on track to achieving these goals."
The new plan outlines three strategic goals that underpin all programs and activities during both the short term and over the long term: transform the frontiers, innovate for society, and perform as a model organization. The first two goals align with the two merit criteria that NSF applies in evaluating every research proposal the agency receives--intellectual merit and broader impacts. The third strategic goal emphasizes the importance of operational excellence to achieving NSF's vision, and it encourages experimentation in business processes in order to make the agency more efficient and effective. The plan sets performance targets to measure progress in achieving the strategic goals, and it lays out near-, mid- and long-term actions for the agency to take.
The strategic plan also commits NSF to innovation and experimentation in the assessment process itself. For example, through the STAR METRICS project (Science and Technology in America's Reinvestment - Measuring the Effect of Research and Innovation, Competitiveness, and Science), NSF is working with other federal science agencies and with research institutions to improve the tracking of outcomes from investments in science and engineering research and education.
"We're living in a time when complex problems demand new approaches that bring together and energize innovative collaborations among scientists, engineers and educators from across disciplinary boundaries," Suresh noted. "This strategic plan encourages us to do exactly that while ensuring that we remain good stewards of taxpayers' dollars and help the public understand the value of the investments we make."
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 requires federal agencies to develop strategic plans and measure performance. The new strategic plan reflects extensive discussions among NSF staff, the agency's advisory committee members, the National Science Board, other government partners, and the greater research and education community. Although it's a five-year plan, this strategic plan will be revisited and updated for FY 2013, based on the new requirements of the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010.
Read the full report: Empowering the Nation Through Discovery and Innovation: NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2011-2016.
It looks like the UIC materials will eventually show up here:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/
But in the meantime, feel free to look at the materials from the Discovery sessions that were held at NYU in October!
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/NYU_Oct/
You'll find materials for the four sessions...
1. Sequences, Genomes and Maps
2. Proteins, Domains and Structures
3. NCBI BLAST Services
4. Human Variation and Disease Genes
E.g., here's the Powerpoint from the Proteins, Structures, Domains lecture, available as a ppt file:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/NYU_Oct/Oct18/Proteins_Domains_Structures/Proteins_Domains_Structures_slides.ppt
or, as notes file (pdf) (same lecture):
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/NYU_Oct/Oct18/Proteins_Domains_Structures/Proteins_Domains_Structures_slides.pdf
... and so forth!
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The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Discovery Workshops focusing on biomedical and genomic databases this December. This free two-day series of workshops on NCBI tools will be held at UIC on December 15-16, 2010.
Program Overview
The Discovery Workshops consist of four 2.5-hour hands-on sessions emphasizing a different set of NCBI resources. Each session uses specific examples to highlight important features of the resources and tools under study and to demonstrate how to accomplish common tasks.
The four sessions of the Discovery Workshop will focus on the following areas:
1. Sequences, Genomes and Maps
2. Proteins, Domains and Structures
3. NCBI BLAST Services
4. Human Variation and Disease Genes
Participants may attend all or any combination of these sessions. Each session is entirely hands-on and is presented in one computer classroom where the instructor will present a specific example using the live NCBI web site followed by a period of individual practice on related problems.
Detailed handouts for each session will provide step-by-step instructions and additional information about each example. Each session will also provide opportunities for participants to provide comments and suggestions on NCBI services and also to attend individual consultations with NCBI staff. [Tip: handouts and presentation materials are available online. See the next blog entry.]
Discovery Workshop Schedule
Day 1 Wednesday December 15, 2010
9:00-11:30 -- Sequences, Genomes and Maps 1:00-3:30 -- Proteins, Domains and Structures 3:45-5:00 -- Individual Consultations *
Day 2 Thursday December 16, 2010
9:00-11:30 -- NCBI BLAST Services
1:00-3:30 -- Human Variation and Disease Genes 3:45-5:00 -- Individual Consultations*
*Anyone registered for any of the sessions is welcome to attend the individual consultations
Instructor:
Peter Cooper. Peter Cooper is a biologist with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) who provides general user support, designs and presents workshops and webinars on the use of NCBI databases and tools, edits the NCBI News, and is involved in ongoing efforts to improve the usability of the NCBI website.
How to Attend
To register for one or more of these workshops, visit this link:
http://tinyurl.com/NCBIWorkshops
The default is to register for the entire two day workshop. If you wish to attend only select sessions, include the date and time of each of the session that you wish to go to. The deadline for registration is Friday, December 10, 2010. SPACE IS LIMITED.
Please feel free to forward this message to interested colleagues and to other lists.
Holly.
Holly Ann Burt, MLIS
Outreach and Exhibits Coordinator
NN/LM-Greater Midwest Region
1750 W. Polk St. M/C 763
Chicago, IL 60612-4330
phone: 800-338-7657 (in the Region) or 312-996-2464
fax: 312-996-2226
haburt@uic.edu
nnlm.gov/gmr
Try Faculty of 1000 out at:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=226365
You’ll find the main part of F1000 under the Evaluations link:
Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus touts the benefits of open science in a new video released for Open Access Week (Oct. 18-24, 2010).
In the video, Varmus calls open access, or free online access to scientific papers, an "incredibly important development in the history of science." Open access, he says, "has changed science in a very beneficial way, saved money, and increased the quality of what we do."
Varmus currently serves as director of the National Cancer Institute, an institute of the NIH. He served as NIH director under President Clinton and formerly served as co-chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. For his pioneering cancer research, Varmus received the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
As NIH director, Varmus laid the foundation for PubMed Central, a free repository of medical research hosted by NIH's National Library of Medicine. Today, NIH funds $31 billion in medical research. In 2007, Congress required that NIH-funded scientists post papers resulting from NIH funding on PubMed Central for free public access.
The Federal Research Public Access Act, now pending in the House and Senate, would expand that mandate to all federally-funded research. Introducing the bill in 2009 with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said, "Our legislation would give the American people greater access to the important scientific research they help fund, which will accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, while also making sure that funding is being spent appropriately to ensure taxpayers are receiving a return on their research investments."
(Gavin Baker 10/18/10)]]>Now we have access to Faculty of 1000 Medicine, too!
The F1000 search interface is in the process of changing so both “F1000Biology” and “F1000Medicine” will be presented in one, unified interface – now called just F1000 or Faculty of 1000. This month we’ll have access to both the old interface, which you’re used to, and also to the Beta version of the new, combined interface for F1000. If you’ve set up alerts previously they will still work but you may want to go into the new Beta interface and update your alerts, as there is now more content. Click here for a pdf listing of the subjects covered by the new F1000.
Along with this, we are also obtaining access to the online version of The Scientist, which was previously published by ISI (Inst. for Scientific Information) but is now produced by the folks at F1000. You can link to The Scientist out of the Beta F1000 by clicking on the link to “Magazine”.
Link:
F1000: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=226365
Note: if you bookmark F1000 on campus, use http://f1000.com. The current URL for the Beta version (http://beta.f1000.com) will not be permanent. Use the Library’s URL for accessing F1000 from off-campus.
This $5 million, 5 year NSF grant will fund the creation of the National Professional and Research Ethics Portal (NPREP). The Principal Investigators on the grant are Tina Gunsalus (UIUC, Business and Law), Taft Broome (Howard University), Michael Loui (UIUC, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Nicholas Burbules (UIUC, Education), and William Mischo (UIUC, Library). The grant also funds several other partner institutions and organizations. In addition to Mischo, other Library personnel participating on the project are Mary Schlembach (NPREP access and content coordinator), Tom Habing (Fedora repository development), Sarah Shreeves (trusted preservation repository), and Tim Cole (database infrastructure). The grant will fund several research programmers and a metadata/harvesting librarian.
The NPREP will be headquartered in the Grainger Library and will be built around the HUBZero e-learning and collaboration platform. The grant work will feature the development of HUBZero extensions that will allow us to integrate our custom federated search applications, the extended content harvesting and database technologies we have developed, and true preservation and archiving repository technologies. The technology development will be advised by a Technical Committee comprised of individuals from UIUC and other institutions.
We are very excited by the opportunities this grant provides. It will allow us to work collaboratively with other colleges and departments here on campus and with individuals and groups from around the country. A key focus of the grant is to explore the merging of several important digital library technologies. It is our hope that this work will serve as a model for all other online resource centers.
[Reposted from an email message Bill Mischo sent out to the Library, 9/21/2010.]
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