If you like to study on the 3rd or 4th floors of Scott Memorial Library, you’ll notice that we’re changing the lights on the 3-sided carrels on those floors.

Why?

The new lights are LED lamps, expected to use far less energy than the old lamps, while providing better light for studying.  When the project is completed, 111 carrels will be outfitted with the new technology.

You’ll also find power outlets accompanying these lamps, so you can plug in your mobile computers.

Other Green Projects

We’re paying attention in other areas, as well.  All of the withdrawn print journals, if unclaimed by individuals or other libraries, were recycled as paper.

And we’ve heard you asking for double-sided copying and printing options.  We’re looking for technology that will allow this with reliable performance.

Do you have ideas about more ways we could save energy?  Leave a comment on this blog, or contact Rod MacNeil, our Deputy University Librarian (Rod.MacNeil@jefferson.edu).

Springer is launching a new interdisciplinary science journal, SpringerPlus, using an open access model and promising a transparent and fast publication process for authors.  SpringerPlus is also an online-only journal.

From the press release:

The new journal will feature interdisciplinary manuscripts describing original research, case studies and methods.  It is Springer’s  first open access journal to use a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum.  Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome.

The online-only format extends the range of acceptable data formats, including audiovisual formats, data reports, and extensive tables either as complete articles or part of the paper. There are no restrictions on the number of words or figures, and articles detailing statistically negative correlation will be considered.

Springer promises a transparent and fast publication process; if a manuscript meets the necessary scientific criteria as determined by peer review, the paper will be accepted immediately and without major revision. The only thing that counts is the high quality of research described. The peer review process is organized efficiently so that authors can count on a very short time to publication.

Like all other SpringerOpen journals, SpringerPlus will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. This means that authors retain copyright and all content is freely available in full to everyone immediately. Authors will be assessed a standard open access fee.

Visit the journal’s web page.

Read the full press release.

APAMSA and SAMOSA invite YOU to attend:

Expressions of Asia Culture Show

Friday, Jan 20th

6 – 8 p.m.

JAH Cafeteria

 Come out and celebrate the new year with APAMSA and SAMOSA! You’ll see your fellow students showcase their many talents, such as martial arts, piano, breakdancing and much more!

• See dances performed by the Philadelphia Suns Lion Dance troupe.
• One of the highlights of Expressions of Asia is the eating contest between professors and students. Watch (and perhaps cringe) as they chow down on exotic foods such as chicken fetus or maggots!
• Banana Leaf will be served.

Donations suggested, all proceeds go to Jefferson’s Hepatitis B screening in the community.

Counts as Diversity Credit.

For additional information, contact Angela Wong (angela.wong@jefferson.edu).

Needed:  Scholarly authors’ comments on  H.R. 3699, a new bill to block public access to publicly funded research

A new bill, The Research Works Act (H.R.3699), designed to roll back the NIH Public Access Policy and block the development of similar policies at other federal agencies has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives. Co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), it was introduced on December 16, 2011, and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Essentially, the bill seeks to prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online.  That is, it would prohibit the NIH from requiring deposit of manuscripts about research funded by NIH grants.

The bill text is short and to the point. The main point reads:

“No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that — (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work.”

Several editorials and press releases have already appeared on the issue.  Here are a few:

• Michael Eisen, PhD, Research Bought, Then Paid For (New York Times)
• Rebecca J. Rosen, Why is Open Internet Champion Darrell Issa Supporting an Attack on Open Science? (The Atlantic)
• ACRL, Stop Making Sense (Library advocacy)
• Why Open Access Matters – articles for background reading from the Public Library of Science

Supporters of public access to the results of publicly funded research need to speak out against this proposed legislation. Contact Congress to express your opposition today, or as soon as possible.

For contact information and details on how to act, see the Alliance for Taxpayer Access Action http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/12-0106.shtml.

Note that 3 Pennsylvania congressmen sit on the relevant committee – if you are a constituent of Pat Meehan (7th District), Todd Platts (19th District), or Mike Kelly (3rd District), your voice may carry more strength.

No Delaware or New Jersey legislators sit on this committee.

Psychiatry Online offers a free e-book each month from American Psychiatric Publishing.  This month, the free title is Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Manual of Clinical Practice and Consultation, edited by Theodore A. Petti, MD, MPH, and Carlos Salguero, MD, MPH.

From the publisher’s blurb:

Child psychiatrists and psychologists, clinical nurses, social workers, and other mental health practitioners working in the public sector—where limited funds, poverty, social environments, and bureaucracy add to the daily challenges—can now turn to Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for approaches and insights to make their work easier and more productive.

Twenty chapters are divided into four main sections, where 31 seasoned clinicians and administrators detail the most useful tasks, strategies, and tactics for child and family-focused community mental health professionals:

• Multiple facets of public sector agency work with or consultation to community agencies from the major mental health disciplines employed in community settings, differentiating roles and responsibilities and detailing consultation phases, including pitfalls
• Basic community practice principles and issues commonly faced by public sector professionals, including particular types of agencies and differences between rural and urban practice
• Contemporary concerns about the impact of a managed care or cost-cutting environment on service delivery, including reimbursement, differentiating consultation from direct service, and the location of a system of care
• Descriptions of the setting or activity of each community agency, including the qualifications that allow the professional or trainee to enter and work in that system
• Practicalities of clinical practice or consultation or both in community settings in the current service environment
• Questions—from differing perspectives—that mental health care practitioners must consider before consulting to or assuming a staff or administrative position in a community agency, different types of demands—and discussion of/for each role

You can download this month’s free e-book until January 31 from JEFFLINE’s Psychiatry Online link – just scroll down your screen until you see the Book of the Month headline.

An invitation from the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Greater Philadelphia:

Make Your Life Your Argument

Are you a graduate student interested in improving the health and well-being of vulnerable Philadelphian communities?

• Design & implement an innovative 200 hour service project addressing a community’s unmet health and/or human service needs (with the guidance of a mentor)
• Join an interdisciplinary group of like-minded Fellows dedicated to making a difference
• Plan public health symposia and service days
• Become a lifelong Fellow
• Fellows receive a $2,000 stipend
• Applications are due February 1, 2012 by 5 p.m.

To learn more about becoming a Schweitzer Fellow, attend the information session:

Monday, January 9, 2012 at 5:00pm
205 College Building

Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 4:00pm
203 College Building  

1025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA  19107
RSVP to phillyschweitzer@gmail.com

For further information:

Nicole Cobb Moore, MA
Program Director | Greater Philadelphia Schweitzer Fellowship Program
Assistant Director of Academic and Student Services

Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University
215-955-9995 | 215-923-6939 – fax | 800-TJU-3545
nicole.moore@jefferson.edu
www.jefferson.edu/population_health

http://schweitzerfellowship.org

http://schweitzerfellowship.wordpress.com/

http://facebook.com/schweitzerfellowship

The National Library of Medicine continues to push back the date boundaries on MEDLINE, converting more of the old paper-based records every year.

With its regular January update of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), MEDLINE also released its latest coverage data — MEDLINE now covers the medical literature from 1946 to present.

Users of both PubMed and OvidSP interfaces for MEDLINE will find the older records included in their searches automatically.   Of course, you can select to include or exclude publication years in both interfaces.

Also with this year’s update, OvidSP has added a new Pharmacological Action limit for advanced searchers.

Power searchers may be interested in the details of  MeSH Vocabulary Changes for 2012:

• About MeSH Changes
• Lists of Data Changed
  • New Descriptors – 2012
  • Changed Descriptors – 2012
  • Deleted Descriptors – 2012
  • New Descriptors by Tree Subcategory – 2012

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched its YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/nlmnih, thereby joining a growing list of NIH and other U.S. government agency channels for health information.

The NLM channel allows unregistered users to watch videos and registered users to post videos of lectures, training, special events NLM exhibitions, public service announcements, and more.  Registration is free.  Users may also subscribe to the channel to receive notification when new materials are loaded.

The YouTube channel is one of the many ways NLM is celebrating its 175th anniversary:  “175 years of information innovation.”

Visit the NLM channel

Visit the NLM 175th anniversary celebration site

Other health-related channels:

NIH Channels and Other Health Resources

	Health & Human Services The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government’s pri…
	NCBI YouTube Channel Understanding nature’s mute but elegant language of living cells is the quest of modern…
	National Cancer Institute US The United States Government’s cancer information authority.
	NIDANIH NIDA’s mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug a…
	NIMH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the largest scientific organization, in …
	AHRQHealthTV The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) seeks to improve the quality, sa…
	USFoodandDrugAdmin The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficac…
	AIDS.gov AIDS.gov is gateway to Federal domestic HIV/AIDS information and resources.
	Veterans Health Administration The official YouTube channel for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health…
	NIGMS
	CDCStreamingHealth

Journal Medicine has launched a series of bimonthly podcasts about infectious disease medicine: Stories in Medicine.   Initial podcasts will feature pioneering infectious disease physician Dr. John Bartlett, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and an Associate Editor of Medicine.

In his first podcast, Dr. Bartlett talks about his background in infectious disease medicine and his work on  HIV/AIDS.   He shares a few insights on the unpredictable and ‘always electrifying’ field of infectious disease.

View the first podcast at http://journals.lww.com/md-journal.

[Note that the podcasts are freely available to all Internet users from the Medicine website. However, journal articles and other features are available by subscription only; Jefferson's subscription via Journals@Ovid does not yet include the podcasts.]

The goal of the new Stories in Medicine series is to provide an accessible means for students, physicians and those interested in infectious disease to learn about articles that have substantial clinical relevance and practical application.  In forthcoming podcasts, Dr. Bartlett will focus on new articles, drawn from the pages of Medicine. New podcasts will be posted with each bimonthly issue of Medicine.

As the Stories in Medicine series evolves, Editor-in-Chief Dr. David B. Hellmann and Associate Editors Dr. Howard M. Lederman and Dr. Roy C. Ziegelstein will join the cast of contributors.

MedEdPORTAL is an archive of peer-reviewed educational materials and teaching tools.  Supported by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in partnership with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), MedEdPORTAL provides free and open access to its resources by all academics and members of the public.

Each month, it highlights outstanding recent submissions.  Most recently featured:

Neurogenic Shock Simulation Case
Cullen Hegarty, MD
Regions Hospital
This simulation case for a Laerdal SimMan is geared for residents and looks to teach learners to appropriately manage the major trauma victim with spinal cord injury and neurogenic shock…

Sociocultural Women’s Health Standardized Patient Case and Student Guide
Carrie Bernat, MA, MSW
University of Michigan Medical School
The Sociocultural Women’s Health Standardized Patient (SP) exercise is designed primarily for learning the skills of incorporating a patient’s personal, cultural, social and health beliefs into their medical history taking and negotiation of care/treatment plans…

AED: Altruism Excellence and Duty: A Professionalism Module for Emergency Medicine
Edward Callahan, MD, MS
Medical College of Wisconsin
This module summarizes the concepts of professionalism into three core values of altruism, excellence, and duty and allows them to read, reflect, discuss, and write about their personal values and how to apply them to their professional career…
 
Teaching Palliative Care Skills Using Simulated Family Encounters
Carrie Brown, MD, FAAP
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
This project describes a curriculum intervention developed to train pediatric residents on pediatric palliative care and end of life discussions, using standardized families trained to portray scenarios from real life experiences…

Browse all MedEdPORTAL Publications

Intermittent campus internal network issues are keeping JEFFLINE’s proxy server links from working properly on Thursday, December 22.    Jeff-IT and Hospital IS are working on a resolution to the problem.  In the meantime, on-campus users CAN get to these resources, using the following instructions.  Off-campus users need to call the Reference Desk (215-503-8150) or email AskaLibrarian@jefferson.edu to request copies of articles.  Under these circumstances, there is no fee for us to send copies of articles we own.

THE WORK-AROUND:

If a JEFFLINE link fails, and your browser tells you the “webpage cannot be found,” look in your address bar for a link that looks like this:

https://login.proxy1.lib.tju.edu/login?qurl=http://www.any_resource.com

Use your cursor to erase the first part of the address, in red above, leaving just the part in blue:

http://www.any_resource.com

By doing that, you cut out the proxy server and go directly to your desired resource.

Campus IS and IT staff are working to solve this problem as soon as possible.

AISR Education Services is pleased to announce the addition of a new workshop to their January schedule:  Introduction to Mendeley.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.   Once limited to the Mac operating system, it now works in Mac, Windows and Linux environments, including mobile.  Mendeley is a free and elegant alternative to RefWorks.

Introduction to Mendeley
Date:  1/18/2012
Time:  noon – 1:30 p.m.
Location:  Scott Computer Lab, Room 307
(Register for this workshop)

Workshop Content

Join us in the Scott Memorial computer lab as Shane A. Heiney, PhD,  demonstrates how he uses Mendeley.  He will cover:

• Creating an account and installing Mendeley.
• Adding papers to Mendeley and organizing them using tags and folders.
• Reading and annotating papers in Mendeley.
• Inserting citations in MS Word and formatting bibliographies.
• Social aspects of Mendeley such as sharing and collaborative annotation of papers using groups.

Dr. Heiney is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania where he studies how neural circuits in the brain change when we learn to make new movements.  He is a Mendeley Advisor and has been using the program in his own research for two years.

To learn more about Mendeley, check out this video prior to registering for the workshop.

Data security is a huge concern for hospitals and educational institutions with responsibility for patient and student data.  A recent article in American Medical News links the pervasive use of mobile (smart) devices by clinicians to a jump in data breach incidents (up 32% in just the last year).  Almost half of the reported breaches involved lost devices that had not been encrypted or otherwise secured.

Practice safe computing!  Read the article, take steps to protect your device, and be aware of University and hospital data security policies.

Read the original Ponemon report from which the American Medical News article is derived.