New Homepage Search

JEFFLINE’s current interface has been active for just over a year. While it’s been a big improvement overall, we’ve learned from usability tests that the search box isn’t intuitive to users. We’ve talked to faculty, staff and students in focus groups asking questions about what resources to include, where to put it, and how to present the choices.

Now it’s time to kick the tires and see how it actually works for you. 

Please try out the searches (especially the all-in-one option), follow the results, compare the homepage sample with the secondary page sample, and then let us know what you think.

ALL comments are welcome!  Feel free to write a free form comment on this blog entry, or use the online comment form to answer specific questions (and enter the drawing!).

The comments form will be available from now until December 13^th.  The drawing will be held and the recipient notified on Monday, December 14^th.

All-in-One Search Results

• A new field for the self-archiving of the Publisher’s Version/ PDF
• Expanded journal coverage
• New search options for journal abbreviations and electronic ISSNs
• New tabular browse view for publishers
• Selective display of publishers’ compliance with funding agencys’ mandates

Previous versions of RoMEO have concentrated on highlighting information on the use of the pre-print and post-print.   Now, information about the use of the publisher’s version/PDF is featured as a distinct field.   The information is available in both individual publisher entries and in a new Tabular Browse View.

RoMEO has also expanded its journal coverage. The aim is to enable users to draw from both the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Entrez journal list for the Life Sciences, along with the existing resource of the British Library’s Zetoc service.

The new Tabular Browse View displays comparative charts of publishers, to quickly determine and compare what different publishers allow, and whether the publisher has a paid open access option.

Authors who receive funding from any of the 50 plus agencies listed in JULIET — a companion database of research funders’ policies — can now restrict  search results to display publishers’ compliance with any of the funding agencies’ policies listed in JULIET.

The RoMEO service employs a simple color code to classify policies and inform authors of what can be done with their articles. It also offers users the ability to view summaries of publishers’ copyright policies in relation to self-archiving; view whether publisher policies comply with funding regulations,  (some publishers are too restrictive in their contracts and cannot be used to publish some funded research); and to search journal and publisher information by journal title, publisher name and ISSN.

Jefferson authors are encouraged to check on publisher policies BEFORE choosing a publisher;  RoMEO is a great resource for doing this.  If your chosen publisher has a policy that prohibits fulfilling your deposit requirements under the terms of your grant, RoMEO can warn you so that you know you need to customize your author agreement (See JEFFLINE’s advice on retaining your copyright).  

Read the full press release.

‘Ten Myths About Charles Darwin,’ appeared in the October issue of BioScience and is available at caliber.ucpress.net/doi/full/10.1525/bio.2009.59.9.10.  Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley, explores some common inaccuracies and untruths about Darwin and his life’s work, painting in the process a clear portrait of the man and his struggles to develop a theory to explain the diversity of nature.

‘The Darwinian Revelation: Tracing the Origin and Evolution of an Idea’ appeared in the November issue of BioScience and is available at caliber.ucpress.net/doi/full/10.1525/bio.2009.59.10.10.   James T. Costa of Western Carolina University draws on Darwin’s letters and notebooks and other sources to trace the origins of Darwin’s key insights over the years.

Springer’s special issue of  Naturwissenschaften  commemorates the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in November 1859.  All articles in this special issue will be available for free until December 30, 2009 at www.springerlink.com/content/ph5w541k7876/

Connect directly to the special issue.

Handwashing

Studies between 1994 and 2000 indicated less than 50% adherence to hand hygiene guidelines in health care settings.

Join us in our discussion of how to improve adherence at Jefferson

JSPH Chapter of the IHI Open School Meeting

Monday, November 16th at 5pm
-OR-
Tuesday, November 17th at 12pm
(Choose the time that best fits your schedule)

JSPH Conference Room,
Curtis Building (1015 Walnut), Sutie 115

For more information contact Valerie at valerie.pracilio@jefferson.edu.

From the publisher’s blurb:

Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, other mental health workers, behavioral scientists, and university medical and neuroscience professionals will benefit from this articulate insider’s view of post–World War II psychiatry in Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective by Melvin Sabshin, M.D. Dr. Sabshin served as Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for 23 years, from 1974 to 1997, during a period of perhaps the greatest change in psychiatry since the World War II produced a dramatic modification of practice.

The author describes in detail two extraordinary periods of change, the first stimulated by laudatory efforts to understand the high rate of psychiatric casualties among World War II veterans and to provide treatment for them. Psychiatry grew quickly during the postwar years, considerably influenced by the immigration of many Central European psychoanalysts. Gradually, however, psychiatry began to weaken its ties to medicine and lost much of its public respect. By the 1970s, postwar optimism had been replaced by widespread concern that psychiatric practice was being dominated by unsubstantiated formulations rather than reliable evidence. Psychiatry was dramatically impacted by enormous pressure for therapeutic accountability exerted by a managed care reimbursement system. The profession recognized the need for a new direction and resolved to change.

In the foreword to the book, current APA Medical Director James H. Scully Jr., M.D., notes that Dr. Sabshin has woven a personal journey of the history of the intellectual conflicts and changes in the field of psychiatry in the post–war era, culminating in the remedicalization of psychiatry and the development of the DSM-III.

Dr. Sabshin encourages psychiatric professionals to change the field so it can employ an empirically based “bio-psycho-social” model that has the potential to revitalize the next phase of American psychiatry. He details how the potential for the future of psychiatry can be enhanced by today’s practicing professionals, stressing the:

• Need to incorporate the rapid developments of neuroscience into a professional practice that is increasingly integrated with empirically demonstrated psychological and social influences upon mental illness.
• Importance on continued research that is fed back into practice and keeps the professional evidence-based.
• Need of psychoanalysis to make its beliefs explicit, formulating hypotheses that can be tested scientifically in order to be employed reliably in evidence-based practice.

This well-crafted historical account describes how the profession has become a more respected and accountable part of medicine and how it scientific credentials have risen as a result. Dr. Sabshin concludes that the use of psychological understanding and psychotherapies must play a major role combined with psychopharmacology in the treatment of psychiatric patients.

Read the full description, contents, and reviews.

To obtain your free copy, visit Psychiatry Online, and look for the download icon under Book of the Month.

For three decades, Healthy People has provided a set of national 10-year health promotion and disease prevention objectives aimed at improving the health of all Americans.

Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/HP2020/Comments/  to

• View proposed draft objectives for Healthy People 2020
• Comment on the proposed objectives
• Comment on the topic areas
• Suggest additional objectives
• Suggest topic areas you feel are missing from the draft set

Your comments will help ensure issues important to you are included in Healthy People.   Establishing objectives and providing benchmarks to track progress motivates, guides, and focuses action.   Be part of the change. Comments will be accepted through December 31, 2009.

Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/HP2020/Comments today.   Your feedback will help define the vision and strategy for building a healthier Nation.

You’ll find numerous evidence-based calculations, calculators, decison trees and more when you visit STAT!Ref and select MedCalc from the Resources tab.   If you do a search on any STAT!Ref page, any relevant MedCalc resource will be included in the side bar of the results:

Try the MedCalc 3000 Tutorial (uses Flash Player)

MedCalc 3000 is just one of the dozens of resources available in STAT!Ref, via JEFFLINE. All Jeffersonians may access STAT!Ref from home, office, or mobile — all it takes is your campus key. Look for STAT!Ref in the Quick Links on JEFFLINE.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
volume 43, 1957  – volume 103, 2006

Annals of Surgery
volume 3, 1886 – volume 246, 2007

The Library provides access to an electronic copy of each title for use by all Jeffersonians.  We plan to withdraw the print copies  since the electronic version complies with the quality standards outlined in our Print Withdrawal Policy.

If you are interested in obtaining the print version of one or more years of these titles, please contact Diana Ryan (Diana.Ryan@jefferson.edu) before Friday, November 13, 2009.

Note that in the process of converting print to electronic in the case of PNAS, the Library has been able to double its years of coverage, extending our subscription back to the very first issue (1915), in addition to making the content much more accessible for all Jeffersonians.  In the case of the Annals of Surgery, the electronic version spans the entire life of the journal from volume 1 to present. 

Electronic articles are now available 24 x 7 for all Jeffersonians, whether or not they are on campus, and no matter how many want to use it concurrently.  The Library’s databases such as PubMed and Scopus link their results to the online article, for greater ease of retrieval.

BioMed Central has recently launched the Stem Cell Gateway, providing easy access to all the latest stem cell related research published across BioMed Central’s journals.  The Gateway complements the new journal  Stem Cell Research & Therapy – the major forum for translational research into stem cell therapies – which is now accepting submissions.

The Stem Cell Gateway includes research highlights, as well as profiles of authors in the field and an interactive map, AuthorMapper, which enables you to explore based on author locations and to discover wider relationships and find experts in your field.

Due for launch in early 2010, Stem Cell Research & Therapy is an international peer-reviewed research journal. Visit the Stem Cell Research & Therapy website to receive regular updates, and to  submit original research articles.