2011 News
DBIO webinar: Building a Digital Archive on a Health Sciences Campus: A Case Study from the University of Maryland
Please join us for a free educational webinar series sponsored by the SLA Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) that will explore how three different health science libraries have successfully implemented IRs. For more information and useful resources go to: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/med2011/
A growing number of medical schools and health science centers, including Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the Inova Health System are launching institutional repositories (IRs), to preserve and showcase the intellectual output of their institutions and to fulfill open access mandates. The second seminar in the series will explore the presenter’s own experiences, speaking directly to challenges faced, lessons learned, and best practices moving forward.
Date: December 5, 2011
Title: Building a Digital Archive on a Health Sciences Campus: A Case Study from the University of Maryland
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific (2:00 PM Eastern)
Presenter: M.J. Tooey, University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/487486002
A growing number of medical schools and health science centers, including Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the Inova Health System are launching institutional repositories (IRs), to preserve and showcase the intellectual output of their institutions and to fulfill open access mandates. The second seminar in the series will explore the presenter’s own experiences, speaking directly to challenges faced, lessons learned, and best practices moving forward.
Date: December 5, 2011
Title: Building a Digital Archive on a Health Sciences Campus: A Case Study from the University of Maryland
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific (2:00 PM Eastern)
Presenter: M.J. Tooey, University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/487486002
November 2, 2011
Fall 2011 issue of Biofeedback is available
In this issue: Chair's Message, Election Results, Webinar Series, Medical Section Report, Book Reviews, and more! Download the PDF.
DBIO webinar: Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Institutional Repositories
Please join us for a free educational webinar series sponsored by the SLA Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) that will explore how three different health science libraries have successfully implemented IRs. For more information and useful resources go to: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/med2011/
A growing number of medical schools and health science centers, including Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the Inova Health System are launching institutional repositories (IRs), to preserve and showcase the intellectual output of their institutions and to fulfill open access mandates. The first seminar in the series will introduce some of the challenges and opportunities for medical librarians in exposing the intellectual content produced by their organizations.
Date: November 1, 2011
Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Institutional Repositories
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific (2:00 PM Eastern)
Presenters: Dan Kipnis and Ann Koopman, Thomas Jefferson University; Lisa Palmer, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/821160250
A growing number of medical schools and health science centers, including Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the Inova Health System are launching institutional repositories (IRs), to preserve and showcase the intellectual output of their institutions and to fulfill open access mandates. The first seminar in the series will introduce some of the challenges and opportunities for medical librarians in exposing the intellectual content produced by their organizations.
Date: November 1, 2011
Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Institutional Repositories
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific (2:00 PM Eastern)
Presenters: Dan Kipnis and Ann Koopman, Thomas Jefferson University; Lisa Palmer, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/821160250
The DBIO Nominations & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the results of the 2011 DBIO Election for Chair-Elect and Secretary.
Congratulations Howard and Nalini! Their term of service begins January 1, 2012.
Chair-Elect: Howard Fuller
Howard currently serves as the Director of Library Services for Heald College in San Francisco, CA. He has been a member of SLA since 1991. Howard has served as chair of the DBIO Career Guidance & Employment Committee and chair of the 2011 Program Planning Committee. He was the chair of the Medical Section from 2002-2003 and served on the Program Planning Committee and Fund Development Committee at that time. Howard is also active in the Medical Library Association.
Secretary: Nalini Mahajan
Nalini is currently the Director and Webmaster of the Medical Library at the Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, IL. An SLA and DBIO member since 2002, she has served on the DBIO Public Relations Committee, Fund Development Committee, and the Vendor Relations Committee. She was the chair of the Vendor Relations Committee from 2009 to 2011.
2011 DBIO Nominations and Elections Committee:
Diane Schmidt, Chair
Jean Crampon
John Tebo
Congratulations Howard and Nalini! Their term of service begins January 1, 2012.
Chair-Elect: Howard Fuller
Howard currently serves as the Director of Library Services for Heald College in San Francisco, CA. He has been a member of SLA since 1991. Howard has served as chair of the DBIO Career Guidance & Employment Committee and chair of the 2011 Program Planning Committee. He was the chair of the Medical Section from 2002-2003 and served on the Program Planning Committee and Fund Development Committee at that time. Howard is also active in the Medical Library Association.
Secretary: Nalini Mahajan
Nalini is currently the Director and Webmaster of the Medical Library at the Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, IL. An SLA and DBIO member since 2002, she has served on the DBIO Public Relations Committee, Fund Development Committee, and the Vendor Relations Committee. She was the chair of the Vendor Relations Committee from 2009 to 2011.
2011 DBIO Nominations and Elections Committee:
Diane Schmidt, Chair
Jean Crampon
John Tebo
Dual Nature: Science Illustrations of Dan Otte
A new exhibit (August 6 – December 4, 2011) at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets. It is Dan Otte, curator of its entomology department.
For the past four decades, Otte has devoted his artistic skills to capturing the anatomical details of thousands of grasshopper and cricket species found all around the world. Contained within several volumes, his illustrations serve as definitive guides to the identification of the insects. You can find Otte’s Dan’s curriculum vitae and list of publications at http://www.danottesymposium.com/about/cv .
For the past four decades, Otte has devoted his artistic skills to capturing the anatomical details of thousands of grasshopper and cricket species found all around the world. Contained within several volumes, his illustrations serve as definitive guides to the identification of the insects. You can find Otte’s Dan’s curriculum vitae and list of publications at http://www.danottesymposium.com/about/cv .
Understanding women's underrepresentation in sciences
A review paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
argues that it is time to shift the discussion of gender bias in some math and science disciplines.
The paper, by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams, both of Cornell University, argues that formal discrimination is no longer a significant factor in hiring and related decisions -- at least when examined across the population as a whole. But even if women are deciding not to pursue math and science careers, that doesn’t mean that equity issues don't remain, they say. Female students may not be seeing role models in careers in which they could excel, they write. And work/family balance issues can easily discourage women from certain kinds of academic careers. More focus on these issues, as opposed to formal discrimination, might attract more women to science over the long run, the paper argues.
argues that it is time to shift the discussion of gender bias in some math and science disciplines.
The paper, by Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams, both of Cornell University, argues that formal discrimination is no longer a significant factor in hiring and related decisions -- at least when examined across the population as a whole. But even if women are deciding not to pursue math and science careers, that doesn’t mean that equity issues don't remain, they say. Female students may not be seeing role models in careers in which they could excel, they write. And work/family balance issues can easily discourage women from certain kinds of academic careers. More focus on these issues, as opposed to formal discrimination, might attract more women to science over the long run, the paper argues.
New Workshare University Offers Free Educational Resources
Workshare, http://www.workshare.com/university, a leading provider of document collaboration software, launched an online repository for free information, tools and articles on document collaboration, comparison and management.
Google Scholar Citations (GSC)
Google Scholar Citations provides a simple way for scholars to keep track of citations to their articles. Authors can check who is citing their publications, graph citations over time and compute several citation metrics. Authors can also create an automatically maintained public profile that lists all their articles. An author's public profile can appear in Google Scholar results when someone searches for his name. (e.g., richard feynman). Presently it is not available to all users, only to a small number of users. See review at: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Scholar-CitationsGoogle-Moves-into-the-Domain-of-Web-of-Science--Scopus-76917.asp
Second Annual VIVO Conference
The Second Annual VIVO Conference will take place August 24-26, 2011 at Gaylord National, Washington D.C. Visit http://vivoweb.org/conference2011.
In less than two years, the goal of establishing a national network of scientists has blossomed into a world effort to partner in support of an open information infrastructure for research discovery, collaboration and scholarly work. Full conference program is now available! Register Here
We are very proud because our members Kristi Holmes is Conference Program Chair and Michele Tennant is member of the Conference Program Committee. We congratulate them for their achievement and contribution.
VIVO: An interdisciplinary national network enabling collaboration and discovery among scientists across all disciplines. VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell http://vivoweb.org/. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.
In less than two years, the goal of establishing a national network of scientists has blossomed into a world effort to partner in support of an open information infrastructure for research discovery, collaboration and scholarly work. Full conference program is now available! Register Here
We are very proud because our members Kristi Holmes is Conference Program Chair and Michele Tennant is member of the Conference Program Committee. We congratulate them for their achievement and contribution.
VIVO: An interdisciplinary national network enabling collaboration and discovery among scientists across all disciplines. VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell http://vivoweb.org/. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond. VIVO supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. Content in any local VIVO installation may be maintained manually, brought into VIVO in automated ways from local systems of record, such as HR, grants, course, and faculty activity databases, or from database providers such as publication aggregators and funding agencies.
August 12, 2011
Summer 2011 issue of Biofeedback is available
In this issue: Chair's Message, Conference Highlights, Medical Section Report, MLA Liaison Report, Book Reviews, and more! Download the PDF.
June 7, 2011
The Final 2011 DBIO Program has been posted
May 9, 2011
Spring 2011 issue of Biofeedback is available
In this issue: Chair's Message, Philadelphia Conference Program Preview, Medical Section Report, Book Reviews, and more! Download the PDF.
US Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Stem-Cell Funding
A federal appeals court ruled that the federal government can continue to fund research involving human embryonic stem cells, a significant legal victory for the Obama administration. The divided ruling, by the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, overturned a trial judge's surprise ruling in 2010 that barred funding for the research. The appeals court, in a 21-page decision, said the National Institutes of Health reasonably concluded that government funding for embryonic stem-cell research is not prohibited by a 1996 law that bars the use of federal money for research in which an embryo is destroyed. The court's majority also agreed with the Obama administration's arguments that barring the funding would be a substantial blow to embryonic stem-cell research by blocking new projects and undermining existing ones. All three judges in the case were appointed by Republican presidents.
The ruling means funding can continue even as challengers to the administration's expansion of embryonic stem-cell research continue to press their lawsuit. The appeals court said the challengers did not appear likely to win their underlying case.
The ruling means funding can continue even as challengers to the administration's expansion of embryonic stem-cell research continue to press their lawsuit. The appeals court said the challengers did not appear likely to win their underlying case.
March 18, 2011
Review the 2011 DBIO Contributed Papers
March 18, 2011
The Preliminary 2011 DBIO Program has been posted
March 18, 2011
Get "Future Ready" at the 2011 SLA Annual Conference
Don't miss this opportunity to become "future ready" by exchanging ideas and connecting with thousands of fellow information professionals, all gathered in the historic city where the U.S. Constitution was written and the Declaration of Independence was signed. Join SLA 12-15 June 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center for the 2011 SLA Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO. Read more
SLA 2011 Conference Preview Program
Join SLA in the historic and dynamic city of Philadelphia for the SLA 2011 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO, to be held 12-15 June at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Click here to preview the program.
February 2011
Winter 2011 issue of Biofeedback is available
In this issue: Chair's Message, Philadelphia Conference Program Preview, Medical Section Report, MLA Liaison Report, Call for 2011 Papers Session, Book Reviews, and more! Download the PDF.
Nov 2010-Feb 1, 2011
Call for Contributed Posters
Nov 2010-Jan 4, 2011
Call for Contributed Papers
Rev. December 2011