Gear Up! Dec. 3rd and 5th….Build Your Research Toolkit!

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

gear-upFor faculty, researchers, graduate and professional school students, “Gear Up!” is an information fair showcasing information management tools, apps, and research support systems to help you kick your research projects into high gear.

  • Tuesday Dec. 3rd from 11-1 in the MacLean Atrium, Thayer School of Engineering
  • Thursday Dec. 5th from 11-1 in the Life Sciences Center Gallery

Drop by at any time during the event (either, or both!) and learn about tools and services to help you with your research. Enjoy light refreshments, and get to know the software, tools, resources, and people that can help you with computing, publishing, statistics, copyright, grants, funding, managing your research information, and more. “Gear Up!” is produced by the Library, Computing, and the Office of Sponsored Projects.

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Holiday Hours for the Biomedical Libraries

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

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Please Note Our Upcoming Holidays Hours
December 20, 2013 – January 2, 2014

Dana Biomedical Library (37 Dewey Field Road)

Friday, December 20, 2013, 5:00pm through Thursday, January 2, 2014, 7:30am
No Access/Closed for Med/Grad Students, other Dartmouth IDs, or general public.
Access only for building occupants, 5:00pm Friday, December 20, 2013 through 7:30am Thursday January 2, 2014.

Matthews-Fuller Library (DHMC, 5th floor)

Monday, December 23, 2013, 6:00pm through Thursday, January 2, 2014, 8:00am
Closed: 24 Hour Access for Authorized Users Only

Regular hours resume at 8:00am, Thursday, January 2, 2014

* After hours access to the Matthews-Fuller Library is available to authorized individuals. You must be affiliated with Dartmouth College or with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to be eligible. Please use this form to request access, or stop by the library service desk, call 650-7658, or email Matthews-Fuller.Library.Circulation@Dartmouth.EDU. NOTE: The request process takes about 2 weeks. Please plan ahead!

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New Books in the Biomedical Libraries – November 2013

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

Clinical Chemistry:  Principles, Techniques, and Correlations
Matthews-Fuller Library
RB40 C576 2013
chemistry

Physical Examination & Health Assessment
Matthews-Fuller Library
RC76 J37 2012
physical 

It’s Not All in Your Head: Anxiety, Depression, Mood Swings, and Multiple Sclerosis
Matthews-Fuller Library
RC377 F37 2010
head 

Five Days at Memorial:  Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Dana Library
RA975.D57 F56 2013
5days

Schaechter’s Mechanisms of Microbial Disease
Dana Library
QR46 .M463 2013
mechanisms

Always There: The Remarkable Life of Ruth Lillian Kirschstein, M.D.
Dana Library
RA424.5.K58 D38 2011
always

Introduction to Global Health
Dana Library
RA441 .J33 2014
global  

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BrowZine: Our eJournals on Your iPad

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

Article by Katie DeFord, Rick Hansen, and Jeremy Klockars

Would you like to easily access the current issues of the Biomedical Libraries’ subscriptions to eJournals without trolling through databases?  After all, databases are designed for searching, not reading.  Dartmouth subscribes to the full features of BrowZine, an application that allows you to easily create your own Newsstand, browse & store, and access thousands of Dartmouth’s eJournals collection.  One of BrowZine’s nice features is your ability to have the articles you need at your fingertips and be able to access them anywhere, anytime!  You can save articles to DropBox, iBooks, Notability, and other services. As of right now, BrowZine doesn’t offer printing, but articles can be opened in other apps that allow printing depending which you have installed on your iPad.

browzine vs. web

Dartmouth’s subscription to BrowZine allows you to create your own journal shelf. Simply browse the Dartmouth College Libraries’ eJournal collection, choose the titles you want on your shelf, download articles of interest and save references.  Currently, not all of Dartmouth’s e-journal subscriptions are available using BrowZine.  See a list of participating publishers here.  You can sign up for a newsletter to receive new updates about product releases through BrowZine.

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Instructions for installing BrowZine:

  • From the App Store on your iPad, download the free BrowZine app.
  • For off-campus access you will need the Dartmouth VPN to access the collection. For instructions on setting up VPN on your iPad click here.
  • When installing BrowZine on campus (Dartmouth or DHMC/Lebanon), click “continue” when prompted with “VPN required at Dartmouth College.”
  • When you open BrowZine for the first time, you will see a list of schools; please select “Dartmouth College.”
  • BrowZine is also available at the Google Play and Amazon/Kindle stores for Android tablets. For more about BrowZine, see http://thirdiron.com/browzine/

Please send questions or comments to: 
Matthews-Fuller.Library.Circulation@dartmouth.edu

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UpToDate for Your Mobile Device

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

UpToDate is now available for your IOS, Android, or Windows 8 mobile device.

To take advantage of this new feature, you must register for a personal account.  Go to UpToDate while on a computer (not your mobile device) connected to the DH or Dartmouth network. Click on the red “Log In/Register” button on UpToDate’s home page:

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Fill out the registration form for new users and submit. You’ll quickly receive a confirmation by email.

Go to the app store for your device and download the free UpToDate app. Log in with your newly created user name and password. You can have the app on up to 2 devices; your laptop or desktop computer does not count as a device. Please note: you must be connected to the internet via your device to access the content.

Your registration expires if you do not log in every 90 days from either your device or computer on the Dartmouth or DH network. You’ll get a reminder after 25 days of not logging in.

UpToDate is brought to you by a partnership of the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, Geisel School of Medicine, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

Questions?  Contact Biomedical.Libraries.Reference@Dartmouth.edu or 650-7660.

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Know Your Copyrights: Fair Use in Teaching and Publishing

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

copyLearn about the key exceptions in copyright law that support teaching and publishing, including but not limited to, Fair Use. Please bring your own experiences, examples and questions, and take this opportunity to influence how we describe copyright on our web pages. Lunch will be served.

Date & Time: Thursday, October 24, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Register: Registration is required

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Open Access Week at Dartmouth: Events and Information!

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

OpenAccessYou are invited to stop by information tables and to attend workshops during Open Access Week at Dartmouth, Oct. 21-25.  Learn about open access publishing and policies, copyright, Creative Commons, open educational resources, and more!  Find out about support and tools offered at Dartmouth, such as digital publishing of books and manuscripts, open access journal publishing fees from the Compact on Open Access Publishing Equity Fund (COPE),  and the Dartmouth Author’s Amendment. Discuss current trends in publishing and scholarly communication.  For more detailed information, consult the Scholarly Publishing & Communication Research Guide

Find an information table near you.
Dates, times, locations:

  • Monday, 10/21 10:30 am-12:30 pm,  GlycoFi Atrium in MacLean Hall at Thayer
  • Tuesday, 10/22 10-noon, Fairchild Tower
  • Wednesday, 10/23 2-3:30 pm, Baker Library Main Hall
  • Thursday, 10/24 9-11 am, Life Sciences Center Gallery
  • Friday, 10/25 9:30-11:30 am ,Novack Café, Berry Library
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New Resource: Natural Standard, an Alternative Therapies Database

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

The Natural StandardNatural Standard, a database assessing herbal medicine, supplements, and other complementary and alternative therapies, is now available from the Biomedical Libraries. Connect to http://www.naturalstandard.com.

Natural Standard describes itself as founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine including dietary supplements and integrative therapies. Grades reflect the level of available scientific data for or against the use of each therapy for a specific medical condition.  It is impartial; not supported by any interest group, professional organization or product manufacturer.

The evidence grading system is explained at http://www.naturalstandard.com/grading.asp.

Other sources of information about alternative therapies include free sites such as Medline Plus, HerbMed.org, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the Office of Dietary Supplements, as well as comprehensive drug information resources from the Biomedical Libraries such as UpToDate, Clinical Pharmacology Online, DynaMed, and Micromedex.

Questions? Contact Peggy Sleeth, Associate Director for Information Resources.

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2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

nobel-prizeThe Nobel Assembly at Karolinksa Institute awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three scientists who solved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system for molecules in small packages called vesicles.  The winners are  James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Sudhof.

According to the press release, “Randy Schekman discovered a set of genes that were required for vesicle traffic. James Rothman  unravelled protein machinery that allows vesicles to fuse with their targets to permit transfer of cargo. Thomas Südhof revealed how signals instruct vesicles to release their cargo with precision.” Read the full press release at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2013/press.html.

Read the key publications of these honored scientists:

  • Novick P, Schekman R: Secretion and cell-surface growth are blocked in a temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1979; 76:1858-1862.
  • Balch WE, Dunphy WG, Braell WA, Rothman JE: Reconstitution of the transport of protein between successive compartments of the Golgi measured by the coupled incorporation of N-acetylglucosamine. Cell 1984; 39:405-416.
  • Kaiser CA, Schekman R: Distinct sets of SEC genes govern transport vesicle formation and fusion early in the secretory pathway. Cell 1990; 61:723-733.
  • Perin MS, Fried VA, Mignery GA, Jahn R, Südhof TC: Phospholipid binding by a synaptic vesicle protein homologous to the regulatory region of protein kinase C. Nature 1990; 345:260-263.
  • Sollner T, Whiteheart W, Brunner M, Erdjument-Bromage H, Geromanos S, Tempst P, Rothman JE: SNAP receptor implicated in vesicle targeting and fusion. Nature 1993; 362:318-324.
  • Hata Y, Slaughter CA, Südhof TC: Synaptic vesicle fusion complex contains unc-18 homologue bound to syntaxin. Nature 1993; 366:347-351.
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New Books in the Biomedical Libraries – October 2013

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Donald Fitzpatrick

Evolution, Games, and God:  The Principle of Cooperation
Dana Library
QH360.5 .E965 2013
evolution

Spark From the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
Dana Library
QL639.1 .T87 2013
spark

Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts
Dana Library
QH442.6 .A58 2013
frankenstein

Alexander Wilson:  The Scot who Founded American Ornithology
Dana Library
QL31.W7 B87 2013
ornithology

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions affect the Practice of Medicine
Matthews-Fuller Library
R727.3 .O364 2013
what-docs-feel

Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations
Matthews-Fuller Library
RA971 D78 2013
strategic

The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life
Matthews-Fuller Library
R726 B45 2013
hastings

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