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Tuesday, April 7; 4 - 6 p.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library
Presentation Room, Room 11348

This workshop will explain permissions and copyright issues related to filing theses and dissertations. It will cover how to use work that you have already published, when to obtain permissions for using works published by others, and whether using visuals requires permissions. The workshop will also offer practical advice on how to request permissions and copyright your own thesis. Bring your questions!
Admission is free, and no reservations are required; seating is on a first-come basis.

The AARP on Monday released a report “Chronic Care: A Call to Action for Health Reform,” which details the state of chronic care and offers recommendations for improving care for the chronically ill as part of comprehensive health reform. The AARP report makes several recommendations for policy changes to improve care for the chronically ill, including:

• Increasing the use of health information technology so that doctors, patients and caregivers have the information they need, when they need it;
• Expanding testing of care delivery models to find out what works and including best practices for chronic disease care in training for doctors and other health professionals;
• Making innovative changes to payment policy to encourage better performance and outcomes; and
• Making preventive care and medications more affordable to avoid preventable chronic diseases altogether and to better treat those that do occur.
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Need a quick reminder on where the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) is shelved in the Biomedical Library? Can’t figure out how to find information about a psychological test? Need help locating peer-reviewed psychological literature? Check out the new UCLA Biomedical Library subject guide for Psychology. Subject guides are carefully curated lists of resources created by subject specialist librarians to help you in your research or teaching.

The Psychology subject guide has been entirely updated and migrated to LibGuides, a new web hosting service. LibGuides permit comments within the guide, as well as allowing users to rate links and suggest other items to include. Your comments and suggestions are invited: you can help us make this guide more useful for fellow Bruins.

The UCLA Library maintains subject guides for many topics. Find links to subject guides in the health and life sciences on the Biomedical Library’s Key Resources page, or review all UCLA Library guides.

WHO: Those who plan to file a thesis or dissertation during Spring Quarter are encouraged to attend.

WHEN:

Masters:

• April 2, Thursday 10:00 AM
• April 3, Friday 10:00 AM
• April 4, Saturday 10:00 AM

Doctoral:

• April 2, Thursday 11:00 AM
• April 3, Friday 11:00 AM
• April 4, Saturday 11:00 AM

WHERE: West Electronic Classroom, Room 23167 Young Research Library (Take elevator or stairs to second floor, turn left and go down the hall to West Electronic Classroom.)

TOPICS: Staff from the University Archives and the Graduate Division will present information on University regulations governing manuscript preparation and completion of degree requirements.

FILING DEADLINE FOR SPRING 2009: June 1, 2009

The National Institutes of Health posted an archived  Web Seminar this week regarding the application process for core facilities improvement projects and construction, renovation and repair improvement projects, being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (”ARRA” or “Recovery Act”). This seminar is the archived version of a previously scheduled session held on March 16th.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA” or “Recovery Act”), Pub. L. No. 111-5, appropriates $1B for grants or contracts under section 481A of the Public Health Service Act to construct, repair or renovate existing non-Federal research facilities.  Two related FOAs for construction, renovations and repairs to extramural facilities have been released in response to the Recovery Act (Accessed on March 16, 2009 at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RR-09-009.html).

If you are interested in viewing the NIH Webinar, slides and a FAQ document are also available at the above seminar page.

Effective Friday, March 13, 2009 plug-in Ethernet ports have been disabled for the Biomedical Library Stack Levels 6, 7, 8 and the 3rd Floor Graduate Study Room. In room 32-080C there are (4) four tables with (3) three power/data pods on them for medical, nursing and public health student use.

Table 1 & Table 2  (the pods on the end of each table) port 8 & port 11  —  port 14 & port 17
Table 3 & Table 4  (the pods on one end and middle of each table) port 19 & port 22  —  port 27 & port 30

The plug-in ports on the main floor of the Biomedical Library and other areas have not been disabled. Library Computing Services (LCS) will begin disabling plug-ins in other areas of the Biomedical Library soon. Updates will be posted to the Biomedical Library Blog at: http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/biomedical/

The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library announces trial access to the Global Health database on the ISI Web of Knowledge (WoK) search platform. Created and maintained by Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI) Publishing, the Global Health database includes journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and conference proceedings covering international public health issues and research dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. Use the WoK trial access to search materials on this platform. We currently subscribe to the Global Health database using the CAB Direct platform.

This trial will end on March 31, 2009. Please send your comments about the Global Health database trial on ISI Web of Knowledge by April 1, 2009, to Andrea Lynch, a public health liaison librarian, or Janet Carter, Collection Coordinator.