ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from approximately 11:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m tomorrow, Saturday, August 29th 2009.
Below are links to the materials for the Pediatric Dentistry Residents library instruction session to be held on August 28, 2009 from 1-2:30p.m. in the Center for Health Sciences Room B3-020.
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<submitted by Rikke Ogawa>
EBSCO recently announced that beginning in August 2009, the continuing education modules found in the CINAHL Plus are now approved by the ANCC. The ANCC is the American Nurses Credentialing Center. This accreditation is a great honor and demonstrates CINAHL’s support for professional continuing education opportunities, as the modules are rigorously reviewed by objective standards.
Continuing education modules are found in CINAHL Plus using the CE module check box in the “Limit Your Search” portion of the advanced search screen.
<submitted by Paul Camp>
Bruins searching for scholarly literature in the environmental sciences have a new source to use: CSA has added Environment Abstracts to its Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database.
Environment Abstracts indexes articles, books, conference papers, government documents, and conference proceedings from 1975 to the present. Topics covered include:
Environment Abstracts information has already been added to our Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database. Try a search and see what new materials you can discover!
<submitted by Amy Chatfield>
The Resources in Medicine guide has recently been updated and moved to a new platform! UCLA Library is streamlining the look and feel of our subject guides. You will notice a few changes to the layout and more content available.
<submitted by Andrea Lynch>
Below are links to the materials for the GI Fellows: Searching the Clinical Research Literature library instruction session to be held on August 7, 2009 from 8-10a.m. in the Gonda Building First Floor Conference Room (1-357 Gonda).
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<submitted by Rikke Ogawa>
A few years ago, I was co-teaching a consumer health class to library school students. In addition to the traditional health websites, my colleague presented a few examples of user-generated content—sites where ordinary people were posting stories about their own health conditions on discussion lists or on their personal blogs for anyone to see. One particular example involved a young woman who had a suspicious mole that turned out to be a type of skin cancer. She posted her story and pictures on her blog, which elicited a flood of responses from people with their own stories. Another example was Ronda’s Migraine page, a support community that offers a journal area where people can post their own stories, a live chat area and discussion forums. This site was started in 1996 and is still going strong!
The adoption of social tools and technologies by patients and health consumers began over a decade ago, long before the term Web 2.0 was coined. The trend of using social networking sites for health information is examined in a June 2009 report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, The Social Life of Health Information by Susannah Fox and Sydney Jones. This report updates past research and highlights trends that have not been studied until now, including the use (or avoidance) of various social networking venues to seek health information, publish personal stories or contribute to discussions.
During the month of August, the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library will say goodbye to two members of the Research, Instruction, and Collection Services (RICS) Division.
Andrea Lynch began her career at the UCLA Library in 1998 as a library assistant in the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library (PSRML). She was inspired by the librarians she worked with and decided to obtain her Masters in Library and Information Science degree while working in the PSRML. After graduation Andrea was hired in RICS as a health and life sciences librarian.
Cheryl Bartel joined the staff of RICS (then simply known as Reference) in 2002 as a recent UCLA library school graduate. Prior to her graduation, Cheryl worked in the Biomedical Library as a student employee, both in the PSRML and in the Reference office.
Andrea and Cheryl joined forces to form the liaison teams for the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health with Cheryl taking the lead for Nursing and Andrea the lead for Public Health. Both librarians soon became very popular with the faculty and students in these schools and also with the professional nurses at the medical center and those they served with on the Clinical Practice Committee. In addition to their work at UCLA, both Cheryl and Andrea have been very active professionally in the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona.
Cheryl is leaving UCLA to pursue a new career and will be attending Western University of the Health Sciences in the graduate nursing program. Her last day will be August 5. Andrea has accepted the position of Scholarly Communications Librarian at the City of Hope Lee Graff Medical & Scientific Library. Andrea’s final day at UCLA will be August 18.
Please join us in wishing Cheryl and Andrea well as they leave UCLA. They have been a pleasure and a joy to work with and will be greatly missed.
<submitted by Paul Camp>
Below are links to the materials for the NSF Competitive Edge STEM Doctoral Summer Program session to be held on August 4, 2009 in the Biomedical Library Classroom. The class will be meeting adjacent to the Public Service Desk at 9:00 a.m. and will proceed to the classroom together.
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<submitted by Amy Chatfield and Paul Camp>
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