Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

The Louise M. Darling Committee in the Biomedical Library invites UCLA students, staff, and faculty to attend the Medical Library Association (MLA) fall educational webcast.

Cut the Cord: Connecting to our Mobile Users
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Biomedical Library Classroom, 12-077X CHS

Program Goals:
The goal of this webcast is to familiarize information professionals with current and emerging mobile technologies, innovative initiatives using mobile devices, useful mobile software applications, and funding options for projects using mobile devices.

Program Objectives:

• describe mobile technology and its value for librarians and health care professionals
• demonstrate mobile technology devices and innovative applications
• explore programs that illustrate the potential of mobile technology for health professionals
• discuss funding opportunities to create and sustain mobile technology programs

Space is limited. RSVP to Amy Chatfield, librarian at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, by November 2, 2009.

<Submitted by Amy Chatfield>

Open-Access Week focuses attention on the growing global movement toward open public online access to scholarly research results. This year, organizers expect that more than 120 academic and public libraries in more than thirty countries will host events for their constituencies.

All of UCLA’s events are free, and no reservations are required. For further information on open-access publishing options and activities at UCLA, go to http://guides.library.ucla.edu/openaccess.

CDL’s eScholarship for Librarians
Monday, October 19; 10-11 a.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library West Electronic Classroom

Elise Proulx, outreach and marketing coordinator for the eScholarship publishing program, will unveil the new eScholarship interface and services available to scholars and departments. Bonnie Tijerina, UCLA’s eScholarship liaison, will present several recent campus eScholarship projects.

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In celebration of Open Access Week, October 19-24, 2009, the Electronic Green Journal, which recently published its 28th issue, will debut a new interface on the California Digital Library’s eScholarship.

The new interface helps readers discover related content on the eScholarship platform and includes Web 2.0 functionality like creating RSS feeds for articles or journals. Readers will be able to fully take advantage of this new interface when the next issue of the Electronic Green Journal (EGJ) is published in December 2009.

The EGJ is academically sponsored and published semiannually by the UCLA Library and is one of the first peer-reviewed international journals promoting an open access publishing model as presented in Peter Suber’s Open-Access Timeline. Since its inception in July of 1994, the main goal of the Electronic Green Journal has been to assist in international scholarly environmental communication by providing a quality, unbiased, and freely accessible forum for the exchange of environmental information as an alternative to costly, commercially produced scientific journals.

For more information contact:
Maria Anna Jankowska, General Editor, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, majankowska@library.ucla.edu
Amy J. Chatfield, Book Review Editor, UCLA, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, Los Angeles, California, achatfie@library.ucla.edu

<originally posted to the blog, Open Access Week by Amy Chatfield>

“Who pays for Open Access?” is a key question faced by libraries and authors as interest to scholarly research increases. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Coalition (SPARC) examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open-access publishers in a new guide. “Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice,” invites community discussion on models described as well as contributions related to new and other models. For information on Open Access attend programs sponsored by the UCLA Library during Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009. Stay tuned for information about the Open Access Week events and program on the Biomedical Library blog.

<submitted by Tania Bardyn>

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

WHEN:

Masters:

• October 1, Thursday 10:00 AM
• October 2, Friday 10:00 AM
• October 3, Saturday 10:00 AM

Doctoral:

• October 1, Thursday 11:00 AM
• October 2, Friday 11:00 AM
• October 3, 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 FALL 2009: November 30, 2009

<submitted by Paul Camp>

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), which coordinates the NN/LM program, conducted a mid-contract site visit at UCLA on October 21, 2008. The purpose of the site visit was to help the staff of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region (NN/LM PSR) and NLM understand how we are serving our Network members, learn how we can strengthen our program to meet current and emerging needs in the region, and gather ideas for how NLM can help us as we provide the types of activities and services needed in the region today and in the future. NLM visited all eight RMLs in the NN/LM in 2008 to learn about regional accomplishments, issues and challenges, and priorities.

Feedback from Network members about the NN/LM PSR program was solicited in two phases: through a regional questionnaire posted six weeks prior to site visit and through discussion at the site visit itself.

The site visit included a meeting with UCLA Administrators, a presentation by RML staff summarizing significant accomplishments in the region related to goals of the NN/LM, and an afternoon discussion with invited network members to hear their perspectives and input. These members represented a broad range of stakeholders, including resource libraries, hospital libraries, public and academic libraries, and community-based organizations.

Details about the site visit and the findings of the site visit team can be found at http://nnlm.gov/psr/about/sitevisit/index.html. We truly appreciate the helpful feedback you gave us during the site visit process and your continuing participation in the NN/LM PSR program. We will continue to support your efforts in the region in every way that we can!

<originally posted to Latitudes, the newsletter of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region by Heidi Sandstrom>

Gary E. Strong. University Librarian, invites you to a reading, reception, and book signing with Gary B. Nash, UCLA Professor Emeritus and Director of the National Center for History in the Schools.

Time: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 4 to 6 p.m.
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room

Author Gary Nash will discuss “A Tragic Betrayal in the New Nation” based on his recent book Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation.

Nash joined the Department of History in 1966 and has remained at UCLA ever since. Among the more than twenty books he has written or edited, the most recent are The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005), The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006), and Friends of Liberty (2008).

Nash served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1994-95 and co-chaired the National History Standards Project during 1992-96. He is an elected member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society.

Space is limited; RSVP by June 9 to 310.206.8526 or rsvp@library.ucla.edu.

Free Admission - Open to the general public; reservation priority given to Library Associates members.

Complementary Parking is available in structure Five.

Directions: Enter campus at Royce Drive off Sunset Boulevard. Proceed straight ahead to Structure Five. Tell the attendant that you are attending the Library’s author reading.

Exit east from the parking structure, then walk northeast to reach the Research Library.

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health released its final report on May 20th which concludes that the U.S. government and U.S.-based foundations, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and commercial entities have an opportunity to improve global health and provides specific recommendations for how these groups should proceed. To follow-up on this release, the Kaiser Family Foundation will hold a live, interactive webcast tomorrow, Thursday, May 21 at 9 a.m. PT from its Washington, DC studio, to discuss what the report results will likely mean for the U.S. government’s response to global health. For more information on this webcast and for a link to the IOM report, go to http://globalhealth.kff.org/Multimedia/2009/May/21/gh052109video.aspx.

<submitted by Andrea Lynch>

Although many popular accounts have contrasted the contemporary influence of pharmaceutical marketing in clinical practice with a nostalgic remembrance of uncomplicated relations between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry at mid-century, the relationship between pharmaceutical promotion and physician education had already prompted significant professional and public debate in the 1950s and 1960s. This talk will use historical perspective to explore the problem of industrial vs. professional sources in how physicians incorporate emerging therapeutics into their practice. Tracing the issue from the advent of the postwar ‘wonder drugs’ through today’s concerns regarding industry influencer in formal continuing medical education (CME) and off-label prescribing, this talk will document how and why the pharmaceutical industry was allowed to develop and maintain the central role it now plays within postgraduate medical education and prescribing practice. The talk will also explore paths not taken: alternate structures for medical education and the diffusion of medical innovation that were abandoned along the way.

Lecture by: Jeremy Greene, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, and the Harvard Medical School Division of Pharmacoepidemiology

Date: Thursday, 21 May 2009, 4:30 p.m.

Location: Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, Semel Institute, C8-183 Center for the Health Sciences, UCLA

The lecture is open, free of charge, and is followed by an opportunity to converse over light refreshments in the foyer.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. For more information, please contact the History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise Darling Biomedical Library at 310.825.6940 or via email at: tgj@library.ucla.edu.

<submitted by Russell Johnson>

This year marks the sixty-first year of the Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition, among the oldest competitions of its kind in the country and one of the most distinguished. UCLA student book collectors, both graduate and undergraduate, are invited to submit their collections for judging and the chance to win awards ranging from $150 to $500. Full details and application information are available on the Campbell website at http://www.library.ucla.edu/campbell/index.cfm.

Applications are due by Thursday, May 7, 2009. Awards will be announced at a ceremony in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, 2009.