UPDATE: Due to its popularity, we will now be offering a second session of this course! Both will be held in the UCLA Biomedical Library Classroom

April 18th, 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 12 -1pm (event full – sign up for waitlist)

Tuesday, April 30, 2-3 pm (reserve your space)

If you’re not able to attend either session, check out our Data Wednesdays page after the session to get slides, video, handouts, and other materials.

You’ve thought carefully about how you’ll conduct your research.  You’ve spent hours in the lab or the field gathering your data.  But have you thought about how to best manage that data to make analysis easier, ensure that you don’t lose the results of all your hard work, and preserve your data for the future?  A data management plan (DMP) addresses these questions and more to help you get the most out of your data.  Plus, many grant funders, including the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, require that grant proposals include DMPs.

Whether you’re writing a formal DMP to meet a funder requirement or you just want to think ahead about how to best manage your data, this workshop will walk you through the steps to writing a successful data management plan.  We’ll discuss how to use the DMPTool, a free, interactive website for writing DMPs, and cover resources to help you answer the questions you’ll need to think about in writing your DMP.

This workshop is the first in the Biomedical Library’s new Data Wednesdays series!  Join us the fourth Wednesday of every month to learn about a topic related to research data management.

Questions?  Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information!

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Writing a Successful Data Management Plan: an Upcoming Workshop

April 16th, 2013

You’ve thought carefully about how you’ll conduct your research.  You’ve spent hours in the lab or the field gathering your data.  But have you thought about how to best manage that data to make analysis easier, ensure that you don’t lose the results of all your hard work, and preserve your data for the future?  A data management plan (DMP) addresses these questions and more to help you get the most out of your data.  Plus, many grant funders, including the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, require that grant proposals include DMPs.

Whether you’re writing a formal DMP to meet a funder requirement or you just want to think ahead about how to best manage your data, this workshop will walk you through the steps to writing a successful data management plan.  We’ll discuss how to use the DMPTool, a free, interactive website for writing DMPs, and cover resources to help you answer the questions you’ll need to think about in writing your DMP.

This workshop is the first in the Biomedical Library’s new Data Wednesdays series!  Join us the fourth Wednesday of every month to learn about a topic related to research data management.

Join us on Wednesday, April 24th, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Biomed Library Classroom. Seating is limited; please RSVP at http://ucladmp.eventbrite.com.  Questions?  Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information!

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BrowZine iPad Application Trial and Survey – ends April 30, 2013

April 8th, 2013

Have an iPad? Help the Library evaluate a new research tool that is being considered for possible subscription.

The libraries of the University of California are running a trial of a new technology called BrowZine, a tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the library’s journals, all from your iPad. To facilitate your research, articles found in BrowZine can easily be sent to Zotero, Dropbox or several other services to help keep all your information together in one place.

To learn more, please take a look at this short (two minute) video.

If you’d like to trial this resource. please send an email to biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information. This trial ends April 30, 2013.

We would appreciate your feedback while we consider subscribing to this service. After trying BrowZine, please fill out this short survey.

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Instruction Materials for Biostatistics 240: Master’s Seminar and Research Resources for Graduating Biostats M.S. Students

April 4th, 2013

Below are links to the materials for the Master’s Seminar and Research Resources for Graduating Biostatistics M.S. Students library instruction session to be held on April 4, 2013 from noon – 1 p.m. in the Biomedical Library Classroom (12-077X CHS).

Important links:

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DATE CHANGE: NIH Public Access Policy: How to Comply

April 1st, 2013

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Friday, April 5, 2013
12–1 p.m., Biomedical Library Classroom (12-077X CHS).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that it would delay processing of renewals to PIs who are not in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy beginning July 1, 2013.  Join the Biomedical Library on Friday, April 5 to learn more about how to ensure that you comply with the Policy. We’ll discuss:

  • submission methods and how to make sure your article has successfully been submitted to PubMed Central
  • how to make sure you are in compliance with the Policy
  • citing your compliant articles in grant applications and progress reports
  • your questions about the Policy and how to comply

Seating is limited; RSVP to biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu.

<submitted by Lisa Federer>

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Data 101: Introduction to Research Data Management 4/5 @12pm

March 27th, 2013

Drowning in data? Need to write a data management plan? Responsible for your lab’s research data? The Library can help!

Attend our upcoming workshop Data 101: Introduction to Research Data Management to learn how to manage your research data more effectively.  The workshop will be held at the Science and Engineering Library/Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Collection (8270 Boelter Hall) on Friday, April 5th at 12pm.  RSVP to Tony Aponte at tjaponte@library.ucla.edu.

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UCLA History of Medicine and the Medical Humanities Forum – Bob Frank on Yellow fever in Providence (April 12, 2013)

March 26th, 2013

 

The Bio-Social Ecology of Epidemics: Yellow Fever in Providence ca. 1800

Robert J. Frank, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, UCLA Department of History

12:30 p.m., Friday, 12 April 2013

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Location: Rare Book Room, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, 12-077 CHS

Seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please call 310.825.6940

Epidemics happen. And since Thucydides, historians and literati have written extensively and graphically on the chaos that epidemics bring. This narrative mode has largely characterized the voluminous writings on yellow fever outbreaks in the United States from 1790 to 1905, when it seemed that no coastal town or city—especially southern—was safe from “yellow jack.” As I started exploring the epidemics ca. 1800 in the port town of Providence, Rhode Island (the 9th largest city in the young U.S.), I discovered an unusually rich trove of thousands of documents from which I could write a similar detailed narrative.

But I also found an even more interesting story—of the way in which the epidemics, in their timing and course, were shaped by what I call the “bio-social ecology of disease.” This ecology, is comprised of many interacting components: the nature of the yellow fever virus, the detailed characteristics of its vector (the mosquito Aedes aegypti), how the two cause the clinical picture of yellow fever, the weather and climate of the town, the topography of the port, the patterns of trade to the Caribbean, the characteristics of the merchant fleet, the activist nature of the town’s citizens, their hands-on political institutions, the medical care delivered to patients, and the preventative measures (such as patient isolation and ship inspection/ quarantine) that the town put in place. My presentation will privilege the structural, rather than the narrative, elements of this case study.

This series provides opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and visiting researchers to present recent work or unfinished work-in-progress in an informal, presentation-and-discussion format. Seating is limited and is not guaranteed without a reservation. Reservations may be made by contacting History and Special Collections for the Sciences (voice: 310.825.6940; email: rjohnson@library.ucla.edu).

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Springer 2013 content not currently available

March 15th, 2013

Springer reports that access to all 2013 content has been disabled during license negotiations.

CDL Acquisitions is working with Springer to restore access to 2013 content during license negotiations.

We will let you know when access is restored.

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UCLA Library Launches Affordable Course Materials Initiative

March 15th, 2013

This new initiative incentivizes instructors to use low-cost or free alternatives to expensive course materials; these can include open-access scholarly resources, Library-licensed and owned resources, and learning objects and texts that faculty create themselves. A total of $10,000 will be offered for the 2013-14 academic year: five awards of $1,000 each for instructors teaching courses with enrollments of fewer than two hundred students and two awards of $2,500 each for instructors teaching courses with enrollment of more than two hundred students.

These modest yet significant sums are meant to offer an incentive for the time it will take instructors to identify new resources, adjust syllabi, and modify assignments and can also be used to cover any actual expenses incurred by the instructor. Each applicant must be the instructor of record, and the courses must be for enrolled students (i.e., not UCLA Extension courses); the courses can be at the undergraduate or graduate level.

The initiative has been endorsed by the Office of the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and the UCLA Academic Senate.

Application Process

Applications are now being accepted for the 2013-14 academic year.  The due date for applications for courses to be taught in the fall quarter is Friday, April 26.

Further information on this initiative is available online.  If you have questions, please email or call 310.825.6925.

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Take the Library’s Survey on Data Management for a Chance to Win a $20 Target Gift Card!

March 14th, 2013

The Biomedical Library would like your feedback about research data management.  The Library is planning a series of hour-long instructional classes on data management. To ensure that the classes meet the needs of UCLA faculty, students, staff, and researchers, we would like to hear from you about what tools and resources you’d like to learn more about and how you currently organize your research data. Please fill out our survey and help inform the development of the courses.  The survey should take no more than 10 minutes of your time, and all responses will be anonymous.

The first 24 participants to complete the survey will win a $20 Target gift card. You must be a current UCLA student, staff, or faculty member to be eligible to receive a gift card.

In addition to helping to shape the course offerings, survey results will be used for research purposes. Should you have any concerns or questions, please contact Lisa Federer at lmfederer@library.ucla.edu or (310) 794-2030.

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