Medical Students Get Free Epocrates Essentials in August

Epocrates is continuing their Student Appreciation Program. Through the month of August, KUMC Medical Students can use Epocrates Essentials free for the entire year. This is a $159 value!
To register for a license and download the app:

1. Complete the form at http://www.epocrates.com/e/edu/medstudents, selecting "Univ of Ks Sch of Med" as your school.
2. Select “GET IT NOW”. You will be redirected to the Epocrates registration page where you can register for a new account or sign into your existing account. To access the free Epocrates Essentials you must list your occupation as “medical student”.
3. Verify their medical student standing. If you cannot be verified immediately, you can “SKIP” this section and Epocrates will follow up directly to verify.
4. Once the registration is complete, you will see your shopping cart with
5. Epocrates Essentials and the discount should reflect a cost of $0.00.
6. When you have confirmed the purchase, you will be directed to download Epocrates on your device.

Student Program FAQ

Epocrates Support

We're sorry that Epocrates only offers the Appreciation program for medical students and not nursing or other health profession students.

 

Stroke Awareness Month video

Mandy Lam, Dykes Library student reference assistant, completed her occupational therapy fieldwork with American Stroke Foundation.

American Stroke Foundation put together the following stroke advocacy video as part of Stroke Awareness Month. Check it out! (Note: Video can take a few minutes to load.)

For more information regarding American Stroke Foundation, visit their website or find them on Facebook.

Additional information regarding Open Access

Thank you to all who attended our Open Access panelist event!
 
Special thanks to Dr. Paul Terranova for his introduction of the One University Open Access Publishing Fund.

Looking for more information regarding Open Access and the publishing process? View our Open Access LibGuide (which includes the Open Access PowerPoint Dr. Terranova mentioned this afternoon). Also, view our Copyright and Author Rights LibGuide for more information regarding managing copyright and navigating copyright transfer agreements.

A big thank you to Ken Davis for moderating the event and to our excellent panelists, including Diane Boyle, Liskin Swint-Kruse and Karthik Ramachandran.

Questions about Open Access? Contact Crystal Cameron-Vedros or Rachel Gyore.

Dykes Library invites you to participate in Open Access (OA) Week

Dykes Library invites you to celebrate Open Access (OA) Week with us starting next Monday!  The library will host events to promote OA and its benefits for the academic and research community. These events will culminate in an exciting announcement of our new KU One University Open Access Publishing Fund! 

Learn more about the One University Open Access Fund.

Register now for KUMC OA Week events

See all KU Open Access Week events.
Follow #oaweek on Twitter.

What's Open Access? Learn more about OA and author rights.

 

Questions? Contact Crystal Cameron-Vedros or Rachel Gyore.

Journals at Dykes Library

Update

A special thank you to University Leadership for working with the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee and Dykes Library personnel in making additional funding available to Dykes Library to support collections (journals) for researchers, faculty, clinicians, students. 

Information is not free and continued inflation of the current journal list makes sustaining the status quo untenable.  With the support of University Leadership the cancellations for FY2013 will not be as aggressive as believed in the Spring of 2012. 

With input from your faculty representatives to the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee (FAIRC) and Dykes Library personnel, the revised journal cancellation list is now available.  We will again purchase monographs and will discuss with FAIRC criteria by which those funds should be allocated and expended - print or electronic monographs.

During the Fall semester working with University Leadership and FAIRC, it appears that a work group will be formed to develop a plan to address a more reasonable and sustainable method of supporting information and services needs of researchers, faculty, clinicians and students.   Stay tuned.  We will keep the University community updated.   

The updated FAQ identifying how these cancellation decisions were made is here for your review.

Thank you again to the support of FAIRC members and University Leadership.

Upcoming Training: What's New on PubMed?

Dykes Library's NN/LM Biomedical Librarian Rachel Vukas will be presenting about new developments on PubMed Wednesday, September 26 at 2 p.m. CT.

This free, one-hour online training only requires computer access and a phone. Visit this URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ then login as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided.

This online training is made available through National Network of Libraries of Medicine MidContinental Region (NN/LM). See more information and learn more about additional NN/LM training opportunities here.  

New art display at Dykes Library!

Be sure to stop by and enjoy Jean Howard: On Site, a beautiful new art collection on display at Dykes Library’s second floor gallery!

Jean Howard: On Site includes works painted "en plein air" by Howard during her travels around the world. "En plein air" literally translates as "in the open air" and describes works that are created out-of-doors working directly from nature. This sampling of pieces painted in Mexico, Italy, Greece, China, New Mexico, England, France, and Morocco function as a visual travel journal and convey a sense of place and light.

Jean Howard is an accomplished painter and educator. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing and a Doctorate in Visual Arts Education from the University of Kansas. She taught painting and drawing at Johnson County Community College for more than two decades and holds the title of Professor Emeritus. Her works have been widely exhibited regionally. Many of her former students, now working artists, acknowledge her as a major influence in their careers.

Jean Howard: On Site is available for your viewing pleasure at Dykes Library through November 11.  

 

EndNote X6 for Windows is Here!

EndNote is a software application that is used to store and organize the bibliographic information that comprises citations. And, EndNote is designed to house and search the full text of journal articles, including your annotations! With EndNote's integration with Microsoft Word, creating a bibliography becomes a seamless part of the writing process.

Download EndNote X6 for Windows today for free from myKUMC! (And Mac users, look for EndNote X6 this fall!)

 Register for EndNote classes: http://www.trumba.com/calendars/irtraining

Also, check out Dykes Library EndNote Resources: http://library.kumc.edu/resources/EndNote.htm

Great News!

A special thank you to University Leadership for working with the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee and Dykes Library personnel in making additional funding available to Dykes Library to support collections(journals)for researchers, faculty, clinicians and students.

Information is not free and continued inflation of the current journal list makes sustaining the status quo untenable. With the support of University Leadership, the cancellations for FY2013 will not be as aggressive as believed in the Spring of 2012. With input from your faculty representatives to the Faculty Assembly Information Resources Committee (FAIRC) and Dykes Library personnel, there will be a revised journal cancellation list forthcoming. Further, we will be able to again purchase monographs and will discuss with FAIRC criteria by which those funds should be allocated and expended.

During the Fall semester, working with University Leadership and FAIRC, it appears that a work group will be formed to develop a plan to address a more reasonable and sustainable method of supporting the information and services needs of researchers, faculty, clinicians and students. Stay tuned. We will keep the University community updated.

In the next 30 – 45 days we will prepare a revised list of cancellations and an updated FAQ identifying the "how" these cancellation decisions were made. That FAQ will be made available on the Dykes website.

Thank you again to the support of FAIRC members and University Leadership.

Open Access and Why It Matters.

Calling all researchers, students and faculty--want to know more about open access and why it matters? Watch the video below and check out our compilation of resources on our Open Access LibGuide.

Questions about open access? Contact Crystal Cameron-Vedros, Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, at cvedros@kumc.edu or by phone at 913-588-7916.

New Health Information Literacy Tool Available at Dykes Library

Dykes Library has been awarded a 1-year license for software called Health Literacy Advisor from Health Literacy Innovations, Inc. The MidContinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine awarded licenses to regional libraries. Described on the HLA website "[a]s a health literacy checker, the HLA streamlines the review and simplification process by allowing users to assess the health of their documents and then fix it using plain language principles."

Documents can be reviewed for readability level and the results stamped in the footer. The software will scan the document and highlight words that compromise the readability. It will then make recommendations for improvement.

The Health Literacy Advisor program will run for 1 year from the end of April 2012 through the end of April 2013. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00006-C with the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.

For more information about how to access the software, contact Amy Ritterskamp at Dykes Library at 588-7168 or aritterskamp@kumc.edu

Library hours

Please be aware that after Friday, May 11th, the library's hours will be modified for 2 weeks due to the break time between spring and summer semesters.  Hours will be the following:

• Closed Saturdays and Sundays until June
• 8am - 5pm Monday through Friday
• Memorial Day, May 28th:  open 6pm - 11pm

Regular hours will resume Tuesday, May 29th.

Reserve your own study rooms!

KUMC students, faculty, and staff:

Dykes Library has debuted a new online reservation system for study rooms called Book It! Find the Book It! icon on the homepage, log-in using your username and password, and reserve a study room* without the assistance of front desk staff. Study rooms will also be self-service - doors will remain unlocked and staff will not be checking out keys anymore! If a room is empty, you may "walk in" to use it and reserve it on the spot until the next student who has reserved it (if any) shows up.

Please feel free to send comments to dykesref@kumc.edu or stop by the front desk to let us know how the system works for you.

Book It!


*Regular study room policies apply

Predatory/Vanity Publishers

Just because a publisher claims to be open access and follows the author pays fees OA Model, not all publishers are on the up-and-up. Have you been solicited to publish in a particular journal? Are you skeptical? How can you be sure the journal is reputable?

Features to look for and verify:

• Are there typos or grammatical errors? That's usually a flag.
• Did you check the databases in which the journal claims to appear and find them? If you didn't find them, that's a flag. Example: the journal title claims to be indexed in PubMed but you can't find the journal title in PubMed. Not good.
• Did you find any journal issues in the archive? In the current journal list? If you can't find back issues or if there are only a couple of back issues or maybe just an image of a journal flyer, that's a flag.
• What is the pricing structure? How many journal articles will be accepted during the membership time frame? Is the pricing information clear? Is there a mechanism in place in which you agree or not agree to pay? Be careful.
• Are you prompted to check with your Institution to find out if there is an Institution-paid membership on your behalf? If not, be careful.
• What do you get for the price? Beware of publishers who offer you a certificate of membership suitable for framing and/or a designated title to add to your signature. Example: Publisher boasts that membership includes certificate suitable for framing and permission to add their group member designation behind your signature: I. M. Smart, MD, Member, Association of Predatory Publishers (MAPP)
• A publisher may claim to provide peer review and to list an impressive editorial board. Contact the listed board members to verify.

Be skeptical when you are solicited to publish anywhere. If you find any of the above flags, or others, beware and seek assistance from your librarian liaison.

Crystal Cameron-Vedros, cvedros@kumc.edu

Access to USMLE-Easy has changed

Trying to access USMLE-Easy via AccessMedicine? Update your bookmarks because USMLE-Easy is no longer available via the AccessMedicine database; it is now accessible at its own website; click here for access. If you haven't set up a personal account yet you may do that on the homepage; if you're a returning user, enter your previous username and password for access to the tests and your personal progress reports. If you have trouble accessing USMLE Easy, please contact Bob Pisciotta at bpisciotta@kumc.edu for assistance.

Students, looking for a part-time job?

The library is currently hiring for a part-time Student Assistant. You must maintain a minimum of 6 credit hours per semester to qualify. Work schedule is 8-12 hours each week, between the hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

Duties:

1. Use citations to locate and retrieve journals/books in the library’s physical collection

2. Scan/photocopy/attach and send articles to other libraries or individuals via electronic transmission.

3. Package books for delivery via UPS or courier

4. Work on special projects and other duties as assigned

If interested, please apply in person at the front desk, or email the hiring manager at rsm@kumc.edu for the application packet.

Thank you!

Students, looking for a part-time job?

The library is currently hiring for a part-time Student Assistant. You must maintain a minimum of 6 credit hours per semester to qualify. Work schedule is 8-12 hours each week with shifts in the evenings and on weekends.

Duties include:

• Picking up and shelving library materials.
• Assisting patrons in locating items.
• Checking items in and out for patrons, entering and maintaining patron records, placing and canceling holds, and collecting overdue fees.
• Maintaining photocopiers and assisting with use of scanners.
• Pulling journals and books for interlibrary loan requests.
• Shelf reading books and journals to maintain order.
• Assisting with opening and closing the library on evenings and weekends.
• Answering basic reference questions including how to use databases.
• Working on special projects as assigned.

If interested, please apply in person at the front desk, or email the hiring manager at dykescirc@kumc.edu for the application packet.

Thank you!

What Will ORCID Do For Me?

What is ORCID?

ORCID stands for Open Researcher & Contributor ID. ORCID aims to solve the author or contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

As of 2012, 300 organizations had joined ORCID as participants. Dykes Library is excited to participate in ORCID and to help realize the potential benefits to KU.

A Call to Action: Office of Science and Technology Policy

The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 calls upon the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate with agencies to develop policies that assure widespread public access to and long-term stewardship of the results of federally funded unclassified research.

The OSTP has put out two formal Requests for Information; one on the subject of “Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications” and the other on “Public Access to Digital Data.”

The deadline for comments is January 12, 2012. The A. R. Dykes Library will be submitting comments to both requests. The library staff is available to provide assistance to any faculty, staff or students who choose to respond.

1. We recommend you tailor your responses to be as personalized and direct as possible. Include examples and supporting documentation where appropriate.

2. This is your opportunity to influence public policy, so please consider taking time to craft a response.

Please contact those listed below for more information:

Crystal Cameron-Vedros - cvedros@kumc.edu
Rachel Gyore - rgyore@kumc.edu
Jason Stirnaman - jstirnaman@kumc.edu
Karen Cole, Director - kcole@kumc.edu

CINAHL and Health Business Fulltext Elite

On November 29, 2011, EBSCO Publishing released the new EBSCOhost Android app.  This app enables Android users to access CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Health Business Full Text Elite content through their library's database subscriptions.  KUMC faculty, staff, and students can now connect to A.R. Dykes Library's EBSCO databases through this new mobile tool. The new app includes enhanced web-based search and storage features which bring several of the web-based characteristics to your pocket. For more information visit http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=16346