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OrganDonor.Gov

Posted Friday, May 2, 2008, 9:49 am by Barbara Knight

OrganDonor.Gov is the official US Government website for organ and tissue donation and transplantation, is maintained by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of Transplantation, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The site provides donation and transplantation basics; information for donors, including frequently asked questions; and information on risk reduction, research, best practices and legislation.

NIH Research Matters

Posted Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 1:08 pm by Barbara Knight

NIH Research Matters is a weekly eColumn highlighting interesting NIH research studies from peer-reviewed journals. Launched in April 2006, it is for anyone who wants to keep up with the breathtaking range of research done by NIH and NIH-funded scientists: physicians, policy-makers, science-literate members of the public and researchers themselves. Visit the home page at http://www.nih.gov/news/research_matters/index.htm. You can subscribe to the RSS news feed there or go to https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihresearchmatters-l&A=1 to add your email address to the LISTSERV.

MyNCBI Automatic Searches May be Delayed

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007, 2:24 pm by Barbara Knight

Annual Medline/PubMed Year-End Processing will temporarily halt the addition of fully-indexed Medline citations to PubMed on November 14, 2007. If you have MyNCBI searches that contain MeSH terms you will not receive new results until the Year-End Processing is complete. Tentative completion is targeted for early December 2007.
For more information go to the National Library of Medicine information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/policy/yep_2007.html

Scholarly Publication and Open Access Webcast

Posted Friday, November 9, 2007, 2:37 pm by Barbara Knight

You are invited to a webcast on Scholarly Publication and Open Access, which will be held in the classroom of the Library of the Health Sciences from 1 - 3 pm on Tuesday, November 20th. The webcast is presented by the Medical Library Association (MLA).

Objectives of the program are:
1. To introduce, define, and explain significant models of scholarly publishing
2. To explore the impact of open access on academic libraries, hospital libraries, and authors
3. To discuss practical examples of new models of scholarly publishing and describe actions from both university and hospital perspectives to support new approaches.

Issues to be addressed include:
Part I: What is scholarly publishing? Definition of scholarly publishing - Public access - Associations involved in the issues - Key issues in the publishing industry.
Part II: Environmental scan of the publishing industry. How are publishers reacting to open access? - What new models are emerging? - What are the flavors of open access? - What are the concerns among publishers? - What about issues of sustainability?
Part III: What is the impact on libraries and their users? Impact and concerns for libraries - Impact, benefit, and concerns for the author/researcher - Ways librarians and libraries can support these new initiatives.
Part IV: Resources.

Dietary Supplements Resource - New from NLM

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 2:08 pm by Barbara Knight

The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplements Labels Database http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.

The database is designed to help both the general public and health care providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products, including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose, label claims, warnings, percentage of daily value, and further label information.

Links to other NLM resources, such as MedlinePlus and PubMed, are provided for additional health information. In addition, links to related Fact Sheets from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM ), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are also available.

InfoRetriever/InfoPoems has updated

Posted Monday, July 2, 2007, 1:40 pm by Barbara Knight

Here are the step-by-step instructions:
Go to the library web site at http://undmedlibrary.org/
Login on the library's Account Login box if you are not already logged in.
Click on InfoPoems in the Selected Resources box.
You should now be on the InfoRetriever Online Access page.
Click on the Register button
Fill in the information on this page.
Select the 2nd option on this page: Generate a new license code and overwrite the old information.
The next page will ask for your Serial ID
To find your SerialID, start InfoRetriever on your PDA, tap the upper left corner of the screen, and choose File -> Register InfoRetriever from the application menu. The box labeled Serial ID: should be filled in for you. Type that number in the box.
Then click on the Get License Code button
The License Code will be e-mailed to you.
Follow the instructions to complete the Registration process.
If you have any problems please contact
Barb Knight, Library of the Health Sciences, Grand Forks, 701-777-2166 & bknight@medicine.nodak.edu; Karen Anderson, Angus L. Cameron Medical Library, Minot, 701-857-5435 & karenan@medicine.nodak.edu; or Mary Markland, UND Medical Education Center, Fargo, 701-293-4173 & markland@medicine.nodak.edu.

PubMed Searching Skills

Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 3:23 pm by Barbara Knight

need updating? Check out the PubMed Tutorial! Go to PubMed and click on Tutorials on the Blue Side Bar to update your PubMed skills. You can also refresh your skills with a PubMed QuickTour. The QuickTours require only 1 to 4 minutes of time.

All Library Materials Due Now

Posted Monday, May 7, 2007, 3:23 pm by Barbara Knight

As of today, only students already enrolled in summer courses, faculty and staff may checkout or renew library materials. If you have any questions or concerns please let us know by sending an e-mail message to the Reference Desk or taking a minute to talk to us.

Bioethics Information Resources

Posted Monday, May 7, 2007, 1:21 pm by Barbara Knight

This web site has been developed by the National Library of Medicine to assist in locating a wide range of bioethics information. The site is designed to be useful for specialists in the field, researchers, clinicians or the general public. Please take a minute to look at this Bioethics Information Resources web page

New NCBI Database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP)

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 3:51 pm by Barbara Knight

NLM and the National Center for Biotechnology Information announce the introduction of the Database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP), a new database designed to archive and distribute data from genome wide association (GWA) studies. GWA studies explore the association between specific genes (genotype information) and observable traits, such as blood pressure and weight, or the presence or absence of a disease or condition (phenotype information). Try this new Database

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