So it's a good time to get your blood cholesterol checked and take steps to lower it if it is high. National Cholesterol Education Month is also a good time to learn about lipid profiles and about food and lifestyle choices that help you reach personal cholesterol goals.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute offers helpful resources to use during National Cholesterol Education Month.  For more information on this topic visit their   National Cholesterol Education Month web page.

RefWorks, the personal citation and information management system, has just released its 2.0 version. Faculty, staff and students may switch to this new interface by logging into their account and then selecting RefWorks 2.0 where it appears in blue type along the topmost right menu bar.

The new interface relies more on a tab interface than the current drop-down menu options.
Users may return to using RefWorks Classic from the RefWorks 2.0 by selecting RefWorks Classic in the same topmost right menu bar. It appears in a red typeface.
For questions or to schedule a training session, please contact Sandi L. Bates MLIS, Library of the Health Sciences, 777-2166.

RefWorks, a citation management system, has received funding for another year through UND's Core Technology Services. The Library of the Health Sciences will be offering periodic classes beginning in August for those interested in learning the program or just needing a refresher on the tool. RefWorks is similar to EndNote or Reference Manager and has the ability to format papers in more than 1,200 styles. Questions can be directed to Sandi Bates at 777-2166.

Effective July 23, 2010, PD/PIs will be unable to enter citations manually into eRA Commons and must use My NCBI's "My Bibliography" tool to manage their professional bibliographies. For more information on how investigators should handle the upcoming changes, see NOT-OD-10-103 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-10-103.html)

My NCBI, which is part of PubMed.gov, is now linked to the eRA Commons so that you can easily and accurately update your citations as part of the NIH Public Access Policy requirements.

* Go to My NCBI at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/
* Login using your My NCBI, NIH, eRA.
* You can link your preferred account to an existing My NCBI account or create a new account. If you have used some of the PubMed features, you may already have a My NCBI account.
For detailed instructions on how to link your other accounts to My NCBI, please visit http://era.nih.gov/ncbi/how-to_steps.cfm.

This new citation tool also allows you to check the compliance status of your papers in My Bibliography. The status can range from NOT APPLICABLE (not subject to the NIH policy) to IN PROCESS AT HIHMS to NON-COMPLAINT. Papers are also color coded with RED (citation needs attention), YELLOW (in process), and GREEN (everything is completed). More details are available at http://era.nih.gov/ncbi/how-to_steps.cfm#verify.

Reminder: You need to make sure your manuscript is submitted to the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMSS) right away or at least within three months of publication by you, a co-author, a third party in your office, or by the journal. You only need to submit peer-reviewed journal articles that have resulted from NIH funded research AND that were accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008.

Online training that includes a video on using My Bibliography (under Webcasts) is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html

An article with screen prints is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_myncbi_redesign.html

We all know the importance of using sunscreen to protect our skin from the sun's harmful rays, but what about protection for our eyes?  July is UV Safety Month, and, Eye M.D.s across the nation are urging Americans to protect their eyes and their children's eyes by wearing sunglasses and wide-brimmed hats.

For more information on this topic visit the American Academy of Ophthalmic Executives web site.

It is now easier to determine whether a journal is peer-reviewed or not. The Library of the Health Sciences recently gained access to Ulrichs Web, a global serials directory. To access, enter Ulrichs into the Resources box on undmedlibrary.org. Once you have established access to the database, search for the title of journal and look in the left column to verify the status. If a small, striped shirt that looks like those worn by a referee appears, the journal is peer reviewed. The database does only allow one user at a time, so please log out when finished.

The Library of the Health Sciences has added a scientific and technical literature database. Subjects indexed into Inspec include physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, and manufacturing and mechanical engineering.  To access Inspec search the Resources box on undmedlibrary.org.

Sunday's New York Times Business Section contained a graphic feature on various metrics and performance indicators titled, "Health Spending vs. Results."  The graphic can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/22kapnz

A page of links to information on "Crude Oil Spills and Human Health" is now available from the National Library of Medicine® at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/oilspills.html.

The page provides links to information on how the United States responds to oil spills, state agencies in the Gulf region that respond to spills, occupational hazards for professionals and volunteers assisting with clean-up, seafood safety and more.

The links under "Featured Sites" focus on the latest updates about the recent spill and subsequent controlled burning of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This spill followed the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit oil platform 50 miles southeast of the Mississippi Delta on April 20, 2010.

[Note: This is a reprint of an announcement published on NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L, an e-mail announcement list available from the NLM Division of Specialized Information Services. To subscribe to this list, please see the NLM-TOX-ENVIRO-HEALTH-L Join, Leave, or Change Options page.]  

The Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota's School of Medicine and Health Sciences is recruiting for an entry level position of Reference Librarian. This person is responsible for providing reference services to on and off-campus clientele; participating in the user education program; producing instructional guides in both electronic and print format; assisting with the development and management of the reference collection; assisting in the collection and reporting of user and service statistics; serving as liaison to faculty in specific departments; and being professionally active.

Please see the full position announcement for details.

Submit resume and names, addresses and phone numbers of three references to:  Human Resources, University of North Dakota, Twamley Hall Room 313, 264 Centennial Drive Stop 8010, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8010.  Refer to position no. 10-277.  For full application procedures, visit http://www.humanresources.und.edu/html/Job%20Openings.htm

Applications received by June 15, 2010, will receive first consideration.