Library Notes is a publication of the Galter Health Sciences Library that focuses on news, services, and technology advances affecting the Feinberg School of Medicine community.

• GTR: Genetic Testing Registry
• Do You Order Books Using ILL? Try UBorrow
• Big Data Science Gets NSF Boost
• New Titles Added in March
• Staff News

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This entry was posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM and has received 542 views. There are currently 0 comments.

Staff Changes

The Galter Library recently said goodbye to Anna Fleming, Head, Collection Development who left after five years of great service at Northwestern. We wish Anna the best in her new marketing position with Annual Reviews.

Mark Berendsen, Electronic Services Librarian has been appointed Interim Department Head for Collection Management, effective April 5th.

New Arrivals

Jeremy Prevost, Web Applications/Software Developer, and his wife, Alison, welcomed baby Penny Prevost into the world on February 16. Congratulations to the new parents!

Recent Appointments

Heidi Nickisch Duggan, Associate Director, was appointed to a two-year term on the Skokie Board of Health. The Board of Health advises the Mayor and Board of Trustees about public health needs and concerns, recommends specific environmental improvements, and provides consultation about current problems. The Board also sponsors blood drives and other health-related activities and educational opportunities.

Heidi was also appointed to the Northwestern University Institutional Review Board Panel E for Social and Behavioral Research.

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This entry was posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:35 AM and has received 663 views. There are currently 0 comments.

By Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian

In honor of National Women's History Month, we are taking a closer look at how the education of women in medicine got its start here at Northwestern.

As an experiment in the fall session of 1869, the Chicago Medical College matriculated three women: Mary Harris Thompson, MD, Odelia Blinn, MD and Julia A. Cole. The male students complained that, with women in the classroom, some clinical work and lecture material were omitted. As a result, only Dr. Mary Harris Thompson was awarded an MD ad eundem the following spring (a courtesy given to those who already had an MD), and Dr. Blinn and Miss Cole were not allowed to continue their studies.

Dr. Mary Thompson was born at Fort Ann, New York in 1829, and after completing a general education, she taught in elementary schools. In 1859, at the age of thirty, she began to study medicine at the New England Female Medical College in Boston and was awarded an MD in 1863. Her studies included a one-year internship with Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. She was the first known woman to perform major surgery.

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This entry was posted on March 12, 2012 at 11:06 AM and has received 1044 views. There are currently 0 comments.

Did you know that the Galter Library has a liaison program? The program creates ongoing partnerships between the library and its constituents by pairing librarians with departments, centers, institutes, and programs at the Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM). Working with your library liaison enhances communication, collaboration, and the effectiveness of the library in supporting the education, clinical, and research needs of the FSM community. While the library has spent years forging relationships with individuals and departments at FSM, the liaison program serves to formalize these connections and provides a model for establishing further partnerships and collaboration.

So what can your library liaison do for you?

Your liaison librarian can attend departmental meetings to demonstrate new resources; teach users about MEDLINE, EBM resources, biostatistics tools, or EndNote; assist with literature searching and systematic review creation; create handouts and guides on subject-specific resources; and anything else you can think of! A full listing of potential opportunities for collaboration and education, as well as a list of liaison librarians, are available on the Liaison Librarian Program page.

Contact your liaison librarian today and let the learning and collaboration begin!

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This entry was posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM and has received 1504 views. There are currently 0 comments.

Have you ever wondered why an online book to which you used to have access is no longer available? Here are a few scenarios that may be at play:

The publisher changed its business model and titles were removed
This most recently happened in the case of McGraw-Hill when the publisher decided to offer its titles exclusively through its own search platforms (Galter Library licenses AccessMedicine, for example). This meant that third party vendors could no longer offer access to their titles and as a result, the Northwestern University community could no longer have access to McGraw Hill titles such as the PreTest series through ebrary.  McGraw-Hill published e-book and textbook titles were also removed from Ovid and will be removed from STAT!Ref sometime in 2012. So far, not all of the titles removed from third party sites are yet available for licensing through McGraw-Hill itself.

The online book publisher or provider's platform or gateway infrastructure has been upgraded or has changed
A programmed re-route should lead you to the new site, but after a time, the re-routing may be turned off and an error message will display. (See problem reporting tips at the end.)

The newest edition is not available online
Most publishers have not yet synchronized the release of new editions in print and online formats. To complicate matters, Galter Library may have some books that are subscribed (newest edition is always the only edition available) or purchased (the library has to purchase each new edition of a title, similarly to what it had to do in the print world). If a new edition of a book has been released, it may not yet be accessible online to our community.

We answered several questions about ebook accessibility in this 2009 Library Notes article.

In all cases, when you encounter a problem with an online book or any other resource to which you expected to have access, please feel free report it by calling the Reference Desk, tel. 312-503-8109 or by writing to the reference team. Please report as much detail as possible (book title, nature of the problem, text of the error message, etc.) Thanks to our alert users, library staff sometimes becomes aware of problems or connection issues not previously known.

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This entry was posted on March 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM and has received 739 views. There are currently 0 comments.

Update: On February 9, 2012, Representative Mike Doyle (Dem. PA) proposed a bill to oppose the RWA.

Another Update: February 27, 2012: Elsevier withdraws support for the RWA; hours later, the hosts of the bill also back off from their support, as described in this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Ever since the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) was introduced to Congress on December 16, 2011, there have been a number of news articles, blog posts and opinion pieces published in various media in response.  Some of these articles support the bill and others denounce it.  We've tried to collect and summarize some of the articles and opinions, so you can read them and formulate your own opinions about H.R. 3699.

The Reseach Works Act (RWA) states:

No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that

1. causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or
2. requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work.

The RWA would effectively end the NIH Public Access Policy and put a ban on any other government policy requiring deposit of manuscripts arising from federally funded research into open access repositories.

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This entry was posted on January 31, 2012 at 4:24 PM and has received 1733 views. There are currently 4 comments.

Update 12/22/2011: The Welch Library building hours and services will maintain its current status. A committee will be formed to review building and service options for the library.  More information can be found here http://www.welch.jhu.edu/

By: James Shedlock, Director

The announcement that the Johns Hopkins University medical school will close its health sciences library starting January 1, 2012 has stunned many in the library world. A posting on the Welch Medical Library website describes their new reality. As surprising as the news is, the Hopkins staff and their director, Nancy Roderer, deserve credit for making a tough but reasonable decision.

One take away from the Hopkins announcement is that it’s time to rethink our terminology about libraries. The library building may be closing but the library is still open … online. The physical library is less relevant at Hopkins but the electronic library is what users want, need, appreciate and actually use.

You may wonder if this will become more common at other medical schools. Because this is happening at Hopkins, a top ranked research-intensive medical school according to the U.S. News and World Report, I’ve already been asked by NU faculty if this is a trend. I doubt it for established medical schools, and particularly for Northwestern. Hopkins developed separate student facilities for their programs in medicine, nursing and public health and as a result, the students didn’t need to use the physical Welch Medical Library. At Northwestern, the Galter Library is one of the chief education and collaboration facilities for our students, and the medical school has invested money to make the library a versatile space for study, research, resource storage and social functions.

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This entry was posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:05 AM and has received 953 views. There are currently 0 comments.

By: Ron Sims, Special Collections Librarian

On November 11, 2011, Dr. Meryl H. Haber, Northwestern University, BS ’56, MS ’58, MD ‘59, GME ’64 was honored in an unveiling ceremony during the 2nd Annual Medical Education Forum. The unveiling took place in the Special Collections Reading Room on Level 2 of the Galter Health Sciences Library. In October of 2010, Dr. Haber generously donated his collection of rare books and a fund to assist in the restoration of the rare book collection.

The framed document honoring Dr. Haber, created by calligraphist Corinna Taylor, acknowledges Dr. Haber’s generosity and support of the Galter Library.

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This entry was posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM and has received 782 views. There are currently 0 comments.

The Northwestern University community now has access to PsychiatryOnline, thanks to a recent licensing collaboration of the Galter Health Sciences Library and the University Library. The site, optimized for mobile devices and regularly updated by American Psychiatric Press, the publishing division of the American Psychiatric Association, provides access to various psychiatric and mental health information resources.  The collection includes a number of textbooks, the DSM Library (the widely used DSM-IV-TR®, previous editions of the DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a handbook, and a casebook), APA Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, medication information handouts for patients, and last but not least, well-known psychiatry journals presented in this new platform (most of them were previously licensed by NU libraries). While Psychiatry Online can be used as the jumping-off point for research, the Galter Library has also created links for each individual title as well.

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This entry was posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM and has received 702 views. There are currently 0 comments.

The Galter Library tries to acquire current books authored by Feinberg School of Medicine faculty. Recent books, authored or edited by faculty, that were acquired or became available in licensed online suites of resources include (NU authors are in bold):

• Contemporary treatment of erectile dysfunction : a clinical guide / Kevin T. McVary, editor. Series: Contemporary endocrinology (Totowa, N.J.) (Level 2, WJ 709 C7617 2011)
• Dulcan’s textbook of child and adolescent psychiatry / edited by Mina K. Dulcan.
  (Quick Reference, WS 350 D881 2010)
• Essentials of pain medicine / editors, Honorio T. Benzon ... [et al.], associate editors Khalid M. Malik [et al.]., 3^rd edition. (Level 2, WL 704 E78 2011)
• Helping parents, youth, and teachers understand medications for behavioral and emotional problems: a resource book of medication information handouts / edited by Mina K. Dulcan. 3^rd edition. (Level 2, WS 350.6 H483 2007)
• Hurwitz clinical pediatric dermatology : a textbook of skin disorders of childhood and adolescence / Amy S. Paller, Anthony J. Mancini. 4^th edition. (Quick Reference, WS 260 H967c 2011)
• Neurobiology of sensation and reward / edited by Jay A. Gottfried. Series: Frontiers in neuroscience (Boca Raton, Fla.) (Level 2, WL 702 N494 2011)

Please submit your recommendation if you would like the Galter Library to acquire a book (whether authored by NU faculty or not).

Are you trying to identify recently-published research at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine? To find journal articles authored by FSM-affiliated faculty, staff, and students, the Galter Library recommends that you check out the Feinberg publications and abstracts site. This list is maintained by the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and is updated regularly using the PubMed database.

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This entry was posted on December 7, 2011 at 12:49 PM and has received 503 views. There are currently 0 comments.