April 2016 Volume 6, Issue 2

Inside this issue:

OpenSIUC Institutional

Repository 2

Good Apps:

bX Hot Articles

2

Highlighted Resources:

Screencast App Smack-

down

3

The Unsung Heroes of the

Little Free Library

3

Wanted: Home Microbe-

Masters

3

Library Closures

Memorial Day

Monday, May 30, 2016

LIBRARY CLOSED

Independence Day

Monday, July 4, 2016

LIBRARY CLOSED

National Library Week Events

Friday, April 15, 2016,

Noon to 1:30

Lightning Talks (10 minute

presentations followed by 5

minute Q&A), Medical Li-

brary; light lunch provided:

12:00–12:15: Are You Ready

to Flip (your classroom)?

Shelley Tischkau, Ph.D., De-

partment of Pharmacology

12:15–12:30: Publishing a

Video Article in JoVE (Journal

of Visualized Experiments),

Brandon Cox, Ph.D., Depart-

ment of Pharmacology

12:30–12:45: Is There a

Podcast in Your Future? Lyd-

ia Howes, MSI, Department

Join the Medical Library and

the Medical Resource Center

in celebrating National Li-

brary Week (April 10-16).

No reservations or commit-

ments required, just show

up!

All Week

3D Scanner and Printer

demonstrations, Medical

Library

Confronting Violence: Im-

proving Women’s Lives: trav-

eling exhibit, Medical Library

SOM-Carbondale Creative

Exhibit: Medical Resource

Center

Regular Hours

Mon-Thu 8:00am-10:00pm

Fri 8:00am-6:00pm

Sat 9:00am-5:00pm

Sun 2:00pm-7:00pm

Library Newsletter SIU School of Medicine

Another NLM traveling exhibit, From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and In-

dustry, will be featured in the library from July 25 – September 4, 2016.

Learn about some of the processes, problems, and potential inherent in technologies that

use microorganisms for health and commercial purposes.

Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives

A new National Library of Medicine

traveling exhibit will be on display in

the Medical Library April 11 – May 21.

Confronting Violence: Improving Wom-

en’s Lives highlights the role of nurses

whose research, persistence and dedi-

cation helped to put domestic violence

towards women on the map as a na-

tional public health concern.

Coming this Summer!

of Information and Commu-

nication Sciences

12:45–1:00: SIU’s Open

Access Policy: What’s in it

for you? Geoff Pettys, MA,

MSLIS, Department of Infor-

mation and Communication

Sciences

1:00–1:30: Ask the Tech:

Questions and Answers on

Exchange/Outlook, John

Morgan and Andrew John-

son, Information Technolo-

gy, Stevenson Conference

Room and Lindegren 310

Page 2 Library Newsletter

”Content

hosted on

OpenSIUC is

available free

of charge to

anyone in the

world ”

Good Reads via an app: bX Hot Articles by Ex Libris

Internal Medicine

Obstetrics & Gynecology

OT & PT

Pediatrics

Pharmacy, Therapeutics

& Pharmacology

Psychiatry

Public Health

In lieu of appropriate books

to highlight, we turn to apps

instead.

What are the “hottest” schol-

arly articles in in business,

law, medicine, nursing, psy-

chology, the sciences, the

social sciences, and other

major academic fields?

Find out with the free bX Hot

Articles app for both Apple

and Android mobile devices.

See which scholarly articles

in each field were the most

popular among researchers

in recent weeks.

Link to electronic full text,

taking advantage of the SIU

Medical Library’s subscrip-

tions.

Send articles by e-mail.

Receive notification whenev-

er the list is updated.

Medicine topics include the

following:

Diet & Clinical Nutrition

Articles list displayed after

choosing a topic

Citation view showing links

to available full text

OpenSIUC Institutional Repository

that will lead users to

their work.

Monthly reports tell au-

thors how often and

from where their work is

being accessed.

Who can deposit?

Although SIU’s Open Access

Policy applies only to faculty,

all university staff and stu-

dents are encouraged to

contribute their work to

OpenSIUC.

What can be deposited?

The work does not have to

be published - it can be a

working paper, a conference

paper, a dissertation, thesis,

etc. Audio clips, videos, pho-

tos, and other media can

also be hosted on OpenSIUC.

Content hosted on OpenSIUC

is available free of charge to

anyone in the world with an

internet connection at

http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu.

If you are interested in learn-

ing more about OpenSIUC,

please contact Geoff Pettys

at gpettys31@siumed.edu.

SIU’s Open Access Policy for

faculty scholarship requires

public availability of all peer-

reviewed manuscripts by SIU

faculty that have been ac-

cepted in scholarly journals.

To that end, SIU libraries

maintain an Institutional

Repository (IR) called

OpenSIUC.

Advantages of OpenSIUC

Increases discoverability

by boosting search en-

gine results for articles.

Authors have more con-

trol over the metadata

Volume 6, Issue 2

“All could be used to

make short, quick in-

structional videos”

Page 3

The Unsung Heroes of the Little Free Library

Murphysboro High School

students enrolled in MHS

Construction 2 class were

spotlighted in March on a

local news channel as

“Unsung Heroes.” Their out-

standing job at designing and

building a Little Free Library

for the Medical Resource

Center was highlighted in the

piece.

The students came together

as a class and as friends to

create the library. Their

teamwork and creative tal-

ents have provided an amaz-

ing Little Free Library for the

School of Medicine and

Southern Illinois University’s

community to share a book

and take a book. The piece

can be viewed at http://

w w w . w s i l t v . c o m /

story/31502788/unsung-

hero-sius-little-free-library

Highlighted Resources: Screencast App Smackdown

We’ve tried out a few screencasting apps to

see how they measure up. All could be used

to make short, quick instructional videos.

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (iOS) -

Virtual whiteboard with video and voice re-

cording.

Cost: Basic app is free. Buy premium for

more features.

Pros:

Record your voice, handwriting and draw-

ings.

Snap a photo from within the app or import

images from your photos, Dropbox, Google

Drive, or the Web. Paid version can import

docs and maps.

Animate images and text by tapping and

dragging while recording.

Cons: Rudimentary video editing only lets

you trim from the end.

Bottom Line: Easy to use, good for creating

presentations on the fly, but get your narra-

tion right on the first try due to limited edit-

ing.

Doceri (iOS)- Interactive whiteboard and

screencast recorder available for iPad.

Cost: All app features are free. (Desktop pro-

gram-- which allows your device to project,

control, and annotate your computer screen-

- costs money)

Pros:

Includes a variety of background colors &

designs.

Import your own pictures.

Lots of drawing tools - shapes, text, and a

variety of pen colors and thickness.

Save video as mp4, send to YouTube, or

save slides as PDFs.

Cons:

Version for Windows devices doesn’t in-

clude screen recording.

Not available for Android.

Bottom Line: Fantastic, free option for iOS

users, but Android users will need to find a

different option.

Lensoo Create (Android) - Virtual white-

board with video and voice recording.

Cost: Basic app is free. Buy premium for

more features.

Pros:

Includes a variety of background colors &

designs

Import your own pictures.

Lots of drawing tools - shapes, text, and a

variety of pen colors and thickness.

Free version allows 15 minutes of record-

ing. Pay for premium for longer videos,

more background images, and shapes.

Can upload video to lensoo.com or save

slides as PDFs.

Cons:

Can’t download your video.

Bottom Line: Free whiteboard app with

robust recording features, which is a uni-

corn in the Android marketplace, but we

wish it were possible to download your final

product.

The library is searching

for home brewers,

sourdough and yogurt

cultivators, and other

experts in home (and

edible) microbe – based

“technologies” to

participate in a reception

for our summer exhibit;

From DNA to Beer:

Harnessing Nature in

Medicine and Industry.

Contact

reference@siumed.edu

WANTED: HOME

MICROBE-

MASTERS!

801 N. Rutledge Ave.

P.O. Box 19625

Springfield, IL

62794-9625

Phone: 217-545-2658

Fax: 217-545-7503

E-mail: reference@siumed.edu

SIU School of Medicine

Medical Library

From our March study break

Visit us on the Web

http://www.siumed.edu/lib

Previous issues: http://www.siumed.edu/lib/newsletter/

Word 2013: Mail Merge

MON, Apr 18, 2016

@2:00-3:30 PM

Excel 2013: Pivot Tables

WED, Apr 20, 2016

@ 9:00 AM-10:30 PM

How to Make a Poster in

PowerPoint 2013

THU, Apr 21, 2016

@2:00-3:30 PM

EndNote Online

TUE, Apr 26, 2016

@10:30-11:30 AM

Searching PubMed includ-

ing MEDLINE

WED. Apr 27, 2016

@10:30-11:30 AM

Intermediate Access

2013: Database Design &

Queries

THU, Apr 28, 2016

@9:30-11:00 AM

Formal training sessions

are not offered during

June, July and August

while Library faculty up-

date software and hand-

outs. Contact

training@siumed.edu or

call Reference at 217-

545-2113 to request

training sessions during

this time.

PowerPoint 2013 Basics

TUE, Apr 12, 2016

@2:00-3:30 PM

PowerPoint 2013: Anima-

tions & Multimedia

THU, Apr 14, 2016

@2:00-3:30 PM

Converting PowerPoint

Presentations to Video

FRI, Apr 15, 2016

@9:30-11:00 AM

Registration is required.

Springfield

To attend a class in

Springfield contact:

training@siumed.edu

Carbondale

To attend in Carbondale

contact:

ircrequests@siumed.edu

Class descriptions may be

found at http://

www.siumed.edu/lib/

libclasses.html

Library Monthly Training

Bahamian stamp honoring

Dr. Robert Koch on the cen-

tury of his discovery of the

tubercle bacillus

From the Library’s

Special Collections