news from the libraries - march 2011

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March 2011

Rajia Tobia,Executive Directorof Libraries

(210) [email protected]

San AntonioAdministration (210) 567-2400

Briscoe Library

Circulation Desk (210) 567-2440

Information Desk (210) 567-2450

[email protected]

UT Health Science CenterLibrary Downtown (210) 358-3939

Jesse H. Jones Comprehensive

Research Library (210) 567-2450

HarlingenRamirez Library

(956) 365-8850

LaredoLaredo Regional Campus

Library (956) 523-7404

Books from the P.I. Nixon Medical HistoricalLibrary can now be viewed online at The Portal to Texas History

Webinar: Copyright at Work, March 22

Dana Whitmire receives professionaldevelopment award

Spring lecture series focuses on infectiousdisease discovery and epidemiology

Pew Internet and American Life Project releases

Health Topics report

Library classes for March and April

Featured resource: Journal Citation Reports

Skill Kit: Searching for phrases in PubMed

FOR LIBRARY CLASSES, go to page 6

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Twelve books from thecollection of the P.I.Nixon Medical HistoricalLibrary can now beviewed online through

the Portal to TexasHistory. Shown here:Major Henry FranklinHoyt, the author of anautobiography, AFrontier Doctor , published in 1929. Find apartial list, along withlinks to the ebooks, onpage 2 .
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February 2011NEWS FROM THE LIBRARIES

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Books from the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library can now be viewed

online at The Portal to Texas History Web siteA dozen books on Texas and medical history from the collection of the P.I .Nixon MedicalHistorical Library are now available as ebooksthrough the Portal to Texas History , anInternet gateway created and maintained by the University of North Texas. In 2008, theNational Endowment for the Humanities(NEH) identified the Portal to Texas History asone of the best online resources for educationin the humanities. The Libraries contributionsto the Portal to Texas History were madepossible by a "Rescuing Texas History" mini-grant awarded to Anne Comeaux, AssistantLibrary Director for Special Collections. Thebooks include:

Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscenses (1913) by Dr. Rudolph Menger, complete with many of Menger's own photographs and photo-micrographs of native animal and insect life

San Antonio de Bexar: A Guide and History (1890) by William Corner, including a historical sketch of the city written by Sidney Lanier

An Account of the Early History of Surgery in Texas (1932) by Albert O. Singleton, originally presented as a presidential address to the Texas Surgical Society

Queer, Quaint Old San Antonio: Its Climate in Throat and Lung Diseases (1895) by C. E. Fisher,an illustrated "medical tourism" guide extolling the virtues of San Antonio's climate, lifestyle and amusementsfor respiratory disease sufferers

A Frontier Doctor (1929), an autobiography by Henry Franklin Holt, a pioneer who was the first physicianto practice medicine in the Texas Panhandle

A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine (1854) by J. Cam. Massie, a 720-pagereference text on the theory and practice of medicine

Texas Surgeon, An Autobiography (1958) by Donald Taylor Atkinson, who practiced medicine in ruralTexas and the Oklahoma Indian country before moving to Dallas and San Antonio

The Menace: An Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of aCountry Doctor (1914) by Charles Dixon, about the work of ridding Bexar County of quacks and nostrumexploiters

Notes on the Newer Remedies (2nd edition, 1894) by David Cerna, a pharmacological reference textincluding physical characteristics, therapeutic applications and dosages for various synthetic and naturaldrugs

Luke RosenbergerDirector of Library Technology and Historical Collections

From Queer, Quaint Old San Antonio: Its Climate in Throat and Lung Diseases (1895): Views of San Pedro Springs andSan Pedro Park.
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Dana Whitmire, Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian, has been awarded aHorizon Award to attend the 2011 North American Serials Interest Group(NASIG) meeting to be held in St. Louis, MO, June 2-5, 2011. NASIG is anindependent organization that promotes communication, information, andcontinuing education about serials and the broader issues of scholarly

communication.The Horizon Award is given to promising new serials professionals. It coversthe cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel withinNorth America. Recipients of the award are also invited to serve on a NASIGcommittee.

Rajia TobiaExecutive Director of Libraries

NEWS FROM THE LIBRARIES http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/

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If you've ever been puzzled by copyright questions, don't miss this opportunity to learn from the copyright experts and to expand your respect for intellectualproperty. Not only will you get answers to your copyright questions but you'llalso learn how to minimize your exposure to illegal content use.

This session, produced by the Copyright Clearance Center, features:

The basics of copyright law What is and is not copyright-protectedFair use what it is and how it worksWhen copyright permission is needed, for both photocopies and electronic contentHow to obtain copyright permission and much more

For more information, contact Katie Prentice, Head of Education and Information Services, at 210-567-6606or email [email protected] .

Webinar: Copyright at Work Library Collaboratory, LIB 4.074Tuesday, March 22, 20111:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

Dana Whitmire receives professional development award fromNorth American Serials Group
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The Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library and theBriscoe Library launched a spring lecture series in February featuring Dr. Gregory Anstead of the School of Medicine speakingon the topic, Beyond Bugs and Drugs: Infectious DiseaseDiscovery and Epidemiology . The second installment in the

series, focusing on Syphilis, will take place at noon on Thursday,March 24 in the Howe Conference Room, on the 5th floor of theBriscoe Library.

Dr. Anstead, whose interests include clinical trials of new antiretroviral and antifungal drugs and the historicalepidemiology of infectious diseases, is director of the Immuno-suppression and Infectious Diseases clinics of the South TexasVeterans Healthcare System.

As always, the event is free and open to everyone. Please bringyour lunch and join us!

The series will continue in April and May with talks onHantavirus (April 28) and HIV in America (May 26).

For more information about the spring lecture series, contactPennie Borchers, Special Collections Librarian, at [email protected] .

Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library: Spring lecture

series focuses on infectious disease discovery and epidemiology

U.S. Public Health Service poster: Imagesfrom the History of Medicine database,National Library of Medicine

SyphilisThursday, March 24, 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.Howe Conference Room, Briscoe Library

Featured resource: Images from the History of MedicineThe poster Syphilis: A Million New Victims Each Year , used to illustrate our story on the spring lecture

series, is one of more than 70,000 images included in Images from the History of Medicine (IHM), an onlinepicture database that is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) History of Medicine Division's Printsand Photographs Collection. IHM includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, andgraphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.Records indicate if individual items are in the public domain, or if permission to use them must be requestedfrom copyright holders.

Images from the History of Medicine can be found online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/ .

Susan HunnicuttSpecial Projects Librarian
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According to Health Topics, a report released in February by the Pew Research Center and the CaliforniaHealthcare Foundation, eight in ten Internet users, or 59% of the U.S. population, search for healthinformation online. Searches for health information are the third most popular online activity, behindchecking email and using search engines. The report was based on telephone interviews conducted betweenAugust 9 and September 13, 2010.

Among possible health-related searches, the most frequent (by 66% of respondents) was for informationabout a specific disease or condition. Searches of this type have occupied the top spot since 2002, ahead of searches for information about specific medical treatments or procedures, information about physicians andother health professionals, and information about health care facilities.

The Health Topics report is part of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The full text of the report canbe found online at http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/HealthTopics.aspx .

Report finds that searches for healthinformation continue to rank highamong internet users
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All library classes are free and open to all. Advance registration is appreciated but not required. If you wouldlike to request a class or schedule a consultation at any HSC campus, please contact the library at (210) 567-2450 or email [email protected] .

If you would like to request a special class or orientation for your department or group at other days/times,please contact us! To register for a class or to read class descriptions, visit the online class schedule .

When you register for a library class, your registration confirmation email includes a file that you can save asan appointment into your electronic calendar.

San Antonio Briscoe Library

Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session: March 3, 2011, 12 noon - 1:00 pm,LIB 4.074 - Collaboratory Ovid Tips & Tricks: Getting Started with MEDLINE: March 8, 2011, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, LIB2.011Creating and Presenting a Professional Poster Session : March 8, 2011, 12 noon - 1:00 pm, LIB2.011Picture This: Online Photo-Sharing - Technology Brownbag : March 9, 2011, 12 noon - 1:00pm, Briscoe Library, Howe Conference RoomIntroduction to PubMed : March 15, 2011, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, LIB 2.011Webinar: Copyright at Work : March 22, 2011, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, LIB 4.074 - Collaboratory Introduction to RefWorks : March 25, 2011, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, LIB 2.011Ovid Tips & Tricks : April 6, 2011, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, LIB 2.011Introduction to RefWorks: April 20, 2011, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, LIB 2.011Using EBSCO CINAHL to Locate Nursing & Allied Health Information: April 21, 2011, 2:00pm - 3:30 pm, LIB 2.011Library Basics: April 22, 2011, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, LIB 2.011

Harlingen and Edinburg Ramirez Library and Edinburg RAHC

PubMed Advanced: March 1, 2011, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Edinburg - RAHC Building room 1.202

Managing PubMed Search Results: March 10, 2011, 12 noon - 1:00 pm, Ramirez Library,Harlingen room 1.132Customizing PubMed with MyNCBI: April 5, 2011, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Edinburg - RAHCBuilding room 1.202Customizing PubMed with MyNCBI: April 7, 2011, 12 noon - 1:00 pm, Ramirez Library,Harlingen room 1.132

Katie PrenticeHead of Education and Information Services

Library classes for March and April
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The NLM Technical Bulletin recently released a Skill Kit for searching for phrases inPubMed. The Skill Kit outlines the following steps:

1. Search the phrase first without quotes or search tags.

2. Check Search details to see how the search was translated.

3. Use quotes only when Search details indicate your phrase is broken apart.

Most often, phrases entered without quotation marks will be searched as phrases in all fields, as well as beingsubjected to Automatic Term Mapping . However, sometimes even quotes wont work because not all phrasesare recognized as phrases.

The complete Skill Kit can be found here:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf11/jf11_skill_kit_pm_phrase_searching.html .

News from the UT Health Science Center Libraries is published at the beginning of eachmonth to highlight the programs, services andresources offered by The Libraries.

Rajia Tobia, Executive Director of Libraries:[email protected]

Susan Hunnicutt, Editor: [email protected]

Kelley Minars, Web Editor: [email protected]

Pennie Borchers and Katie Prentice, Copy Editors

Walter Creech, Katie Prentice and Robert Zuniga,Photographers

New Skill Kit from the National Library of Medicine:Searching for phrases in PubMed

Featured resource: Journal Citation Reports Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a tool for evaluating the influence of journals by comparing them to otherjournals in the same field, to identify those that are the most frequently cited and that have the highest impactfactors. Citation and article counts can be important indicators of how frequently current researchers are usingindividual journals.

The JCR database covers over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals in the fields of science, technology andsocial sciences.

UT Health Science Center students, faculty and staff can access Journal Citation Reports from the Database

page of The Libraries Web site, or at http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com.libproxy.uthscsa.edu/JCR/JCR .
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