NOVEL: What's New
What's New in NOVEL
NOVEL News
NOVEL Highlights:
New URL! You can now find NOVEL at the new, shortened URL, http://NOVEL.utah.edu. Please bookmark that!
New Collection: Robert B. Daroff, MD, Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine at CASE Western Reserve University has generously contributed his collection of instructional video on eye movements. These are digitized from an earlier set of VHS tapes. Each tape is available in its complete form, and is also divided into smaller clips representing distinct topics for a total of 55 video clips. Each clip is available for viewing by streaming video or for download. The clips are available for educational, not for profit use. Credit should be given to Dr. Daroff and NOVEL when used with students or other non-profit educational settings. Minor adjustments are still being made to the collection, but it is ready for use now. http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/Daroff/
Near Completion: Shirley H. Wray, MD, PhD, is nearing completion of her remarkable video collection. As Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and former Director of Neurovisual Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Wray has collected an incredible array of more than 160 patient case videos. As the collection nears its complete state, each case will have a thorough care report included int he description, as well as PowerPoint lectures attached covering individual cases, diseases and diagnoses. These collective materials provide a rich educational resource. The materials are available for educational, not for profit use. Credit should be given to Dr. Wray and NOVEL when used with students or other non-profit educational settings. Minor adjustments are still being made to the collection, but it is ready for use now. http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/Wray/
Database Upgrade: The NOVEL database, CONTENTdm, which hosts the descriptive records linking to the educational resources was recently upgraded. Some minor changes in display are evidence of the upgrade. Otherwise, the records and links should continue to perform as they always have. Please report any oddities.
As always, please use our Comment button or Feedback link in the left side panel to send us your comments and suggestions. If you wish to receive monthly news updates, please register on the NOVEL Web site. Click on the Make A Comment button on the home page, send comment and check the Register box. Or, just send us your comments without registering. You can also read this in the “About NOVEL” area of the Web site. http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/about
Nancy Lombardo
NOVEL Project Director
library.med.utah.edu/lib/faculty/conta…Thu, 2009-09-24, 10:25 AM, -0600 GMT
NOVEL Collections Unavailable Aug 10-13, 2009 – Database Server Being Moved!
NOVEL Users,
Please be aware that the NOVEL collections will be unavailable for part or all of August 10 – 13. The CONTENTdm server which hosts the records for our collections is being physically moved to a new location. The IT staff will do their best to minimize the down time, but they are not able to eliminate it. Please be patient as this hardware shift takes place. We expect the collections to be available August 14.
Thanks for your patience,
Nancy Lombardo
NOVEL Project Director
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
University of UtahTue, 2009-08-04, 3:13 PM, -0600 GMT
NANOS 2009 Presentations Online!
We hope you all enjoyed the recent NANOS 2009 meeting in Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, NV. At the meeting, Nancy Lombardo, Project Manager, presented an update to the Board and discussed the progress made over the last year with the generous Pfizer Educational Grant.
On Monday, Nancy presented a NOVEL overview and update to the membership at an optional symposium. Ed Fitzgibbon presented on creating video for use in PowerPoint lectures. Following that, Nancy and Jeanne Le Ber, Education and Research Services Librarian at the University of Utah, presented on copyrights, current awareness tools, and citation management.
Tuesday evening, Kathleen Digre, MD and Larry Frohman, MD presented a poster on the NOVEL project and the recent progress under the Pfizer grant.
All of the presentation and handout materials are available on the NOVEL Web site at:
http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/about/progressPlease help yourself to the materials for your review.
Tue, 2009-03-24, 2:38 PM, -0600 GMT
New NOVEL Web Address!
NOVEL has a new Web address, in addition to the existing URL. You can now find our site at the easy to remember address:
Try it!
Tue, 2009-03-24, 2:36 PM, -0600 GMT
Interview with Eric Eggenberger by AAN
Eric Eggenberger was interviewed by the American Academy of Neurology about the NOVEL project. Eric did a great job describing the project, its content and its goals. Please take a minute to read the interview describing our project, which was published on December 30, 2008: http://www.aan.com/news/?event=read&article_id=7002
Thu, 2009-01-08, 9:44 AM, -0700 GMT
JNO Archives in NOVEL
The NOVEL team is adding the entire archive of the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology (JNO) to the NOVEL collections. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) has transferred the complete collection of JNO electronic archives to NOVEL. This contains the volumes from 1994 to the present. The articles are being catalogued as a new collection. This will provide an alternative means of accessing and preserving the literature, convenient to NOVEL users. Articles from each new JNO issue will be added as they are released from the one year publisher’s access embargo. Currently, 1994-2004 are available on the NOVEL Web site: http://library.med.utah.edu/novel/jno
Fri, 2008-11-14, 7:34 PM, -0700 GMT
NOVEL listed on AAN list of quality online resources
NOVEL is pleased to note that our collections are listed as a “neurology-related websites with high-volume, high-quality image resources” on the AAN Web site. In their portal, titled, “Finding Neuroimages on the Internet,” authors Daniel B. Hier, MD, MBA, FAAN, AAN.com Education Editor (U. of Illinois at Chicago), and Mike Petkovich include NOVEL as one of the better examples of neuroscience directories or libraries for targeted searches.
Find the list of excellent resources, including NOVEL, at:
http://www.aan.com/news/?event=read&article_id=5637&page=72.45.45
Thu, 2008-10-02, 2:28 PM, -0600 GMT
Rare Disease Registry
NOVEL has established a gateway for a Rare Disease Registry. Find the page at:
http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/rare
This registry of rare visual diseases provides a mechanism of communication between Neuro-ophthalmologists who see rare and unusual diseases. This registry will coordinate research on these rare diseases. Neuro-ophthalmologists have agree to be the “stewards” of clinical information (all HIPPA compliant) on conditions rare enough that no single institution can accumulate enough experience to understand either the natural history or the best treatment for a condition. By combining the efforts of our members at 120+ American medical schools, along with their international colleagues, we will collaboratively research these diseases and systematically investigate how to improve patient outcomes.
The rare diseases selected at this time are:
Autoimmune Mediated Optic Neuropathy
Chiari mimicking P. Cerebri
Genetic eye movement disorder
Posterior cortical atrophy
Sarcoid optic neuropathy
Susac’s DiseaseWed, 2008-09-17, 6:38 PM, -0600 GMT
NEW! Patient Portal in NOVEL
A new Patient Portal has been established in NOVEL. The collection of resources is based on the collection of patient brochures created by NANOS members and currently available in the NANOS web site. 14 topics are covered. Each topic entry includes some or all of the following information links: the NANOS patient brochure, links into MedlinePlus for patient oriented information, a live PubMed search leading to the most current biomedical literature, links to other authoritative Web sites, and links to support groups when available. The resources were identified and organized by the NOVEL team, then reviewed and refined by the NANOS Patient Education Committee, led by Luis Mejico, MD.
As additional patient brochures are developed by NANOS members, topics will be added to this patient portal Currently, the Patient Education Committee is working to translate the brochures into multiple languages.
Please feel free to suggest topics for development, or volunteer to work with the Patient Education Committee to develop patient brochures on new topics.
Find the NOVEL Patient Portal at:
http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/portalWed, 2008-08-13, 12:54 PM, -0600 GMT
Database Server Downtime
NOVEL resource users: please note that the University of Utah Marriott Library IT staff is conducting routine maintenance late tomorrow, Tuesday, August 12, on the CONTENTdm infrastructure. Access to the NOVEL collections hosted at the University of Utah will not be available from 5:00-10:00 p.m., Tuesday. Access to NOVEL collections will be restored by 10:00 p.m. Tuesday.
Mon, 2008-08-11, 8:33 PM, -0600 GMT
