Need to find the right image for your presentation? Once you find it, do you know how you can use it? This short workshop will cover Fair Use, Public Domain, Creative Commons and other issues in the use of images for teaching and presentations.

Please join us for Eccles Express:

Thursday, April 18
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on this workshop, please contact Nancy Lombardo: Nancy.Lombardo@utah.edu

Resources:

Digital Images – where to find them and whats legal
Using Digital Images URLs – Handout

The Updated NIH Public Access Policy
Thursday, April 11
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on this workshop, please contact Abby Adamczyk: Abby.adamczyk@utah.edu

Thursday, April 4
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
HSEB 3100 D

For questions on this workshop, please contact Jessi Van Der Volgen j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

Crunched for time? Stop in for Eccles Express!

Eccles Express is a short workshop with an overview of the topic where you can learn strategies, steps, or resources you can employ right away. We are pleased to offer the following sessions on Thursdays in April, from 11:30 am-12:00 pm in HSEB 3100D.

April 4: Enhancing the Impact of Research
Presented by Jessi Van Der Volgen
Optimize the visibility and impact of your research through increased discoverability. In this session you’ll learn strategies to consider in preparing for publication, disseminating your research, and keeping track of your research.

April 11: The Updated NIH Public Access Policy
Presented by Abby Adamczyk
Do you have an NIH grant and need to find out if your publications meet the updated NIH Public Access Policy requirements?  Learn how to check your compliance and make sure your papers are in PubMed Central.

April 18: Images: Where can you find them and what’s legal?
Presented by Nancy Lombardo
This brief overview will cover what is a legal use of images for teaching and presentations. Fair Use, Public Domain and Creative Commons issues will be discussed. Useful sites for finding images will be presented.

April 25: Finding and Re-Purposing Datasets
Presented by Peter Jones
Discovering and re-using research datasets has become much easier in recent years due in large part to data sharing initiatives, increasing use of standards and innovative new technologies. Come learn about some of the many treasure troves of research data available, as well as how to utilize and cite them.

These workshops are offered for free by Eccles Health Science Library and no registration is required. For questions about Eccles Express, please contact Jessi Van Der Volgen: j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

Among the items featured in the collection are photographs of international nurse uniforms, dental cartoons, health and hygiene puzzle blocks from China, U.S. Army malaria pinup calendars, Adolf Hitler’s X-rays, and a volume on the art of palm reading. Each item highlighted in the book has been specially selected and is paired with a commentary from a scholar on the history and significance of the item. “Some things are charming and entertaining. Others are disturbing to look at, or document terrible things,” Sappol says. “There’s a lot in the book. In some cases it’s a document of human suffering, showing the diseases and afflictions people have. In other cases, it’s a document of ingenuity and coming up with treatments.”¹

Hidden Treasure is available as a free download from NLM’s Digital Collections or, if you’d like a hardcopy to entertain your guests, you can purchase it through major online booksellers. You can also find a review in The New York Times.

1 http://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2012/07/new-book-reveals-nlm-hidden-tr.html

Book Cover: http://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/v20i2/hidden-treasures-at-nlm

Through this new initiative, EPA is challenging the academic community to find innovative and creative ways to use TRI data to promote more informed decision-making and action on the part of communities, manufacturers, and government. Project ideas may range from one semester to multi-year research or coursework as long as the projects increase the knowledge, use, and understanding of TRI data and other related information. Priority will be given to projects related to one or more of the following topics:

• Pollution Prevention and Sustainability
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Technology and Data Mashups
• Environmental Education

Institutions whose project proposals are selected will serve as TRI University Challenge partners. Partners will receive direct non-monetary support from EPA TRI staff experts, and, depending on the outcome of their project, may receive national recognition for their project as well as speaking opportunities at conferences and events. Applicants who are not prepared to submit project ideas this spring are encouraged to submit project proposals during the next open application period.

Sample project ideas and evaluation criteria are posted on the TRI University Challenge website: www.epa.gov/tri/university.

Informational Webinar

Join us for a webinar on March 6 at 2:00 p.m. EST to learn more about the Challenge and ask questions about getting involved.  Register at:  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/420376090.

Application Deadline

EPA will be accepting TRI University Challenge applications between March 18 and May 13, 2013. Award applications must be submitted electronically to Scott.Zachary@epa.gov by 5:00 p.m. on May 13, 2013, to be considered. Applicants will be contacted regarding their application status by June 14, 2013.

For questions not answered during the webinar, please contact Zachary Scott at scott.zachary@epa.gov

Help spread the word about the Challenge to your friends and professional contacts in academia.

1. Register a team by March 4th.
Email Erica Lake: erica.lake@utah.edu

2. Create a 30-second to 1-minute public service announcement.

Choose any health literacy issue, such as:

• Failure to take medications correctly
• Overuse of the emergency room
• Medical diagnoses being made at later stages

3.  Submit your video to Erica Lake by March 25th.

Contest winners will have their PSA aired on a local TV station, featured on Dr. Vivian Lee’s blog, and promoted on university websites and social media outlets. All participants will be entered into a drawing for a new Kindle.

Contact Erica Lake for more information
erica.lake@utah.edu :: 801-581-4685

“Cases Database adds value to individual reports, allowing comparison of similar cases and helping to highlight trends and patterns which may help researchers to develop hypotheses which can then be tested by systematic research.
To aid discovery, all cases reports in Case Database are annotated using text-mining, which extracts clinically relevant information such as age, sex, ethnicity, symptom, intervention or medication using standard controlled vocabularies.”

- from BioMed Central Press Release.

Read more at BMC Blog.

Find Cases Database at http://www.casesdatabase.com/

Eccles Health Sciences Library is excited to pilot a new series of short, drop-in workshops. These 30-minute sessions will provide an introduction to the topic and present steps for getting started that you can put to use right away. Bring your laptop to follow along as we demonstrate and provide assistance with these tools.

The Eccles Express series will run on Thursdays in February at 11:30am in the Health Sciences Education Building, Room 2120 (Alumni Hall).

February 7: Data Management 101
Presented by: Abby Adamczyk
Not sure what to do with your data once a project is complete? Need to collaborate and share data with a researcher at another institution?  Get help and learn about resources and tools to help manage your research data.

February 14: One, Two, Three – Cite!
Presented by: Amy Honisett
Organize your citations, format your paper, and share with colleagues – for free! Join us for a short session to learn about three free citation management tools that can help you get control of your work.

February 21: Measuring Your Impact
Presented by: Jessi Van Der Volgen
H-index, G-index, i-10 index, altmetrics… confused? Learn about established and emerging tools for measuring author impact and steps for measuring yours.

February 28: Research Networking 101
Presented by: Peter Jones
How do you connect with research colleagues at the U or at other institutions? Come discover some of the time-tested techniques and new tools being developed to enable research communication and collaboration.

We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Jessi Van Der Volgen: j.vandervolgen@utah.edu

It will be implemented by providing funding for nine “Acton Coalitions” across the country, each one working ”on at least one strategy related to academic progression and at least one related to employment for baccalaureate or higher-prepared nurses, to ensure demand for their services. Thus, academic-service partnerships are key to the success of this effort.”

From this author’s perspective, one question arises: are representatives for the libraries that will serve these students being included in these efforts? Some nursing professionals seeking their B.A. will likely enroll in online courses that allow flexibility in order to mesh with their own hectic schedules. Are library professionals going to be available for these new/returning students at all hours? How will they be taught the basics of information literacy applicable to earning such a degree? This initiative seems likely to bring many more into our libraries, and while we welcome the opportunity to serve, advance planning and coordination would greatly increase the likelihood of success for this initiative.

Are you or someone you know involved with an Action Coalition? How are libraries being included? Tell us!

And while it does not require any special plugins (Flash, Java, etc.) to run, it does require that users have a WebGL-enabled browser, which the Safari web browser on the iPad 2 currently does not. As a free website for elementary and secondary education, it is a great resource. If you need a 3-D human anatomy app for your iPad, the iMedicalApps blog recently posted about the “Top 4 iPad anatomy medical apps,” which are:

• Pocket Body
• Visible Body
• Essentials Of Clinical Anatomy, and
• the NOVA Series

Do you use a 3-D anatomy app  or website? What do you like or dislike about it? Tell us!

“suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy. Intuitive controls allow the user to zoom, rotate and peel away layers to educate and communicate with an ease and directness that was never possible with print. A wealth of supporting media, MRIs, X-rays, live-action movies and animations are also included to supplement Anatomy.tv’s high resolution, computer-generated models” (from the website).

When you open Anatomy.tv, you are presented with an interactive image of a human skeleton. As you mouse over different areas, outlines of each area appear with a label naming it. You can add different layers, such as arteries and nerves, by clicking on folders to the right. Anatomy.tv also includes movies that show how different parts of the body work, such as “Abduction & adduction of the MCP joints.” Some areas of the body, such as the spine, also include images from MRI scans paired with computer-generated 3-D models for comparison. You can bookmark images, or save them to your computer. Finally, there is a “Clinical” button which brings up quick reference explanations about different aspects of anatomy such as related diseases, deformities, trauma and more.

Try it, and let us know what you think!

• View images and related text.
• Search image captions, keywords and references to refine search results.
• Bookmark images for later research.
• Email images to your friends and colleagues.

Like so many apps on the market, SpringerImages has multiple subscription levels. The free, basic level allows viewing of images from Open Access, peer-reviewed articles,which amounts to about one-tenth of the three million images in their database. If you choose to pay for improved access, the options include “Medical and Life Sciences (Mobile)” for $29.99, and “All Subjects (Mobile)” for $49.99 per their sign-up system.

The “Home” screen feels crowded, with the top most item showing a tally of the number of images in their database and the number you actually have access to. Below this are a search box, a button for advanced searching, and a list to browse by topic that is so narrow that the user is more likely to select a topic rather than brush to scroll.

I offer two suggestions for making this app more widely available. First, many libraries and other institutions subscribe to SpringerImages for their quality content. Why not offer free or reduced-price access to the equivalent mobile version for students, faculty and librarians? This would get their product in the hands of more end users right away, and have the potential of bringing in new customers down the road when students graduate, or faculty & librarians change institutions. And second, while this app can be used on the iPad, a tablet-friendly version would allow for a better browsing experience.

Do you have a favorite medical images app you use? Tell us about it!

A classic in the field of cardiac nursing, this well-recognized text and clinical reference has earned the reputation as “The Red Reference Book” for nurses caring for patients who have cardiac disease. Revised and updated, this edition reflects the latest procedures and techniques in cardiac nursing. This book incorporates the nursing process and critical thinking strategies, while also providing a foundation for the contents based on theory, anatomy and physiology. The liberal use of figures, tables, and authoritative references, makes this the ideal text for graduate students and a reference for any nurse interested in cardiac nursing.

This and other excellent titles are available through our new library catalog — check it out!

Here is a screenshot of her guide:

Eccles Health Sciences Library has begun using this service as well. Campus Guides is the larger, campus-wide version of LibGuides, and our guides cover topics ranging from anatomy to toxicology. Course-specific guides can easily be created as well; check out one created for Suzanne Stensaas’ “Dental Neuroanatomy” class. Faculty and others interested in creating their own course-specific guide are encouraged to contact the Library, or you can post a comment on this blog.

Update 9/14/11: the blog post cited at the beginning of this article is no longer available. You can browse their current guides, find one you like, and then contact them to get a copy.