Colorado Wildfire Resources

Donations

• HelpColoradoNow.org.  How to help those affected by Waldo, Flagstaff, High Park and other wildfires in Colorado.  State of Colorado, Department of Local Affairs, Emergency Management.  http://helpcoloradonow.org/

 

News

• Wildfire Resource Center, 9News.com  http://topics.9news.com/wildfires
• Breaking Wildfire News, Denverpost.com http://www.denverpost.com/wildfires

 

Other Resources

• InciWeb.  Current Incidents Colorado. http://www.inciweb.org/state/6/
• Library Services in Wildfire-Affected Areas.  Colorado State Library.  http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/wildfires.htm
• Fires and Wildfires.  Disaster Information Management REsearch Center.  National Library of Medicine http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/wildfires.html
• Health Threats. Fires and Wildfires.  Disaster Information Management REsearch Center.  National Library of Medicine  http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/wildfires.html#a2

Serial Plagiarizers Banned from Dermatology Journal Forever

Resveratrol researcher Das in video:  ”Yes, I manipulated images, but only because the journals asked me to.”

Thus read a couple of recent entries to the highly informative and often entertaining blog Retraction Watch. Blog authors Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus note that, “Unlike newspapers, which strive for celerity as much as accuracy, science journals have the luxury of time. Thorough vetting, through editorial boards, peer reviewers and other filters, is the coin of the realm…And yet mistakes happen.”

Retraction Watch examines the underbelly of academic publishing by investigating how mistakes and intentional malfeasance make it into the published scientific literature and how such lapses once discovered are handled by the journals. The focus tends to fall more on the life sciences as Oransky and Marcus are both medical reporters.

Though most retractions are due to technical errors, honest mistakes, and surprisingly often accidental publication, of course, the juicy stories tend to be those that involve intentional misconduct, plagiarism, falsification of data and other acts of transgression. For example, Retraction Watch recently profiled a fascinating study that found that about three quarters of retracted drug studies were due to falsified data and plagiarism. And in case you think this is a problem on the periphery, one of the cases profiled involved The Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world.

The authors themselves are not sure what need this blog fulfills. I think it is useful for anyone interested in getting a feel for the kinds of ethical issues, grey areas and assorted problems that seem to occur in academic publishing. In the end, it is much better to learn from someone else’s mistake than to make your own.

[Benjamin Harnke, Education and Reference Librarian] 

Fitness and Health Bloggers – Article on Running

Bloggers, you might remember Dana Abbey mentioning an article about the health effects of too much running. Here’s the citation information:

O’Keefe JH, Patil HR, Lavie CJ, Magalski A, Vogel RA, McCullough PA. (2012) Potential adverse cardiovascular effects from excessive endurance exercise. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Jun;87(6):587-95.

Thanks to the Participants at the 2012 Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference

Library Breakout Session at 2012 Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference

The Health Sciences Library is excited to be a part of the 2012 Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference being held at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.  Several librarians will facilitate the “Communication via the Internet” breakout session discussing question like:  where do you already get your information? or How familiar are you with your local public library, community college or academic library, and your closest health sciences library for accessing health information? Conference participants will walk over the Health Sciences Library and get a brief tour of the 1st floor as they make their way to the north corner to the library teaching labs where the active discussion will take place.  The breakout discussion will build on the principles presented in Dana Abbey’s talk on Locating and Assessing Health and Wellness Information on the Internet.  The session will take a look at a few resources and their features like PubMed’s Healthy People | PubMed’s … Clinical Queries, … Related Articles, … RSS/search linking, and … searching tutorial | and Google Scholar’s … Cited by, …Related Articles, and … linking active searches.  CASP or the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme has great evaluation tools for different study designs, e.g., systematic reviews, randomized control trials and cohort studies.

For those who live outside of the state and need to identify a library where they may be able to access or pay for journal articles, contact the National Network of Libraries of Medicine at http://nnlm.gov or call, 1-800-338-7657

The library is always happy to work with campus meetings, groups, schools and departments to provide the information seeking assistance/training you might need.  If you’d like the library to help with an upcoming event, contact Lisa.Traditi@ucdenver.edu, by email or 303-724-2141, by phone.  She’ll be happy to work with you to increase the information seeking knowledge of the faculty, staff, students and affiliates of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Dana Abbey speaking at 2012 Fitness and Health Blogger’s Conference

Dana Abbey is the Health Information Literacy Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental region. She works to improve the public’s access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

Dana will be speaking at the 2012 Fitness & Health Blogger’s Conference at the Anschutz Health & Wellness Center on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. Her Saturday morning talk will focus on locating and assessing health and wellness Information on the Internet. Here’s a list of the resources she plans to cover. Even if you can’t come to the conference this year you can still explore these resources on your own.

• Clinical Trials
• DailyMed
• Dietary Supplements Label Database
• Genetics Home Reference
• LactMed
• MedlinePlus
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
• NIH Senior Health
• PHPartners
• PubMed  OR PubMed (showing the links to the Health Sciences Library article availability)
• Social Media from the National Library of Medicine

Cancellation – Henry Stewart Talks

The CU Libraries recently decided to cancel their subscription to “Henry Stewart Talks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection”.  This resource provided access to presentations by scientists around the world.  However usage was very low on all campuses so a decision was made to not renew our subscription.  Our current subscription will end on June 30, 2012

If you have questions or would like more information please contact Melissa De Santis, Deputy Director at (303) 724-1748 or melissa.desantis@ucdenver.edu.

Redesign of Health Sciences Library website and downtime scheduled

The Health Sciences Library website has been redesigned. The website launched Saturday, June 23.  As with any new website launch, we are experiencing some minor problems and links that need to be fixed. Feedback, questions, and comments are encouraged – please send them along to library.web@ucdenver.edu.

Jeff Kuntzman, Head of Library IT

Congratulations Charlotte!

The Access Services Department of the Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce the promotion of Charlotte VanDervoort  from a Library Technician I to the position of Library Technician II effective June 1, 2012.  Charlotte joined the library 20 months ago bringing with her the experience she had acquired working at another academic  library and as a teacher in her home state of Texas. Charlotte learned the job duties quickly and also chairs the Staff Development Committee.   She has had to learn to divide her time between the Circulation and Interlibrary Loan Departments and has been an asset to both departments.  In addition to her duties with the Health Sciences Library, Charlotte is also working on a Master of Library Sciences Degree.

Please join me in congratulating Charlotte on her promotion.

[Helen J. White, Circulation Manager]

First Consult Mobile App

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