Outage, All Library Resources: Sunday, April 28, 8am – 4pm

Due to scheduled maintenance by IT Services on the AMC campus’ Internet connectivity, ALL Health Sciences Library online resources will be unavailable on Sunday, April 28 from 8:00 am until 4:00 pm (time approximate), including:

• All on- and off-campus access to licensed online resources including databases and journal full text
• Library’s web page
• Find Journals journal portal
• Article Linker connectivity from PubMed
• Proxy server
• IMPULSE library catalog
• Electronic reserves
• HSL Streaming Media

Announcement from UC Denver ITS

IT Services Alert: Planned Network Outage 04-28-13 from 8:00am to 4:00pm

Locations affected:

All Network connectivity in Building 500, RC1 North and South, RC2, AO1, Health and Wellness, Building 400,401,402,406,407, Ed1, Ed2 North and South, CUP, SoDM, NightHorse Native health, BDC, Campus Services, University of Colorado departments in Bio-Sciences building and Bio-Science East,  EHS, Library, and School of Pharmacy, Off-site locations including ( ARTS, ATP, boulder sports medicine, CGL, and Perinatal ) and all University of Colorado network connections on Auraria including School of Business, Lawrence Street Center, CU Building and all UC Denver network connections on the Auraria Campus.

Services affected: 

All Data services provided by Office of Information Technology (OIT) will be unavailable including Internet Access, campus to campus connectivity (AMC to DC), Server Access, Portal authentication, VPN, webmail, E-mail, Citrix, Video conferencing  

Type of Outage:

[X] Scheduled Outage    [ ] UnScheduled Outage    [ ] Emergency
Date of Outage:           Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Time of Outage:          8:00AM to 4:00PM

Reason for Outage: IT Services will be performing an upgrade on the University Network. During this maintenance, users will experience outages with data services including  internet access, email, access to University data center Servers and access to the UCD Access Portal.  If you continue to experience issues with the above mentioned services after this maintenance has concluded (after 4:00pm), please contact the IT Services Help Desk at (303) 724-4357 for assistance.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation and patience during this upgrade.
University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus IT Services

BrowZine trial

Check out the app that can help you stay current with academic journals, including titles with no app for institutional subscribers.  We have a trial set up for BrowZine which has been configured with many of the journals we subscribe to. You can read articles offline and sync with Zotero, dropbox, and more.

After downloading the free BrowZine app select our institution: University of Colorado Health Sciences Library and enter your usual library login credentials. Authentication FAQs.

Please provide any feedback to heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu or fill out a form here.

BrowZine is only available for iPads at this time, but the company is working on an app for Android tablets as well.

Book Review: Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Wonder by R.J. Palacio.   Health Sciences Library Medical Humanities/3rd Floor QS 675 P153w 2012

What was the last children’s novel you read? Harry Potter? Wonder is a children’s novel adults should read.

The novel is essentially a story about kindness, bestowed altruistically or coerced, and what it means to be “ordinary”.  The center of the novel is Auggie, who is a fifth grader beginning school after years of homeschooling. Auggie feels he is ordinary, even though his face is disfigured from a genetic disorder. The novel relates the events of Auggie’s first year of school from many points of view. We hear first from Auggie and then from his sister, his principal and his friends. Throughout the novel Palacio reframes the concept of “ordinary”.Each character faces challenges, but some individual’s challenges are much more difficult and enduring than others. In the end empathy and kindness prevail. The reader understands that Auggie will continue to face adversity, but is developing deeper understanding and the strength and support networks to allow him to navigate these challenges.

[Lynne M. Fox, Education Librarian]

FYI: New Articles on Scholarly Communication

Three new articles:

Scholars Increasingly Use Online Resources, Survey Finds, but They Value Traditional Formats Too The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2013

Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)  The New York Times, April 7, 2013

Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing Nature, March 27, 2013

[Lynne M. Fox, Education Librarian]

Article Linker problem in PubMed

There is an intermittent problem with Article Linker on PubMed. Users may see the following message: “PubMed look up service is temporarily unavailable.” If you encounter the error please keep trying. You can try your search via Google Scholar.

You might also try the following:

1) open two browser windows, one on Pubmed and the other on Find Journals single citation matcher or title search

2) flip back and forth between the windows or tabs, copy and paste the relevant info for the full text you wish to look up

If you have questions, please contact Ask a Librarian

FYI: Are you negotiating a physician salary?

This time of year residents and fellows are often leaving campus for new professional opportunities and departments here are hiring new physicians.

Take some of the guesswork out of  negotiation with the free Medscape Physician Compensation Report.  The report is free, but registration with the site is required to view the report.

A general overview and specialty reports are available.  Each year Medscape surveys 24,000 plus U.S. physicians in general and specialty practice in a variety of settings in all parts of the country.  Survey participation varies by specialty, so data for some specialties may only represent 200-400 participants.

Educate yourself to ask for and offer the most competitive compensation.

Medscape also offers several other interesting annual reports on ethics, work satisfaction, and insurers.  See how you compare with peers on these professional issues.  (Scroll down to the Reports in the Business of Medicine section.)

[Lynne M. Fox, Education Librarian]

MD Consult/Nursing Consult Enhancements

You can link to articles in other resources from within MD Consult and Nursing Consult .

You can also now switch to MD Consult from within Nursing Consult using a pull-down menu in the upper right corner of the Nursing Consult interface.

 

Trial for Isabel in Dynamed

We have a trial for Isabel via Dynamed. Isabel is a diagnosis checklist system. The trial ends April 30^th 2013.

Access link: http://hsl-ezproxy.ucdenver.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid&user=colorado&password=health&profile=isabel

Comments or questions: heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu or contact your department’s library liaison.

Rare Book Profile: John Elliotson’s Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State.

John Elliotson’s Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State: With Remarks Upon the Opposition of Many Members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and Others to the Reception of the Inestimable Blessings of Mesmerism (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843) is one of the earliest works on the use of hypnosis as surgical anesthesia.  Physicians at the time were experimenting with a number of substances, seeking to dull pain without killing the patient. The use of ether as an anesthetic was introduced in 1846.

John Elliot son (1791-1868) was a prominent London physician.  After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Cambridge University, and St. Thomas and Guy’s hospitals in London, he became a professor of medicine at London University in 1831, and physician to University College Hospital in 1834.  He was one of the first in London to emphasize clinical lecturing and one of the earliest British physicians to advocate use of the stethoscope. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, served as president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and was a founding member of the Phrenological Society.  Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Wilkie Collins were among his admirers.

At the time that Elliotson was beginning his career, there was a resurgence of popular interest in mesmerism, which had been considered discredited 50 years earlier by a French commission of prominent scientists, including Benjamin Franklin. While some later inquiries were not as dismissive, Mesmerism was considered scientifically questionable.

Elliotson witnessed public demonstrations of mesmeric trance by French practitioners in 1837, and began using it in his practice.  Elliotson’s advocacy of mesmerism and public demonstrations he gave at University College Hospital drew criticism from the medical profession. One of his harshest critics was Thomas Wakley, editor of The Lancet, who had at first supported him. Opposition from the Council of University College and the Hospital Committee forced him to resign his posts in 1838, but he continued in private practice. In 1843 Elliotson established The Zoist, a mesmerist magazine in which he continued experimental and scientific investigation of mesmeric phenomena, and he founded a mesmeric hospital in 1849.

In Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State, Elliotson describes procedures performed by himself and others, especially an amputation by W. Squire Ward and mesmerist W. Topham. He describes the controversy that broke this case was reported and addresses his critics’ arguments. It is a slim, inexpensively produced volume, with small type, narrow margins, and no illustrations.

The Health Sciences Library’s copy is the first American edition, published in the same year as the British edition. It is bound in green ribbed cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover. It came to the library as a gift from James J. Waring.

 

Rare materials are available to individuals or groups by appointment on Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons, or at other times by arrangement. To schedule an appointment, contact Emily Epstein, emily.epstein@ucdenver.edu or 303-724-2119.

[Emily Epstein, Cataloging Librarian]

New Web Librarian at HSL

Vivienne Houghton is the new Web Services Librarian at the Health Sciences Library. Vivienne is a recent graduate of the Masters in Library and Information Science program at University of Denver. Vivienne led a very active student career focusing on the Web and libraries, and volunteered at HSL IT for many months prior to applying and being selected for the position. She is enthusiastic about user-centered web design, web 2.0 tools and social media, as well as taking advantage of open-source content management software for the web such as Drupal and Joomla.

Some words people use to describe Vivienne include: resourceful, highly organized, committed, dynamic, and cheerful! Please join us in welcoming Vivienne to the library and look for changes and improvements to our web services very soon!