Open Access and Journal Pricing – a Fine Mess

There’s something to be said for enjoying a complex problem, and the world of licensing journals is nothing nowadays if not complicated. The recent Open Access movement in scholarly communications has provided an excellent opportunity for examining this problem. Read Health Sciences Library Director Jerry Perry’s editorial addressing some of the issues that have come into play for OA and the HSL. Your feedback is welcome! To discuss Open Access with Jerry, consider calling (303-724-2133) or writing (jerry.perry@ucdenver.edu ).

Open Access and Journal Pricing – a Fine Mess

Golden Years

Under Pressure

Scary Monsters

Let’s Dance

Changes

New Grey Literature web page

Grey literature is produced by researchers and practitioners in their fields of education, science, medicine, technology, etc. but the research is not officially published in the journal literature, nor is it easily found in databases or other indexing tools.  While not considered scholarly per se, it is very important research information, containing data, statistics, and very current research results.  Grey literature comes in the form of technical reports, conference papers, newsletters, working papers, committee reports, bulletins, and unpublished papers.

Our new Grey Literature web page pulls together a number of these hard to find resources.

The Human Touch

The Human Touch 2009 Literary and Arts Anthology Available Now at AMC Bookstore

Please pick up your FREE copy of THE HUMAN TOUCH 2009 at the Information Desk of the Anschutz Medical Campus Bookstore, Building 500, 1^st Floor.

THE HUMAN TOUCH is the literary and arts anthology of the Anschutz Medical Campus of UC Denver. The Human Touch strives to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection to promote humane medical care, by offering an outlet for the creative expression of the connection between patients, family, and health care professionals. Writings and artworks foster an understanding of cultural and social contexts of the individual experience of illness and the way medicine is practiced. Editors are students in the School of Medicine, staff and faculty of the Anschutz Medical Campus. Authors and artists are students, staff, health professionals, and patients from the University of Colorado community.

This publication is being offered FREE to members of the community through the generous support of the President’s Fund for the Humanities and the School of Medicine. The Human Touch is produced by the Medical Humanities Program (H. N. Claman, M.D., Director) of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

A copy of the anthology is also available for checkout at the Health Sciencws Library, in the Drs. Henry and Janet Claman Medical Humanities Collection. The collection is located in the 3^rd Floor Special Collections Room, call number WZ 350 U58h 2009  v. Another copy can be checked out from the Auraria Library, 2^nd Floor, call number R702 .H86  v.2.