National Open Access Week

www.openaccessweek.org

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.  “Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.”  What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles:  Publishing in OA journals, and submitting your preprints to OA archives or depositing your postprints in an open- access repository.  

Help make Open Access the new norm in scholarship and research.  Check out the Directory of Open Access Journals for titles in your field.  Find out more about what you as a faculty member or academic administrator can do here.

Online Exhibition: African Americans in Civil War Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/index.html

The National Library of Medicine presents an online exhibition about the contributions of African Americans as nurses, surgeons and hospital workers during the Civil War.  The exhibition includes photographs, diaries, and online activities.

Natural Standard Trial

http://www.naturalstandard.com

The Swilley Library is participating in a trial of Natural Standard in conjunction with the Mercer School of Medicine Library and the Savannah Health Sciences Library at Memorial University Medical Center. 

Swilley currently subscribes to Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.  When testing the Natural Standard database please evaluate whether it offers comparable content as our current database.  If all the libraries agree to purchase Natural Standard it would be in place of Natural Medicines.  The trial lasts until October 31, 2010.  Following the trial a survey will be sent out to assess interest.

Scientific Collaboration on Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

The ADNI is a partnership, combining the resources and expertise of the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, academic investigators, pharmaceutical companies, the US Food and Drug Administration , the NIH Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Institute for the Study of Aging. 

An essential feature of the ADNI is that the clinical, neuropsychological, imaging, and biological data and biological samples will be made available to all qualified scientific investigators as a public domain research resource.

Source:  ADNI.  

Read the story "Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s" here from the New York Times.

Radical Science

Who is this man and why should you care?

He's Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.  Genetic tests have shown that he has a mutation in his LRRK2 gene and is at increased risk for Parkinson's disease.  He's donated over $50 million dollars to Parkinson's research and he wants to do the research differently and faster.  According to this article in Wired, he "is proposing to bypass centuries of scientific epistemology in favor of a more Googley kind of science. He wants to collect data first, then hypothesize, and then find the patterns that lead to answers. And he has the money and the algorithms to do it."

Read the article and see the demo here.

Medline Plus Redesign

http://www.medlineplus.gov

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients. The website has recently been redesigned to be more user friendly and more easily searchable.  Major categories are Health Topics, Drugs & Supplements, and Videos/Cool Tools.  Cool Tools includes interactive tutorials, and surgery and anatomy videos.  A mobile version and an RSS feed are also available. Check out the new version!

New Books for COPHS @ Swilley

The following titles are now available at the Swilley Library for checkout

An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry
RS403 .P38 2009

Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System
QR181 .A28 2011

Biomarker Methods in Drug Discovery and Development
R853.B54 B565 2008

Colloid Science: Principles, Methods and Applications
QD549 .C585 2010

Cook & Hussey's Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice
RM698 .C66 2008

Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom
KF4209.E38 L57 2005

Critical Evaluation of Research in Physical Rehabilitation: Towards Evidence-Based Practice
RM708 .H45 2000

Current Good Manufacturing Practices: Pharmaceutical Biologics and Medical Device Regulations
Ref KF70.A3 A5 2009

Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals: Peptides, Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Vaccines
RS199.5 .D45 2009

Developing Cultural Competence in Physical therapy Practice
RM705 .L38 2006

Drug Bioavailability: Estimation of Solubility, Permeability, Absorption and Bioavailability
RM301.6 .D785 2009

Drug Transporters: Molecular Characterization and Role in Drug Disposition
QP552.C34 D78 2007

Electrotherapy: Evidence-Based Practice
RM871 .C63 2008

Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation: An Evidence-Based Approach
RG559 .H47 2006

Herbal Medicines
RM666.H33 N49 2007

The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care
RX51 .H33 2009

Human Neuroanatomy
QM451 .A94 2008

The Machinery of Life
QH581.2 .G66 2009

Menopause
RG186 .M4342 2007

Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs Used in Cancer and Immunology
Ref RM302.5 .M49 2010

Microparticulate Systems for the Delivery of Proteins and Vaccines
RS201.C3 M544 1996

Orthopedic Physical Examination Tests: An Evidence-Based Approach
RM724 .C66 2008

Pediatric Injectable Drugs: Teddy Bear Book
RM170 .P47 2007

Pharmacology in Rehabilitation
RM301 .C515 2007

Science-Based Rehabilitation: Theories into Practice
RM700 .S373 2005

Solubility and Solubilization in Aqueous Media
QD255.4 .Y26 1999

Therapeutic Measurement and Testing: the Basics of ROM, MMT, Posture, and Gait Analysis
RC376.5 .W434 2010

The Tobacco Atlas
G1046.J94 T6 2009

Whiplash, Headache, and Neck Pain: Research-Based Directions for Physical Therapies
RD533.5 W486 2008

Writing Up Qualitative Research
T11 .W65 2009

UpToDate Online Trial

From now until July 31st, Mercer University has TRIAL access to UpToDate Online accessible anywhere!

The Swilley Library is assessing interest from GBCN and COPHS faculty and students in UpToDate.

UpToDate is an good background resource for faculty and students interested in updating their knowledge base. For each clinical issue, an expert in the field reviews the topic, synthesizes information, summarizes key findings, and provides detailed, practical recommendations for patient care. UpToDate contains discussions of medical topics such as internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn and family medicine. Each review article is written by an expert in the field being discussed, and is designed to provide a quick way to get up to speed. The database is updated periodically.

UpToDate includes hundreds of patient information handouts; these topics go through peer review and constant updating as with professional-level topics. It also includes drug information from Lexi-Comp.

Note that because of expense, this resource MAY be available on campus only, from a single terminal at the library. The licensing and pricing must be evaluated.

Click on comments or email us at leslie_sl@mercer.edu to let us know how you like this database!

New Books for COPHS @ Swilley

The following titles are now available at the Swilley Library for checkout;

Advanced drug formulation design to optimize therapeutic outcomes

RS420 .A42 2008

Chronopharmaceutics: Science and technology for biological rhythm-guided therapy and prevention of diseases
RS200 .C47 2009

Clinical and Translational Science: Principles of Human Research
R850 .C555 2009

Clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: concepts and applications
RM3 01.5 .R 68 2011

Delivery technologies for biopharmaceuticals: peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and vaccines
RS199.5 .D45 2009

Drug Metabolism Handbook
RM301.55 .D766 2009

Introduction to neuropsychopharmacology
RM315 .I589 2009

Handbook of pharmaceutical salts: properties, selection, and use
RS403 .H33 2008

A primer of drug action: a comprehensive guide to the actions, uses, and side effects of psychoactive drugs
RM315 .J75 2008

Water-insoluble drug formulation
RS201.S6 W38 2008

Workplace Spanish for pharmacists
Reserve Desk PC4120 .W67 2009

More titles available at http://mercer.libguides.com/cophs

Database trial

Rehabilitation Reference Center (RRC) and SPORTDiscus with Full Text database.

RRC is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 490 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. These databases would be used primarily by our Physical Therapy department. Contact us to let us know what you think.

New Books for COPHS @ Swilley

Addiction Medicine: An Evidence-Based Handbook
RC564 .R36 2005


Drug Discovery: A History
RS61 .S637 2005


Lifestyle Modifications in Pharmacotherapy
RC108 .L47 2008

Aulton's Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines
RS200 .A95 2007

Symptoms in The Pharmacy: A Guide to the Management of Common Illness
RS122.5 .B54 2008


As well as:

Brody's Human Pharmacology: Molecular to Clinical
RM300 .H86 2010


Epidemiology
RA651 .G58 2009


Mosby's Complementary & Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach
R733 .F743 2009


Plumer's Principles & Practice of Intravenous Therapy
RM170 .P57 2007


Principles and Methods of Toxicology
RA1211 .P74 2008



Find them on the New Books Shelf

Thanks to a joint subscription with the Mercer School of Medicine we now have access to Current Protocols!

"Current Protocols is the largest collection of authoritative and regularly updated step-by-step research techniques and procedures available. With over 20 years of experience and more than 12,500 protocols, as well as expert Editorial Boards and a qualified in-house scientific editorial staff, Current Protocols is the leading source of high-quality protocols for life scientists worldwide."

Categories our subscription covers:

• Bioinformatics
• Cell Biology
• Cytometry
• Essential Lab Techniques
• Human Genetics
• Immunology
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Microbiology
• Molecular Biology
• Neuroscience
• Nucleic Acid Chemistry
• Pharmacology
• Protein Science
• Stem Cell Biology
• Toxicology

Find them in the journals section of the Swilley Home Page.