Polio and Salk Vaccine Development - the Mutter Museum

The Mutter Museum offers a variety of medical history online. Sponsored by the College of Physicians of Philadephia, it includes photos and timelines. Also available is a brochure about their medicinal garden, which includes a number of plants that have proven helpful over time.

A special exhibit focuses on the History of Vaccines. This site includes a number of photos relating to polio and a timeline of important events in disease control.

In addition their blog features a neat National History Day 2012 second place video winner called "Salk Vaccine Trials." The students covered the emergence of the polio epidemic, causing 20,000 cases per year, through the creation of the Salk vaccine.

Websites referenced
http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/mutter-museum/
http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/
http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/assets/pdfs/gardenbrochure.pdf
http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/mutter-museum/medicinal-garden/
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/gallery/19
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/all
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/world-polio-day-high-schoolers-look-salk-vaccine-trial

Dr. W.B. Carrell’s Story Included on Portal to Texas History

Dr. William Beall Carrell, our first Chief of Staff, was featured in an article written by Steven Schmich and published in the Dallas Historical Society’s Legacies: a History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas almost 20 years ago. Now the article is available online through the Portal to Texas History project sponsored by the University of North Texas Libraries.

The subject index to Legacies lists additional topics under “Medicine and Health Care.” One mentioned is the Linz Award, which Dr. Carrell was awarded in 1925. He was only the second person to receive the award, “given annually to the citizen of Dallas who has made the greatest contribution to the community in the preceding year.” You can see the beautiful award on display in the Medical Library's Historical Collection.

An article from the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings also mentions Dr. Carrell (and Dr. Brandon Carrell) as early orthopaedic surgeons on their staff.

Websites referenced
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35114/m1/26/
http://texashistory.unt.edu/
http://www.library.unt.edu/
http://dallasheritagevillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Legacies-General-Subject-Index-May2015.pdf
http://dallasheritagevillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Legacies-Author-Index-May2015.pdf
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35101/m1/39
https://www.jld.net/linz/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305830/

index link updated 12-30-2015

Remote access to Journal for Healthcare Quality and Several Reading Journals

Are you interested in reading online content off campus for any of the following Wiley titles purchased by the Medical Library?

JHQ Journal for Healthcare Quality
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Reading Research Quarterly
Reading Teacher

If you go directly to Wiley Online Library, the publisher's site, you can enter your own email address to set up a personal profile. Once you do that, if you access your account from a hospital computer you can turn on "Roaming Access" and also select titles for tables of contents alert emails via "Alert Manager", both in the left side menu.

To choose specific titles for alerts, click on the words "Online Library" at the top of the page. You will then see the original screen where you can enter a word or two from the journal title in "Search" and click "Publication titles" before hitting the arrow. Careful about spelling "healthcare" - no space!

If you have been receiving emailed table of contents alerts from the Medical Library and wish to discontinue that service once you set this up and start receiving it directly, just contact the library and we'll be glad to remove your name.


Website referenced:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

"PMC" -- a New Name for PubMed Central

PMC is the new official name for PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's free online repository for scientific articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The name change should reduce confusion with NLM's MEDLINE search service called PubMed. When you do a search in PubMed you will see a link to any results available in PMC indicated by the note "Free PMC Article" in the listing. You can also search directly in PMC.

"In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection."

Remember if you would like to see PubMed results that show an icon for the materials we have, bookmark our custom PubMed URL.

Websites referenced:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib

"Stayin' Alive" - with Hands Only CPR

The American Heart Association has lots of videos for brief CPR training. For those with a smart phone, look at your app source for a tool such as AHA's Hands-Only™ CPR to help you maintain the beat. Be sure to call 911 first! Then push hard and fast to help save a life.

Compressions per minute are vitally important to the success of CPR. Recent investigation has determined that too fast, more than 145 compressions per minute, means the push is not deep enough to be effective. It must be at least 5 cm (about 2 inches) to move the blood. Think of the Bee Gee's tune "Stayin' Alive" and that should help you maintain the best rate of closer to 100 compressions per minute without wearing out before EMS arrives.

The hospital offers in-depth CPR training for health professional according to AHA guidelines.
Websites referenced:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_127754.html   Reuters Health story dated 7-30-2012
http://handsonlycpr.org

Citation:
Monsieurs, Koenraad G. et al. Excessive chest compression rate is associated with insufficient compression depth in prehospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Article in press, uncorrected proof published online July 23, 2012.
http://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(12)00372-3/abstract

PubMed "Limits" Feature Moves

If you like to search MEDLINE using PubMed, you'll soon notice that the "Limits" page has disappeared! Don't be concerned -- the most frequently used filtering limits have been moved to the left side of the page, so they should be simpler to add.

Websites referenced:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj12/mj12_pm_sidebar.html

Open Access? Questionable Publishers

Free open access to journal articles seems like a great thing -- for readers. For the authors it often means a heavy payment to publish if your article is accepted. Apparently now there are a number of publishers that are not up front about the fee, often inviting potential authors without disclosure. For more information on this topic, take a look at the blog Scholarly Open Access by academic librarian Jeffrey Beall, who follows and investigates the world of scholarly open access publishing. His site includes lists of questionable journals and publishers.

1-29-2017 update: Beall's List has been taken down and currently its absence is unexplained.


Websites referenced:
http://scholarlyoa.com/
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/04/09/open-access-bait-and-switch/
http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
https://debunkingdenialism.com/2017/01/16/what-happened-to-jeffrey-bealls-list-of-allegedly-predatory-publishers/#more-91490/

Preparedness 101: Are You Ready for a Zombie Apocalypse?

This award-winning CDC campaign points out the basics of personal disaster preparedness in a fun way. While it focuses on a zombie apocalypse it provides tips that will help you survive a more likely event. Get a kit, make a plan, be prepared.

Websites referenced:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
http://emergency.cdc.gov/preparedness/
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/03/20120330a.html

PubMed Makes It Easier to Import to a Citation Manager

PubMed has now made it simpler to import collected citations into your citation management software. Included in the drop down box where you email a list to yourself is the new choice "Collection Manager" which creates a file with an "nbib" extension. That file can be imported into your citation management system.

Websites referenced:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma12/ma12_pm_cite_mgr.html

So Your Poster Got Accepted! Webinar Provides Great Design TIps from Rice Professor

This is a concentrated education in creating an exceptional poster!

“So Your Poster Got Accepted–Now What? Poster Design Tips,” is a 1-hour recorded free webinar now available in the SCR CONNECTions archives (4-11-2012) along with tip sheets.

Tracy Volz, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of Professional Communication at The Rice Center for Engineering Leadership at Rice University, shares excellent and detailed tips on laying out and telling your story. She reviews poster design principles to help you enable people to understand your key points. She also discusses the process of presenting your poster in person.

One hour of Medical Library Association CE credit will be available through April 25, 2012, by using the URL at the end of the recording, provided by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region office.

Websites referenced
http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/webmeeting.html#Archives
http://engineering.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=1266
http://nnlm.gov/scr/

New Books FY2012

Here's a list of the titles we've added so far this year.

Bones
PEDIATRIC BONE. Francis Glorieux. Reserve WE 200 P371 2012.

Communication
DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS: HOW TO DISCUSS WHAT MATTERS MOST. Douglas Stone. BF 637 S877 2010.

Drugs
PHYSICIAN’S DESK REFERENCE. 66TH ed. Reference QV 772 P55 2012.

Emergency care
PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT: PROVIDER MANUAL. American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics. c2011. 4 copies. See CPR manual shelf.

Medical library or archives management
LEAN LIBRARY MANAGEMENT: ELEVEN STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING COSTS AND IMPROVING CUSTOMER SERVICES. John H Huber. c2011. Z 678 H877 2011

Nursing
AN INTRODUCTION TO ORTHOPAEDIC NURSING. NAON. 4th ed. WY 157.6 1815 2010.

PRINCIPLES OF PEDIATRIC NURSING. 5th ed. Jane Ball. WY 159 B187 2012.

WONG’S CLINICAL MANUAL OF PEDIATRIC NURSING. 8th ed. David Wilson & Marilyn J Hockenberry. WY 159 W872c 2012.

WONG’S NURSING CARE OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 9th ed. David Wilson & Marilyn J Hockenberry. WY 159 W872 2011.

and don't forget the online nursing books available via our STAT!Ref collection -- including these updated titles:
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses - 12th Ed. (2011)
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual - 4th Ed. (2011)
Fundamental & Advanced Nursing Skills - 3rd Ed. (2010)
High-Acuity Nursing - 5th Ed. (2010)
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales - 12th Ed. (2010)
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Sparks & Taylor's - 8th Ed. (2011)
Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families - 3rd Ed. (2012)

Ophthalmology
CORTICAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT: AN APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION. Christine Roman-Lantzy. WW 600 R758 2007.

Orthopedics
THE CLINICAL MEASUREMENT OF JOINT MOTION. Walter B Greene & James D Heckman. WE 300 C641 1994.

ORTHOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE UPDATE 10. John M Flynn. Reserve WE 168 O41 2011.

Parenting
MY BABY RIDES THE SHORT BUS: THE UNABASHEDLY HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF RAISING KIDS WITH DISABILITIES. Yantra Bertelli. WS 105.5 F2 B537 2009.

Pediatrics
DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS. RECENT ADVANCES IN PEDIATRICS special volume #19. Suraj Gupte. WS 350.6 R295 2007.

NELSON TEXTBOOK OF PEDIATRICS. 19th ed. Robert Kliegman. Reserve WS 100 N432 2011.

Rehabilitation
DISABILITY ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENTAL LIFESPAN FOR THE REHABILITATION COUNSELOR. Julie Smart. WS 200 S636 2012.

Medical Heritage Library - Historical Medical Documents Online

The National Library of Medicine is a partner with several leading medical libraries in digitizing over 10,000 rare medical books. The mission of the Medical Heritage Library is to promote "free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live." This Medical Heritage Library can be searched through its section on the Internet Archive and updates and features are highlighted through its newsletter.

Websites referenced:
http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary
http://www.medicalheritage.org/

Childhood Obesity Our Newest Journal

The Medical Library added an online-only subscription to Childhood Obesity for 2012. Locate issues starting with v.6 (4), 2010, via the library website. Contact the Medical Library if you would like to see the table of contents by email, or you can set up your own alert at the publisher's site.

Websites referenced
http://tsrhkids/mlibrary/web-based.htm
http://atoz.ebsco.com/Toc/Journal/9161?plid=2573089&fromTitles=True
http://online.liebertpub.com/chi

AMA Journals Now Available Online

For 2012 we have online access in-house to 3 journals from the American Medical Association: JAMA, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, and Archives of Neurology. With this subscription we now have online access back through 1998.

Websites referenced:
Go to our A to Z link from the Medical Library site to reach these titles:
http://atoz.ebsco.com/Toc/Journal/9161?plid=97353&fromTitles=True
http://atoz.ebsco.com/Toc/Journal/9161?plid=97349&fromTitles=True
http://atoz.ebsco.com/Toc/Journal/9161?plid=97343&fromTitles=True

Cloud Storage

Got a new iPhone? an Android phone? need to share your data among devices? "The Best Way to Store Stuff in the Cloud" from Gizmodo dated 9-28-2011 reviews a number of options including Amazon's Cloud Drive, SugarSync, Dropbox, Google and Apple's iCloud. Before you get started you might want to take a look at a good overview and introduction to cloud-computing -- from EDUCAUSE "7 Things You Should Know About ... Organizing Files in the Cloud."


Websites listed:
http://gizmodo.com/5828035/the-best-way-to-store-stuff-in-the-cloud
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7073.pdf

Library Hosts HealthLINE Meeting and Active Shooter Presentation

Staff are invited to attend a presentation by Lt. Dan Birbeck, Dallas County Hospital District Police Department at Parkland, entitled “Citizen’s Response to Active Shooter” at 10:30am on Thursday, January 19, 2012, in the Auditorium. It will last about an hour.

Many attended his excellent program in the fall of 2010 when then Sergeant Birbeck was first here. We have now added Code Silver Active Shooter to our list of emergency codes, so this is an especially timely presentation for those who have not seen it.

Lt. Birbeck is the featured speaker for the quarterly meeting of HealthLINE, the Dallas-Fort Worth organization of health science librarians and information professionals, which includes the medical libraries of UT Southwestern, UNT Health Science Center, Baylor, and a number of local hospitals as institutional members. TSRHC Medical Library Manager Mary Peters will begin serving a term as Chair of HealthLINE at this meeting, after completing a year as Chair-Elect in charge of programming. Mary Peters, Mary Anne Fernandez and the HealthLINE board invite all TSRHC staff to join the meeting at 10:30 for this presentation.

Websites referenced:
http://dfwhealthline.org/index.html

Public Access to NIH-Funded Publications - Proposed "Research Works Act" Removes Requirement

Do you know that articles based on NIH-funded research must currently be made available free to the public within 1 year of publication? PubMed Central is the repository for that, and many of you have benefitted when you do a MEDLINE search by discovering a PMC link to free full text.

A bill currently in the House would forbid NIH from requiring that these tax-supported papers be deposited. The Research Works Act is funded by -- guess who -- the Association of American Publishers. They say that releasing an article after a year denies them fair compensation, although the peer-review process is mostly done by volunteers.

The New York Times includes an opinion piece on this topic in the Jan.10, 2012, issue: Research Bought, Then Paid For by Michael B. Eisen, a founder of PLoS, the Public Library of Science. He recommends publishing in open access journals such as theirs rather than supporting commercial publishers. In this model, authors (or their institutions) whose papers are published pay a fee if accepted.

Kevin Smith, Duke University's Scholarly Communications Officer, suggested that authors should begin to consider separating print and digital copyright releases, selecting a user-friendly publisher for the electronic version (Breaking Technology, 1-5-2012, in his blog Scholarly Communications @ Duke).

Web sites referenced:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
http://www.plos.org/
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2012/01/05/breaking-technology/

200 Years of New England Journal of Medicine

"With this issue the New England Journal of Medicine marks its 200th anniversary." While the January, 1812, issue was delivered by horseback, today's January 5, 2012, issue (v.366, no.1) is distributed not only in print but also through the web to a wide audience. Its pages provide a record of the changes in medical science and society during that period. The anniversary issue includes "A Reader's Guide to 200 Years of the New England Journal of Medicine" and an interactive timeline.

In addition, see their anniversary site for more delving into medical history as revealed by study of NEJM published articles. You can vote monthly to select the most important articles, take the historical image challenges, and even share your own story.