OHSU Library What’s New

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) was recently awarded a $58,362 Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) grant to enhance the OCOM Library. OCOM’s College Librarian, Lana Thelen, MSLIS, wrote and submitted a preliminary grant proposal in April and a full grant proposal in August in order to be considered.

The OCOM Library will be using the funds to migrate their current stand-alone bibliographic catalog to the shared Portland Health Libraries Consortium Catalog. This catalog currently consists of holdings from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) and Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC).

This project will allow seamless access for all borrowers in the system to materials housed at the four participating institutions. This increased access to consortium holdings will further encourage interactive, cross-disciplinary scholarship. The grant includes funds for a .5 FTE Systems Librarian for the grant’s one-year duration and funds for all the contractual purchases and data conversion and transfer.

“Lana’s efforts in developing a really compelling grant application have borne fruit,” says OCOM’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tim Chapman, PhD. “The result will be a major improvement in the services and systems offered by the OCOM Library.”

Each year, the Oregon State Library makes approximately $800,000 in competitive grants in the state to legally established libraries, or nonprofit entities serving libraries. Public, academic and special libraries are eligible. Projects may be funded for up to three years by a series of competitive one-year grants.

For more information, visit the LSTA Competitive Grants Web site.

About Oregon College Oriental Medicine (OCOM)
OCOM trains master’s and doctoral students, conducts research, and treats patients at clinics on campus and in the community. OCOM’s academic programs are among the most comprehensive in the country, providing students with a solid foundation in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, therapeutic massage, and qi cultivation, as well as a focus on collaboration between Chinese medicine and Western biomedicine. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 1983, OCOM is one of the oldest Chinese medicine colleges in the United States. For more information about Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, visit www.ocom.edu.

Check out the latest Oregon Health Go Local E-Newsletter, which features information about MedlinePlus speech enhancement and H1N1 video, new community health education center at Salem Hospital, and a tribute to Go Local production assistant Anne Hepburn, who has recently left to become a librarian at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) today announced that the OHSU Library will join Harvard University on the eagle-i project. Together with nine partner institutions, the OHSU Library will build a web site to help researchers find the tools and materials they need to accelerate biomedical research and enhance interdisciplinary collaborations. The $15 million two-year project was awarded as part of the NIH Recovery Act (ARRA) with $1.79 million designated for OHSU Library participation.

“This award will fund eight new researchers working in Oregon on the eagle-i project,” said Chris Shaffer, University Librarian. The OHSU Library will lead the Data Curation Team to build the ontologies and vocabularies used to describe research resources and make them easier to find. Resource Navigators and Data Entry Technologists will work with researchers to identify unique reagents, animal models, core facilities and other tools that can be shared across the OHSU campus and the country. “Libraries have a long history of organizing research information and publications. Through this project, we are extending library expertise into the research enterprise in new and exciting ways.”

To meet the new OHSU Library staff, please visit http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/about/departments/eagleistaffroster.cfm. The institutions in the eagle-i consortium are Dartmouth College, Harvard Medical School, Jackson State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Montana State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Puerto Rico. More information about the award can be found at http://www.nih.gov/news/health/nov2009/ncrr-02.htm.

OHSU Historical Collections & Archives announces the opening of its latest exhibit, “Music of the Heart: Rhythms and Murmurs,” now on display in the main lobby of the OHSU Library.

Celebrating the important advances in cardiology made here at OHSU, this exhibit showcases artifacts, photographs, books, and manuscripts from the Medical Museum, Historical Image, and History of Medicine collections, as well as the papers of Howard J. Stroud and Melvin P. Judkins.

Focusing on the study and repair of the rhythm of the heart, the display features early works by R.T.H. Laennec and James Mackenzie, binaural and monaural stethoscopes, heart casts and models, artificial valves and pacemakers, and cardiology research conducted at OHSU in the 1950s and 1960s.

Materials will be on display through January 2010.  Questions about the exhibit or the collections can be addressed to Sara Piasecki, Head, (503-418-2287, piasecki@ohsu.edu) or Karen Peterson, Archivist (503-494-3239 or peterska@ohsu.edu).

Access Alert! Journals and ebooks through ScienceDirect will be unavailable from approximately 6:00 PM on Saturday, October 31st to 2:00 AM, Sunday, November 1st PST due to planned downtime for scheduled maintenance.

Alan Ruttenberg
The Neurocommons Project: Integrating Data to Support Translational Research on Neurologic Diseases
Wednesday, November 4th, BICC 124 3pm

Alan Ruttenberg, scientist at Science Commons, will be speaking on Wednesday, November 4 at 3 p.m. (BICC 124) on the Neurocommons project, from making multi-modal multi-scale neuroimaging data interoperable, to enhancing queries for candidate genes involved in Alzheimer’s disease.

At Science Commons, Mr. Ruttenberg works on structuring and using biological and clinical knowledge to answer questions and computationally interpret experimental data. Alan is currently involved in a number of open biomedical ontology efforts such as the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) and the Program on Ontologies of Neural Structures (PONS). He is also chair of the OWL Working Group specifying OWL 2, a coordinating editor of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry, and a contributor to W3C Semantic Web activities. His most recent project is the Neurocommons, which is a large scale Semantic Web knowledge base of biological information aimed at supporting the neurosciences.

More information about Alan and the Science Commons is available at: http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/ruttenberg.

The PubMed homepage has been streamlined, requiring less effort to find resources. The new homepage includes an NCBI Header, Search Bar, and Footer that are common to all PubMed pages.

The NCBI Header includes an NCBI Resources pull-down menu categorized by topic, a How To menu, and the Sign In for My NCBI.

The Search Bar retains the database selection menu, and includes a link to Advanced search and Help. Additional Search bar selections, RSS and Save search, display after running a PubMed search.  The Go button is now the Search button. Access to the popular tools and resources previously found on the PubMed homepage sidebar may be found under PubMed Tools (e.g., the Single Citation Matcher and Clinical Queries) and More Resources (e.g., New and Noteworthy and the PubMed Tutorials).

The Footer includes links to many NCBI resources.

The Limits, Preview/Index, History and Details tabs’ features have been consolidated in Advanced search.

For more information, go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html & http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_now_redesign.html.

If you have any questions about using the new PubMed page, you can call 503-494-3462 or send an email to http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/research-assistance/ask-librarian.cfm to get assistance from a Reference Librarian.

October is National Medical Librarians Month. The Medical Library Association (MLA) instituted this month to bring attention to the professionals who are the experts on providing excellent health information.

Here at OHSU we have 15 medical librarians who work at collecting materials for the library, deciding which resources to purchase, and helping practitioners, faculty, students, staff, and the public find the best health information. The OHSU Library has a close connection with the National Library of Medicine as the Oregon resource library for the Regional Medical Library at the University of Washington. OHSU librarians also work cooperatively with the 21 hospital librarians in Oregon, and librarians at the other health sciences schools in Oregon.

A free, self-service color scanner is now available in the Main Library for OHSU faculty, students and staff.

The scanner is located on the 3rd floor in the copier area, and requires an OHSU network ID.

Scans can be saved to a USB flash drive, network drive or emailed.  Please feel free to call the Main Library’s Circulation Desk

at 503-494-3460 with any questions.