OHSU Library What’s New

The NIH Public Access Policy requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive, PubMed Central. Effective April 7, 2008, all NIH funded investigators must upload an electronic version of any final, peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds into PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. Investigators have 12 months to make articles publicly available. Starting May 25, all NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must cite one of two numbers: the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) or the NIH Manuscript Submission number (NIHMS ID).

The OHSU Library has developed resources to assist OHSU researchers. If you would like someone to visit your department and provide more information, contact Andrew Hamilton at hamiltoa@ohsu.edu. The library is also available to assist researchers in submitting articles. For more information, contact Judith Norton at norton@ohsu.edu. Lastly, for general information, contact Emily McElroy at mcelroye@ohsu.edu.

Key points of the NIH policy are at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/scholarlycomm/nihpolicybrief.shtml or a more detailed review is available here http://www.ohsu.edu/library/scholarlycomm/nihpolicylong.shtml. For full NIH information, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html.

Collaborative Learning Space - Room 441/443

Come join us for open sessions on using the equipment
in the new Collaborative Learning Space on the fourth
floor of the Library. Staff will also demonstrate how
to book the room through the library’s online catalog.
Homemade cookies provided!

Monday, March 3
11:00am - 4:00pm

Room amenities include:

- Two 36″ LCD screens
- Eight data ports for laptops
- Ability to toggle between laptop displays
- Wired and wireless internet connectivity
- DVD/VCR player
- Comfortable seating for up to eight

Have you accumulated unpaid overdue fines for OHSU library materials? Come in and pay them on Thursday, February 14, and the library will donate your fines to the OHSU Food Drive. Clear your conscience and contribute to a worthy cause!

Please note this does not apply to payments for lost books, or for credit card transactions.

Checks can be made out to the Oregon Food Bank.

If you have questions about the Library’s “Fines for Food” day, please contact the Circulation Desk at 503-494-3460.

OHSU Historical Collections & Archives announces the opening of its new exhibit, “Japanese Relics of World War II,” now on display in the main lobby of the OHSU Library.

Showcasing artifacts from the OHSU Medical Museum Collection, the exhibit contains field kits, diagnostic and surgical instruments, documents, photographs, pharmaceutical preparations, and other items brought back from the Pacific Theater by Oregon physicians serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Second World War.

In a 1943 campus newsletter, a plea was made to physicians to donate materials to the Medical Museum Collection. Give a “Christmas gift to yourselves of articles that will record for the future some of the medical history of these difficult and historical times. It is so easy to pass by the present without thinking how soon it will become the past or realizing that whatever is to become a part of the heritage of the future must be saved. It is you who are physicians and it is your museum and assuredly it is you who know what is worth saving. Physicians in Military Service: Did some one pick up a Japanese medical kit on Attu? Does some one have a bit of equipment used in taking care of the first casualties from the first bitter landings in the islands of the Pacific?”

Donors such as D.N. Steffanoff, MD; Virgil C. Larson, MD; Roger H. Keane, MD; Prentiss Lee, MD; John B. White, MD; James E. Buckley, MD; Richard S. Fixott, MD; George Lyman, MD; and Toshiaki Kuge, MD, answered the call. As a result, OHSU Historical Collections & Archives is now the repository of a unique and wonderful collection of war-era Japanese medical artifacts.

Materials will be on display through May 2008. Questions about the exhibit or the collections can be addressed to Sara Piasecki, History of Medicine Librarian (503-418-2287, piasecki@ohsu.edu) or Karen Peterson, Archivist (503-494-3239 or peterska@ohsu.edu

The OHSU Library will be closed on Monday, February 18th, 2008 in observance of Presidents’ Day.

Regular Library hours will resume on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008.  For more information, please see:  http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml.

Following on the success of the first run of historic postcards showcasing photographs from the OHSU Historical Image Collection, a second series of images is now available!

There are twelve images in total, sold individually and in sets of six (Oregon women physicians and general OHSU images). Prices have been set at $1.25 for individual cards, $5.00 for one set, and $8.00 for two sets.

Postcards can be purchased at the circulation desk of the Main Library (library lobby, 3rd floor, BICC Building, Marquam Hill campus) and Medical Photography (Baird Hall 06, Marquam Hill Campus). More convenient campus locations will be added in the coming weeks.

Questions and comments can be directed to History of Medicine Librarian Sara Piasecki (piasecki@ohsu.edu or 503-418-2287) or Archivist Karen Peterson (peterska@ohsu.edu or 503-494-3239).

Due to Inclement Weather the Library will close at 1pm today, February 2nd, 2008.

Weather permitting the Library will resume regular hours on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008.

For more information please see the hours page at: http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml