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Announcing a new resource now available through the OHSU Library:
America’s Newspapers from NewsBank:
The electronic editions of record for more than 2,000 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers—including 13 Oregon newspapers—all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. You can select and search one or more local newspapers, a group of titles across a state or region, specific papers nationwide or the entire collection. The database also includes 28 news magazines, including Time, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs.
America’s Newspapers can be accessed through the Library Databases page at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/databases/cfdbletter.cfm?letter=A .
Questions about this resource or any OHSU Library resource or service can be sent to library@ohsu.edu.
Oregon newspapers:
Blue Mountain Eagle (John Day, 2002- )
The Bulletin (Bend, 2005- )
Capital Press (Salem, 2002-)
The Daily Astorian (Astoria, 2002- )
The Dalles Chronicle (The Dalles, 2005- )
East Oregonian (Pendleton, 2002- )
Herald and News (Klamath Falls, 2000- )
Mail Tribune (Medford, 2006- )
The Oregonian (Portland, 1987- )
The Register-Guard (Eugene, 2001- )
Statesman Journal (Salem, 1999- )
Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, 2002- )
The World (Coos Bay, 2004- )
Please see the hours page at: http://www.ohsu.edu/library/hours.shtml for more information.
Bleary-eyed and nursing my coffee I was perked to attention Thanksgiving-eve morning when I heard “About 2 million Americans every month lose their health insurance.” The story was an NPR piece on Morning Edition called Does Losing Your Job Mean Losing Your Healthcare? The speaker was Karen Pollitz, Project Director of the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University. For perspective, 2 million is 54% Oregon’s population (3.7 million according to the 2006 census).
This staggering number means that people all over the United States will be in even greater need to find health services. Without health insurance and with unemployment on the rise, finding clinics and providers who offer low cost and sliding scale services will be of even greater import for those who need medical care, but cannot afford it.
We are working to include this kind of information about the clinics and services into Oregon Health Go Local. Currently, the Oregon Health Go Local database has about 60 records that indicate a service provider offers low cost or sliding scale services. If you know of a provider that offers a similar payment options, please let us know; we can check to make sure we have that provider in our database, and also add that information if we didn’t already know. Please send an e-mail to Emily if you’d like to suggest a provider. (fordem@ohsu.edu)
October and November have been busy months for Oregon Health Go Local—trips to Corvallis, The Dalles, and Athena have sprinkled our autumn.
Trips to Corvallis included Todd Hannon and Emily Ford’s poster presentation at the Oregon Public Health Association Conference; meetings with Go Local volunteers from the Corvallis Benton County Public Library, Salem Hospital, and PeaceHealth in Eugene.
At the Eastern Oregon Library Association Meeting Todd Hannon, Oregon Health Go Local Principal Investigator, presented an educational session on using MedlinePlus and the free resources of the National Library of Medicine.
In the Dalles Emily trained three volunteers from the Planetree Resource Library.
Hello! I’m Anne Hepburn and I’m so excited to be working with Emily Ford on the Oregon Go Local project. As a graduate student of Library Science at Emporia State University, this is such a valuable learning experience for me. This project allows me to use the concepts from class for real world applications. I am employing critical thinking skills when assigning subject terms, making sure to always keep the end user in mind. Consumer health resources are often lacking in our underserved communities. The Go Local project aims to provide a clearinghouse of free health information to all Oregon communities; making it easier for the patient to find the specialist, clinic, or service that fits their need. I am so thrilled to be a part of the Go Local team.
You can contact Anne at hepburna@ohsu.edu
Another milestone for Oregon Health Go Local is that Project Director, Emily Ford, has been funded by OHSU to stay on another 3 months. This extension will enable Emily to see that Oregon Health Go Local gets up and running, and to promote and educate Oregon communities about the site after it goes live. This extension would not have occurred without OHSU’s institutional support of outreach projects such as Oregon Health Go Local, as well as the continued support of the OHSU Library leadership.
Oregon Health Go Local is pleased to announce that 211Lane generously donated their data to be included in the Oregon Health Go Local database. Having this information from 211Lane means that Oregon Health Go Local will be able to represent the communities of Lane County. We have gained yet another solid community partnership that will help to create a healthier Oregon.
In addition to the 211Lane data, Oregon Health Go Local also received data from the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners. This data acquisition will help to ensure that Oregon Health Go Local represents not just traditional medicine and health services, but complementary health services as well.
As of November 26th, 2008, the Oregon Health Go Local database has:
Autumn has been a busy time. 15 new volunteers have received training and begun working on Oregon Health Go Local records in the past two months. This alone has doubled our volunteer numbers!
During the winter months Oregon Health Go Local will begin to blossom. Our priorities are to be able to finish indexing the most pertinent records for this database (hospitals, public clinics, primary care services, immunization programs, etc.) and to be able to release a database by the end of February. If we hunker down, we’ll be able to reach this goal. Look for an update on our progress towards this deadline in the December 2008—January 2009 Oregon Health Go Local E-Newsletter!
The past two months have been a whirlwind of activity for Oregon Health Go Local. The successes we’ve experienced would not have been possible without help. So thanks to the following:
June Sedarbaum at 211Lane
Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners
Michele Spatz, Director, Planetree Resource Library
Carrie Ottow, Shannon Bronson, and John Flynn from the Corvallis Benton County Public library
Bev Schriver of PeaceHealth Oregon
Paul Howard of Salem Hospital
