The Cornflower » News from NIH/NLM http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog The Blog of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:53:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Free webcast: Biomedical Publishing 101 http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/11/04/free-webcast-biomedical-publishing-101/ http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/11/04/free-webcast-biomedical-publishing-101/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:41:07 +0000 Holly Burt http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/?p=5631 The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Pacific Northwest Region (PNR) and Greater Midwest Region (GMR) invite you to join a free 90 minute webcast, Biomedical Publishing 101, to be held on Thursday, December 8, 2011 beginning at 9:30 am Pacific/11:30 am Central/12:30 pm Eastern time. It was created by the Chicago Collaborative, a joint partnership of librarians, publishers and editors.

This 90-minute webcast provides an opportunity to learn about the publishing cycle of biomedical journals, both in print and online. The complexities of publishing in a world of rapidly changing delivery formats and devices will be explored including the publishing challenges and opportunities posed by each.

The presenter is John Tagler of the Association of American Publishers, Inc., with moderation by Jean Shipman, Director of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the NN/LM MidContinental Region and Training Center.

Participants will gain knowledge of the various roles and responsibilities of different players in the scientific publishing chain and of the international aspects of bioscience communication. All participants will have a chance to engage in discussions with the presenters. Key topics to be covered include:

• The Current Biomedical Publishing Landscape
• The Publishing Process
• Publication Ethics
• Production & Delivery
• Practical Considerations
• The Road Ahead

Please register for the webcast at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/register.html?schedule_id=1475 There is a limit of 120 connections and site registrations (one connection for a conference room) are encouraged. Priority will be given to participants in the states served by the Pacific Northwest Region (AK, ID, MT, OR and WA) and the Greater Midwest Region (IL, IN, IA, KY, MI, MN, ND, OH, SD, WI). You will receive confirmation of your registration or notification of placement on a waitlist within several days. Webcast connection instructions will be provided upon confirmation of your registration.

If you have additional questions about the webcast, please contact Holly Burt in the GMR (haburt@uic.edu) and Nikki Dettmar in the PNR (snydern@uw.edu). We look forward to seeing you there!

]]> http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/11/04/free-webcast-biomedical-publishing-101/feed/ 0 NLM Show Off Your Apps Contest Winners Announced http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/10/23/nlm-show-off-your-apps-contest-winners-announced/ http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/10/23/nlm-show-off-your-apps-contest-winners-announced/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:03:49 +0000 Max Anderson http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/?p=5585 This year, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) had a contest that challenged people to create apps that could use NLM’s vast collection of biomedical data.  The winners have been announced!  Thank you to all of the Entrants that participated in NLM’s first software challengeHere are the winners and honorable mentions.

5 Winners Selected:

5 Honorable Mentions:

Congratulations to the winners and the honorable mentions!

]]> http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/10/23/nlm-show-off-your-apps-contest-winners-announced/feed/ 0 National Medical Librarians Month – GMR Projects Highlighted http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/10/03/national-medical-librarians-month-gmr-projects-highlighted/ http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/10/03/national-medical-librarians-month-gmr-projects-highlighted/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:19:17 +0000 Holly Burt http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/?p=5545 Each year the National Library of Medicine highlights projects from across the country on their webpage.  The web pages of featured projects for National Medical Librarians Month 2011 are available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/lo/profiles11/. This year the GMR included five projects from among recent subcontracts and awards.  Congratulations to these selected programs: Munson Digital Archive Project, Touch Technology Multilingual Health Information, Assessing Mental Health Information Needs of Clergy of Portage, Health-E Public: Improving Access to Health Information Resources for Public Health Professionals in Southeastern Wisconsin County, and Building the Future with Community Health Information.  Read about them at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/lo/profiles11/gmr.html.

For suggestions on Promoting Your Library this month, visit at: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/member/advocacy/.

National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
The National Library of Medicine is part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

]]> http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/10/03/national-medical-librarians-month-gmr-projects-highlighted/feed/ 0 usa.gov Reform http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/09/21/usa-gov-reform/ http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/09/21/usa-gov-reform/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:38:42 +0000 Jacqueline Leskovec http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/?p=5507 USA.gov is hosting a National Dialogue on Improving Federal Websites from September 19-30. This two-week, online dialogue is your chance to submit, vote, and comment on ideas for improving various aspects of federal websites, such as: content, search, usability, accessibility, social media, multilingual content, and online services. Future changes based on these ideas could directly impact the work government agencies like the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health do every day. You can join the conversation at http://bit.ly/qCJxnQ. To learn more about the overall .gov reform effort, go to http://1.usa.gov/qzfHUd.

]]> http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/09/21/usa-gov-reform/feed/ 0 What’s New with DOCLINE 4.6 Webinars Announced http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/07/26/whats-new-with-docline-4-6-webinars-announced/ http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/07/26/whats-new-with-docline-4-6-webinars-announced/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:18:28 +0000 Max Anderson http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/?p=5277 The DOCLINE Team will be hosting a webinar to highlight the changes to Loansome Doc Transfer and Resubmit introduced in DOCLINE 4.6.  We will present an overview of the features in a live demonstration and conclude with a Q & A session.  Come see What’s New in DOCLINE presented by a member of the DOCLINE Team.

There will be two sessions of the What’s New in DOCLINE 4.6 webinar – each session will present the same information.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern Time
OR
Monday, August 1, 2011 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Time

There is no need to register.   We will start promptly at the top of the hour.  You can login up to 15 minutes prior to the start of the session.  Once connected to the webinar, teleconference instructions will be provided.

To access the webinar, go to the following web address:
https://webmeeting.nih.gov/doctrain/

You are encouraged to test your connection prior to joining the webinar. To test your connection, go to:
https://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
(Note:  If you see a certificate error warning when accessing the page, it is OK to proceed to Adobe website)

If you are unable to attend the sessions, information about DOCLINE 4.6 can be obtained at one of the resources below:
Release Notes:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/docline_rel_info_v4_6.html
Weekly DOCLINE training classes: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/docline.html
Your Regional Medical Library or CISTI is available for training or user assistance:  https://docline.gov/docline/help/contact_nlm/contact_RML.cfm

If you have any questions, please contact NLM via the Contact Us link in DOCLINE.

]]> http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/07/26/whats-new-with-docline-4-6-webinars-announced/feed/ 0 HHS Announces the Winners of the 2011 Healthy Living Innovation Awards http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/07/25/hhs-announces-the-winners-of-the-2011-healthy-living-innovation-awards/ http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2011/07/25/hhs-announces-the-winners-of-the-2011-healthy-living-innovation-awards/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:25:54 +0000 Max Anderson http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/?p=5241 HHS has announced winners of an awards program “that highlights innovative health promotion projects that have demostrated a significant impact on the health of the community within the past three years…”

Nominated organizations had to have an innovative project in at least one of three health promotion areas: healthy weight, physical activity, and nutrition. Awards were granted based on the criteria of creativity and innovation, leadership, sustainability, replicability, and results/outcomes. Some of the winners are in our region:

  • Public Sector: Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota—St. Paul-Ramsey County Public Health (St. Paul, Minn.)
  • Healthy Workplace (Large employer): Shape up and Go!—Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Faith-Based and/or Community Initiatives: Taking the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program to Scale—YMCA of the USA, (Chicago, Ill.)

The press release can be found here: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/07/20110715a.html and more information including a video by Secretary Sebelius, http://healthylivinginnovation.challenge.gov/

Congratulations to the winners!

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