http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184816 The functions of museums and libraries overlap, but they both house collections of material that is well catalogued and made available for public study. Medical Museum specimens are used for teaching health professionals about diseases that affect human beings. They also perform an historical function by recording changing patterns of disease. (1750–now) Leonardo da Vinci (1490) made drawings and sculptures of human anatomy. Andreas Vesalius (1543) made anatomical dissections for the students of the University of Padua. He commissioned drawings to be made and he published them in the first printed text book. Italian artists made wax models of anatomical dissections. (1720-1850) Anatomists and pathologists (1750-now) preserved specimens in liquid fixatives – first alcohol and then formaldehyde. They kept the specimens in sealed glass containers (1750-1940) and thereafter in clear perspex containers. The above themes will be developed and illustrated in the lecture. 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Cooke, Robin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179792 2009-08-13T13:42:11Z Ugaz, Ana og Boyd, C. Trenton og Carrigan, Esther og Croft, Vicki F. og Anderson, Katherine M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179761 2009-08-12T15:05:13Z Logan, Cindy http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179913 2009-08-19T16:45:27Z Swanepoel, D.A. og van der Westhuizen, E.E. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179996 2009-08-24T00:00:00Z O’Connor, Patrick og McDonald, Daniel http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179803 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Totten, Herman L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179928 2009-08-20T14:10:08Z Nel, Marguerite http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179795 OBJECTIVES: Translational research focuses on the bench-to-bedside information transfer process — getting the information from researchers into the hands of clinical decision makers. At the same time, researchers who manage international research collaborations could benefit from increased knowledge and awareness of online collaboration tools to support these projects. Our goal was to support both needs through building awareness and skills with online and social media. METHODS: The Library developed a curricula targeted specifically to academic researchers focusing on collaboration technologies and online tools to support the research process. The curricula will provide instruction at three levels: gateway, bridge, and mastery tools. The goal of Level One is to persuade researchers of the utility of online social tools. To develop the program, input was solicited from researchers identified as leaders in this area as well as focus groups of students to discover which tools are already being used. RESULTS: Training is being provided on those tools identified as most likely to engage researchers (Google Docs, Skype, online scheduling, Adobe Connect, citation sharing tools). The curricula is being delivered as workshops duplicated as podcasts and in other online media. CONCLUSIONS: Online and social media are practical tools for supporting distance collaborations relatively inexpensively while offering the added benefit of placing selected information in online spaces that facilitate discovery and discussion with clinical care providers, thus supporting the fundamental research processes at the same time as promoting bench-to-bedside information transfer. 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Anderson, P.F. og Blumenthal, Jane og Bruell, Daniel og Rosenzweig, Merle og Conte, Marisa og Song, Jean http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179731 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z Munnolli, Satish S. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179775 Health literary has been identified as a public health goal for the 21st century and a significant challenge in health education. It is defined in Health People 2010 as: "The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions". With the trend towards a more "consumer-centric" health care system as part of an overall effort to improve the quality of health care and to reduce health care costs, it is important that services and training be provided so that consumer of health care could take a more active role in health care related decisions. This pilot project is a collaborative effort between the Medical Library, Department of Nursing Studies and Faculty of Law. It aims to raise awareness and foster effective use of health information among university students at the University of Hong Kong. Students will learn health communication, health related legal and ethical issues, analytical and decision-making skills, the ability to apply these skills to health situations and become ‘self-activated, self-responsible’ heath consumers. The key components are the use of case studies and learning the problem-based approach to search for reliable health information via the e-learning platform. The project intends to extend the effort of health information outreach to consumers in hospitals and high schools. 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Chan, Julia og Leung, A. og Chiang, V.C.L. og Li, H.C.W. og Wong, E.M. og Liu, A.N.C. og Chan, S.S.C http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179789 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Brettle, Alison og Webb, Anne og Anderson, Lucy og Maden-Jenkins, Michelle og McNally, Rosalind og Pratchett, Tracey og Tancock, Jenny og Thornton, Debra http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179871 2009-08-17T00:00:00Z Manoj Kumar, Prabha og Rawat, P.P. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179805 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Harrison, Janet og Beraquet, Vera http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184819 None available 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z McSean, Tony http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179796 Funding agencies such as NIH and the Wellcome Trust have advanced public access policies to ensure dissemination of findings from their funded research. Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) is a major animal health funder interested in dissemination of its grantees’ research results. The MAF completed studies database provided five years of source data for a three-part investigation on dissemination of research findings. The extent of availability to practitioners of published literature resulting from MAF funding was measured by the time to publication, journal type, and access level (abstracts online, open access, society membership, indexing). The use of the published papers was examined through cited reference searches in Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar, review of reference lists of relevant practice guidelines, and popular press articles that discuss the topic. An assessment of whether companion animal caregivers seeking information on these topics would retrieve the findings from MAF studies will be done through Internet searches of Google using both the researcher’s abstract terms and educated lay consumer terminology. The top ten sites retrieved by each search will be characterized and compared. The ranked position of the MAF website will also be identified. Selected areas (canine, equine, and oncology) with other funding will provide comparisons to see how studies on similar topics have been disseminated. Recommendations drawn from information retrieval, health literacy, and scholarly information sharing will suggest dissemination strategies that may impact the availability of new knowledge from funded research in animal health. 2009-08-13T14:04:37Z Alpi, Kristine M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179576 The gap between how effective treatments for different medical conditions are seen to be and how effective they are proven to be remains tantalizing. Many information professionals and users perceive a need for information on the effectiveness of medical therapies that is supported by medical evidence from the research literature. This presentation describes the method used by Medical Evidence Matters, published by ProQuest, that enables researchers, clinicians, librarians, and decision-makers to assess therapy options by comparing outcomes from medical research. The presentation will explain how research data is extracted by the Medical Evidence Matters editorial team and presented in a set of templates that allow users to compare and contrast results from clinical trials and other research and to find the research that is relevant to specific patients. 2009-08-05T00:00:00Z Tritton, Roger http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:188012 In its endeavor to fulfill its mandate of providing relevant and up to date information to support research and teaching at The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), the UZ Library subscribed to a number of electronic journal databases. These databases cover all subjects taught at The UZ including Veterinary Science. This paper assesses the impact that these electronic journals have had so far to the Faculty of Veterinary Science. The impact has been assessed on both the teaching staff and students. This paper will help libraries realize that merely providing the electronic journal information is not enough, but should make sure that the information is being utilized by its target market for it to be useful. 2009-11-26T00:00:00Z Marufu, Jesten http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:180009 From the beginning of the 21st century, medical information has rapidly been changed into electronic form. Such a trend brought in another radical change of purchasing pattern of medical libraries and the access pattern of the users. Within the last four or five years, many medical libraries have changed their purchasing pattern from printed to electronic form. More users are beginning to depend on websites. While this phenomenon caused the librarians to reexamine their traditional duties, an abundance of unattested information were heaped on the users. Medical librarians decided to make the information to be more user-friendly. By this we mean, whenever the user desires to find any medical information, he/she would call to the librarian rather the library. To meet the needs of the users, several services are available: one-stop service, the requested information will be supplied within 12 hours that is in the boundary of the library, subject search service, SDI service, a mobile service which announces users' status, formatting of thesis according to the journal's rule, analysis of the quotations, and purchasing personal books. All these services are accessible on the website, being effective for the last five years. This study is striving to discover users’ pattern of utilizing the medical information, the frequency of users’ visit, the degree of their satisfaction, and the need for such services, in order to find a better way of serving the medical professionals and to identify the role of the medical librarian in influx of the electronic informational era. 2009-08-24T00:00:00Z Park, Jeong Hee http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179847 Recently, the behaviors of library users have changed due to the development of electronic resources and computer technologies. Accordingly, use of web-based electronic resources is becoming more popular compared to a visit to the library. Therefore, efficient and easy use of electronic resources has become essential and libraries support users by providing user instruction programs. This study investigated the status of user instruction of medical libraries in Korea, and developed user instruction programs. A few medical libraries perform user instruction programs regularly with various subjects. For the development of the program, users who received education in user instruction programming in medical libraries were surveyed and interviewed. Results showed that the satisfaction levels regarding program content, methodology, and place were high, but the satisfaction levels for course length were low. Users responded that the user instruction program was helpful for library use, database use, and general information usage. Many questions regarding library use were asked, and interest in other courses was high. Users also emphasized repetitive education, as well as details divided by levels. Beginning in 2008, Yonsei University Medical Library has updated its user instruction program based on the results. This paper introduces the case of such a library that has made changes on their user instruction programs. 2009-08-17T00:00:00Z Kim, Na Won http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179759 2009-08-12T12:34:16Z Licea de Arenas, Judith og Arenas, Miguel og Valles, Javier http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179729 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z Marão Beraquet, Vera Silvia og Harrison, Janet og Ciol, Renata http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179885 2009-08-18T00:00:00Z Parker, Kimberly http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179785 It is an era of ‘Gen Next’ and those seeking admission into a professional school are millennium students. The medical school curriculum in US and Caribbean is going through toughest reviews and scrutiny. It keeps on refocusing regularly. The technological advances that have influenced medical education have created demands for suitable shift in the curriculum of medical schools from traditional to incorporate several aspects like evidence-based medicine. The libraries are trying to keep up with changing trends in medical education to acquire all that is needed to support teaching, research, and healthcare. Off-shore medical schools, irrespective of what the LCME, the AMA and the AAMC consider of these, are crucial part of US medical system which largely depends on the graduates of these schools to fill the physician void by allowing them to enter the mainstream of American medical system. Since the establishment of the first medical school in one of the Caribbean states - Cuba in early part of the 18th century; and later at Montserrat in 1978, at Dominica in 1979, medical schools in other Caribbean islands are being established on a regular basis. Each medical school in the Caribbean region has adopted a typical curriculum that it feels will prepare students to be better qualified, knowledgeable, and skilled professionals. Most of schools in the Caribbean region do have a excellent library system offering traditional as well as state-of-the-art services - digital and web-based. However, there are a few among these that lack a sound library system to augment medical education and teaching. The author gives brief account of his experiences in the establishment of health sciences libraries at the two different medical school, which are now considered as the major schools in Caribbean region. This article narrates the efforts, challenges, and problems encountered while establishing and upgrading libraries to the acceptable International standards. 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Pathan, Majid http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184800 None available 2009-10-12T00:00:00Z Maly, Trudi http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184359 Decisions about the effectiveness of healthcare interventions should be based on sound evidence, such as a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Access to the results of trials, however, is problematic. Not all trials are published. Those that are published may be difficult to locate if they are published only in the grey literature or in journals that are not indexed in major databases. Those that are indexed may be hard to locate due to poor description or inadequate indexing. Those that are easily identifiable may not necessarily show the same results as other trials conducted on that topic, due to publication bias. 2009-09-30T00:00:00Z Lefebvre, Carol og Glanville, Julie http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179844 As a large geographically dispersed scientific research organisation, CSIRO has a strong culture of working with virtual teams and constantly needs to improve and reinvent collaboration technologies. To build on its existing audio & video conferencing capabilities, CSIRO initiated a project to deploy Cisco Unified MeetingPlace and integrate its Web Collaboration features into the existing video-conferencing infrastructure. The Library Information Specialists were offered the opportunity to assist in providing training in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace to the organization’s staff. What commenced as a project to enhance communications technologies resulted in a host of extended functionality and benefits for the library community. These were to collaborate and engage more closely with the IT community, and other functional areas within the organization. It also included the benefit of extending the reach of library services to improve service to staff at more remote locations. The training sessions, follow-up and feedback enhanced the effectiveness of the product, improved the training process and encouraged exchange and self-discovery of many of the advanced features of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace by clients. 2009-08-17T00:00:00Z Scott, Meryn og Hepburn, Meredith http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179756 The importance of information literacy in the nursing curriculum is well documented in the literature. The proliferation of information, the trend towards evidence based practice, and increasing demands for nurses to stay current with emerging research trends necessitates the ability to recognise when information is needed and a capacity to locate, evaluate and use information effectively. The objective of this project was to collaboratively design and deliver curriculum-based information literacy embedded within the nursing programme. Based upon best-practice examples and using the University of Auckland’s graduate attributes as benchmark skills, this project combined the expertise of The University Library staff (Nursing Subject Librarian and a Learning Services Librarian) and academic staff of the School of Nursing. Student-centred learning activities specifically addressed academic skills, nursing-specific competencies, and information literacy/research skills. Responsibility for the development of activities and learning opportunities was shared between the Library and School of Nursing staff based on academic, subject and learning design roles. This paper describes the first year of this project which includes components covering plagiarism and referencing, evaluating websites, academic reading and writing, library catalogue and database searching. There will be collaborative ongoing evaluation of the project by students, academic and library staff. At this stage only interim results are available. It is planned to continue the collaboration to ensure information literacy skills are developed incrementally throughout the 3-year undergraduate nursing programme. It is envisaged that this collaborative approach will improve students’ learning and have a beneficial long term effect on their lifelong learning skills. 2009-08-12T00:00:00Z Cook, Stephanie og Nielsen, Lorraine og Stewart, Lisa og Edwards, Jo og Baker, Heather http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179728 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z Dalrymple, Prudence W. og Roderer, Nancy K. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179774 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Sharma, Sudha Risal og Kirubanithi, P. og Sieving, Pamela C. og Anton, Bette og Howett, Catherine http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:183937 Fostering and encouraging professional involvement amongst our colleagues and those entering librarianship is of great importance to position the library profession in the future. Since 2005 great effort has been underway to champion the International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) by the Convenors. Spreading the word about the Congress, hosted in Australia for the first time, has required participation at major library events held throughout the world and promulgation of ICML news as widely as possible. During this period Lisa Kruesi through the encouragement of her manager, Heather Todd, applied and received a MLA Cunningham Fellowship. The presentation is a case study, outlining the importance of seizing professional opportunities and the benefits of awards for librarians, organisations and clients. A copy of the report of the Cunningham Fellowship is provided. 2009-09-14T00:00:00Z Kruesi, Lisa http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184818 Elizabeth Blackwell (1707? –1758), was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author. She achieved fame as a botanical illustrator, and was both artist and engraver for the plates of "A Curious Herbal", published between 1737 and 1739. The book illustrated many odd-looking and unknown plants from the New World, and was designed as a reference work on medicinal plants for the use of physicians and apothecaries. 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Madge, Bruce http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179723 Huge amounts of valuable data is held in tables, charts, graphs and other information “objects” within the scholarly literature. But, very often traditional search tools are not able to effectively find this kind of information. This presentation describes how the CSA Illustrata product uses “deep indexing” of these tables, charts, graphs etc. to find relevant research and critical data that might otherwise remain hidden. The presentation will cover how the CSA Illustrata metadata is specified to maximize the usefulness of this kind of searching. 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z Tritton, Roger http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:180010 In the digital age we are now faced with the potential for multiple copies of research articles to be discoverable on the internet. Aside from the publisher’s official version, there may be copies on author’s websites, institutional repositories or funder’s repositories, each of which may vary slightly from the others. The terms “postprint” or “preprint” are used in a variety of ways and there has been no consistency in how the terms are defined, making it extremely difficult to determine the relationship between any two versions of a paper. In order to address this problem, NISO (the National Information Standards Organization) issued, in June 2008, NISO RP-8-2008, Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group, as a “recommended practice” for describing versions of scholarly journal articles. This document was the result of nearly three years of work sponsored by NISO and ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers). As a member of the technical working group that developed the recommendations, this author will describe the process, outcomes and proposed implementation of the recommendations. 2009-08-24T00:00:00Z Plutchak, T. Scott http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184764 2009-10-12T00:00:00Z Newton‐Smith, Carol og Jonas‐Dwyer, Diana og Nowak, Anna http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:180007 2009-08-24T00:00:00Z Jehoda, Imola http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:180000 Aims: This paper is to present China Disease Knowledge Total Database (CDD) developed by Medical Library of Chinese PLA and establish a Chinese version of clinical content database. The objective is to enable clinicians and medical students to apply principles of clinical medicine to their daily professional practice and to provide an easy access to data. The feature of CDD is to effectively combine medical knowledge from books and knowledge of evidence-based medicine from journals. Methods: Criteria of selection of material were made, reference scanned and experts consulted. Extracts were made and results summarized. CDD provides a textbook-like index and searching terms based on ICD-10. It also provides definitions for all items with feature of subject specific hyperlinks to information resources and full text in PDF format. Results: CDD began to be developed in 2006 and continually refined to reflect changing clinical standards. CDD is a cross-referenced index of 7,000 human diseases, 5,500 kinds of drugs and medications, 1,300 laboratory findings, and 90,000 entries of evidence-based medicine material. An evaluation of this outcome is appreciated and the system was reasonably well received by both health-care professionals from hospitals and students from universities. The use of CDD through Internet for searching health-care related information has been shown to improve learning outcomes. Difficulties of ensuring different users with adequate access to Internet still exist. Conclusions: CDD is considered a reform project in the field of diseases and drugs and it is hoped that it will be changing Chinese readers’ information searching behavior. 2009-08-24T00:00:00Z Zhang, Wenju og Zhan, Youxiang og Li, Yan og Li, Na og Zhang, Yu http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179765 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Chattopadhyay, Anjana http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179747 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z Lodge, Mark og Badran, Atef og Alsayad, Howaida Ali og Badran, Shaymaa og Khaled, Hussein http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179727 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z Renison, Bronia og Neumann, Megan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184797 None available 2009-10-12T00:00:00Z Bennett, Sally http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179758 2009-08-12T00:00:00Z Jacobs, Susan Kaplan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184483 There is a considerable gap between what is known from research and what is done in practice. Part of the problem is not knowing and part is not doing. The "not knowing" arises from our information overload, e.g., over 1,500 studies and 55 randomised trials - are added to MEDLINE each day. The "not doing" can be broken down into several steps between valid research publishing and improved patients outcomes: awareness, acceptance, applicability, availability and ability, remembering at the appropriate time, getting patient agreement, and finally adherence to agreed treatments. At each step there is some "leakage". Addressing these leakages to navigating and using best (evidence-based) practice needs a multifaceted "solution". This will require sophisticated computerised evidence delivery systems at the point of care. However, to fuel these systems we need better (and continually updated) guidelines, syntheses, and systematic reviews of evidence. The "not doing" gap arise because of the limits of human memory, which we need to acknowledge. 2009-10-02T00:00:00Z Glasziou, Paul P. og Del Mar, Christopher B. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184699 2009-10-08T00:00:00Z Dhar, Shymal C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179703 2009-08-10T00:00:00Z Powelson, Susan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179911 2009-08-19T00:00:00Z Fourie, Ina og Bakker, Suzanne http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179846 2009-08-17T00:00:00Z Brettle, Alison http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179865 2009-08-17T15:36:37Z Alpi, Kristine M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179804 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z Hersey, Denise http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179757 For over five years the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield has provided low cost e-learning to health librarians in the UK under the National Library for Health (NLH) Librarian Development Programme. This innovative programme, entitled Facilitated Online Learning Interactive Opportunity (FOLIO), uses lowest common denominator technologies (email, wikis, podcasts, discussion lists) to deliver learning content in a wide range of educational formats. Following a successful experiment, whereby ScHARR subsidised the opening up of a course to international participants from across the globe, the FOLIO team entered into partnership with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) to provide three e-learning courses per year under the banner of FOLIOz. This presentation describes the development of the FOLIOz programme in seeking an optimal balance between generic learning materials and the needs of a new target audience. It rehearses considerations that librarians and others should review before designing and delivering e-learning courses. Most importantly, however, the presentation outlines methods by which any librarian or professional association can deliver e-learning without significant investment in technology or use of Virtual Learning Environment facilities. The presentation covers such essentials as the importance of the storyboarding process in designing the course, creation of course support materials via a wiki and practicalities of managing group communications and online broadcasts. By the end of the presentation participants will be able to identify opportunities to use such approaches in their own contribution to e-learning whereby the principal expenditure remains their time, effort and enthusiasm. 2009-08-12T00:00:00Z Booth, Andrew http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184811 There has been a dramatic shift in the method of dissemination of knowledge derived from research over the last millennium. Letters between scientists in the renaissance era were largely supplanted by published proceedings of face to face meetings in the 17th and 18th centuries, and subsequently in the 19th century by journals of collected papers on a topic, designed to enable transmission of ideas and data to a worldwide audience, albeit slowly and at some cost. Now, ideas and data are distributed freely and rapidly over the internet, and thinking is advanced largely through face to face meetings and tele-meetings. Rarely read, and even less rarely cited, the majority of articles in journals, which have largely been transformed into e-information, are used mostly as a metric of research success – a milestone towards the next grant. Nevertheless they provide the basis of the evidence chain behind current opinion, and should be preserved to enable training of the next generation in the use of knowledge, and to ensure a clear understanding of how we have reached the beliefs we currently hold. Knowledge on the internet is evanescent, a truth too easily re-written to suit the need of the day, and the challenge for the librarians of the future will be firstly to select the key material from the internet that have shaped current scientific thinking in face of an exponentially exploding volume of e-information, and then make this permanently available. 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Frazer, Ian H.