BioMed Central has recently begun publishing two new journals: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and G3: Genes

International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology is a peer reviewed journal publishing important clinical, translational, and basic research, which can support the academic goals of the worldwide pediatric endocrine community. G3: Genes was created to meet the need for rapid review and publication of high-quality foundational research and experimental resources in genetics and genomics. This new journal is peer-reviewed, peer-edited, and fully open access.

To view these journals and to see a full listing of BioMed Central’s open access journals, click here.

BioMed Central has now begun publishing the journal Microbial Informatics and Experimentation. It is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal, collegial in tone, which publishes high-quality research related to the application of computational methods to data from microbial organisms and systems.

Current articles are in their provisional PDF format, but the full-text and final PDF versions will be available shortly.

To view a full list of BioMed Central’s open access journals, click here.

Are you interested in GIS? If you are then you should attend the first UMB GIS User’s Group Meeting. At this meeting you can here how colleagues at UMB are using GIS (Geographical Information Systems), including:

Ryan Shannahan, recent Social Work graduate in the Innovative Institute in the Department of Psychiatry, who will share his work on mapping of risk and protective factors for child maltreatment in Maryland.

Gina Rowe, School of Nursing faculty, will discuss her project mapping primary care provider density and emergency department rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions.

Julie Spangler, Geographic Information Specialist at the Maryland Poison Center/School of Pharmacy, will share her work exploring spatial patterns found in poison center data.

There will also be an opportunity for you to share the work you are doing with GIS.
The Meeting will take place Thursday June 16th from 12pm-1pm in the Distance Education Room (lower level) of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library.

If you have any questions please contact Gina Rowe, growe@son.umaryland.edu

“As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge to anyone. This includes the current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports published by NAP.” NOTE: You may be asked to register for a MyNAP Account. These books can be accessed from the National Academies Press or by title in the E-books A-Z list on the HS/HSL website.

The HS/HSL will be closed Saturday, May 28th – Monday, May 30th for the Memorial Day Holiday.

The HS/HSL will be offering several summer workshops in June and July. Topics covered include RefWorks, CINAHL in 30, and Google: Beyond Searching. All workshops are free to all UMB Faculty, Students, Staff; UMMC staff; and HS/HSL Corporate Members. Click here for the full summer workshop schedule and to register.
Can’t make one of our regularly scheduled workshops? Consider requesting an On Demand Workshop where you can pick a specific time to meet with a librarian to cover the course of a library workshop with you.

The Health Sciences & Human Services Library is offering late night study from May 2nd through May 18th, 2011.
Library Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 8am – 2am
Friday – Saturday: 8am – 8pm*
Sunday: 11am – 2am
* Saturday hours represent a pilot during finals.
Shuttles will be available every half hour beginning at midnight to take you safely to your destination.
After 10pm the HS/HSL is open for study purposes only. A UMB OneCard is required to remain in or enter the Library.

The HS/HSL will be closed Sunday April 24th due to the Easter holiday.

The HS/HSL now has a section on our Library Savvy Tutorial Page devoted to tutorials that can help you locate full text journal articles and find out information about a journal including whether or not it is peer reviewed or what is a journal’s Impact Factor. Click here to see these tutorials.

The HS/HSL will be offering two free workshops during the week of April 4th. Registration is free for all UMB Faculty, Student, and Staff. Workshops offered this week:
RSS Feeds Using Google Reader, Tuesday April 5th, 12-12:30pm
Copyright for Instructors, Wednesday April 6th, 12pm-1pm
For full course descriptions, registration, and workshop schedule click here