Announcing the Center for Teaching and Learning
This July we say farewell to AISR and hello to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Our new mission is to inspire and support you to deliver your best content in the classroom, online, or at a conference. Our new organizational structure will make it easier for you to produce the instructional materials you want and to make sure you are well prepared and confident in your delivery, whatever medium you choose to use. The Center for Teaching and Learning will be led by Dr. Anthony Frisby and its services will support the educational, professional, and creative goals of Jefferson faculty, staff, and students.
The first...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 25, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Palliative Care: New UpToDate Specialty
New Specialty: Palliative Care
Palliative care is a growing interdisciplinary specialty focused on patients’ quality of life and relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness. Many hospitals are developing palliative care programs to support patients and their families.
This newly launched UpToDate specialty integrates the most current information on palliative care into recommendations that span many disciplines. Content includes comprehensive information on clinical and psychosocial issues and evidence-based recommendations for assessing and managing pain and non-pain symptoms.
UpToDate in Palliative...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 21, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Publication Opportunity for Medical Students
The Medical School Press is a new publishing group that focuses exclusively on supporting medical students’ scholarly publications. Run by an international group of medical students and guided by a faculty advisory team, MSPress provides editorial services and multiple online platforms. These include the MSPress Blog, which is updated weekly by medical school contributors, and the Medical Student Press Journal, a semiannual, peer-reviewed, open-access journal. The journal features scientific research papers, interviews, essays, creative writing pieces, sound pieces, and visual art. All submissions undergo a peer revi...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 16, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
The World in 2025: Thomson Reuters Report Predicts Innovations
From Thomson Reuters:
The World in 2025: 10 Predictions of Innovation, is a new report that predicts the landscape of science and technology in 2025 by mining global patent data and scientific literature.
To conduct the study, researchers identified the top 10 emerging scientific research fronts based on an analysis of citation rankings using Thomson Reuters Web of Science. They next looked at global patent data in the Derwent World Patents Index to identify the top 10 patent fields with the highest number of inventions containing a priority date of 2012 and beyond. The resulting technology areas with the highest level of ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 15, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Source Type: news
New Journal for Data Set Descriptions Launches
A new open-access, peer-reviewed publication for descriptions of datasets is now available. Scientific Data is an online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group that aims to make valuable scientific data easier to discover, interpret, and reuse.
Scientific Data’s main article type, called the Data Descriptor, provides an in-depth look at research datasets. These articles include descriptions of the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements.
With a focus on biomedical, life, and environmental science datasets, the journal provides a way to recognize scientists ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 11, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Researchers Source Type: news
Health & Wellness Resource Guide from SML
As an academic health center, we’re also committed to promoting the health and wellness of the Jefferson community. Think you could be doing more to stay healthy? Scott Memorial Library has put together a new Health & Wellness resource guide designed to help.
Topics addressed in this guide include:
Exercise
Nutrition
Smoking
Sleep
Preventive Medicine
Please note that the guide is only a sample of the electronic and print resources that you can access via Scott Library, and it isn’t an endorsement for any brand. (Source: What's New on JEFFLINE)
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 10, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Source Type: news
Announcing BrowZine for iPhone
BrowZine for iPhone is now available and it includes the same great features as the original BrowZine app on your iPad/tablet.
Sign up for a BrowZine Account to sync BrowZine on your iPhone and iPad/tablet.
Caution: If you are using BrowZine for iPad, be sure to sign up for a BrowZine Account BEFORE downloading BrowZine on your iPhone! Otherwise, any custom Bookshelves on your iPad will be erased.
What is a Browzine Account?
Browzine Account is a new feature (with version 1.6.0, released June 25, 2014) that allows you to “sync” your BrowZine “Bookshelf” on multiple devices. As you create a BrowZin...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 10, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
JSPH Capstone Presentations: July 18th
Jefferson School of Population Health cordially invites you to attend Capstone Presentations for:
Master of Science – Applied Economics & Outcomes Research
When: Friday, July 18, 2014, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Where: 901 Walnut Street, 10th Floor JSPH Conference Room
Download the list of presentations.
Master of Public Health
When: Friday, July 18, 2014, 1:30 – 3:30 PM
Where: 901 Walnut Street, 10th Floor JSPH Conference Room
Download the list of presentations.
RSVP to: jsph@jefferson.edu.
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Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 9, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Keeping Up With… Altmetrics
As an alternative to traditional citation counts, altmetrics attempt to capture the impact of scholarly works in science blogs, mainstream and social media sites.
You may have noticed when searching in Scopus a new Altmetric widget displaying the number of such mentions about an article. Click through to read the original blog and facebook posts, tweets and reviews. For example, this screen shot shows a Scopus record for a recent New England Journal of Medicine article:
For more on the topic—including its opportunities and controversies—see the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) summary: Keeping Up...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 7, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Report (April-June 2014) Now Available
As of July 1, 2014, the Jefferson Digital Commons has 9,052 assets archived. All-time total downloads equal 1,907,818. The most downloaded asset this quarter was the Grand Round presentation from Otolaryngology on: Physiology and Advancements in Wound Healing, with 136 downloads since April 9, 2014.
View a full inventory of 244 assets added this quarter.
The latest JDC quarterly report includes:
• 6th Annual Faculty Days
• Data Management and the Jefferson Digital Commons
• Announcing New Grand Rounds-Department of Medicine
• Jefferson Medical College yearbooks scanned 1950-1960
• Meet Sumner Waldron Jackson, JM...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 7, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
18 E-Books New to Scott Library in June
Scott Library added these 18 ebooks in May to the growing collection:
Davis’s PA exam review: focused review for the PANCE and PANRE (2nd ed.)
Guide to culturally competent health care (3rd ed.)
Human diseases (4th ed.)
Improvised medicine: providing care in extreme environments
Maternal-newborn nursing care: best evidence-based practice
Model child care health policies (5th ed.)
Monitoring the critically ill patient (3rd ed.)
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders, volume 122: handbook of clinical neurology
Niedermeyer’s electroencephalography (6th ed.)
NP notes: nurse practitioner’s clinical pocket ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 2, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
New MPH Capstone Presentations in the JDC
The latest MPH capstone presentations have been loaded in the Jefferson Digital Commons:
Super Utilizers have more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Identifying Risk Factors of Hospital Admission during the Postpartum Period: A Cross Sectional Study of the 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Assessment of Health Policy Literacy Curricula in Physician Assistant Programs
The Factors that Affect Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Residents in Urban Food Deserts
An Assessment of Tobacco Cessation Protocol at an Urban Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
A First-Degree Family History of Alcoholism: Effects on Clinic...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - July 1, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Infographic: Librarians and Research Impact
This new infographic from Elsevier’s Library Connect Newsletter highlights the role of librarians in measuring the impact of research.
Click the image below to see the full story:
Contact a Scott Librarian
Visit our Grants Information Service (Source: What's New on JEFFLINE)
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 30, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Julia Clift: New Exhibit at Scott Library, 6/27-8/29
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Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Source Type: news
Using NVivo to Improve Research Team Collaboration: Brown Bag Webinar, 7/9
NVivo is software that organizes and analyzes qualitative data. It is primarily used by qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. NVivo is available on two computers on the 3rd floor of Scott Library (W810 & 812).
With NVivo you can merge colleagues’ work, as well as track and analyze changes made by each team member. You can effortlessly collaborate and save time – whatever the project size.
Join a live webinar on Wednesday, July 9th at 3:00 pm that explores how you can support your tea...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Researchers Source Type: news
