Fascinating - Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library
Raise $180,000 in Honor of Dr. Edward Lillo Crain, Jr.
by Ms. Betsy Parish, President, Friends of the Texas
Medical Center Library
Inspired by British novelist Anthony Trollope's maxim,
"Short accounts make long friends," The Friends of the Texas Medical Center
Library created the
format for this brief, program-free evening. Instead of one person's
demanding rapt attention from a podium, a ballroom full of Houston's Most
Fascinating individuals offered diverse choices for one-on-one
conversations. With no speeches, auctions, silent or otherwise, or planned
program, the dinner featured fabulous flowers, glorious food and drink and
sparkling repartee. As in the past, this short, special evening marks the
beginning of a long, lasting friendship. read
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HAM-TMC Library Journal Cancellation Update
Library staff continue to analyze the 2004 Journal
Cancellation List very carefully. Faculty input has made it possible for us
to reduce the impact of these cuts on educational and research needs. read more
Open Access is Booming – BioMed Central Activity in
the Houston Area
Researchers at health and educational institutions in Houston
are actively publishing in BioMed Central, the open access publisher.
HAM-TMC Library has an institutional membership in BioMed Central, which
includes a waiver of the $500 per article publication fee for UTHSC Houston
and Baylor College of Medicine personnel publishing in BioMed Central
journals. For more information about publishing support, contact Dr. Elizabeth
Eaton at eeaton@library.tmc.edu,
713.799.7177. read more
E-Highlights: Free Downloads – Drug Information Resources for the PDA
The following web sites offer free drug information
resources available on the Internet to download on a PDA. For detailed
information visit each resource's home page. read
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Family to Family Connection Grant Awarded
Beginning September 1, 2003, the Library received funding
from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, for a planning grant to
support the Family to Family Connection project. This project is geared
toward helping to provide health education resources to Texas families with
children who suffer from chronic illness and/or disabilities. Funds from
the award are initially being used to conduct an information needs
assessment among these families. read
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Public Library of Science
In addition to BioMedCentral (BMC), the Public
Library of Science (PLoS) is another valuable resource for open-access
scientific literature. Like BMC, PLoS espouses a number of core principles,
the first of which is that all PLoS material will be published under an "... open access license
that allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction ... provided
the original work is properly cited." read
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Library Holiday Hours
The Library will be closed or will observe shortened hours during
the month of December in observance of the holidays. For a complete list
of holiday hours go to: http://www.library.tmc.edu/hourshol.html
Chaired by Charlotte Crawford and Dede Weil and attended by
more than 300 guests, the 2003 dinner featured the following fascinating
Houstonians as table hosts: Joseph W. Ashy, General, USAF (Retired), The
Honorable Ken Bentsen, Major General Charles F. Bolden, USMC (Ret), Pat
Breen, Philip Cannon, Don W. Chapman, M.D., Lois Chiles, Denton A. Cooley,
M.D., Harry and Rose Cullen, The Honorable Joanne King Herring Davis, Marie
Fay Evnochides, Tilman Fertitta, Charles D. Fraser, Jr., M.D., Shara Fryer,
Hans Graf, Wayne Graham, Judge John L. Hill, Senator Kyle Janek, Karl
Kilian, Truett Latimer, Linda Lorelle, Damian Mandola, Allen T. McInnes,
George P. Noon, M.D., Ambassador Arthur Schechter, Ron Stone, Tammy Tran,
Stanton Welch, Bob and Mary Whilden, Robert B. Wilkins, M.D., State
Representative Beverly Wooley and Frank M. Young.
The Friends of the Texas Medical Center are pleased to
report the 2003 dinner raised more than $180,000 for the Dr. Edward Lillo
Crain, Jr. Memorial Fund. Its purposes are exclusively for educational,
scientific, charitable and horticultural endeavors of the Houston Academy
of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library. All books purchased by
this fund will bear the commemorative bookplate featured. Specially
designed at the request of Dr. Crain's wife, Fredericka Crain, the
bookplate features a crowded bookcase that contains facsimiles of Dr.
Crain's beloved history books, medical books and favorite flowers.
Founded in 1958 by a group of physicians and community
leaders, which included Dr. E. Lillo Crain, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Ben M.
Anderson, The Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library began with the
purpose of encouraging community support for the Library and assisting in
the Library's development and expansion of collections and services
offered. For the past 45 years, through the generosity of Houstonianswho
value the education and research programs in Houston's health care
institutions, The Friends commitment to these goals has not waned.
The 2003 dinner honoring the memory and contributions of Dr.
Crain raised funds to support worthwhile projects of the organization which
he helped found. With the continued, generous support of our community, the
scope of what The Friends of the Texas Medical Center Library can
accomplish in the future is limitless.
Please let us know if there are journal titles on the list
that are critical to your information needs. To review proposed journal
cancellations go to:
http://www.library.tmc.edu/liblines/2003/jcancellations04.html
Send your feedback to Leah Krevit, M.L.I.S., Associate Director of Collections Management, lkrevit@library.tmc.edu , 713.799.7126
Our renewal deadline is December 15, 2003 so please respond before then.
You can visit BioMed Central at (http://www.biomedcentral.c
om/info/authors) for more information on submission of articles, the
peer review process, indexing and author instructions. BioMed Central
journals are listed at (http://www.bio
medcentral.com/info/authors/bmcjournals)
EPocrates Rx version 6.0 – ePocrates Rx is a
peer-reviewed drug and formulary information database. This resource is
compatible with Palm OS devices used with Windows computers only. Free
subscription includes a 30-day ePocrates Rx ProTM trial.
http://www.epocrates.com/
Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide – The Antibiotic Guide
is a "decision support tool" intended to provide clinicians with concise,
digested, timely information about the diagnosis and treatment of
infectious diseases. The information is arranged so that it is instantly
clinically useful at the point of care, and is compatible with Palm OS
devices.
http://www.hopkins-abxguide.org/
Calculators:
CodeBlue – Code Blue is a simple drug calculator. It
is designed for rapid acquisition of medication doses in a resuscitation
setting. The calculator is primarily designed for pediatric dosing based on
age and weight, but it contains adult doses as well. The design allows the
user to quickly see all the medications relevant to a specific task on one
screen.
http://www.em-innovations.com
/codeblue/
DoseCalc (Shareware) – Quickly calculates dosages for
pediatric medications. Compatible with Palm OS 5.
http://pocket-doc.com/
This is a collaborative effort involving the HAM-TMC Library,
Texas Woman's University, and the Family to Family Network. For more information,
please contact Jeffrey T. Huber, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research,
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.jhuber@mail.twu.edu
The Public Library of Science is creating scientific
journals based on a new revenue model: authors pay to publish in PLoS
journals, but once published, articles are free of charge to any user who
wishes to read or use them in the future.
Funding for these "author charges" is being sought from a wide variety of sources, with organizations such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) agreeing to cover publication costs when investigators and faculty publish in open-access journals.
PLoS published its first journal, PLoS Biology, earlier this year, with its second, PLoS Medicine, slated to begin in mid-2004. Similar to BMC's Journal of Biology, PLoS has decided to also publish PLoS Biology as both a print and an online journal. The cost for a print subscription is $160.00.
The online version of PloS Biology is completely open-access and free of
charge, and can be found at
http://www.plosbiology.org/
