Prior HSL and CKM Newsletter

Get to Know the Director 

Open Access Day Recap

Patient Education Image Collection    
 

Thank You for Your Feedback: Web of Science Stays!

Weather-related Closing Policy

Construction Update

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Pamela S. Bradigan, MS, JD, as Assistant Vice President of Health Sciences and Director of the Prior Health Sciences Library.  Pam has been an integral part of the library’s leadership team since 1985.  Most recently, she served as Associate Director for Education and Information for the Library. She will continue to hold faculty appointments as Associate Professor in University Libraries and as Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the OSU College of Medicine.

Open access publishing is a movement that encourages making scholarly resources more freely available over the internet.  The goal is to maximize the impact of research, particularly research that has been funded with public money.  One of the most notable examples of open access is the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires that, after a 12-month embargo period, funded research be made publicly available.

 

Open Access Day at OSU

Open Access Day at OSU was marked on October 21, 2009 with a program where editors, authors, and publishers discussed their personal perspectives on open access, the role of open access within different organizations and disciplines, and the financial sustainability of open access.  Participants were:

    * Opening Remarks, Jan Weisenberger, Senior VP, Office of Research
    * Moderator, Tom Sanville, Executive Director of OhioLINK
    * Panelist, David Huron, Professor Music and Editor, Empirical Musicology Review
    * Panelist, Scot Danforth, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and Editor, Disability Studies Quarterly
    * Panelist, Deborah Grzybowski, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
    * Panelist, Donald Dean, Professor of Biochemistry
    * Panelist, Jack Ochs, American Chemical Society
    * Panelist, Daviess Menefee, Elsevier Publishing

Click here for a video of the program itself.   Search Twitter hashtag #osuoaday2009 to see what people were saying during the program.

The week of October 19 was Open Access Week, and this program was only one of many events that publishers, universities, and libraries all over the world held in order to highlight the movement. 

Kalyani Parthasarathy, Contract Librarian with the Prior Library is cataloging these images to provide consistent data and standard vocabulary to support enhanced access to the collection.  She is coordinating the various aspects of this project from record creation to web display. Over the next few months Kalyani and Angela Barnes, Patient Education, will create the records and subsequent image collection using Ohio State’s Media Manager. The collection Web interface will be designed and created by Tammy Thompson of the Center for Knowledge Management (CKM).  This close collaboration between the Patient Education Department, Prior Library, CKM and OSU’s Media Manager team will produce a well designed and useful tool to manage this unique collection.   

For many years, all OhioLINK institutions have had access to Thomson ISI's Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) for interdisciplinary subject and citation searching.  Recent budget reductions at OhioLINK and OhioLINK libraries, combined with database price increases, lead us to closely investigate our options for accessing multidisciplinary content and citation data.  OhioLINK issued an Intent to Negotiate (ITN) for such a multidisciplinary subject and citation database for our libraries. Thomson Reuters responded with a suite of databases including the Web of Science. Elsevier responded with their Scopus database. After an extended trial of Scopus and several webinars and feedback sessions regarding both products, Thomson's Web of Science was selected as the best solution going forward.

• If classes are cancelled, but University business offices remain open, the Prior Library will be open.
   
• If the University is closed, including all business offices, the Prior Library will also be closed.
   

• The Center for Clinical Translational Science (CCTS) is now open!
  • Located on the 2nd floor of the Prior Health Sciences Library, the Center has two conference rooms and one collaboratory.
  • Office space and research support services are available for faculty and staff collaborating on the CTSA grant.
• The Medical Center Model has been relocated from Meiling Hall to the north end of the 2nd floor of the Prior Health Sciences Library.
• The ICU SIM Lab is currently in its design phase
  • When built, it will be a multi-disciplinary training area to serve physicians, nurses, respiratory techs, dieticians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, students, fellows, residents and social workers to practice clinical skills.
  • Will be located in the Northeast corner of the second floor of the Library and contain an observation room. 
•   COM Academic Expansion - Floors 6 and 7
  • Currently in the construction document phase, scheduled to begin construction May 2010. 
  • Expansion will serve as an interdisciplinary space for students and clinicians to practice clinical skills.