The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library is facilitating a webinar on Golden Helix’s suite of genomics analysis tools. The webinar will provide an overview of: SNP and Variation Suite which offers users the ability to manage and analyze genomic and phenotypic data, VarSeq which allows users to annotate and filter variants obtained from NextGen sequencing and GenomeBrowse, a powerful genomic data visualization tool.
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Check out the new Informatics Lab at the Health Sciences Library!
Informatics Lab: A Collaborative Space for Innovation at the Health Sciences Library
The Informatics Lab is designed for innovative and collaborative hands-on learning experiences. It is a place for UC researchers and graduate students to connect, collaborate, and receive research support services. The space includes an iMac and a Windows PC with many visualization, design, and statistical software packages, 4 whiteboard tables and 2 moveable whiteboards for collaborative work.
To reserve the room or suggest software, contact us at informaticslab@uc.edu.
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 AM – 5 PM
Location: E005L (near the back of the E Level of the Health Sciences Library)
Technology and Software
Software
Windows 7:Office,Skype, SPSS,SAS,R, RStudio, Matlab,CLC Main Workbench,Cytoscape, ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoDA, TerraGO Toolbar, Satscan, EpiInfo, 7zip,Notepad++,Python + scipy + NumPy IGV,MySQL Workbench, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, InCopy, Dreamweaver, FlashPro/Builder, Acrobat Pro, Audition, Bridge, Animate, Prelude, Fireworks)
OSX:Office, Skype, SPSS, SAS, R, RStudio, Matlab, CLC Main Workbench, Cytoscape,QGIS, GeoDA, TerraGO Toolbar, Satscan, EpiInfo, TextMate, The Unarchiver, Python + scipy + NumPy IGV, MySQL workbench, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, InCopy, Dreamweaver, FlashPro/Builder, Acrobat Pro, Audition, Bridge, Animate, Prelude, Fireworks)
Equipment: 1 iMac,1 PC,1 AirMedia unit for wireless presentation from any mobile device,4 whiteboard tables, 2 standing whiteboards, 1 wall-mounted white board, 1 3D printer (coming in the future)
More information is available at http://www.libraries.uc.edu/hsl/digital/digital-labs-hsl.html
New Research Guides Platform!
Does the research guide you use regularly suddenly look different? It is different – the research guides changed platforms and design!
In addition to the new look and feel, the Health Sciences Library Research Guides now have a responsive design, enhanced browsing functionality and are more user friendly for tablet and mobile phone users. These changes and more incorporate accessibility design features required for any University of Cincinnati web pages and 3rd party web based products. Find out more about accessibility requirements at UC.
Check out the new Health Sciences Library Research Guides design at http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/hsl and share your thoughts with us at http://www.libsurveys.com/loader.php?id=12e35f407e155608c441d055474d4f9c
DynaMed Plus is Now Available!
The UC Health Sciences Library now has access to DynaMed Plus™. Get answers to your clinical questions fast—try it here.
DynaMed Plus, the next-generation, evidence-based clinical information resource is written by a world-class team of physicians. A rigorous evidence-based editorial process provides synthesized information and objective analysis to answer your clinical questions quickly and easily.
DynaMed Plus features: Continue reading
CRCnetBASE: a Science, Technology, and Medicine eBook Platform
CRCnetBASE provides a comprehensive e-book collection in over 350 subject areas and more than 40 collections. Browse or search across the collection for your science, technology, or medical topic. Check out the collections below.
CRCnetBASE Biomedical Science Collection
CRCnetBASE Environmental Engineering Collection
CRCnetBASE Environmental Science Collection
CRCnetBASE Ergonomics & Human Factors Collection
CRCnetBASE Life Science Collection
CRCnetBASE Medicine Collection
CRCnetBASE Nutrition Collection
CRCnetBASE Occupational Health & Safety
CRCnetBASE Pharmaceutical Science & Regulation Collection
CRCnetBASE Statistics Collection
Find CRCnetBASE collections via the online catalog or via the HSL eBook page.
Health Sciences Library Loans iPads!
The Health Sciences Library (HSL) is now loaning iPads to UC students and faculty. There are 10 iPads available to lend. You may reserve an iPad but a reservation is not required.
How to check out and return an iPad: Continue reading
SciFinder: Use “Other Sources” link to locate full-text
New name for full-text link in SciFinder
Important tip & update for SciFinder users! The database has changed its former “Full Text” links to the non-intuitive phrases “Other Sources” and “Link to Other Sources” on the brief and full record displays, respectively. The links still function the same as before, but are now represented by these new phrases. Contact Ted Baldwin with questions, Ted.Baldwin@uc.edu or 513-556-4211.
Brief display (results list):
Full record display (after clicking on article title):
“Life of the Mind” Lecture Series Returns March 26 with Dr. Jeffrey Whitsett Presenting
UC President Santa J. Ono will moderate the discussion on the theme of “Technology and Innovation in Medicine.”
Life of the Mind, interdisciplinary conversations with UC faculty, will return March 26, 4-5:30pm in TUC 400ABC with a lecture by Jeffrey Whitsett, MD, professor of pediatrics in the College of Medicine, as well as co-director of the Perinatal Institute and chief of neonatology, perinatal and pulmonary biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Life of the Mind is a semi-annual lecture series that features a distinguished University of Cincinnati faculty member presenting his or her work and expertise. A panel of three responds to and discusses the lecture from diverse perspectives. The series includes intriguing insights from diverse perspectives and encourages faculty and students from across UC to engage in further discourse. The presentation is not simply a recitation of the faculty member’s work but promotes an informed point of view. Continue reading
Don Jason Named Alumnus of the Year
Congratulations to UC Libraries’ Don Jason for being named Alumnus of the Year from the Information Architecture Knowledge Management program at Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science. We are proud to have you among our ranks!
Don is the Clinical Informationist in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library. Read more about Don and the work of his fellow UC Libraries’ informationists in a recent Source article.
UC Libraries’ Tiffany Grant to Attend Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course
Tiffany Grant, research informationist in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, has been accepted into the Georgia Biomedical Informatics course to be held April 12-18, 2015.
Organized by the National Library of Medicine, this week-long survey course is designed to familiarize individuals with the application of computer technologies and information science in biomedicine and health science. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on computer exercises, participants will be introduced to the conceptual and technical components of biomedical informatics. Acceptance into the course is a competitive process. Kristen Burgess, UC Libraries’ assistant director for research and informatics, attended previously.