Dentistry Library Newsletter

March 2000

DENTISTRY LIBRARY NEWS:
* Library Survey - HELP US HELP YOU!
* Library Staff Update
* Employee of the Month!

CAMPUS LIBRARIES NEWS:
* JSTOR Update
* Electronic Journals from Science Direct
* Other New Electronic Journals
* Online Books
* China Data Center
* Databases Plus: Clinical Trials & Pharmacology

FYI:
* Conference on the Multi-Dimensions of Urban Children
* Finding Jobs in Science and Health Care
* NATURE Available in Many Languages
* Research & Grant Resources
* Autopsy Data and Images Online
* Laboratories Online
* Technology in Healthcare
* Slice of Life: Healthcare Education and Multimedia
* Women & Women's Health Links
* U.N. World Conference Against Racism


DENTISTRY LIBRARY SURVEY

Help us help you! We want to design the best library to meet your
needs, and can do with information and feedback from you. The survey
can still be filled in (anonymously) at:

  https://intranet.dent.umich.edu/dlsurvey.html


DENTISTRY LIBRARY STAFF UPDATE

The Dentistry Library is please to announce that Pamela Vasich has
accepted the position of Technical Processing Coordinator. Pamela
comes to us from Borders in Grosse Pointe. Welcome, Pamela!


EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

The Dentistry Library's student employee of the month for March is Jeff
Boyer.  He has earned this honor due to the large volume of shelving and
everyday library upkeep that he performs.   In addition, he has provided
invaluable assistance to  the Circulation Coordinator with  the Dentistry
Library's ongoing reorganization of the Reserves Collection. Jeff has been
an employee of the Dentistry Library since September 1999.   He is a
sophomore in the LSA, and he is currently declared as a general studies
major.  Much thanks, Jeff!


JSTOR UPDATE

Many of you have requested that JSTOR include scientific and
biomedical journals in their online collections. At long last,
you wish has come true! Remember, JSTOR keeps journals archives.
You will still need to use the Electronic Journals page for the
current issues of these titles.

Philosophical Transactions. Biological Sciences
   Current coverage: Vols. 288-326, 1980-1989
   Moving Wall: 5 years
   Journal URL: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00804622.html

Philosophical Transactions. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
   Current coverage: Vols. 293-329, 1980-1989
   Moving Wall: 5 years
   Journal URL: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00804614.html

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
   Current coverage: Vols. 206-235, 1980-1989
   Moving Wall: 5 years
   Journal URL: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00804649.html

Proceedings. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
   Current coverage: Vols. 369-426, 1980-1989
   Moving Wall: 5 years
   Journal URL: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00804630.html

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America
   Current coverage: Vols. 77-92, 1980-1995
   Moving Wall: 2 years
   Journal URL: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00278424.html

Science
   Current coverage: Vols.207-246, 1980-1989
   Moving Wall: 5 years
   Journal URL: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00368075.html


ELECTRONIC JOURNALS FROM SCIENCE DIRECT

Science Direct is available through the University of Michigan. Go
to:

  http://www.sciencedirect.com

and click on Group-Wide Login. Then click on Journals. The number
of journals available is always expanding. The following journals are
selected from some of the great variety available.

Additives for Polymers
Advanced Cement Based Materials
AIChE Journal
Annales de Chimie Science des MatÈriaux
Ceramics International
Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science
Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science
European Polymer Journal
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation
International Journal of Inorganic Materials
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Materials Science and Engineering: C
Plastics, Additives and Compounding
Polymer
Polymer Contents
Polymer Degradation and Stability
Polymer Gels and Networks
Polymer Testing
Progress in Polymer Science
Reactive and Functional Polymers
Supramolecular Science
Synthetic Metals


OTHER NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Experimental Aging Research
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/0361073x/contp1-1.htm

Health Care For Women International
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/07399332/contp1-1.htm

International Journal of Science Education
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/09500693/contp1-1.htm

Journal of Legal Medicine
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/01947648/contp1-1.htm

Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/03091902/contp1-1.htm

Journal of Natural History
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/00222933/contp1-1.htm

Journal of Information Technology in Medicine
http://www.j-itm.com/

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/14639238/contp1-1.htm

Medical Teacher
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/carfax/0142159x/contp1-1.htm

Molecular Membrane Biology
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/09687688/contp1-1.htm

Pathology
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/carfax/00313025/contp1-1.htm

Teaching and Learning in Medicine
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/erlbaum/10401334/contp1-1.htm

Xenobiotica
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/tandf/00498254/contp1-1.htm


ONLINE BOOKS

AAP Red Book of pediatric infectious diseases
Electronic access via the 'MDConsult' gateway homepage
https://www.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/mdc/validate

Ramon y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934.
Advice to a Young Investigator
http://WWW.netlibrary.com/api-bin/mit/OM_ISAPI.DLL?clientID=274330657&infobase=422.nfo&softpage=All_Frame_Pg

CHINA DATA CENTER

Did you know that many factories producing Xylitol and related
non-nutritional sweeteners are located in China?

The China Data Center is a collaboration between the University
Libraries Maps Library, the International Institute, many other
campus units, and additional non-UM organizations interested
in sharing information about China. It includes both current
and historical information. For more information, contact
Karl Longstreth at email: karleric@umich.edu.

China Data Center
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/chinadata/

China In Time And Space (CITAS)
http://citas.csde.washington.edu/data/cntybnd/overview.htm

International Institute
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/


DATABASES PLUS: CLINICAL TRIALS & PHARMACOLOGY

CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service (a division of Medical
Economics Company, http://www.medec.com)
http://www.centerwatch.com/main.htm

From the National Institutes of Health, especially for consumers:
  Clinical Trials
  http://clinicaltrials.gov

  Press Release:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/clintrlpr00.html

Clinical Pharmacology 2000
http://cp.gsm.com
  From Gold Standard Multimedia, http://www.gsm.com, this was
  named eHealthcareWorld's 1999 gold award winner for best online
  publication for professionals


CONFERENCE ON THE MULTI-DIMENSIONS OF URBAN CHILDREN

This is a cross-disciplinary, inter-generational, multicultural conference
founded in the conviction that children in urban settings have a wealth of
potential.

When:   Friday, March 24     9:15am - 5pm
Where:  Alumni Center, University of Michigan, 200 Fletcher Street
Cost:   General: $25; College Students: $15; Youth (18 and under): Free

Conference fee includes breakfast, lunch, and conference materials.

For more information and registration, please see the website at
http://www.umich.edu/~ourhope


FINDING JOBS IN SCIENCE AND HEALTHCARE

Nature has launched NATUREJOBS, a new targeted jobs and resume
service online. The free service lists all the jobs advertised in the
Nature journals, features a powerful search engine, a post your
resume feature, regular Editorial Careers and Recruitment features
and a pool of other useful web resources including updates on career
information, conferences and grants. Also, find in the Jan 27 issue
of Nature, the following articles: "Insiders advise on first steps to
a career," "Future Focus and Recruitment Issues."

  http://www.nature.com/naturejobs
  http://www.nature.com/jobs/

Other job and resume services on the net include:

BioCareer Center
http://www.biocareer.com/

BioMedNet Jobs Exchange
http://www.biomednet.com/jobs

Employment Links for the Biomedical Scientist (Graeme Eisenhofer)
http://www.his.com/~graeme/employ.html

MedStaff: Current Opportunities
http://www.medstafflt.com/cgi/opportunities.cgi

Monster: Health Care: Career Center
http://www.medsearch.com/

National Association of Physician Recruiters: World Job Bank
http://napr.org/wjblogin.htm

New Scientist
http://www.newscientistjobs.com/

Physician's Employment
http://www.physemp.com/


NATURE AVAILABLE IN MANY LANGUAGES

Nature is pleased to announce the launch of both an Asian and
a German language web site to address science in those countries.
The translated content on the site is free, and includes
Nature Highlights, and various language versions of the Guide
to authors, plus much more.

Nature in German
http://deutsche.nature.com/

Nature in Chinese, Japanese, Korean
http://www.natureasia.com


RESEARCH & GRANT RESOURCES

* Articles

Dalton, R. 2000. Young, worldly and unhelpful all miss out on data
sharing. Nature 404(6773):6. http://www.nature.com/nature/ For password
contact x3-3071.

Make Your Figures Count - how to improve the illustrations
for your next paper, using principles by Edward Tufte
http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/73/notes/adapt

Linearization Plots: Time for Progress in Regression -- a
comparison of linear and nonlinear regression analysis of
quantitative data
http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/73/viewpts/op_ed

* Services

Research America
http://www.researchamerica.org/
  "The nation's leading nonpartisan voice for making medical and health
  research a higher national priority. Its membership represents
  more than 375 academic institutions, independent research laboratories,
  teaching hospitals, private industries, professional societies, voluntary
  health agencies and philanthropies."

International Foundation for Ethical Research
http://www.ifer.org/
  This organization provides graduate fellowships for research
  which does not use animal models. It appears to be related to PETA.

* Grants & Contracts

BioMedNet: Grants
http://www.biomednet.com/jobs?action=grants

Nature: International Grants Finder
http://www.nature.com/nature/grants/index.html

NIH  Office  of  Extramural  Research: Grants
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

NIH Contracts Page
http://www4.od.nih.gov/ocm/contracts/contract.htm

* Other Resources

BioMedNet (HMS Beagle)
http://www.biomednet.com/

SciWeb: Online Resources For Biotechnology Professionals
http://207.5.16.97/index.cfm

Access SciCentral daily for late-breaking science and technology
news, the most comprehensive informational resources on the Web,
essential databases to support your research, and new ideas in
science and math education. SciCentral is produced by research
scientists for everyone interested in serious science.
Visit today at: http://www.scicentral.com/


AUTOPSY DATA & IMAGES ONLINE

Johns Hopkins Autopsy Resource (JHAR)
http://ww2.med.jhu.edu/pathology/iad.html
  "The Johns Hopkins Autopsy Resource (JHAR) consists of human autopsy
  reports (text only), which have been computer-translated into
  concept-unique-identifiers Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus
  of the United States National Library of Medicine." 50,000 facesheets
  and more.

Johns Hopkins Autopsy Resource (JHAR) Image Archive
http://www.autopsydb.org/iadbimag.htm
  Over 5,000 images, mostly of tumors. Most images are from the
  Armed Forced Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Electronic Fascicles
  collection.


LABORATORIES ONLINE

BioMedNet (http://www.biomednet.com/) has a rather extraordinary list of
laboratories with exceptional web sites. The whole list is at:
http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/current/notes/feat_lab

My favorites are:

Theory of Molecular Machines
http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov:80/~toms/
  Includes a brief introduction to the use of information theory in
  molecular biology. http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov:80/~toms/introduction.html

The Barton Group, from the European Bioinformatics Institute, who work in
the field of Bioinformatics with an emphasis on the analysis and prediction
of protein structure.
http://barton.ebi.ac.uk/new/index.html

But possibly you'll prefer:

Klymkowsky Laboratory (University of Colorado, Boulder) -
The lab studies cell-matrix attachment molecules in Xenopus
http://spot.colorado.edu/~klym/Home.html

Wong Lab (Tufts University) -
The Comparative Biomechanics Laboratory at Tufts University
http://www.tufts.edu/as/tampl/cbl/

The Ellington Lab (University of Texas at Austin) -
This laboratory engineers biopolymers and cells.
http://speak.icmb.utexas.edu/ellington/main.html


TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE

Bringing the Benefits of Telehealth to Underserved Populations:
Barriers and Opportunities / Neal Neuberger, Louise Arnheim, John
C. Scott, and Keith Krueger. Center for Public Service Communications.
http://www.fnlm.org/communications/underserved.html

Hot Technology Trends in Health Care / Health Care Informatics cover story
http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/issues/2000/02_00/cover.htm

Journal of Information Technology in Medicine
http://www.j-itm.com/


SLICE OF LIFE: HEALTHCARE EDUCATION AND MULTIMEDIA

The Slice of Life is both a conference and a consortium. We talk
about not having the resources to have all dental schools developing
quality educational programs on the same topics. We talk about sharing
resources, sharing images, and related activities. Suzanne Stensaas,
the founder of the Slice of Life project, realized these were significant
issues in health education several years ago, and that type of collaboration
between health programs has been the focus of their efforts. In previous
newsletters, I mentioned the searchable image bank maintained by them.
I have attended  earlier workshops by them and found them the most
valuable of any I ever attended on healthcare education or multimedia.
These folks do extraordinary work, and I highly recommend this conference
to anyone interested in these issues.

Slice of Life 2000 and Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium
http://slice.gsm.com/

Knowledge Weavers Multimedia Catalog (Images)
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/webpac-bin/wgbroker?new+-access+top.kw


WOMEN & WOMEN'S HEALTH LINKS

* Women in Dentistry

AADS Policy, Position Statement and Resolution Regarding Women and Minority
Affairs
http://www.aads.jhu.edu/Women_Minority_Policy.htm

American Association of Women Dentists
http://womendentists.org/

PubMed Search on Jeanne Sinkford:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=4&db=m&term=Sinkford+JC&dispmax=50&relentrezdate=No+Limit

* Women in Science

Association for Women in Science
http://www.awis.org/

Nature: Debates: Why are there so few women in science?
http://helix.nature.com/debates/women/

Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science
http://www.onlineethics.org/
  Women's Issues & Gender Differences
  http://www.onlineethics.org/text/ecsel/abstracts/women.html

ScienceCentral: Women & Minorities in Science and Engineering
http://www.scicentral.com/W-02womi.html

Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
/ National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf99338/access/toc.htm

* History of Women in Science

Amazon City Museum of Women in Science and Technology
http://www.amazoncity.com/technology/museum/index.html

Biographies of Women in Developmental Biology
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/w/womens-studies/www/dev-bio/

4000 Years of Women in Science
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/4000WS.html

History of Women in Science & Technology
http://www.cs.yale.edu/~tap/historical-refs.html

Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS)
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/TWOWS.html

* Women's Health

Health Resources and Services Administration
http://158.72.83.3/WomensHealth/default.htm

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/justforyou/women/default.htm
  For a list of National Health Observances, go to
  >http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/Special.htm

HealthWeb: Women's Health
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/chslib/hw/womens/

Healthy Women in the 21st Century
http://158.72.83.3/WomensHealth/wh21cen.htm

* Women's Advocacy

United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women. Gender Equality,
Development and Peace for the 21st Century
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/followup/beijing5/index.html

Women and a  Culture of Peace
http://www.unesco.org/cpp/uk/projects/gender.htm

* Women in History

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html

Inventors Museum: Women
http://www.inventorsmuseum.com/women.htm

The Women's Museum
http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/

Women Nobel Laureates
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html


U.N. WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

The United Nations regularly calls conferences on topics of
international importance. These conferences generate awareness
and activity on a global scale, activities which focus on
correcting the problem in question. The most recent of these
conferences was the one on the status of women. The next upcoming
conference is on racism.  The conference will be the culminating
event of the International Year of Mobilization Against Racism,
Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, and
will be held in South Africa

United Nations. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/index.htm
http://www.un.org/rights/racism/
http://www.un.org/

United Nations. Commission on the Status of Women. Gender Equality,
Development and Peace for the 21st Century
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/followup/beijing5/index.html