Changes to My NCBI home page April 20, 2011
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The My NCBI home page has been streamlined, with all stored data on one page–My Bibliography, Saved Searches, Collections, etc.. The home page design can be customized by dragging and dropping each window or by minimizing or deleting them. To see the display customizer in action, click NCBI YouTube
To read the complete story, click here.
UM School of Dentistry–Dental Outreach to Kenya June 14, 2010
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Building on the Kenya Smiles initiative that launched in 2008, five School of Dentistry students went to the University of Nairobi earlier this year to provide oral health care and education. They examined hundreds of children and adolescents, and offered dental services in Kenyan villages.http://www.dent.umich.edu/featured-news/engaging-the-world
Give Kids a Smile January 7, 2010
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For the fourth year in a row, the staff members of the Dental School will present the annual “Give Kids a Smile” event. This year, it will be held on Saturday Feb. 6, 2010, with registration beginning at 9AM for patients and ending at noon, and the event running until 2:00PM. After children are registered by their parents or guardians, the children’s teeth will be examined, cleaned, and x-rayed; some minor restorative work will also be done if needed. There is no charge. For more information on the Michigan Dental Association’s toolkit, please see: http://www.smilemichigan.com/NewsArticles/GiveKidsaSmileMediaKit.aspx
The Health Sciences Libraries will have a table with handouts listing sources of reliable health information, and they will distribute pens, as well.
School of Dentistry Involvement with Open.Michigan November 23, 2009
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In case you weren’t aware of this: Faculty in the UM School of Dentistry have contributed a number of excellent videos and other course content to the University of Michigan’s open education initiative – Open.Michigan. That means that the content is freely available to anyone and everyone for their use and reuse. The Dental content includes:
- CRSE materials – Dental Materials
- DENT 718 – Advanced Topics in Removable Prosthodontics
- Health Case Studies
- Patient Communication Skills
For more information about the Open.Michigan initiative, which aims to open educational resources to the global community, visit their website and About page.
Publicity for the School of Dentistry's Digitized Videos September 30, 2009
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In today’s Record, there’s a nice write-up about the School of Dentistry’s digitized videos and YouTube channel:
The dental school’s videos are included on the university’s new YouTube Channel that was launched in September. The university’s portal includes videos focusing on special speakers and events, classroom lectures, and other highlights.
The School of Dentistry’s videos are the result of an effort that began several years ago to digitize more than 1,200 videotapes created in the school’s television studios in the 1970s.
Read the article and take a look at the School’s YouTube channel.
Interested in a new kind of journal impact factor? Mendeley's on it! May 20, 2009
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I’ve written before about Mendeley, the tool that combines citation management with social networking. It’s got a really cool feature that’s becoming more important as the number of articles in Mendeley increases (more than 1 million now). Mendeley provides article-level usage statistics in real time, to create a new kind of impact factor. You can see how often the article is downloaded, shared, and the average reading time.
Thanks to Cameron Neylon for this image.
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What this means: you don’t have to wait years to see how often an article is being cited.
To see the complete post, click here:
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2009/05/ologeez-founder-joins-mendeley/
Check out this video of a short presentation by one of Mendeley’s creators, Victor Henning, at the recent “Next Web” conference in Amsterdam.
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And remember that I’m giving a presentation June 10 on Mendeley in the School of Dentistry’s IT Boot Camp series. Come to see it or look for it on SlideShare and the School of Dentistry and HSL web sites.
Who Remembers Bernie? And Why? September 18, 2008
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Last week the Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned Bernie Machen. Remember Bernie? He was the Dean here at the School of Dentistry shortly before I arrived in the late 90s. When I was interviewing for position of Dentistry Librarian, my primary cram-for-the-test study source was Dental Education at the Crossroads from the Institute of Medicine and the Committee On The Future Of Dental Education.
Dental Education at the Crossroads: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4925
The description of the book starts with this: “Six dental schools have closed in the last decade and others are in jeopardy. Facing this uncertainty about the status of dental education and the continued tension between educators and practitioners, leaders in the profession have recognized the need for purpose and direction.” We are still facing these issues and addressing them in critical curriculum redesigns.
J. Bernard Machen was at this time the Dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, and an active member of the Committee On The Future Of Dental Education. From the University of Michigan, he has only continued to move onward and upward in the academic hierarchy, currently President of the University of Florida.
OK, so what has Bernie been doing at UF? You can take a look at this Google News search to see what is being picked up by the popular press:
Google News: “bernard machen” OR “bernie machen”
The big buzz come from the Chronicle of Higher Education, who published an article last week featuring Machen as the famed inspiration for a mixed drink in the bars of Gainesville. The Chronicle has the article locked down to subscribers, so I don’t dare show you the pretty pictures or give the recipe. I can point you to the news in the Gainesville local press, which states, “The drink includes rum, blackberry brandy, banana liqueur, lime juice and grenadine syrup.”
Thirsty for a Machen?: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080916/COLUMNISTS/809170298/-1/news07&title=Publication_tries_to_recreate__Machen__drink
Executive Mixers: In which we imagine cocktails named for college presidents: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i03/03a00601.htm
So what is Bernie doing academically, aside from being UF President? Well, he’s still working on the issues that matter to us, here.
Machen, J. Bernard. Will We Allow Dentistry to Be Left Behind? Principles Underlying Dental Education and Practice. Journal of Dental Education 72(2_suppl): 10-13 2008. http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/content/citation/72/2_suppl/10
What do you think will be remembered? The pretty mixed drink, or the fight for the survival of dental education?
Bootcamp Podcasts Available in Open.Michigan May 25, 2008
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I just discovered that selections from the podcast series I’ve been doing for the School of Dentistry have been released as collection in the Open.Michigan initiative. Here is more information.
https://bezak.umms.med.umich.edu/blog/2008/05/20/it-bootcamp-podcasts/
Explore other entries in the above blog for more materials from the School of Dentistry. Some very cool resources being made available!
Need Pics for Powerpoint? Check out Flickr — History, Art, Pathology, Implants, and Much More January 30, 2007
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There are a lot of sources for images that you could use in your teaching, presentations, and research. You have probably already tried Google Images, which is one of the very finest image search engines. So, if Google Images is so cool, why do I want to talk about Flickr?
In Google Images, you do a search just like for web pages, by typing in keywords that describe what you want. Google finds images that have that word near the image. Sometimes the image is right on target, sometimes it is really strange. In Google Image searches there is also the question of licensing, how to find out who owns the image, is it copyrighted, and can you get permission to use it. Answering those questions can take a lot of work.
In Flickr, you can search, just like in Google, but that isn’t the best feature. What makes Flickr so powerful are three main factors.
First, currency. People tend to be loading new images every day of events right around them. This has made Flickr a popular source of images for low end or local news media.
Second, groups. People with similar interests will add their images to a shared collection. Find the collection or group that matches, and you have a much better chance of finding an image that meets your need. This also puts you in touch with people who are creating the type of images you want and find useful, and you can follow that person’s new work, if you wish. Flickr will even let you search for pictures just in a group.
For example, the Dentistry Library and Sindecuse Museum are both adding images to a Flickr group for images on the history and art of dentistry. You can go to that group and search for “GV Black” or “Jonathan Taft” or Michigan or bitemark or … well, you get the idea. If you search in “dentalhistory” for “Michigan”, what you find will be more connected with dentistry in Michigan than if you searched “Michigan” in either all of Flickr or Google.
Flickr: History & Art of Dentistry: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dentalhistory/
Third, licensing. In Flickr, the authors are allowed to define the level of access and licensing they wish attached to their images. As soon as you find an image, you can check to see what is expected and what you can or cannot do with the image. Now, this has its good parts and less good parts. Some people choose to block their images from showing to anyone who does not have a Flickr account. Just remember, that if you want to see everything, you might want to consider joining Flickr — it’s free! If you have a Flickr account, you can send messages to someone to ask permission to use one of their images, even if you don’t know their e-mail address, so that is another advantage.
Here are some other dental-themed Flickr groups.
Dental Photography: http://flickr.com/groups/12745983@N00/
Street Dentistry: http://flickr.com/groups/streetdentistry/
Dentistry: http://flickr.com/groups/88473280@N00/
The Dentistry Library is planning to have a class on Flickr in the Bootcamp series, so please stay tuned!
Introducing our Omics Blog Series July 10, 2006
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This time of year, new graduate students are flooding into the School and faculty are intensely working on their research projects while the teaching course load is somewhat lighter than during September through May.
While there are a variety of research areas and interests, the University of Michigan and the School of Dentistry have a committed interest in the research areas that have come to be known popularly as “Omics” (genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, and related bioinformatics concepts).
In the interests of providing useful information for those working in these areas and those who would like to know more about what their colleagues might be doing, the Dentistry Library today begins a roughly two week series of blog entries on OMICS.
The entire collection of entries will be collected at this location, with more added periodically in the future:
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/dentlib/archives/resources/research/omics/index.html
