Congratulations to Tulane Professors Latha Rajan and Elma LeDoux who received top honors at the Tulane University Unified Commencement ceremony on Saturday May 18

At the 2013 Unified Commencement ceremony,  Dr. Latha Rajan, associate professor of clinical tropical medicine, received the WeissPresidential Fellowships. This is highest award for undergraduate teaching  which honors a faculty member who has a sustained record of effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching. Dr. Rajan is a key faculty member in the undergraduate public health studies program, engaging students in global community work through a summer service-learning course in Malaysia. She “truly embodies the ideals of teacher, researcher and mentor,” say her colleagues. Students praise Rajan for always making time for them. Her commitment to teaching and service inspires her students, including one who described working with her as “a life-changing experience.”

Also at the ceremony, Dr. Elma Ireland LeDoux was presented with the President’s Awards forGraduate and Professional Teaching. She is director of the Clinical Diagnosis Course and medical director for the Standardized Patient Program and has won more than 40 teaching awards from the Owl Club, the medical school’s student organization for academic excellence. Students say she is “the best teacher I’ve had in medical school,” “an incredible mentor” and “an inspiration to all of us.” A colleague calls her “the consummate clinician-educator, one who combines her insight and skill in bedside diagnosis and devotion to patient care with a talent for inspiring that same passion in students.”

Matas Library Summer Desk Hours (Mon-Fri: 8am-5pm) [until Aug. 5th, Mon.]

The Matas Library Desk will begin closing one hour earlier on Monday, May 20th after graduation.

During the summer the Matas Library Desk will close at 5:00 p.m.   Reserve books will be available for checkout at 3:00 p.m. and will be due back the next Library Service Day - Monday-Friday at 9:00 a.m.

The regular desk hours will begin on August 5th, Monday.

NIH Public Access Policy Compliance workshops @ Matas

Attention faculty and researchers!

The deadline for Public Access Compliance for peer-reviewed publications resulting from NIH-funded research is July 1, 2013.

To assist you with meeting these compliance regulations, the Matas Library is offering workshops.

NIH Public Access Compliance Workshops:

When:  Friday, May 24 @ 3:00 PM

When: Thursday, May 30 @ 2:00 PM

Where: Rudolph Matas Library computer lab

No RSVP required.

A new My NCBI feature now available in “My Bibliography” facilitates the management of publication compliance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. From the new “Awards View” eRA Commons users are able to see whether their publications are compliant with the Policy, start the manuscript submission process, associate their NIH extramural awards with their publications, and designate delegates to manage their bibliography via My NCBI.

A Research Support Librarian from Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences will be available in the library’s mezzanine-level computer lab to demonstrate the process for using the “My Bibliography” feature in My NCBI to track publication compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.

Questions?  Contact: kpicket1@tulane.edu.

GCHB Department Seminar Reading List Available: Successfully Treating Nicotine Dependent Patients

Follow-up on scholarship presented at GCHB department seminars using the links provided in a new Guide organized by year and title of event. In the Guide, you will find selected references (with ability to retrieve the full-text if available) in a RefShare folder, instructions on using RefShare, and search results from a PubMed search.

 Title: Successfully Treating Nicotine Dependent Patients

Date: April 26, 2013

Scholar: Elbert D. Glover, PhD, FASHA, FAAHB, FRIP, Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral & Community Health and Founding Director of the Center for Health Behavior Research at the School of Public Health, University of Maryland.

Successfully Treating Nicotine Dependent Patients

ClinicalKey - Check out the new ebooks (April 2013) -

Check out the new ebook titles in ClinicalKey!

ClinicalKey access is available from off-campus for Tulane users.  
Search Books to locate books by title!

ClinicalKey is the search engine for Elsevier journals and books,  FirstConsult and ProceduresConsult and much more.  Images may saved from the database and used in presentations. There are more than 1000+  full text books and also journals including "The Clinics" from Elsevier in ClinicalKey. 

MDConsult was phased out for Tulane users on Jan. 1, 2013, but that content along with the ProceduresConsult program for Surgery Testing is still available..  The FirstConsult app continues to be available, plus the complete content of FirstConsult is searched in ClinicalKey.  Please let us know if you have problems with the functionality of the ClinicalKey platform.

TULink now works from ClinicalKey!  Matas is are still working on the back end set up to get the ebooks in the Catalog or SearchAll@Matas!  Stay tuned.  Many of the texts are included in the Books tabs of the Matas Subject Guides.  You can search the guides from the Guides tab.

Let us know if you have problems!
http://libguides.tulane.edu/updatesck

Global Health: Science and Practice: New online, open access journal

USAID and the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University created an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for the global health community, particularly program implementers, to contribute to and benefit from a dialogue based on science and practical programmatic experience.

Global Health: Science andPractice (GHSP) <http://www.ghspjournal.org?etoc>

Inaugural issue: March 2013 - Volume 1 - Issue 1<http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/1/1?etoc%0d%0a>

GHSP is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and published by the Knowledge for Health project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs in collaboration with the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

Disaster preparedness and response recording now available

Learn about the National Library of Medicine’s work in disaster response/emergency preparedness, toxicology, environmental health, HIV/AIDS information, and special outreach to minorities and underserved populations using this link to a Tegrity video: https://tegr.it/y/si3c.

Tegrity Player requires the Windows Media Player plug-in to be installed. The plug-in is used to play the recorded audio and video in your browser.

Fast forward to 30:31 to learn about the Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health. At 38:27, learn about their radiation response tool, REMM, a comprehensive, encyclopedic tool, with information on response to a dirty bomb, atomic bomb or spill. At 42:52, learn about how a smart pen is being used by medical students in Uganda to certify whether mosquito nets are being used properly and document how they were actually being used (i.e. for wedding gowns).

Dr. Steven Phillips, National Library of Medicine (NLM) Associate Director for Specialized Information Services, came from Bethesda, MD, to make this (recorded) presentation on Friday, November 9, 2012 for the Global Health Forum of the 100th anniversary of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He and his staff have been involved in NLM efforts to assist in disaster preparedness and response in the US (e.g., Hurricane Katrina) and other countries, e.g., Haiti, Japan, etc. He is leading the effort to establish a Disaster Information Management Research CenterDisaster Information Management Research Center at the NLM.This Center, totally devoted to disaster informatics, is the first of its kind in the world.