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October 27, 2006
Happy 25th Birthday, Medline! Happy 10th Birthday, PubMed!
On October 27th 1971, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched Medline Online. Today, the Medline database covers approximately 4500 biomedical journals and has over 12 million journal citations and abstracts from the mid-1960's to the present. Since 1996, the NLM has provided free Medline access via PubMed. The usage has increased from two million PubMed searches per month to three million searches per day.
The UM Health Sciences Libraries provide access to PubMed with UM SFX links to the University Library's journal subscriptions. To learn more about PubMed, please take the NLM PubMed tutorial or register for the upcoming PHLI workshop on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 from 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM.
Contact PHLI Reference Services by calling (734) 763-5109, by emailing sph.reference@umich.edu, or by stopping by the library. Reference services are available 10:00am - 4:00pm , Monday - Friday.
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October 25, 2006
Craniofacial Disfigurements Web Site: Let's Face It
Betsy Wilson, the founder of the Let's Face It USA web site, is presenting "Facing Life with a Different Face", a talk for the UM community and public about life with facial differences. Betsy will be speaking of her experiences as a mother of a child with craniosynostosis as well as her personal experiences as a survivor of facial cancer.
Betsy will be speaking Friday, October 27, from noon to 1pm at an event in Room G378 of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. The event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
The new UM version of the Let's Face It web site will be at:
http://www.dent.umich.edu/faceit/
Press Release:
Craniofacial Disfigurements Web Site to be Transferred to U-M -- "Let's Face It" Leader to Speak at Dental School Oct. 27 http://www.dent.umich.edu/about/aboutschool/news/news2006/news100406.html
Event Information and Poster:
Facing Life With a Different Face -- Betsy Wilson:
http://www.dent.umich.edu/faceit/FaceItPoster.pdf
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October 23, 2006
Opening Ceremony for SPH Crossroads & Tower Building
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Noreen Clark, Ph.D., the Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor of Public Heatlh and former dean of the UM School of Public Health, will be giving a lecture on Putting People at the Center of Solutions: Controlling Chronic Disease at 3:00 pm in the SPH Crossroads Lane Family Auditorium, room 1690.
Following the lecture, there will be an opening ceremony for the SPH Crossroads and Tower Building beginning at 4:30 pm at the SPH Crossroads (between SPH I and II). For information: http://www.sph.umich.edu/news_events/872.html
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October 13, 2006
Investing in Ability Week (Oct. 23-27, 2006)
During the upcoming Investing in Ability Week (Oct. 23-27, 2006), there will be educational programs and events designed to increase awareness of important disability issues. All events are free of charge and open to all members of the university community and the public.
For more details about the events, please visit the web site for the UM Council of Disability Concerns at http://www.umich.edu/~hraa/ability/ability2006.htm
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October 03, 2006
New Online Access to Ethnicity & Disease
Public Health Library & Informatics has activated an online subscription to Ethnicity & Disease from 2003-present. To access the journal, you will need to have the institutional username and password which is available via MIRLYN and SearchTools.
URL http://pk.lib.umich.edu/2484872
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New Online Access to the Journal of the American Statistical Association
Soon to be added to MIRLYN:
For access to 2006 articles from the Journal of the American Statistical Association, please go to
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asa/jasa
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