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June 21, 2007
What are the Top Dental Journals?
According to the 2006 Journal Citation Reports, here are the top ranked journals in dentistry, oral surgery & oral medicine.
BY IMPACT FACTOR:
#1: Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine
#2: Journal of Dental Research
#3: Journal of Endodontics
BY TOTAL CITES:
#1: Journal of Dental Research
#2: Journal of Periodontology
#3: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology & Endodontics
BY IMMEDIACY:
#1: Periodontology 2000
#2: British Dental Journal
#3: Journal of Clinical Periodontology
BY CITED HALF LIFE:
#1: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
#2: American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
#3: Angle Orthodontics
BY CURRENT ARTICLES:
#1: Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
#2: Journal of Periodontology
#3: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology & Endodontics
Want to find out about the rest? Here's how to check yourself.
1. Dentistry Library homepage, top section
2. Click on WebOfKnowledge
3. Click on Journal Citation Reports
4. In left column: Select JCR Science Edition + choose year
NOTE: I don't see 2007 available yet
5. In right column: View by Subject Category
6. SUBMIT
7. Scroll down the category list to Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
8. Choose sort by Impact Factor.
9. SUBMIT
Posted by pfa at 01:08 PM | Comments (0)
June 19, 2007
New Copyright Information & Help Site for UM
A few months ago the University Libraries Copyright Office had a series of informational meetings and focus groups relating to copyright and intellectual property. Several faculty from the School of Dentistry participated in these, so you might also be interested in seeing the fruit that has come from those initial discussions.
Copyright at the University of Michigan: http://copyright.umich.edu/
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The University of Michigan Library's Intellectual Property Specialists are pleased to announce the launch of a completely overhauled U-M Copyright website. This new site will better serve the U-M community by providing basic and practical information on copyright, and by directing users to trustworthy resources both on the web and at the Library.
The revised site is full of new content, and has been redesigned to improve accessibility and help users understand the increasingly complex world of intellectual property. The goal of the site is to provide straightforward information and clarification on the issues most relevant to scholars, researchers, staff, and students. It offers guidance on questions such as: What works are protected by copyright and which ones are not? How do you request permission to use a resource? What are the current legal battles about file sharing about, and how do they affect U-M users? What are our rights and responsibilities regarding copyright?
The site provides useful links to other U-M offices that handle copyright issues, copyright information from other universities, and the United States Copyright Office's website. Links to sites that promote online intellectual freedom are also featured.
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June 18, 2007
New Clinical Guidelines in Dentistry
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and the Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium have both recenetly released new clinical guidelines of potential interest to practicing dentists. MQIC has a number of other guidelines on common conditions that might be of interest to clinicians in general practice when encountering non-dental conditions in their patients.
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD): http://www.aapd.org/media/policies.asp
Guidelines for Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Patients During and After Sedation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures: An Update: http://www.aapd.org/media/Policies_Guidelines/G_Sedation.pdf
Use of Xylitol in Caries Prevention: http://www.aapd.org/media/Policies_Guidelines/P_Xylitol.pdf
Michigan Quality Improvment Consortium(MQIC):
http://www.mqic.org/guid.htm
MQIC: Acute pharyngitis in children: http://www.mqic.org/pdf/REVISED%20MQIC%202007%20Acute%20Pharyngitis%20in%20Children%20Guideline.pdf
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June 14, 2007
In the News: Fake Colgate Toothpaste
Following on the heels of the recent FDA recall of imported Chinese toothpastes containing diethylene glycol, another alert shows diethylene glycol present in counterfeit tubes of toothpaste labeled falsely as Colgate brands.
Reuters Alert: Colgate warns of fake toothpaste in US: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14427041.htm
Diethylene glycol is best known in the United States as an ingredient in antifreeze, plastics, and similar products.
Posted by pfa at 03:27 PM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2007
Share Your Favorite RSS Feeds in Teaching
Are you a fan of RSS Feeds? Have you found a number of favorites you are tracking? Ah, but now you want your students to review a select set as part of their regular class readings.
There is an easy way to share selected RSS feeds with others. Pageflakes is a service that allows you to collect functional tools (flakes) and RSS feeds into a single web page. Here is an example that collects example RSS feeds in medicine and dentistry.
Pageflakes: Med/Dent RSS Demo: http://www.pageflakes.com/pfa/11118181
Notice you'll see organizations, journal table of contents, blogs, image streams, videos, and more.
Here is a screeshot that shows this entire collection, to give a better sense of the range of information included.
Just imagine what you could do!
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June 07, 2007
UM's Research Corridor and Michigan Economics
A recent report from University Research Corridor (Empowering Michigan) presented these core findings.
"The study found the universities accounted for 94 percent of federal academic research dollars brought into Michigan; all three are among the top 75 of more than 600 U.S. research universities.
Over the past five years, they have helped launch more than 79 startup companies based on university research and helped attract a far greater number of companies that want to be near universities. Expansion Management Magazine recently ranked Ann Arbor the No. 1 region in the nation for availability of knowledge workers. The East Lansing/Lansing area was also highly ranked."
The press release is available at:
Michigan's assets for economic growth stand among the nation's best; Presidents offer full resources to jump start Michigan's economy: http://www.urcmich.org/economic/
The full report is available here:
Anderson Economic Group: Preliminary Report: The Economic Benefits of the University Research Corridor (May 2007): http://www.urcmich.org/economic/URC_PreliminaryReport_May24.pdf [PDF: 524 KB]
In their list of highlighted startup companies, over 30 are focused on biological, medical and life sciences topic -- around 3/4s of the complete list. Of particular interest to the dental community might be Velcura Therapeutics (focusing on osteoporosis and bone diseases); nanoScience Engineering Corp (focusing on nanocomposites); and the many companies working to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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June 01, 2007
Science & Education in Second Life
Last week, Sharon Grayden and I were able to attend the Second Life Best Practices in Education 2007 Annual Meeting.
Second Life Best Practices in Education (SLBPE): http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/
Flickr: 2007 SL Best Practices in Education Conference: http://www.flickr.com/groups/slbestpractices2007/
Later this month (June 27th), Sharon and I will be sharing some of what we learned as one of the Bootcamp presentations. Until then, here are a couple illustrations.
An SLBPE presenter talking about Nanotechnology Island.
Seen at Genome Island, an interactive cell that allows students to go inside the cell and interact with the intracellular structures.
A draft of a skeleton model designed by Ollie Kubrick.
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