NEJM & Open Access

The February 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine provides several free full-text articles about scholarly communications, particularly open access publishing. Articles in the issue include: For the Sake of Inquiry and Knowledge — The Inevitability of Open Access Open but Not Free — Publishing in the 21st Century Creative

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NLM Lecture Series (starts Monday, March 4th)

NLM announces an upcoming lecture series on strategies to evaluate health communication. The first of the five-part lecture series is this coming Monday. More information about our first speaker, Dr. Gary Kreps, is attached. The title of his talk is: “Evaluating Health Communication Programs to Enhance Health Care and Health Promotion.” The

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Tonight Discuss the Horizon Report on Technology and Education

Tonight (6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern) members of the medical library community will be discussing the trends in higher education and technology its possible impact in health sciences libraries. The NMC Horizon Report> 2013 Higher Education Edition, http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. The

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Results – 2012 Survey for Hospital Library eResources Group Purchasing & Licensing

Dear MACMLA-L Colleagues, This is an update on the results of the 2012 Survey for Hospital Library eResources Group Purchasing & Licensing. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. The de-identified data for the ten survey questions is listed in the MACMLA-L listserv archive. Any interested hospital librarians are invited to

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Job Posting: Medical Librarian II, Greenvile Hospital System, Greeneville, SC

JobTitle  Medical Librarian II DeptName  Medical Library Location  Center For Teaching and Learning Full/Part Time  Full-time Shift  9:30-6Mon-Th;8:30-5Fri Minimum Hourly Base Rate  18.73 Job Number  2013-1832     Job Description: Creates and maintains bibliographic and authority data for processing all library and archive material; manages RCPH library; maintains and updates GHS library’s

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Updates on NLM’s Exhibition Programs

NLM’s Exhibition Program launched an online ACSI survey at the end of January.  The survey invites user feedback while they are visiting our Program’s website as well as four online exhibitions. It will be available until the end of January 2014, and are currently available on the following websites: “And there’s the humor of

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NLM Journal Donation System

Now It’s Even Easier to Donate Journals to NLM Since April, 2009, NLM’s Journal Donation System has made it possible for libraries to determine whether NLM needs any volumes of the print journals they plan to discard.