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Academic integrity at all levels of education has come under increased scrutiny, and a number of organizations and institutions are dedicated to providing high-quality information and public outreach programs about this topic.

The Center for Academic Integrity provides high quality information in areas as academic dishonesty, plagiarism, cheating, honor codes, and academic ethics. The “Educational Resources” section includes articles, tutorials, workshop advice, and links to academic Web sites. The “Codes and Policies” section links to the relevant Web pages of individual educational institutions. “Useful links” include relevant organizational and educational Web pages. Membership allows for access to restricted areas of the Web page (as the member resources).

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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies provides peer-reviewed science-based advice on matters of biomedical science, medicine, and health. This nonprofit nongovernmental organization bills itself as being an objective and independent adviser to the nation to improve health.

Their reports synthesis published research and expert testimony. Most reports run well over 200 pages and usually include not only detailed chapters and references but also appendices, tables, and figures. The 18 current topics include Child Health, Environment, Food and Nutrition , Public Health and Prevention, and Workplace.

A recent title:
Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce . This report states says that as the population of seniors grows to comprise approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and critically unprepared to meet their health needs. The committee recommended intitiatives to
- explore ways to broaden the duties and responsibilities of workers at various levels of training;
- better prepare informal caregivers to tend to the needs of aging family members and friends; and
- develop new models of health care delivery and payment as old ways sponsored by federal programs such as Medicare prove to be ineffective and inefficient.

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Powered by Google, eHealthcareBot is a new custom search engine for locating health care resources on the Web. Developed by world-renowned Internet expert Marcus P. Zillman, this search engine may be especially helpful for locating consumer health and patient Web sites.

As a custom search engine, eHealthcareBot searches a select number (about 120) health care meta search engines and resources, including Medpedia, HealthVisit, and SPOT Healthcare to name a few.

Want to learn how to create your own custom search engine? Create a free Google account and get started!

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The Mycroft Project is an open-source project that provides plugins for enhancing search capability in Mozilla-based web browsers. Plugins allow direct access to a search engine from your browser — simply click on the plug-in you wish to add and use the existing search bar at the top right of the page. Currenty there are over 180 health-related plug-ins. For more information go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ (to browse by category, select “Search” from the “User” menu).

The replacement of lights on the fifth floor has begun! This long-overdue project will continue slowly through the fall semester. Facilities Maintenance is aware of the need for quiet in the Library, and so they are doing work at times when they won’t disturb people studying.

Thank you for your patience with this project! When it is complete, it will make the fifth floor more conducive to study and reading.

The Mulford Library has a new help sheet on the use and misuse of journal impact factors. Another help sheet addresses the Journal Citation Reports, the resource that lists journal impact factors. These and other help sheets are available on the Library’s web page. For more information, contact Mulford Reference Assistance.

PubMed Central has been providing free access to the full text of articles submitted voluntarily by publishers since 2000. This National Library of Medicine’s online database (a subset of PubMed) is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. JoVE is “the first video-journal to ever be accepted for publication in PubMed.”, according to the publisher’s blog.

The online, open-access journal publishes videos of experiments and protocols in the biological and life sciences and offers its video-articles to science bloggers to illustrate their posts.

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Many medical conditions, diseases, clinical tests, and physiological terms are named for persons.
WhoNamedit ,a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, presently contains 8154 eponyms described in 4039 main entries. These eponyms are linked to 3228 persons:116 female and 3112 male. (The publishers are aiming for over 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons.)
Entries may be searched by name (as Golgi, the Italian cytologist) or keyword (as bacillus). One may also browse by category, or use the “List persons by last name” function. Biographies by country are also included.

The Mulford Library has a related resource — A Dictionary of Medical and Surgical Syndromes [Mulford Reference WB 15 G449d 1992]. Contents only consist of an alphabetical list of about 950 syndromes. While narrower in scope (no clinical tests or physiological terms), it does include cross references that WhoNamedit does not (as visceromegaly syndrome).

Let the professional, courteous team at Mulford Reference Assistance work with and for you on your research and library related needs!

Reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Medpedia, a new online medical encyclopedia to be written and edited by a collaborative group of thousands, with support from several leading medical schools, is calling for volunteers. But not everyone will be accepted. Only those who hold an M.D. or Ph.D. in a biomedical field need apply.” The complete article is is available on campus. Off-campus access for UT faculty, staff, and students is available through the Library’s catalog. For more information on this site in progress, see their web site: http://www.medpedia.com/index.php/Main_Page

WinkingSkull.com is an interactive gross anatomy resource. This free, interactive resource designed for first year medical students (but useful to other health science students) is organized by body region. Navigate through the regions of the body through the listing of seven (7) regions in the left hand column (Back, Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis, etc). The resulting interactive diagrams include an option to turn the labels on or off. Free registration allows for self testing whcih includes a handy timer and instant test results. Provided by Thieme Publishers, based on the THIEME Atlas of Anatomy series.