Maybe you have heard me speak about open access issues.  I highly recommend the Nature special issue of March 28, 2013 Volume 495 The Future of Publishing.

In The Dark Side of Publishing, you will find “A checklist to identify reputable publishers.”  You will also learn more about Jeffrey Beall whom I have talked about in connection with his Scholarly Open Access blog.  His blog contains his list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.”

When publishing, I remind you to check the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).  The latter has a members list, and a Code of Conduct outlined for its members that also, in my opinion, outlines best practices for open access journals.

I am delighted to welcome you to the University at Buffalo School of Nursing’s DNP program.  Please call on me if I can help you navigate our library landscape.

These videos are downstairs in the Health Sciences Library for viewing now in the Digital Media Resources Center:

Nurse: If Florence Could See Us Now

and

WIT

The third video is forthcoming.  They will show up on the Course Reserve listing Friday, May 17.  The system will switch from Spring to Summer course listings then.  Apologies for the inconvenience!

The UB Libraries now subscribes to EBSCO’s PsycTESTS.  Find and bookmark it here:

http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=566

PsycTESTS^® is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.  It is published by the American Psychological Association (APA), and is intended to serve as a repository for the full text of unpublished tests and measures.  APA notes it was created in response to requests for help in finding useful measures.

For detailed information about this resource from the APA folks themselves, visit:

http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psyctests/index.aspx

You can find the Library Skills Workbook at http://library.buffalo.edu/help/instructional/libraryskillsworkbook.html

Please note that there is a Health Sciences version and it also qualifies for your requirement and is fashioned with you in mind!

Have you heard of article-level metrics?  This is an emerging approach to complement existing metrics, such as journal impact factors.  SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has put together an excellent primer that is definitely worth a read.

Find Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer here.

What? A journal club with postings limited to 140 characters?  Concise & succinct…or…. impossible?  You be the judge!

The journal Evidence-Based Nursing (UB access here) offers such a thing with its EBN Twitter Journal Club

Here’s what they say:

“Evidence-Based Nursing is helping nurses use evidence in practice.  Part of this strategy is the EBN Twitter Journal Club.  The club runs like other journal discussion groups, except that the article and questions are posted on this blog and the discussion about the article happens on Twitter!

The Evidence-Based Nursing journal offers several succinct articles on several key research concepts in their Research Made Simple series.

Find there:

• Hypothesis testing and p values: how to interpret results and reach the right conclusions
• What is meta-analysis?
• What is a qualitative synthesis?
• What is a p value and what does it mean?
• Qualitative data analysis
• What is a randomised controlled trial?
• What is a systematic review?

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) National Center for Health Workforce Analysis has just released two reports:

The U.S. Nursing Workforce: Trends in Supply and Education presents data on the supply, distribution, and education/pipeline of the U.S. nursing workforce. Data and information are incorporated from various sources covering both the registered nurse and licensed practical/vocational nurse workforces. For more information and to download the report, see: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/nursingworkforce/index.html.

The Compendium of Federal Data Sources to Support Health Workforce Analysis summarizes 19 federal data sources that can be used to support health workforce analysis. The Compendium is designed to help those interested in the health workforce understand how these sources (many of which were not established specifically to collect health workforce data) could be used for health workforce analysis. The Compendium can be downloaded at: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/compendiumfederaldatasources.pdf.

Tips on Google, Google Scholar, and how to use PubMed & MeSH – a prezi presentation:

http://prezi.com/7xavgefnd2j5/going-beyond-google/

(My thanks to my colleague, Liz)