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RSC Historical Collection
The Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Collection covers nearly 500 years of the development and evolution of the chemical sciences. Books, journals, letters, lecture notes, pamphlets, monographs, plus minutes and publications from learned societies are included. Some highlights of the collection:
- materials on alchemy and early chemistry dating back to the early 16th century
- materials on explosives and firearms dating back to 1598
- materials formerly in the possession of the family of Sir Humphry Davy and containing items from Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton and Justus von Liebig, among others
- backfiles of the journal Education in Chemistry
To access the RSC Historical Collection, go to Historical books and papers or Society publications and minutes.
Mapping Broadband Health in America
Created by the FCC’s Connect2HealthFCC Task Force, this interactive tool allows users to visualize, overlay and analyze broadband and health data at the national, state and county levels. With this, you can create maps showing the intersection between connectivity and health in the United States. You’ll be able to generate customized maps that show broadband access, adoption and speed alongside various health measures such as obesity, diabetes and physician access down to the county level for the US.
Explore questions such as:
* What is the relationship between connectivity and health?
* What is the chronic disease picture in higher vs. lower connectivity areas?
* Where do infrastructure gaps and poor health outcomes coincide?
The broadband data is current as of December 2014 and comes from the Commission’s Form 477 data on residential fixed broadband deployment and residential fixed broadband subscribership. The health data is drawn from the 2015 release of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings & Roadmap (which reflects data from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Dartmouth Atlas Project, American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other primary sources); and additional demographic data is from the U.S. Census Bureau.
You can check this unique resource out on the FCC website.
UCB Library Partners with OpenEdition
OpenEdition is an interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences portal with four complementary platforms: OpenEdition Books (ebooks), Revues.org (scholarly journals), Calenda (academic announcements), and Hypotheses (research blogs). It is a non-profit public initiative that promotes open access (OA) publishing, with the support of French research institutions. Most of the content is in French but also in other European languages, including English.
The institutional subscription to OpenEdition Fremium allows the UC Berkeley community to participate in an acquisitions policy that both supports sustainable development of OA and that respects the needs of teaching, research and learning communities: no DRM or download quotas are applied. As such, thousands of ebooks and journals are discoverable through the portal or through the Library’s catalogs and bibliographic search tools permitting researchers to benefit from a range of digital formats, some optimized specifically for e-readers, tablets, and smart phones (ePub, PDF, etc.)
OpenEdition is an initiative of the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo), a unit that brings together the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Université d’Aix-Marseille, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse.
CINAHL Database
Check out our new database, CINAHL!
CINAHL covers a wide range of topics, such as nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines.
Content includes journal articles, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Healthy Corner Stores: Making Corner Stores Healthier Places to Shop
Interested in enhancing access to healthy foods for residents of low-income neighborhoods? Want to learn what a healthy corner store looks like? Would you like to see some toolkits and program examples? Then you might want to check out this free online guide published by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service’s (FNS) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
In this guide, you will learn how to lay the groundwork for planning and implementing a successful program in your community. You will also find a number of case studies, resources, and best practice recommendations from organizations that have effectively maintained these programs.
New Books!
The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:
1. Biostatistics for epidemiology and public health using R. By Bertram K.C. Chan. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, LLC, 2016.
Call number: R853.S7 C43 2016
See the table of contents, a description, and a sample chapter at the publisher’s website.
2. Geographies of health and development. Edited by Isaac Luginaah and Rachel Bezner Kerr. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
Call number: RA441 G46 2015
Read a title overview and see the table of contents here.
3. Dyad leadership in healthcare: when one plus one is greater than two. By Kathleen D. Sanford and Stephen L. Moore. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2015.
Call number: RA971 .S26 2015
View a description and a short excerpt at amazon.com.
and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press which require a free registration to download a pdf of the title:
4. The Promises and Perils of Digital Strategies in Achieving Health Equity: Workshop Summary. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.
5. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders.The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.
6. Principles and Obstacles for Sharing Data from Environmental Health Research: Workshop Summary. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016.
Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).
If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.
New Resource: Corrosion Database
Springer Materials recently announced the launch of their new Corrosion Database. The Corrosion Database lives in Springer Materials and was compiled from various data and literature from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The database contains over 24,000 uniques records of corrosion rates/ratings and can be searched by material, environment, or both. Results are given by corrosion rating in order to find the most (or least resistant) for any given application. For example, the database provides data on how seawater corrodes 164 different types of steel and the rate of corrosion.
Users can also download citations from the database in .bib, .EndNote, or .ris file formats.
Visit the SpringerMaterials database to begin using the new Corrosion Database.
Data Visualization Workshop: Thursday, July 7th, 12:00 pm
A well-designed figure can have a huge impact on the communication of research results. This workshop will introduce key principles and resources for visualizing data:
- Choosing when to use a visualization
- Selecting the best visualization type for your data
- Choosing design elements that increase clarity and impact
- Avoiding visualization issues that obscure or distort data
- Finding tools for generating visualizations
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 12:00 – 1:00
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB (inside the library)
Add this workshop to your bCal
Presenters:
- Anna Sackmann, Science Data and Engineering Librarian
- Becky Miller, Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources Librarian
- Elliott Smith, Emerging Technologies Librarian
Open to all; no registration is required. Please forward to interested colleagues.
Questions? Please contact esmith@berkeley.edu
Who’s Afraid of the Nanny State? Freedom, Regulation, and Public Health
The journal Public Health recently published a set of articles on the so-called Nanny State that came out of a mini-symposium. Makes for interesting reading!
Here’s a list of the articles, they are all in Public Health, Volume 129, Issue 8 (August 2015):
- Who’s afraid of the nanny state? Introduction to a symposium
- Relational conceptions of paternalism: a way to rebut nanny-state accusations and evaluate public health interventions
- Which nanny ? the state or industry? Wowsers, teetotallers and the fun police in public health advocacy
- Informed choice and the nanny state: learning from the tobacco industry
- Public health and the value of disobedience
- Freedom and the state: nanny or nightwatchman?
- Food reformulation and the (neo)-liberal state: new strategies for strengthening voluntary salt reduction programs in the UK and USA
- Case studies in nanny state name-calling: what can we learn?
- Of nannies and nudges: the current state of U.S. obesity policymaking
- A balanced intervention ladder: promoting autonomy through public health action
Health Literacy Data Map
The Health Literacy Data Map is a new tool from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Using census data, the website provides an online, searchable map of health literacy estimates for the entire United States. It’s an estimate of an area’s health literacy at a census block group level, based on data from the U.S. Census and 5-year American Community Surveys (ACS) summary files.
By mapping estimated health literacy levels, you can identify communities that might be at risk and then target interventions there.
To use the map, go to the site, choose a state on the interactive map, and zoom in all the way to a specific area. Health literacy levels are color-coded, with high shown as green, low as red. You can compare specific areas within a state and nationally. When you’re done, you can download the data you need for your research.
The Health Literacy Data Map was created and hosted by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is funded by the National Institutes on Aging.
See an interview from Health Lit Live of developers Stacy Bailey and Gang Fang from the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for a short-and amusing-description of this interesting resource.