Happy New Year!

Everyone at the Health Sciences Library sends their wishes for a happy and safe New Year's!

The Global Library of Women's Medicine

http://www.glowm.com/index.html?p=glowm.cml/publishers

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is published by Sapiens Global Library Limited (an associated company of Sapiens Publishing Limited).
The website has been developed from the highly-acclaimed, six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics, that was first published in 1934 and that has been edited for the last 30 years by Professor John J. Sciarra.
An essential feature of this site is that all elements within it can be updated at any time, so that whenever significant new developments take place they should almost immediately be reflected in updates in the text. The site is also designed to be entirely flexible so that new chapters and other contributions can be seamlessly added whenever appropriate.
A second essential feature of the site is that nothing should appear on it unless is has been peer-reviewed. Because the site does not publish original research the Peer Review process undertaken is not as detailed as that undertaken by good research journals. Nevertheless everything that appears on the site, regardless of the expertise of the author, must have been reviewed by at least one other medical specialist. Every effort will be made to try to ensure the continued quality and currency of the materials provided.
Nurses, midwives, other medical professionals and medical students also have the option of free registration – and they will also gain certain specific benefits from doing so.

Happiness: It Really Is Contagious

Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338

The paper on BMJ that has received the widest coverage this week shows that happiness is contagious and can spread from person to person. It is the most read article on our website this week, with 12,327 viewers (see also below). Authors James H Fowler and Nicholas A Christakis followed 4739 participants from 1983 to 2003. By studying social networks, the researchers found that happy people are more likely to be connected to other happy people. They also found that people at the centre of their social network were more likely to be happy than those on the periphery of it.

-Fiona Godlee
Editor, BMJ


NPR Story: Happiness: It Really Is Contagious

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97831171

How the New NIH Public Access Law Affects University of Hawaii Researchers

NIH Public Access Policy
(Effective May 25, 2008 )

Who:All researches who receive National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant monies and who publish the research results in a peer-reviewed journal.

What:Required by law to submit an electronic copy of their accepted publication to PubMed Central (PMC), the NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Importing PMCIDs into EndNote: EndNote has created instructions for importing PubMed Central ID numbers (PMCIDs) into your EndNote library. For more information, visit the EndNote FAQ page.

For more information about the NIH policy:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/nih.html

Library Holiday Hours

The Health Sciences Library will maintain the following Holiday Hour Schedule:

Tuesday, Dec. 16 - the Library will be closed from 11am - 2pm, but will be open regular hours otherwise on that date (8am - 11am, 2pm - 10pm)

December 2008/January 2009
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
21 12-5p	22 8a-5p	23 8a-5p	24 8a-5p	25 closed	26 8a-5p	27 closed
28 closed	29 8a-5p	30 8a-5p	31 8a-5p	1 closed	2 8a-5p	3 closed
4 closed	5 8a-10p	6 8a-10p	7 8a-10p	8 8a-10p	9 8a-5p	10 9a-5p