The Scholarly Communications and Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has selected Mary Schlembach to serve as one of its four U.S. Representatives to the Governing Council. Schlembach is the Chemistry and Physical Sciences Librarian at the Chemistry Library.
Continue readingPeg Burnette to Serve as Project Coordinator for CARLI Illinois SCOER Grant Award
Peg Burnette, Associate Professor and Biomedicine Librarian, will serve as Project Manager for a grant awarded by CARLI Illinois Support for Creation of Open Education Resources (SCOER) initiative to a group of educators from the University Library, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and Knox College in Galesburg. This team of educators will create an open education resource (OER) with a primary focus on women’s reproductive health.
Continue readingJJ Pionke Named President-Elect of Midwest Medical Library Association
JJ Pionke, Applied Health Sciences Librarian for the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) and Assistant Professor, has been named President-Elect of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Pionke was elected by members of the association and will take his position at the end of the October 2022 Annual Business Meeting.
Continue readingBruce R. Schatz Publishes New Study in PLOS Digital Health
Professor Bruce R. Schatz has been published in the PLOS Digital Health, a new open access journal emphasizing health equity and unbiased healthcare. This article, “Population Analysis of Mortality Risk: Predictive Models from Passive Monitors Using Motion Sensors for 100,000 UK Biobank Participants,” is a culmination of four years of medical informatics research by Schatz and his colleagues.
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