Bio-Med Reference

Science Direct Email Access for Non-Affiliates

Hi all,

Here's an email that came into InfoPoint recently. As you'll read, this patron was frustrated with using Science Direct to email articles to their account. The client is a non-affiliate.

Just something to keep in mind for our non-affiliated users:

The response from InfoPoint"

I'm sorry that you were frustrated in your use of Science Direct. As a non-affiliated user, you would not be able to register at Science Direct and email articles directly from there. When non-affiliated patrons want to email a PDF document to themselves we recommend that they save the PDF document on the desktop of the computer, then open up their email, attach the PDF document and email the PDF that way.

I would suggest that you visit any of the U of MN Libraries again to use Science Direct. Please ask any of the Library Staff for assistance. We will be glad to assist you in using this and other resources.

> Comments:
> --------
> Dear library personnel,
>
> Hello. Just wanted to let you know I am very disappointed in your Science Direct service for online access to journal articles. I am a community member who went to bio med library to look up some journal articles. I accessed them on public access terminals and the web interface led me to believe I could email myself full text as it appeared on screen.
> Well, it emailed only citations. Then Science Direct then took me through long registration process that told me I had succesfully registered but it failed to recognize username and password. So I registered again and, predictably, it failed to recognize another username it had just given me. Huh?
>
> I have now wasted several hours thanks to this service. Science Direct even makes it hard to figure out how to give them feedback.

24/7 Chat Service - AskMN's soft rollout

Hi all, This is just an FYI to let you know about the soft launch of a 24/7 chat service the UL has recently rolled out, called AskMN, in cooperation with Minitex and others. It does not impact users who normally link to chat from HSL web pages at the present, though we may want to reconsider that in the future.

During regular chat hours, InfoPoint chat staff continues to respond as usual to chat questions. However, outside of regular chat hours, instead of shutting down, the chat services rolls over to AskMN. AskMN is being funded by Minitex through the end of June; the UL is piloting its use before deciding how to proceed with its various chat and email services.

A recent article was published in the MN Daily about AskMN provides more information about the service. You can also link directly to the AskMN website here: http://www.askmn.org/about.

Questions about AskMN can be directed to Cody Hanson and Virginia Bach.

Thanks,
Emily

Hospital Compare

Hello,

I've added Hospital Compare to the Reference Quicklinks page on the Bio-Med Web site. Thought it might come in handy when people are seeking quality information about hospitals. Here is some information from their About page:

"Hospital Quality Overview

The Hospital Compare website was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), along with the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA). The HQA is a public-private collaboration established to promote reporting on hospital quality of care. The HQA consists of organizations that represent consumers, hospitals, doctors and nurses, employers, accrediting organizations, and Federal agencies. The information on this website can be used by any adult needing hospital care.

Hospital Compare displays rates for Process of Care measures that show how often hospitals provide some of the care that is recommended for patients being treated for a heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, or patients having surgery. Hospitals voluntarily submit data from their medical records about the treatments their adult patients receive for these conditions, including patients with Medicare and those who do not have Medicare.

This website also displays information on 30-day Risk Adjusted Death (Mortality) Rates for patients with Medicare who were admitted to the hospital for heart attack and heart failure. The 30-day period is used because this is the time period when deaths are most likely to be related to the care patients received in the hospital. The CMS compiles this information from claims and enrollment data for patients in Original (fee-for-service) Medicare. Unlike the rates for the Process of Care measures, which reflect care for people in Medicare Advantage plans or people who do not have Medicare, the mortality rates show information only for patients in Original Medicare. It does not include people in Medicare Advantage plans or people who do not have Medicare.

Neither process of care information nor information on death (mortality) rates are available on this website for children’s, psychiatric, rehabilitation, or long-term care hospitals.

This information helps you, your health care provider, family, and friends compare the quality of care provided in the hospitals that agree to submit data on the quality of certain services they provide for certain conditions. This quality information not only helps you make good decisions about your health care, but also encourages hospitals to improve the quality of health care they provide.

Quality information is not available on this website for children's, psychiatric, rehabilitation or long-term care hospitals because they generally do not treat adult patients for heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, or perform surgeries on adults."

Cheers,
Martha

What to do when Wufoo is down regarding Reference Desk Transactions

Greetings-

The Wufoo Web site was down this morning for about 30 minutes. It now seems to be up again, but, just in case, I have printed off manual forms you can use to record your Reference Desk Transactions. They are on a clipboard which I have put on a shelf underneath the Ref-A workstation.

Cheers,
Martha

New MedlinePlus Features

On 3/28, MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) introduced some new features on the Health Topics pages, including:

--Each page now displays a photograph or illustration.
--A brief summary of each disease or condition also displays at the top of the page. Composed by experienced medical writers and reviewed by NLM staff, the summaries are based largely on NIH and other government information. They are written at an easy-to-read level and include links to related topics. As of March 28th, summaries appear on about half of English pages. All English and Spanish Health Topic pages will include a summary in the near future.
--Synonyms appear right under the health topic name.
--A new category, labeled Start Here, links users to overviews and important information for first-time visitors.
--A centrally-located Table of Contents divides the MedlinePlus categories into six boxes to show users everything on the page at a glance.

A guided tour is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/faq/healthtopicredesign.html .

Enjoy! These look like some good changes.

Karla

New Handout: Ebooks and Other Electronic Texts in the Health Sciences

Greetings,

In response to a request for information about how to access ebooks, I have created a handout regarding Ebooks and Other Electronic Texts in the Health Sciences. It is posted on the Bio-Med Web site under Research Quick Tips here or you can download it: Download file. I have included a broad range of sources for ebooks and electronic texts, including U of M licensed resources, government documents, sources for ebooks freely available on the Web, and fee-based sources for ebooks.

I welcome your comments and suggestions. As new materials become available, such as the forthcoming package of ebooks from Rittenhouse, I will revise this document.

Regards,
Martha

Meeting Abstracts (How to Find)

Hi all,

I've created a new guide that can help people identify meeting abstract citations. It's located here

.The guide has a link to a association listing I maintain for health sciences meetings and how to locate either the print and/or electronic abstracts. I'm always on the lookout for additions to this page so if you end up helping someone at the desk with this kind of thing and notice that this organization isn't listed on the page, just send the info to me and I can add it to the list.

Let me know if you have any questions about this guide

Lisa

Reference and Instruction Handouts

I am now responsible for refilling the racks of handouts on the 2nd floor and the 4th floor. So, if you revise one of the handouts, please let me know so that I can make sure we are giving out the most current versions. Also, if you have opinions about which handouts we should give away in these racks, please let me know.

Here is a list of the current handouts on the 2nd & 4th floors: Download file

Martha

Reference questions about U of M salary information

Some questions about giving U of M salary information came up recently on the Chat Reference list, so I thought this would be a good time to remind Bio-Med reference staff about current and historical salary information.

Salary information is available on the UM Reports website for use by University faculty and staff. To use it:

1. Go to http://www.umreports.umn.edu
2. Click on User Login. You will be prompted for your University Internet ID (referred to there as your X.500 ID) and password.
3. You will need to read and agree to the University's privacy policies.
4. Click on the Search Reports tab.
5. Set the Filter By Category box to HR & Payroll and the SubCategory to HR Reports.
6. Find Personnel Basic Information in the alphabetical results list, and click on it.
7. Click on Select an Area.
8. Select the department or area in which you are interested, and follow the prompts.

In addition to finding salaries for specific individuals, you can also obtain "job code salary averages." This function can answer questions like "What is the average salary for assistant professors in Epidemiology at the U of M?"

1. Log on to UMReports: http://www.umreports.umn.edu
2. Click on Search Reports (upper left corner)
3. Type in "Job" and click Search
4. Scroll down and click on "Job Code Average Salary"
5. You can then search by Job Code (i.e. job category), or by College.
It gives you a listing of all of the members in that classification and an average at the bottom of the page.

Historical Information

As of 2005, salary and other budget data is available only online; printed budget volumes are no longer being produced.

PRINTED VOLUMES
Older printed volumes (1911 through 2004) are available for consultation in University Archives:

University Archives
Map & Directions: http://andersen.lib.umn.edu/andersenvisitors.html
Hours: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/hours_fetch.phtml?LibID=32

As of mid-2006, both Wilson Reserve and Magrath Reserve have also retained the last annual printed salary volume:

Wilson Library Reserve (Basement) (salaries 2003/2004)
Map & Directions: http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/wilsdir.html
Hours: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/hours_fetch.phtml?LibID=35

Magrath Library Reserve (salaries 2003/2004)
Map & Directions: http://www1.umn.edu/tc/maps/CentLib/
Hours: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/hours_fetch.phtml?LibID=23

The report is called University of Minnesota Total Salary Report, and the Call Number is Quarto LB2334.3 .M56 U55x.

Patrons may use the Budgets during regular business hours. Photocopying is available at the current rate.

Some guidelines for giving this information to non-affiliated patrons:

It's okay to give salary information to unaffiliated patrons. InfoPoint will do three specific, short-answer lookups per person per day, so that sounds like a good guideline to keep in mind for Biomed.

If summary or trend data is needed, unaffiliated patrons should contact the Office of Institutional Research to arrange for assistance: (612) 624-4851.

The homepage for OIR is at:
http://www.irr.umn.edu/

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Liz

New RefWorks account for Bio-Med Reference

Greetings,

I have created a new RefWorks account we can use to share information regarding topics pertinent to reference services.

Log-in name: biomref
Password: diehl

Thus far, I have created a folder for information related to IM Reference and have populated it with citations to articles and Web sites I hope you will find useful as we move towards implementing our incipient IM reference service.

Martha

NIH Videocasting: National Institutes of Health

Hello All,

As I was checking out the following (see below) I can across the listing of video cast out of the NIH on a wide variety of topics. Take a look when you get a chance, you may want to link to come on your courselib, pagescribe pages or in other resources.

http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp

This year’s lecture is particularly poignant due to the death of Joseph Leiter on May 27, 2005. He was a major contributor in cancer research at the National Cancer Institute and then a leader at NLM as a champion of medical librarians and an informatics pioneer. Through this annual lecturership named in recognition of his excellence, his memory and spirit will remain alive.

2006 Joseph Leiter Lecture - May 10, 2006 - 1:30 ­ 3:00 pm

Lister Hill Auditorium/ Building 38A - National Library of Medicine/NIH - Bethesda, MD

Essential Science Indicators in Task Force report

The Task Force on Research Infrastructure recently released its preliminary report (http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/strategic_positioning/tf_prelim_reports_0603/res_infra_prelim.pdf). Wendy Lougee is a member of this task force, and I think it is worth noting that the Libraries' collections are mentioned several times in this report as a priority service and resource for the University.

I also wanted to alert you that the task force made use in the report of Institutional-level citation metrics from the Thomson-ISI Essential Science Indicators (ESI) product, which the Libraries recently licensed. Especially since this is a fairly new library resource, you may receive questions about ESI from faculty or others who read the report.

The task force needed a method to assess the relative strength of research in various subject areas at the University. The method using ESI to achieve this is described in some detail in the Task Force report (Appendix A, p 21-3), and so I refer you to that document for details. For sake of clarity, though, I'll mention that the percentage rankings shown in the Task Force report were calculated including only ranked universities, not other types of institutions such as corporations and government agencies which show in ESI rankings. That is, we (Marc Jenkins, the task force co-Chair, and I) hand-selected the universities from the institutional rankings shown in ESI, and retabulated the rankings for this subset of institutions. Hence, reproducing these rankings would not be a straightforward task for someone trying to answer a question at a reference desk.

Any attempt at ranking subject areas or departments is inherently controversial, and while we've taken considerable effort to handle the ESI data in a fair manner, some questions/concern about this can be expected from interested faculty members. If a faculty member approaches you concerning the use of the ESI data in the Task Force report, please feel free to refer them to Wendy or myself (messn006@umn.edu).

H-index: a new way of ranking the worth of individual scientists

Hello all - Liz here. I know some of you have already heard about this, but a physicist at UCSD recently developed a new method of measuring the comparative "worth" of a scientist using Web of Science. It's kind of like a JCR impact factor, except it's for a scholar instead of a journal.

To search for a scholar’s h-index, go to the Web of Science and enter the name in the “General Search�
category. Clicking on “Search� brings up a list of papers over the entire lifetime by that author. To reorder the list from the most highly cited papers to least cited, click on “Sort by Times Cited� in the right hand column.

The h-index is obtained by moving down this list until the number of the paper exceeds the number of citations from that paper. For example, a scholar will have an h value of 75 whose 76 th paper on the list has been cited 75 or fewer times, but whose 75th paper has been cited 75 or more times. It's a bit confusing to read about, but give it a try in Web of Science and it's a lot more clear.

This is a new measure, so who knows what will come of it - but at least now you've heard of it if anyone asks.

Here is the citation to the paper: Hirsch, J. E. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research
output. PNAS 46:16569, Nov. 7, 2005. Link to it here (new window).

If you're interested, here's the press release from UCSD:

(From http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/MCH.asp - retrieved 12/2/05)

November 7, 2005

UCSD Physicist Proposes New Way to Rank Scientists' Output

By Kim McDonald

Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which
academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But is
the best measure of a scientist’s worth the total number of his or her
published papers? Or the average quality of those papers, based on the
number of times they are cited or the reputation of the journals in
which they are published?

According to a physicist at the University of California, San Diego,
neither of these methods—often used in academe or federal agencies to
judge scientific publication records for hiring, promotion or grant
awards—gives consistent and satisfactory comparisons. So Jorge E.
Hirsch, a physics professor at UCSD, devised an alternative that
appears to be a simpler and more reliable way to rank scientific
output within a discipline than any now in use.

In a paper published in the November 15 issue of the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, which appears this week in the
journal’s early online edition, Hirsch explains that his “h-index� can
give a reliable “estimate of the importance, significance and broad
impact of a scientist’s cumulative research contributions.� What’s
more, for each scientist, his method provides a single number, which
takes only 30 seconds to compute, that can be used to compare a
scientist’s relative rank within a discipline.

“For a person to have a high h-index is not an accident,� Hirsch says,
after testing his method on scientists in a variety of disciplines and
circulating his formula on physics bulletin boards for other scholars
to test. “I myself was surprised to see how consistent an estimate you
get with this method. It does seem to say something about a person’s
overall academic achievement.�

The h-index is derived from the number of times a scientist’s
publications are cited in other papers, but is calculated in a way to
avoid some of the problems associated with counting large numbers of
marginal papers or high-profile coauthors.

For example, Hirsch says that while the total number of publications
gives some indication of a scientist’s productivity, it says little
about the quality of those publications. And while the total number of
times a scientist’s papers are cited in other publications says
something about their quality, he says those measurements can be
suspect if a scientist has high-performing coauthors, few publications
or a lifetime of mediocre work skewed by one or two highly cited
papers . Citation counts may also be skewed if a scientist publishes
scientific review articles, which are not reports of original
research, but summaries of other scientists’ work frequently
referenced in subsequent journal articles.

Hirsch was motivated to develop the h-index because of his own
problems publishing controversial papers on superconductivity in
journals considered high-impact. Although these papers ended up in
journals categorized as low-impact, they garnered many citations,
evidence of their importance to the field.

His new method relies on the use of the Thomson ISI Web of Science
database at http://isiknowledge.com To search for a scholar’s h-index,
go to the Web of Science and enter the name in the “General Search�
category. Clicking on “Search� brings up a list of papers over the
entire lifetime by that author. To reorder the list from the most
highly cited papers to least cited, click on “Sort by Times Cited� in
the right hand column.

The h-index is obtained by moving down this list until the number of
the paper—essentially the scholar’s h name—exceeds the number of
citations from that paper. For example, a scholar will have an h value
of 75 whose 76 th paper on the list has been cited 75 or fewer times,
but whose 75 th paper has been cited 75 or more times. Put another
way, this scholar has published 75 papers with at least 75 citations
each.

Hirsch devotes a section in his paper to demonstrate mathematically
why this method for “h�—which stands for “high citations�—seems to
work. But the real proof of the pudding came when he applied the h-
index to the scientific luminaries within various disciplines and
found that they ended up where expected.

Edward Witten, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton, N.J., who developed an extension of string theory
and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant physicists ever,
has the highest h-index in physics, 110. By contrast, Nobel laureate
Philip Anderson of Princeton University has an h-index of 91, while
Nobel laureates Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas has an h-
index of 88, Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (68) and David Gross of UC Santa Barbara (66).

Hirsch, whose own h-index is 49, notes that comparisons of h-index
among scientists in different disciplines don’t work as well. High-
impact biologists tend to have generally higher h-index values, he
says, possibly because of their greater research resources, while
social scientists tend to have lower h-index values, presumably
because their other non-journal publications, such as books, are not
factored into this calculation.

Nevertheless, Hirsch is able to make some generalizations. After 20-
year career in science, he says in his paper, an h-index of 20 should
generally indicate a “successful scientist,� while an h-index of
40 “characterizes outstanding scientists, likely to be found only at
the top universities or major research laboratories.� An h-index of 60
after 20 years or 90 after a 30-year scientific career, meanwhile, he
says, “characterizes truly unique individuals.�

Hirsch says he is concerned that his h-index, while useful to compare
publication records, not be misused.

“It should only be used as one measure, not as the primary basis for
evaluating people for awards or promotion,� he adds. “You surely
wouldn’t want to say that in order to get tenure or to get into the
National Academy of Sciences you need to have an h-index of such and
such.�

Nonetheless, Hirsch’s h-index has generated intense interest among
scientists who have found out about it and used it.

“The reaction I’ve gotten has been very favorable,� he
says. “Scientists want to know how they compare to their colleagues.
The h-index really says something about that person and their work.�

Comment: Jorge Hirsch (858) 534-3931

Media Contact: Kim McDonald (858) 534-7572

Mayo Medical Laboratories 2006 Test Catalog

We received the Mayo Medical Laboratories (MML) 2006 Test Catalog, which is shelved near the encyclopedias and other catalogs, and is not in MNCAT. According to MML's website, it is a complete test catalog published annually that includes important information required for accurate test ordering. Pertinent special instructions are defined in addition to specimen requirements, reference values, day(s) test setup, methodology, CPT code, and other key information.

This catalog is also available online: http://216.245.161.151/malite.aspx.

For more information, go to the Mayo Reference Services website: http://www.mayoreferenceservices.org/. MML's website links off of this page.

Deb

Medical coding and finding healthcare costs

In case anyone is interested, here’s a synopsis of my shpiel on medical coding and finding healthcare costs from last week's reference meeting. This can also serve as a cheat sheet if you get a code question at the desk. Feel free to correct or update anything I got wrong/missed/mangled!

Liz

Coding Systems

ICD-9-CM – International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification.
Reference WB15 I57 2001
• Codes for diagnoses and procedures
• Mainly used to keep data about activity in hospitals
• Developed and maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
• Format:
nnn.nn (Diagnosis codes) – example: 039.48
nn.nn (Procedure codes) – example: 39.48

CPT-4 – Current Procedural Terminology, 4th ed
Reference W39 C976 2005
• Codes for procedures
• Used for reimbursement from public and private health plans
• Developed and maintained by the American Medical Association (AMA)
• Also known as HCPCS Level I
• Format: nnnnn – example: 57894

HCPCS Level II – Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
Reference WT39 M489
• Codes for services and supplies not covered by CPT codes
• Examples: ambulance services, durable medical goods, orthotics, etc.
• Used for reimbursement from public and private health plans
• Developed and maintained by the CMS
• Alphanumeric format: xnnnn – example: L5020

DRG – Diagnosis Related Groups
Reference WB15 D778 1998
• Codes for diagnoses, based on ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes – 511 different groups
• Used for reimbursement:
a. Idea that clinically similar patients (demographic, diagnostic, therapeutic attributes) would consume hospital resources in a similar fashion
b. Hospitals reimbursed a flat rate based on DRG – what hospitalization is expected to cost – also known as Prospective Payment System (PPS)
• Maintained by the CMS
• Format: nnn – example: 127

Resources to find cost data

Most of the cost data you’ll find is related to a procedure (linked to a CPT code.) The CMS has a fee schedule of what they will reimburse for a procedure, and they have assigned each procedure a number of Relative Value Units (RVU) to reflect the difficulty of a procedure as related to other procedures. Other variables are factored in, such as the geographic area (procedures are generally more expensive in certain parts of the country.)

• Medical fees in the United States: nationwide charges for medicine, surgery, laboratory, radiology and allied health services
Reference W80 M489 2005
o Lists current RVUs and Medicare reimbursement amounts.
o Includes privately-collected data on what physicians are actually charging (50th, 75th, 90th percentile)
o Arranged by CPT code

• Physician’s Fee and Coding Guide
Reference W80 AA1 P5 2005
o Lists current RVUs and Medicare reimbursement amounts.
o Arranged by CPT code

• The DRG handbook: comparative clinical and financial benchmarks
Reference WX16 D778
o Detailed financial and statistical information about the top Diagnosis Related Groups
o Arranged by DRG number

(Biomed reference quick links -> Government Resources ->)
• Physician Fee Schedule
o Most current, but divided into about 10 PDFs so it’s difficult to search
• Medicare Outpatient Payment
o Outpatient procedures only, a bit out of date (data for 2004), but in one PDF so easier to search

Information about more abstract costs (i.e.: What does a smoker cost a health plan?) is best found in Medline. Use the economics subheading (/ec) with the condition and the “Cost and Cost Analysis” MeSH.

Permissions

Hey all,

Just an FYI. If we get calls/requests from anyone who is not a University of Minnesota students/staff/faculty about permission to use any of our handouts in classes, coursepaks, etc., Charles Spetland is the one who is handling these requests. Just forward to him all the contact information and what is being requested and he has a "form" letter that he generates and sends out. For the most part, the U Libraries is very generous about letting others use our materials, this just formalizes the process and makes sure that there is no questions about use permission. If you would like to see a copy of the letter, just let me know.
Katherine

Public Health Services Research (HSR) Queries

At the Reference Meeting today, I mentioned the filters for healthcare quality and costs. They are found on the NICHSR (National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology - whew!) website.

The website "provides specialized PubMed searches on healthcare quality and costs." "Results of searches on this page are limited to specific health services research areas (see definitions). " The "definitions" are hyperlinked and explain what is meant by that particular term.

The Categories are: Appropriateness / Process Assessment / Outcomes Assessment / Costs / Economics / Qualitative Research

Scope includes: Broad, sensitive search & Narrow, specific search.

The URL for the page is: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html

Katherine

Patents web site

News of a patents web site that uses .pdf format, unlike the USPTO web site. I've not tried this yet, but of likely interest:

For those of you who search patents for your patrons, there is a new Patents web site that has free PDF downloading of patents. The US Patent Office has its web-site but there you have to page through TIFFs, whereas the PDF downloading from this web site is much faster and clearer.
The web site is at http://www.freepatentsonline.com

Try it out for yourself on the patent for corean.
After you have retrieved and opened up the full text page of the patent, click on View Patent Images below the article title.
This will bring up a page with a blank window.
Click on the link that says View as PDF above the blank window.
Then Save the PDF file for downloading.

Analytical Profiles of Drug Substances

The set of books titled Analytical Profiles of Drug Substances (29 blue volumes) has been moved from the Reference Index shelf near the bathrooms, and is now shelved with the Reference books under the call number QV740 AA1 A55. Its title changed recently, and is now called Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology. As the name implies, it's an important source of methods for identifying drugs and excipients using various laboratory techniques.

This title never really fit with the other indexes, and so should be happier (and more easily found by patrons) in its new home.

Any questions, please ask me or Del. Thanks, Kathy

International AIDS Conferences

A new webpage (http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/ref/iaidsc.html) has been created that lists all the International AIDS Conferences, and where abstracts presented at them can be found. This webpage is linked from both the Reference Quick Links page (aka the Reference Desk homepage) in the "Meetings and Events" section, and on the Meeting Abstracts page which is available via Health & Medicine in the News. This latter page (http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hmed/list.html) is an alphabetic list of professional organizations and meetings, and where abstracts from those groups may be found.

Any questions, please ask Kathy or Lisa.