The Research Advocate blog (News from UCB's Research Administration and Compliance Office) has a recent posting about keeping current with NIH news related to grants policy, funding programs, compliance, and electronic research administration.

• The NIH Guide, published weekly, is the official publication for research grant policies, guidelines, and funding opportunities. Readers may subscribe to a weekly email listserv of the Table of Contents or an RSS feed of NIH Funding Opportunities.
• The NIH Extramural Nexus is a monthly newsletter update from OER.
• The OER web page has a News & Events section.
• NIH offers a listserv for updates on electronic submission and eRA Commons News.

More details may be found at the original posting.

Here's a sample of WHAT'S NEW to the Public Health Libray web site...A complete listing of newly added resources is at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/whatsnew.html

Latin American Knowledge Harvester: This database indexes abstracts of articles, books, and book chapters about or from Latin America that deal with social medicine in Latin America. The materials indexed here look at the social, economic, and cultural determinants of health, and the organized responses to confront the problems. These citations and abstracts are generally available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

from our International Health web page

Data Online for Population, Health and Nutrition (DOLPHN): DOLPHN pulls together statistics on the health indicators of nations from various sources. This database includes country reports for over 60 countries. The database was created to help USAID health staff and AIM Project data analysts to meet indicator-reporting needs.

from our International Health, Statistics/Data Resources and Population Resources web pages

Nutrition from the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce: A collaboration of US government agencies, public health organizations and health science libraries provide this listing of nutrition resources. This directory includes links to associations and organizations, data and statistics, grants and funding and much more.

from our Food/Nutrition Resources web page

Does the NIH Public Access Policy apply to the article you are getting published? The Sheldon Margen Public Health Library has recently created an easy-to-use guide where you can find out:

• Does the NIH Public Access Policy Apply to Your Article?
• How Do You Comply?
• What is the Purpose of the NIH Public Access Policy?
• Where Can You Get Help or More Information?

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact one of the librarians in the Public Health Library.

Do you need access to statistical software? Are you trying to locate political, demographic, economic, or financial data? If so, you may want to schedule a visit the new Library Data Lab. Located in room 189 Doe Library (on the first floor, between the south entrance and the Circulation Desk; pdf map), the Data Lab provides access to a growing collection of electronic data and tools including Thomson DataStream and Current Population Surveys Utilities, and offers analytical software such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. A limited number of laptops are available for checkout for in-lab use.  The lab is open to all UC Berkeley students, faculty,  and staff.  For more information, visit the Data Lab website or email. For regular updates, ask to be added to our mailing list by sending a message to datalabnews@lists.berkeley.edu.

EndNote X2: October 14, 1-2:30 pm, 350C Moffitt Library

No need to register; however, you will need your UCB ID to enter Moffitt Library.

EndNote is a program you can use to store citations and other items you find during your research. It integrates with Microsoft Word to automatically format citations and bibliographies according to the style you have selected.

We will cover how to:
1. Set up an EndNote library and configure displays
2. Add citations manually and from databases (e.g. PubMed)
3. Find full text automatically from your EndNote library
4. Use EndNote with Word
5. And more!

EndNote is available for purchase at The Scholar's Workstation for only $69.99.  You do not need to have purchased EndNote to take this class, and users of previous version of EndNote are welcome to attend.