HISTORY OF MEDICINE ASSOCIATES’ DINNER:
“Polio: Plague of the 1950’s: From Disaster to Triumph”

Dr. Richard D. Dix is the speaker for the annual History of Medicine Associates dinner meeting September 18, 2003 in the UA System Offices Board Room.

Dr. Dix is Professor, Department of Ophthalmology; Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and Director of the Pat and Willard Walker Eye Research Center at UAMS. He graduated with a PhD degree in Virology and Epidemiology from Baylor College of Medicine in 1978. Postgraduate work included two fellowships, one in Neurovirology at the University of California, San Francisco, and the second in AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital. Before arriving at UAMS in 1999, Dr. Dix was Professor, Department of Ophthalmology with a joint appointment in Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami School of Medicine and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute where he established research in ocular virology.

Chronicling the history of polio, Dr Dix’s presentation for the Associates dinner meeting is entitled “Polio: Plague of the 1950s: From Disaster to Triumph”.

Reservations can be made by contacting Margaret Johnson at 686 6733 or majohnson1@uams.edu. Reservations are $25 for members and guests. Non-members pay $40, which includes a one-year membership in the Associates. Guests of non-members pay $25. Reservations should be received no later than September 12^th.

Margaret Johnson,
Head, Historical Research Center

PROMOTION & TENURE CITATION SEARCHES

UAMS faculty members who need citation searches to support promotion and tenure activities need to get their requests in as quickly as possible so the Library can be sure to get all searches done when needed. Request a citation search using the form at http://www.library.uams.edu/services/forms/eforms/cars.asp.

The basic citation search is free. This basic citation search will give the number of times each article has been cited, but not a list of the actual citing articles. If the citations for the actual citing articles are needed, the cost is passed to the patron. This cost is $4.75 per citation.

Nursing faculty might also want to do a cited reference search in the CINAHL database. In 1994, the Cited Reference field was added to selected publications indexed in this database.

Remember that the Library now provides access to the Journal Citation Report which among other things provides journal impact factors. This is available at the Library's Home Page (http://www.library.uams.edu) under Electronic Reference Sources.

For more information please call the Reference Desk at 501-686-6734 or email to libraryinformationdesk@uams.edu.

Sally Kasalko
Reference Librarian