Estágios de Formação Médica

A Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian anuncia a abertura de um concurso para financiamento de Estágios de Formação Médica, para apoio à realização de estágios internacionais de jovens médicos do internato da especialidade, em instituições de saúde dos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa.

O concurso vai decorrer até 16 de Novembro (inclusivé).

Informações através do email saude@gulbenkian.pt

BRITISH LIBRARY - Document Supply

Dear Document Supply customer,

As a non-commercial organisation registered to use the British Library, you are currently accessing the collection through our Library Privilege Service. Under this service, exclusively available to certain non-commercial organisations, we supply you with single copies of documents for non-commercial use or private study. Items supplied through this service do not attract a publication specific copyright fee.
In January 2010, we will be updating our terms and conditions covering the Library Privilege Service and therefore, we wanted, in advance, to outline your responsibilities if using this service after this date.
Who qualifies for the Library Privilege Service?
The service is NOT available to individuals; USA based organisations or any commercial organisation based inside or outside the UK
The copyright fee exemptions offered through this service are only applicable when the document is to be used for a non-commercial research purpose or for private study.
Your obligations when using the Library Privilege Service:
The user must sign an English language declaration form , stating that the document is to be used for a non-commercial research purpose or for private study
The ordering library must collect and keep the signed declaration forms for 6 years, which we will audit as required
If a copy is required for a commercial purpose or the user cannot comply with the copyright restrictions then a licensed copy must be made, and a copyright fee is then payable.
We will also update our terms and conditions to allow us to contact you from time to time to ensure that you understand your obligations and are collecting declaration forms in the correct way. If you can provide the contact details of an English speaking representative at your organisation responsible for this area and who ensures service obligations are met to mailto:Customer-Services-Accounts@bl.ukby 30 November 2009, we will ensure that they are fully informed of any future developments. If you have any questions about this or any other British Library service, please contact us on +44 (0) 1937 546060.
Thank you for your co-operation and continued support of the British Library.
Yours sincerely

Sue Allison

Customer Services Manager The British Library

Estarão os bibliotecários completamente obsoletos?

Propomos-lhe aqui uma estimulante reflexão sobre o papel das bilbiotecas no presente e no futuro.

33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important
by: Will Sherman


Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries. Technology's baffling prowess and progress even has one librarian predicting the institution's demise.



He could be right.


But if he is, then the loss will be irreplaceable. As libraries' relevance comes into question, they face an existential crisis at a time they are perhaps needed the most. Despite their perceived obsoleteness in the digital age both libraries – and librarians – are irreplaceable for many reasons. 33, in fact. We've listed them here:


1. Not everything is available on the internet
The amazing amount of useful information on the web has, for some, engendered the false assumption everything can be found online. It's simply not true.
Google Book Search recognizes this. That's why they're taking on the monolith task of digitizing millions of books from the World's largest libraries. But even if Google does successfully digitize the sum of human knowledge, it is unlikely that the sum of contemporary authors and publishers will not allow their works to be freely accessible over the internet. It is already prohibited by law to make copyrighted books fully accessible through Google Book Search; only snippets. And it'll be a long time before that must-read New York Times bestseller gets put up for free on the internet: current copyright law protects works for 70 years beyond the death of the author.
Even some public domain works are off limits. If an out-of-copyright copy includes prefaces, introductions, or appendices that are still in copyright, the whole work falls under copyrighted status.


2. Digital libraries are not the internet
A fundamental understanding of what the internet is – and what it isn't – can help more clearly define what a library is, and why libraries are still extremely important.
The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks clearly spells out the difference between "Online Collections" and the "Internet or Web Sources". The internet, this site explains, is a mass of largely unpublished materials produced by organizations, businesses, individuals, experimental projects, entrepreneurial webmasters, etc.
"Online Collections", however, are different. They are typically provided by libraries and include materials that have been published via rigorous editorial processes. Works selected for inclusion in a library catalogue undergo vetting from qualified staff. Types of materials include books, journals, documents, newspapers, magazines and reports which are digitized, stored and indexed through a limited-access database.
While one might use the internet or a search engine to find these databases, deeper access to them requires registration. You are still online, but you are no longer on the internet. You are in a library.


Artigo completo aqui

JSTOR - ARTS & SCIENCES VIII COLLECTION

ARTS & SCIENCES VIII COLLECTION
15 OCTOBER 2009

Dear Colleague -

JSTOR is pleased to announce the launch of the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection, which will include a minimum of one hundred forty (140) titles when it is completed at the end of 2011. This collection extends JSTOR's coverage in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, with new and expanded focus on art & art history, classical studies, philosophy, language & literature, and music.

With the launch of this collection, we continue our commitment to the scholarly community to keep participation fees as low as possible. As a not-for-profit, mission-based organization, we are particularly pleased to be able to provide additional fee reductions on Arts & Sciences VIII in light of the current economic situation affecting libraries and information centers around the world. Because of our growing participant base, we are able to spread the costs associated with the creation of this collection, along with the annual maintenance costs required to maintain the long-term preservation of the collection, across a broader community of institutions. In the higher education community, for instance, depending on your JSTOR classification, the one-time Archive Capital Fees (ACF) are 5%-10% lower, while the recurring Annual Access Fees (AAF) are 15%-23% lower than our previous two Arts & Sciences collections. We have not raised participation fees for any of our multi-discipline collections since the archive was launched in 1997.

As with other JSTOR collections, the Annual Access Fee (AAF) will be prorated to reflect the number of titles included in the collection as they are added over time. For those institutions initiating participation in 2009, the AAF will be waived. The AAF in 2010 will be prorated to 20% of the full fee.

As well, we will be allowing institutions to pay the one-time Archive Capital Fee (ACF) over a period of three fiscal years. We hope this will provide additional budgeting flexibility for those institutions that wish to initiate participation in this collection in this challenging economic climate.

Highlights of the Arts & Sciences VIII collection:

More than thirty rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals form part of this collection, including 291 , created in 1915 by Alfred Stieglitz and Bradley: His Book from the private press founded by William H. Bradley, one of the premiere graphic artists of his time. The addition of these special titles is the result of a partnership between JSTOR and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum. Eleven of these periodicals are immediately available in the collection, with the remaining 25 titles available by the second quarter of 2010. A short video (5 minutes) has been prepared to give you a glimpse into these remarkable periodicals.

New titles in language & literature, history, philosophy, and classical studies will add international depth to JSTOR, with leading journals such as Zeitschrift f?r deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, Journal of South Asian Literature, Revista Chilena de Literatura, Revue d'histoire litteraire de la France , and English in Africa (language & literature); Scottish Historical Review, Revue historique, Agricultural History Review from the British Agricultural History Society (history); Revue philosophique de la France et de l'?tranger (philosophy); and Glotta: Zeitschrift f?r griechische und lateinische sprache (classical philology).

Music coverage will be expanded to include education titles from the College Music Society and from MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Other notable titles include Musica Disciplina from the American Institute of Musicology, founded in 1946, and African Music , published by the International Library of African Music.

New titles in education include Research in Higher Education and Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP , founded in 1915 with the formation of the American Association of University Professors.

The first group of titles in Arts & Sciences VIII has been released, and participants in the collection will immediately gain access to:

Geschichte und Gesellschaft
Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Sonderheft
Journal of Science Education and Technology
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Oral History
RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics
Research in Higher Education

and eleven of the rare art periodicals:

291
The American Art Journal
The Art Critic
The Art News
The Art Review
The Art Union
Bradley, His Book
Brush and Pencil
Bulletin of the New England Art Union
The Collector and Art Critic
Cosmopolitan Art Journal

A more detailed title list and collection description may be found on the JSTOR site at
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp

Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information regarding the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection by emailing us at participation@jstor.org .

Best regards,

Jason E. Phillips
Associate Director, Outreach & Participation Services
JSTOR & Portico
participation@jstor.org

Seminário de Direito da Bioética e da Medicina

A realizar nos dias 24 e 31 de Outubro, 7 e 14 de Novembro, na sede da Ordem dos Médicos (em Lisboa).

A iniciativa, organizada pela Associação Portuguesa de Direito Intelectual, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa em parceria com a Ordem dos Médicos, aborda temas cruciais como a objecção de consciência, a responsabilidade médica, o testamento vital, ou a ética na investigação.

Informações adicionais estão disponíveis em http://www.apdi.pt/

VII Curso Pós-Graduado de Actualização em Cuidados Paliativos

Realizar-se-á nos próximos dias 16 e 17 de Outubro o VII Curso Pós-Graduado de Actualização em Cuidados Paliativos. Poderá consultar o programa e todas as informações sobre o curso aqui.





Núcleo de Cuidados Paliativos/Centro de Bioética  
Director: Prof. Doutor António Barbosa  
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa,
Av.Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa  
Tel:+351 217985182; Fax:+351 217999495;
E-mail:cbioetica@fm.ul.pt

  

Base Fuente Académica da EBSCO - Free trial para a Universidade de Lisboa

Está disponível em regime de free trial para toda a Universidade de Lisboa a Base Fuente Académica da EBSCO até dia 03 de Janeiro de 2010.



O acesso faz-se pelo EBSCOhost disponível em: http://search.ebscohost.com/.
O reconhecimento do acesso é feito por IP.



Fuente Académica offers more than 450 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain . All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. The database is updated weekly.


Boas pesquisas!

Prémio Nobel da Medicina 2009 premeia trabalhos sobre o envelhecimento das células

Este ano, o Nobel da Medicina foi atribuído a três investigadores dos Estados Unidos - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider e Jack Szostak, com trabalhos sobre a enzima telomerase, que protege as células do envelhecimento e tem implicações para a investigação do cancro.

Foto: UWE ANSPACH/EPA