Academic Commons News

Senior and key personnel applying for NIH grants or filing progress reports starting in May 2025 will need to transition their biosketches to the forthcoming Common Forms that ask for their Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID iD). NIH-funded researchers, If you haven't already, create your ORCID iD and link it to your eRA Commons personal profile.

Scholarly authors at any career stage, discipline and funding status can create their ORCID iD. It is a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you throughout your career from other authors across name, location, and institutional affiliation changes. In addition to the NIH, many funders and publishers use it, making it easier to auto-fill information from one system to another. For example, Jefferson faculty can update their publications in Interfolio from their ORCID record.

Learn more:

• Update on Linking ORCID To Implement Persistent Identifier Requirements While Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency
• Securing your scholarly identity

On the second floor of the Scott Memorial Library on the Thomas Jefferson University - Center City Campus, students borrow anatomical models to study and learn from. In our collection, we have over sixty models from head to toe and all in between.  To see what is available, check the catalog. Are you a student at Thomas Jefferson University - East Falls Campus? The Paul J Gutman Library also has anatomical models you can borrow! Check the Gutman Library's catalog of available resources.

When borrowing these materials:

• students need to trade in their Jefferson student ID at the second floor Access Services Desk
• students can only borrow models when the Access Services desk is open
• Models can be borrowed for four hours at a time
• Models are not permitted to leave the library

Browse our catalog to find the anatomical model you'd like to borrow. Want another model? Think a model needs to be replaced? Have an idea we should hear? Email us at lrc@lists.jefferson.edu.

There is an updated process for masters' students on the Jefferson - East Falls Campus looking to get their theses bound. The Paul J. Gutman Library oversees thesis binding, so we want to make sure all students are aware of the steps involved for a smooth process. 

What You Will Need

Students will need to provide the Gutman Library with the following: 

• At least one printed copy of your thesis on acid-free paper
• A completed Master's Thesis Approval Form (provided by your academic department) with signatures from your thesis committee and college dean
• A completed Master's Thesis Binding Form
• A signed personal or cashier's check for the total dollar amount corrseponding to the number of printed copies desired. Make checks payable to the Paul J. Gutman Library and see the Master's Thesis Binding Form for cost details

Once you have all four of the items listed above, visit the Gutman Library's Checkout Desk on the Main Floor. The friendly staff there will help you submit your materials. Visit our thesis binding FAQ for more information about the process. 

This month, the Jefferson Libraries is adding 25 eBooks to our digital shelves. Scroll below to view the list of new additions, or visit our complete eBook collection at the Jefferson - Center City Campus/Scott Library, Jefferson - Dixon Campus/Library, and Jefferson - East Falls Campus/Gutman Library.

• Advanced Statistics for Physical and Occupational Therapy
• Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants: Applications and Opportunities
• Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: The Impact of Algorithmic Bias on Health Disparities
• Atlas of Liver Pathology
• A Beginner's Guide to Evidence Based Practice in Health and Social Care
• Best Practices for Acknowledging and Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Medical Education
• Colorectal Cancer: Disease and Advanced Drug Delivery Strategies
• Colorectal Disorders and Diseases: An Infographic Guide
• The Complex Interplay Between Gut-Brain, Gut-Liver, and Liver-Brain Axes
• Functional Exercise Prescription: Supporting Rehabilitation in Movement and Sport
• Human Physiology in Extreme Environments
• An Introduction to Medical Teaching: The Foundations of Curriculum Design, Delivery, and Assessment
• Occupational Group Therapy
• Occupational Therapy for Older People
• Occupational Therapy Placements: A Pocket Guide
• Recovery Through Activity: Increasing Participation in Everyday Life
• Redefining Retail: 10 Guiding Principles for a Post-Digital World
• SAS Programming in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Second Edition
• Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy
• The Sports Rehabilitation Therapists' Guidebook: Accessing Evidence-Based Practice
• Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Case-Based Collaborative Learning (CBCL)
• Sustainability for Retail: How Retail Leaders Create Environmental, Social, & Cultural Innovations
• Therapeutic Exercise for Children with Developmental Disabilities
• Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects

The 4th Annual Drs. Theresa and Charles Yeo Writing Prize invites the Jefferson community of employees, students, community partners, and patients to submit short essays, fiction, or poetry on the topic of “Growing, Learning, Aging.” The first, second, and third-place winners will be awarded cash prizes.

Read the submission guidelines and submit your story. Submissions are due on Tuesday, December 31, 2024. Cash prizes will be awarded as follows: $2,000 for first place, $1,000 for second place, and $500 for third place. 

All entries will be considered for publication in Evanescent: A Journal of Literary Medicine, sponsored by the Jefferson Center for Injury Research and Prevention. Read previous issues of Evanescent on the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). 

A new exhibit series, Designers You Should Know, just launched its first installment – all about Vera Maxwell. The exhibit is outside Room 101 in Hayward Hall on the Thomas Jefferson University – East Falls Campus.

The series, curated by Ann Wilson in the Design Center and Textile & Costume Collection, sheds light on designers who may not be popular among Jefferson students, staff, and faculty but who have made significant contributions to the fashion and design world.

Vera Maxwell, a dancer turned model turned designer, is remembered for her fashionable and functional sportswear. She was one of the first American designers to use ultrasuede and the synthetic fabric Arnel. Maxwell also produced garments sized up to 18 during a time when it was unusual to have sizes above 8.

Maxwell’s accolades were many; she won the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award in 1953, the Neiman Marcus award in 1955, and was honored in 1970 with a retrospective exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution.

Visit the exhibit to explore four garments created by Vera Maxwell and learn more about her on Follow the Thread.

At the end of 2024 RefWorks will no longer offer customer support for the Write-N-Cite (WnC) add-in tool for Microsoft Word. The Write-N-Cite installer has been deactivated since April 2024. Jefferson users should upgrade to the current RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) as this application will continue to be available for desktop and online Word installations. Not sure which version you're using? The screenshot above shows WnC (top) and RCM (bottom).

Stop by Scott Memorial Library to explore our latest art exhibit, created by Wendy Elliott-Vandivier, cartoonist and disability advocate.

The exhibit highlights examples of Wendy's cartoons, which focus on disability awareness and microaggressions that disabled people experience as they try to live their ordinary, “uninspirational” lives. Wendy's artwork will be displayed on Scott's 2nd floor until the end of December 2024.

Wendy Elliott-Vandivier is a graduate of Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She has been making art and mischief since she was a young child growing up in Philadelphia. In college, she majored in sculpture and staged a funeral of a disabled poster child to lay stereotypes of pity and helplessness firmly to rest. Her paintings explore issues of family, memory, and experiences as a disabled woman.

Library Resources

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (eBook)
• Hearing Happiness (Print, Scott Library)
• Microaggressions in Medicine (eBook)
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum (eBook)
• Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me about Life, Death, and Hope (Graphic Medicine Print, Scott Library)
• Pathos Graphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community (Graphic Medicine Print, Scott Library)
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability (Graphic Medicine Print, Scott Library)