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02/28/2007 Abstracts accepted. We have had two abstracts accepted for publication by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Scientific Committee. These will be presented at the UHMS Annual Meeting in June. More information about this meeting can be found on the UHMS web site. We would like to take the opportunity to thank our volunteers for their assistance in adding content to the Rubicon Research Repository. Without their help, the resources we are building would not be growing as fast as they are. |
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01/04/2007 Passing of a Pioneer John J. McAniff, Sr passed away today after a long battle with cancer. John is best know for his pioneering work in writing the US Underwater Diving Fatality Statistics at the University of Rhode Island and published by the US Dept. of Commerce and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Undersea Research Program. More about Mr. McAniff can be found in the Divers Alert Network news. We have scanned eight of these reports into the Repository in cooperation with DAN Research (RRR ID: 4064 to 4071). |
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12/10/2006 New Collections Added to the Repository. The first collection contains technical reports published by Defence R&D Canada (DRDC), formerly Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM). A special thank you is extended to Dr. Nishi for his hard work to secure permission for the addition of these documents. The second collection of workshops held by the Smithsonian Institution Scientific Diving Program. The Smithsonian Institution Scientific Diving Program is a research support program in the Office of the Under Secretary for Science. Scientists from interdisciplinary fields are using scuba diving as a research tool to study the underwater environment. We would like to thank Michael Lang and Laurie Penland for their consideration to be included in this collection. You can learn more about their work on the Diving Program web site. http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org The addition of these collections is a major step in building the electronic resources available to divers, aviators, and researchers everywhere. Please click on the Pay-Pal link to the right or visit our Donation page for more options on how to make a tax-deductible donation today! Your donation will support other projects that make the available resources more accessible. The continuation of this work is only made possible by donations from users like you. (The Rubicon Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization.) |
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11/28/2006 Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine. Preservation of the plane from our B-25 Project was featured in the Smithsonian's Air and Space magazine. The article can be found on the Air and Space web site. The plane is being preserved and put on display at the Southern Museum of Flight. |
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11/06/2006 Global Underwater Explorers Conference. Gene Hobbs traveled to Gainesville, FL to attend the Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) annual conference held November 3rd through the 5th. The presentation he gave on Diving Medical Literature was sponsored by the Divers Alert Network (DAN) is available for download. |
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08/24/2006 Rubicon Research Repository Announced. Today the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) announced to their members that the societies journal is now available online. This email from Don Chandler also included information from our frequently asked questions page to facilitate their ability to get started. Please join the UHMS members with access to the largest single collection of their work available online. We would also like to thank Richard Ingle again for all of his time and hard work in making this project happen. So many other people have put effort into this project but it was Rich that pulled together all the work into what is the Rubicon Research Repository! http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org |
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08/30/2006 Rubicon Research Repository Updated! We have added the "Undersea Biomedical Research" and "Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine" Journals to the Repository. We also reorganized the Technical reports to make them more user friendly. |
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06/23/2006 UHMS Journals into the Rubicon Research Repository Last night the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Board voted to allow us to publish the "Undersea Biomedical Research," "Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine," and "Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine" journal articles we scanned into our Repository. Check out our Projects page to learn more about the collections. |
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06/12/2006 Rubicon Research Repository now online. We have changed our site navigation. Please check out the changes by following the navigation links above. The most notable change is a link to the Rubicon Research Repository. Information about this project can be found on our Projects page. Check back often as the content changes frequently. |
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05/20/2006 History Channel, Mega Movers B-25 Episode available. The History Channel offers the show for sale on their web site. Links to pictures and a log of the dives is being written and can be found on our B-25 Project Page. |
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05/10/2006 Deliveries. We delivered of the "Physiology of Breath-hold Diving and the AMA of Japan" edited by Herman Rahn and Tetsuro Yokoyama to the Diver's Alert Network for inclusion in the course materials of the Breath-hold Diving Pre-course being held on June 20-21, 2006. The book was published by the International Union of Physiological Sciences, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council of the United States following a symposium on August 31 to September 1, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. Each of the participants of this years symposium will receive a copy of this scanned book. We would like to thank Drs. William and Caroline Fife for their donation of this work. Delivery of the Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences: A Guide to the Literature (UMRS), Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine (JHM), and Hyperbaric Oxygen Review (HBOR) collections will occur at the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual Meeting on June 22-24, 2006. More information about these collections can be found on our Projects page. |
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05/02/2006 History Channel, Mega Movers Tonight! The History Channel will air the raising of a B-25 Mitchell from the bottom of Lake Murray, SC on Mega Movers, May 2nd at 10:00 PM EST. The plane was ditched in 1943 and remained 55 Meters (150 feet of fresh water) below the surface for 60 years. Today, the plane is being preserved and put on display at the Southern Museum of Flight. This project was done with assistance from several of the Rubicon staff. Links to pictures and a log of the dives is being written and can be found on our B-25 Project Page |
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04/10/2006 Scanning of the UMRS Collection Complete Scanning of the Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences: A Guide to the Literature Collection is complete. The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process is underway. More information about this collection can be found on our Projects page. |
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03/08/2006 More work on the web site The previous weeks have seen a substantial amount of progress on our web resources. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dominic Filteau for his help in loading awstats to help track our usage. We would also like to thank Richard Ingle for his expertise in assembling the database software we will be utilizing in our archive projects. More work is being done by Rich that will allow for a better user experience once we release this project. |
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02/01/2006 Web Site Back Online Our web site has been offline since January 17th for transition to a local server. Although this work will continue for the next month or two, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank several people for their support and advice as we transition to our own system. In particular, Francis (Apple Computers), Richard, and Bryan (both Duke) have given hours of support and technical information. Other valuable assistance has come from Mary, Matt, and Keith at Time Warner Commercial Services. We would also like to thank Ken and The Deco Stop Hosting for their patience and assistance in helping set up our initial web services. |
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01/17/2006 The Passing of a Pioneer Please take a moment to honor the passing of Vale Professor Brian Hills who passed away after a long battle with cancer. His pioneering work in diving research has had broad reaching impact on our field. He will be missed. |
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01/10/2006 B-25 Exhibit Opening Scheduled The forward section of the plane has been refurbished and will go on display at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama on February 4, 2006. Several members of our team are planning to be there for this event. More information about the exhibit opening will be available through the museum web site. |
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12/16/2005 UHMS Journals may go to Pubmed Central The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) submitted their application to the National Library of Medicine's Pubmed Central Project today. If accepted, the collection of articles we scanned from the Undersea Biomedical Research and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine journals will be available free to the public through Pubmed Central. |
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10/27/2005 Pictures from UHMS reception online The Duke University Medical Center Library organized a reception to acknowledge the donation of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Shilling Library holdings to their collection. Several pictures from the event are available through the Medical Center Library site. We have been assisting the library staff with cataloging and organization since the arrival at Duke in March. |
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10/24/2005 Workshops delivered A two DVD set of The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Workshops was delivered to the UHMS Library Committee today. We would like to thank the people who donated copies of some missing workshops and the Divers Alert Network for their financial support in memory of Edward Thalmann, MD. |
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09/21/2005 Welcome home team The lifting of the B-25c from the bottom of Lake Murray was a success! Pictures of our divers and of the project can be found on the Air Pirates web site. The plane is being disassembled for transport to its new home at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama. The project was filmed by a crew from the History Channel. The special on this aircraft is scheduled to air on May 2, 2006. |
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09/09/2005 B-25c in Lake Murray, SC Members of the Rubicon staff have gone to Lake Murray in Columbia, SC to assist with the recovery of a World War II B-25c Bomber that was ditched by the pilot and crew 62 years ago. This project is headed by Dr. Robert Seigler, a pediatric intensivist from Greenville, SC. The plane rests in 150 feet of depth and is the third oldest of 130 left from the war. More information about that project can be found on the projects homepage. http://www.celebratefreedomfoundation.org/lakeb25c.htm |
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08/22/2005 Workshop scans complete The last of the fifty two Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Workshops that we are working on was processed today. There are several other workshops left to complete the work UHMS has requested. |
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07/15/2005 Workshops half way there The archive work on Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshops is over half way complete. We have now processed thirty of the fifty two workshops in that collection that needed to be electronically archived. |
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06/26/2005 Archive user publishes book Our first user of the Archive (09/22/2004), Cameron Martz has released his book "Fitness for Divers." Cameron's articles on diving fitness have been translated into six languages and published worldwide. This book represents several years of work and is available from the DiveFitness.com site. |
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06/18/2005 UHMS Special Achievement Award presented Gene Hobbs was presented with a Special Achievement Award by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) for his work with the Rubicon Foundation and Global Underwater Explorers on the electronic archiving of their Hyperbaric Oxygen Review, Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine, Undersea Biomedical Research and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine journals. The Citation and Plaque were presented to Gene at the UHMS Annual Meeting by Dr. Lindell Weaver, UHMS president. More information about these collections may be found on our Projects page. Please direct any questions about the availability of these articles to UHMS directly. |
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06/13/2005 Website update Several descriptions of the collections we are working on have been added to our Projects page. The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual Meeting starts this week. |
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05/12/2005 Equipment arrives Today the equipment we needed arrived from the Divers Alert Network and we started scanning the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshops. |
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04/22/2005 Shilling Library moves to Duke University The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society announced the move of the Shilling Library holdings to the Duke University Medical Center Library. We have been helping the Duke Library staff with the cataloging and organization of this tremendous resource over the last 40 days of the transition from Maryland. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for October 27 at the Library. For more information as this date approaches, check the UHMS web site. More information on the Shilling Library transfer to Duke can be found on the following web sites: http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/news/ln06-05.html#uhms http://archives.mc.duke.edu/programs/uhms/uhms.html http://inside.duke.edu/article.php?IssueID=118&ParentID=10047 http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/iamslic/log0504/0074.html |
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04/21/2005 DAN supports project The Divers Alert Network (DAN) has agreed to support the workshop project in memory of Edward Thalmann, MD. We will be ordering the equipment we need this week. |
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03/28/2005 UHMS workshop request The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society is also requesting that we scan all of the workshops they have sponsored. We are requesting support from the Divers Alert Network (DAN) to complete this work. |
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03/25/2005 Two more journals We received a request from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society to scan their journals Hyperbaric Oxygen Review (1980 to 1985) and Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine (1986 to 1992). These journals were published before the society changed its name from the Undersea Medical Society. |
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01/15/2005 UBR and UHM scans delivered The complete collections of both the Undersea Biomedical Research and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine have been scanned and delivered to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Library Committee. Many thanks to all those that have helped us complete these two collections. We would also like to give special thanks to Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) for their cooperation in this project. |
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12/20/2004 Missing articles in NLM database The National Libarary of Medicine has completed their listing of the eight missing articles from the Undersea Baromedical Research Journal. |
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11/11/2004 Rubicon sets up for PayPal donations Thanks to PayPal, we can now accept tax-deductible donations to support our projects online. Our current focus for donations is on the web Archive of Research Literature project. To date, we have scanned over 800 documents that we plan to make available on the web. Donations will be focused on the programming of a web interface for our growing database of research documents. PLEASE click on the link to the right and make a donation today! (The Rubicon Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization.) |
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10/29/2004 Bank account open We have our bank paperwork filled out and an account open! We would like to thank Wachovia of North Carolina for the deals they offer to young non-profit organizations. |
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09/22/2004 Rubicon archive in use Today marks the first "official" use of our Document Archive since we have become a non-profit organization. Cameron Martz requested some research documents for a new article on DiveFitness.com. |
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09/03/2004 IRS Status The Internal Revenue Service approved the Rubicon Foundation as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization! |
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09/01/2004 Website posted We would like to thank Zeb and Ken for their hard work in getting our first web site online. |
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08/31/2004 Rough draft delivered to UHMS We delivered a rough copy Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine journals and the Endnote Database to Richard Vann, PhD. These files are not the larger Optical Character Recognition files. This is 304 articles published from 1993 to 2001. Note: Electronic copies of the Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine Journal for 2002 to current are available to Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) members on the UHMS web site. |
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06/10/2004 NLM update on Missing UHMS journals We requested an update from the National Library of Medicine. Their update is included below: custserv@nlm.nih.gov 06/10/2004 10:39 AST The issue is marked as being on file, and apparently that is a new entry as it came up at the top of the list. This is our general information about the time it takes for a journal to be indexed in MEDLINE. It is difficult to give a precise answer. Depending on publisher distribution or the mail, some journals are received in advance of the cover date; others are received weeks or even months afterward. Publishers who send us copies of their journals in electronic format help to speed the process. For more information about publisher-supplied citations, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query/static/overview.html#PubMedOnly. With that in mind, our monthly statistics show that approximately 30% of all journals were indexed in MEDLINE within 30 days of receipt and 60% were completed within 60 days. We record of the length of time starting from the date a journal is received at the Library. More detail about the NLM indexing process is in the following:
Customer Service The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health. The NLM does not do research for individuals or send materials. The NLM makes available a variety of health information sources and offers assistance to find and use them. Links to products and services are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/. |
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05/10/2004 IRS Application submitted Our application for Internal Revenue Service 501 (c) (3) status is complete and submitted. We would like to thank Matt Levin and Bill Bomar for their help in completing this long application. |
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04/12/2004 UHMS articles missing from NLM database We are continuing work on the journal article collection for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. We have started to connect all of the articles to their citations in the Endnote 7.0 Database. It turns out that the eight articles included in Volume two, number 3, September 1975 were not added to the PubMed Database. Today we wrote the National Library of Medicine Customer Service to let them know we have some missing articles in the UHMS collection and need to know how to update their system! |
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12/20/2003 Project update More of the journals have arrived from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Library today! |
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12/13/2003 Start of the UBR archive scanning Today is the start of the bulk scanning of the Undersea Biomedical Research (UBR) articles. Our scanner has arrived and some of the bindings have been cut on the early 1973 UBR articles. This will be a full week of scanning and the first chance we will have to truly understand how large this project is really going to be. One scan down, about 1000 more to go! |
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09/09/2003 UHMS journals arrive The first few boxes of journals arrived today from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society home office. After logging in the journals, they will be off to get their bindings cut. |
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03/18/2003 Archive logistic planning After speaking with Don Chandler, the UHMS Exec. Director, and Kathy Davidson, the UHMS Librarian, we are optimistic that we will have the first part of the journals in hand soon. Once they arrive we will have the bindings cut off a small batch and start the bulk scanning. |
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01/06/2003 UHMS interest in project assessed We started discussions with Richard Vann, PhD of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) to look at making an electronic archive of the societies journals. The collection consists of the Undersea Biomedical Research Collection (1974 to 1992) and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine journals (1993 to current). We would like to make these collections electronically available to aid divers and researchers worldwide. The copyright to this material is owned by the Society so they will be deciding how to best make these articles available once the projects are completed. |
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02/06/2003 NC non-profit status The state of North Carolina has just granted us non-profit status within the state pending our approval by the Internal Revenue Service. |
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08/23/2002 NC Articles of Incorporation Our Articles of Incorporation have officially been accepted by the State of North Carolina! |
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