1. APS Archive of Teaching Resources
Mel Limson and Amy Feuerstein
Education Office
The American Physiological Society
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD
Introduction and title
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2. What is a Digital Library?
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system.
Many different definitions, but wikipedia defines it as
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What is the APS Archive?
Collection of peer-reviewed activities, labs, lesson plans, animations, journal articles, press releases, simulations, figures, lectures, useful web sites, etc.
Part of the BioSciEdNet (BEN), a digital library of teaching resources for the biological sciences
Collaborative collection of..should be noted that the Archive is free, all materials of ours are also freely available thru BEN
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4. Who is the APS Archive designed for?
Students and educators
K-12, undergraduate, graduate students, post-doctoral students, and those looking for continuing education
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5. What will I find in the Archive?
Lesson plans, laboratory experiments, lectures, quizzes, etc.
Press releases and associated journal articles
We have a collection of press releases which are easier to understand that students could read with the accompanying journal article with more technical information, an example of a press release found on 44 of your packet, followed by an abstract of the accompanying journal article
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6. What Are Resources Reviewed For?
Scientific accuracy of content
Appropriate use of humans and animals
Pedagogy and overall usefulness not reviewed
Discussion boards provide that review and comment
You can count on these materials being accurate, unlike things you find on google because they are peer reviewed. Reviewers look for scientific accuracy and appropriate use of humans and animals. Reviewers, however, do not look for overall usefulness. In other words, reviewers will not rewrite a paper or put their opinions in their review
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7. What subject areas are included in the Archive?
Not just physiology!
Material from partner societies
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Society for Developmental Biology
National Association of Health and Science Education Partnerships
Physiology for the 21st Century
There is a wide range of materials in our digital library, due in part to materials submitted by our partners, and again if the subject range isn’t broad enough you can search through the BEN portal for even more information
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8. Search Engine vs. The Archive
Kidney tutorial for 11th grade class
Laboratory activity on temperature control
Medical Physiology testing techniques
Food contaminated by E. coli
Lesson plan on E. coli
Steps to get to search page..then example search: say you want material on the kidney for an 11th grade class. I’ll select upper level HS (11th-12th grade) and the keyword kidney. The search results come up, and here is a tutorial on the kidney. The image in the upper left shows me it came from the HAPS collection in our Archive. It is important to note that you must disable popups to retreive most Archive items!! Anyways, here is the item.
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9. Ready to contribute materials?
Submit useful teaching resources through the APS Archive website
You may wonder how we have acquired such a large collection of resources. Our collection has grown by users like yourself who have contributed their own materials. We are accepting submissions to the Archive, so if you have any material you want to share, we would love to have it! We have a summer and winter review cycle and the next review cycle ends on December 1st.
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Why Submit a Resource?
Help build a collection of resources for other educators
Your material gets peer reviewed
If accepted, you can cite the publication on your resume
As I said, our collection is based on user contributions. Your items can help grow our digital library and provide peer reviewed resources for educators like yourself. If your item is accepted, you can cite the item as a publication on your resume.
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11. What is the Review Process?
Authors submit an item
Reviewers submit reviews
Author can revise object if requested by reviewers
Author can respond to reviewers’ comments
Once accepted, the object is released to the APS Archive and BEN and made available to general public
The object is accepted, rejected, or accepted with revisions. Objects are very rarely rejected. If accepted with revisions, the author has the choice to make the revisions to be accepted, or withdraw their item from the review process.
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12. What happens to your submission?
Author retains the copyright
Material can be revised by author at any time
Material can be removed at author’s request at any time
Abstracts of accepted objects are published in Advances in Physiology Education
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13. Problems with the Archive?
Contact Amy Feuerstein at:
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