SPUMS Journal and 5000 items available

[Gene_Hobbs]

The Rubicon Foundation, Inc. has shown an enormous amount of growth over the last several months. We wanted to take another opportunity to share this with you.

Recently the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR) reached two milestones which we felt were worth mentioning.

We are pleased to announce a recent collaboration with the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) to include their journal in the RRR project. The SPUMS Journal started in 1971 and will be held to a three year embargo for their members. That is over 30 years worth of materials that will soon be publicly available. The SPUMS Journal is particularly noteworthy to divers because of it's readability in discussing complex topics. We have just started to add articles to this collection so please check it out and watch it grow (found here).

We are also announcing that the database now contains 5000 items making it the single largest collection online for these types of materials. Check out the project: Rubicon Research Repository: Home

Another project that may be of interest is 'The Rubicon Review'. In today's world of lightning fast research and publication, it is both difficult and time consuming to stay up-to-date with the most current information. The Rubicon Review, will periodically update our new Yahoo Group with new and relevant literature in environmental physiology. You can access the group directly here or read more about the project here (including a week by week breakdown of the searches) here.


Over the next couple of months we would like to improve the usability of our resources. We are asking that you please consider supporting our work by placing a link on your site and making a donation to allow for further expansion. Our goal is to reach $5000.00 in donations to celebrate our recent 5000 item milestone. Make your donation here!

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[Janos]

Great news!

Janos

[Gene_Hobbs]

We have reached 5,700 items in the repository. (Busy couple of months) The last few files to go in have been the Mar-Apr 2007 issue of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. Below are a few that we thought might interest folks here.

Sheard and Haughey. Effects of sodium bicarbonate on voluntary face immersion breath-hold times. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;34(2):91-7. RRR ID: 6470

Eftedal, Lydersen, and Brubakk. The relationship between venous gas bubbles and adverse effects of decompression after air dives. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;34(2):99-105. RRR ID: 6466

Hyldegaard and Jensen. Effect of heliox, oxygen and air breathing on helium bubbles after heliox diving. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;34(2):107-22. RRR ID: 6463

Goplen, Aasen, and Nordahl. Postural control in a simulated saturation dive to 240 msw. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;34(2):123-30. RRR ID: 6464

We are also 36% of the way to our goal in our "$5,000 dollars for 5,000 items" fund raiser. We NEED your help to reach this goal. Please consider a donation to support our work. (Donations through GuideStar.org are now accepted)