SPUMS Journal and 5000 items available

Gene_Hobbs · 6th February 2008, 03:31

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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***caveseeker7*** · 6th February 2008, 04:52

Congratulations to you and your team at RRR, Gene.

Dawn · 6th February 2008, 05:24

Congrats to Rubicon. I know you and your crew have invested (and will continue to invest) an enormous amount of time and energy into getting the repository where it is today.

You guys are providing an invaluable resource for divers and researchers alike, and I hope RRR receives the support that it absolutely deserves.

Thank you for all you do!
Dawn

Gene_Hobbs · 13th February 2008, 02:37

Thanks for the support everyone!

Well, one week later and we have over 200 SPUMS papers in the database.

The SPUMS Journal is rapidly becoming my favorite diving publication. It has a nice mix of science, history, and general interest that is written more for the lay diver than medical professionals or researchers. That's not to say that some articles are not heavy on the theory but they tend to be easier to read than many of the other publications that we have in the repository.

There were a few papers on rebreathers recently, those can be found here

A few general diving examples include:

Acott, C. A brief history of diving and decompression illness. SPUMS 1999 Volume 29 Number 2. RRR ID: 6004

Brubakk, AO. The effect of bubbles on the living body. SPUMS 1999 Volume 29 Number 4. RRR ID: 6025

Moon, RE. The natural progression of decompression illness and development of recompression procedures. SPUMS 2000 Volume 30 Number 1. RRR ID: 5836

I am also happy to report that our '$5k for 5k' fund raiser saw its first activity this week. You can track our progress in this first fund raiser here. We are 0.01% of the way to our goal!

Gene_Hobbs · 22nd April 2008, 01:32

We have reached 5,700 items in the repository. 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)

Gene_Hobbs · 2nd June 2008, 01:09

For those that have been following our progress, 6,000 items are now available.

One definitely worth checking out:
Vann RD (ed). The Physiological Basis of Decompression. 38th Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshop. UHMS Publication Number 75(Phys)6-1-89. Bethesda: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society; 1989; 437 pages.
RRR ID: 6853

We are also 47% 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.

koputai · 2nd June 2008, 03:43

Quote: (Originally Posted by Gene_Hobbs)

6,000 items are now available.

Ah, but still no Trytko and Mitchell!!

Cheers,
Jason.

Gene_Hobbs · 2nd June 2008, 15:57

Quote: (Originally Posted by koputai)

Ah, but still no Trytko and Mitchell!!

How did you set up your search?

Trytko, CB

and

Mitchell, SJ

or

Mitchell, CT

or

Mitchell, PR

or did you mean none with them as co-authors? Please keep in mind we are only starting with the SPUMS collection and have a LONG way to go! If you need something specific, please let us know. We get several requests every week.

Thanks for your interest!

koputai · 3rd June 2008, 05:25

Hi Gene,
Thanks for the great work, have donated as everyone here should.

The one I was after may not yet be available due to it being only 3 years old.

"Trytko B, Mitchell S. Extreme survival: a serious technical diving accident. SPUMS J 2005;35:23-27."

Regards,
Jason.

Gene_Hobbs · 3rd June 2008, 15:59

Quote: (Originally Posted by koputai)

"Trytko B, Mitchell S. Extreme survival: a serious technical diving accident. SPUMS J 2005;35:23-27."

Thanks Jason! The 2001 to 2006 SPUMS articles just came in from Mike Davis via Richard Moon today! I need to spend the next couple of weeks getting the UHMS abstract collection completed (trying to finish before the annual meeting starts) then I'll move back to the SPUMS collection and start with 2005 for you. (we can't add 2006 until next year per the two year embargo for their members)

There is a HUGE collection we want to go after (back to 1930) but the license will be expensive. We may be able to get a grant to help with this but we have not had much luck with grants so every bit helps! Thanks again for the support!

6th February 2008, 03:31	#1 (permalink)
Gene_Hobbs Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA Posts: 112	SPUMS Journal and 5000 items available 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! __ __________________ http://rubicon-foundation.org/ Home of the Rubicon Research Repository. For help getting started with the Repository, please visit our FAQ page. PLEASE support our work. "Oxygen is addictive and deadly. Everyone who uses it will eventually die" --RW Hamilton, PhD 1991
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6th February 2008, 05:24	#3 (permalink)
Dawn New Member Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1	Re: SPUMS Journal and 5000 items available Congrats to Rubicon. I know you and your crew have invested (and will continue to invest) an enormous amount of time and energy into getting the repository where it is today. You guys are providing an invaluable resource for divers and researchers alike, and I hope RRR receives the support that it absolutely deserves. Thank you for all you do! Dawn
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13th February 2008, 02:37	#4 (permalink)
Gene_Hobbs Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA Posts: 112	SPUMS Journal update Thanks for the support everyone! Well, one week later and we have over 200 SPUMS papers in the database. The SPUMS Journal is rapidly becoming my favorite diving publication. It has a nice mix of science, history, and general interest that is written more for the lay diver than medical professionals or researchers. That's not to say that some articles are not heavy on the theory but they tend to be easier to read than many of the other publications that we have in the repository. There were a few papers on rebreathers recently, those can be found here A few general diving examples include: Acott, C. A brief history of diving and decompression illness. SPUMS 1999 Volume 29 Number 2. RRR ID: 6004 Brubakk, AO. The effect of bubbles on the living body. SPUMS 1999 Volume 29 Number 4. RRR ID: 6025 Moon, RE. The natural progression of decompression illness and development of recompression procedures. SPUMS 2000 Volume 30 Number 1. RRR ID: 5836 I am also happy to report that our '$5k for 5k' fund raiser saw its first activity this week. You can track our progress in this first fund raiser here. We are 0.01% of the way to our goal! __________________ http://rubicon-foundation.org/ Home of the Rubicon Research Repository. For help getting started with the Repository, please visit our FAQ page. PLEASE support our work. "Oxygen is addictive and deadly. Everyone who uses it will eventually die" --RW Hamilton, PhD 1991
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22nd April 2008, 01:32	#5 (permalink)
Gene_Hobbs Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA Posts: 112	more reading... We have reached 5,700 items in the repository. 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) __________________ http://rubicon-foundation.org/ Home of the Rubicon Research Repository. For help getting started with the Repository, please visit our FAQ page. PLEASE support our work. "Oxygen is addictive and deadly. Everyone who uses it will eventually die" --RW Hamilton, PhD 1991
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Gene_Hobbs Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA Posts: 112	6,000 items available For those that have been following our progress, 6,000 items are now available. One definitely worth checking out: Vann RD (ed). The Physiological Basis of Decompression. 38th Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshop. UHMS Publication Number 75(Phys)6-1-89. Bethesda: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society; 1989; 437 pages. RRR ID: 6853 We are also 47% 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. __________________ http://rubicon-foundation.org/ Home of the Rubicon Research Repository. For help getting started with the Repository, please visit our FAQ page. PLEASE support our work. "Oxygen is addictive and deadly. Everyone who uses it will eventually die" --RW Hamilton, PhD 1991 Last edited by Gene_Hobbs : 2nd June 2008 at 01:10. Reason: and thanks to the six of you that helped us reach 47%
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koputai Subsea Systems Current Rebreather/s: MK 15.X Other CCR Other SCR Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other CCR Other SCR Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 299	Re: 6,000 items available Quote: (Originally Posted by Gene_Hobbs) 6,000 items are now available. Ah, but still no Trytko and Mitchell!! Cheers, Jason.
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2nd June 2008, 15:57	#8 (permalink)
Gene_Hobbs Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA Posts: 112	Re: 6,000 items available Quote: (Originally Posted by koputai) Ah, but still no Trytko and Mitchell!! How did you set up your search? Trytko, CB and Mitchell, SJ or Mitchell, CT or Mitchell, PR or did you mean none with them as co-authors? Please keep in mind we are only starting with the SPUMS collection and have a LONG way to go! If you need something specific, please let us know. We get several requests every week. Thanks for your interest! __________________ http://rubicon-foundation.org/ Home of the Rubicon Research Repository. For help getting started with the Repository, please visit our FAQ page. PLEASE support our work. "Oxygen is addictive and deadly. Everyone who uses it will eventually die" --RW Hamilton, PhD 1991
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3rd June 2008, 05:25	#9 (permalink)
koputai Subsea Systems Current Rebreather/s: MK 15.X Other CCR Other SCR Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other CCR Other SCR Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 299	Re: 6,000 items available Hi Gene, Thanks for the great work, have donated as everyone here should. The one I was after may not yet be available due to it being only 3 years old. "Trytko B, Mitchell S. Extreme survival: a serious technical diving accident. SPUMS J 2005;35:23-27." Regards, Jason.
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3rd June 2008, 15:59	#10 (permalink)
Gene_Hobbs Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA Posts: 112	Re: 6,000 items available Quote: (Originally Posted by koputai) "Trytko B, Mitchell S. Extreme survival: a serious technical diving accident. SPUMS J 2005;35:23-27." Thanks Jason! The 2001 to 2006 SPUMS articles just came in from Mike Davis via Richard Moon today! I need to spend the next couple of weeks getting the UHMS abstract collection completed (trying to finish before the annual meeting starts) then I'll move back to the SPUMS collection and start with 2005 for you. (we can't add 2006 until next year per the two year embargo for their members) There is a HUGE collection we want to go after (back to 1930) but the license will be expensive. We may be able to get a grant to help with this but we have not had much luck with grants so every bit helps! Thanks again for the support! __________________ http://rubicon-foundation.org/ Home of the Rubicon Research Repository. For help getting started with the Repository, please visit our FAQ page. PLEASE support our work. "Oxygen is addictive and deadly. Everyone who uses it will eventually die" --RW Hamilton, PhD 1991
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