The National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks new ideas to help improve access to health information made available via the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM). The HSHSL is the Regional Medical Library for the NNLM Region 1.
This Request for Information (RFI) offers health sciences and public libraries, health professionals, researchers, public health workers, community organizations, the public, or any other interested party the opportunity to provide information about how the NLM can best provide better access to biomedical information and health information through the NNLM going forward.
The HSHSL’s Open Access Publishing Fund is designed to improve access to research produced at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and:
Promote publishing by early-career researchers
Enable authors to retain their copyrights
Accelerate the online availability of peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles generated by UMB researchers
Raise campus awareness about the benefits of open access
The fund will reimburse 50% of the cost of article processing charges for Open Access (OA) journals up to a maximum of $3,000 for early-career researchers. The fund has a limited budget. Reimbursements will be made on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted.
Maximum Levels of Reimbursement
50% of article processing charges up to a maximum of $3,000
1 article per author per fiscal year
Who is eligible? This fund is designed to promote open-access publication by early-career researchers. It is open to the following individuals at UMB:
Students
Postdoctoral researchers or fellows or equivalent
Faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor or equivalent
Students must be enrolled, and faculty members must be employed at UMB at the time of application.
What articles are covered? Reimbursement is available for article processing fees in open access journals, which are journals that do not charge a fee for access to their content. There are various types of OA models. This fund covers fees only for journals that are fully OA. Eligible journals include the following:
Journals that are members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) or demonstrate adherence to its Code of Conduct
Journals that have publicly available a standard article fee schedule
Journals that have a policy to substantially waive fees in case of economic hardship
Journals with a hybrid open-access model or delayed open-access model are not eligible. Subscription-based journals that charge a fee, sometimes called an “author’s choice” or “open choice” fee, to make single articles available by open access are also not eligible. If you are unsure as to whether or not a particular journal is eligible please contact Steven Douglas prior to submitting an article for publication.
Reimbursement will cover only direct costs for open access publication (not the cost of reprints, color illustration fees, non-OA page charges, web hosting for self-archiving, etc.).
Procedures The applicant must be currently UMB-affiliated and listed as the first author of the article. To apply, complete the application form.
Articles must include a statement of acknowledgement such as, “Partial funding for open access was provided by the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library’s Open Access Fund.”
Reimbursement will be made after the article has been accepted for publication and the submission fee has been paid. At this time we are only able to make reimbursements to UMB Departments. Authors should pay the full amount of the APC with department funding then submit an invoice and department account number for reimbursement. We are unable to reimburse individuals or UMB Foundation accounts.
The applicant must submit either the author’s final version or the published version of the funded article for inclusion in the UMB Digital Archive.
Contact Steven Douglas if you have any questions about the Open Access Publishing Fund
Many of the full-text resources in Google Scholar are only available to subscribing institutions. By selecting the HSHSL as a library link, items owned by the Library will have the Find It @ HSHSL link as part of the citation. This link will lead to full-text, when available.
Join the HSHSL for a screening and group discussion of “Hiding in the Walls,” a documentary that explores the fraught history of lead’s government-mandated use in low-income housing in Baltimore. The film delves into how lead poisoning became an accepted norm in urban America and follows adult survivors on a mission to reclaim the narrative.
The film will be shown on July 10 at noon on the HSHSL’s second floor, followed by a discussion from 1 – 1:30 p.m. Feel free to view the film in advance and join us for the Q&A, or come for the entire event. The documentary is free to view using your UMid and password or public library card to log in. Space is limited, so registration is required.
While you are in the library enjoy our exhibit, This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities. The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) will be holding two R workshops in July. The sessions will be held in-person at the HSHSL on July 24th and July 25th from 12:00pm to 2:00pm . Space is limited so register now!
R is an open-source programming language that is ideal for working with statistics and data. Here at CDABS, we love R for many reasons: It’s free, flexible, and friendly! In this series, we will focus on the Tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed for data science. The Tidyverse makes data manipulation, exploration, and visualization simple and intuitive. These packages provide excellent tools for cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data, all while writing readable and maintainable code. Sign up for one or both sessions, but be advised that the second session will require a minimal familiarity with R.
See full session descriptions below and register here:
July 24 Data Wrangling with R — Introduction to the Tidyverse
This session will introduce participants to the basics of getting started with R and RStudio and introduce the workhorse package dplyr. Participants will get hands-on experience wrangling real datasets.
Topics covered include:
Navigating RStudio
Key R concepts and terminology
Importing data from external files
Subsetting and filtering data
Split-Apply-Combine analysis workflow
Prerequisites: none
July 25 Data Visualization in R with ggplot2
Learn how to use ggplot2, a robust Tidyverse package used to create high quality graphics for exploring and communicating your data. We will go beyond basic graphs and learn how to customize and annotate our graphs for more effective storytelling. Participants will have the best experience if they attended session one in this series or have some previous experience with R and the Tidyverse.
Topics covered include:
Visualization best practices
Grammar of graphics – ggplot2 layers, aesthetics, and geoms
Choosing an effective graph type for your data
Customizing labels, axes, legends, and more
Choosing a color palette and themes
Prerequisites: Session one in this series, or familiarity with navigating RStudio and basic concepts in R.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) is the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library hub for data and bioinformation learning, services, resources, and communication
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Every month, we will be highlighting new datasets added to the UMB Data Catalog. The UMB Data Catalog facilitates discovery of data by providing a searchable and browsable collection of records describing datasets generated by UMB researchers. Sharing a record of your data in the Catalog is also a great way to demonstrate compliance with data sharing policies!
The latest records showcase datasets from the fields of neuroscience and physiology, molecular biology and malaria studies, and library science and education.
Congrats to our UMB researchers on these publications!
Title: Genotyping Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes using amplicon deep sequencing Description: A genotyping method that detects distinct gametocyte clones and estimates their relative frequencies was developed to understand the dynamics of gametocyte production in polyclonal Plasmodium falciparum infections using a specific marker and amplicon deep sequencing to genotype mature gametocytes. Authors: Jimmy Vareta, Natalie A. Horstman, Matthew Adams, Karl B. Seydel, Robert S. McCann, Lauren M. Cohee, Miriam K. Laufer, Shannon Takala‑Harrison URL: https://datacatalog.hshsl.umaryland.edu/dataset/221
Title: Differential nanoscale organization of excitatory synapses onto excitatory vs. inhibitory neurons Description: Confocal and DNA-PAINT super-resolution microscopy was used to compare scaffold protein organization in excitatory principal neuron synapses and parvalbumin-expressing interneuron synapses. Authors: Poorna A. Dharmasri, Aaron D. Levy, Thomas A. Blanpied URL: https://datacatalog.hshsl.umaryland.edu/dataset/222
Title: Increasing student engagement using an Amazing Race-style competition Description: Evaluations of the “Amazing Race: Drug Information Edition,” an orientation activity designed to introduce first-year pharmacy students to library and drug information resources. Authors: Emily F. Gorman URL: https://datacatalog.hshsl.umaryland.edu/dataset/223
Thanks to Metadata Librarian, Eva Greitzer for creating and compiling these records!
Want to see your data listed in the UMB Data Catalog? Submit this form to get the process started.
In observance of Juneteenth, the HSHSL will be closed on Wednesday, June 19. This special day marks the end of slavery in the United States and celebrates African American freedom and achievements. We join in honoring this significant day in our nation’s history.
Larry from the Maryland Book Bank unloads UMB’s donation.
The 2024 HSHSL Book it Forward campaign has successfully wrapped up! Thanks to the UMB community’s incredible generosity, we donated 700 children’s books to the Maryland Book Bank. This organization is committed to expanding equitable access to books in under-resourced schools and communities, helping all children to thrive.
The HSHSL is hosting a traveling banner exhibition exploring the story of citizen action taken against the environmental danger of lead. Lead exposure can cause neurological problems and even death. Despite this, lead has been pervasive in many aspects of American life, especially in Baltimore City, for over a century.
Historically, industries such as mining, battery manufacturing, smelting, and enameling included lead in their production processes, impacting factory workers and consumers. Manufacturers added lead to household paints and gasoline, endangering families’ health and polluting the air through exhaust fumes. To protect themselves against the dangers of lead poisoning, scientists, families, and individuals challenged industries, housing authorities, and elected officials.
The exhibit begins on the library’s first floor with the majority located on the second floor. Sources of lead in everyday items and our environment are on display, as well as a detailed map of lead concentration in Baltimore City neighborhoods.
Look for our announcement of upcoming programming, featuring a documentary on lead in Baltimore and a group discussion.
The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website.
