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HS/HSL Closed 9/5-9/7 for Labor Day Holiday

The HS/HSL will be closed Saturday 9/5 – Monday 9/7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. We will resume regular hours on Tuesday 9/8.

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Fall Workshops at the HS/HSL

Each semester the HS/HSL offers a series of free workshops for faculty, students and staff. This fall a wide range of workshops will be offered including: Introduction to 3D Modeling, Literature Reviews: An Overview for Students, Using GitHub.com to Manage … Continue reading

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UMB Experts –Discontinued as of September 1, 2015

After careful consideration informed by surveys, experience, and discussions with users and the research deans, the UMB Experts system will be discontinued as of September 1, 2015. The system was not meeting the needs of the University. Faculty librarians working … Continue reading

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Technology Brown Bag Forum at the HS/HSL

The HS/HSL is starting a new monthly lunch time event for the Fall semester. Each month we will demonstrate and discuss new and emerging technologies that are relevant to the UMB community. This month we’ll explore the Bio Digital Human … Continue reading

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PubMed Also-Viewed

NCBI has created PubMed Labs as a place to test new innovative features in PubMed and NCBI.  One new feature is PubMed Also-Viewed.  Much like Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought,” this feature uses anonymous user data to … Continue reading

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RefWorks Access Limited Saturday August 8th

Due to site maintenance RefWorks will be unavailable for 8 hours beginning Saturday August 8th at 10:00pm.

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Data Science Hackathon – September 21-23 in Baltimore

The NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program and the NIH Library are pleased to join the Johns Hopkins (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics in announcing the first JHU DaSH – Data Science Hackathon – on … Continue reading

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Access to Embase Features and Elsevier Databases Limited 7/31-8/1

On July 31st, Embase will be making new updates and releasing new features. During this time on July 31st from 6am-12pm,  it is recommended you do not save searches or email alerts during this time. Additionally all Elsevier databases including … Continue reading

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New Summer Workshops for August

The HS/HSL will be offering several workshops over the month of August. Introduction to 3D Modeling, will show you how to find existing models and how to make models from scratch. No previous experienced is required! Introduction to 3D Printing … Continue reading

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Reserve the Presentation Practice Studio

The Presentation Practice Studio provides University of Maryland, Baltimore students, faculty, and staff with the space and technology resources to practice, record, and develop presentations as well as to refine public speaking skills. We Can Help You The studio has the technology and … Continue reading

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