NIH has announced the release of the Public Access Compliance Monitor, a web-based tool taht institutions can use to track compliance of publications that fall under the NIH Public Access Policy. According to the NIH, “By providing efficient and flexible … Continue reading →

The NIH has announced it will hold a webinar (http://1.usa.gov/VaVSLC) on January 15 “to assist grantee institutions with guidance and resources related to the NIH Public Access Policy, upcoming changes, tools, and how non-compliance will affect awards.” NIH earlier announced … Continue reading →

The Annals of Internal Medicine is having a site outage at www.annals.org. Some of Silverchair’s other journals are also affected.

ScienceDirect will be performing scheduled maintenance on Saturday, December 1st and advise that there may be minor disruptions to database functionality during this time.

The Health Sciences and Human Services Library will close at 6pm, Wednesday November 21st and be closed Thursday November 22nd and Friday November 23rd for the the Thanksgiving Holiday. The Library will resume normal hours on Saturday November 24th. Click … Continue reading →

The HS/HSL offers free workshops to all UMB Faculty, Students, and Staff, and UMMC Staff. Upcoming Workshops Include: November 14th – Public Health Information on the Web November 28th – RefWorks For full course descriptions and registration click here.

Join the Health Sciences & Human Services Library in celebrating Open Access Week! An exhibit will be on display in the Health Science & Human Services Library’s Weise Gallery, highlighting the high cost of scientific information and presenting Open Access … Continue reading →

ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID initiative, has launched its researcher registry and can now be used by researchers to create a profile and ID for themselves. http://about.orcid.org/.   The ORCID project is an attempt to disambiguate researcher names, or … Continue reading →