In honor of the Juneteenth holiday, the HSHSL will be closed on Monday, June 20.
Happy Juneteenth! HSHSL Closed Monday, June 20
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Sample the Graphic Medicine Collection
Graphic medicine describes the intersection of comics and health care. The combination can lead to a deeper understanding of the experience of conditions such as pain, motherhood, epilepsy, and anxiety to name but a few. Browse the HSHSL’s graphic medicine collection on the library’s 1st floor or even share a suggestion of your own.
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Learn R this summer with CDABS
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Learn R this summer with CDABS
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) will be holding an R workshop every Thursday in July. All sessions run from 12:00pm to 3:00pm and meet online. 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! It’s also a great tool for creating reproducible data analyses and visualizations.
In this series we’ll start with the basics of R and the RStudio environment, move to more complex data wrangling and visualization tasks, and finally look at the extended R ecosystem and tools for sharing your work with interactive reports, notebooks, and applications. Sign up for the whole series, or just the sessions that interest you most, but be advised that the later sessions will require at least a little familiarity with R.
See full session descriptions below and register here:
July 7: Introduction to R and RStudio
This session will provide a solid foundation in working with R and RStudio and lay the groundwork to enable participants to explore more advanced topics in R programming. No experience with R or programming is required.
Topics covered will include:
- Navigating the RStudio interface, installing packages, getting help
- Naming and working with objects
- Using functions
- Identifying R data types and structures
- Working with scripts
July 14: Data Wrangling with R — Introduction to the Tidyverse
This session will introduce the concept of “tidy” data, and the versatile collection of packages known as the Tidyverse. Participants will get hands-on experience wrangling real datasets.
Topics covered include:
- Loading data from external files
- Subsetting data
- Transforming data from wide to long
- Working with dates
- Joining multiple datasets
Prerequisites: Session one in this series, or have previous experience with base R.
July 21: Data Visualization in R with ggplot2
Learn how to use the 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 two 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 two in this series, or have previous experience with R.
July 28: Introduction to Reproducible Research and Interactive Data Applications in R
This session will provide a high-level overview of the vast ecosystem in R for reproducible research and creating interactive data visualizations. Users will learn about version control, packages available in R for creating reports, online books, and even blogs. There will also be an introduction to creating data applications/ dynamic dashboards using the Shiny package in R. Participants will have the best experience if they have some familiarity with R syntax and the RStudio interface.
Topics covered will include:
- Version control with Git
- Integrating RStudio and GitHub for project data and code management and version control.
- Reproducible research reports with code and prose with RMarkdown
- Sharing your work on the web with Bookdown/Blogdown
- Interact, analyze, and communicate your data with Shiny
Prerequisites: Session one in this series, or have previous experience with R.
Questions? Contact: Amy Yarnell, data services librarian and Jean-Paul Courneya, bioinformationist at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.
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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Help Us Rename the UMB Digital Archive
The UMB Digital Archive launched over 10 years ago. Its mission initially was collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of the university. However, it has also become a place for scholarly communication, providing access to content such as dissertations, open-access articles by UMB authors, conference presentations, academic posters, and more. As the Archive grows and includes more diverse resources, it is becoming a platform for contemporary scholarly sharing. It needs a new name to reflect both the history and scholarship components.
We are looking for something unique. It could be a single word or phrase. Here are some examples of repository names: DRUM (UMCP) and DASH (Harvard). Put on your thinking cap and send us your suggestions via email.
The successful entry will be announced July 1, 2022
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Take a Book on Vacation!
Taking a break, a road trip, or even a staycation? Check out a book (or several!) from the HSHSL’s Leisure Reading Collection to take along with you. The collection is located on the 1st floor of the library. Questions? 410-706-7995 or hshsl@umaryland.edu
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HSHSL Closed for Memorial Day Weekend, 5/28-5/30
The HSHSL will be closed May 28 – 30 for the Memorial Day weekend. We will return to our regular hours on Tuesday, May 31st.
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Fatal Beauty: An Exhibit
The HSHSL’s Historical Collections is home to the Pharmacy Historical Book Collection, which includes influential pharmacy and medical texts, dispensatories, pharmacopoeias, botanicals, and herbals from around the world dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Fatal Beauty, an exhibit in the HSHSL’s Weise Gallery, highlights stunning but deadly botanicals from the Pharmacy Collection.
Botanicals have been used since the first century B.C.E. to treat a variety of ailments; yet sometimes the most beautiful and helpful botanicals can also be the most dangerous, if used improperly. The Fatal Beauty exhibit highlights botanicals that, despite their traditional or modern medical benefits, can have dangerous consequences when used improperly. Admire with caution!
The exhibit runs May – August 2022.
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HSHSL Summer Hours Begin May 19
The library building’s summer hours are:
May 19 – August 14
| Monday – Thursday | 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Friday – Saturday | 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | Closed |
Exception to Regular Hours
- Memorial Day Holiday Weekend, May 28-30, the HSHSL will be closed.
- Juneteenth, June 20, the HSHSL will be closed.
- Independence Day Holiday Weekend, July 2-4, the HSHSL will be closed.
You can reach out to us at hshsl@umaryland.edu.
NHGRI Roundtable discussion: “Does genetic and genomic screening keep open the door to eugenics?” – May 25th
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Register now! NHGRI Roundtable – May 25
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) invites you to join them on Wednesday, May 25, from 1-3 p.m. ET for a conversation on the complexities surrounding historical and present-day eugenics, scientific racism and ableism in the context of genetic and genomic screening and diagnostic technologies.
- What are the historical connections between the eugenics movement and genetic counseling, and what are their continuing legacies today?
- How are ethical and scientific experts addressing the development of contemporary genetic counseling, reproductive choice and clinically informed decision-making?
- How can the scientific community discuss health, disease and disability in an empathetic way?
An internationally recognized group of experts have been assembled to help answer these questions and more. NHGRI will also answer select questions from registered audience members.
This event is free and open to the public. Sign language interpreting and CART services will be provided.
You can register here: https://nih.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_ERdPQCJcTNqUJmA6WkDRTQ
The agenda for the event is available here: https://www.genome.gov/event-calendar/roundtable-discussion-does-genetic-and-genomic-screening-keep-open-the-door-to-eugenics
Questions? Contact: Jean-Paul Courneya, bioinformationist, and Amy Yarnell, data services librarian at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.
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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NIH Releases Guidance on Informed Consent Language for Data Sharing
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NIH Releases Guidance on Informed Consent Language for Data Sharing
Last month we talked about the new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. Yesterday, the NIH released related documentation which provides suggested language to include in informed consent documents regarding the storage and sharing of research data for future use. As we like to say here at CDABS, it’s best to plan for sharing your data from the very start of your research project. This is why it’s so important to have a data management and sharing plan.
Some notes about the guidance:
- The use of the sample language in this document is recommended but voluntary.
- The language is intended to be incorporated in to the main informed consent document, not to replace or serve as a separate document, and its use does not obviate the need for IRB review.
- The sample language is generic, and other considerations/language may be necessary in cases where data is being collected from vulnerable populations and communities, from certain cultural groups and from Tribal Nations, and when collecting genomic data.
- The guidance and sample language generally do not distinguish between the sharing of data and of biospecimens, but participants may feel differently about the storage and sharing of each, and you might consider allowing them to consent separately to each.
The guidance recommends addressing the following topics in consent documents:
- Time frame for data and biospecimen storage
- Who will manage control of and access to data and biospecimens, or if data will be made available without restrictions
- If identifiers will be retained, and the likelihood of re-identification
- Whether sharing data and biospecimens will be optional and what happens in cases of withdrawal of consent
- Associated risks and benefits of data and biospecimens being stored and shared
- Potential commercial uses or applications that may result from stored and shared data and biospecimens
Other resources:
- HSHSL Consent Form Review Service: Staff at the HSHSL are available to help make sure your consent document is at the appropriate reading level
- UMB School of Nursing Research Consent Series: This informative seven-part series was offered as part of the School of Nursing Monthly Seminar Series. Find recordings and slides at the link provided.
- NHGRI Informed Consent Guidance: Information on consent for genomics research from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Access the full guidance document here: https://osp.od.nih.gov/2022/05/12/nih-issues-new-resources-for-implementing-the-nih-policy-for-data-management-and-sharing-2/
Questions? Contact: Jean-Paul Courneya, bioinformationist, and Amy Yarnell, data services librarian at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.
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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