Reserve a Study Room

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Library has 45 study rooms available for group use throughout the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors. Most are available without reservation on a first come, first served basis. Four study rooms on the HS/HSL’s second floor and ten on the third floor may be reserved for group study.

Priority is given to UM faculty, staff and students.

Each room has a table and chair, white board, wireless and plug-in internet connection, and electrical outlets. Additionally, most study rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floor are equipped with LCD panels to facilitate collaborative study.

White board markers are available to be picked up at the Information Services Desk.

Feel free to bring in snacks and drinks while you’re studying.

Guidelines:

  • Study rooms are meant for groups of two or more.
  • Rooms may be reserved up to three hours a day. Hours do not need to be consecutive.
  • You may reserve rooms up to three weeks in advance.
  • Study rooms must be reserved at least one hour before use.
  • Rooms are self-monitoring. If someone is in a room that you have reserved, kindly ask them to leave or go to the Information Services Desk and ask for assistance.
  • UM faculty, staff & students may reserve rooms using their University of Maryland email address.

Questions? Please call the Information Services Desk at 410-706-7995.

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Taylor & Francis Down for Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance

Due to scheduled maintenance by the product vendor, Taylor & Francis will not be available until 4:30pm, Monday, February 26th.

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BrowZine is Now Active: View Our Guide to Learn More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BrowZine is a convenient service that organizes articles found in Open Access and HS/HSL subscription databases. It can also deliver them to your mobile device in a consistent format.

What is BrowZine used for?

  • Find, read, save, email, and monitor the latest journal articles
  • Browse by title or subject to find journals of interest
  • Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals
  • Receive alerts when new issues are available

Who has access to BrowZine?

  • BrowZine is free to all University of Maryland Baltimore students, faculty, and staff

How do I save articles I like?

  • Download PDFs to read offline
  • Export to RefWorks and other citation management services

Please Note:

  • HS/HSL’s print collection is not included in BrowZine
  • A journal issue in Browzine is not organized into sections like an issue formatted by the publisher. Sections such as “Letters to the Editor” are not labeled or separated. This is so that every journal appears in a consistent format determined by Browzine. 
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An Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau Workshop, March 7, Noon-1:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tableau is a business analytics tool for creating a wide variety of interactive data visualizations. The software is available as a free version as well as a more robust full-scale version. Tableau can be used to create an extensive variety of interactive visualizations that allow users to better explore temporal, spatial, topical, and network data. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to explore data without needing any advanced programming skills. Dashboards allow users to combine multiple views of their data into one analytics tool.

At the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

  • Connect Excel, Access, TXT, or CSV files to Tableau
  • Create a simple visualizations and a dashboard utilizing Tableau
  • Embed visualizations into websites or export into a PDF or image file.

Instructor: Tony Nguyen, MLIS
Attendance is limited to 25 people.
HS/HSL, Room #LL05

 Registration on the library website: http://www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu/hshsl/workshops/index.cfm

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Whiteboard Project: Which Home Remedy Works Best?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During this cold and flu season, we wondered which home remedy works for you. Ginger ale for an upset stomach? Check! (13 votes)  Gargling with salt water for a scratchy throat? Check! (14 votes) Drinking tea with honey (and whiskey) for a sore throat? The undeniable winner with 21 votes.  That whiskey bit was a write-in from someone who will remain anonymous, but it appeared to carry the day. Cheers.

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MakerHealth CEO to Keynote the HS/HSL Maker Expo

Anna Young, MakerHealth CEO

Anna Young, MakerHealth CEO and former TEDMED speaker, brings prototyping tools and makerspaces into hospitals. Her keynote at the HS/HSL Maker Expo, “A Maker Revolution in Health”, will discuss the use of rapid prototyping tools in hospital units to enhance the natural, do-it-yourself problem solving abilities of clinicians and patients.

Anna is the Co-Founder of MakerNurse, an RWJF sponsored program to support inventive, frontline nurses. Anna’s roots come from MIT as researcher in the Little Devices Lab and lecturer in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. In 2015, Anna was recognized by LinkedIn as a top Health Innovator under 35 and in 2016 received Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.

The HS/HSL Maker Expo is a networking and showcase event for makers, innovators, and entrepreneurs working in the health sciences.

Invited speakers will discuss health care projects that leverage 3D printing, design software, and robotics, as well as new ventures to increase local support for commercializing bio and medical technologies.

Exhibitors will provide hands-on demonstrations of 3D bio printers, virtual reality microscopy and radiology, medical imaging software, and more.

The half-day event will be begin at 9:30 a.m., March 6, at the SMC Campus Center, 621 W. Lombard St.

Registration is free, space is limited. Refreshments and lunch provided.

The HS/HSL Maker Expo is made possible by sponsorship from Health Sciences and Human Services Library, NNLM SEA, arivis, and UM Ventures.

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Let Us Help You Prepare for Graduate Research Day

Students preparing for the upcoming annual Graduate Research Conference on Thursday, March 15, are discovering the Health Sciences & Human Services Library’s value in the research process.

Each school’s faculty librarian can meet with students to retrieve relevant articles from quality databases and demonstrate efficient management of these references using RefWorks.

The Library’s Presentation Practice Studio is ideal for practicing oral presentations. Taping your presentation for later review is also an option.

The HS/HSL offers Poster Printing to all UMB faculty, students, and staff and University of Maryland Medical Center staff. Posters are printed on up to 42″ x 60″ Glossy Paper  or Canvas Fabric and are available for pickup within 2 business days after submission.

In addition, any student, staff or faculty preparing to present at a professional meeting, table clinic or defend a dissertation is encourage to contact their school’s faculty librarian.

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Research Questions to Inform Development of the All of Us Research Program: Request for Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

The All of Us Research Program is seeking input from the public that will help identify key research priorities and requirements (such as data types and methods) for future versions of the All of Us protocol. The current protocol can be found here.

All responses must be submitted online by February 23, 2018 through the program’s IdeaScale website.

One of the nice things about ideascale is that it provides the opportunity to see what everyone else is adding as research ideas—there are already over 250 submitted! Another feature is the ability to vote on your favorite ideas or comment on submissions. Commenting is a great way to start a dialogue with other submitters!

This is a unique opportunity for you to share your research ideas with the All of Us Research Program. I encourage you to enter your ideas soon, bookmark the URL, and come back often to see what’s been added.

If you have any questions please send them to AoURPW@nih.gov.

The complete RFI can be found here.

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Whiteboard Project: Who Will Win the Superbowl?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our bonus Super Bowl question got you energized. Aliens did not land on the field, as one wit predicted, but HS/HSL patrons were correct when they foresaw a big win for the Philadelphia Eagles.  New England Patriots fans stood up to wise-cracks and ribbing with unsurprisable boasting, but with many fewer votes (32 vs. 9).  The Meh/Other category came in second with 16 votes (Puppy Bowl forever!).

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PubMed Commons To Be Discontinued

 

 

PubMed Commons has been a valuable experiment in supporting discussion of published scientific literature. The service was first introduced as a pilot project in the fall of 2013 and was reviewed in 2015. Despite low levels of use at that time, NIH decided to extend the effort for another year or two in hopes that participation would increase. Unfortunately, usage has remained minimal, with comments submitted on only 6,000 of the 28 million articles indexed in PubMed. Read more here.

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