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Have a question? Need guidance on where to find a journal article or which citation manager to use? The HSHSL’s Information Services desk is here to provide you with fast and friendly reference help. Come by in person, email: hshsl@umaryland.edu, call: 410-706-7995, or chat!
If you hear noises throughout the HSHSL it is because essential repairs are being made to the roof. The noise will be most noticeable on the 5th floor, so we invite you to consider studying and working from the lower floors.
Construction will generally begin at 7:00 am and end at 5:00 pm, Monday – Friday. Weather delays may cause construction to continue into the weekend days. It is hoped that the project will be complete by the end of April.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please come by the 1st floor Information Services Desk for free ear plugs.
To login to library resources from off-campus click on the blue “Off-Campus Access” button on the upper right-hand side of the library’s website. You will be prompted to enter your UMID and password. If you don’t have a UMID and password, go to: https://directory.umaryland.edu to create one. Choose “New User, Set Up Account.”
2. What if I’m having problems signing in?
If you are unable to sign up for a UMID, please contact the IT Help Desk at 410-706-4357 or help@umaryland.edu. For other questions, contact the HSHSL Information Services Desk (410-706-7995) or email Everly Brown at ebrown@hshsl.umaryland.edu
3. Who has access?
Generaly, only UMB faculty/staff who are in the UMB payroll system and currently enrolled students (except those in the School of Law*), are allowed off-campus access to e-resources. E-resources include: e-journals, e-books, databases and e-reserves.
*UM faculty, staff and students in the School of Law have access to e-resources through the Thurgood Marshall Law Library.
To wrap up another Love Data Week, we are going to talk about a topic that goes hand-in-hand with data sharing, but may often be overlooked – data discoverability. If you’re familiar with the FAIR data principles, you may remember that F stands for Findable, and that’s what we’re talking about here. It’s hard to use data if you can’t find it, after all!
One of our favorite things here at CDABS is getting to collaborate with our data colleagues at other universities, especially members of the Data Discovery Collaboration (DDC). Recently, members of the DDC (including yours truly), produced this handy guide on making your research data more discoverable.
For more information, be sure to check out the full article!
This blog post has been adapted under a Creative Commons Attribution License, from Ten simple rules for improving research data discovery. PLoS Comput Biol 18(2): e1009768. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009768 by Contaxis N, Clark J, Dellureficio A, Gonzales S, Mannheimer S, Oxley PR, Ratajeski MA, Surkis A, Yarnell AM, Yee M, and Holmes K.
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.
To read more of our content and stay informed please fill out the form to subscribe here: https://www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu/cdabs/communications
The HSHSL offers poster printing to all UMB faculty, students, and staff and University of Maryland Medical Center staff. Posters are printed in support of academic, professional, and research purposes.
Posters are printed up to a maximum of 42″ x 72″.
You have your choice of material:
Poster printing may take up to two business days, please plan accordingly.
All posters must be submitted as a PDF file. Please pay close attention to the information on sizing and formatting your poster.
Posters can be picked up at the Information Services Desk.
For questions, please e-mail poster@hshsl.umaryland.edu or call 410-706-7996.
Love Data Week (Feb. 14 to 18) is an international celebration of all things data! Each year, the Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) looks forward to engaging our community on issues like data management, sharing, wrangling, and visualization, as well as open and reproducible science.
Want to participate in Love Data Week? Here’s how:
Finally, as always, you can join the conversation on social media #LoveData22 and #UMBLovesData.
Questions? Contact 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.
To read more of our content and stay informed please fill out the form to subscribe here: https://www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu/cdabs/communications
The HSHSL is currently collecting submissions for Woven Stories, a project aiming to highlight the diversity of UMB’s campus by sharing photographs and supporting stories of items of personal cultural significance. The following is Anna-Marie Epp’s submission. Anna-Marie is a Program Specialist in the Health Sciences and Human Services Library. Read on for inspiration and please consider submitting your own story!
I grew up in a Baptist church in a predominantly black community in Virginia where generations of my family prayed and worshiped, lived and worked. I Imagine, if there was one thing my family did since my great grandparents joined First Baptist Church in 1904, it was sing! It may be the reason music has always been what drew us closer in love and in faith. It’s why we’ve always known far more hymns than scriptures. It’s in our blood!
These hymnals belonged to my Grandmother, Cleo Marie Wynn Bolling, a high school music teacher, church pianist, and choir director. The oldest of these is the Gospel Pearls Hymnal purchased by our church in the 1930’s and was likely her first hymnal. It holds old favorites like Amazing Grace, a hymn which my brother and I can still sing all 5 stanzas and not miss one word.
Music was the love of my grandmother’s life and among her favorite things to do was teach the stanzas of the hymns to our Junior Chorus. One of our favorites, Peace Like a River, is a hymn I still hum quietly to myself when I need to feel restored. My brother, cousins and I sang in that choir even after my grandmother’s passing in 1996 – after which my mother, Anna, became director.
Although I’ve changed and I no longer attend church often, I am in awe of each lesson, each value, each sweet line that I carry with me each day. Every time I think of a hymn, I sing it quietly with the joy of my young self, with the love of my grandmother and with the gratefulness to the faith (and the church) that raised me and made me who I am.
Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death, attributable to more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States. Neighborhood availability of tobacco retailers (tobacco retailer density) is associated with tobacco use behaviors, such as smoking initiation and relapse, among both youth and adults. Additionally, several studies have documented a greater availability of tobacco retailers in neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status and a higher proportion of some racial and ethnic groups. In this webinar, Dr. Kong will discuss and review findings from studies to demonstrate how place-based interventions and policies may help continue progress in reducing tobacco use equitably.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to
Amanda Kong, PhD, MPH, discusses findings from studies to demonstrate how place-based interventions and policies may help continue progress in reducing tobacco use equitably.
More information and register for Commercial Determinants of Health: Tobacco Use
OSF, a project of the Center for Open Science, is a free and open source project management and collaboration tool that supports researchers throughout the research lifecycle. It’s a great way to organize and share resources with your team and others! It also integrates easily with a number of other commonly used tools like Google Drive, Zotero, Mendeley, Figshare, and GitHub.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore is now an OSF Institution, which means you can log in to OSF with your UMID and password.
Join CDABS for a virtual Introductory OSF workshop on Feb 15 at noon, where we will demonstrate the main features and potential use cases and get you started using OSF! Registration page.
You will also be able to affiliate your public research with UMB on OSF and discover other affiliated research through our new UMB-OSF landing page. If your research is not yet public, now might be a good time to consider sharing your existing or future work. Conducting your research through UMB’s OSFI platform is a strategic way to enhance transparency, foster collaboration, and increase the visibility of your research.
For more information, you can view help guides on signing in with your institution and affiliating your projects. In addition, you can join CDABS for a virtual Introductory OSF workshop on Feb 15 at noon, where we will demonstrate the main features and potential use cases and get you started using OSF! Registration page.
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.
To read more of our content and stay informed please fill out the form to subscribe here: https://www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu/cdabs/communications