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The HS/HSL will be offering a series of free workshops throughout the Fall Semester to all UMB Faculty, Students, and Staff, and UMMC staff. Topics covered include: PubMed, RefWorks, Grant Proposal Writing, and Leveraging Research Impact Data for Tenure and Promotion. Click here for the full schedule and registration.
Can’t make one of our regularly scheduled workshops? Consider signing up for an On Demand Workshop. Workshop Material will be covered with you at a time of your choosing.
The HS/HSL will be closed Saturday 9/29 – Monday 9/1 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Regular hours will resume Tuesday 9/2.
The National Institutes of Health has issued a final NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy to promote data sharing as a way to speed the translation of data into knowledge, products and procedures that improve health while protecting the privacy of research participants. The final policy was posted in the Federal Register Aug. 26, 2014 and published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts Aug. 27, 2014.
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthcare professionals working on the Ebola public health emergency in West Africa.
The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text from over 650 biomedical journals and over 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters. It serves as a temporary collection replacement and/or supplement for libraries affected by disasters that need to continue to serve medical staff and affiliated users. It is also intended for medical personnel responding to the specified disaster. EAI is not an open access collection. It is only intended for those affected by the disaster or assisting the affected population. If you know of a library or organization involved in healthcare efforts in response to the Ebola outbreak, please let them know of this service. EAI was activated four times in the past, including following the earthquake and subsequent cholera epidemic in Haiti, flooding in Pakistan and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The ILLiad system for requesting articles and books will be unavailable from August 15, 4 p.m. to August 25 as we prepare for the new UMID login.
We were temporarily experiencing problems accessing the A-Z journal list. The problems have been cleared up and the A-Z list is now working correctly.
We are currently experiencing problems with the A-Z journal list. Please access journals through the Library Catalog while we work to resolve the issue.
The ILLiad system for requesting articles and books will be unavailable from August 15, 4 p.m. to August 25 as we prepare for the new UMID login.
Check out the HS/HSL’s new Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) subject guide for trustworthy information resources and the latest headlines from the CDC, WHO, New York Times and others.
For the past year the MPower Virtual Research Library initiative has licensed Essential Science Indicators for researchers and students at UMB,UMCP, and the Universities at Shady Grove. Unfortunately, the MPower Virtual Research Library budget was reduced this year to the point where we can no longer support this resource. The last day of availability will be August 31, 2014. Please send any comments or concerns to M.J. Tooey, Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs and Executive Director, HS/HSL at mjtooey@hshsl.umaryland.edu.