Due to Hurricane Sandy, the Library will be closed on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.

Due to Hurricane Sandy, the Library will be closed on Monday, October 29, 2012.

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 as an alternative to expensive journals.

The HS/HSL will also host a reception on Wednesday, October 24th from 3:00-4:00, in the Weise Gallery on the main floor of the library. Enjoy free food and an Open Access quiz with prizes!

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 in other words, how to tell one John Smith from another John Smith or one J. Smith from another J. Smith.  From the ORCID website:  “For scholars, ORCID provides a persistent identifier that unambiguously distinguishes you as the author or creator of your published works in systems that adopt ORCID.  Through integration in workflows such as manuscript and grant submission as well as researcher profiles, ORCID promises to help scholars and institutions manage academic information and, ultimately, to provide both with more control over their own record of scholarship.” Click here for more details.

Maintenance period will last from 11:59 PM 10/5 to 4:00 AM ET 10/6. Please be advised that the Annals of Internal Medicine website will be periodically unavailable during this maintenance window, with cumulative downtime expected to be 1 hour.

10/3/12 – “Find It” button is not working. IT is working on the problem.

RefWorks will be unavailable September 20, 2012 beginning at 9:00 pm for very brief maintenance.

It is anticipated that the program will be unavailable for no more than 30 minutes.

Each semester the HS/HSL offers workshops on a variety of topics including; RefWorks, Pubmed, Mobile Apps for Mobile Technology, and CINAHL. Registration is free for all UMB Faculty, Students, and Staff, and UMMC Staff! Click here for full course descriptions and registration.

You may experience temporary interruptions in access to SAGE publications (10 to 15 minutes on average). If you have trouble, they advise to try again in 30 minutes. SAGE estimates the problem will be resolved by Saturday, September 8th.