Interlibrary Loan and documents delivery services will be unavailable on Thursday, May 31, 2012 due to maintenance.

The HS/HSL will be offering free workshops during the summer semester to all UMB faculty, staff and students; and UMMC staff. Workshops include RefWorks, Medical Apps for Mobile Technology, and Grant Proposal Writing. For full course descriptions and registration click here.

Linking to JAMA journals has been restored.  Linking may currently be a little slow as JAMA is having some issues with their serves. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 Academic publisher Versita has announced the launch of a new programme of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The programme will focus on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet been covered by a designated journal. The emerging topics have been identified in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Mathematics.

Click here to see see Medicine, Pharmacy and Public Health titles.

Click here to see Life Sciences titles.

Journals titles from Nature Publishing Group are now available from the HS/HSL Journals list.

There will be scheduled maintenance this weekend that will affect RefWorks services for a few hours on Sunday, May 6th. RefWorks services including RefMobile and Write-N-Cite will be unavailable from 12:00 am to 5:00 am. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Nature Journal titles are currently unavailable via the HS/HSL’s journals page. This is issue is being worked on and should be resolved shortly. Nature titles are still available via database searching. Just click on Find It if searching in a database to get access to the journal article. You can also access journals via the Library’s Catalog. To access the journal you would also click on Find It once you have found the journal title you are looking for.  Please contact the Reference Desk at 410-706-7996 if you need further assistance.

Want to learn about some new and interesting resources you might not be aware of? Then take a look at the HS/HSL’s Cool Tools Guide. Tools discussed in the guide include PubMed Health, QR Codes, and Novoseek.

A new tutorial that will show you how to use the RefShare feature of RefWorks is now available on the Library’s tutorial page. Click here to view the tutorial.

The HS/HSL is currently participating in the LibQual+ Survey. This survey will allow us to improve library services for our users. If you are randomly selected to participate, please take the time to complete the survey. For every survey completed the HS/HSL will donate $1 to the Maryland Food Bank.