On February 15th, RefWorks will be making improvements to its internal systems. During this time you may experience sporadic availability, including short periods of downtime. If you experience issues with RefWorks during this maintenance time it is recommended you closed your browser session and return to RefWorks at a later time. Maintenance will begin at 10:00pm 2/15/14.
RefWorks System Maintenance and Downtown 2/15
Grant Proposal Writing added to Spring Workshop Schedule
Grant Proposal Writing has been added to the Spring 2014 HS/HSL workshop. This workshop presents an introduction and overview of the grant and funding processes. Each component of the grant writing process will be addressed: documenting the need; identifying the target population; writing measurable objectives; developing a work plan, an evaluation plan and dissemination plan. This workshop will take place Wednesday April 23rd from 1pm-4pm. For full course descriptions and registration for this and additional workshops, click here.
Problems With the A-Z List
We are experiencing problems with the A to Z list. If you are unable to access a journal, please report it to the Reference Desk. We are working to resolve the issues.
American Chemical Society Journals Now Available
American Chemical Society (ACS) journals were unavailable earlier today. The vendor has restored access to them.
American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals Down
American Chemical Society (ACS) journals are currently down. They are working to restore access and expect them to be available by Saturday, February 8th.
Problems With the A-Z List
We are experiencing problems with the A to Z list. If you are unable to access a journal, please report it to the Reference Desk. We are working to resolve the issues.
New Tutorial Available, RefWorks: Deleting Duplicate Citations
A new tutorial from the HS/HSL is now available. Want to learn how to delete duplicate citations in your RefWorks account so you can be more organized? The RefWorks: Deleting Duplicate Citations tutorial will help you with this. Click here to view the tutorial. For additional tutorials click here.
Spring Workshops
The HS/HSL offers free workshops every semester to all UMB Faculty, Students, and Staff, and UMMC staff. Courses cover a wide variety of topics including PubMed, RefWorks, and Research Impact. New workshops this semester include: SciFinder Basic and Power Searching the Drug Literature. For full course descriptions and registration click here.
If you can’t make one of our regularly scheduled workshops, consider enrolling in an On Demand Workshop session, where a librarian will meet with you and cover the same material as in regularly scheduled workshops.
New Resource: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology
An online resource based on Dr. Stephen M. Stahl’s (University of California San Diego, School of Medicine) books. Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Online presents the fundamentals of psychopharmacology and includes the ability to search within Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, Essential Neuropharmacology, the Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide plus a Prescriber’s Guide, illustrations and tables to download, drug interaction information, and more.
February 3rd – Access to HS/HSL Resources from UMMC is Changing
Effective February 3, 2014, access to Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) e-resources from UMMC computers is changing. For UMMC employees who have an appointment in one of the UMB schools, access will require your UMID and password. For all other UMMC employees access is no longer available except from within the Library building.
UMB faculty, staff and students who want to access HS/HSL e-resources from UMMC computers will need to use their UMID and password. Questions about your UMID, visit Getting Started at UM at (http://www.umaryland.edu/helpdesk/getting_started/index.html).
This change is due to HS/HSL licensing agreements with publishers/vendors.
Exceptions
E-resources that are licensed by HS/HSL and will continue to be available to all UMMC employees are:
- Facts and Comparisons from Thomson Reuters (expiration date 5/31/2014)
- Databases including Medline and HAPI from OVID (expiration date 12/31/2014)
- Journals from Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (expiration date 12/31/2014)
- ClinicalKey from Elsevier (expiration date 8/31/2014)
These resources are paid in part by UMMC and will be available through their expiration date. At that time, UMMC will determine whether these resources will be renewed and access expanded to the UMMS.
UMMC also licenses other resources including UpToDate and Micromedex. UMMC licensed resources will not be affected by this change.
If you have questions, please contact Everly Brown, Head of Information Services (ebrown@hshsl.umaryland.edu).