Measure Your Research Impact With the HS/HSL

Posted on February 19, 2015 by ebrown

Are you interested in learning more about measuring the impact of your research? Collaborate with a faculty librarian to quantify your research impact for promotion, tenure, or grant applications or to otherwise gauge the impact of your work. We can gather data that measure research impact, using metrics such as h-index, citation counts, journal impact factor, and alternative metrics for individual researchers or for a group or department. We will provide you with a report tailored to your needs.

To learn more about our service or to request a consultation with a librarian, please see our Research Impact Guide.

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Try the Embase Database!

Posted on February 19, 2015 by ebrown

Try Embase!

  • Covers overs 7,000 active, high quality peer-reviewed journals
  • Contains over 1,800 biomedical titles not offered by PubMed
  • Covers more drug literature than PubMed
  • Covers more international publications than PubMed
  • Includes conference proceedings
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Monday February 16th HS/HSL Closing at 10:00 PM – Inclement Weather

Posted on February 16, 2015 by ebrown

Due to inclement weather, the HS/HSL will be closing early at 10:oo pm on Monday, February 16th.

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Join Us For a Student Town Hall Meeting, Feb. 24th 5PM-6PM

Posted on February 11, 2015 by ebrown

Join us on Tuesday, February 24th from 5:00pm – 6:00pm in the HS/HSL’s Weise Gallery to discuss library hours, safety and more.  Snacks and drinks will be served. Let us hear from you!

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Librarian Co-Authors Correlated with Higher Quality Reported Search Strategies in General Internal Medicine Systematic Reviews

Posted on February 9, 2015 by ebrown

An article in the February 2015 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology found that, “Systematic reviews with librarian or information specialist co-authors are correlated with significantly higher quality reported search strategies. To minimize bias in systematic reviews, authors and editors could encourage librarian engagement in systematic reviews including authorship as a potential way to help improve documentation of the search strategy.”

Librarians at the HS/HSL are expert searchers who can support faculty investigators in conducting comprehensive literature searches for systematic reviews. Are you planning a systematic review?  Our Systematic Review Service can help!

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Searching for Funding Opportunities? Try the COS Pivot Database

Posted on January 29, 2015 by ebrown

Community of Science (COS) Pivot database answers the growing demands on research developers to quickly discover the right funding opportunities and effectively collaborate with their colleagues. Pivot combines a comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion with a unique database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles, drawn from Community of Scholars and Community of Science profiles. Its algorithm compiles pre-populated researcher profiles unique to an organization and matches them to current funding opportunities in the COS database. This allows users to search for a funding opportunity and instantly view matching faculty from inside or outside an institution. Conversely, a search for a scholar will link to matching funding opportunities.

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The End is (Almost) Near – For the HS/HSL’s 200th Anniversary Celebration!

Posted on January 29, 2015 by ebrown

In May 2015 we will conclude the two-year celebration of the establishment of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library, and we are going out on top! After two years of top-notch symposia, workshops, parties, and exhibits.

Save the date! On April 15th mark your calendar for our final symposium – “What’s Next…?” – where we will examine health and well-being from individual, institutional, and societal perspectives. We’re putting together some great national and local panels to probe into where we are going and how our world will look in another 10 years. Stay tuned. So get your taxes done early, and plan on coming.

Our final exhibit is a brand new one from the National Library of Medicine entitled, “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Disease.” This exhibit has been at the National Library of Medicine at NIH for a number of years. It is finally going on the road, and the HS/HSL will be one of the first libraries to host it. Whet your appetite for the exhibit by visiting the NLM site.

And if you haven’t done it already, take the elevator to the fifth floor of the HS/HSL and turn left to see a wall-mounted exhibit highlighting the library’s history.

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Spring Workshops at the HS/HSL

Posted on January 26, 2015 by ebrown

The HS/HSL will be offering a series of free workshops to all UMB faculty, students and staff. These workshops cover a variety of topics. Learn how to better search for biomedical literature in PubMed or Discover Embase. Get an introduction on how to search for funding opportunities, awards, and scholarships in Searching Pivot. These are just some of the workshops offered. For full course offerings and registration click here.

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New Resource: ACM Digital Library

Posted on January 22, 2015 by ebrown

The ACM Digital Library provides full text of every article ever published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.

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HS/HSL Closed Monday January 19th

Posted on January 16, 2015 by ebrown

The Health Sciences and Human Services Library will be closed Monday, January 19th, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will resume regular hours on Tuesday, January 20th.

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