The HS/HSL will be closed Monday, January 16th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

All HS/HSL electronic journals and databases should now be available. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We are currently experiencing problems with access to our electronic databases and journals. We are working on the problem and will try to have them available again as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Friday, December 23rd Library is closing at 5 PM

The HS/HSL will be closed from 12/24/11 through 1/2/12. The library will reopen on 1/3/12.

Check out the newest Library Savvy Tutorial: Getting Started in RefWorks.

Now through January 7th the Weise Gallery is housing, Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War exhibit. The exhibit highlights the experience of injured soldiers during the Civil War and the years following and focuses on disabled veterans and their roles as symbols of a fractured nation. Click here for more information.

This exhibit is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Please note that the HS/HSL will close at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 23rd and will remain closed on Thursday and Friday, November 24th-25th for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Regular Weekend hours will resume on Saturday, November 26th.

The HS/HSL offers free workshops to all University of Maryland Faculty, Students, and Staff, and to all UMMC Staff. Registration is free!

This weeks workshops:

Medical Apps for Mobile Technology in 30, Tuesday November 8th, 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm, LL03

What’s the Impact?  Journal Citation Reports and Eigenfactor Basics, Wednesday November 9th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, LL03

Click here for full course descriptions and registration

Quertle uses advanced semantics to find results in PubMed. It is especially useful for questions that focus on relationships such as cause and effect. Along with PubMed, Quertle also includes whitepapers, full-text articles from BioMed Central and more. You can find the link to Quertle in our A-Z list of databases. Try it out .