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Baltimore MD 21201-1512
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Graphic medicine describes the intersection of comics and health care. The combination can lead to a deeper understanding of the experience of conditions such as pain, motherhood, epilepsy, and anxiety to name but a few. Browse the HSHSL’s graphic medicine collection on the library’s 1st floor or even share a suggestion of your own.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) will be holding an R workshop every Thursday in July. All sessions run from 12:00pm to 3:00pm and meet online. Space is limited so register now!
R is an open-source programming language that is ideal for working with statistics and data. Here at CDABS, we love R for many reasons: It’s free, flexible, and friendly! It’s also a great tool for creating reproducible data analyses and visualizations.
In this series we’ll start with the basics of R and the RStudio environment, move to more complex data wrangling and visualization tasks, and finally look at the extended R ecosystem and tools for sharing your work with interactive reports, notebooks, and applications. Sign up for the whole series, or just the sessions that interest you most, but be advised that the later sessions will require at least a little familiarity with R.
See full session descriptions below and register here:
This session will provide a solid foundation in working with R and RStudio and lay the groundwork to enable participants to explore more advanced topics in R programming. No experience with R or programming is required.
Topics covered will include:
This session will introduce the concept of “tidy” data, and the versatile collection of packages known as the Tidyverse. Participants will get hands-on experience wrangling real datasets.
Topics covered include:
Prerequisites: Session one in this series, or have previous experience with base R.
Learn how to use the ggplot2, a robust Tidyverse package used to create high quality graphics for exploring and communicating your data. We will go beyond basic graphs and learn how to customize and annotate our graphs for more effective storytelling. Participants will have the best experience if they attended session two in this series or have some previous experience with R and the Tidyverse.
Topics covered include:
Prerequisites: Session two in this series, or have previous experience with R.
This session will provide a high-level overview of the vast ecosystem in R for reproducible research and creating interactive data visualizations. Users will learn about version control, packages available in R for creating reports, online books, and even blogs. There will also be an introduction to creating data applications/ dynamic dashboards using the Shiny package in R. Participants will have the best experience if they have some familiarity with R syntax and the RStudio interface.
Topics covered will include:
Prerequisites: Session one in this series, or have previous experience with R.
Questions? Contact: Amy Yarnell, data services librarian and Jean-Paul Courneya, bioinformationist at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) is the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library hub for data and bioinformation learning, services, resources, and communication
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The UMB Digital Archive launched over 10 years ago. Its mission initially was collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of the university. However, it has also become a place for scholarly communication, providing access to content such as dissertations, open-access articles by UMB authors, conference presentations, academic posters, and more. As the Archive grows and includes more diverse resources, it is becoming a platform for contemporary scholarly sharing. It needs a new name to reflect both the history and scholarship components.
We are looking for something unique. It could be a single word or phrase. Here are some examples of repository names: DRUM (UMCP) and DASH (Harvard). Put on your thinking cap and send us your suggestions via email.
The successful entry will be announced July 1, 2022
Taking a break, a road trip, or even a staycation? Check out a book (or several!) from the HSHSL’s Leisure Reading Collection to take along with you. The collection is located on the 1st floor of the library. Questions? 410-706-7995 or hshsl@umaryland.edu
The HSHSL will be closed May 28 – 30 for the Memorial Day weekend. We will return to our regular hours on Tuesday, May 31st.
The HSHSL’s Historical Collections is home to the Pharmacy Historical Book Collection, which includes influential pharmacy and medical texts, dispensatories, pharmacopoeias, botanicals, and herbals from around the world dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Fatal Beauty, an exhibit in the HSHSL’s Weise Gallery, highlights stunning but deadly botanicals from the Pharmacy Collection.
Botanicals have been used since the first century B.C.E. to treat a variety of ailments; yet sometimes the most beautiful and helpful botanicals can also be the most dangerous, if used improperly. The Fatal Beauty exhibit highlights botanicals that, despite their traditional or modern medical benefits, can have dangerous consequences when used improperly. Admire with caution!
The exhibit runs May – August 2022.
The library building’s summer hours are:
May 19 – August 14
| Monday – Thursday | 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Friday – Saturday | 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | Closed |
Exception to Regular Hours
You can reach out to us at hshsl@umaryland.edu.
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) invites you to join them on Wednesday, May 25, from 1-3 p.m. ET for a conversation on the complexities surrounding historical and present-day eugenics, scientific racism and ableism in the context of genetic and genomic screening and diagnostic technologies.
An internationally recognized group of experts have been assembled to help answer these questions and more. NHGRI will also answer select questions from registered audience members.
This event is free and open to the public. Sign language interpreting and CART services will be provided.
You can register here: https://nih.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_ERdPQCJcTNqUJmA6WkDRTQ
The agenda for the event is available here: https://www.genome.gov/event-calendar/roundtable-discussion-does-genetic-and-genomic-screening-keep-open-the-door-to-eugenics
Questions? Contact: Jean-Paul Courneya, bioinformationist, and Amy Yarnell, data services librarian at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) is the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library hub for data and bioinformation learning, services, resources, and communication
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Last month we talked about the new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. Yesterday, the NIH released related documentation which provides suggested language to include in informed consent documents regarding the storage and sharing of research data for future use. As we like to say here at CDABS, it’s best to plan for sharing your data from the very start of your research project. This is why it’s so important to have a data management and sharing plan.
Some notes about the guidance:
The guidance recommends addressing the following topics in consent documents:
Other resources:
Access the full guidance document here: https://osp.od.nih.gov/2022/05/12/nih-issues-new-resources-for-implementing-the-nih-policy-for-data-management-and-sharing-2/
Questions? Contact: Jean-Paul Courneya, bioinformationist, and Amy Yarnell, data services librarian at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) is the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library hub for data and bioinformation learning, services, resources, and communication
Sign up to get DABS delivered to your email or RSS feed.
Book it Forward, the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) Children’s Book Drive, has been going on for one month now. The UMB community has generously donated children and teens books for organizations in Baltimore. Book It Forward continues through the end of May.
Look for donation boxes at the HSHSL, at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, the SMC Campus Center, the School of Dentistry, the School of Pharmacy, the Saratoga Building, and the BioPark.
As of April 18, 244 books have been collected from donation boxes around campus:
The books will be donated to two day care centers, one elementary/middle school, and two high schools in Baltimore. At this time, we need more books geared toward high school students. Please keep the teens especially in mind.
Many thanks to everyone who donated so far!
A special shout out to the Biopark’s Nora Finn, Director, UM BioPark Tenant Operations, Office of Research and Development, who created the exhibit below advertising our project.
Questions about the project? Contact bookdrive@hshsl.umaryland.edu