601 West Lombard Street
Baltimore MD 21201-1512
Reference: 410-706-7996
Circulation: 410-706-7928
A new resource from Thieme Publishers, MedOne Neurosurgery, is now available in the HS/HSL’s A-Z list of databases. It contains: 186 e-books, 418 procedures, 225 cases, 85,600 images, 1,102 videos and the Greenberg Rapid Review (8th ed.) training center for self-testing.
There will be a scheduled network outage from 2:00 AM – 6:00 AM on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. College Park campus network engineers will be upgrading campus network equipment and software. This outage will affect all of the following HS/HSL resources: access to electronic databases and journals, online catalog, Find It (full-text), EZproxy, and ILLiad.
The Leisure Reading Collection offers an alternative to the library’s health sciences and human services content. The collection includes magazine subscriptions and a small circulating collection of fiction and non-fiction material. Find the Leisure Reading Collection on the first floor of the library across from the Information Services Desk. The collection was generously donated by Dr. and Mrs. William J. Kinnard, Jr.
If you have a suggestion for what you would like to see in the Leisure Reading Collection, you can recommend a resource here.
Monday to Thursday, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Exception to regular hours:
Closed Monday, Jan. 15, for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Monday to Thursday, 6 a.m. to 1 a.m.*
Friday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Exception to regular hours:
Closed Sunday, April 1, for Easter holiday
Between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m., Monday through Friday, enter through the SMC Campus Center with your UMB ID or UMMC ID. Library services and access to classrooms begin at 8 a.m.
*Floors 3, 4, and 5 and library services close at 10 p.m. From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., Floors 1 and 2 are for those with a current UMB ID, UMMC ID, or USM campus ID. Visitors and those with library memberships may not enter the building after 8 p.m. and must leave the building by 10 p.m.
Over the holiday break, UMCP has scheduled a rolling network outage for December 28th with a window of 7am-11am. As College Park hosts the servers for some HS/HSL services, during this timeframe the following systems/services are expected to be unavailable for no more than 30 minutes:
HS/HSL Winter Holiday Hours
| Thursday | December 21, 2017 | 6:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. |
| Friday – Monday | December 22, 2017 – January 1, 2018 |
CLOSED |
The HS/HSL is proud to offer a gender neutral bathroom on our first floor. It is located in the same corridor as the other restrooms. It is equipped with a sink, mirror, and secure lock. We began this project with input from students who requested it through our Library Genie survey. We are pleased to have been able to grant this particular wish!
Beginning January 2018, the HS/HSL will no longer license Web of Science, an abstract and citation database that includes Journal Citation Reports (JCR). A comparable database, Scopus, provides similar information to Web of Science. Since the Library can no longer afford to provide access to both resources, and because Web of Science was used much less often than Scopus, it was identified as a resource to discontinue. The rising cost of library resources combined with a flat resources budget resulted in this difficult decision.
Fortunately, the Library will continue to provide access to a comparable database, Scopus. It is the largest scholarly literature database available, offering researchers the ability to search across all disciplines, including basic sciences, social sciences, health sciences, and much more. Like Web of Science, Scopus allows searchers to discover documents that cite articles and view reference lists cited within articles. Scopus also offers tools for evaluating both individual and institutional scholarly output.
Alternatives to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), which allows researchers to determine the impact factor of a journal, are also available. Eigenfactor uses the same underlying data as Journal Citation Reports to rank journals within their disciplines. CiteScore uses Scopus data to provide journal rankings. Both metrics are freely available.
To learn more about Scopus and other options for evaluating the impact of research, please contact the Faculty Librarian for your School.
The HS/HSL recently added a bioinformatics workstation to the research commons area on the Library’s first floor. The high performance computer is loaded with licensed and open-source software and is dedicated to high-throughput data analysis for faculty, staff, and students of UMB.
Licensed Software
Open-Source Software
For more information, contact HS/HSL’s bioinformationist, Jean-Paul Courneya, by email jpcourneya@hshsl.umaryland.edu or phone 410-706-1784.