LSL NOW News and Events of the Lamar Soutter Library

Explore Your Impact with Your eScholarship@UMMS Author Dashboard

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 11:44

Have you viewed your Author Dashboard in your eScholarship@UMMS account? The Author Dashboard is a personalized reporting tool for authors with works published in eScholarship@UMMS. As an author, you can easily access your dashboard to view up-to-date download information for your works, as well as a global readership distribution map and other metrics. This data can be shared or exported. Consider using the Author Dashboard data to enhance your annual evaluation or promotion and tenure package!

Journal of Global Radiology Accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals

Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 13:04

UMMS'Journal of Global Radiology (JGR) is pleased to announce that JGR has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ is the largest and most well-known service for identifying high-quality, peer-reviewed open access research journals and the articles published within them.

Using eScholarship@UMMS as a Repository for Preprints and Interim Research Products

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 13:22

NIH released NOT-OD-17-050 on March 24, 2017, regarding citing preprints and other interim research products in applications and progress reports. While the inclusion of preprints and interim research products is not required, NIH encourages investigators to make them publicly available in repositories to speed the dissemination and enhance the rigor of their work.

Fair Use Week 2017

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 13:33

February means Fair Use Week! This week of February 20 – 24 marks the tradition of reflecting on and appreciating the importance of the Fair Use doctrine in copyright law.

Come by the library and visit our Fair Use Week display to learn more and to test your Fair Use interpretation skills!