Save the dates for these upcoming library workshops for researchers. 

Need to know if you can post a copy of your article on your personal website? There’s a librarian for that. Need to share your data to fulfill funding requirements? There’s a librarian for that. Need to get access to an article behind a paywall? There’s a librarian for that. Thinking about writing a systematic review but don’t know how to start your search? Yup, there’s a librarian for that, too. 

Join us on Wednesday October 13 at 12:00pm for a 30 minute overview to learn about all the research resources and services the Lamar Soutter Library provides.  

Along with the many other exciting renovations that took place in the Library during 2020-21 (and continue now with the skylight replacement project), the Research & Scholarly Communications Department moved to a new office space. The completely refurbished suite provides individual offices for each librarian in the Department, a workspace for our library assistant, and a shared conference/teaching area that we hope to put to good use as students and staff return to campus.

Need to know if you can post a copy of your article on your personal website? There’s a librarian for that. Need to share your data to fulfill funding requirements? There’s a librarian for that. Need to get access to an article behind a paywall? There’s a librarian for that. Thinking about writing a systematic review but don’t know how to start your search? Yup, there’s a librarian for that, too. 

Join us on Monday, March 29 at 1:00pm for a 30 minute overview to learn about all the research resources and services the Lamar Soutter Library provides.  

What’s your h-index? Should you care? What does it mean?

Is anyone tweeting about your recent paper?

Is publishing in journals with high impact factors really important for your job search (or tenure)?

How easily can you locate your data files when you need them? Is your data being backed up? Do you know where to find those backups? Have you discussed data management with your advisor or is there a lab-wide data management plan?

eScholarship@UMMS, UMass Medical School’s digital repository and publishing system for scholarly publications authored by the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) community, reached a significant milestone when it topped 2 million downloads on February 3, 2020. We are grateful to our UMMS authors, whose open access materials reach users in 225 countries. 

NIH, CDC, and AHRQ have announced that beginning in federal Fiscal Year 2020, ORCID identifiers will be mandatory for individuals supported by research training, fellowship, research education, and career development awards.

The National Library of Medicine released their newest version of My Bibliography yesterday, May 1, 2019. My Bibliography is an application to help you organize citations from your publications and assist eRA Commons users with managing publication or product compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.

In case you missed it, here are five of the major developments in open data and data sharing for medical and biomedical data in the United States from the past year: