June 2008 Archives

On July 1, Resources Plus!, a full-service research package that includes online full-text journals, databases and more for UMB alumni, volunteer faculty and clinical instructors as well as other associates will be launched. Through Resources Plus!, users search in one of four ProQuest databases - Health and Medical Complete™, Nursing & Allied Health Source™, Social Science Journals™, and Medline®/Medline with Full Text® - or search them all simultaneously using the 360 searching feature. Resources Plus! includes coverage from over 7,000 publications, many available in full-text. In July 2008, subscribers to Resources Plus! will also have the opportunity to schedule a consultation with a research librarian, borrow books, and register for any of the HS/HSL's information management workshops.

The cost of Resources Plus! is $150 per year, but group discounts are available. For more information email the Resources Plus! team.

On July 1st the Library will launch a redesigned website. The organization provides quick access to important resources and services and a new section, Assistance, links you to research help including a new "How do I..." section. You can easily bookmark and share pages to a variety of social media tools and rate pages using a star rating system.

The new SEARCH feature allows you to quickly access some of our most used resources. Pull down the SEARCH menu and choose from the following: Library Website, the Library Catalog, Journals, Databases, PubMed or Newspapers.

Please note that some pages will have new URLs - please update your bookmarks. On July 1st the URL for the home page of the library will be http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu.

A new HS/HSL toolbar will also be launched on July 1st. Unlike the current toolbar that needs to be re-installed whenever we make a change, this one can be updated seamlessly. You install it once and we can keep it up-to-date. We will also be able to send brief messages to you notifying you of new resources and services.

We wish to thank the faculty, staff and students who provided us with comments and suggestions as we redesigned the website.

The public computers at the HS/HSL will be updated with several changes. These changes will include installation of Microsoft Office 2007, adding a language pack that will allow for word processing in two forms of Chinese, UAE Arabic, Korean, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Russian, Vietnamese and Urdu and a system for printing in which you will need to create a login and password to complete print jobs. In addition to these updates all files that are saved on computers prior to the update will be cleared. If you have work that is saved soley on a library computer you will not be able to access it after the updates are made. If you have any questions or need assistance with these new changes to our computers, please go to the Reference Desk, the Reference Staff will be happy to help you.