On June 9, the library will transition to the new EBSCOhost user interface (UI). All EBSCOhost databases, including CINHAL, APA PsycInfo, Medline via EBSCO and others will have this new UI. This update introduces several enhancements aimed at improving accessibility, usability and personalization.
Important Note on Custom Folders
Custom folders created in the previous EBSCOhost interface will not be carried over to the new UI. If you use custom folders move your content into default folders to ensure it transitions smoothly or create backups of any searches or results lists in custom folders.
Modern Software Platform
The new EBSCOhost interface is built on a modern platform, designed to be user-friendly and responsive across all devices. This ensures a consistent experience whether you are using a desktop, tablet or mobile phone.
Enhanced Features
Permalinks can now be bookmarked directly from the browser address.
Persistent “sticky” filters that remain applied even when you modify your search query.
Common and specialized limiters are available for both single and multi-database searches.
Advanced date picker
Improved thesauri and subject headings
Personalization Options
When signed in, users can access personalized features across the UI and in EBSCO Mobile. These include:
Dashboards to help manage your research activities.
The ability to create, save, and delete alerts, and add items to projects.
Accessibility Improvements
Enhancements have been made to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards and text-to-speech (TTS) technology has been introduced to further enhance content accessibility.
Embark on a journey toward purpose and fulfillment. Join McGoogan Library and UNMC Campus Engagement for a June book club. Attendees will dive into “The Happiness of Pursuit” by Chris Guillebeau during one of four sessions listed below.
About the Book
Through inspiring stories and practical insights, this book explores how embracing a quest, big or small, can bring deeper meaning to our lives. Together, we’ll discuss key takeaways, share our own aspirations and connect on the path to personal growth.
Schedule and Ways to Attend
Individuals interested in participating can choose from one of four in-person and virtual options. All dates will be from 11 a.m. to noon CDT.
Tuesday, June 3 (in-person, McGoogan Library, Room 6036)
Discover the latest donations to the McGoogan Health Sciences Library’s Robert S. Wigton Department of Special Collections and Archives. This latest rotation features items from the Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, Collection highlighting his time as chancellor of UNMC and his support of biopreparedness initiatives.
Head to Level 4 of Wittson Hall near the Sorrell Center and Bennett Hall walkways to view this exhibit in person.
About the Exhibit
During his tenure as chancellor of UNMC, Dr. Gold oversaw extensive growth and development of the university, in conjunction with clinical partner Nebraska Medicine, as international leaders in biopreparedness.
Dr. Gold’s investiture occurred on the same day that the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit activated for the first time to receive an Ebola patient in September 2014. Under his administration, UNMC and Nebraska Medicine would go on to lead the charge in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and become a national hub for preparedness training, education and research.
Event: Save Time & Energy with Leganto Date: Thursday, May 15 Time: noon–1 p.m. Location: online
Leganto, a new tool from McGoogan Library, can help reduce your administrative load in managing course materials. Join McGoogan Library faculty on Thursday, May 15 from noon to 1 p.m. online for a live demo and Q&A session.
About Leganto
Leganto integrates seamlessly with Canvas and the library’s collections, which saves you time and saves your students money by streamlining access to library and open-access resources.
Leganto’s analytics monitor engagement with course materials so you can make informed decisions to improve your courses year over year.
Why attend?
Learn what Leganto is
Understand Leganto’s benefits, including analytics
Discover how to use Leganto: adding items to lists, reusing items/creating favorites list, using tags, sharing lists within weekly modules, etc.
Articulate student advantages to using Leganto
Register today to start taking advantage of this new tool.
Session sponsored by McGoogan Health Sciences Library, IT Academic Technologies, and Office of Faculty Development.
Archives staff and our volunteer recently finished a several months long project evaluating and preparing the Robert S. Wigton collection for processing. The collection originally consisted of over 85 linear feet of archival material, legacy media, and slides documenting Dr. Wigton’s extensive career as a physician, professor, and campus leader for over 40 years.
About Robert Wigton, MD
Dr. Wigton was an early adopter of computers in medical education. He led efforts on campus in computer literacy, was active in curriculum creation, and conducted many studies on student learning. As such, his professional papers depict significant moments of change on campus. He was a prolific author of scientific articles and active on the national level in several professional societies, especially related to medical decision making. Dr. Wigton was also part of a legacy family at the university with seven family members graduating and four members teaching at the institution over several generations. His records contribute genealogical material to an existing family legacy in the archives.
Steps Toward Preservation
The completion of the following preparatory steps is important for understanding the topics represented in an archival collection so staff can plan for resources and space. A main component of preparing a new collection, especially one this large, is determining what is essential material to preserve.
When evaluating newly acquired records, archives staff have to think about how researchers will search for information. Years in the future, people who are researching historical train routes, for example, aren’t going to think about Dr. Wigton’s medical career papers as a possible location for such information, meaning saving travel brochures and old flight tickets here at UNMC would take up room that could be better utilized. Dr. Wigton’s travel material is outside the scope and focus of the archives at McGoogan Library and is recycled or returned to his family.
No archive has the space to keep unlimited copies. Dr. Wigton received requests from all over the world to share copies of his publications, and he had boxes of reprints. The archives always saves two copies, but staff had to thin out many extra articles and class handouts that he had saved for a rainy day.
Staff in the archives are experts and can quickly sort through what has enduring historical value, what has more personal value, and what is allowed to be saved and accessed according to the law. Historical collections are also required to follow federal laws on health and education information privacy. All collections are reviewed for student and patient material that should be restricted or removed from the archives. Staff evaluated Dr. Wigton’s collection for any sensitive information that might have been captured during his long career as a clinician, professor, researcher and administrator.
In total, staff were able to reduce the collection size by 30%. This not only will save on special archival folders and boxes during final processing, it will also make it easier to locate relevant documents for researchers when they use the collection in the future. Researchers will be able to access evidence of Dr. Wigton’s art and doodles, class notes, research studies, conference and professional society involvement, Office of Graduate Medical Education business, published articles, correspondence, presentation slides, genealogical items, and much, much more.
