McGoogan News

Beginning March 1, visitors to the Wigton Heritage Center’s American College of Surgeons Rare Book Gallery on Level 5 of Wittson Hall will see eight new selections. The selections on display feature books from the Hiram Winnett Orr, MD, Rare Book Collection and the Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library Rare Book Collection. The book topics include anatomy, surgical instruments, obstetrics, and women’s health.  

The featured anatomy books were created by Scottish anatomists: 

• John Bell’s Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles, and joints (1794) includes macabre illustrations created by Bell, reflecting the popularity of Gothic literature of the period. 
• In A system of anatomical plates (1825), Bell’s student John Lizars created illustrations beautiful and precise in their execution. 
• Man: his structure and physiology (1857) was written by the infamous Robert Knox, known for his role in purchasing bodies from the murderers Burke and Hare  for use at his anatomy school. Knox’s book is a flap anatomy book with movable parts to display different layers of anatomy. 

Surgical instruments are features of three of the books from the Hiram Winnett Orr, MD, Rare Book Collection, on permanent loan from the American College of Surgeons. 

• Surgical Operations: In the Pentateuch and other distinct surgical operations (1666) by Hieronymous Fabricius ab Aquapendente highlights illustrations of surgical instruments used in trepanation and lithotomy.  
• Johannes Scultetus, a contemporary of Fabricius, is represented with Kheiroplotheke seu D. Joannis Sculteti . . . Armamentarium chiurgicum (1656) featuring illustrations of surgical instruments and images of how to use them for trepanation, tracheotomy, and mastectomy. 
• The works of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey (1634) is an English translation of French surgeon Ambroise Paré’s work on everything from surgery to distillation to cryptid animals.  

The final two selections feature women’s health and obstetrics: 

• Yoshitora Utagawa’s triptych, Fubu no on o shiru zu, “Realize one’s parental love” (circa 1880) features Japanese woodblock prints of the ten lunar months of gestation. The beautifully colored images include flowers representative of each month.   
• The ideal woman, for maidens-wives-mothers (1915) by Mary Ries Melendy contains information and advice for the different stages of women’s lives. Melendy graduated from a homeopathic medical college and an eclectic medical college in Chicago. After graduation, she taught on diseases of women and children at a naturopathy school in Chicago.  

Can’t make it to the UNMC Omaha campus? Not to worry! You can visit the online gallery to learn more about the authors/creators, view images from the books, and learn more about the other 10,000+ rare books housed at the McGoogan Library.   

To book a research appointment, email history@unmc.edu or request a tour of the Wigton Heritage Center here. 

By Cindy Schmidt

Do you need to identify a journal article on a specific topic?  Perhaps you need to find all the journal literature on that topic?  The library licenses a variety of databases that index journal literature.  These are accessible through the “Resources” menu on the library’s homepage (click on the “Literature Databases” option).  You can search these databases yourself or ask a librarian to complete a search for you. If you want to search the literature yourself but are having trouble finding what your need or want some search training, click here to use our online scheduling system to book a Zoom session with one of our Education & Research Services librarians.  

Perhaps you don’t need a meeting but just need to know which database would be most useful? 

Three databases, MEDLINE (versions include PubMed, EBSCOhost MEDLINE, and OVID MEDLINE), EMBASE, and Scopus provide wide coverage of the biomedical journal literature.  Most UNMC affiliates are familiar with MEDLINE/PubMed, but EMBASE and Scopus may be less familiar.  

EMBASE includes records for all the journal articles indexed by MEDLINE as well as records for articles in some journals that are not indexed by MEDLINE.  In addition, EMBASE contains records for posters and papers presented at many of the more important conferences and records for articles deposited in several pre-print repositories. 

Another database, Scopus, provides wide coverage of the biomedical literature but also includes a lot of non-biomedical journals as well.  If you have a topic that might be covered by a criminal justice journal, a math journal, an engineering journal, etc.  try this resource.  Scopus also tracks the references cited by the articles it indexes.  If you need to know which articles have cited an article you or someone else has published, give Scopus a try. 

Other databases focus on specific topics or types of literature: 

• APA PsycINFO – psychology and psychiatry literature 
• CAS SciFinder – chemistry, biochemistry, drugs
• Cochrane Library – systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and controlled trials
• CINAHL – nursing and allied health literature, research instruments used are indexed 
• ERIC – education literature 
• Greenfile – environmental issues 
• IEEE – engineering 

Spring instructional sessions are now available for registration. The following are only but a few of the sessions available in the coming months. To view the complete list of classes, and recordings archive, visit the library’s instruction web page.

Author Rights and Copyright. February 21^st, 12 pm – 1 pm. In this session, you will learn about copyright, copyright transfer agreements, and author rights. 

Writing a Data Management Plan. February 24^th, 12 pm – 1 pm. We will use the new NIH DMSP 2023 template created with DMPTool to guide you through drafting a Data Management and Sharing Plan. 

Tools for Systematic Reviews. March 1^st, 12 pm – 1 pm. Learn about tools that can help you conduct a systematic review. 

Selecting a Citation Manager: Moving from RefWorks to Zotero or EndNote. March 10^th, 12 pm – 1 pm. Learn about EndNote and Zotero and the different features of each citation manager. 

DigitalCommons@UNMC increases the exposure of your scholarly work to a global audience. Your scholarly work is then discoverable through search engines like Google and Google Scholar, but what can you do to enhance your web presence?

• Post your DigitalCommons@UNMC links to your personal and departmental Twitter account
• Add your DigitalCommons@UNMC links to your CV
• Include the author dashboard analytics and visualizations in your portfolio
• Update your professional profiles with DigitalCommons@UNMC links

Interested in having your work posted on DigitalCommons@UNMC? Email digitalcommons@unmc.edu

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library is co-hosting an event to coincide with Love Data Week, which runs from February 13-17. The library’s Love Data Week Open Mic event will be held on February 14 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The session will start with flash talks about the FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable) Data Principles, and then open the floor to hear from audience members on their love of data, including how they collect, clean, analyze, preserve, and/or share their data. Faculty, staff, and students of all University of Nebraska campuses are invited to join via Zoom. A recording will be made available for those who cannot attend the session.   

This event is hosted by the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries Research Data Services group.