McGoogan News

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.   

Update: View the recording online.

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library is hosting a virtual lecture by Katherine L. Carroll, PhD, on February 17 at noon. The presentation is titled “Constructing the Modern Physician: Architecture, Science, Race, and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Medical Centers.”

In the decades just before and after 1900, medical schools and their teaching hospitals were rebuilt throughout the United States. Carroll argues that these new, large structures celebrated the shifts underway in medical science, physicians’ training, and physicians’ professional identity. To this end, educators and architects worked hard to include the local community in the construction process and to create attractive and inviting structures. At the same time, however, a close study of these facilities reveals the limits of educators’ and philanthropists’ visions. The school buildings encouraged hierarchies between physicians based on race and gender. Carroll will incorporate examples from the history of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in her lecture.  

Dr. Carroll is an architectural historian based in Albany, New York. Support for her research has come from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, and the Rockefeller Archive Center. Carroll recently published her first book, Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician (University of Pittsburgh Press). She has also presented widely on medical school design and taught most recently at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She earned a BA from Williams College and a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Boston University. 

The Writing Center @ UNMC offers free one-on-one consultations with trained advisors to all University of Nebraska Medical Center students, faculty, and staff to help improve writing abilities, critical thinking and productive reading skills, and effective communication. The Writing Center @ UNMC is staffed by consultants from the University of Nebraska Omaha Writing Center. The service is available within the McGoogan Health Sciences Library during the spring and fall semesters, with online sessions available.

Writing projects supported by this service include:

• Course papers
• Proposals
• Applications
• Résumés
• Cover letters
• Scholarly articles
• Theses and dissertations

Consultants provide assistance with:

• Deciding on a topic
• Generating ideas
• Focusing, organizing, or expanding ideas
• Improving grammar and writing style
• Handling technical details of documentation and format
• Overcoming writer’s block
• Understanding different forms of writing
• Becoming a more confident, comfortable writer

For the spring 2023 semester, the Writing Center @ UNMC is open Mondays and Wednesdays 12 pm – 5 pm (in person) and Tuesdays and Thursdays 12 pm – 5 pm (online). The Writing Center is located in the library, room 6004. Online consultations are available during this time and other hours. Appointments can be scheduled online.