McGoogan News

The library’s 2021-2022 annual report is now available online. Covered in the report:

• Dean’s note
• Collections
• Education and outreach
• Special Collections and Archives
• Readings and lectures
• Wigton Heritage Center
• Voices
• Technology
• Space
• DEI initiatives
• Donations and sponsorships
• Staff updates
• Who we are

Library services will be unavailable on December 26 and January 2 in observance of the holidays. The library will remain open 24/7 for those with a UNMC or Nebraska Medicine ID badge.

The library will cancel its subscription to RefWorks as of December 31, 2023. All RefWorks users must migrate their citations to a different citation management system by then. We recommend using EndNote (supported by the UNMC VCR Office) or Zotero (a free web-based tool). This spring, we will offer classes about these tools and assistance migrating from RefWorks. McGoogan Library collections support the education and research programs of UNMC. Maintaining high-quality resources in an environment of constrained budgets requires an active management strategy that occasionally results in cancellations or access restrictions. See Resources Cancellations for more information.

A sensory room will be open for exploration in the McGoogan Health Sciences Library November 14-18. Developed in response to a Student Senate proposal, the sensory room is a place for library users to explore all five senses. The goals of the sensory room are to:  

• Create a welcoming and immersive environment for students to experience sensory learning 
• Promote a space where students can decompress before, after, or between study sessions 
• Identify different learning needs of the student body 

• Provide a comforting space for de-escalation and self-regulation 
• Introduce a failure-free environment where the mind can explore activities and relax 
• Encourage UNMC to continue to promote a culture where learners of all abilities are celebrated 

Located in WH classroom 6032, the room is open to students and the campus community.  

Engage the senses through art supplies, floor pillows, a variety of soothing lights, online visual experiences, kinetic sand, scratch-and-sniff stickers, and various snacks. Sensory room users are encouraged to adjust lights and white noise machines to their comfort levels. 

A web-based tool, Grammarly supports you throughout your writing journey. It’s available for UNMC students, faculty, and staff with a @unmc.edu email address.

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly provides guidance and instruction in style, word choice, tone, formality, clarity improvements, and more for professional and educational writing. Included in the institutional access is the plagiarism detection feature. Grammarly’s plagiarism checker can look through over a billion web pages and ProQuest’s academic databases to alert you to potential issues. It will highlight sentences that might require a citation and provides the resources to credit sources. Want to learn more about plagiarism? Visit the library’s Copyright & Plagiarism Research Guide

How to access Grammarly

Visit the library’s A-Z Database list for the website link and instructions on creating an account (don’t forget to use your UNMC email!).

Using Grammarly

Upload or copy/paste a document to the browser version, or download the app on your Windows or Mac computers, iPad, and phones (iOS and Android). Grammarly works with Microsoft Office products and other applications. A web browser extension can be downloaded for Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and more.