McGoogan News

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.

Since 1942, UNMC Graduate Studies has focused on training graduate students through exceptional health science educational and research programs, faculty mentoring, and professional skills development. Masters, doctoral, and certificate programs are administered by individual colleges but housed under UNMC Graduate Studies. The energy of our graduate students propels discoveries that change and save lives, whether through helping faculty design clinical trials for new vaccines, discovering new ways to repurpose existing medications, or by developing new diagnostic tools and therapies for cancer treatments. 

Graduate students are key contributors to the research that is done at UNMC every day. 

To commemorate the past 80 years of growth and achievement, the Office of Graduate Studies and the McGoogan Health Sciences Library partnered to produce an exhibition within the Wigton Heritage Center. The exhibition is now open and located near the Bennett/Sorrell/Wittson Hall skywalks on Level 4 of Wittson Hall. Accompanying the physical installations is an online exhibition accessible to a global audience at https://wigton.unmc.edu/GradStudies  

Legacy RefWorks will cease to exist in June 2023.  

How can you tell which version of RefWorks you’re using? If you see an orange circle in a blue banner above your reference list, you are using Legacy RefWorks.

If you are using Legacy RefWorks and are currently affiliated with UNMC or Children’s Hospital: 

• We encourage you to move your Legacy RefWorks account to New RefWorks soon, and to use your New RefWorks account for any new writing projects.
  • The instructions for moving to New RefWorks are here.  
  • The library has produced a guide to using New RefWorks and librarians are happy to provide one-on-one, New RefWorks training. 
  • New RefWorks: Getting Started classes will be offered on Oct 12 at 10 AM and Oct 26 at 12 (noon).  A recording of the class should be available by Oct 30).
• If you had been considering changing citation managers, this would be a good time to make that change.  
  • UNMC licenses EndNote, and Zotero is available without charge. 
  • The following upcoming classes may be of interest (recordings should be available by Oct 30):
    • Choosing a Citation Manager Oct 10 at 11 AM and Oct 24 at 11 AM
    • EndNote: Getting Started Oct 11 at 12 (noon) and Oct 25 at 12 (noon)
    • Zotero:  Getting Started  Oct 13 at 12 (noon) and Oct 27 at 1 PM
  •  The Library has produced EndNote and Zotero guides.

Questions? Contact askus@unmc.edu

As part of Research Month, the McGoogan Health Sciences Library will be presenting a series of educational sessions on citation managers, including RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero. Registration is not required. 

Choosing a Citation Manager  

Dates: October 10, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. and October 24, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. 

Learn more about RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero so that you can choose the one that meets both your project needs and your long-term information management needs. We will introduce each system, discuss benefits and drawbacks of each, and suggest when you might prefer to use one or the other.  

RefWorks: Getting Started

Dates: October 12, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. and October 26, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. 

Learn how to use RefWorks to manage your citations. We will demonstrate the basics of importing and managing citations, using the Write-n-Cite feature to create in-text citations and bibliographies, and customizing your folders and record view.   

EndNote: Getting Started

Dates: October 11, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. and October 25, 12 p.m.-1 p.m.  

Learn how to use EndNote to manage your citations. We will demonstrate the basics of importing and managing citations, using the Cite While You Write feature to create in-text citations and bibliographies, and customizing your folders and record view.   

Zotero: Getting Started

Dates: October 13, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. and October 27, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. 

Learn how to use Zotero to manage your citations. We will demonstrate the basics of importing and managing citations, using the citing feature to create in-text citations and bibliographies, and customizing your folders and record view.