McGoogan News

Spring 2024 McGoogan Sessions announced

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library has announced its spring 2024 McGoogan Sessions. McGoogan Sessions is the library’s instruction series offering unique topics that highlight resources available for research, educate on information literacy and academic medicine, and inspire through the lens of health care history. This spring’s McGoogan Sessions will be offered via Zoom—some sessions will also be offered in person. Please refer to the schedule below for titles of each session and to see where the session will take place.

Spring 2024 McGoogan Session schedule

Thursday, February 1, from noon–1 p.m. CST | Writing a Data Management Plan (WHM 6032 and Zoom)
Wednesday, February 7, from noon–1 p.m. CST | Tools for Systematic Reviews (WHM 6032 and Zoom)
Wednesday, February 21, from noon–1 p.m. CST | Digital File Management: Tips & Tricks to Reducing Your Digital Clutter (Zoom)
Tuesday, February 27, from noon–1 p.m. CST | Copyright and Fair Use (Zoom)
Monday, March 4, from noon–1 p.m. CST | Writing with EndNote (Zoom)
Wednesday, March 6, from 10–11 a.m. CST | Zotero (Zoom)
Tuesday, March 12, from noon–1 p.m. CDT | Types of Literature Reviews (Zoom)
Thursday, March 21, from noon–1 p.m. CDT | Infectious Disease in Rare Books (Zoom)
Tuesday, March 26, from noon–1 p.m. CDT | Stories from the Collection: Women of UNMC (Zoom)
Thursday, March 28, from noon–1 p.m. CDT | Selecting a Data Repository (WHM 6032 and Zoom)
Wednesday, April 3, from noon–1 p.m. CDT | Systematic Reviews (Zoom)
Tuesday, April 9, from noon–1 p.m. CDT | The Data Management Lifecycle: What is it and how to use it (WHM 6032 and Zoom)

For additional details about a specific session, please visit the instruction page on McGoogan Library’s website.

Six Generative AI Exploration Workshops Set for January

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library has announced six Generative AI Exploration workshops. These workshops will be offered in person and via Zoom. UNMC Omaha campus faculty and staff are encouraged to attend the in-person workshops. UNMC Lincoln, Kearney, Norfolk, and Scottsbluff-Gering campuses can register for the workshops via Zoom.

Attendees will explore popular generative AI tools (i.e., Bard, ChatGPT, Bing CoPilot and Claude), learn basic functions and create prompts with McGoogan Library librarians, Teri Hartman and Jess King. These workshops will leave plenty of time for attendees to share what they know and learn from others. For the in-person workshops, attendees are asked to bring their own device for a hands-on AI encounter (smart phone, mobile Wi-Fi device, laptop, etc.). Online attendees should be ready to use their own device.

McGoogan Library Generative AI Exploration workshops schedule:

Tues., Jan. 9, noon–1 p.m. at MCPH 3013 (College of Public Health)
Tues., Jan. 16, noon–1 p.m. at WHM 6032 (Wittson Hall, McGoogan Library)
Wed., Jan. 17, noon–1 p.m. via Zoom
Thurs., Jan. 18, noon–1 p.m. at WHM 6032 (Wittson Hall, McGoogan Library)
Tues., Jan. 23, 10–10:50 a.m. at DRC 1 1002 (Durham Research Center 1)
Wed., Jan. 24, 2–3 p.m. via Zoom

Snacks will be provided at the in-person workshops. Registered attendees for the Zoom workshops will be entered into a prize drawing.

Individuals interested in attending one of the workshops are encouraged to stop by the in-person locations on their respective dates or register via Zoom for their preferred date.

Open Access (OA) Publishing Agreement Updates

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library supports Open Access (OA) publishing at UNMC through participation in agreements with a number of scholarly publishers, enabling UNMC authors to publish their articles as open access in selected journals at no cost to themselves, or at a discounted fee.

New agreements that have recently been signed

University of Nebraska authors whose articles are accepted for publication in Elsevier journals on or after September 18, 2023, may be eligible for a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) for publishing their work OA. The discount applies to articles published by University of Nebraska corresponding authors in the majority of Elsevier’s “hybrid” journals.
Beginning January 1, 2024, University of Nebraska authors with articles accepted into select journals from the Biochemical Society through Portland Press will have their APC waived.

Current agreements

Current agreements include those with Wiley and Hindawi, PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology. For more information on these and the new agreements, see the library’s open access guide.

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library subscribes to journals from publishers who provide discounts that are available to UNMC through membership in the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries. McGoogan Library does not pay for article processing charges, or any other fees charged to authors.

For questions regarding these agreements, please contact Heather Brown, scholarly communications librarian.

RefWorks subscription ending December 31, 2023

McGoogan Library will cancel its RefWorks subscription effective December 31, 2023.

Do you have Word documents with RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) for in-text citations? These citations can be switched over to EndNote following the instruction guide. This process must be completed by December 31, 2023.

See Resource Cancellations for additional information.

If you have questions about EndNote, please contact Danielle Westmark, head, circulation services at McGoogan Library.

McGoogan Library seeking ‘living books’ on women’s health

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library is seeking “living books” for its upcoming living library series.

This three-part series will include:

A virtual event for UNMC and its clinical partners on Feb. 6 from noon to 1 p.m.;
An in-person event for the Omaha community on Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the new Community Wellness Collaborative space at the Highlander; and
Half-hour recorded oral interviews shared with individuals who are interested but unable to attend the live events.

“A living library is an event in which people from a variety of different backgrounds, with unique experiences and inspiring stories, act as ‘living books’ for participants to check out for one-on-one or small-group conversations,” said Jess King, education and research services librarian at McGoogan Library and chair of the living library committee.

The theme for this series is “Bringing Stories of Women’s Health to the Forefront.” Individuals interested in acting as a living book are encouraged to complete the application form by Wednesday, Dec. 13. Examples of living books for this series could include a woman who has a personal health experience to share, a health care professional sharing experiences from a clinical perspective or a researcher sharing individual perspectives.

“The purpose of these storytelling events is to have people from different backgrounds come together in a safe space to engage in candid conversations and learn about diverse experiences,” King said. “These are interactions that may not ordinarily be possible during our daily lives and can help foster or create a deeper sense of empathy and connection with people in our community.

“If you know someone in the UNMC, Nebraska Medicine or clinical partners community who may be interested in participating as a ‘living book,’ I encourage you to share this information and our application form with them.”

Individuals who have questions or would like additional information are encouraged to contact Jess King.