The Library is pleased to announce that Elsevier will apply discounts retroactively for article processing charges (APCs). The effective date is July 1, 2022 – the start date for the APC discount program per our license agreement with Elsevier. For additional information on how the refund will be processed, please see the Elsevier APC Update Section.
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Upcoming Wiley Webinars for Authors
Opening the Editor’s Black Box: Insider Tips for Successful Submissions –
2 May 2023 11:00 AM CST
How to Promote Your Published Article
17 May 2023 1:00 PM CST
Opening the Editor’s Black Box: Insider Tips for Successful Submissions
7 June 2023 10:00 AM CST
How to Promote Your Published Article
13 June 2023 11:00 AM CST
Upcoming April Webinars on Open Access Publishing with Wiley
The Library now participates in a Read & Publish agreement with Wiley. The agreement allows UT Southwestern affiliated corresponding authors to publish articles as open access in eligible journals at no charge to them.
Wiley is offering the following two virtual classes on how to publish your manuscript in open access.
| Monday, April 17, 2023, 12 pm CST Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4479675784079422295 | ||
| Thursday, April 27, 2023, 12PM CST Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7543978406807553623 |
The class will cover…
- What is Open Access and what are its benefits?
- Wiley Open Access agreements with your institutions
- How to access Wiley journals
- Where to find citation, Altmetric, and Impact Factor information
- Where to submit your manuscript, find the Author Guidelines and Aims and Scope of a journal
- Writing tips for authors
Black Maternal Health Week, April 11 – 17 2023
The Network of the National Library of Medicine is sponsoring free educational events to learn more about the past, present and future of Black Maternal Health in the United States. To register, please click on the following links:
- April 11: History of Black Maternal Health Lecture, Simulcast & Live Discussion with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
- April 13: Exploring the Maternal Experience Survey: Addressing Racism and Informing New Models of Maternal Care to Promote Health Equity with Dr. Lisa Gittens-Williams
- April 13: Panel Discussion: Current Issues in Black Maternal Health
- April 17: Journal Discussion of Environmental Factors Involved in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (Will not be recorded)
New Interlibrary Loan Procedures
In July of 2022, UTSW Library staff began working to overhaul our billing and invoicing processes for interlibrary loan services. We have now completed the updates. We appreciate your patience over the last few months as we cleaned up and simplified our workflows. We are now billing and pulling invoices directly from Illiad. What does this mean for you? In the long term, it will mean less chance of billing errors, more timely invoicing, and invoices will have a completely new look and numbering system. What about the short term? Depending on usage, there is a possibility your first invoice will be large. The first invoice will be for any past due/unpaid charges incurred before 10/31/22 and any new charges incurred from 11/1/22 thru 2/28/23. Methods of making payment for invoices have not changed. You will still make payments one of 3 ways:
- Interdepartmental Request (IDR in Procurement Portal)
- check (mailed to the address below)
- credit card (by calling 214-648-2626 or 214-648-2989)
Please send an email to LIBILL@UTSoutwestern.edu or Kristy.Reynolds@UTSouthwestern.edu, or call 214-648-9070, if you have any questions.
Make checks payable to:
UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
Send checks to:
UTSW – Accounting – Library
P.O. Box 845477
Dallas, TX 75284-5477
UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
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Meet Jill Whitfill, MS, MSHI
On April 1, 2023, Jill Whitfill returns to UT Southwestern as Research Librarian. Most recently, Jill was the Library Director and Medical Sciences Librarian at Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee. She also serves as an Adjunct Instructor, Health Informatics Curriculum, at the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences. During her first time at UT Southwestern, Jill was in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In her new role, Jill will provide and grow our library services by developing innovative information solutions to serve the faculty, staff, and students at the new University of Texas Southwestern School of Public Health as well as other areas of the University.
Use Electronic Resources Responsibly!
From the Library’s website, authorized UT Southwestern users may access more than:
- 440,000 electronic books
- 25,000 electronic journals
- 300 databases
Be aware that electronic resource use is governed by institutional license agreements. Publishers monitor use of their electronic resources for potential abuse, especially at the institutional level.
To assist you in using licensed resources responsibly and navigating the copyright and permissions labyrinth, the Library has updated two guides:
- Copyright – includes background, answers to basic questions, links to UT System Policy and resources, and a copyright flowchart designed to assist you understand proper usage based on the media form and source.
- Using Media – provides information on how to access and use media (i.e., images, video, audio) responsibly, request permissions and cite and attribute.
Questions? Please send them to LibAsk@utsouthwestern.edu.
New Archives Policies and Procedures
The Special Collections Library and Archives has implemented a new fee structure for reproduction and publishing of archival materials. This fee is for digital reproductions of the items available in our holdings. It varies based on the type of material as well as the quality level requested for digitization.
The fee applies to users outside of the UTSW system when digitizing images, audiovisual materials, and documents. However, thesis and dissertations have a cost associated with them for everyone.
The order form and the costs associated with the work can be found on the Special Collections Library and Archives webpage.
South Campus Library Construction Update
6/13/2023 UPDATE
Please be aware of construction and likely disruptions in the library July 15th-16th. They will be working behind a barrier to install the glass wall and doors between the library and the School of Public Health. Please be aware and make alternate study arrangements, if necessary.
4/17/2023 UPDATE
The demolition and reconstruction of the central stairwell in the library space will be taking place after the last week of final exams. Starting around 3pm on Friday, April 28th and extending through the end of the day on Monday, May 1st. Office of Medical Education confirmed that no classes or exams will taking place from 4/28/23 to 5/5/23.
3/2/2023 UPDATE
Crews will be working in the back hall, room 300 and in group study rooms BG4, BG5, BG6 that are hall (next to the vending machines) adjacent this weekend. They will be doing duct work and some finishing. These rooms will be unavailable from Friday evening to Sunday evening.
2/15/2023 UPDATE
There will be disruptive duct work and finishing construction in the back hall, room 300 and in group study rooms BG4, BG5, & BG6 (next to the vending machines) this weekend. These rooms will be unavailable from Friday evening (2/17) to Monday morning (2/20).
Please post an update on the library site about the closure and the increased noise. I have reserved them on the site so that they are offline and put signs up tomorrow. Just to be safe, they will be unavailable until Monday at 7am.
12/29/2022 UPDATE
There will be disruptive construction in the E2 library entrance area on the weekend of January 6th. While the installation of the temporary doors took place around 2 weeks ago, they are not yet working. The relocation of the door openers and closing of the current main entrance to the Library space will take place the weekend of 1/6/23. After that, the recently installed temporary doors will serve as the primary entrance to the Library and the Office of Medical Education, as well as the stairwell to the Team-Based Learning. At that time, the new vinyl construction barrier will go up between the current entry area and the Library space, making the current main entrance defunct.
12/7/2022 UPDATE
Group study rooms BG4, BG5 and BG6 will be closed over the weekend from 5PM on Friday December 9th until Monday December 12th at 8AM. There will be disruptive demolition and construction in the E2 library entrance area on Saturday, December 10th.
12/5/2022 UPDATE
The contractors have now constructed the temporary and some of the permanent walls in the E2 space to separate the construction zone from the library space and the Office of Medical Education. See the pictures below of the walls that were constructed this weekend. They will be taking down all the vents/ductwork in the SOPH space on the other side of the walls, so there is a potential for noise this week. There is a distinct lack of light in the stairwell entry now and Library Administration will be emailing our contractor and facilities/design about it. Hopefully, they will have a solution.
11/30/2022 UPDATE
There will be loud/possibly disruptive construction taking place in the library space every Saturday for at least the next month.
Construction taking place on 12/3/22 will be the walls in front of the stairwell to the door of the OME and around the main entrance to the library doors. Those doors will remain open and functional until a new entry door is installed. They anticipate the new door will be installed on 12/10/22, possibly on 12/3/22, if time allows.
The weekend following the installation of the new door, the opener/badge readers will be relocated to new door and entry will be relocated. They anticipate the stairwell demolition and construction will take place at the end of December.
Duct work construction on the ducts from E2.300 to across the hall will close group study rooms 200, 202, and 300 on 12/10/22.
Library upgrades to CINAHL Ultimate
The Library has upgraded its CINAHL subscription to CINAHL Ultimate, which provides full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments. Additionally, it includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,253 active global OA journals.