New York Times Audio App now available with Campus Subscription

As part of our Academic Site License News subscription, the New York Times has just launched New York Times Audio, a new iOS app for audio journalism and storytelling on world events, daily headlines, and reporter’s reads of top stories.

To access the app, you must first register your utsouthwestern.edu email address at nytimes.com (from on-campus or using VPN) and then visit accessnyt.com, type in “UT Southwestern Medical Center”, and follow the instructions to activate your account to get 24-hour app access.

A Big Library Welcome and New Guide for Peter O’Donnell, Jr, School of Public Health

The Library would like to welcome the new Peter O’Donnell, Jr. School of Public Health and all its faculty, staff, and students.

Public Health Research Guide has been specifically created to assist with work and studies. Within the guide you will have easy access to state, national, and global public health resources, access to notable electronic resources, information on Evidence-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Public Health, as well as general information on EndNote, Responsible Searching, and more. There are also quick links to many library services.

For assistance, please contact Jill Whitfill, Research Librarian, either by email at jill.whitfill@utsouthwestern.edu or on Microsoft Teams.

Elsevier News – Article Processing Charges – Update 04/26/2023

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.

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: 

  1. April 11: History of Black Maternal Health Lecture, Simulcast & Live Discussion with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens 
  2. 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 
  3. April 13: Panel Discussion: Current Issues in Black Maternal Health 
  4. 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.