Stocking Stuffers from Your Library

Don’t forget your favorite stocking stuffers from the Library:

  • Access the New York Times or Wall Street Journal for free with our institutional subscription.
  • BrowZine is an app for Apple or Android smart phones and devices that helps you flip through the scholarly electronic journals available through UT Southwestern Medical Center.
  • LibKey Nomad brings the Library’s journal holdings to wherever you are searching, both on- and off-campus.
  • Read & Publish Agreements – learn how the Library supports open access publishing with selected publishers, such as Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Sage, and Wiley.
  • Have you upgraded to EndNote 21?
  • Want to learn a new language? Try Pronunciator!
  • Brush up on your research skills and sign up for a class.

Answers to the October 2023 Library Quiz

  1. You can access the UT Southwestern Library’s Website from the Services Tab on MyUTSW site, Education & Training Tab on the UT Southwestern website, UT Southwestern Clinical Portal, and Google Search by name.
  2. The Library has 555,806 books in all formats in FY23(e.g., print, electronic, audiovisual, etc.).
  3. The most popular Library class is Writing a Literature Review.
  4. As an author, I can create profiles to manage my publications and scholarly activities in My Bibliography, ORCID, Scopus, and Web of Science.
  5. The Library’s most popular point-of-care tool is UpToDate.
  6. The Library subscribes to the following USMLE and Board Preparation resources: BoardVitals, StatPearls, and USMLE First Aid.
  7. The Library’s most popular subject guide is About the Library.
  8. Nine librarians staff the UT Southwestern Library. 
  9. Interlibrary loan, exam proctoring, and classroom reservations services are offered by the Library.
  10. The Interlibrary Loan Unit filled 2285 article requests in 2022.
  11. The Interlibrary Loan Unit borrowed 684 items from other institutions for our patrons in 2022.
  12. There were 899 document delivery requests filled for patrons in 2022.
  13. Our library ILL services invoices can be paid by check, interdepartmental request, and credit card.
  14. The UT Southwestern Library was founded in 1943.
  15. The oldest book in the Archives was published in the 16th century.
  16. The temperature setting of the Archives in 63 degrees.
  17. Violet Baird began the Archives for the University.
  18. Dr. Edward H. Cary started Southwestern Medical College

Congratulations to our winner Katarina Yaros who received the top score!

CORRECTION: In-person service by Library staff resumes November 1

Effective November 1, 2023, the Library’s Services & Partnership Unit resumes in-person service from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday (excluding holidays). We are excited to return to the physical space now that we are in a post-COVID environment and construction of the new O’Donnell School of Public Health is complete.

Your “Librarian on Duty” consult area is in room E2.304 located across from the O’Donnell School of Public Health’s Dean Suite. Directional signage will appear soon, and a librarian will circulate through the physical space throughout the day to connect with all our users.

As always, you can request assistance or services in the following other ways:
– The Ask Us link.
– Looking up common questions in our FAQs.
– Calling 214-648-2001.
– Searching though the vast educational support offerings contained in our Subject
Guides

Your librarians appreciate and support the work you do with our community and each other! Thank you!

UTSW Special Collections and Archives Oral History Project

The University Archives has begun an oral history project with alumni of the university and current faculty members.

The goal of this project is to record the stories of the people who chose to attend the university and those who chose to work for it. Each individual has a unique story based upon their experiences, and through these interviews the viewer learns how UTSW played a part in their own stories.

If you would like to share your experiences and stories or would like to learn more, contact the University Archives at archives@utsouthwestern.edu.

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.

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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New Monkeypox Library Guide

On August 5, 2022, Dallas County declared the monkeypox outbreak a health emergency.  The Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center has created a new Monkeypox Library Guide to quickly refer the UT Southwestern community to high-quality – i.e., primarily clinical and research – information about monkeypox. The guide includes: 

  • Monkeypox information from local, state, national and international organizations 
  • Recent articles from PubMed  
  • General search strategies in PubMed and Scopus 
  • Guidelines from CDC and WHO   
  • CDC Monkeypox updates 
  • Consumer health information 
  • Related textbook chapters 

The Guide will be updated as the monkeypox information landscape evolves. Please email the Library if you have identified other key resources that we should consider for inclusion. 

UT Southwestern Interlibrary Loan FYI

The Library offers low-cost document delivery and Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) borrowing services for UT Southwestern faculty, staff, and students, as well as registered unaffiliated users. These nominal fees (see chart below) help offset the cost of obtaining these resources from other institutions.
Need to set up an ILLiad account or see if you are affiliated/unaffiliated? Do you have questions on invoicing? Click to see the ILLiad Frequently Asked Questions, email LIBILL@UTSouthwestern.edu or call 214-648-2002 for document-related questions or 214-648-2626 for billing.

A Year in Review: UT Southwestern Library’s Response to COVID-19

As we welcome our UT Southwestern community back to the Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center space in May 2021, we’d like to reflect on what we have done to make it safer for you to come back over the last year. The Library Staff of 16 spent a combined total of over 2,250 hours on COVID-19 related projects in the past year. Our list of contributions is as follows:

  • Created the comprehensive COVID-19 Library Guide.
  • Conducted COVID-19 mediated searches with related clinical, research, and administrative purposes.
  • Created, maintained, and performed daily searches to maintain the Campus’s COVID-19 Funding Opportunities directory.
  • Selected and created the Library Reservation System for safe studying and contact tracing.
  • Instructed CME class related to searching for COVID-19 topics.
  • Processed Interlibrary Loan requests with safety precautions.
  • Planned and implemented the closing of the physical North and South Libraries and then the opening of South Campus Library, including publishing the UT Southwestern Library Re-Opening Guide.
  • Planned and made necessary changes to workflows and staff remote set-ups to allow full continuation of research and instructional services.
  • Had multiple discussions and made decisions for additional resources related to COVID-19 for inclusion the Library Guide.
  • Learned and networked about handling COVID-19 in medical libraries via professional organizations, webinars, and conferences.

Bitty Babu, the Library’s Database Analyst, complied our COVID-19 service hours and provided the following visualizations for our efforts.