Register now for full access to New York Times

You are now able to get full access to the New York Times – including audio, games, and cooking apps – for up to four years when you create/connect a New York Times account with UT Southwestern’s institutional account. Please follow the steps below:

  1. Go to accessnyt.com.
  2. Search for and click the listing for “University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas, TX”.
  3. Follow the steps depending on if you are on or off-campus.

Important Notes

  • If you have previously registered your email address on The New York Times site, you should click the “Already have an account? Log in here” link (below the “Create Account” button).
  • Existing paid New York Times subscribers must cancel their paid subscription before authenticating via the school funded program.

During the registration process, users will be asked to self-identify as either a student or a faculty/staff member. Students will be asked for their graduation year and will have access until December 31 of that year once they complete the registration. Faculty/staff will have 4 years of full account access, after which they must re-authenticate by visiting accessnyt.com.

Upcoming Wiley Webinars highlight OA publishing, AI and Peer Review

The Open Access Advantage: How Open Access Improves Your Impact  
6 March | 9AM CST – Register

Insights Unveiled: Mastering COUNTER Compliance and Usage Reports – A session for Administrators and Librarians
24 April | 9AM CST – Register

Unlocking the Value of Wiley Scientific Journals: Making the Most out of Wiley Online Library
17 April | 9AM CST – Register

How Generative AI Changes Information Discovery
9 May 2023 | 9AM CST – Register

How Peer Review Makes You a Better Researcher
23 May 2023 | 9AM CST – Register

TurnItIn now available in Word 365

TurnItIn is now available in two systems: D2L and Microsoft Word 365. Everyone with a utsouthwestern.edu email address has access to “Draft Coach” in the Word 365 version.

The similarity report available in the two systems is the same; however, the main difference is that the D2L version provides a method for submitting a paper for a grade and for the paper to be graded. If you are just looking for a similarity score (i.e., a plagiarism checker), then Draft Coach may be easier to use.

Here are instructions for how to use each version.

Word 365

  • Open Word 365 (Word Online) and paste the content of the trainee’s work into a blank document. (Note: If the trainee wrote it in Word 365, then you can probably just open the document directly if it was shared with you.)
  • In the menu click on Turnitin. This menu option will appear at the far right after the Help menu and takes a minute or so to appear after starting Word.
  • A new panel will open on the right side of the screen. The first time you use it, you will be prompted to log in and accept the license terms. In later use, you may be prompted to log into Word 365 or get a notice that authentication failed. (If authentication failed, click on re-try.)
  • There are four tabs in the Draft Coach panel, one of which is Similarity. Click on it, and then click to run a similarity check.
  • Once you confirm you will be asked to wait while the report is run. Then you can open the full report.
  • The similarity report will show the information with potential similarity problems flagged. Each flagged section will include information on where the match was found.
  • Important: You can only run 3 reports per document. If you need to immediately check another paper, simply open a new Word document, paste the content, and run the check.

D2L

  • For faculty, you will need to submit your trainee’s Word or PDF document to the self-check assignment in the e-Teaching 101 course.
  • After the document is submitted, you can go back into the submission and look at your similarity score.
  • Clicking on the score will bring up a Feedback Studio tab.
  • In Feedback Studio you can see all the text that Turnitin flagged as a potential similarity problem. Each flagged section will include information on where the match was found.

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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!

Are you feeling anxious about AI and ChatGPT? You are not alone!

Currently, there is a paralysis taking hold regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools including ChatGPT. Your librarians recognize this and are diligently working to provide information, education, and guidance about this topic. The primary challenge we are encountering is the rapid rate of changes occurring while developing supportive content for our users. In attempting to meet the education needs about AI, we quickly find that our content is outdated before we can get close to completion.

However, with the enormous efforts by the Library’s AI/Chat GPT Work Group, we are excited to announce the newly published Artificial Intelligence Guide. Additional thanks are directed to University of South Florida Libraries for allowing use of their content, as well as the many librarians on staff at UTSW who reviewed and edited the guide.

Several of our library leaders and librarians attended the South Central Chapter, South Chapter, and Medical Librarian Association Joint Meeting in New Orleans on September 21-26, 2023. During the meeting, it became clear we are not the only ones struggling to address the topic of AI and AI tools like ChatGPT. Recognizing the scope of the needs surrounding AI, a new collaborative effort formed called the AI Response Coalition (AIRC). This group is led by RaeAnna Jeffers, RN, BSN, MS-IS, Services & Partnerships Unit, UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library.

Rae is soliciting multidisciplinary participation in AIRC from professionals with expertise in many domains of knowledge. The aim is to reduce duplication of efforts contributing to waste of resources, creation of educational content, and to organize a collective response to AI development and implementation. The AIRC welcomes your participation and expertise as we work toward better solutions. Those who are interested can provide their contact information on the AIRC Contact List. Questions can be directed to: airesponsecoalition@gmail.com

As educational content is developed, offerings from our librarians will appear in the Library Events and Classes Calendar and cross-posted in other communications. Thank you for your patience.

Free self-directed grantwriting courses available through UTSW Clinical Researcher Academy

The Office of Clinical Research and the UTSW Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program have contracted with Meg Bouvier, Ph.D., to offer all UTSW researchers free, unlimited access to her library of self-directed virtual training resources. Dr. Bouvier received her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and is a full-time NIH grant writer. To access the resources, registration is required using your UTSW email address.

Upcoming Wiley educational sessions for early-career scholarly authors

Wiley is presenting a variety of workshop topics for early career scholarly authors. These include:

These sessions are also listed here among other Wiley educational presentations at the Wiley Webinars and Events page.

Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) and the University of Texas System reach new transformative agreement

The transformative agreement (TA) between IOPP and the University of Texas System allows affiliated researchers to publish unlimited OA articles in IOPP’s journals and most partner journals with the costs to publish already covered for a 3-year contract. TAs are key to making publicly funded research openly accessible to all on publication, in line with The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) policy.

More information about the agreement may be found on the Institute of Physics page on the Library’s APC Guide.

The UT Southwestern Library actively investigates other TA agreements with publishers as they become available, and the primary concern in these negotiations is evaluating whether supporting OA publishing may be accommodated by or applied to the usual annual price increases for subscription renewals. These efforts are being handled by Jon Crossno, Collection Management Librarian, and Kelly Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President of Library Services. Gonzalez also serves as chair of TLCUA, the organization who successfully negotiated the Elsevier negotiations.