The Library has added a newUpToDate registration/re-verification link on the Library’s home page to use with registration and 90-day re-verification assistance from a Wi-Fi network. If you plan to access UpToDate from a device using campus Wi-Fi, you will need to register for a free UpToDate account using one of the following methods required for initial registration and 90 day campus re-verification:
UpToDate through EPIC
UpToDate through EZProxy (i.e. any non-UTSW Wi-Fi connection)
The Library is excited to announce that UT Southwestern now officially subscribes to AccessAPN, offered by McGraw Hill Medical in partnership with Sigma Theta Tau. If you are enrolled in an APN program, then the content in AccessAPN aligns with the curricula of Advanced Practice Nursing programs, including those for Nursing Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Doctors of Nursing Practice. Of course, these resources are available for all UT Southwestern nursing staff – in acute care to ambulatory care and include the following:
Books – more than 40 eBooks on a variety of topics, including clinical information, EBP, informatics, leadership, professional development, and self-care/personal development
Cases – materials for short, targeted case-based learning
Review Questions – thousands of Q&A for board exam preparation
More information about AccessAPN is available from McGraw Hill, including a Brief Overview of AccessAPN – YouTube, as well as how to set up a MyAccess Profile account to access content remotely and unlock personal account features (e.g., review questions, cases).
The MyAccess profile is free to create and available on all of McGraw Hill’s medical Access platforms. This profile creates a personalized experience by unlocking the ability to bookmark content, interact with review Q&A and cases, and receive alerts about new content additions. Another benefit of a MyAccess profile is the ability to go directly to the site (e.g., www.AccessMedicine.com) to access it remotely. If you see a message that your remote access has expired, connect to the UTSW subscription either from on campus or while using VPN or EZproxy and then log into your MyAccess profile.
Your name is foundational to being discovered and recognized: it establishes your unique professional profile, which stays with you throughout your research and academic career. However, author ambiguity can and does occur, and these name variants can be a key concern when calculating your author level metrics. ORCID, Scopus Author Identifier, Publons, Web of Science Research ID, SciENcv? With so many resources to help authors manage their profiles, where do you start? While there is overlap between the various resources, each one has its own functionality and unique features. Based on your research focus, you may want to maintain more than one profile. The Author Profiles Guide provides an overview of select author profiles and suggested steps to manage your profile. Questions? Please complete our Ask Us form.
Our JoVE Unlimited subscription includes more than 14,000 videos across multiple STEM disciplines and counting. In 2021 alone, JoVE produced 1,085 new high-quality videos demonstrating scientific experiments and concepts for research and education. In 2022, JoVE Unlimited will be adding:
JoVE Core video textbooks which includes Statistics, Physics, Organic Chemistry, and Cell Biology.
New JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments: Cancer Research collections, which includes Gastrointestinal Cancers, Head and Neck Cancers, and Urinary Tract Cancers.
More than 1,000 videos on advanced research methods in JoVE Journal.
Need to practice for your board exams? Consider using BoardVitals, an effective and powerful board review tool that includes high-quality review questions. With BoardVitals, users may prepare for a variety of board examinations, including the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, Step 2 (CK and CS), and Step 3, as well as the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses (NCLEX-RN). The resource allows for decreased study time, with everything organized under one platform and the best questions to study listed up front. Eligible users include UT Southwestern faculty, staff, students, residents/fellows, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. Users will need to register for a new account using their @utsouthwestern.edu email address as their username. Once the account is set up, users may create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more. Also included are detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently announced that two PubMed Central article datasets are openly available via Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). This benefits researchers utilizing text mining methodology or other types of secondary analysis.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). For nearly two decades NLM has supported the retrieval and download of machine-readable open access journal articles through the PMC Open Archives Initiative (PMC-OAI) and FTP (file transfer protocol). To enhance access, these datasets are now also available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Registry of Open Data as part of AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP). Benefits to working with the datasets in the cloud include access to uncompressed individual full-text article files in XML and plain text as well as faster download and transfer speeds.
The PMC Open Access (OA) Subset includes all articles and preprints in PMC with a machine-readable Creative Commons license that allows reuse.
The Author Manuscript Dataset includes accepted author manuscripts collected under a funder policy in PMC and made available in machine-readable formats for text mining.
In addition to its extensive medical/health sciences collection of journals, books and databases, UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center participates in the TexShare Databases Program (coordinated by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission). These databases provide access to more than 27,000 journals and magazines, over 171,000 ebooks, and over 15 million images, videos, and interactive resources in both medical/health sciences and non-medical/health sciences disciplines, such as business, career resources, education, genealogy, general studies, law, general studies, and much more! To access, click on TexShare Databases under Popular Links on the Library’s home page.
In honor of American Archives Month, we are interviewing UT Southwestern’s University Archivist, Chianta Dorsey.
What are your principal duties as Archivist, and in which of these duties do you invest the majority of your energy?
My main mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to the institutional history of UT Southwestern Medical Center. Most of my duties are devoted to physically preserving these materials but also to making them available to the UTSW community and external researchers. Accessibility is so important because, for all the work we put in to preserve materials, we want people to use them for education, instruction, and research.
What do you enjoy most about being an Archivist?
I enjoy the many people that I get to meet and the stories that they tell. There is this misconception that archivists only spend time with the materials, but I spend a lot of time engaging with people across UTSW’s campus and outside of it.
What are some unique or interesting items that you have in the UTSW Archives?
There are many, but I’ve found Edward Cary’s patient book, from his residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York during the 1890s, to be pretty interesting. Cary meticulously described his patient’s habits and symptoms and even drew charts and data that must have taken a lot of time to write. We have a book related to biomedical research performed during the Voskhod space flight that was led by the Soviet Union from 1964-1965. We have the only known copy since the others were ordered to be destroyed. Lastly, we have essays written by Donald Seldin during his time studying at New York University. It’s very interesting to see his interpretation on some classic works of literature.
What are some projects that the Archives is working on now?
We’re working to roll out our first archives management system. This will be an online portal where people will be able to search, find, and request our materials more easily. I’m also working to organize the Dean of the Medical School records, which provides a nuanced look into the first 40 years of UTSW’s history. While the records detail our immense growth in the fields of medicine and science, it also provides insight into how broader social issues penetrated the campus.
Are there any new directions in which you would like the Archives to go?
I hope to work more with instructors who teach medical humanities electives on campus. I’ve partnered with two medical humanities classes to present materials from the Archives related to the history of medicine, so I would like our role to expand in that area.
We’ve also been working to build our digital preservation program. Much of the materials being generated is born-digital so we want to ensure that we are able to preserve records and documents being created in various digital formats. Our COVID-19 collection, which documents the institution’s response to the pandemic, is our first complete born-digital collection. As of today, none of it consists of physical documents or materials.
How can materials in the Archives be accessed?
If someone would like to view materials in the Archives, they can make an appointment to access them. You can contact us through our email at archives@utsouthwestern.edu to set up an appointment or inquire about any of our materials.
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.
