Monthly Archives: December 2015

"Download limits": what you need to know about licensing agreements

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The UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center provides access to many electronic resources (e.g., databases, electronic journals, etc.), and the use of these resources is governed by license agreements with vendors or publishers. Systematic or excessive downloading from an electronic resource is explicitly prohibited and may result in loss of our institutional access.

EZproxy has built-in restrictions to prevent the systematic harvesting of content by robots or other spoof mechanisms. The download limit is 100 megabytes (MB) within a 15-minute period of time. This limit could possibly be hit during normal downloading of content, so it does not necessarily suggest any illicit action on the user’s part.  When the download limit is exceeded, the user’s account is suspended for two hours, and the following message displays:

Our Library resource vendors have stipulations for the amount of content that can be downloaded by a user within a certain time period. Unfortunately, you have exceeded your download limit of 100 MB within a 15 minute time frame. Your suspension will expire in 2 hours. If you frequently receive this message, please contact the Library at Liberesources@utsouthwestern.edu. We apologize for any inconvenience.

An investigation is currently underway to assure that we prevent abuse of Library resources while minimizing any disruption of authorized usage. If you have experienced this download limit message, please fill out this brief Survey Monkey questionnaire about your experience  so we can better troubleshoot the current process.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us by email at Liberesources@utsouthwestern.edu.

NLM Poster Exhibit exposes the processes, problems, and potentials of some popular mind-altering drugs

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nlmnovpypMind-altering drugs have been used throughout the history of America. While some remain socially acceptable, others are outlawed because of their toxic – and intoxicating – characteristics. These classifications have shifted at different times in history and will continue to change. To illustrate this, the UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center is pleased to host Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions, a six-banner traveling exhibition that explores the factors that have shaped the changing definitions of some of our most potent drugs: from medical miracle to social menace. The exhibit will be on display until December 26, 2015.

A “Digital Gallery” offering a selection of digitized, historical texts from the History of Medicine Division’s diverse collections can be found as part of the online version of the exhibition. These images provide viewers with new avenues to explore beyond the exhibition. Educators will also find expanded resources online for middle school and college level classroom use.

This exhibition was produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. It is curated by Manon Parry, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public History, University of Amsterdam.