HSLIC News

The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center has created a new guide entitled, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). This guide offers quick tips to start research on this topic. The guide is meant to be a jumping off point and can be updated quickly. For more information or to suggest additional resources, please reach out to the librarian (Kelleen Maluski) listed on the guide.

Considering the sudden nature in which instruction is switching from face-to-face to virtual, HSC faculty might be wondering about their right to use certain copyrighted materials for instructional purposes. The library world is already responding with helpful tips for the "rapid shift" that is being asked of faculty in these situations. One such example is from our colleagues at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. But you may have more specific questions about content types and whether or not you are "allowed" to use certain materials in an online environment for instruction. For example, should you screen that five minute section of that YouTube video you found online? Or what if you need a whole book to be made disseminated online and it is only available in print? Or what about the difference between sharing these materials through BBLearn or just opening up something from your private social media account? Your sudden shift to online instruction likely leaves you with a few questions... and a decision to make around copyright risk. 

The good news is that HSLIC staff can help you untangle your particular quandary and coach you on some things to consider with all of this. Please note: WE ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEGAL COUNSEL. We consider ourselves copyright coaches. The Association of College & Research Libraries recently hosted a webinar titled "Copyright for Campus Closures: Exploring the Copyright Issues around Moving Instruction and Reference Online." Presenter Sara Benson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) brought up several important points when moving to online instruction. When contacting us with your copyright concern, you might think about the following:

1. Are the materials you want to use now in the public domain?
2. Do the materials have a creative commons license?
3. Have you learned about where you can find OERs (Open Educational Resources)? 
4. Confused about the face-to-face teaching exception? Or how you could apply aspects of the TEACH act? 
5. Do you know how Fair Use is applied? Or how it can be interpreted in a court of law?
6. Do you know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the streaming video exception? 

If you have questions about any of this or would like to consult with us, please contact me, Jonathan Pringle, HSLIC Scholarly Communications and Digital Librarian, at jpringle@salud.unm.edu. 

Need access to a resource?  UNM faculty, students, and staff have access to the library's licensed electronic resources 24/7 from off-campus.  Even if the library is closed, you can still access the resources you rely on.  This includes ebooks, ejournals, and databases like Uptodate, Access Medicine, and so many more.  Take a look at our Finding Full Text Guide for more information and tips on how to access electronic resources.  If you have a question about any of our resources, please search our FAQs or Ask a Librarian and someone will get back to you.

All scheduled events in the library for this semester are being postponed until further notice. We are sorry for any inconvenience this will cause, but are sure the community understands how important social distancing is at this time. As soon as we are able we will be rescheduling and sending out information about the new dates. This will impact:

• PubMed Now Workshops - In the meantime please feel free to ask any questions through our Ask a Librarian page (we can set up virtual appointments) and see our PubMed Guide which has been updated with the recent changes
• Meditation Sit - See some useful resources for wellness now and anytime on our Wellness Guide
• Bullet Journaling Support - You can always ask Kelleen Maluski any questions you have about bullet journaling processes

Be sure to subscribe to our blog to get updates regularly and please know we look forward to assisting you in different mediums during this time.

As a follow up to our February workshop - come work on your bullet journals with other people and ask any specific questions you might have. There will be stations set up to work on specific techniques or you can free style. This is intended to be a group work space where cohorts can help each other and people can ask questions of their librarian. This is not a workshop. The session will be from 12-1pm on Thursday, March 19th in Library Room 428.

Snacks and supplies will be provided but quantities will be limited so please RSVP to help us better understand what’s needed. You can also feel free to bring your own supplies, lunch, and/or snacks.

This event is being presented by the UNM Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center and the UNM SOM Offices of Professional Wellbeing.

PubMed is changing its interface! This means that not only will the search look different, it will function differently as well. The Library is therefore offering 3 opportunities to learn how to navigate the new PubMed and pick up some advanced tricks in the process. The workshop PubMed Now: Changes to the Interface will review how to utilize keyword searching and MeSH searching, narrowing your results, creating alerts, saving searches, and more.

It is suggested that you RSVP to reserve your space. The dates of the workshops will be:

Tuesday, March 10th from 12-1pm in HSLIC 226

Wednesday, March 25th from 5:30-6:30pm in HSLIC 428

Thursday, April 9th from 12-1pm in HSLIC 428

We look forward to seeing you at one of these sessions and if you have any questions you can reach out to the Student Success & Engagement Librarian, Kelleen Maluski, here.