HSLIC News

Not sure how to use PubMed? Been using PubMed for a while but want to learn about the more advanced features? Come to this online workshop to learn how to navigate PubMed and pick up some advanced tricks in the process. This workshop is appropriate for any level of PubMed user (even if you've never used it before) and will review how to utilize keyword and MeSH searching, narrowing your results, creating alerts, saving searches, and more.

We have 2 more opportunities to attend the PubMed workshop this semester:

• Thursday, February 25th from 5:30-6:30
• March 24th from 12-1

You can find all our workshops and register on our Events Calendar. All registrants will be sent a Zoom link previous to the class. If you have questions or want to schedule a workshop for another time or for your class please reach out to Kelleen Maluski, Student Success and Engagement Librarian.

Looking for laboratory protocols or methods?  Consider searching Springer Nature Experiments!  Here you can search over 70,000 protocols or discover experiments across the life sciences for research solutions.  HSLIC recently renewed its subscription, so you will have access to the most current information.  This includes the popular series, Methods in Molecular Biology, Nature Methods, and Nature Protocols.

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Contains laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences. 

 

If you have any questions about how to access this resource, please contact us via Ask a Librarian.

 

 

Looking for health education teaching materials? Want to find a place where you can view lesson plans along with assessment of the course and evidence based practice? MedEdPORTAL is a great place to start! MedEdPORTAL “promotes educational scholarship and collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed health education teaching and assessment resources.” This open-access resource can assist you in building curriculum, learning about health education, and is a great place to think about publishing your own work. MedEdPORTAL also has sections specifically for Anti-Racism, COVID-19 Virtual Learning, and Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity. Be sure to check out this incredible resource from our Databases page and let us know if you have any questions by reaching out on our Ask a Librarian page.

Join a librarian to learn how you can keep track of all your resources in one place and create in-text citations and works cited pages. Find all our workshops, including our first Zotero workshop on Feb. 10th from 12-1, on our Events page.

Photo of footsteps at White Sands National Park by Melissa Rethlefsen

We're now into the second month of 2021, and what a year it has been! Since I started in my new role as Executive Director for HSLIC on January 1, we've seen a world under continued strain, but also rays of hope, especially as vaccination rates climb.

As HSLIC, we're also hopeful. We are currently planning for what a phased, safe, and healthy reopening of our physical spaces might look like. Though in the past, HSLIC has been as much a social hub as a study space, we are focusing on students' primary need: quiet, individual study space. As we finalize our plans and roll them out, we'll be sharing the details.

Another thing that keeps us hopeful are our plans to make HSLIC available 24x7 to all UNM HSC students. The final construction projects that will enable 24x7 to happen are underway, and we're looking forward to having this highly anticipated service available later this spring.

As the new Executive Director, I'm focusing on HSLIC's immediate future and its long-term role within the Health Sciences Center. One thing that's really important to me is our role in creating welcoming, inclusive, and accessible spaces and opportunities for all members of our diverse community. Whether it's hosting events and discussions, sharing resources, or participating in campus diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility initiatives, I believe we have a special role to fill. I'm proud to join my HSLIC colleagues already deeply engaged in this work, whether it's reimagining our Native Health Database, partnering with White Coats for Black & Indigenous Lives to preserve their work, or creating resource guides to help providers and community members find information on LGBTQ+ health. I look forward to seeing how we can continue to improve, grow, and partner with our communities in these efforts.

Be well, stay safe, and keep learning!

Melissa Rethlefsen, HSLIC Executive Director

As we begin Black History Month, we must understand that the celebration and recognition of Black culture and contributions should not be relegated to only a month. We must work to question the way history, and especially the history of the health sciences, is discussed and who is the focus of that narrative every day. It’s just as important that we center the joy and expertise of our Black colleagues and community members. So, I invite you in joining me in signing up for 28 Days of Black History, created by Anti-Racism Daily here (Day 1 covers the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and features artwork that centers the voices of the men who were exploited and experimented on in the name of “science”).  Also, don’t forget to check out the events taking place at UNM HSC and read “Why We Celebrate Black History” and connect to the events linked there through UNM’s Africana Studies. You can also further celebrate accomplishments of Black Americans with Profiles in Perseverance, where they will highlight a new figure every day and with DECADES: Past, Present, Future from the New Mexico Black Leadership Council.