HSLIC News

HSLIC is happy to announce, we have licensed Elsevier’s ClinicalKey and it is now available.  

ClinicalKey is a database designed to support healthcare professionals and learners with the latest evidence across specialties in a variety of formats, including full-text reference books and journals, point-of-care monographs, drug information, videos, practice guidelines, customized patient education handouts, clinical calculators and more.

ClinicalKey provides access to gold standard e-textbooks such as – Robbins Basic Pathology; Mandell, Douglas & Bennett’s Principles & Practices of Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Nelson Pediatric Symptom Based Diagnosis; and Medical Microbiology. As well as highly-used journals such as – American Family Physician, Emergency Medicine Clinics, and Infectious Disease Clinics.  In all, there are over 1000 e-textbooks, and approximately 700 journals.

Users can access ClinicalKey by going to HSLIC’s database page, or by searching for resources in ClinicalKey through HSLIC’s instance of WorldCat Discovery.  

Many of you may remember we canceled ClinicalKey last year due to budget constraints. We heard from many of you and how much you missed this resource. The re-licensing of ClinicalKey was made possible by additional funding to HSLIC’s collection budget and an increase to the HSC Student Fee. We’re grateful to the HSC community for your continued support! 
 

Tomorrow is Juneteenth or Emancipation Day, the celebration of the date that Union soldiers brought news to Galveston, Texas that all enslaved persons were free. This holiday, now a national holiday after Congress’s vote this week, is a time to celebrate the African American and Black community. It is also a time to reflect on our own role in building a country that centers a dominant and westernized narrative of what community is.

We hope you will join the library as we take time to review important educational materials, celebrate and engage in conversation through the NM Juneteenth “To a Higher Ground” festival (also being live streamed), take PRIDE in the intersecting identities of our UNM cohorts with Juneteenth Through a Queer Lens, and understand the cultural wealth of the communities that were built out of “grassroots preservation practice.”

While reflection and celebration are necessary, so is action. Please take this time to understand how the impacts of slavery are not a thing of the past, reading The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander and When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, could be a good place to start. Joining the Community, Connection, and Reflection Book Club would also be an action item that can help you stay involved in this conversation long term. You can also review the resources and celebrations listed above to find opportunities to volunteer, donate, and further engage with the work being done in New Mexico and beyond.

For Pride 2021 the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center is excited to announce a newly updated Research Guide for LGBTQIA+ Health Resources. This guide is intended to be used as a resource for researchers, students, and faculty to help them in providing care and conducting appropriate research with the LGBTQIA+ community. The guide has many resources but it also gives contextual information on the various communities represented with this term and regarding our terminology.

The LGBTQIA+ Health Resources Guide was created by Anna Cibils, Library Services Specialist and Nursing student and Kelleen Maluski, your Student Success & Engagement Librarian. Anna and Kelleen were excited and grateful to put together this guide with input from multiple stakeholders from UNM, UNM HSC, and the larger New Mexico community. Both Anna and Kelleen are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community as bisexual cis women and know how important it is to see representation that doesn't take a "one size fits all" approach to research for such a large community. If you have any thoughts, comments, or questions about the guide feel free to email Kelleen!

This Guide is part of a larger effort from the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center to offer contextual and thoughtful review of conducting research with marginalized and historically excluded communities. In addition to updating our Research Guides we have also formed the Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Committee made up of members from the faculty, staff, and students of UNM and UNM HSC and curated our databases in a Health Justice & Equity subject section. If you would like to let us know how the library can continue to provide welcoming and inclusive spaces and resources for all please let us know at this anonymous survey!