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This year marks the 120th anniversary of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Huzzah! According to the SMHS “School History” webpage, the University of North Dakota School of Medicine was founded in 1905 as a two-year school of basic science located in UND’s Science Hall. The school has changed a lot from granting B.S. […]

This spring, three Library Resources staff were recognized at the annual UND Staff Recognition Luncheon. Jan Gunderson was recognized for 25 years of service. Jan is our Circulation Manager. You’ve likely talked with Jan if you’ve visited the information desk in the SMHS building in the last nine years. We are grateful for the energy […]

We are social! That is, we’ve joined some of our other SMHS friends on social media. We’d love it if you’d pop over to Instagram and Facebook and follow us. On Instagram you can find us as “SMHS_LibraryResources” and on Facebook we’re “Library Resources.” We’ll be sharing fun facts about what we do and who […]

On January 7, 2025, all EBSCOhost-based platforms will undergo a full user interface (UI) refresh. EBSCO’s new UI will include personalized dashboards, advanced search parameters and filters to more easily narrow search results, enhanced accessibility, and improved translation features. Most of our EBSCOhost resources will look different when you access them for research after January […]

International Clinical Educators (ICE) is changing the way students and faculty will access our video library subscription: they are transitioning all users away from IP-based authentication and are now requiring a unique login with password for each user. Our current method of access is available until December 20, 2024, and we’re asking all students and […]

Have you heard of the new UND Essential Studies Special Emphasis Area, “Digital Literacy”? In spring of 2023, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education (SBHE) issued Policy 461, requiring that North Dakota University System institutions make a digital literacy requirement for all associate and baccalaureate-level programs. This summer, a 40-person subcommittee of the […]

What is it? The memo, titled “Guidance to Make Federally-Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay”—also known informally as the “OSTP-Nelson memo” or the “Public Access Memo” is a memorandum written by Dr. Alondra Nelson, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). It was released in August of 2022 and provides guidelines to […]

As you’ve seen in our previous post about read and publish agreements, we’re committed to finding ways to make our subscriptions work for as many of our affiliated employees and students as possible. These days, that often means working out “transformative agreements” with publishers, so we can help increase open access publishing options for SMHS […]

Did you know SMHS’ collection on the Scholarly Commons is the most popular college-level collection on UND’s institutional repository? For the fourth year running SMHS’s collected research works have beat out any other college to be the “most popular” with readers worldwide, reaching 936,334 total downloads by December 19th, 2023, near twice that of the […]