SMHS Library Resources

Our clinical campus libraries are leading a workshop on key open access scholarship concepts and discuss transformative agreements to help with publishing costs on Feb. 6. The session will also cover how recent public access mandates affect researchers. Open Access publishing combines immediate online access to scholarly works with the appropriate scholarly citation and credit. […]

As we begin a new semester, it’s the perfect time to get organized with your research. Citation managers are a great way to keep track of your sources as well as create citations! Like your bookmarks toolbar but bigger and better, tools like Zotero allow you to save and organize citations as well as PDFs […]

Have you ever been frustrated by a paywall on a publisher website? Or irritated by the number of clicks to check for full text in PubMed? LibKey Nomad will instantly check for full text availability from our library and present you with the single best and fastest link to download the PDF, view the article, or […]

Days are getting shorter, and mother nature is making it difficult to spend time outside when the sun is actually shining. Additionally, the holiday season and the end of the year can often be stressful for many. So, let’s add finals and Step exams and more onto this already stressful time, right? ACK! While we […]

December is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Awareness Month. Typically, SAD occurs during late fall and winter months, when there is less sunlight and colder weather. Each year, about 5 percent of the U.S. population experiences seasonal depression. Four out of five people who have seasonal depression are women. The main age of onset of seasonal […]

The results of the Publication Pandemonium online quiz competition are in! We are now in the second year of holding this quiz in celebration of International Open Access Week, which seeks to elevate dialogue around research access and ownership. Our quiz is meant to be educational and fun, focusing on core concepts within scholarly communications […]

International Open Access Week is October 20-26 and the UND Libraries want to celebrate with you! Open Access Week is an annual opportunity for researchers, publishers, and others to learn more about open access and share knowledge (and enthusiasm!) with their colleagues. This year the UND Libraries have workshops, displays, and more planned. Our very own […]

October is the month to celebrate medical librarians and health information professionals who work tirelessly to support healthcare providers, researchers, and patients for evidence-based medical knowledge. Our librarians can direct users to curated resources and explain how to identify reputable journals. They train students on how to conduct efficient health information searches, and assist with […]

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. […]

The first-person perspective in this post is from our Circulation Manager, Jan Gunderson. I decided to work in a library in the fifth grade. And in some way, I have either volunteered or been employed in a library ever since….and of all the changes in the world I think the changes to libraries has been […]