The Health Sciences Library plans to re-open with limited hours and capacity on Monday, August 17.
Our hours will be the following:
- Monday – Friday — 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Saturday — Closed
- Sunday — 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Thank you for
- wearing a mask
- practicing social distancing
- practicing proper hand hygiene
- not bringing food or drink into the library
Closed until further notice
- group study rooms
- conference room
- quiet study room
- reading room
Much of the furniture in the open study areas, along with half of our computers, have been removed to encourage social distancing.
Optometry students, please enter the Compulink room through the door across from Cougar Grounds.
Most services, such as consultations and instruction sessions, will continue to be provided remotely.
Please check this space, https://libraries.uh.edu, our social media @uhoustonhslib, or contact rrhelbin@central.uh.edu for updates on our hours and policies.
The Health Sciences Library space is closed until further notice.
Please check this blog for updates.
Library services are still available!
We are working remotely to continue providing library services to our health sciences faculty, staff, and students.
Contact us for questions about electronic resources access, instruction requests, research consultations, literature search assistance, etc.
Ways to reach us:
- Contact your liaison librarian directly.
Rachel Helbing
713-743-5462
Health & Human Performance
Health Education
Medicine
Optometry
Pharmacy
Stefanie Lapka
713-743-8334
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Nursing
Social Work
- Contact our general email address. It will be monitored from 7 am – 6 pm Monday through Friday.
Try to stay healthy, everyone!
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been developing an updated version of PubMed which will replace the current interface sometime in early 2020.
New features will include enhanced search results and a responsive design for mobile devices.
The new site is currently available to preview and use at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=uhulib
Be sure to click on the green “Feedback” button in the lower right corner of the page to let NLM know what you think, or if you encounter any problems.
To help you get ready for this change, the Health Sciences Librarians will be hosting PubMed demonstration & help sessions in December (at the Health Sciences Library) and January (in the Faculty Café).
New PubMed demo drop-in sessions,
Held at the Health Sciences Library conference room:
Monday, December 2……….12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Tuesday, December 3……….12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Thursday, December 5……..3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, December 10……..11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Thursday, December 12……12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Friday, December 13…………9:00 am – 11:00 am
Monday, December 16……..10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday, December 18..12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
New PubMed demo drop-in sessions,
Held at the Faculty Café:
Thursday, January 9…………8:30 am – 10:30 am
Friday, January 10……………8:30 am – 10:30 am
Wednesday, January 15……11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Thursday, January 23……….2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Not ready to make the switch? You can still access full-text articles through the current version of PubMed by using UH Libraries’ custom link, https://libraries.uh.edu/pubmed
Please stop by one of our upcoming sessions, or contact the Health Sciences Library with any questions.
Rachel Helbing, rrhelbin@central.uh.edu, 713-743-5462
Stefanie Lapka, slapka@central.uh.edu, 713-743-8334
You should now be able to call us on our main line and get through: 713-743-1910.
Apologies for the inconvenience caused by this outage.
The Health Sciences Library main desk phone lines are currently down. We are working with campus IT to solve this problem. In the meantime, please call Jessica (713-743-7870), Rachel (713-743-5462), or Stefanie (713-743-8334) directly for assistance.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) let us know some months ago that they’ve been working on a new version of PubMed (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_pubmed_update.html). I attended a webinar today to learn more about the new features, functionality, and look of the site, which is set to launch at the beginning of 2020.
The “labs” (or beta) version is already available to use. If interested, give the new site a try at UH’s custom link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pubmed/?otool=uhulib
Be sure to click on the green “Feedback” button in the lower right corner of the page to let NLM know what you think, or if you encounter any problems that need to be fixed prior to launch.
Once the new site has officially switched over, we’ll be offering open classes on how to get the most out of your PubMed searches. Watch this space (and your email) for more information.
On Friday, March 1, the Health Sciences Library hosted an escape room activity for the 95 first-year Optometry students enrolled in Community Health. We designed this interactive game to give students an opportunity to implement the information literacy skills that we covered in a lecture earlier that week.
The skills covered included the following:
- Locating the Optometry Resources guide
- Identifying an empirical, peer-reviewed research article
- Applying PICO to a database search
- Using PubMed to obtain full-text articles
- Finding journal impact factors
16 teams of 5-7 students competed against the clock and each other in order to solve a series of 8 tasks, presented in a mix of online and physical format clues.
Our winning team, iCare(tm) [pictured below], finished in 19 minutes 57 seconds. Everyone was able to complete the activity within the allotted time, plus or minus a few extra hints. 🙂
This foray into gamification was a success – everyone learned something and had fun. We are looking forward to facilitating similar activities in the future.
iCare(tm) finished first with a time of 19:57.