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To our new freshman, returning students, faculty, and staff: welcome to the UDM libraries. We look forward to seeing you and are here to help with any questions you may have about the library’s many resources....
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Social Media, White Privilege, and Racial Justice
Social media of varying sorts has been highly influential in documenting and reporting many recent incidents where police have used excessive, or deadly force. Read about this growing trend in the book Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform. Social media continues to quickly spread the news, sometimes faster than the mass media, and sometimes when the mass media is unable, or unwilling to make the effort. Are you interested in leveraging social media for your personal, business, or...
PsycINFO
You may have noticed, or will notice in the coming weeks, that the PsycINFO database has a different look to it. Indeed it does. The library is now providing PsycINFO through ProQuest rather than Ebsco. From the library homepage, research.udmercy.edu, click on the third tab, Article, Journals + Databases. Under Find databases by title, select the letter P. Scroll down until you find PsycINFO 1887 (third from the bottom). By clicking on it, the basic search screen will come up....
PubMed
PubMed is a free database created by the National Library of Medicine [NLM], a part of the National Institute of Health. It’s the best place to begin a literature search on any healthcare, medicine, nursing, dentistry or basic science topic. It is the broadest index of medical, science, and healthcare. There are currently about 24 million citations from about 5,500 journals. Here are some short tutorials about searching PubMed. While the site is free, access to the full text of...
