Free self-directed grantwriting courses available through UTSW Clinical Researcher Academy
The Office of Clinical Research and the UTSW Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program have contracted with Meg Bouvier, Ph.D., to offer all UTSW researchers free, unlimited access to her library of self-directed virtual training resources. Dr. Bouvier received her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and is a full-time NIH grant writer. To access the resources, registration is required using your UTSW email address.
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) and the University of Texas System reach new transformative agreement
The transformative agreement (TA) between IOPP and the University of Texas System allows affiliated researchers to publish unlimited OA articles in IOPP’s journals and most partner journals with the costs to publish already covered for a 3-year contract. TAs are key to making publicly funded research openly accessible to all on publication, in line with The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) policy.
The UT Southwestern Library actively investigates other TA agreements with publishers as they become available, and the primary concern in these negotiations is evaluating whether supporting OA publishing may be accommodated by or applied to the usual annual price increases for subscription renewals. These efforts are being handled by Jon Crossno, Collection Management Librarian, and Kelly Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President of Library Services. Gonzalez also serves as chair of TLCUA, the organization who successfully negotiated the Elsevier negotiations.
Upcoming Wiley educational sessions for early-career scholarly authors
Wiley is presenting a variety of workshop topics for early career scholarly authors. These include:
The Library's Ejournals A to Z has a new user interface! Search or browse the Library’s online collection of more than 23,000 electronic journals by title, subject, or database.
Now you can limit your search results by:
Peer review journals
Resource type (e.g., journal, book, report, newsletter, etc.)
To make it easier for users to find articles on a given subject, EBSCO has developed its own thesaurus: EBSCO’s Comprehensive Subject Index (CSI). Each article indexed by EBSCO is assigned two or more subject headings from this thesaurus to describe the article’s content.
The Library – along with many other campus departments – has been asked to make some difficult decisions to address campus budget concerns for fiscal year 2024, and we have been carefully reviewing our current subscriptions to find ways in which we might reduce our spending. With that in mind, the first phase of these reductions goes into effect as of today (September 1, 2023).
The Library has been fortunate to provide access to many EBSCO databases – e.g., Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Consumer Health Complete, Natural & Alternative Treatments – through our consortial partnership with TexShare. However, the TexShare contract with EBSCO was not renewed, and so access to these databases ended on August 31, 2023, for many of the public, school, and academic libraries throughout the state of Texas who are also members of TexShare. We did investigate options to continue access through a local subscription, but the cost was too high to pursue – especially considering the campus budget concerns.
Please note: Alternative content may be found through other resources now provided through TexShare; a complete list of these resources is available on the Library’s Databases A to Z.
In addition, after careful analysis and review of usage statistics and cost per use, the UTSW community will not have access to the following SAGE Research Methods resources:
SAGE Research Methods: Data Visualization
SAGE Research Methods: Datasets 2
SAGE Research Methods Video: Medicine & Health
SAGE Research Methods Video: Research Ethics
Links to these resources will soon be removed from the Library’s website and systems.
More information about our planned cancellations and reductions will be provided as they become available. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Library.
Collecting UTSW’s historical records, in digital or physical format, ensures that they can be preserved and made accessible to researchers in the future. If you or your department has items that might be related to the history of UTSW, please reach out to archives@utsouthwestern.edu.
