Announcements
Announcements
Many university libraries suspend their Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services during the holidays, making it difficult for us to fill our patrons’ requests. For that reason, UAB Libraries will suspend our ILL services for borrowing between Saturday, December 16, 2023 and Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
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Read a message from Dean Kasia Gonnerman and explore updates from Libraries departments.
Click to read the 2022-23 report.
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The Reynolds-Finley Historical Library is pleased to feature the exciting and growing African American Medical Collection. This historically important collection celebrates the pioneering efforts contributed by African American physicians, nurses and other health care professionals.
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To better enable and encourage UAB faculty, staff and students to consider Open Access publishing — or the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as needed — the Office of Scholarly Communication continues its Open Access APC Fund Program, launched in 2022.
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Do you use UAB Libraries' interlibrary loan service? Fill out a four-question survey to share your experiences. The survey opens Aug. 21 and closes Sept. 15.
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Register for the Business Research Toolkit course to learn business research skills and discover free online sources and UAB subscription databases available through UAB Libraries. Participants who finish the course will receive a digital badge for use on resumes and LinkedIn. Register online Aug. 21-27; the course runs Sept. 1-Oct. 19.
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As the summer term gets underway, the libraries are now on an abbreviated schedule; see the link below for open hours for both the Sterne and Lister Hill libraries. Please come see us for study room space, research help or to borrow books or equipment; we are here to help you be successful!
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The UAB Libraries are excited to move forward with more improvements to the study rooms at Lister Hill and Mervyn Sterne Libraries. These study spaces will be receiving new tables and chairs conducive to enhancing your study and group activities. To prep and install the new furniture, study rooms will be temporarily unavailable for reservations during the week of May 14th – May 19th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause but we are sure you will be pleased with the end results. We plan to reopen rooms for reservations as quickly as possible. Please stay tuned for updates on our progress.
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Don’t forget, Sterne Library will have short hours next week during Spring Break 2023. The library will be open 7:00 am -5:00 pm, Monday, March 13 – Friday, March 17 and will be closed on the weekends. For current hours and a complete list of closures, as well as a downloadable PDF copy of the UAB Libraries calendar for Spring 2023, visit the hours page on the UAB Libraries website.
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UAB Libraries will be closing their second instance of BrowZine, listed as University of Alabama at Birmingham, Health Sciences (instance ID 110) in the first week of February 2023. After this date, users who have account settings that need to be updated will be returned to the Choose Library screen, where they will need to select the remaining "University of Alabama at Birmingham" instance from the drop-down list. This is being done to provide an overall better user experience. To learn more about using BrowZine and related tools from ThirdIron to easily download and read journal articles please visit BrowZine - Third Iron.
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The 44th Annual Reynolds-Finley Historical Lecture will be held on Friday, March 10, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. in Lecture Room E of Volker Hall, 1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama, 35233.
It will also be viewable online with the live link - https://uab.zoom.us/my/rfhl.lecture . "A Century of Maternity Care: Alabama's Highlights and Challenges" will be presented by Jenny M. Luke, Independent historian (former RN, CNM), and the 2017 Reynolds-Finley Research Fellow. A reception will follow. For more information, visit our lecture page (https://library.uab.edu/special-collections/lecture-series).
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Do you want to publish in a Wiley or Hindawi open access journal but don’t have funding to pay the required Article Processing Charge (APC)? Great news! The UAB Libraries now has a Read & Publish Agreement with Wiley that allows UAB authors to publish in Gold OA and hybrid OA journals at no cost to them. The Agreement covers the APC for nearly 2,000 Wiley and Hindawi journals.
To find out more information about the Wiley Read & Publish Agreement and other APC funding opportunities from the UAB Libraries, visit the Office of Scholarly Communication.
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Registration is now open for the Spring 2023 Business Research Toolkit. Get an overview of basic business research skills and resources including free online sources and UAB subscription databases in this free, seven-week asynchronous Canvas course.
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Read more: Registration is now open for the Spring 2023 Business Research Toolkit