Services for Faculty and Staff
The McGoogan Health Sciences Library offers services to support faculty and staff research and teaching. Faculty and staff who are new to UNMC are invited to contact the library for a one-on-one orientation.
Liaison Librarians
Liaison librarians are focused on the needs of UNMC colleges, institutes, and departments. They serve as:
- A point of contact for library-related questions
- Instructors who can help faculty and students navigate the world of information and library resources
- Advocates for faculty and staff needs within the library
Library Services
- Librarian facilitated literature searches: basic literature search; searches to support production of systematic, scoping, integrative, umbrella, and mapping reviews; and IACUC-required alternatives searches
- Interlibrary loan, a no-fee service, for materials that are not in the library’s collections
- Assistance with writing at the Writing Center @ UNMC
- Access to Maker Studio for 3D printing and prototyping
Scholarly Support
- Expand scholarly reach by depositing scholarly work (posters, presentations, reports, etc.) in the campus repository: DigitalCommons@UNMC
- Guidance for copyright questions
- Navigation of the scholarly publishing and impact landscape to include help finding and vetting journals for publishing manuscripts
- Open access publishing discounts
- Instruction in research impact resources
Researcher Services
The library helps transform UNMC’s research and scholarly output through all stages of the research lifecycle.
We accomplish this through:
- Serving as a nexus for tools, resources, and expertise
- Playing a pivotal role as partners at all points of the research lifecycle
- Raising awareness of best practices
- Facilitating accessibility of UNMC’s scholarly output
- Helping researchers save time so they can focus on their education, basic science, population, or clinical research
Library Support for Researchers
Data Services
- Data management consultations and education opportunities
- Work one-on-one or attend webinars on organizing, cleaning, and preserving datasets
- Data curation
- Provide services to researchers to properly curate data for long-term use and preservation
- Data visualization
- Workshops and consultations on visualizing data for publications
Instruction Support
- Instruction in information literacy and research skills developed by library faculty who specialize in instruction
- Journal article and ebook links for Canvas can be found in our online catalog. Learn more with this quick guide (PDF).
- The library wants to make course texts available to students to help reduce attendance costs. Tell us what you need and the number of students, and we will do our best to add books to the library collection. Send your title lists for consideration to Alison Bobal, head, collection development and metadata.
Collections and Tools
- Online clinical resources such as UpToDate, Access suite, and drug resources
- Researcher tools such as ChemBioOffice and SciFinder
- Helpful tools such as Grammarly, Journal Citation Reports (Impact Factors) and citation management
Volunteer Faculty and Clinical Instructors
Volunteer faculty and clinical instructors can ask their home department to request an ID and password from UNMC ITS in order to access the library’s online journals, books, and databases in support of their role as an educator. Volunteer faculty may request literature search services and interlibrary loan (copies only for educational purposes in direct support of teaching or grand rounds. See the Collection Access and Services for Special Groups policy for more information.
Contact the Library
- Start with askus@unmc.edu or 402-559-6221
- Contact a library liaison
- Submit a comment or suggest a resource
Library News
- Subscribe to the McGoogan News blog to keep up with news and events
- Subscribe to the library’s quarterly newsletter, Source
- Join in the conversation by following the library on Facebook, X, and Instagram