Making memes - fair use, visual literacy, and more

Uplifting Memes, a grant funded program, will feature workshops, guest speakers, and a contest. 

Workshops will include

• Thursday, September 19 - Let's get ethical: Copyright, Fair use, and Attribution for memes
• Wednesday, October 23 - Finding meme-spiration with public domain & creative commons media
• Tuesday, November 19 - Making memes: Graphic design, visual rhetoric, digital communication

Check the website for more details - https://sites.google.com/uncg.edu/upliftingmemes/home

PubMed Labs, test site for new features in our favorite NLM database, now has links to UNCG full text!

PubMed Labs is an experimental website for testing new features for PubMed. (see the help page for more info)

Now you get can get from PubMed Lab results to UNCG full text and Interlibrary Loan!

To do this,

1. Enter PubMed Labs from this link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pubmed?otool=uncglib


2. When you see a result that you like, click the title to see more information




3. The UNCG logo in the upper right will search UNCG Library subscriptions for article matches.

 


4. The next page will list online full text options for the article

 

If no matching articles are found, the bottom of the page will have an Interlibrary Loan button

Digital Bootcamp for Graduate Students and Faculty

Digital Bootcamp Series - Improve your digital profile and skills! Sign up form in the link. 

• August 15 - “Share your Scholarship, Raise your Scholarly Profile,” learn how to manage citations, your research identity, and open access scholarship.
• August 19 - “Technology and Tools,” discuss data visualization, multimedia, making, and more!  
• October 14 - Digital Methodologies hackathon/unconference. 

The workshops are co-sponsored by the Graduate School, the University Libraries, and the Digital ACT Studio. They will be held in Jackson Library. If you cannot get to campus, there is also a virtual attendance option for all workshops.  

https://uncg.libguides.com/digmethod 

Online presentation - the benefits of joining the All of Us precision medicine research project

The All of Us Research Program will continue its Speaker Series with a new episode about the benefits of joining long-term research programs on Thursday, July 25 at 1:00 PM ET.

https://news.nnlm.gov/mar/2019/07/23/new-all-of-us-speaker-series-episode-this-thursday/

Library orientation webinars in August and September

Would  you like to learn about the UNCG Libraries? 

If so, please sign up for one of these 30 minute webinars -

UNCG Virtual Orientation: Instructors

UNCG Virtual Orientation: Graduate Students

UNCG Virtual Orientation: Undergraduate Students

If you participate and fill out the evaluation, you could win a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble.

Cancelled - Wiley Researcher Academy

Due to low use and high cost we have cancelled our subscription to Wiley Researcher Academy

PubMed Update from the MLA 19 Meeting

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) released a PubMed Update video. It's a 45 minute minute recording of a session from the annual Medical Library Association Meeting.