University Libraries associate professor featured on national podcast

Kiyomi Deards

University Libraries Associate Professor Kiyomi Deards joined Old Dominion University Librarian Leo Lo on a recent episode of Break Room Chats, a podcast from the American Library Association (ALA).

Lo and Deards dive into a conversation centered on diversity issues and strategies for situations that librarians of color face in today's workplace. Listen to the episode here.
 
The episode touches on their experiences and insights as persons of color in academic libraries and highlights their motivations to present at the ALA's annual summer conference in June 2017. 

Their presentation, What They Don’t Teach You in Library School: Using Emotional Intelligence to Succeed as Academic Librarians of Color, was featured in the September 2017 Issue of College & Research Libraries News.

Deards and Lo will team up again at this summer's ALA annual conference to share their presentation, Giving to Get Ahead: How to be Generous Without Being a Doormat.

UNL research now available in national database, with free access

PubMed is the nation's largest database of medical and life science research citations, with more than 28 million records linked to scientific publications. It is operated by the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Full-text, however, is frequently not available to public users without subscriptions, so those links often end in frustration for researchers or patients seeking information.

Thanks to a new program initiated in 2017, more than 1000 articles with free public access in UNL's Digital Commons are now linked from PubMed's database, so UNL research can reach a public audience in a free version, linked onscreen right next to the pay version from the publisher.

To qualify, UNL had to find 1000 articles in DigitalCommons that were listed in PubMed but not included in NIH's own free-text archive PubMed Central. University Libraries Professor Sue Gardner did most of the work, combing through our 95,000 articles to find 1000 that met the criteria.

Only a few institutions were able to produce that many, so we are pleased with and proud of the output of UNL researchers and our ability to capture and make it free to all. This is one of the many ways the University Libraries is highlighting and supporting the research done on this campus.

The UNL DigitalCommons brings together the university's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. Read more about it here.