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Citation Management Platforms
As of May 26, 2017, Healey Library will no longer be providing access to RefWorks. For over a decade, RefWorks has been licensed by Healey Library as our primary citation management platform, but the time has come to replace it with more sophisticated, cost-free citation management tools such as Zotero and Mendeley.
Please do not worry if you are currently using RefWorks for an assignment or research project that will be completed before the end of the academic year. We will continue to support and provide access to RefWorks for the remainder of the academic year, so students, faculty, staff, and alumni are certainly welcome to continue to use it up until we discontinue our subscription on May 26, 2017. If you no longer use RefWorks, your account will be deleted, and no further action is needed.
The Library encourages you, however, to consider your options for adopting a new citation management platform. The Library is offering assistance during this transition as follows:
- Librarians already have workshops available in selecting a citation manager as well as training in both Zotero and Mendeley. These workshops are available to all faculty, staff, and students and will be offered throughout the Spring semester as well.
- Librarians have prepared online documentation to assist all community members in the transition from RefWorks. You will find in this link clear instructions on how to export your reference library from RefWorks into another citation manager. You will also find a comparison of different citation management programs to help you choose a new citation management platform to use.
Please contact Mary Moser, Deputy Manager for Outreach, Marketing, Fundraising, and Grants at mary.moser@umb.edu or 617.287.3207 with any questions, concerns, or feedback. Thank you for your patience and your continued support of Healey Library!
A New Full Text Finder
On August 26th, a new Full Text Finder will replace the Healey Library eResources A to Z Title List. The new Full Text Finder will
- Browse and search journal, newspaper, and magazine titles by discipline/subject area
- Refine searches to peer-reviewed, publisher, and subject
- No longer include results for ebooks or streaming videos (search the Healey Library Catalog for the best ebook and streaming video results)
See our FAQ for instructions.
Curious about using Apps for teaching and research?
UMass Boston Librarians and Educational Technologists are offering hands-on workshops! 
Add mobile apps to your research tool kit. Attend 1…or all 5 iPad workshops and get hands-on experience with educational apps through engaging exercises aimed at exploring the potential of research apps.
Join Librarian Teresa Maceira and Adaptive Technology Specialist Matt McCubbin in this series of sessions covering a variety of apps for searching our databases, access e-journals and e-books, discover and organize online content, create quick and easy presentations, and learn about accessibility features on Apple devices.
Feel free to share this announcement with colleagues and students –the workshops are open to everyone!
DATES AND APPS:
- Tuesday, February 16, 1:00-2:00pm
Featured Apps: Browzine, Financial Times, RefME, Bluefire Reader - Tuesday, March 1, 10:00-11:00am
Featured Apps: PubMed, Gale Databases, EBSCOhost Databases, Census.gov
- Wednesday, March 23, 3:00-4:00pm
Featured Apps: Evernote, Dropbox, Pocket, and Flipboard - Thursday, April 7, 11:00am-12:00pm
Featured Speaker: Matt McCubbin, Adaptive Technology Specialist
Featured Apps: Voice Dream Reader and Apple iOS Assistive Technology Features - Monday, April 25, 12:00-1:00pm
Featured Apps: Prezi, Educreations, Haiku Deck, Google Slides
LOCATION:
All workshops will be held in the Center for Library Instruction, Healey-04-015
TO REGISTER:
To register: IT Training Portal
SPONSORED BY:
University Libraries
Information Technology Learning Commons
World Bank eLibrary’s new platform and features
The World Bank eLibrary is an online, fully searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers.
World Bank eLibrary has introduced a new easy to navigate platform that includes multiple ways to search for information by Regions, Topic pages, Collections and Data.
- The Regions tab allows for browsing the content by region, country or economies.
- The Topics tab covers topics such as agriculture, gender and water resources. The pages include links to data, World Bank website, blog, e-books and relevant chapters.
- The Collections tab includes: e-books, journals, working papers, technical and discussion papers.
The new features include increased options in accessing e-books and an easy search for data sets. Data can be searched by region, economies and indicators.
The new platform includes over 2,900 e-book titles, with new titles being added as they become available. A new feature for users includes the ability to access the e-book without having to download the title. This new feature includes the ability to enlarge tables and figures for easier viewing, and to scroll through all figures and tables within the chapter.
Additionally, now users of the platform can search Data Sets from the World Bank Open Data: World Development Indicators Catalog without having to leave eLibrary. The data sets are available for download as CSV files. Approximately 50 of the most popular indicators for each country and region from World Development Indicators have also been added.
World Bank eLibrary Highlights and Features:
Also available through Healey Library are World Bank’s open access data and economic indicators:
- World Bank Open Data: World Development Indicators: The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.
- World Bank: Global Economic Monitor: The Global Economic Monitor (GEM) is produced by the World Bank’s Prospects Group (DECPG) of the Development Economics Vice-Presidency. GEM provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income- as well as developing countries.
Additional information: