UMB Digital Archive

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The UMB Digital Archive is a service of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) that collects, preserves, and distributes the academic works of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. It is a place that digitally captures the historical record of the campus.

 

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  • ItemOpen Access
    From Data to Decisions: Visualizing Open Access Publishing Trends to Inform Institutional Strategy
    (2025-10-20) Yarnell, Amy; Shelawala, Nicole; Gorman, Emily
    Background The researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) often express concerns about funding for Open Access (OA) publishing. As part of a broader effort to investigate more sustainable avenues of support for OA fees, the UMB Health Sciences and Human Services Library’s Scholarly Communications Committee undertook a project to track the university’s OA publications through an interactive dashboard. We plan to use this dashboard to inform decisions about potential OA publishing agreements and assess their impact. Description Our goal was to create an accessible and sustainable product that could be customized for multiple campus stakeholders. To achieve this, publication data across the entire university was exported from Scopus and imported to Microsoft's Power BI, where we created an interactive dashboard that visualizes publishing trends by OA model, publisher, journal, year, and school for the last five years. We focused on optimizing the process of updating the dashboard and automating steps where possible. The dashboard design required several iterations and will continue to be refined over time as we gain insight into the questions about OA publishing that are of importance to our community. We plan to incorporate data on publishing costs next year. Conclusions Our dashboard shows that nearly two-thirds of UMB’s publications from the past five years (that are indexed in Scopus) are OA. Of those, 42% are Gold OA (28% of total publications). We can also see from our dashboard that OA publications have a higher average citation count than non-OA.
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    The AI That Always Agrees With You Is Making You Worse
    (2026-04-01) Wallace, Scott
    There is a moment in therapy that no digital mental health AI tool has managed to replicate, and perhaps should not try to. It is the moment when the therapist says nothing. Five seconds pass, then ten, maybe fifteen. And in that quiet space, something often happens. The client says something they might never have said if the therapist had filled the gap with reassurance, empathy, or validation. Silence, used well, is where insight can emerge. In mental health therapy, silence is not an accident, it is a deliberate part of the work. Used well, silence creates a space where insight can emerge. A landmark study published this month in Science has now quantified how far the AI systems powering mental health apps have drifted from that moment of productive discomfort. And what it costs us when they do.
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    Health Sciences & Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Strategic Plan (2022-2026)
    (2026) University of Maryland, Baltimore. Health Sciences and Human Services Library
  • ItemOpen Access
    Univerisity of Maryland, Baltimore Institutional Self Study 2025
    (University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2025-02)
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    EASNA and How It Began—“Oh Canada!”: George Watkins
    (Jim W. Publications, 2023) Wrich, Jim; Herlihy, Patricia
    This chapter combines the story of George's early beginnings and his incredible contributions to this field. Excerpt: George Watkins was born on April 5, 1944, in Oakland, California. He had a pretty normal childhood but struggled academically in high school and college. School never interested him, and his grades showed it. “Why do they teach things you will never use,” he would ask, “and never teach things that you could use?” He was always at the rock bottom of the bell curve. In April of 1966, he was given the boot from college and headed north to Canada to become a staff man at a wilderness canoe camp. Then in August 1966 while he was working in Canada, Uncle Sam sent him a letter that with that one-word salutation every young man knew so well; the word that marked a rite of passage to another journey where he would never return to the place where he started out: “Greetings,” it said. He had been drafted into the US Army.
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