NEWS

2024-01-05

We are pleased to inform that from January 1, 2024, the MUG Main Library has started subscriptions to two new databases that MUG staff and MUG students or PhD students can use:

 

Embase (Elsevier) - next to Medline, the most important bibliographic database, collecting information on literature in the field of biomedical sciences. It contains over 8 thousand of journals (approx. 3,000 more than Medline) and is equipped with its own controlled Emtree dictionary of dedicated search terms.

Embase also uses the PICO method in a search. Therefore, it is widely recognized as the basic database for conducting systematic reviews.

 

Sage STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) - a collection of 330 Sage journals from disciplines such as: cardiology, clinical medicine, biomedicine, neurology, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, pharmacology and toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, engineering.

>> see List of journals in the subscribed collection

 

 


2023-12-18


2023-12-17

The Main Library of the MUG informs that at the beginning of February 2024, the library system with which you can order and borrow our collections and use electronic resources will be changed.

 

Therefore, please check the borrowed books - return those already used and extend the deadline for returning those still needed. We also ask all "debtors" to settle any arrears.

 

The new system will be launched from February 1-11, 2024. These days ordering and borrowing books will be blocked. Only information about collections and the ability to browse e-resources will be available.

 

On February 5-10, 2024, the Main Library and the Library of the Faculty of Pharmacy will be closed.

 

Changing of the library system is also important for students who should complete the mandatory subject on time:

  • Information Literacy
    (1st term: to December 22, 2023; 2nd term - the last chance: January 2-20, 2024).

Otherwise, another chance to pass it will be in the new academic year.

 

We encourage everyone using the Library to follow information about further stages of implementation. On our website and in the social media we will post instructions on how to log in and use the new system.

   

 


2023-10-20

 

The Main Library invites you to join celebration of Open Access Week!

This interbational event was initiated by the SPARC in 2008 and has grown rapidly since then.

This year's edition will be held under the theme Community over Commercialization. The organizers encourage to reflect whether the current approach to open science is implementing the original assumptions of the idea. They are proposing to discuss about "inequitable extraction of profit from publicly funded scietific activities" and encourage the promotion of non-commercial collaborative publishing models, such as e.g. Diamond Open Access, where publications are available openly and the author does not bear any costs.

On that occassion, we have prepared a game in the theme of research data – a virtual escape room. You can expect a solid dose of knowledge, accompanied with an uncommon sense of humour and puzzles.

The game will be available via the Library's website and Facebook profile from Monday October 23 to Sunday October 29.

   

 


2023-09-29

Please remember about mandatory subject Information Literacy – test will be active from 30.09-22.12.2023 (3 attempts)

 


2023-09-28

We invite you to use the free trial access to Statista - one of the world's leading business data platforms. The renowned statistics database is well-known and acknowledged throughtout the world as basis for fast and comprehensive search for numbers, data and facts.

Key figures at a glance:

  • more than 1 million statistics from over 22,500 sources (including national and international data),
  • over 80,000 topics in 177 multidisciplinary categories,
  • more than 11,000 Statista Dossiers and Industry Reports,
  • 41,000 studies & reports from third parties,
  • user and publication rights of all content,
  • automatic citation output: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, Bluebook etc.

 

See more:

 

Links to Statista: in the MUG's network, via the HAN proxy server

 

Test will be available till 27.10.2023

 

 

 

Regulations of collecting personal data in Medical University of Gdańsk

On 27 April 2016 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Union and of Council came into force. It relates to data processing for natural persons and the freedom of movement of such data. In the light of this and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), the Main Library would like to draw your attention to the following:

1. The administrator of your personal data is The Medical University of Gdańsk based in Gdańsk, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 3A, 80-210 Gdańsk,

2. The Data Protection Inspector at The Medical University of Gdańsk is Piotr Małecki (iod@gumed.edu.pl),

3. Your personal data will be processed using the Tricity Libraries IT System (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music, Gdynia Maritime University, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, European Solidarity Centre) in order to enable the use of library resources on the basis of art. 6 par. 1 lit. A of the general regulation of personal data of 27 April 2016,

4. Your personal data will not be disclosed to other entities, except for entities authorized under the law, debt collection companies or companies supporting IT services,

5. Your personal data will be kept for a period required by law,

6. You have access to the content of your data and the right to demand its rectification. You have the right to remove data or limit its use. Further you have the right to transfer data and to raise an objection on how your data is processed. You may withdraw your legal consent for the use of your data at any time,

7. You have the right to make a complaint to the Office for Personal Data Protection if your complaint is justified and the administrator is found to be in breach of the general regulation of personal data of 27 April 2016,

8. Providing personal data is voluntary, however, the refusal to provide them may result in the refusal to provide the service.