Healey Keynotes

NEW - PubMed with links to UMass Boston holdings

Nursing, medical and allied health researchers take a look at the customized PubMed with links to UMass Boston holdings.

The tabbed search results page makes it easy to locate the full text articles available through Healey Library as well as the free full text articles available in PubMed.

To retrieve an article, switch the display from Summary to Abstract or Abstract Plus. You will see the UMB Online icon. Click on the icon to view the full text article.

To use PubMed with links to UMass Boston holdings from off campus, you will be prompted for your last name and barcode number as you are for the library’s other subscription databases.

The Purpose of Education

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.,  The Purpose of Education, 1947.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University is an excellent resource for research and education about Dr. King. The Healey Library also has a number of books about and recordings of Dr. King. Check LibraryThing for a book list or the catalog for a complete list.

New Name and New Directions

The Healey Library Beacon will now be know as Healey Keynotes. The name change reflects our latest additions to the library resources, Healey Library's Keys to Success. This website contains subject guides which incorporate Facebook, instant messaging, RSS  feeds and other Web 2.0 tools. The blog is also be going in a direction, posts will be written by various library staff members. By including more staff members, we hope to share the diversity of our experience.

Facebook Resources

As part of the Healey Library’s process of reaching out to the students of UMass Boston, we have created discussion groups (called GroupKeys) in FaceBook, that are aligned with the new SubjectKeys that are on LibGuides. The SubjectKeys with a group have a link to the FaceBook page.  So if you are a student in a particular subject, or know someone who is, please have them check out the SubjectKeys and join the GroupKeys on FaceBook!

Libraries are still relevant!

A new study found that over 50% of Americans visited a library in the past year. Most of them were drawn by Internet access. The results of the study come as a surprise given predictions in the mid 1990s that libraries would be irrelevant in the digital age. Another surprise finding is that young adults are the heaviest library users. Read more about study in the New York Times and Reuters.