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Getting Started with Health Sciences Resources: Glossary

Review this guide to become familiar with the resources and services available through the Health Sciences at Abbott Library
Last Updated: Sep 5, 2024 11:39 AM

Glossary

Abbott Library is located in Abbott Hall on the South Campus. Abbott Library's collections, librarians, and services support the information, instruction, and research needs of students, faculty, and staff in UB’s health sciences schools and the School of Architecture & Planning.

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are levied by publishers to authors who wish to publish their articles open access. APCs are used by hybrid or fully open access journals in lieu of subscription fees that libraries and readers have traditionally paid to gain access to research articles.

Instructors often utilize Course Reserve to make essential course materials easily available to all UB students. These materials, which may include books, textbooks, e-books, digital materials, and audiovisual materials, are under short-term use to promote equal access.

Databases contain full-text articles or citations to articles published in academic journals, magazines and newspapers.

Delivery+ is the free delivery service the University at Buffalo Libraries use to provide library materials for active faculty, staff and students to support their teaching, learning and research needs. Use Delivery+ to request materials from the UB Libraries or any library in the world.

EndNote is a citation manager. You can use it to collect and organize references and insert citations in Word documents or Google Docs. It formats the in-text citations and a bibliography in your selected output style.

LINKT is the University Libraries new initiative to provide a broad array of resources and services to support UB faculty, staff, teaching assistants, graduate, and undergraduate students. Contact LINKT for assistance with lesson planning and guidance on using the most effective instructional technology methods for your course work and projects.

OneSearch is your ultimate companion for navigating the vast universe of information within the library's collections, including UB and SUNY materials, with the ability to expand searching beyond SUNY to CUNY and WorldCat. OneSearch consolidates your research searching needs into a single, user-friendly interface; whether you seek scholarly articles, literary works, authoritative databases, or other academic resources, OneSearch is your one-stop destination.

Open Access (OA) is the free availability of an article, journal or other work on the Internet. There are varying levels of openness, but a work that is OA is free to access and read, not necessarily free to redistribute (i.e., via email) or re-post elsewhere (i.e., a website other than the source website).

Open educational resources (OER) are any teaching, learning, or research materials, in any format, that reside in the public domain, or are made available under an intellectual property license permitting free use or re-purposing for educational purposes. The most commonly used OER is an open textbook, but they can also include complete courses, parts of course, course sites, modules, syllabi, video recordings, or podcasts.

SUNY Catalog includes materials at SUNY schools across New York State. After you run a search in OneSearch, you can refine the results to certain SUNY campuses.

WorldCat is a global catalog of books and many other types of materials held by libraries around the world. You can adjust the OneSearch drop down menu to search UB + SUNY + WorldCat or search WorldCat on its own by clicking the WorldCat link.