UMaine Libraries Newsletter — February 25, 2025

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February 25, 2025

UMaine Libraries is composed of Raymond H. Fogler Library, Merrill Library in Machias, Maine InfoNet, and the University of Maine Press.

NEWS

Stay updated on events, resources, and projects at Fogler Library and across UMaine Libraries. Discover what’s new and exciting in our library community!

Digital Commons Readership Snapshot for January 2025

DigitalCommons@UMaine, the university’s institutional repository, experienced over a half-million downloads in January 2025, more than double the average monthly downloads. Over 279,000 of these downloads took place at commercial organizations across mainland China.

Titles of interest span the natural sciences. Also of interest was “Comparing Map Learning between Touchscreen-Based Visual and Haptic Displays: A Behavioral Evaluation with Blind and Sighted Users,” resulting from VEMI Lab’s collaboration with UNAR Labs of Portland, Maine. The Amy Blackstone article, “Gender Roles and Society,” remains a top download in the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and nine African nations. In all 8,485 institutions across 187 countries used scholarship published by UMaine researchers.

Salon recordings now available

If you missed our recent Salon events, you now have the opportunity to view the recordings.

To watch “Hope in a Time of Climate Change,” click here. “From Radical Hope to Radical Accountability: Higher Education’s Role in Newcomer Integration” is available here.

UMAINE LIBRARIES EVENTS

You are invited to Fogler Library’s public events! Stay up-to-date by following our social media accounts listed at the bottom of this email, and check out our website for a complete list of upcoming events.

Graduate Literature Review Workshop Series Continues

Fogler’s Research & Instruction Department will continue the graduate student Literature Workshop Series with the following two workshops, both offered on Zoom. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.

Research Metrics – Offered March 12 at 4 p.m. Different types of research metrics will be discussed, along with how to interpret them. Also covered will be how to set up alerts for metrics. Register here.

Citation Tracking — Offered March 11 at 4 p.m. Learn to use one article to find more. Which articles have the most impact in your field? One article is your starting place to unlock a bounty of additional sources that can guide and shape your research. Register here.

FEATURED RESOURCE

Find unique databases and online resources available through the UMaine Catalog to enhance your research, teaching, and learning. Explore something new each week!

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of titles digitized from libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Digital Library database of more than 18 million volumes spans several centuries and many languages. Search options include full text and bibliographic record fields, including title, author, and date. More than 6.7 million of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and therefore may be freely viewed online, one page at a time.

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