HSLS Librarians are Instrumental in Interprofessional Education in the Health Sciences

Interprofessional education (IPE) occurs when students from different professions learn about and with each other to enhance collaboration in health care. IPE can lead to improved patient outcomes and can help students build relationships across schools.

Created in 2025, Pitt’s Center for Interprofessional Education has been working to develop new interprofessional learning opportunities for students across the health sciences. HSLS Research & Instruction Librarian Kelsey Cowles, MLIS, serves as a member of the Center’s Executive Committee, enabling HSLS to take a leading role in implementing these new opportunities.

Continue reading →

Upcoming Changes to NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans

The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy requires submission of a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) for all NIH-funded research that will generate scientific data. As announced in Notice NOT-OD-26-046, Updated Elements of an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan (which supersedes NOT-OD-21-014), applications with due dates on or after May 25, 2026 must use a new, simplified brief form.

NIH is implementing this updated DMSP format as a pilot and will assess the need for additional updates over the next year.

The form consists of five Yes/No questions (six, if the project is subject to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy) and a table limited to 100 words. Continue reading →

Connections from the History of Medicine Collection: Unknown Worlds

In 1665, Robert Hooke published a book that introduced a whole new realm of the living world that was too small to see with the naked eye. His book Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon contained 38 copperplate illustrations of the specimens he examined, including an ant, moth, fly, louse, mold, flea, mite, seeds, cork, and sponge. Readers were fascinated with the details of life on such a small scale. Hooke had been a painter, and he closely oversaw the engraving of the plates so that they matched what he saw through the microscope lens. His engravings are surprisingly similar to images of the same specimens taken with modern microscopes. Many of the engravings are so large that they needed multiple folds to fit inside the book. For some of the illustrations, he included the circular shape of the eyepiece to make the image even more engaging.

Continue reading →

Resource Announcement: Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

Do you use Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy in your course?

Acland’s is moving to a new website, and on May 11, HSLS will be switching the links on our Databases A-Z list and in PittCat over to the new website URL: https://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://clinicalcontext.lww.com/en/aclandanatomy

(If you are off campus or not on the Pitt computing network, you will first need to log in via Pitt Passport.)

Access to the old Acland’s website will be turned off on June 23, 2026, and existing links to Acland’s or individual sections within it will no longer work. If you previously inserted links to Acland’s into course documents, syllabi, Canvas, or other learning management systems, please update those links with the new URLs, as well as any access instructions, before June 23.

Continue reading →

Learn @ HSLS: Basic EndNote

Join us for this class:
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 10-11 a.m., Online
Taught by Rebekah Miller
Register for Basic EndNote*

This class is an introduction to the EndNote citation management software. At every stage of an academic career, citation management is a useful skill, whether you are a first-year student writing essays for class, or a fellow writing articles for publication. EndNote can help keep your references organized and cite while you write, so you can say goodbye to the days of tracking citations in a lengthy Word doc or spreadsheet.

In this hands-on class you’ll learn the basics of working with EndNote. Continue reading →

Happening at Falk Library in May

Visitors to Falk Library, located in Alan Magee Scaife Hall, are encouraged to check out these opportunities and displays:

Make Your Own Trail Mix

Wednesday, May 20
Lunchtime Session: 12-2 p.m.
Evening Session: 4-6 p.m.

Take a custom-made snack with you. Select from a variety of chocolate, Craisins®, pretzels, peanuts, and other small snack foods. This is offered as both a lunchtime and an evening session – pick which time works best for you. Pack your own tight-seal bag with your favorite goodies and enjoy throughout the day.

Look for our Guess-the-Candy game at the trail mix table. Whoever has the closest guess to the number of candy pieces wins a prize!

On Display

As the Years Go By – Scope and Scalpel Poster Retrospective (Wall Gallery, Lower Floor)

If you are preparing to see PittMed Class of 2026’s spring production, Trauma Mia!, this month, make sure to stop by our poster gallery to view other productions’ posters from years past.

HSLS has selected Scope and Scalpel memorabilia digitized and presented in the Scope and Scalpel online exhibit. More digital posters and playbills are available through the Scope and Scalpel collection finding aid.

Continue reading →

HSLS Staff News

The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, and more.

Publication

Michele Klein-Fedyshin, Research and Clinical Instruction Librarian, coauthored the article:

Yamada T, Obata S, Kalaria A, Abdullah A, Parrish B, Peralta MC, Sethi V, Elias C, Mial-Anthony J, Klein-Fedyshin M, Puttarajappa C, Mehta R, Cherukuri A, Demirors B, Molinari M. Subclinical and Borderline Rejection are Associated With Death-Censored Graft Loss After Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clin Transplant. 2026 Apr;40(4):e70536. doi: 10.1111/ctr.70536. PMID: 41949047; PMCID: PMC13059068.