The UMBC Review: Journal of Undergraduate Research is currently soliciting submissions for its 23rd edition to be published in April, 2022. We invite you to submit your research to our journal. The Review offers a rewarding opportunity to get your undergraduate research published, build your resume, and improve your writing!

The deadline to submit has been extended to Friday, September 24th.The submission application can be found at: https://ur.umbc.edu/umbc-review/. Click “Submit Here!” We encourage students of all majors and disciplines to send in their research! Your papers do not have to be ready for publication or perfect right now, we just want to see the best work and research you have completed! Reach out to umbcreview@umbc.eduif you have any questions. 

More on Submissions:

The Submission Form will require:

- Your paper: (8-30 pages including title page and bibliography), uploaded as a Word document. If your paper is over 30 pages, you can submit it as it is, but please keep in mind that you may be asked to reduce it if your paper is accepted. The paper must conform to the UMBC Review Style Guidelines, which you can find on our website.

- Abstract: Include a 200 word abstract that summarizes your project.This should be written for non-experts in the field, and should include your research question, scholarly relevance, description of your methods, major findings, and implications.

- Author Biography: 150 word biography that includes your name, major(s),/minor(s), graduation date, professional acknowledgements, honors/scholars program affiliations, future academic and career goals. If you have already graduated, you can still submit your work - as long as the research was completed during your undergraduate studies.

- Research Journey: Please submit a 200 word description of how you came to study this topic. The point of this paragraph is to demystify the process of doing research or creative work for the reader. What sparked your interest in this research? Who helped you to complete it? Why are you passionate about it? What courses, professors, or readings inspired you? We recommend taking a look at research journeys from the prior editions of the UMBC Review for further clarification: https://ur.umbc.edu/umbc-review/editions/.

Advisor Recommendation Form:

Your advisor/mentor will also need to submit our Advisor Recommendation form. This form is a very important part of your application, as we need to know that your advisor supports the paper you submitted! Please make sure it is submitted by the final deadline. If you submit your paper by the priority deadline, the advisor form is not necessary for you to receive feedback. Remember to keep your advisor informed of any changes you make to the paper before submission.

The advisor recommendation form also asks advisors to suggest possible outside reviewers for your paper. We strongly encourage advisors to provide names of reviewers who are professionals in your field of study in this portion of the form. Peer-reviewers can be professors at other universities or professionals in the field (for example, a museum curator for a paper that focuses on museums). Peer-reviewers cannot be UMBC faculty.

Further submission guidelines and the UMBC Review Style Guide can be found at our website https://ur.umbc.edu/umbc-review/ . If you have any questions contact us at umbcreview@umbc.edu.

We look forward to reading your excellent submissions!

Best Regards, 

Will Murphy (they/them, he/him)

Dariush Aligholizadeh (he/him)

Levi Lewis (he/him)

UMBC Review Editors

The Acquisitions Department is happy to now be accepting purchase requests from all UMBC community members. You can find the request form and more information about requesting library materials on the Technical Services page of the library website.

All requests will be reviewed by a subject librarian and updates on your request will be provided through our ticketing system.

Welcome Back Retrievers!

The Office for Academic & Pre-Professional Advising is excited to welcome all of our new and returning students back to campus this fall!  For some of you, this will be your first steps on the physical campus and we know many of you will have questions about how to access your Academic Advisor throughout the semester.  We are here to help!

We are happy to offer virtual walk-in advising from August 31st through September 14th.  During this time, you may log into our Virtual Front Counter to receive immediate one-on-one assistance from our staff, Monday - Friday between 10:00 am - 3:30 pm. Same-day appointments will also be available for students through September 14th. Please review UMBC’s COVID-19 response information before visiting campus.

Our Virtual Front Counter is a great place to get help with any of the following:
adding a class

• dropping a class
• waitlisting or swapping a course 
• finding the perfect GEP course

Have more detailed questions about your major or academic pathway?  In
addition to virtual walk-in advising, we also offer both in-person and virtual appointments.  You don't have to wait until Advanced Registration to meet with your Academic Advisor!  

Schedule an advising appointment online. You will have the option to choose whether you want this appointment in person or virtually via WebEx.

Already have a declared major?  View information on academic advisors in your major using our Departmental Advising website.
 
Per current UMBC Policy, social distancing and masks are required in the office at all times, regardless of vaccination status.  Campus building access is restricted to faculty, staff and students approved to work, live and take classes on campus, therefore additional guests are not encouraged to accompany student to in person appointments at this time. 

• We are only open on weekdays from 12 to 4 PM
• The Whisper Room is unavailable until further notice
• The A/V Room has a limited capacity of two (2) people
• Individuals may use this room to record audio in lieu of the booth
• Three Mac computers and a flatbed scanner will be available

We’re pleased to announce that UMBC faculty can now import publications from ORCID into Digital Measures (DM)! 

ORCID is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting research and researchers. ORCID provides persistent digital identifiers that researchers own and control for sharing information with other systems, ensuring proper attribution and recognition for scholarly output, and saving time and hassle. Over 1,000 organizations, many of them universities and research institutions, participate as consortial members in ORCID. 

This new integration with Digital Measures (DM) was made possible as part of UMBC’s ORCID membership which took effect on March 1, 2021. UMBC faculty members updating the Intellectual Contributions section of their DM profiles can now select ORCID from the list of third party services offering imported citations. We know faculty maintain records in many online systems and we’re pleased to be able to provide this as an option for saving time. 

Instructions are available on the Library’s website: https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/c.php?g=1047837&p=7604167#s-lg-box-26854360 

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Michelle Flinchbaugh, Digital Scholarship Services Librarian, at flinchba@umbc.edu

Please note that UMBC does not require the creation of an ORCID account nor connection with DM for those who already have ORCID accounts and prefer to keep them separate. For those interested in learning more about ORCID before getting started, the library website and ORCID’s own website contain a wealth of information on features, privacy, security, and researcher control over data.