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Welcome to the Umbrary
About Us
- The collection of libraries and lists on this website is curated by Umbra who can be contacted at umbrary@gmail.com.
- You can request her services as a research librarian, visit the research requests page for info on how to.
- Umbrary is built and maintained through donations, which can be made through Ko-fi
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Project Goals
The Umbrary is an independent library network curated by Umbra, professionally aimed to provide the most concise up to date papers published in it's specialty fields, with a focus on high levels of evidence and public value. It is maintained through donations and thus kept as a free and open source service.
- Provide resources for scientists and medical professionals in such areas such as hypermobility and transgender treatment.
- Reduce harm by bringing together official standards of care and drawing attention to new medical understandings.
- Enable access to needed information freely to those who require help navigating the systems.
- Showcase accomplishments as a dynamic and growing curriculum vitae.
- Receive requests as a freelance research librarian.
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Featured libraries
The Books by trans authors page is a collection of works of both fiction and non-fiction authored by gender diverse individuals outside of the cis binary, it can be reorganized by clicking on the top panels.
Useful library tools
The following tools may be helpful for developing lists of your favourite books, or finding copies to purchase online or borrow from your local libraries. Feel free to send suggestions to Umbra
- Worldcat is the largest online library catalogue in the world, useful for both finding available copies of books on this list at local libraries worldwide, and collecting cataloguing data (such as authorship, edition, available versions in other languages ISBN, ISSN, etc). Simply search by ISBN or title to find a detailed listing including branches in your area.
- Goodreads is a very useful tool for organizing reading lists (called shelves), gathering reviews, finding books organized by genre, and connect with book selling and library sites such as Amazon and Worldcat.
- Library Extension (Chrome) an extension that connects to the major online book vendors as well as Goodreads and provides you with how many copies are available within your local library branches.
Research Updates
Comparing the health of non-binary and binary transgender adults in a statewide non-probability sample.
A comparison between the health of non-binary vs. binary transgender patients, which showed that there was significant statistical differances between them in terms of health and social factors, with non-binary individuals seemingly being more at-risk in many areas (though not all), mainly in those seen commonly in minority stress.
The Transgender medical papers page is a thorough compendium of up-to-date trans-specific research with a high quality of evidence, as well as guides on ways to access them or find more.
The Ehlers-Danlos and hypermobility papers page is a another library with similar standards, yet as it relates to EDS and it's related conditions.