Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News

📅 Library Closed for Juneteenth – Thursday, June 19

In honor of Juneteenth, the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives will be closed on Thursday, June 19. There will be no building access during this time.

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans and celebrates Black freedom, resilience, and achievement. We encourage our community to take time to reflect, learn, and engage meaningfully with the significance of this day.

📚 Explore our guide to Black History at Duke Health for resources highlighting the legacy, contributions, and experiences of Black students, staff, and faculty at Duke.

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Categories: Alerts

Tags: holiday, hours

We have many spaces to sit and work in the library! We recently highlighted the Richmond House Room as a spot for library time travel and today we want to share some more information about another place in the library that might make you feel as you have traveled back in time! In the stairwell landing between levels 2 and 3 of the library is an interesting two-sided desk that has a long history at Duke.

Before it came to Duke, it was the property of the Reverend Henry Montagu Butler, D.D., headmaster of Harrow School (1859-1885), dean of Gloucester (1885-1886); master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886-1918); and vice chancellor of Cambridge University (1889-1890). He used this desk at Harrow and later in his…

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📚 Need Help with NIH Compliance or SciENcv? Register for Office Hours! 

Do you have questions about NIH Public Access compliance, SciENcv, or managing your researcher profiles? You're not alone—and we're here to help!

Our Scholarly Communications Office Hours are informal, online sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a librarian to get support tailored to your needs. Whether you're:

• preparing for the NIH Public Access Policy changes coming July 1, 2025,
• submitting an article to NIHMS,
• building your Biographical Sketch in SciENcv, or
• connecting systems like ORCID, MyNCBI, and your profile in Scholars@Duke…

Categories: Classes

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, NIHMS, SciENcv, scholarly communication

We’re so glad you’re here! The Duke Medical Center Library & Archives is more than just a place for books—it’s a hub for discovery, collaboration, and support. Whether you need evidence-based resources, expert help with research, or a quiet place to study, we’re here to help you succeed.

As you get started, here are our top tips.

💻 Bookmark our website. It’s your gateway to journals, eBooks, databases, and more—no paywalls! If you're off-site, just log in with your NetID. Look for the GetIt@Duke button in databases like PubMed to access full-text articles.

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Categories: Explore Tools

We take pride in one another and strive to support the health and well-being of our entire community. The Duke Medical Center Library and Archives offers many resources to help celebrate and promote LGBTQ+ inclusion, community, healthcare, pride, and advocacy. Check out these resources from our collections:

E-Books:

• A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream
• A Guide to Providing LGBTQ+ Inclusive Reproductive Health Care: Pride in Birth
• Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide
• Affirmative Mental Health Care for…

Are you looking for a fun, relaxing book this summer?! We’ve got you covered!

It is important to take some time for yourself, especially during stressful and uncertain seasons. If relaxing with a new book, whether a print copy, an audiobook, or an e-book, sounds restful to you, you have come to the right place. The Duke Medical Center Library Engel Collection is filled with titles perfect for your summer beach trip, and Duke University Libraries makes leisure reading easy with a great selection of e-books and audiobooks. For ease of access to audiobooks, try…

Last fall we unveiled the exhibit, Faces of Duke Health, which celebrates the diverse roles that contribute to the Duke Health community. 

We are happy to announce that digital version is now available online. 

This ongoing exhibit series highlights the often-overlooked departments and variety of roles and expertise essential to the daily operations of a health system. Environmental Services is the first department featured in this exhibit, but we plan to continue highlighting different departments and expanding the exhibit.  

Categories: Exhibits

Tags: archives, duke history

The Medical Center Library & Archives is pleased to offer videos and guides on a wealth of topics, allowing you to watch and explore at times that are convenient to you!

Our YouTube channel includes quick videos on setting up EndNote on either a PC or Mac, as well as a video on using another great citation management tool, Zotero! There are also videos on writing a better abstract, tips on…

Tags: zotero, endnote, systematic reviews, pubmed

The CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health), SPORTDiscus, and APA PsycINFO databases via EBSCOhost transitioned to a new interface with updated URLs on May 22.  The Medical Center Library & Archives will be updating the database search tips guides for these three resources. A video on searching CINAHL in the new interface is also available. 

Want a live online class? Sign up now to …

Categories: Databases

The Medical Center Library & Archives recognizes and honors everyone involved in clinical trials research — especially the research participants who make it all possible.

In celebration, we also want to share some exciting news: Elsevier has recently added approximately 500,000 ClinicalTrials.gov records to Embase, its comprehensive biomedical and pharmaceutical database. This means that when you search Embase, you'll now see results that include data from ClinicalTrials.gov.

How to Work with ClinicalTrials.gov Data in Embase:

• To find clinical trials in your results, run your search and then use the Result Filters on the left side of the screen to…

Categories: Databases

Oral history interviews are some of our favorite items to share from the Medical Center Archives’ collections. This month we are featuring an interview with Kim Quang Đâu, RN, MS, CNM. Josephine McRobbie interviewed her on October 19, 2022 as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project.  

Kim Đâu went to Duke University for undergrad and received her BS in Biology in 2001. She met Duke Midwifery Service's Amy MacDonald when she invited her to speak about midwifery to her student-taught House Course. Đâu then shadowed MacDonald during her undergraduate education, learning firsthand about midwifery. In 2007 Dau was recruited back to Duke Midwifery Service as a Staff…

Tags: archives

The annual celebration of National Nurses Week, which always begins on May 6 and culminates with the observance of Florence Nightingale’s birthday on May 12, is the perfect time to celebrate the tremendous contributions of nurses and educate the public about nurses’ role in health care.

Thanks for the work you perform every day to care for patients, their loved ones and each other.

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Tags: nursing

During this month-long celebration, we focus on the theme, “The Power of Nurses.” Let us honor the unwavering commitment of nurses to their patients, and the value they provide to the unified health care team in accomplishing their medical readiness mission. 

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To all the graduating Duke students and house staff, 

As you wrap up your studies and training, those of us at the library want to take a moment to celebrate you and your incredible journey. 

• Thank you for choosing our library as your study spot. Whether you were here for hours at a time or simply popping in between classes, we’ve loved seeing you dive into your studies, collaborate on group projects, and find those quiet corners to focus.
• Your research projects have been nothing short of impressive. We've been honored to support you with resources, guidance, and a space to bring your ideas to life.
• Working with you has been a joy for our staff. We appreciate your curiosity, enthusiasm, and willingness…

During the month of May, we recognize Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month and the many contributions of those whose roots span East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Pacific Islands, and beyond. 

At Duke and in communities across the country, our AANHPI colleagues serve as leaders, researchers, caregivers, educators, and community health advocates. Their diverse perspectives and lived experiences enrich our mission, drive innovation, and help create a more inclusive and equitable healthcare landscape. Through their work, we are better equipped to deliver culturally responsive care, mentor future generations of health professionals, and build an environment where everyone can thrive. 

The…

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