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Category: Explore Tools

2025 will bring several changes for NIH & NSF Researchers that may feel daunting for both applicants and administrators; however, the Medical Center Library is here to help! These changes primarily affect Researcher Profiles and how applicants identify themselves across the academic landscape, specifically:

• Active use of an ORCID identifier during the grant application process;
• Submission of BioSketches using the SciENcv tool.

See NOT-OD-24-163 for more specific information.

The good news is that these changes will solidify many best practices as requirements, which will make it…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: scholarly communication, scholarly impact

Are you tired of hitting paywalls while searching for scholarly articles? Look no further than LibKey Nomad, a browser extension designed to provide seamless, one-click access to millions of articles from our library’s subscriptions and open access sources.

What is LibKey Nomad?

LibKey Nomad is a free browser extension that integrates with our library’s electronic resources to deliver instant access to full-text articles. Whether you’re browsing PubMed, Wikipedia, or other research sites, LibKey Nomad will notify you when an article is available through the library, saving you time and effort.

Categories: Explore Tools

Seeking quick and reliable answers to your clinical questions? Look no further than the library’s Clinical Tools page! Here you will find a handy list of links to point-of-care resources, decision-support tools, core eBooks, guidelines, and patient education information.

Some of these include:

• DynaMed, which provides evidence-based clinical information concerning diseases, drugs, and other therapies that is highly useful when making decisions about patient care.
• The ability to craft a single search for your patient’s problem/…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: DynaMed Plus, NNT

With more than 3.3 million apps in the Google Play store, it can be tough to figure out which apps are worth your time and/or money. First stop by the Library's Mobile Apps guide to see the health-related apps you can get through Duke or read on to hear about some of the best apps!

Our most popular point-of-care apps include UpToDate and DynaMed, which feature an impressive variety of medical calculators and clinical evidence. We are thrilled to offer both products as they differ in the specialties they cover as well as how they organize their content. DynaMed offers specialties such as Neonatology, Neurosurgery, Occupational Medicine, Ophthalmology, Oral…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools

Tags: mobile apps, UpToDate, DynaMed, Lexicomp, visualdx

Launched in 2018, the All of Us Research Program is an NIH longitudinal cohort study aimed at advancing precision medicine and improving human health by partnering with more than one million US participants. To provide rich opportunities for researchers in all career stages, the All of Us program is building a unique biomedical dataset of expansive health data from diverse populations, particularly those underrepresented in biomedical research.

What kind of data is available? Data from the All of Us Research Program includes electronic health records (EHRs), biospecimens, participant surveys (including social determinants of health), genomics, physical measurements, and mobile/wearable tech. There are currently 804,000+…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: research, for researchers, data

Seeking quick and reliable answers to your clinical questions? Look no further than the Library’s Clinical Tools page! Here you will find a handy list of links to point-of-care resources, decision-support tools, core eBooks, guidelines, and patient education information.

Some of these include:

• DynaMed, which provides evidence-based clinical information concerning diseases, drugs, and other therapies that is highly useful when making decisions about patient care.
• …

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: DynaMed, UpToDate, visualdx

The Medical Center Library & Archives has journal subscriptions to both NEJM Catalyst and NEJM Evidence. NEJM Catalyst focuses on innovative ideas and practical applications for health care delivery. It is particularly appealing to health care leaders, as the content typically focuses on process and practice improvement. NEJM Evidence focuses on evidence-based clinical practice and research that informs clinical decision-making. The journal also features a Stats, Stat! section with high-yield, brief videos on topics like heterogeneity…

Categories: Explore Tools

Are you looking for biomedical datasets to use in your research or for educational purposes? Consider checking out the Dataset Catalog beta, a new online tool created by the NIH’s National Library of Medicine. The beta version of this tool was recently launched and is ready for exploration. The Dataset Catalog is modeled after PubMed, providing access and discovery of datasets through a federated web search of specific publicly available repositories. 

Currently, the catalog contains close to 90,000 datasets from 4 repositories including dbGap, Dryad, ImmPort, and…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: data, NIH

The Medical Center Library & Archives are pleased to offer a wide range of resources to help build your skills in evidence-based practice. First coined in the mid-1990's, evidence-based practice is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."1 

Be sure to check out our self-paced interactive modules that step you through assessing your patient or problem, asking a well-built clinical question, searching the evidence, and appraising studies that answer questions of therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, and…

Categories: Explore Tools

A continuing hot topic in the news is the increasing number of scientific studies that have been discovered to be wrong and are retracted by their publishers. Indeed, Nature News reported that more than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023. Citing retracted articles should be avoided in scholarly publishing as it can decrease the credibility and reliability of your work.

Why is this important? Articles can be retracted for a number of reasons but typically because of either error (intentional or unintentional) or fraud (Brainard and You, 2018);…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: publications

A common request from our faculty, students, and staff is for assistance with all aspects of publishing and scholarly communications:

• How do I find the best journal for my next manuscript?
• Is there help at Duke with paying an Article Processing Charge?
• How can I tell if a journal is a predatory journal?

The answers to these and similar questions can be found on the Medical Center Library & Archives Website via our Scholarly Communications Hub.

Linked from the Website main page under "Our Expertise" and located in the Training and…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: scholarly communication

Duke University Libraries and the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives have entered into a two-year publishing agreement with PLOS, a non-profit scientific Open Access publisher with global reach. This agreement provides authors affiliated with Duke University, Duke Health, and Duke Kunshan University with unlimited, no-fee publishing in all fourteen PLOS journals, two of which have been recently added - PLOS Mental Health and…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: PLOS, publishing, scholarly communication, open access

Duke University Libraries and the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives are currently engaged in a two-year publishing agreement with PLOS, a non-profit scientific Open Access publisher with global reach. This agreement provides authors affiliated with Duke University, Duke Health, and Duke Kunshan University with unlimited, no-fee publishing in all twelve PLOS journals. Coverage includes articles accepted between January 3, 2023 and December 31, 2024, with all published articles being immediately Open Access and free to read for everyone.

The PLOS agreement will expand publishing opportunities for all Duke authors by eliminating expensive Article-Processing-Charges (APC), which are usually paid by authors and range from $800 to $5,300 per article for PLOS journals. Duke…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: publishing, scholarly communication, open access, PLOS

Duke Medical Center Library & Archives offers an institutional site license for Covidence!

What is Covidence?
Web-based software platform designed to facilitate the systematic review process. It can also be used for other reviews and evidence synthesis projects. 

What does Covidence do?
 Assists with multiple steps in the systematic review process, including:

• Importing data from citation management tools like EndNote or databases
• Screening and selecting studies
• Resolving conflicts
• Extracting study data
• Assessing study quality/risk of bias
• Exporting data to multiple file types
• Creating PRISMA flow diagrams

How do I access Covidence?…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: covidence, systematic reviews

Check out the newest collection in the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives, our Graphic Medicine Collection. This collection contains a variety of healthcare related topics discussed through the medium of comics, all which are available for check out. Below is a selection of titles from the collection. To browse the collection, please visit the Medical Center Library Reading Room on Level 1, or peruse the collection via our online…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates