Duke Medical Center Library & Archives Blog
Understanding Creative Commons Copyright Licenses
Posted On: Monday, April 1, 2024 - 19:40 by Beverly Murphy
This 60-minute class will introduce you to the background and purpose of the Creative Commons, giving you a practical understanding of how to select the correct license for your intellectual property. Thu. Apr. 18; 12-1p; ONLINE ONLY. This session is FREE but registration is required.
Categories: Classes
Tags: copyright
NIH Data Management & Sharing Plan Policy Office Hours
Posted On: Friday, March 29, 2024 - 10:49 by Beverly Murphy
These online office hours are designed for individuals or small groups to receive customized help in data management planning for the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. Thu. Apr. 18; 9-10a; ONLINE ONLY. These sessions are FREE but registration is required.
Categories: Classes
Tags: NIH
EndNote Class
Posted On: Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:51 by Beverly Murphy
Learn how to set up a new library, import citations from MEDLINE, work with the citation style manager, and more. Thu. Apr. 18; 9-10a; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.
Categories: Classes
Tags: endnote, citation management
Searching Embase
Posted On: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 13:21 by Beverly Murphy
Learn how to find relevant literature via Embase, an international biomedical literature database which is especially good for searching drug/pharmacy topics and conference abstracts. This session will cover how to find relevant indexing terms and keywords, save searches, set up alerts, and more. Wed. Apr. 17; 4-5p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.
Categories: Classes, Databases
Tags: embase
Searching Embase
Posted On: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 13:21 by Beverly Murphy
Learn how to find relevant literature via Embase, an international biomedical literature database which is especially good for searching drug/pharmacy topics and conference abstracts. This session will cover how to find relevant indexing terms and keywords, save searches, set up alerts, and more. Wed. Apr. 17; 4-5p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.
Categories: Classes, Databases
Tags: embase
Check Out the New PubMed of Datasets!
Posted On: Monday, March 25, 2024 - 11:14 by Lesley Skalla, Ph.D.
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…
MORECategories: Explore Tools
Evidence-Based Practice Resources and Tutorials
Posted On: Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 10:00 by Sarah Cantrell
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…
MORECategories: Explore Tools
Women in Duke Health Exhibit Revisited in March
Posted On: Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 02:16 by Beverly Murphy
In celebration of Women's History Month in March, Duke Medical Center Library & Archives revisits our online exhibit of Women in Duke Health.
Highlighting women in multiple fields at Duke, many of which were pioneers or firsts in their disciplines, this exhibit looks at their stories and the context in which those stories took place. The primary method of inquiry for context in this exhibit was via oral histories, a unique format that allows for both.
This historical perspective is presented through individual profiles and interviews, a general…
MORECategories: Exhibits
Identifying Retracted Journal Articles
Posted On: Monday, February 26, 2024 - 08:52 by Lesley Skalla, Ph.D.
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);…
MORECategories: Explore Tools
Tags: publications
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective-Williams
Posted On: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 00:05 by Beverly Murphy
Tags: black history month
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective-Mossell
Posted On: Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 10:17 by Beverly Murphy
Tags: black history month
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective-Hinton
Posted On: Saturday, February 3, 2024 - 12:27 by Beverly Murphy
Tags: black history month
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective-Hall
Posted On: Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 22:46 by Beverly Murphy
Tags: black history month
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective-Drew
Posted On: Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 22:45 by Beverly Murphy
Tags: black history month
International Love Data Week 2024
Posted On: Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 17:22 by Lesley Skalla, Ph.D.
International Love Data Week (February 12-16) is a celebration of all things data held each year around Valentine’s Day. This year’s theme is “My Kind of Data” where the focus will be data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data. For more information, see the official Website where you can browse the Love Data Week events and activities happening locally and virtually around the world. There are so many online webinars on a variety of data topics to choose from!
In the spirit of Love Data Week, don’t forget that the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives and the Duke…
MORECategories: Alerts
Tags: data, data sharing, data management, data management plans