Duke Medical Center Library & Archives Blog

It's time for more recommended readings for those of you following along with the Color Code podcast from STAT. As a reminder, this podcast is examining racial inequities in American health care, and members of our staff are offering some additional readings for each episode. Below are recommendations for episodes 3-4. For episodes 1-2, please see our earlier blog post.

Episode 3: "Dismantling medical racism starts in the classroom" explores anti-racism work in medical education, including innovations to disrupt racism and the backlash against them.

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Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: Moments to Movement, Color Code Podcast

The following Springer resources are accessible from the Databases, Journals & Books section of our Website.

Springer Nature Experiments

• New research solution to help researchers find, evaluate and implement protocols and methods to support their projects
• Covers a number of disciplines including biochemistry, biotechnology, cancer research, genetics/genomics, pharmacology/toxicology, plant science, and more
• Combines the key features of a database with indexing and discovery features supported by laboratory procedure specific functionalities
• Retrieves…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: for researchers

The following Springer resources are accessible from the Databases, Journals & Books section of our Website.

Springer Nature Experiments

• New research solution to help researchers find, evaluate and implement protocols and methods to support their projects
• Covers a number of disciplines including biochemistry, biotechnology, cancer research, genetics/genomics, pharmacology/toxicology, plant science, and more
• Combines the key features of a database with indexing and discovery features supported by laboratory procedure specific functionalities
• Retrieves…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: for researchers

The following Springer resources are accessible from the Databases, Journals & Books section of our Website.

Springer Nature Experiments

• New research solution to help researchers find, evaluate and implement protocols and methods to support their projects
• Covers a number of disciplines including biochemistry, biotechnology, cancer research, genetics/genomics, pharmacology/toxicology, plant science, and more
• Combines the key features of a database with indexing and discovery features supported by laboratory procedure specific functionalities
• Retrieves…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: for researchers

Have you been meaning to brush up on your Excel skills? Learn how to use Canvas? Read that NYT bestseller? This Summer is the perfect time and the library is here to help! Your NetID gives you access to LinkedIn Learning and Coursera – online platforms with hundreds of courses on different software like Tableau, and topics like Presentations or Educational Technology. If you're planning to hit the beach, you can still hit the books with Duke's collection of ebooks and …

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: e-books, audiobooks, podcasts

Many of our staff members are following along with Color Code, a new podcast that is examining racial inequities in American health care. Produced by STAT and hosted by Nicholas St. Fleur, this series started on March 21st and is releasing a new episode every other week. Each episode is about 30 minutes and features compelling stories, interviews, and research.

We invite you to listen in. We will be sharing some additional readings and resources here on our blog to simplify further exploration of each episode's theme. We will go two episodes at a time, recognizing that some of us are bingers, while others may choose to savor each episode at a time.

To get started, you can access links to the podcast through these various providers:…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: Moments to Movement, Color Code Podcast

Many of our staff members are following along with Color Code, a new podcast that is examining racial inequities in American health care. Produced by STAT and hosted by Nicholas St. Fleur, this series started on March 21st and is releasing a new episode every other week. Each episode is about 30 minutes and features compelling stories, interviews, and research.

We invite you to listen in. We will be sharing some additional readings and resources here on our blog to simplify further exploration of each episode's theme. We will go two episodes at a time, recognizing that some of us are bingers, while others may choose to savor each episode at a time.

To get started, you can access links to the podcast through these various providers:…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: Moments to Movement, Color Code Podcast

The Duke University Libraries will no longer support the Sciwheel citation management tool. Access will end on June 30, 2022.

If you are a Sciwheel user, you can choose to export your files easily from Sciwheel as a .RIS file into other citation management tools, such as Zotero and EndNote. Sciwheel has created easy step-by-step instructions on how to export your citations.

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Tags: sciwheel

The Duke University Libraries will no longer support the Sciwheel citation management tool. Access will end on June 30, 2022.

If you are a Sciwheel user, you can choose to export your files easily from Sciwheel as a .RIS file into other citation management tools, such as Zotero and EndNote. Sciwheel has created easy step-by-step instructions on how to export your citations.

Categories: Alerts, Resource Updates

Tags: sciwheel

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.

What does Covidence do?

Assists with multiple steps in the systematic review process, including:

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

How do I access Covidence?…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: covidence, systematic reviews

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…

Categories: Exhibits

Authors who want to publish an article in an open access journal or publish in a standard subscription journal as an open access article, typically need to pay an "article processing charge" (APC) in order to cover the cost of publishing by the publisher. Duke University Libraries, including the Medical Center Library & Archives, now have a "Read and Publish" agreement, also known as a "transformative agreement," with Cambridge University Press(CUP) so Duke researchers can publish articles open access at no cost in specific journals covered by this agreement. In addition, users will have access to CUP's journal content. To find out what CUP journals fall under this agreement, use CUP’s…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: open access, publishing, scholarly communication

In October of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its new Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy. Beginning in January 2023, this policy will require that all NIH researchers prospectively plan for how their scientific data and accompanying metadata will be preserved and shared by submitting a Data Management and Sharing Plan in their grant applications. This new plan goes into effect on January 25, 2023 replacing the current Data Management and Sharing Policy from 2003. The new policy continues NIH's commitment to making sure that the results and outputs of NIH funded…

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Tags: NIH, data management, data sharing

In October of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its new Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy. Beginning in January 2023, this policy will require that all NIH researchers prospectively plan for how their scientific data and accompanying metadata will be preserved and shared by submitting a Data Management and Sharing Plan in their grant applications. This new plan goes into effect on January 25, 2023 replacing the current Data Management and Sharing Policy from 2003. The new policy continues NIH's commitment to making sure that the results and outputs of NIH funded…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Updates

Tags: NIH, data management, data sharing

Lucy Waldrop, Associate University Archivist, Medical Center Archives

The Duke University Medical Center Archives is happy to announce that the collection of papers of Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari (1942-2019), a Nigerian-American and the first African-American surgeon on the faculty at Duke University, has been processed and is open for research.

The collection documents the professional career and personal activities of Akwari and includes but is not limited to; correspondence; printed materials; datebooks, memorabilia, scrapbooks, certificates, and other…

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Tags: archives