Duke Medical Center Library & Archives Blog

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

Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and refreshments as we celebrate the opening of the “Untold Stories Exhibition.” This exhibit showcases portrait photography and audio interviews co-created by Duke clinicians Dr. Jeffrey Lee, resident physician in internal medicine-psychiatry, Katherine Henderson, chaplain, Elissa Nickolopoulas, social worker, Michelle Tang, medical student, along with patients from the Duke Outpatient Clinic. 

Reception Details:

• Thursday August 1st, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
• Medical Center Library, Seeley G. Mudd Building, Level 3
• Refreshments provided

This photography exhibit draws from The Stories Project, which is funded by the Trent Foundation and Duke Signature Care with faculty mentorship from Drs. John Ike and Jane…

Categories: Events, Exhibits

Agents of Change: Portraits of Activism in the History of Duke Health is an oral history project documenting the work of activists and "change agents" throughout Duke Health’s history. This year-long project team was organized as part of the Bass Connections program and one of four teams connected to the Duke Centennial. Our team of was led by Dr. Jeff Baker, Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and History and Rebecca Williams, Archives Librarian. Jonathan Pyka, Sara Spicer, and Lucy Zheng were the graduate team members. Gemma Holland, Ava Meigs…

Categories: Exhibits

Tags: archives, duke history

Agents of Change: Portraits of Activism in the History of Duke Health is an oral history project documenting the work of activists and "change agents" throughout Duke Health’s history. This year-long project team was organized as part of the Bass Connections program and one of four teams connected to the Duke Centennial. Our team of was led by Dr. Jeff Baker, Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and History and Rebecca Williams, Archives Librarian. Jonathan Pyka, Sara Spicer, and Lucy Zheng were the graduate team members. Gemma Holland, Ava Meigs…

Categories: Exhibits

Tags: archives, duke history

This follow-up class to "Systematic Reviews: Practical Steps for Getting Started" provides greater details for quality assessment and data collection to help you in your tasks for successful project completion and publication. Participants will learn about risk of bias (RoB), clyritical appraisal, data extraction in evidence synthesis, and more. Thu. Aug. 22; 3-4p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Categories: Classes

Tags: systematic reviews

We have recently implemented a new library system, and there are some changes that might affect your experience using our library resources as a result. 

One of these changes is our e-journals interface. With the new system, our e-journals interface looks significantly different. All of the content you are used to seeing remains available in this new interface, and you are still able to search for e-journals from our library website. 

There are a few known issues with this new interface, and you can find those known issues here. 

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we implement these changes and enhance our services. If you…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Updates

Tags: e-journals

The Third Year at the Duke School of Medicine provides M.D. program students the opportunity to dig deep into biomedical-related research. The results of these research projects are presented annually at the Medical Student Research Symposium. Now in its 55th year, the symposium, held this year on August 1 – 2nd in the Trent Semans Center for Health Education, highlights the unique scholarly accomplishments of third year medical students. Medical student posters from 2020 – present are available in the Medical Center Archives’ MEDSpace digital repository of scholarly works from the institution. 

These 559 posters reflect the broad variety of third year medical students’ scholarly and research experiences.…

Categories: Resource Updates

When you search PubMed (or most databases), did you know you’re only searching the titles, abstracts, and keywords/subject headings? That’s why it’s so important that you write an effective, concise, and clear abstract! In this session, learn how to refine your abstract writing skills to help users find your paper. Tue. Aug. 20; 1-2p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Categories: Classes

Tags: writing

Learn how to create an EndNote Library, set up preferences, add citations/PDFs, and more. Tue. Aug. 20; 12-1p; ONLINE ONLY. This  class is FREE but registration is required.

Prerequisite: Prior to the session, please download EndNote for Windows or Mac through Duke's Office of Information Technology.

Categories: Classes

Tags: endnote, citation management

Learn how to create an EndNote Library, set up preferences, add citations/PDFs, and more. Tue. Aug. 20; 12-1p; ONLINE ONLY. This  class is FREE but registration is required.

Prerequisite: Prior to the session, please download EndNote for Windows or Mac through Duke's Office of Information Technology.

Categories: Classes

Tags: endnote, citation management

Zotero helps you insert references into your text as well as create a reference list at the end of your paper in a variety of styles. Working together with Word and Google Docs, this open program is free up to 300 MB of storage.

This class will show you the basics of getting started in Zotero including adding references to your Zotero library, creating collections, and mastering tools to cite sources in your research papers. It will also explore advanced features such as collaboration, synchronization, and integration with word processors. Thu. Aug. 15; 4-5p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Please Note…

Categories: Classes

Tags: zotero, citation management

Zotero helps you insert references into your text as well as create a reference list at the end of your paper in a variety of styles. Working together with Word and Google Docs, this open program is free up to 300 MB of storage.

This class will show you the basics of getting started in Zotero including adding references to your Zotero library, creating collections, and mastering tools to cite sources in your research papers. It will also explore advanced features such as collaboration, synchronization, and integration with word processors. Thu. Aug. 15; 4-5p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Please Note…

Categories: Classes

Tags: zotero, citation management

If you work with clinical trial data and you're looking for a controlled access repository for your data, check out Vivli.  This clinical data repository is supported by both Duke and NIH. Thu. Aug 15; 11a-12p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Categories: Classes

Tags: vivli, data management, data repository

If you work with clinical trial data and you're looking for a controlled access repository for your data, check out Vivli.  This clinical data repository is supported by both Duke and NIH. Thu. Aug 15; 11a-12p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Categories: Classes

Tags: vivli, data management, data repository

If you work with clinical trial data and you're looking for a controlled access repository for your data, check out Vivli.  This clinical data repository is supported by both Duke and NIH. Thu. Aug 15; 11a-12p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.

Categories: Classes

Tags: vivli, data management, data repository