Duke Medical Center Library & Archives Blog

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.

Categories: Alerts, Resource Updates

Tags: sciwheel

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

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

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

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…

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: archives

There are several changes to Duke's journal subscriptions for 2022. Library staff across Duke have been working together to renegotiate large "Big Deal" packages with publishers Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley that were up for regular renewal, with an eye toward containing excessive annual increases for journal prices. When reviewing specific journal titles, we examined several variables, including usage data, journal price, article cost-per-use, journal Impact Factor, and the number of articles by Duke researchers in the journal.

While these cancellations will mean that the journals will no longer be available for immediate access at Duke, journal articles not available through university subscriptions can be requested through our …

Categories: Alerts

Tags: journals, e-journals

There are several changes to Duke's journal subscriptions for 2022. Library staff across Duke have been working together to renegotiate large "Big Deal" packages with publishers Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley that were up for regular renewal, with an eye toward containing excessive annual increases for journal prices. When reviewing specific journal titles, we examined several variables, including usage data, journal price, article cost-per-use, journal Impact Factor, and the number of articles by Duke researchers in the journal.

While these cancellations will mean that the journals will no longer be available for immediate access at Duke, journal articles not available through university subscriptions can be requested through our …

Categories: Alerts

Tags: journals, e-journals

These titles have been added to our subscriptions because they meet our criteria for inclusion based on cost, usage, journal quality, and relevance.

• Acta Ophthalmologica
• Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
• Clinical Genetics
• Clinical Simulation in Nursing
• Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
• Epilepsia
• European Journal of Cancer Care
• Experimental Dermatology
• European Journal of Neurology
• European Journal of Pain
• European Urology Oncology
• EXPLORE
• Geriatrics & Gerontology International 
• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
• …

Categories: Alerts

Tags: journals, e-journals

These titles have been added to our subscriptions because they meet our criteria for inclusion based on cost, usage, journal quality, and relevance.

• Acta Ophthalmologica
• Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
• Clinical Genetics
• Clinical Simulation in Nursing
• Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
• Epilepsia
• European Journal of Cancer Care
• Experimental Dermatology
• European Journal of Neurology
• European Journal of Pain
• European Urology Oncology
• EXPLORE
• Geriatrics & Gerontology International 
• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
• …

Categories: Alerts

Tags: journals, e-journals

The following journal titles will no longer be available for current access; however, access to previous years will continue.

• Anatomical Record
• Artificial Organs
• Biochemical Pharmacology
• Birth Defects Research
• Genetic Epidemiology
• Journal of Cellular Physiology
• Journal of Comparative Neurology
• Leukemia and Lymphoma
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
• Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

In addition to the journals above, the libraries will no longer have access to the two large packages of journal titles listed below. Many of the journals previously accessible…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Outages

Tags: e-journals, journals

The following journal titles will no longer be available for current access; however, access to previous years will continue.

• Anatomical Record
• Artificial Organs
• Biochemical Pharmacology
• Birth Defects Research
• Genetic Epidemiology
• Journal of Cellular Physiology
• Journal of Comparative Neurology
• Leukemia and Lymphoma
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
• Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

In addition to the journals above, the libraries will no longer have access to the two large packages of journal titles listed below. Many of the journals previously accessible…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Outages

Tags: e-journals, journals