Duke Medical Center Library & Archives Blog

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

Visit our class…

Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

Visit our class…

Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

Visit our class…

Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

Visit our class…

Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

Visit our class…

Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students. 

Sessions include:

• Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus 
• Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
• Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero. 
• Selecting Journals for Publication
• Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
• Understanding Copyright
• Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories 

Visit our class…

Categories: Classes

Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews

We are excited to announce that our newsletter will soon have a new look and feel starting in September! 

We have migrated all subscribers of the original newsletter to the new newsletter format, so if you are already subscribed, you are all set to receive the new newsletter. If you are not a subscriber, or are new to Duke or the Medical Center Library & Archives, please sign up for the Library’s newsletter to receive important updates and stories! 

 

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: newsletter

📚 Library Welcome Party! 🎉
Date: Monday, August 26
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Kick off the new semester and join us for a fun and informative Library Welcome Party! 

Here’s what you can look forward to:

• 🍧 Eat a Locopop: Cool down with Durham’s favorite popsicles!
• 🎨 Make a Button: Get crafty and create your own button. 
• 📚 Explore Library Resources and Spaces: Discover the best of the Library to help you be successful.
• 📱 Add Mobile Apps to Your Phone: Learn about useful apps to put the Library in your pocket.
• 🆔 Create an ORCID: Set up your unique researcher identifier.

Come meet fellow library enthusiasts, enjoy…

Categories: Events

Are you a health sciences researcher on the medical center campus? Join with other researchers and a facilitator to discuss and explore the question "What is Research Integrity?" in a structured talking circle. This new event format is designed to bring researchers across backgrounds and experience levels together to explore the intersection of research culture and research integrity. Participants will be asked to listen in the circle. All participants will have the opportunity to share their thoughts, stories, and perspectives. 

What is Research Integrity? 
August 28th 3:00 - 4:30 pm  
Medical Center Library Room 212C

Registration is full, please join our waiting list

This event counts for RCR-200 credit…

Categories: Events

Tags: for researchers

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

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 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 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