Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News October 2024 Archive

Hold your horses, everyone! 🐴

The miniature horses, from Stampede of Love, are making a grand return to the Medical Center Library on November 6th from 11am to 1pm! These tiny trotters are ready to prance their way into your hearts and bring a whole lot of joy and laughter.

Whether you’re a horse whisperer or just love all things adorable, this event is sure to stirrup some excitement. Come by for a nuzzle, a photo op, and a chance to de-stress with our four-legged friends. It’s the perfect way to rein in some relaxation during your busy week.

So, saddle up and mark your calendars! We promise it’ll be a mane event you’ll remember. See you there!

Categories: Events

We’re excited to introduce our new eBook search widget, now live on the library’s homepage! This tool streamlines the process of finding and accessing eBooks, solving some of the navigation challenges in our main catalog. Give it a try today for a faster, simpler search experience! We’d love to hear your thoughts—your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve. 

Reach out to mclibrary-collections@duke.edu.

Categories: Alerts

Tags: e-books

Many are familiar with EndNote as a helpful citation management tool that assists with collecting, saving, and citing papers. But sometimes EndNote can feel somewhat cumbersome to use. If you are on the market for a new citation manager, you might want to try out these other options.

Zotero is a freely available tool that offers desktop and Web versions and works well with both Windows and Mac. It is easy to use and makes collaborative projects relatively simple via Google Docs. If you run out of free storage, additional inexpensive storage space is available for purchase.

The Medical Center Library…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: endnote, zotero, refworks, citation management

It’s election season! The 2024 General Election is on Tuesday, November 5 with the early voting period open from Thursday, October 17 through Saturday, November 2. 

• Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center on Duke’s campus will serve as an early voting location in Durham County from October 17 through November 2. Duke students, faculty, and staff who are eligible and registered to vote in Durham County are encouraged to utilize the early voting location at Karsh. All other early voting locations across the state can be found here. During the early voting period, voters can cast their ballot at any early voting location in the county where…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: vote

Keep your eyes and ears open in October for all things Open Access -- International Open Access Week is October 21-27, 2024! This global event has been celebrated since 2007 (first as Open Access Day) with the theme this year continuing the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and asking us to prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. For more information about International Open Access Week, please visit openaccessweek.org. The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek.

To celebrate Open Access week at Duke, consider:

• Negotiating your author rights…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: open access

We have added several new titles to one of the Library’s popular collections, established in memory of Dr. Frank Engel, who always thought students should have other reading sources that took them beyond their traditional medical studies. Reviews are excerpted from the publisher.

All items are available for checkout and are located in the Engel Collection in the Reading Room, Level 1…

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: engel books

Every October, the Society of North Carolina Archivists celebrates Archives Month! This year’s theme, What Puts You on the Map?, brings to mind Duke University Medical Center’s SEDO system, a wayfinding system rolled out in 1971 that left its mark on the hospital. 

On March 5, 1971, a special issue of Intercom, the hospital’s weekly bulletin, devoted three of its four pages to the implementation of the new System of Environmental Direction and Orientation, or SEDO. SEDO was a mid-century modern wayfinding system based on eight color zones and hanging…

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: archives

The Medical Center Library & Archives is excited to introduce a new exhibit, Faces of Duke Health, which celebrates the diverse roles that contribute to the Duke Health community. Kicking off the series, the exhibit will spotlight Environmental Services (EVS), including our own Library EVS staff, and offer a glimpse into the history of EVS at Duke.

Categories: Events, Exhibits

It Came from the Archives! Halloween Highlights from the Duke Medical Center Archives

Location: Medical Center Library & Archives, Level 1

Date: Thursday, October 31, 11am – 2pm

Please join us for the Duke University Medical Center Archives’ annual Halloween event! This casual open house event will feature a selection of odd, intriguing, and significant materials from our collections. 

All are invited to drop in to view detailed medical illustrations, touch old medical instruments, explore forgotten stories from the history of Duke Health, and much more. 

Come by for a fun break to learn some history and…

Categories: Events

Tags: archives

2025 will bring several changes for NIH & NSF Researchers that may feel daunting for both applicants and administrators; however, the Medical Center Library is here to help! These changes primarily affect Researcher Profiles and how applicants identify themselves across the academic landscape, specifically:

• Active use of an ORCID identifier during the grant application process;
• Submission of BioSketches using the SciENcv tool.

See NOT-OD-24-163 for more specific information.

The good news is that these changes will solidify many best practices as requirements, which will make it…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: scholarly communication, scholarly impact

Curious about new resources and events at the library? Want to build up your knowledge of Duke Health history so you can impress your colleagues and dominate at Duke trivia night? Follow the Medical Center Library & Archives on Instagram to get library tips, stay updated on events, and to peek into the past through amazing archival photos and finds.

Follow us online or by searching dukemedlibrary on the Instagram app.

Categories: Alerts

October is National Medical Librarians Month. This is the perfect opportunity to pause and celebrate the contributions of the people at the medical library. We curate content and make it easier to use. We capture and provide research into the history of the institution. We leverage technologies to simplify systems and tools. We design the spaces that will inspire, connect, and support. We teach in the classroom and at the point of need. We find the seemingly unfindable piece of information.

I am frequently asked which of our many resources is “the best.” While we do have fantastic book collections, clinical reference tools, and e-journals, there is no contest: our best resource is our staff.

An academic…

Categories: Events

Fall has arrived and change is in the air!  NIH grantees will now need to report on the status of data sharing in Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs). Beginning October 1, 2024, NIH will issue new DMS questions that align with the NIH Final Policy on Data Management and Sharing.

What does this mean for researchers? If you have a NIH grant for which the NIH DMS Policy applies (i.e., you have an approved DMS plan), you will now be asked to report in your RPPR:

• Whether data has been generated or shared to date
• What repositories any data was shared to. Be sure to include the unique identifiers assigned your dataset(s) i.e., a digital object identifier (DOI), or other URL…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: NIH, data management plans, data sharing