Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News March 2025 Archive

Wednesday, April 30, 2025  |  Noon - 1:00pm  |  Online

Enhance your research capabilities by learning the most effective ways to use AI with a focus on literature searches and research queries. This hour long session will delve into the ethical considerations of using AI in research, provide guidance on creating effective prompts, and demonstrate the practical applications of two advanced AI tools, Copilot and Elicit. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your research toolkit with cutting-edge AI technology. 

Join our wonderful librarian instructors online as they help you to understand the ethical challenges associated with the use of AI tools for research, create effective prompts, and learn how to utilize two different AI tools for your research.

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Did you know that the Medical Center Library has a garden? As the weather gets warmer, we welcome you to our visit our terrace on the north side of Seeley Mudd building facing the Duke Hospital to explore the garden. 

 
Susan Carlton Smith Cavanagh, former Assistant Curator of the Trent Collection and a botanical illustrator, was the first to suggest a medical garden for the library. In 1976, she and the Curator of the Trent Collection, G.S.T. Cavanagh, established the initial plantings on the Mudd building's northwest terrace. To the right, they are pictured in the garden circa 1978. They created an initial guide to the…

Tags: space

We have been preparing our community for the May 25, 2025 start date that would have required NIH applicants to use the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) to create and submit biosketches and Current and Pending Other Support documents. SciENcv is an online profile system for researchers involved with federal research funding. The original implementation date of May 25, 2025 has been postponed by NIH. They will issue future Guide Notices outlining the new effective date and additional implementation details will be finalized. The Medical…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: NIH, SciENcv

Spring has officially sprung, and what better way to celebrate than by sprouting new beginnings with the Medical Center Library & Archives' new Seed Library! Inspired by our Medical Garden, our goal is to help our community cultivate gardens filled with medicinal and native plants.

Located at the Service Desk on Level 2R, the Seed Library offers a variety of seeds that are completely free and ready to plant! Most of these seeds fall within the medicinal and native plant categories, making them perfect for those interested in growing a garden with health benefits and ecological value.

Seeds currently available:

• Eastern Columbine
• Cardinal Flower
• Hoary Skullcap 
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Recent federal efforts have aimed to reduce spending and costs associated with research. 

Access to high-quality published research – including results from clinical trials, laboratory studies, and detailed descriptions of research methodologies – is an essential foundation for all research programs, as well as for patient care and biomedical education.

As a central administrative service, the Medical Center Library helps cut costs for researchers and Duke as a whole. Rather than researchers purchasing individual articles for as much as $40 - $60 each, our curated collections of journals are available for the whole institution at no additional individual cost.

In 2023, our top journals were used more than 1.5 million times. If these articles were purchased…

At the beginning of every new year, there are often changes in journals which may include additions, platform changes and cancellations. Though there are no cancellations this year, below are some changes for 2025.

Additions  
The following title is being added to our subscriptions because it meets our criteria for inclusion based on cost, usage, journal quality, and relevance.

• NEJM AI 
• ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics
• Digestive Disease Interventions
• Drug Research Drug Discovery, Development, Evaluation, Translational Medicine
• Methods of Information in Medicine

New Platforms   
The following journal titles will now be…

Categories: Resource Outages

With numerous databases and thousands of journals, locating the full-text article can sometimes be a challenge! In this post, we will offer several tips and strategies for connecting you to full-text articles. 

First things first: Always access resources through the Library Website 
An important step is to make sure that you access our databases (e.g., PubMed, CINAHL) and our journals via our library website so that these resources recognize your connection to and affiliation with Duke. 

How do I access full-text articles when searching databases? 
When you connect to a database like PubMed, CINAHL, and Web of Science (and others!) and conduct a search to locate literature, each…