Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News May 2025 Archive

Are you looking for a fun, relaxing book this summer?! We’ve got you covered!

It is important to take some time for yourself, especially during stressful and uncertain seasons. If relaxing with a new book, whether a print copy, an audiobook, or an e-book, sounds restful to you, you have come to the right place. The Duke Medical Center Library Engel Collection is filled with titles perfect for your summer beach trip, and Duke University Libraries makes leisure reading easy with a great selection of e-books and audiobooks. For ease of access to audiobooks, try…

Last fall we unveiled the exhibit, Faces of Duke Health, which celebrates the diverse roles that contribute to the Duke Health community. 

We are happy to announce that digital version is now available online. 

This ongoing exhibit series highlights the often-overlooked departments and variety of roles and expertise essential to the daily operations of a health system. Environmental Services is the first department featured in this exhibit, but we plan to continue highlighting different departments and expanding the exhibit.  

Categories: Exhibits

Tags: archives, duke history

The Medical Center Library & Archives is pleased to offer videos and guides on a wealth of topics, allowing you to watch and explore at times that are convenient to you!

Our YouTube channel includes quick videos on setting up EndNote on either a PC or Mac, as well as a video on using another great citation management tool, Zotero! There are also videos on writing a better abstract, tips on…

Tags: zotero, endnote, systematic reviews, pubmed

Reminder: The CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health), SPORTDiscus, and APA PsycINFO databases via EBSCOhost have transitioned to a new interface with updated URLs.

🎥 Want a quick overview? Watch our CINAHL search video for a walkthrough of the new interface.

💻 Prefer a live class? Sign up here to register for one of our online CINAHL sessions.

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The Medical Center Library & Archives recognizes and honors everyone involved in clinical trials research — especially the research participants who make it all possible.

In celebration, we also want to share some exciting news: Elsevier has recently added approximately 500,000 ClinicalTrials.gov records to Embase, its comprehensive biomedical and pharmaceutical database. This means that when you search Embase, you'll now see results that include data from ClinicalTrials.gov.

How to Work with ClinicalTrials.gov Data in Embase:

• To find clinical trials in your results, run your search and then use the Result Filters on the left side of the screen to…

Oral history interviews are some of our favorite items to share from the Medical Center Archives’ collections. This month we are featuring an interview with Kim Quang Đâu, RN, MS, CNM. Josephine McRobbie interviewed her on October 19, 2022 as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project.  

Kim Đâu went to Duke University for undergrad and received her BS in Biology in 2001. She met Duke Midwifery Service's Amy MacDonald when she invited her to speak about midwifery to her student-taught House Course. Đâu then shadowed MacDonald during her undergraduate education, learning firsthand about midwifery. In 2007 Dau was recruited back to Duke Midwifery Service as a Staff…

Tags: archives

During this month-long celebration, we focus on the theme, “The Power of Nurses.” Let us honor the unwavering commitment of nurses to their patients, and the value they provide to the unified health care team in accomplishing their medical readiness mission. 

Researchers holding federal funding should be aware of critical updates to the NIH Public Access Policy that will take effect on July 1, 2025. Originally scheduled to go into effect on December 31, 2025, these changes have been expedited by the federal government, and it is imperative that researchers understand and comply with the new requirements to avoid jeopardizing their current and future funding opportunities.

Key Changes to Note:

• Immediate Submission to PubMed Central: Researchers must submit their Author Accepted Manuscripts to PubMed Central without delay. This ensures…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy