Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News December 2025 Archive

Join us for a weekly watch party of the Pitt!

Each Friday from January 9th to April 17th, we will take a break, breathe, and enjoy the newest episode together. We will be providing free popcorn for the Season Premiere showing (1/9) and Season Finale showing (4/17)! As a plus, we will have buttons of your favorite characters!! We hope to see you there! 

Categories: Events

Journal Cancellations Effective January 1, 2026

Due to recent budget cuts, Duke University Medical Center Library must make difficult decisions regarding our subscription resources. After a thorough review of multi-year usage data and subscription costs, we have decided to cancel the journals listed below.

What This Means

Effective January 1, 2026, Duke will no longer maintain active subscriptions to these titles. You will continue to have access to all content published during the years we held subscriptions. Content published in 2026 and beyond will not be available through Duke Libraries.

Canceled Journals

• Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance
• AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
…

Categories: Resource Outages, Resources

During the winter holiday period, Library services will be closed:

• Monday, December 22 - Friday, December 26 
• Thursday, January 1 – Friday, January 2

Students and faculty of the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Watts College of Nursing, as well as Graduate Medical Education trainees, have 24/7 building access during this period. Regular library services and building access resume January 5. 

✨We wish everyone a safe, relaxing, and restorative end to 2025. ✨

Categories: Alerts

The Duke University Medical Center Archives (DUMCA) actively collects the official records of the DUMC and DUHS departments and divisions, including a variety of materials that provide evidence of business, interests, and activities through the years. In doing so, the DUMCA serves as the institutional memory of the DUMC and DUHS by collecting, preserving, and making accessible materials that provide evidence of day to operations. Guided by our collection development policy, we strive to document the intellectual, administrative, social, cultural, and visual history of the DUMC and DUHS in order to provide evidence of past actions and contribute to an understanding of the structure and history of the DUMC and DUHS.

See below for a listing of materials added to the DUMCA. The types…

Categories: History & Archives

Faces of Duke Health: Facilities    
Medical Center Library & Archives - Level 1  

The Medical Center Library & Archives is excited to announce the second installment in our exhibit series Faces of Duke Health. This exhibit series celebrates the diverse roles that contribute to the Duke Health community. We are now highlighting the work of Engineering & Operations (E&0). The physical exhibit now offers a glimpse into the history of E&O at Duke as well as highlighting two wonderful facilities workers in our building! 

Our first installment highlighted Environmental Services (EVS). If you missed this exhibit, you can check out our…

Categories: Exhibits

Your 2025 Library Wrapped is here! Look back and celebrate on how you used the Duke Medical Library & Archives over the past year.

What books were always checked out? How many articles did you access this year? What button club are you a part of?

It's all revealed in this short video!

On behalf of Duke Medical Center Library & Archives, thank you for a wonderful year.

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!

Do you want quick access to PDFs when browsing a journal's website? Tired of hitting paywalls? Look no further than …

Learn more about the activities and accomplishments of the Medical Center Library & Archives in our 2025 Annual Snapshot.

We deliver collections, foster lifelong learning, capture institutional history, create connections, and promote discovery and inquiry. Our staff are our best resource and can guide you to the information you need for research, learning, and clinical care.

The NIH will require Common Forms—Biosketch and Current & Pending (Other) Support—for all applications and RPPRs submitted on or after January 25, 2026. Please see NOT-OD-26-018  for more information.

What this means for researchers:

• Applicants and Recipients must use SciENcv (Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae) to prepare and certify NIH Biosketch and Current & Pending (Other) Support forms, generating digitally certified PDFs for application submission.
• All senior/key personnel must link their ORCID iD to their eRA Commons account 
• The new Biosketch forms are live in…

Categories: Alerts, For Researchers

Tags: NIH, SciENcv

Join Us for The GREAT GIVE – Donation Phase Started! 

The GREAT GIVE is a SOM event to support our students through generosity and community spirit. 

Donation Phase:   
📅 December 1–5 and December 8–10   
📍 Drop-off locations Trent Semans Center building 2nd Floor Entrance or MedEdIT office

They are accepting: 

• New Clothing (with tags)
• Accessories (clean, gently used)
• Household Items School Supplies Books (in good condition)
• Electronics (working)
• Home Décor 

Your contributions will help make the holiday season brighter for SOM students. All donated items will be available to students at no cost during the main event on December 12. Thank you for helping us share the spirit of giving!…

Categories: Events

Cozy Up with these Winter Reads! 

As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, there’s nothing better than curling up with a good book. Whether you love the feel of reading a book by the fireplace, the convenience of an e-book for winter travel, or the immersive experience of an audiobook for those crisp, frosty morning walks, we’ve got the perfect titles to keep you cozy this winter. Our collection is filled with titles for everyone, from bone chilling thrillers to whimsical, magical worlds to treasure troves of holiday jokes. 

Duke University Libraries makes the winter season cozier with a great selection of e-books and audiobooks. For ease of access to audiobooks, try using the…

Categories: Resources

Are you looking for a full-text article or a physical book that the Medical Center Library does not own?? We have a service that will help! 

To order resources that the library does not own, you can utilize our InterLibrary Loan Service. Here are a few highlights of this service: 

• You can submit requests for full-text PDFs online
• There is no charge to Duke students, faculty, or staff 
• Includes journal articles and book chapters delivered to you as emailed PDF links
• 1 to 4 day turn-around for most requests (larger requests may take longer than 4 days to fill)

Tips for using this service…

The Archives recently received an addition to the Department of Pediatric Records, and while the collection contains a variety of administrative, financial, research, photographic, correspondence, planning, and architectural files, the bulk of the materials recently transferred are photographs, both candid and group.

Photographic materials, e.g., prints, negatives, contact sheets, lantern slides, 35mm slides, and more, serve as a visual memory, recording a moment in time that a written record cannot document. Transferring departmental photographs and other photographic materials to the Archives not only enhances the Archives’ holdings by strengthening our collections, but it also improves retrieval of these…

Categories: History & Archives