Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: Explore Tools

When it comes to point-of-care resources, UpToDate tends to be the go-to. It’s familiar, widely used, and offers a thorough narrative approach to clinical questions. But if you haven’t taken a look at DynaMed, we encourage you to explore it—it offers a different style that many users find valuable.

While both are evidence-based tools designed to support clinical care, the presentation of information varies:

• UpToDate presents content in longer, narrative-style sections.
• DynaMed favors a concise, bulleted format with a clear hierarchy of information, making…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools

Tags: UpToDate, DynaMed

The DUHS Nursing Poster Repository launched on April 11, 2025

Where? MEDSpace   Please follow the instructions

What is it?

• Centralized digital space for Duke nurses to showcase and access poster presentations from state, regional, and national conferences
• Voluntary archive starting with posters presented in January 2025
• Tool to preserve and share Duke nursing scholarly works

Why use it?

• Enhance scholarly accessibility…

Categories: Alerts, Explore Tools

Tags: nursing, posters

Stay on top of current events with library-sponsored access to The New York Times and catch high quality journalism with The Atlantic! Duke's libraries are thrilled to provide you with these resources at no additional cost.

To access them, simply navigate to the catalog and search for The New York Times or The Atlantic. To gain subscriber-level access, you'll need to login with your NetID and password. To do so, select the "sign in" option and at the bottom, for both resources, you'll see the option to sign in with your…

Categories: Explore Tools

Duke Medical Center Library & Archives offers an institutional site license for Covidence!

What is Covidence?
Web-based software platform designed to facilitate the systematic review process. It can also be used for other reviews and evidence synthesis projects. 

What does Covidence do?
 Assists with multiple steps in the systematic review process, including:

• Importing data from citation management tools like EndNote or databases
• Screening and selecting studies
• Resolving conflicts
• Extracting study data
• Assessing study quality/risk of bias
• Exporting data to multiple file types
• Creating PRISMA flow diagrams

How do I access Covidence?…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: covidence, systematic reviews

The Medical Center Archives is always happy to welcome researchers to view materials in our reading room, but we recognize that it is not always possible for everyone to visit our physical location! The Archives has a variety of online resources to help users learn about the collections and the Medical Center’s history. One particularly great resource that we would like to highlight is digitized issues of Intercom. 

Duke Medicine’s primary news publication from 1953 to 1986, the Intercom featured information about campus construction and events, faculty and staff news, facts and figures, and articles about medical research and innovations at Duke. The first 25 years of the publication were digitized by the…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: archives

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

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

Are you tired of hitting paywalls while searching for scholarly articles? Look no further than LibKey Nomad, a browser extension designed to provide seamless, one-click access to millions of articles from our library’s subscriptions and open access sources.

What is LibKey Nomad?

LibKey Nomad is a free browser extension that integrates with our library’s electronic resources to deliver instant access to full-text articles. Whether you’re browsing PubMed, Wikipedia, or other research sites, LibKey Nomad will notify you when an article is available through the library, saving you time and effort.

Categories: Explore Tools

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

With more than 3.3 million apps in the Google Play store, it can be tough to figure out which apps are worth your time and/or money. First stop by the Library's Mobile Apps guide to see the health-related apps you can get through Duke or read on to hear about some of the best apps!

Our most popular point-of-care apps include UpToDate and DynaMed, which feature an impressive variety of medical calculators and clinical evidence. We are thrilled to offer both products as they differ in the specialties they cover as well as how they organize their content. DynaMed offers specialties such as Neonatology, Neurosurgery, Occupational Medicine, Ophthalmology, Oral…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools

Tags: mobile apps, UpToDate, DynaMed, Lexicomp, visualdx

Launched in 2018, the All of Us Research Program is an NIH longitudinal cohort study aimed at advancing precision medicine and improving human health by partnering with more than one million US participants. To provide rich opportunities for researchers in all career stages, the All of Us program is building a unique biomedical dataset of expansive health data from diverse populations, particularly those underrepresented in biomedical research.

What kind of data is available? Data from the All of Us Research Program includes electronic health records (EHRs), biospecimens, participant surveys (including social determinants of health), genomics, physical measurements, and mobile/wearable tech. There are currently 804,000+…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: research, for researchers, data

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.
• …

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: DynaMed, UpToDate, visualdx

The Medical Center Library & Archives has journal subscriptions to both NEJM Catalyst and NEJM Evidence. NEJM Catalyst focuses on innovative ideas and practical applications for health care delivery. It is particularly appealing to health care leaders, as the content typically focuses on process and practice improvement. NEJM Evidence focuses on evidence-based clinical practice and research that informs clinical decision-making. The journal also features a Stats, Stat! section with high-yield, brief videos on topics like heterogeneity…

Categories: Explore Tools

Are you looking for biomedical datasets to use in your research or for educational purposes? Consider checking out the Dataset Catalog beta, a new online tool created by the NIH’s National Library of Medicine. The beta version of this tool was recently launched and is ready for exploration. The Dataset Catalog is modeled after PubMed, providing access and discovery of datasets through a federated web search of specific publicly available repositories. 

Currently, the catalog contains close to 90,000 datasets from 4 repositories including dbGap, Dryad, ImmPort, and…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: data, NIH

The Medical Center Library & Archives are pleased to offer a wide range of resources to help build your skills in evidence-based practice. First coined in the mid-1990's, evidence-based practice is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."1 

Be sure to check out our self-paced interactive modules that step you through assessing your patient or problem, asking a well-built clinical question, searching the evidence, and appraising studies that answer questions of therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, and…

Categories: Explore Tools