Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: Explore Tools

Is your research funded by NIH? Does your research generate scientific data? If you answered yes to both of these questions, you will need to submit a Data Management & Sharing Plan with your grant applications with receipt dates on/after January 25, 2023. Here are the latest updates relevant to the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: 

1. This policy applies to new applications for receipt dates ON/AFTER January 25, 2023 (see Data Management & Sharing Overview).
2. Implementation changes for genomic data…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: data management, data sharing, NIH

The Medical Center Library & Archives is pleased to announce a yearlong trial of visualDx, a clinical point-of-care tool, educational resource, and decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. The trial began in July 2022.

For those of you just meeting visualDx, this resource is:

• Renowned for its depth of diverse clinical images – 14,000+ images of variations in skin color
• A valuable diagnostic clinical tool that helps you build a differential diagnosis
• Useful for…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: visualdx, images

Creating high quality recordings for a podcast, class, or interview can be a challenge on a busy medical campus. Our new Audio/Video Recording Studio, which features acoustic wall panels and recording equipment, is designed to make it easier.

The Audio/Video Recording Studio is located in Room 322 on Level 3 of the Medical Center Library & Archives and is available for reservation Monday – Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Once you have a reservation, stop by our Service Desk to check out the key to the room.

Equipment includes a Lenovo ThinkCentre with Windows 10, Osborn 4k camera with…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: multimedia, podcasts, building, services

The following Springer resources are accessible from the Databases, Journals & Books section of our Website.

Springer Nature Experiments

• New research solution to help researchers find, evaluate and implement protocols and methods to support their projects
• Covers a number of disciplines including biochemistry, biotechnology, cancer research, genetics/genomics, pharmacology/toxicology, plant science, and more
• Combines the key features of a database with indexing and discovery features supported by laboratory procedure specific functionalities
• Retrieves…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: for researchers

Have you been meaning to brush up on your Excel skills? Learn how to use Canvas? Read that NYT bestseller? Now is the perfect time to get cozy and learn something new! Your NetID gives you access to LinkedIn Learning and Coursera – online platforms with hundreds of courses on different software like Tableau, and topics like Presentations or Educational Technology. If you receive a new tablet or e-reader for the holidays, you can still hit the books with Duke's collection of ebooks and …

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: e-books, audiobooks, podcasts

We are excited to announce the addition of NEJM Evidence to our collection. This new, monthly digital journal is focused on clinical study design and decision-making.

Categories: Alerts, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: e-journals

JANE
Get Suggestions on Where to Publish

Need to know where to send that article draft you just completed? Try JANE! (http://jane.biosemantics.org/)

JANE, the Journal/Author Name Estimator, uses MEDLINE data to suggest journals for your publication. Simply cut and paste your publication title and abstract into JANE’s Web form, and you will get a list of journals that have published similar articles, including a confidence score and a calculation of the journal’s influence.

JANE can also suggest authors who have…

Categories: Explore Tools

The Qualtrics online survey tool is available for Duke users through a university-wide site license. Create an account using your NetID. Whether you are new to creating surveys or just new to Qualtrics, you’ll find many helpful features including customizable templates, question banks, and a survey builder guide. While a NetID is required to create surveys, the sharing of surveys with non-Duke users is allowed. You can put graphics into a survey, pipe text in, force validation for answers (like for emails, zip codes, phone numbers), and more. When you are ready to review, you can easily download the results in a variety of formats, cross…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: statistics, for researchers

Clinical Pharmacology, powered by ClinicalKey, is a comprehensive drug reference that supports healthcare professionals and health professions' students by providing current, accurate, and clinically relevant drug information.

The Clinical Pharmacology suite of resources includes:

• Drug monographs - detailed drug information for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal supplements, nutritional, vitamin and over-the-counter products
• Drug class overviews - to guide formulary drug reviews and therapeutic substitutions
• Additional lists, such as - drugs not recommended for splitting, Beers…

Categories: Databases, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: clinical pharmacology, clinicalkey

Are you trying to find the best journal for your next research manuscript? Do you know how to find a journal's impact factor? Have you received an email invitation to publish or speak at a conference? Are you wondering what options you have for paying an article processing charge to make your article open access?

The answers to these and other common questions from our faculty, students, and staff about publishing and scholarly communications are now available on our Website via our Scholarly Communications Hub.

Linked from the…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: publishing, scholarly impact, for researchers

AccessMedicine's complete set of Case Files is now accessible via our Databases page or using the Clinical Tools Libguide.

Offering an interactive format, this comprehensive collection can be incorporated into a digital curricula to help students at all levels learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases. Faculty and instructors can utilize the case files to find scenarios for in-class teaching, in addition to providing Step and shelf exam study materials for medical students. 

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

The Medical Center iIbrary & Archives offers electronic access to ACLS, BLS and PALS  which are licensed for six simultaneous users. 

Note: Please be sure to log out when you are done so others can get access.

The provider manuals are linked from our Clinical Tools page, the Online Catalog, and listed below for your convenience.

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider…

Categories: Alerts, Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: ACLS, BLS, PALS, e-books

In a world where the Medical Library now lives in your hand with many Duke-provided mobile apps, let's make sure you know that:

• The Lexicomp app requires a subscription code (provided via Duke's institutional license). This code changes yearly. Make sure you go to Lexicomp, click on the Mobile App Access button, and follow their instructions to update your subscription code.
• If you are a new to Duke, you may need to let your existing UpToDate subscription lapse prior to setting up your account through the Duke.
• You can get CME/CE earned from UpToDate and DynaMed. These will fulfill MOC CME requirements of some ABMS Member Boards including the ABIM.
• The Library offers the Johns Hopkins ABX…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: mobile apps

Feel like you are missing important articles? Struggling to stay up-to-date with your favorite journals? Want easier access to the full text articles on your mobile phone? Tools like Read by QxMD or Researcher allow you to create personalized feeds of the research that matters to you. They're mobile-friendly, free, and set up is easy!

First, create an account at Read by QxMD (https://read.qxmd.com/) or Researcher (https://www.researcher-app.com/). You can also search in the Google Play or Apple App stores to download the apps.

• For Read by QxMD, make sure…

Categories: Explore Tools

Tags: mobile apps

Do you miss meeting and studying in the Medical Center Library? We sure do! Instead, we are all spending a lot of time on Zoom these days. Changing your background is a great feature to hide a messy house, block that roommate in profile in the background, or just to express your own creativity and personality.

We have created several free virtual background templates for you to download and use. They feature images from the Medical Center Library and surrounding campus areas from the very beginning of the hospital up until now. We hope you enjoy them!

You can click on any of the images below to enlarge and save to your computer or you can download them directly from this Box folder. …

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: Zoom, archives