Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: For Researchers

Duke Medical Center librarians are available to assist you with literature searches! While we cannot perform searches for course assignments, we do partner with teams on systematic and scoping reviews, provide search strategies and citations that are helpful for general literature reviews, and help you identify pertinent articles and resources to help address your research questions. 

If you'd like our assistance, the best way to contact us is through our shared email medical-librarian@duke.edu. This email account is monitored Monday - Friday. We may ask you to fill out our literature search planning form,…

Categories: For Researchers, Resources

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

The myRESEARCHnavigators team has launched a new tool to support collaboration and reduce waste across Duke’s research community. SciSwaps is a Microsoft Teams network where researchers can offer surplus supplies or equipment, find items they need, request help from colleagues, and connect with others across campus.

This shared space gives labs and research teams an easy way to stretch budgets, promote sustainability, and build community. Whether you have extra pipette tips or need a piece of small equipment quickly, SciSwaps helps match people who have something with those who need it.

Before participating, users should review the SciSwaps user guide, which includes important information about items purchased with federal grant dollars and restrictions on certain materials…

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2025 brought numerous challenges for researchers and authors in our community, one being the implementation of changes to the NIH Public Access Policy. While we don’t have all answers, here is the guidance we’ve gathered from authors, publishers, and colleagues over the past 3 months.

• Investigate a journal’s policies prior to submission, especially using the “For Authors” page on the journal’s website.
• Pay attention to what boxes you check or what you agree to during the initial submission process, especially related to “other licenses” on your work.
• Communicate with Journal Managers & Editors along the way; ask questions and communicate your challenges.

If the…

Categories: For Researchers

Are you searching for biomedical datasets to support your research? Then check out the newly relaunched National Library of Medicine (NLM) Dataset Catalog. (NOTE: Use Chrome to access this website.)

Originally introduced as a beta product in early 2024 and dubbed the “PubMed of datasets,” the NLM Dataset Catalog has undergone significant enhancements since its initial release. This centralized, searchable platform now connects researchers to over 2 million biomedical datasets from a wide range of repositories, including Figshare, Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth Dataverses, Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), and the Immunology and Analysis Portal (ImmPort). See the complete list of included data repositories…

Categories: For Researchers, Resources