Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: Resource Updates

Choosing a journal to publish your research can be stressful, especially if you are new to the publishing process. The Medical Center Library has a few tips to get you started.

Decide Early
Our first suggestion is to decide where you are going to submit your article early in the writing process. Even better, decide where you might publish as you are planning your research study! You will want to make sure the journal is a good fit for your research and understand what their expectations are for your research and the manuscript.

Some journals only publish specific types of articles and often will have specific reporting requirements that you need to consider early on in the writing process. 

• Will you need to register a protocol?
• Will…

Categories: Resource Updates

Tags: publishing

We have added several new titles to one of the Library’s popular collections, established in memory of Dr. Frank Engel, who always thought students should have other reading sources that took them beyond their traditional medical studies. Reviews are excerpted from the publisher.

All items are available for checkout and are located in the Engel Collection in the Reading Room, Level 1…

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Every October, the Society of North Carolina Archivists celebrates Archives Month! This year’s theme, What Puts You on the Map?, brings to mind Duke University Medical Center’s SEDO system, a wayfinding system rolled out in 1971 that left its mark on the hospital. 

On March 5, 1971, a special issue of Intercom, the hospital’s weekly bulletin, devoted three of its four pages to the implementation of the new System of Environmental Direction and Orientation, or SEDO. SEDO was a mid-century modern wayfinding system based on eight color zones and hanging…

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Tags: archives

September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month or Latinx Heritage Month. The theme of this year’s celebrations at Duke is “Our Roots, Our Future.” As custodians of institutional history, we particularly want to highlight the contributions of the Latinx community throughout the history of Duke Health. We invite you to check out some of the resources below from our Archives collections to learn more this month!

Alejandro Barbagelata Oral History Interview  
Dr.…

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Tags: archives, hispanic heritage month

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) provides shareable resources to raise awareness about suicide prevention. These include infographics, social media messages, and educational videos. Key topics covered include recognizing warning signs, taking action to help someone in crisis, and spreading information about the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The resources are available in both English and Spanish, and are intended to help communities spread knowledge about how to prevent suicide and support those at risk. 

Help raise awareness about suicide prevention by sharing informational materials based on the latest research. Everyone can play a role to help save lives. Share science. Share hope. #shareNIMH

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Tags: mental health

Subscription codes for the Lexidrug app (formerly Lexicomp) expire yearly at the end of August. To continue using the app, you must add the new authorization code to your account. Go to Lexidrug and click on the Mobile App Access button. Select your platform and indicate if you are a new or existing customer (those who already have the app installed) for instructions on adding the new code to your subscription.  If you have any issues installing or updating the software, contact the Lexidrug Technical Support Dept at 1.866.397.3433 (option 3) or email them at support@lexi.com. You can also…

Categories: Alerts, Databases, Resource Updates

Tags: lexidrug, Lexicomp, mobile apps

We are excited to announce that our newsletter will soon have a new look and feel starting in September! 

We have migrated all subscribers of the original newsletter to the new newsletter format, so if you are already subscribed, you are all set to receive the new newsletter. If you are not a subscriber, or are new to Duke or the Medical Center Library & Archives, please sign up for the Library’s newsletter to receive important updates and stories! 

 

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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

We have recently implemented a new library system, and there are some changes that might affect your experience using our library resources as a result. 

One of these changes is our e-journals interface. With the new system, our e-journals interface looks significantly different. All of the content you are used to seeing remains available in this new interface, and you are still able to search for e-journals from our library website. 

There are a few known issues with this new interface, and you can find those known issues here. 

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we implement these changes and enhance our services. If you…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Updates

Tags: e-journals

The Third Year at the Duke School of Medicine provides M.D. program students the opportunity to dig deep into biomedical-related research. The results of these research projects are presented annually at the Medical Student Research Symposium. Now in its 55th year, the symposium, held this year on August 1 – 2nd in the Trent Semans Center for Health Education, highlights the unique scholarly accomplishments of third year medical students. Medical student posters from 2020 – present are available in the Medical Center Archives’ MEDSpace digital repository of scholarly works from the institution. 

These 559 posters reflect the broad variety of third year medical students’ scholarly and research experiences.…

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Li Ma, Associate Director, Content & Discovery

As we prepare to launch our new library system, Alma, on July 10, 2024, we want to keep you informed about a few important changes that might impact your experience at the Medical Center Library & Archives.

• The Service Desk and Reading Room will close at 3p on July 5 and reopen at 8a on July 8.
• Requesting items from the Books & Media Catalog will be temporarily unavailable from July 5 to 10. During this time, access to our online journals, articles and databases will remain available.
• After Alma goes live on July 10:
  • Online journal search results will be presented in a new interface
  • The Books and Media Catalog will emphasize library-…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Updates

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

Lexicomp is now known as Lexidrug™! 

Lexidrug, through the UpToDate® suite of tools, is a collection of content sets and clinical tools that provide robust clinical drug information. The home screen provides you quick access to Lexidrug content via a global search or through their clinical tools. The blue clinical tool bar at the top of the database still connects you directly to individual clinical decision support tools such as Trissel's IV Compatability, Drug Identifier, Interactions, Calculators, and more. The mobile app is still available, see our Mobile Apps guide for more information!

NOTE: The…

Categories: Databases, Resource Updates

Tags: Lexicomp, drugs, lexidrug

This month we are featuring "Black History Month: A Medical Perspective," our online exhibit containing a chronology of medical achievements of African Americans, a section on folk medicine, and a selective bibliography.

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Tags: black history month

A common request from our faculty, students, and staff is for assistance with all aspects of publishing and scholarly communications:

• How do I find the best journal for my next manuscript?
• Is there help at Duke with paying an Article Processing Charge?
• How can I tell if a journal is a predatory journal?

The answers to these and similar questions can be found on the Medical Center Library & Archives Website via our Scholarly Communications Hub.

Linked from the Website main page under "Our Expertise" and located in the Training and…

Categories: Explore Tools, Resource Updates

Tags: scholarly communication