Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Category: Resources

A new mental wellness app called Shmoody, available at no cost to all Duke students, faculty, and staff was launched January 12. If you aim to establish healthy habits in the new year or want to try a fun and supportive wellness tool, download Shmoody from the App Store or Google Play. After installation, sign in to Shmoody’s portal to access Duke-specific resources. 

About Shmoody: Shmoody offers science-based, straightforward tools to support student wellbeing by helping manage stress, develop healthy routines, and connect with support when needed. 

Categories: Resources

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

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

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

Each year, the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives evaluates its electronic subscriptions through a data-driven review to ensure responsible stewardship of our collection funds. These assessments help us provide the most useful resources for Duke Health and Duke University while phasing out subscriptions with consistently low use. 

As a result of this year’s review, access to MedOne Education will end for Duke University users on January 1, 2026. This decision follows several years of usage analysis. 

If you need an article, book, or chapter no longer available at Duke, you may request it through our Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Services.

Categories: Alerts, Resource Outages, Resources

Did you know we’ve hosted miniature horses and other fun surprises? Get stories, behind-the-scenes highlights, and important updates delivered straight to your inbox with our quarterly newsletter. If you’re new to Duke or not yet a subscriber, now is a great time to sign up for the Library’s newsletter. You can also follow us on Instagram for library tips, event sneak peeks, and amazing archival photos. Follow us online or by searching dukemedlibrary on the Instagram app. 
 

Categories: Alerts, Classes, Events, For Researchers, History & Archives, Resources

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