Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Tag: journals

There are several changes to Duke's journal subscriptions for 2022. Library staff across Duke have been working together to renegotiate large "Big Deal" packages with publishers Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley that were up for regular renewal, with an eye toward containing excessive annual increases for journal prices. When reviewing specific journal titles, we examined several variables, including usage data, journal price, article cost-per-use, journal Impact Factor, and the number of articles by Duke researchers in the journal.

While these cancellations will mean that the journals will no longer be available for immediate access at Duke, journal articles not available through university subscriptions can be requested through our …

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These titles have been added to our subscriptions because they meet our criteria for inclusion based on cost, usage, journal quality, and relevance.

• Acta Ophthalmologica
• Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
• Clinical Genetics
• Clinical Simulation in Nursing
• Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
• Epilepsia
• European Journal of Cancer Care
• Experimental Dermatology
• European Journal of Neurology
• European Journal of Pain
• European Urology Oncology
• EXPLORE
• Geriatrics & Gerontology International 
• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
• …

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The following journal titles will no longer be available for current access; however, access to previous years will continue.

• Anatomical Record
• Artificial Organs
• Biochemical Pharmacology
• Birth Defects Research
• Genetic Epidemiology
• Journal of Cellular Physiology
• Journal of Comparative Neurology
• Leukemia and Lymphoma
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
• Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

In addition to the journals above, the libraries will no longer have access to the two large packages of journal titles listed below. Many of the journals previously accessible…

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Due to cancellations, some journal titles will switch platforms. The following journal titles will now be available through ClinicalKey rather than ScienceDirect.

• Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 
• Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
• Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
• Health Policy
• Disease-A-Month
• Psychiatry Research
• Physiology & Behavior

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Several changes are coming to the to the journal collections at Duke.

Duke University libraries have been working together to renegotiate large "Big Deal" packages with Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. Negotiations are still underway, but we expect that there will be journal cancellations and other changes starting in early 2022. These large "Big Deal" packages of journals function something like a cable or streaming package, where many titles are included for one annual sum and continued access is contingent on continued subscription. We are making changes to both packages and directly-subscribed titles based on data for journal usage, impact, and costs with goals to meet research needs, maximize budgets, and foster a sustainable scholarly…

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The Journal of Graduate Medical Education recently published an article entitled "Staying Up to Date and Managing Information Overload" with handy tips. We've offered a sample below, or read the whole article here.

• Work with a medical librarian. This was their number one tip, and we agree that this is an excellent place to start! We can help you set up alerts on the research and teaching topics of greatest interest to you! Reach out to us at 919.660.1100 or by filling out our online form.T
• Join an education email discussion list, like…

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Effective April 25th, our e-journals platform switched over to the current EBSCO platform, which is the same as what we use for our metasearch engine, SmartSearch.

To navigate this new page:

• Type in the name of the journal or a significant word from the journal title (does not have to be case sensitive). The system will pick up all journal titles with that word as part of the title. Note: The word may also appear or be mapped to other fields in the record (eg. journal description, publisher information, etc). The former alphabetical (A-Z)…

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Choosing a journal for your newest article is not always easy. While you may wish to publish in a high impact journal, there are many factors to consider when picking a journal to submit your latest article, such as audience and potential visibility. Here are a few of our favorite tools for identifying potentially relevant journals for your work:

1. Web of Science or Scopus: These databases allow you to search for keywords and then analyze the results by journal or source title. This lets you see what journals publish most on certain topics.
2. JANE: Journal / Author Name Estimator…

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Easy and immediate access to journal articles still remains a challenge. Even Duke cannot provide access to everything.  Journal prices have continued to increase year after year with more and more expensive journals being published. That means important clinical, research, and educational content can be locked up for months, years, or permanently, inaccessible to the patients, health providers, researchers, teachers and learners that need access to them.  This problem becomes even more massive when you look at access to information within developing countries, and can become an obstacle as Duke tries to work with global sites to reduce disparities in health, education, and research.

The following three movements are trying to ensure that…

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Tags: open access, journals, NIH Public Access Policy, publishing, open science

Want to get published in JAMA? One way to improve your chances is to talk to your medical librarian.

In a viewpoint piece published on September 10, 2014, potential and future JAMA authors are encouraged to improve their review articles by summarizing the literature in a more systematic way. Written by a medical librarian, a physician, and the Deputy Editor, Clinical Reviews and Education for JAMA, the article lays out the process for doing so and exhorts authors to collaborate with a medical librarian. Extensive literature searches are difficult, and a medical librarian can provide expertise to facilitate the process, save time, and reduce bias in the…

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