Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News

📅 In honor of Independence Day, the Duke Medical Center Library & Archives will be closed on Friday, July 4th. There will be no building access that day.

Library will reopen to all on Monday, June 7th @ 7am. 

NOTE: School of Medicine & School of Nursing faculty & students will have 24/7 access this weekend (July 5th & 6th). Read more about our updated hours beginning July 1st..

Categories: Alerts

Starting July 1, access to library study spaces on evenings and weekends is expanding for students and faculty. Students and faculty from the School of Medicine and School of Nursing will be able to use their DukeCards to access library spaces from the level 2 plaza doors at any time on evenings and weekends, effectively providing 24/7 access to the facility. Please note that while access to the space is expanding, there will not be staff on-site during these times. During evenings and weekends, study rooms and cubicles will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Library spaces remain available to all Duke Health and Duke University patrons as well as the general public from 7 am – 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Library services, staff, and access to the book…

Categories: Alerts

On Monday, June 30th, we're updating our back-end library systems, which may affect how you request articles from PubMed. When you click the get it@Duke button from PubMed, the results pages may look different than what you're used to seeing.

What This Means for You:

• Articles we have access to: While the interface may look different, you can still access all articles our library provides, just as before.
• Articles we don't have access to: Simply click "Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Request – Med Center Users" to request them through our streamlined process.

Need Help?

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us at…

Categories: Resource Outages, Resource Updates

Tags: pubmed

If you're an incoming trainee (student, intern, resident, fellow, etc.), you may have some issues accessing certain Duke systems from off campus before your official start date, especially some library resources or LMS modules like BLS or ACLS. 

Even if you’ve received your Duke NetID, you may still be listed as an affiliate in the system until your status updates, likely your first day (though it could be sooner). Until that happens, full access to some resources from off campus may be restricted.

What to do in the meantime: 
You can access required materials, including BLS, ACLS, etc. by connecting to Duke WiFi on campus or using a…

Categories: Alerts, Resource Outages

Tags: students

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy now requires that all peer-reviewed publications resulting from NIH funding—and accepted for publication on or after that date—be made immediately available in PubMed Central (PMC) on the official date of publication. PubMed Central is the National Library of Medicine’s free full-text digital archive. This change replaces the 2008 Public Access Policy, which allowed a 12-month embargo before articles became publicly accessible in PMC. That embargo option has now been removed, ensuring that NIH-funded research is available to the public without delay. The policy went into effect on July 1, 2025.

What Researchers Need to Know

It’s important for NIH-…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, open access, NIHMS

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy now requires that all peer-reviewed publications resulting from NIH funding—and accepted for publication on or after that date—be made immediately available in PubMed Central (PMC) on the official date of publication. PubMed Central is the National Library of Medicine’s free full-text digital archive. This change replaces the 2008 Public Access Policy, which allowed a 12-month embargo before articles became publicly accessible in PMC. That embargo option has now been removed, ensuring that NIH-funded research is available to the public without delay. The policy went into effect on July 1, 2025.

What Researchers Need to Know

It’s important for NIH-…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, open access, NIHMS

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy now requires that all peer-reviewed publications resulting from NIH funding—and accepted for publication on or after that date—be made immediately available in PubMed Central (PMC) on the official date of publication. PubMed Central is the National Library of Medicine’s free full-text digital archive. This change replaces the 2008 Public Access Policy, which allowed a 12-month embargo before articles became publicly accessible in PMC. That embargo option has now been removed, ensuring that NIH-funded research is available to the public without delay. The policy went into effect on July 1, 2025.

What Researchers Need to Know

It’s important for NIH-…

Categories: Alerts

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, open access, NIHMS

We have many spaces to sit and work in the library! We recently highlighted the Richmond House Room as a spot for library time travel and today we want to share some more information about another place in the library that might make you feel as you have traveled back in time! In the stairwell landing between levels 2 and 3 of the library is an interesting two-sided desk that has a long history at Duke.

Before it came to Duke, it was the property of the Reverend Henry Montagu Butler, D.D., headmaster of Harrow School (1859-1885), dean of Gloucester (1885-1886); master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886-1918); and vice chancellor of Cambridge University (1889-1890). He used this desk at Harrow and later in his…

Tags: space

📚 Need Help with NIH Compliance or SciENcv? Register for Office Hours! 

Do you have questions about NIH Public Access compliance, SciENcv, or managing your scholarly profiles? You're not alone—and we're here to help!

Our NIH PAP, SciENcv, & Researcher Profiles Office Hours are informal, online sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a librarian to get support tailored to your needs. Whether you're:

• preparing for the NIH Public Access Policy changes coming July 1, 2025,
• submitting an article to NIHMS,
• building your Biographical Sketch in SciENcv, or
• connecting systems like ORCID, MyNCBI, and your profile in …

Categories: Classes

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, NIHMS, SciENcv, scholarly communication

📚 Need Help with NIH Compliance or SciENcv? Register for Office Hours! 

Do you have questions about NIH Public Access compliance, SciENcv, or managing your scholarly profiles? You're not alone—and we're here to help!

Our NIH PAP, SciENcv, & Researcher Profiles Office Hours are informal, online sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a librarian to get support tailored to your needs. Whether you're:

• preparing for the NIH Public Access Policy changes coming July 1, 2025,
• submitting an article to NIHMS,
• building your Biographical Sketch in SciENcv, or
• connecting systems like ORCID, MyNCBI, and your profile in …

Categories: Classes

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, NIHMS, SciENcv, scholarly communication

📚 Need Help with NIH Compliance or SciENcv? Register for Office Hours! 

Do you have questions about NIH Public Access compliance, SciENcv, or managing your scholarly profiles? You're not alone—and we're here to help!

Our NIH PAP, SciENcv, & Researcher Profiles Office Hours are informal, online sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a librarian to get support tailored to your needs. Whether you're:

• preparing for the NIH Public Access Policy changes coming July 1, 2025,
• submitting an article to NIHMS,
• building your Biographical Sketch in SciENcv, or
• connecting systems like ORCID, MyNCBI, and your profile in …

Categories: Classes

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, NIHMS, SciENcv, scholarly communication

📚 Need Help with NIH Compliance or SciENcv? Register for Office Hours! 

Do you have questions about NIH Public Access compliance, SciENcv, or managing your scholarly profiles? You're not alone—and we're here to help!

Our NIH PAP, SciENcv, & Researcher Profiles Office Hours are informal, online sessions where you can meet one-on-one with a librarian to get support tailored to your needs. Whether you're:

• preparing for the NIH Public Access Policy changes coming July 1, 2025,
• submitting an article to NIHMS,
• building your Biographical Sketch in SciENcv, or
• connecting systems like ORCID, MyNCBI, and your profile in …

Categories: Classes

Tags: NIH Public Access Policy, NIHMS, SciENcv, scholarly communication

We’re so glad you’re here! The Duke Medical Center Library & Archives is more than just a place for books—it’s a hub for discovery, collaboration, and support. Whether you need evidence-based resources, expert help with research, or a quiet place to study or work, we’re here to help you succeed.

As you get started, here are our top tips.

💻 Bookmark our website. It’s your gateway to journals, eBooks, databases, and more—no paywalls! If you're off-site, just log in with your NetID. Look for the GetIt@Duke button in databases like PubMed and CINAHL to access full-text articles.

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Categories: Explore Tools

We take pride in one another and strive to support the health and well-being of our entire community. The Duke Medical Center Library and Archives offers many resources to help celebrate and promote LGBTQ+ inclusion, community, healthcare, pride, and advocacy. Check out these resources from our collections:

E-Books:

• A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States: From Margins to Mainstream
• A Guide to Providing LGBTQ+ Inclusive Reproductive Health Care: Pride in Birth
• Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide
• Affirmative Mental Health Care for…

Are you looking for a fun, relaxing book this summer?! We’ve got you covered!

It is important to take some time for yourself, especially during stressful and uncertain seasons. If relaxing with a new book, whether a print copy, an audiobook, or an e-book, sounds restful to you, you have come to the right place. The Duke Medical Center Library Engel Collection is filled with titles perfect for your summer beach trip, and Duke University Libraries makes leisure reading easy with a great selection of e-books and audiobooks. For ease of access to audiobooks, try…