Recent strategic planning initiatives revealed the biomedical research community as being an under-served population and a less-understood user group. A work-group was therefore tasked with gaining a better understanding of this group and exploring...
Infobuttons are context-specific links from one information system, such as an electronic health record (EHR) to some other resource, such as library resources. Over five years ago, the Library integrated infobuttons into the health system's EHR.
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Information literacy (IL) instruction permeates health sciences education. There have been numerous attempts to map IL concepts to each professional academic discipline to improve IL instruction and advocate for librarian involvement in the curriculum....
Most health professions learners are required to learn skills related to evidence-based practice (EBP). The "Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice" website tutorial was originally created as a partnership between two institutions over 10 years ago,...
Background: The Duke Medical Center Library & Archives comprehensive literature search service primarily focuses on expert searching and guidance on general evidence synthesis methodology. We have experienced an increase in the number of questions...
Background: To facilitate enhanced collaboration and team science, various methods to detect and analyze current and potential collaborative research communities have been developed. This project characterized current research and collaboration...
Open access (OA) publishing represents an appealing alternative to high collection costs and tight budgets. To facilitate a better understanding of researcher motivations, this analysis seeks to answer the following questions: Does an institutional...