Medical librarians, including those at Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, regularly provide guidance on compliance issues related to the NIH Public Access Policy, which requires that all peer-reviewed publications supported by...
Background
Content on the web is impermanent and unstable. In an era of increasing misinformation, "fake news," and the politicization of science, it is essential to capture transient information on websites. Web archiving offers a way to capture...
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...
Join your colleagues to discuss LGBTQIA+ inclusive language and practices in a safe learning space online. Together, we will explore the basics of vocabulary, pronoun usage, gender and sexual identities, intersectionality, and privilege....
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...
One of the first initiatives of the MLA Education Domain Hub is to create an online repository of educational resources developed by health information professionals.
This safe zone training is an opportunity to explore LGBTQIA+ inclusive language and practices, which in turn, will help us to identify how MLA and our home institutions can continue to be more safe and inclusive spaces for our LGBTQIA+...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Locating descriptions of methodology is challenging since PubMed does not search full-text. The objectives of this pilot study were to determine how well the title, abstract, and MeSH terms cover the content of the Methods section in in-vivo...
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...
Three of the Library's primary user groups, the Schools of Nursing (SON), Physician Assistant (PA) and Physical Therapy (PT), require their students to have specific textbooks. The SON, PA and PT library liaisons compared required textbooks to the...
In class, an individual assessment followed by a group assessment and then application activities to practice the concepts. TBL relies on group work and holding students accountable for coming to class prepared and ready to contribute to the...
Biomedical researchers, particularly basic science researchers, make up a large portion of the population the Library serves, yet they are less likely to visit the Library or ask for help. We decided to organize a seminar series as a way to learn...