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...
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...
This session will provide an overview of a content analysis conducted on archived anti-vaccination websites, specifically describing how pre-existing anti-vaccination websites presented information about COVID-19. We will also address the use of...
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...
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...
Evidence-based practice (EBP) content is mandated by national curricular standards for nursing, medical, physician assistant, and physical therapy students. At the same time, there is an increased interest and emphasis on interprofessional...
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.
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...
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...
This presentation will draw from the scholarship of Sara Ahmed, feminist writer and independent scholar whose work critically addresses the ways in which diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) function in institutions of higher education. Using...
As a HIPAA covered entity, the Duke University Medical Center Archives (DUMCA) strives to provide access to collections without violating the law. Both Rebecca Williams, Archives Librarian for Research, Outreach, and Education and Lucy Waldrop,...
Research productivity of health professions education (HPE) faculty at Duke is largely unexplored. Since its launch in 2014, Duke AHEAD has supported HPE research as a part of its tri-partite mission by offering resources to conduct HPE research...
On the evening of Thursday, July 19, 2018, the toilet at the Duke University Medical Center Archives (DUMCA) overflowed. Approximately 200 gallons of water spilled out of the toilet and into the Archives’ supply room, stacks, hallway, and...
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...
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...
iTunes U enables colleges and universities to manage, distribute, and control access to educational audio and video content and files for students and the broader Internet
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....
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...