Becker Blog

Mastering Information

Discover Covidence: Campus-wide access and new features

By — October 8, 2026

Covidence evidence synthesis screening software is now available to all faculty, staff, and students across WashU Medicine and Danforth campuses. Covidence is a web-based software platform used for screening results from systematic and scoping reviews. Search results from comprehensive literature searches can be uploaded into Covidence and de-duplicated. The software then takes researchers through the  [Read more]

Announcements

Electronic resources updates and new eBooks

By — October 1, 2026

Becker Library is pleased to announce an upgrade from CINAHL Plus to CINAHL PLUS Full Text.  This adds an additional 49 active full-text, peer reviewed journals including the American Journal of Public Health. Becker Library in conjunction with WashU Libraries now provides the following EBSCOhost databases to the WashU Medicine campus: Academic Search Complete (1975-)  [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Beautiful bindings at Becker

By — September 25, 2026

We often value books for their text. The text is, of course, the book’s reason for being, and book binding evolved in order to protect precious pages. But bindings have their own stories to tell, and those interested in the material aspects of book history have long appreciated them. In this post, we’ll take a  [Read more]

Health and Science Communication

From data to story: Using the ABT Framework to communicate science

By — August 25, 2026

Researchers often struggle to explain their work outside their immediate professional circles — not just to friends and family, but even to clinicians or scientists from other fields. Whether writing personal statements, presenting posters, or engaging in casual conversations, they must balance accuracy and rigor with clarity or risk losing their audience. The difficulty isn’t  [Read more]

Announcements

New WashU Medicine students: Get started at Becker Medical Library!

By — August 10, 2026

Welcome to WashU Medicine! Whether you’re a new student or returning to campus, Bernard Becker Medical Library is here to assist with your education and research needs.  Check out the new Getting Started at Becker Medical Library guide for information on how to:  You can also subscribe to the Becker Library newsletter or attend one of our many classes or events to learn more about our resources  [Read more]

Mastering Information

Don’t Stop at the Paywall: Use Becker’s Free ILL Service

By — August 5, 2026

Sometimes the book or journal article you need isn’t available in Becker Library’s collections, but that doesn’t mean your search has to end. Through Interlibrary Loan (ILL), WashU Medicine faculty, students and staff have free access to books, articles, and other research materials from libraries across the country. Set Up Your Account and Submit Requests  [Read more]

Scholarly Publishing

July 2026 Scholarly Communications Round-up

By , , , and — July 31, 2026

Learn more about the 2026 Journal Citation Reports and the M-index. 2026 Journal Citation Reports Clarivate Analytics recently released the 2026 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), reflecting 2025 data. The 2026 release includes rankings across 254 subject categories for over 22,000 journals from 113 countries. The release includes unified rankings among all journals indexed  [Read more]

Mastering Information, Science and Informatics

Updated Resources for 2026 NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Format

By — July 7, 2026

I previously wrote a blog titled “NIH DMS Plan Format Updates, 2026 Edition: What to Know” on March 27, 2026, before the new 2026 Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan format took effect on May 25, 2026 (NOT-OD-26-046). This blog post builds on that earlier article by providing additional clarifications, implementation guidance, and newly available  [Read more]

Scholarly Publishing

NIH Public Access Policy for Publications: Embargo Notes

By and — June 25, 2026

The 2024 Updated NIH Policy removed the 12-month embargo and requires Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAM) to be made publicly available in PubMed Central (PMC) upon the official date of publication. “The NIH Public Access Policy requires Author Accepted Manuscripts accepted for publication in a journal, on or after July 1, 2025, to be submitted to  [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Helen Tredway Graham, Heinbecker, Ernest Simms “… contributed measurably to Washington University’s reputation for research pre-eminence.”

By — June 11, 2026

The Becker Library exhibit “Compounding Potential – A History of the Neurosciences at WashU” gives a brief historical overview of neuroscience research at Washington University. The exhibit still is on display in the Glaser Gallery on the 7th floor of the Bernard Becker Medical Library for a few more days in June 2026 so it  [Read more]

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