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Announcements

New Biostatistics guide now available

By Yandra Mariano and Maze Ndukum — May 3, 2024

Check out the new Biostatistics Guide on the Bernard Becker Medical Library website, created in collaboration with the Center for Biostatistics and Data Science (CBDS) within the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics. It provides resources and references for frequently asked questions related to biostatistical analyses for research projects. The Biostatistics Consulting Service within [Read more]

Announcements

Announcing a new and transformative 4-year open access deal with Elsevier

By Paul Schoening — May 2, 2024

Washington University Libraries and Bernard Becker Medical Library announce a new and transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, spanning from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2027, that provides access to additional journal content, makes it free to read and share, and offers WashU authors open access publishing at no cost.

Archives and Rare Books

Diving into history: Phase I medical students visit the Netherlands

By Elisabeth Brander — April 17, 2024

Last month, the Center for the History of Medicine at Becker Library once again sponsored a spring break trip to Europe for Phase I medical students. While last year’s trip went to northern Italy to explore the origins of dissection in European medicine, this year focused on the medical legacy of the Dutch Golden Age [Read more]

Mastering Information

Using PRISMA for Systematic Reviews

By Angela Hardi — April 15, 2024

PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) is a helpful tool for writing a systematic review manuscript. The PRISMA checklist provides a list of 27 items that should be reported to ensure the methods of the systematic review are explained thoroughly and are replicable. Hundreds of journals, like the Lancet and JAMA, have [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Mary Allen Wilkes

By Laura Weis — April 4, 2024

In 2015, the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, Germany, opened an exhibition honoring women in computing. In addition to pioneers like Ada Lovelace, the museum recognized the contributions of Mary Allen Wilkes, whose work at MIT and Washington University was essential to the development of the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC) then on display at the [Read more]

Scholarly Publishing

March 2024 Scholarly Communications Round-up

By Cathy Sarli, Amy Suiter, Laura Simon and Brittney Sandler — April 2, 2024

Learn more about policy changes for Journal Citation Reports, new website pages for the NIH Public Access Policy, and the Papermill Detection service from Wiley.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, portrayed by actor Cillian Murphy, from the movie Oppenheimer

Archives and Rare Books

Oppenheimer: Washington University’s connections to an American Prometheus – Part 1

By Philip Skroska — April 1, 2024

Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award winning 2023 film Oppenheimer is based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie cleverly compresses several decades of Oppenheimer’s life around his leadership in building the first atomic bomb and his subsequent political blacklisting during the McCarthy era. Although none are [Read more]

Scholarly Publishing

Why is copyright important for authors?

By Treasa Bane, Amy Suiter, Cathy Sarli and Micah Zeller — March 28, 2024

Why should WashU authors care about copyright? Knowledge of copyright, especially author rights, helps authors of scholarly works make informed publishing decisions such as where to publish and how the work will be used after publication.

Scholarly Publishing

Part II: AI tools to help with scholarly literature

By Brittney Sandler, Amy Suiter, Laura Simon and Cathy Sarli — March 25, 2024

This is the second of a three-part series on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedicine. Part I introduced readers to the basics of AI and Part III will focus on authorship issues related to AI and publishing.

Announcements

Grants Index now available on the Web of Science platform

By Denise Hannibal — March 14, 2024

Clarivate Analytics released the Grants Index on the Web of Science platform in January 2024. The Grants Index contains over 5 million grant award records, 1953 to current, from over 400 funding agencies and more than 15 countries.

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