When discussing medical history, it is common for narratives to focus predominantly on Europe and America — yet doing so misses large, rich parts of medical history. Spotlight on East Asia was a two-day speaker series focusing on medical history in East Asia (specifically China, Japan, and Korea), and was hosted by Becker Medical Library [Read more]
During the 2023-2024 academic year Becker Library continued to make significant contributions in support of the medical school’s faculty, staff and students. Highlights of activities in our areas of expertise include: Biomedical Information Data and Research Computing Health and Science Communication History of Medicine Institutional Knowledge Medical Center Archives Scholarly Communications and Research Impact Searching [Read more]
Earlier this year, Washington University Libraries and Bernard Becker Medical Library signed a four-year (2024-2027) transformative Open Access (OA) agreement with Elsevier that provides access to additional journal content, makes it free to read and share, and offers WashU authors waivers and discounts for OA publishing. Under the agreement, WashU corresponding authors are eligible for [Read more]
McMillan, as it is frequently referred to by most campus employees, is a massive 14-story tower with distinctive orange bricks and a terracotta roof that has served as one of the most iconic and recognizable buildings at the WashU medical campus for nearly 100 years. Curiously, the building features two different main entryways, each with [Read more]
Becker Library offers several tools to streamline access to our journal collection: Please contact us at askbecker@wustl.edu if you have questions or experience problems accessing full text articles.
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.1 Nearly half of U.S. adults read between a 7th- and 8th-grade reading level, but health information is often delivered at a 10th-grade level or higher.2 October is [Read more]
Have you ever stumbled upon one of our collections that just looks a little too…sparse on the details? This post aims to discuss what happens when you find a collection that hasn’t been described in detail yet, like the Albert Fuller Papers pictured to the right. If you have spent time looking through the Becker [Read more]
Learn more about Open October, and the Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support for NIH, SciENcv, and ORCID.
What does multiple awards-winning video game Baldur’s Gate 3 have in common with Becker Medical Library’s rare books collections? In Baldur’s Gate, players can collect plants and monster parts, which are then refined and used in potions that give special effects in the game. This mechanic mirrors the real-life practice of gathering plants and animal [Read more]
If you hear the word dracunculus in a vacuum, chances are you’ll think of dragons. The frontispiece to the 1674 edition of Georg Hieronymus Welsch’s Exercitatio de Vena Medinensi certainly supports that association. Sitting next to the two Greco-Roman deities Diana and Mercury (identifiable by their shield and staff, respectively) is a dragon, which acts [Read more]