In 2024 Violet Mae Doolin (later Schroeder by marriage), donated a collection of letters she wrote while attending the Washington University School of Nursing in the 1940s.
The NIH just announced the Preview of NIH Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support. Preview versions will be available within SciENcv on or before September 15. The announcement also included recommendations for researchers to: Becker Library is offering a Zoom session on Mon. Oct. 13 at 11:00 AM that will [Read more]
The 2024 Updated NIH Public Access Policy is now applicable to peer-reviewed journal articles accepted for publication on or after July 01, 2025. The free pathway to compliance can be achieved by submitting the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to PubMed Central (PMC) for public availability upon the official date of publication without embargo. Under the [Read more]
Research continues to generate more and more data, and large-scale data analyses can be complicated, computationally intensive and not suitable for personal computers. When faced with such a problem, what options do researchers have? Researchers can use High Performance Computing (HPC), a powerful technology which makes use of multiple computing processors that work in parallel [Read more]
The 2024 Updated NIH Public Access Policy is applicable to peer-reviewed journal articles accepted for publication on or after July 01, 2025.
If you’ve ever accessed your electronic health records (EHR), there’s a good chance you’ve encountered MUMPS—the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System, that is, not the vaccine-preventable disease. Originally designed in the late 1960s specifically for building medical databases, MUMPS and its descendants continue to form the basis of the EHR software used by many [Read more]
Bernard Becker Medical Library is fortunate to have robust collections in archives and rare books that document the history of medicine from the late 15th century up to the present. Subjects in which the library’s holdings are particularly strong include ophthalmology and optics, neurology, deaf education and the history of dentistry. To encourage researchers living [Read more]
Today, hearing aids are small enough to sit behind your ear or slip in your ear canal, but they weren’t always so diminutive or discreet. If you used a hearing aid in the 1930s and 1940s, you wouldn’t just have a receiver in your ear—that receiver would be connected to two bulky units: one piece [Read more]
The Becker Archives is pleased to announce the acquisition of over 3,500 historical postcards featuring current and former hospitals in the St. Louis and American Midwest geographical area. This incredible collection was donated to the Becker Archives by Dr. Hilton I. Price, a long-time postcard enthusiast and BJC HealthCare radiologist who was associated with Christian Hospital [Read more]
With the new fiscal year Becker Library has new faces in leadership positions. Debbie Thomas, the Associate Director for Health Information Services and Collection Management, retired from her position after more than 10 years of service at the library. Debbie’s background as a hospital librarian and her commitment to service won her the respect of all [Read more]