Archives and Rare Books
William Beaumont’s momentous and unethical experiments
Beaumont’s relationship with his patient lead to momentous research on digestion, but was questionable at best.
Becker Blog
Archives and Rare Books
Hudlin Park and its pioneering namesake
Richard Hudlin trained tennis stars and desegregated St. Louis courts.
Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly Publishing Round-up August 2021
Learn more about the new Web of Science interface, the ORCID Trust Program series and the recent release of the 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Clarivate Analytics recently released the 2021 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR). This year’s edition includes more than 20,000 journals from 113 countries across five continents and 254 research categories in [Read more]
Science and Informatics
Resources to fight COVID-19 misinformation
Spreading health misinformation can be a matter of life and death. These resources provide shareable, accurate information.
Announcements, Science and Informatics
NCI Cancer Moonshot Public Access and Data Sharing Policy
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced a Policy, Public Access and Data Sharing, for publications and data in 2016 to allow for sharing of data and knowledge about cancer among researchers, clinicians and patients to improve cancer outcomes.
Announcements
New resource: LWW Health Library Clerkship / Clinical Rotations
Becker Library now provides students and faculty access to 40 highly recognized titles for Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry.
Health and Science Communication
Health numeracy: Tips for communicating numbers with patients and research participants
How can we help patients and research participants better navigate numbers? Here are five tips.
Archives and Rare Books
Traces of book owners past
Do you leave marks on your books? Maybe underline a few key words, put an asterisk next to an important passage, or jot down a quick summary of a point you want to remember? If you do, no worries – people have been writing in their books for centuries! Today, we’re going to look at [Read more]
Archives and Rare Books
St. Louis medical school used as prison during the Civil War
The medical school had closed at the outset of the war, and its dean, a notorious grave robber, had fled the city to serve as the Surgeon General of the Confederate Army of the West.
Scholarly Publishing
Use Research Profiles to make your research stand out
Use these 7 steps to increase the buzz around your research contributions and enhance the impact of your work.