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Mastering Information

New Systematic and Scoping Review Tutorials Now Available

By — July 15, 2024

Becker Library now offers four brief tutorials to help researchers better understand systematic and scoping reviews: These brief videos are especially helpful for novice systematic review/scoping review researchers, or those who have not utilized Becker Library’s systematic review service before. To learn more about systematic and scoping reviews, please see our guides: Have questions about  [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Jerome R. Cox Jr. Papers Open for Research

By — July 12, 2024

Did you know the PC was invented at Washington University? Well, not that PC. The Programmed Console. In the spring of 1965, Jerome R. Cox Jr. and Wesley A. Clark co-taught a graduate course in computer design in which teams of students designed working computers. One student, V.W. “Bill” Gerth, also wrote an interactive radiation  [Read more]

Health and Science Communication

Inclusive and Preferred Language for Patient and Research Participant Communication – Selected Resources 

By — July 11, 2024

Health and science communication best practices include developing communication that is respectful, inclusive, and accessible to your audience. Here are some resources to support your regular communication with patients and research participants using inclusive and preferred language. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Inclusive Communication Principles include key principles for general communication and preferred terms for select  [Read more]

Announcements

Summer Library Staff Picks

By — July 9, 2024

Come check out Becker Library’s very first curated Staff Picks collection, specially selected by our knowledgeable Information Services Desk staff, which highlights our Health and Wellness collection. This unique collection will be available at Becker Library, 1st floor, from July 9 through Aug. 31. Stop by Becker Library today to discover these handpicked titles that  [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Travel Scholarships Available for Archives and Rare Books Collections Use

By — July 8, 2024

To encourage researchers living more than 100 miles from St. Louis to use these collections, Becker Library offers two grants annually of up to $1,000 each to help defray the costs of travel, lodging, food and photo reproductions. Covered expenses will be reimbursed at the conclusion of the visit. Apply by Sept. 1, 2024.

Scholarly Publishing

What’s the Difference between Public Access and Open Access?

By , , and — June 24, 2024

Being aware of the distinction between Public Access and Open Access will be more important for authors over the next several years. By the end of 2024, all Federal funding agencies will have to release their plans per The White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Memo of 2022: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable  [Read more]

Mastering Information, Science and Informatics

Tips for Writing NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans

By — June 18, 2024

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) in all competing applications that generate scientific data. A DMSP should cover six key elements as outlined in NOT-OD-21-014.  While not required, using a DMSP template helps researchers address all six elements and sub-elements required by the NIH DMS policy. The  [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Did you know there used to be a Barnes medical school in St. Louis?

By — June 3, 2024

When St. Louisans hear the name Barnes today, the century-old Barnes Hospital (now Barnes-Jewish Hospital) on Washington University’s medical campus might come to mind.  But, before Barnes Hospital came into existence in 1914, St. Louisans would have known Barnes to be the largest medical school in downtown St. Louis. 

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