Scholarly Publishing
September 2024 Scholarly Communications Round-up
Learn more about Open October, and the Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support for NIH, SciENcv, and ORCID.
Becker Blog
Archives and Rare Books
Alchemical Extraction : Materia Medica in Baldur’s Gate 3
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]
Archives and Rare Books
Dragons Beneath the Skin
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]
Health and Science Communication
Making your next conference poster memorable – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part series on effective poster presentations. Part 1 provided tips for designing and composing an outstanding conference poster. The moment has finally arrived. The session featuring your poster is about to start. You set it up last night so that fellow attendees would have a chance to browse it [Read more]
Archives and Rare Books
Health and Fitness in Ancient Greece: A Renaissance Recounting
The Olympic Games are a celebration of athleticism and physical skill, traits prized by the Ancient Greeks. But what did the people of antiquity think of fitness and exercise? These topics are explored in De Arte Gymnastica, one of the earliest books on exercise and physical therapy. De Arte Gymnastica was first published in 1569 [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing
July 2024 Scholarly Communications Round-up
Learn more about retractions, the draft NIH Public Access Policy for publications and the new release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
Scholarly Publishing
Updated Fingerprint Visualizations in Research Profiles
Fingerprints and Fingerprint visualizations in Research Profiles help users discover the expertise and interests of faculty members and organizational units at the School of Medicine by providing a visual summary of their work. They can be found throughout Research Profiles on faculty profiles as well as profiles for organization units. Fingerprints and fingerprint visualizations are [Read more]
Archives and Rare Books
Dr. Katherine Bain, her friend Christine Glass, and their home at 2710 Quebec Street
Using archival records to determine if a friendship between two women was something more is challenging. At first glance, the records are rather ambiguous, perhaps intentionally so. What can we learn if we look closer?
Mastering Information
New Systematic and Scoping Review Tutorials Now Available
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
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]