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Archives and Rare Books

MUMPS and Medical Computing at WashU Medicine

By — July 25, 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]

Archives and Rare Books

Travel scholarships available for archives and rare books collections use

By — July 22, 2025

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]

Archives and Rare Books

Thousands of St. Louis area vintage hospital postcards now available at Becker Archives!

By — July 18, 2025

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]

Announcements

New faces in leadership positions at Becker Library

By — July 15, 2025

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]

Announcements

New WashU APC Waiver Finder

By — July 11, 2025

WashU Libraries and Becker Medical Library are pleased to announce a new tool to support WashU authors as part of an ongoing effort to reduce barriers to open access publishing for the university community. The WashU APC Waiver Finder allows users to search for journals participating in more than 20 publisher agreements secured to date  [Read more]

Announcements

Bentham Science added to participating publishers list

By — May 28, 2025

Becker Medical Library and WashU Libraries are pleased to announce a new publish and read agreement for journals published by Bentham Science. The agreement allows WashU corresponding authors a full waiver of Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish their works under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) Open Access license. The agreement places  [Read more]

Science and Informatics

Best Practices for Reproducible AI Research in Life Sciences – Introducing DOME

By — May 21, 2025

In recent years, there has been exponential growth in the use of machine learning (ML) in the life sciences, fueled by increased access to powerful hardware (e.g., GPUs) and high-quality FAIR biodata enabled by the open science movement. One standout example is AlphaFold, which uses ML to predict protein structure from genetic sequences, a breakthrough  [Read more]

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