Announcements
Welcome New Residents and Fellows!
The staff of Becker Medical Library is here to assist with your information needs through a variety of traditional and innovative library and information services.
Becker Blog
Archives and Rare Books
The Salernitan Regimen of Health
Medical knowledge has undergone, shall we say, significant changes since the medieval and early modern periods. Humorism – the idea that the bodily health depended on the proper balance of the four humors of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile – has been thoroughly debunked. We understand germ theory. A broken bone is a [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly Publishing Round-up July 2017: Citations and Metrics
The influence of a five-sentence letter, a review of author profiles in databases, a plea for objective metrics, and article title characteristics are among the topics of the Round-up for July 2017.
Announcements
Introducing the Becker Archives and Rare Books Newsletter
Becker Medical Library's Archives and Rare Books Division has recently launched an email newsletter compiling recent stories from the Becker website and Tumblr. Check out the inaugural edition online and don't forget to sign up below to receive future editions in your inbox monthly! This is a fun way to showcase interesting finds from our rare [Read more]
Announcements
Staff Picks for Summer Reading
In celebration of today’s summer solstice, we’re sharing some staff suggestions for your summer reading list. These titles are mostly biomedically related (at least to some degree) but have considerably more poolside reading potential than the average journal article. Happy summer reading!
Announcements
Becker Library Travel Scholarship Awarded
The Becker Medical Library travel scholarship for Spring 2017 was recently awarded to Justin Barr, MD, PhD. Barr will visit the library in July to research the history of arterial repair, focusing on identifying certain surgical techniques that were learned during wartime and later became standard in surgical education. This work builds on his doctoral dissertation, "Surgical [Read more]
Archives and Rare Books
Finishing Touches
Lately, it seems the Washington University Medical Center is in a constant state of construction. Before one building is completed, work on another site begins. As the medical center has grown throughout its 100-year history, countless architects, construction workers, and artists have left their mark on its buildings. One unique finishing touch is a concrete [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing
NIH Grant Support Index (GSI) and Other Metrics
NIH reviews the Grant Support Index (GSI) and encourages the use of metrics to assess the impact of NIH funding.
Staff News
Becker Librarians Share Expertise at MLA Conference
Several Becker Library staff members attended the Medical Library Association (MLA) conference May 26-31 in Seattle and took an active role in sharing their knowledge with colleagues through a variety of presentations.
Archives and Rare Books
A History of The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis Now on Display
Over 100 years of history are now on display on the seventh floor of Bernard Becker Medical Library. The exhibit “‘Skill, tenderly applied, works wonders’ – A History of The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis” is open now through August 31* in the library’s Glaser Gallery. Founded in 1902, the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis [Read more]