The 2024 Updated NIH Public Access Policy is applicable to peer-reviewed journal articles accepted for publication on or after July 01, 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]
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]
Today, hearing aids are small enough to sit behind your ear or slip in your ear canal, but they weren’t always so diminutive or discreet. If you used a hearing aid in the 1930s and 1940s, you wouldn’t just have a receiver in your ear—that receiver would be connected to two bulky units: one piece [Read more]
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]
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]
Learn more about our new tool to find journals eligible for a waiver or discount of the Article Processing Charge, an update on our Elsevier agreement, and the 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports. WashU Journals Eligible for an APC Waiver or Discount Tool Looking for a journal included in agreements with publishers that allow [Read more]
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]
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]
Learn more about an update to the NIH Public Access Policy, and a current tally of Elsevier Article Processing Charge Waivers for WashU Corresponding Authors. NIH Public Access Policy for Publications: Accelerated Effective Date NIH issued a notice on April 30, 2025 as a revision to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy for Publications. Per [Read more]