Global Health News from Duke Libraries

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Published January 13, 2012, last updated on February 27, 2013 under Education News

Considering writing a systematic review? A suite of library services will simplify your work.
Systematic reviews of the literature provide an important opportunity to look across what is known about a disease or treatment, and the library is poised to help you contribute to this growing body of literature. The libraries offer one-on-one consultations to assist with constructing comprehensive search strategies in all the right databases. We also can provide guidance in using EndNote, and helpful information on the process, including several new books and an online Medical Library guide on conducting systematic reviews.

PubMed’s Advanced Search Page Gets a Facelift
PubMed’s advanced search page – where you can combine multiple searches – has a new look. The updates are mostly cosmetic, but here’s a short list to keep you searching: 1) An “Add” link now appears in the table to make it easier to combine sets from your history using the search builder boxes. 2) The builder and the search box have been combined. This won’t make much difference to most users, since having them separate often meant that many of us accidentally typed into the wrong box. 3) Links back to PubMed and the MeSH database are now at the top of the page. 4) The Clinical Queries is now linked from the top of the Advanced Search page under More Resources. You can also get to these from the results page when using the Duke version of PubMed. If you would like to add them to your own customized MyNCBI account, contact the library. 

Schedule a library research instruction session or consultation
Subject specialist librarians are available to help your students do effective research for papers and presentations.  Call on us as you plan your assignments, or to schedule a hands-on library session for your students.

Global Health research guides are online 24/7
Librarians have created several research guides that provide links to online resources as well as tips and techniques for identifying and locating useful information:
Global Health (general guide to tools and resources)
Global Health: Burden of Disease
Global Health Fieldwork
Global Health Toolkit (information for Duke and non-Duke users)

New Data and GIS website
Data driven teaching and research at Duke keeps growing, and Data and GIS Services now has a new website to support data driven research.  The new site will help you find online data or digital maps, a consultant to help with a question or project, or a workshop on the latest software packages and digital tools.

Contact Information for Global Health Librarians:
Diane Harvey
Head, Instruction & Outreach
Librarian for Global Health and the Thompson Writing Program
Duke University, Perkins Library
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919-613-6836

Megan von Isenburg, MSLS, AHIP
Associate Director of Public Services
Liaison to Graduate Medical Education and Global Health
Duke Medical Center Library
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919-660-1131

Joel Herndon, PhD
Head, Data & GIS Services
Perkins Library, Duke University
http://library.duke.edu/data
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/data/
https://twitter.com/#!/duke_data
919-660-5946