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Health and Biomedical Library Services November 2025 News
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Your HBLS librarians hope your semester is going well! Here are a few resources and tips to support your research and scholarship.
NIH Public Access Policy Compliance
Do you have questions about complying with the new NIH Public Access policy? Are you experiencing challenges with publishers regarding options for complying with requirements? HBLS’ librarian Andrew Creamer offered a recent workshop on journal article publishing pathways to comply with this new policy. View the recording online (VPN required for off-campus access) and take a deeper dive into the challenges some authors are experiencing in his blog post.
Evidence Synthesis Resources and Services
The HBLS Evidence Synthesis Service (ESS) team has created an extensive guide to evidence synthesis methodologies in the health sciences. It offers detailed explanations of essential steps along with links and tutorials. The ESS represents a redesign of our service model to better support the needs of the BioMed and SPH community. Our ESS guide outlines eligibility and service tiers.
New Textbooks and Study Materials in ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey now offers Study Resources, a suite of tools that includes a Bookshelf/StudyTools app for offline use. Study Resources includes dozens of textbooks, multimedia resources, board review materials, and flashcards. The web-based Bookshelf and mobile app let you create customized collections and download materials to read, highlight, and annotate. In addition, for medical students at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Study Resources can be integrated with other curricular tools such as Clinical Anatomy and Clinical Pharmacology.
To access ClinicalKey Study Resources, the Bookshelf, and to download the desktop and mobile apps, begin by logging in to ClinicalKey with your single sign-on. Then login to your personal ClinicalKey account (or create one to get started).
Tap the Study Resources Button to explore and add items to your Bookshelf.
Within Study Resources, tap the Launch Bookshelf button to download the apps.
Contact Your HBLS Librarians!
Email us at HealthSciLibrarians@brown.edu.
Access your Brown University Library resources at https://go.brown.edu/HBLS.
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New Faculty Publications Collection
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The Library is thrilled to unveil the new Faculty Publications Collection display in the Sorensen Family Reading Room on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library.
The circulating collection consists of print books authored by Brown faculty members as well as digital publications created by Brown faculty members in collaboration with Brown University Digital Publications and the African Digital Poetry Portal.
You can check out the print books and browse the items on-site. Scan the QR codes displayed on the shelves to access the digital publications, which are freely accessible anytime, anywhere.
The Library is proud to recognize and celebrate research and researchers at Brown in this way!
Please note that gathering publications for this collection will always be a work in progress. The collection will be updated on an ongoing basis. If you are a Brown faculty member and do not see a publication you authored on the shelves, please contact library@brown.edu with details.
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Unlocking History: Tunisian Letterlocking with Jana Dambrogio
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Join the Brown University Library and the Center for Middle East Studies for a workshop and conversation with Jana Dambrogio, conservator, author, and editor, on Tuesday, October 21 at 4 p.m. at the John Hay Library (321).
Free and open to the public. In-person event.
Letterlocking
Reconstruction of original locked letter packet, dated 1817, discussed in talk Offering a glimpse into a new collaborative project on letterlocking from Ottoman Tunis in the early nineteenth century, this talk will reconstruct the intricate folds, tucks, and slits of letter packets secured shut with “letterlocking,” a practice that underpinned global communications security for centuries before modern envelopes.
The speaker Jana Dambrogio has pioneered the study of letterlocking using automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography and computational flattening algorithms. She has co-authored numerous studies on the subject with Daniel Starza Smith, including their latest book from MIT Press entitled, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter. Dambrogio situates her findings from this case study of Ottoman Tunisian correspondence within a novel letterlocking categorization system based on a study of 250,000 historical letters.
This event will delve into how the materiality of the paper lock itself acted as an antiforgery mechanism in the perilous waters of the Barbary Coast during the early period of diplomacy between the Ottoman regency of Tunis and the United States in the Mediterranean Sea. This session will be in conversation with Gwendolyn Collaço, Anne S.K. Brown Curator for Military & Society at the John Hay Library, who translated the 1817 letter from the Bey of Tunis to American President James Monroe (1817–1825) that Dambrogio analyzes in her work. In their dialogue, they will contextualize the unusual episode surrounding the dispatch of this letter, including American mercantile interests in the region, the response of the Bey of Tunis to violated ceremonial customs, and this dynamic period that transformed diplomatic correspondence between Tunis and its Mediterranean partners. This session features a hands-on demo of letterlocking techniques for audience members to try for themselves.
Jana Dambrogio Jana Dambrogio is the Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator, Wunsch Conservation Laboratory, MIT Libraries. She is also the Director and Founder of Unlocking History Research Group, General Editor of Letterlocking.org and Dictionary of Letterlocking (DoLL).
This event forms part of CMES Research Initiative: American-Islamic Exchanges in the Long 19th Century.