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Health and Biomedical Library Services January News

Your HBLS librarians welcome you to the January 2025 spring semester! Here are a few resources and tips to support your research and scholarship. DynaMedex for Evidence-Based Clinical Care DynaMedex is a clinician-focused tool providing evidence-based answers at the point of care, merging the expert clinical summaries of DynaMed with the drug information of Micromedex. Health and Biomedical Library Services January News

Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition 

Divided America: Religious Dissent & FreedomOn view starting October 21, 2024 in the Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery at the John Hay Library20 Prospect St., Providence, RIHours Online exhibition Through The Divided America Project, the John Hay Library is digitizing and making freely available the bulk of the Hall-Hoag Collection, the country’s largest research compilation of Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition 

Announcing Scopus

We are pleased to announce that the Brown University Library now offers access to the research database Scopus. Scopus provides access to over 90 million references to scholarly and trade journal articles, books and book chapters, conference abstracts, and patents. Of its interdisciplinary coverage, about 23% is in the health sciences, 15% in the life Announcing Scopus

Announcing STAT+

We are pleased to announce that your Brown University Library is now providing access to STAT+ for all students, faculty, and staff. You can now activate an account at no cost to you. STAT+ provides access to exclusive journalism written by health care, business, and financial reporters. Over the last few years, STAT has continued Announcing STAT+

Exhibit l Ordinary Circumstances, Extraordinary Conflict

John Hay Library Exhibit Reflects on Two Centuries of Debate over Abortion Created in response to the Dobbs decision, Ordinary Circumstances, Extraordinary Conflict draws on Brown’s special collections to present open-ended observations on the commonality, history, and debate surrounding abortion in the United States and Rhode Island. Whether in a court of law, at a Exhibit l Ordinary Circumstances, Extraordinary Conflict

Brown Library publishes five new volumes in the “Race & … in America” digital book series

Open access publication expands series delving into comparative perspectives on the roots and effects of racism in the U.S. For the second year running, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown partnered with the Office of the Provost on the pioneering Race & … in America webinar series, a Brown Library publishes five new volumes in the “Race & … in America” digital book series

Brown Signs Read and Publish Agreement with Cambridge University Press

No Article Processing Charges for Brown authors who wish to publish articles via gold open access with Cambridge University Press Many authors would like to publish their scholarly articles gold open access (OA) but are deterred by the article processing charge (APC) assessed by the publisher — sometimes as high as thousands of dollars. With Brown Signs Read and Publish Agreement with Cambridge University Press

Announcement | BruKnow: Library’s Updated Search and Catalog System

BruKnow — the Library’s updated search and catalog system named by Brown students — went live on August 18, 2021, delivering enhanced searching capabilities. Learn more about using BruKnow! We Welcome Your Questions and Feedback Have questions or comments about BruKnow? Email us at libfaq@brown.libanswers.com or submit anonymous feedback. Sign Up for User Testing Interested Announcement | BruKnow: Library’s Updated Search and Catalog System

Announcement | Brown Library publishes “Race &” in America digital book series

Free and open publication documents and expands series exploring origins, history, and legacies of anti-Black racism in the U.S. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Over the course of the 2020-21 academic year, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, undertook a systematic Announcement | Brown Library publishes “Race &” in America digital book series

Announcement | Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas

The Library has been contributing to a community-centered database project led by Professor Linford Fisher that seeks to document the many instances of Indigenous enslavement in the Americas between 1492 through 1900. Formerly entitled, Database of Indigenous Slavery Archive (DISA), the project is now named, Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. Since the Announcement | Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas