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. In your web browser, go to DynaMedex and tap the person icon in the top right to create a personal account that lets you customize your experience. Then download the app to your mobile device, use your personal account to login, and access everything DynaMedex has to offer on the go! Questions about DynaMedex? Contact HBLS!
Creating Effective Systematic Review Assignments
Are you assigning your students a systematic review or other evidence synthesis project? Here are some recommendations from the HBLS Evidence Synthesis Service team:
- Make it a group project: Have students collaborate and confront challenges as a team.
- Recognize time and experience limitations: A systematized review, using one or two databases and a less comprehensive search, may be more feasible in one semester.
- Consider alternatives: Could they write a protocol? What about critically appraising an existing review?
Curious about learning more? Contact HBLS, and be on the lookout for faculty development workshops later this semester.
Love Data Week: Whose Data Is It, Anyway? (February 10-14)
Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, aiming to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and research data services across the disciplines. Brown’s Sixth Annual Love Data Week takes place February 10-14, co-sponsored by the Division of Research and the University Library. A wide variety of events are scheduled throughout the week.
Join us to learn about such topics as:
- How the Unified Research Data Sharing and Access (URSA) Initiative is supporting management and sharing of health data, from executing Data Use Agreements (DUA) to addressing NIH data sharing policies. (The URSA Initiative: Navigating EHR Data Sharing and Access in Rhode Island, 2/11, 11 a.m. to noon, Zoom)
- How you can utilize Vivli, a clinical trials data sharing repository platform, to comply with the NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy. (Clinical Data Sharing and Reuse on the Vivli Platform, 2/11, noon to 1 p.m., Zoom)
- How to implement rigorous methods and use available resources for evaluating and addressing racial equity with respect to the nation’s overdose crisis with the People, Place & Health Collective and the COBRE on Opioids and Overdose. (Resources for Centering Racial Equity in Data, 2/13, noon to 1 p.m., Zoom)
- How the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics is working on the development and evaluation of AI-based clinical decision support tools in Electronic Health Record systems. (The Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics: Leveraging EHRs and AI to Advance Biomedical Discovery and Healthcare Delivery, 2/14, noon to 1 p.m., hybrid)
Learn more about Love Data Week and register for these and many other sessions at https://library.brown.edu/outreach/lovedata/
Contact Your HBLS Librarians!
Questions about library services or resources for the health and biomedical sciences? Email us at HealthSciLibrarians@brown.edu!