Philip Walker

Philip Walker, director of the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, has been invited to serve on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. The term begins immediately and ends in August 2026. Before his official appointment to the… Read More

The Eskind Biomedical Library is moving from Ovid Embase to Elsevier Embase. The Elsevier platform offers more search options such as the drug search, medical device search, PICO search, and more as well as a faster search speed. Please visit the Biomedical Library Training & Citation Management: Resource Tutorials… Read More

A huge congratulations to EBL’s Rachel Lane Walden, Health Sciences Informationist, who was recently named a 2023 MLA Rising Star. The MLA Rising Star program gives members the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, and personal characteristics needed to become a leader in the Medical Library Association. https://www.mlanet.org/page/rising-stars  … Read More

Vanderbilt libraries’ transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press waives the author processing charges for open access articles published by Vanderbilt authors. Please note that authors wanting to publish open access must be the corresponding author and use their Vanderbilt email address (either Vanderbilt.edu or VUMC.org). Eligible article types include research… Read More

Recently, we have been answering several questions related to accessing online library resources on the VUMC network. Technological infrastructure modifications at the institutional level and licensing language revisions within academic publishing are prompting libraries across the country to alter access to online library resources. This is especially problematic and prevalent… Read More

The 2003 NIH Data Sharing Policy has been revised. The new policy goes into effect on January 25, 2023. What’s new? The policy applies to all NIH-supported research that results in the generation of scientific data, regardless of funding mechanism. See Research Covered Under the Data Management & Sharing Policy for… Read More

The Eskind Biomedical Library is pleased to announce that we are now Institutional Fellows of the British Medical Journal. This membership is required to submit BMJ Case Reports. See below for more information: BMJ Case Reports  VU and VUMC authors (faculty, staff, and students) can submit case reports. Publication fee… Read More

The Eskind Biomedical Library is excited to announce the addition of two new databases: CINAHL Ultimate and Stahl Online! Both databases are accessible from on and off campus and allow unlimited user access. CINAHL Ultimate expands the previous CINAHL content to include more international journals, open access journals,… Read More

Covidence is a web-based tool designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process to make conducting reviews more efficient. It will help you with title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. It is geared towards those conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis, or clinical guideline, and is great… Read More

By popular demand, we have added two standalone 34″ monitors in the EBL public computing area. These monitors can be connected to a laptop or compatible tablet and function as additional workspace. Please note: there are specific cables for these monitors available for checkout at the Information Desk. Read More