News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
In recognition of October as LGBTQIA+ History month the WHSC Library is highlighting a list of resources available through Emory Libraries in support of LGBTQIA+ Health. We also offer a year-round research guide for LGBTQIA+ Health Resources. The guide is aimed at healthcare students, educators, researchers, and clinicians seeking a better understanding of the historical health Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is proud to celebrate International Open Access Week from October 19 – October 25, 2026. What is open access? According to SPARC, the creators of Open Access Week, open access is defined as “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles Read More …
Through the WHSC Library’s Systematic Review Service, our informationists are valuable members of evidence synthesis teams working on projects such as systematic, scoping, umbrella, and rapid reviews. Our informationists develop comprehensive and methodologically rigorous search strategies for the literature that will form the basis of the data for your evidence synthesis project, serve as the Read More …
Each October, the Medical Library Association (the national professional organization for health sciences librarians) recognizes National Medical Librarians Month. This year’s theme is Medical Librarians: Trusted Expertise in Times of Change. To borrow the words of our very own Tara Douglas-Williams, Associate Director here at WHSC Library and President of the Medical Library Association: Every Read More …
Each August, National Immunization Awareness Month is observed nationwide to promote the importance of vaccinations. Vaccines have dramatically changed medicine over the last century–in fact, “few medical interventions can compete with vaccines for their cumulative impact of health and well-being of entire populations.” According to the CDC’s Fast Facts on Global Immunization, about 4 million deaths worldwide are prevented by childhood immunizations each year. Read More …
Every year, thousands of patients in the U.S. facing life-threatening conditions that require stem cell transplants, such as sickle cell disease, leukemia, myeloma, and lymphoma. Most of these individuals do not have family members who are suitable donors and must be matched to an unrelated donor. The majority of unrelated donors are adult bone marrow Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library is thrilled to announce the launch of a special collaborative podcast miniseries, Behind the Breakthroughs: Off the Field. Hosted by Melissa Deuber, MSIS, this series takes listeners inside the labs and onto the cutting edge of sports science, biomechanics, and athlete safety. In partnership with the Emory Sports Read More …
Have you ever worked on a group project where it just feels like not everyone is pulling their weight? Maybe all the work is falling to one person—maybe that person has been you! This near-universal experience, it turns out, is also shared by mice, as Emory PhD candidate Jari Javier has discovered at the Murugan Lab here on campus. Mice, with their complex Read More …
As Atlanta prepares to host the World Cup in summer of 2026, this selection of books from our collection explores the intersection of sport and health, with an emphasis on soccer, the world’s most popular sport. As a branch of Sports Medicine, Soccer Medicine offers preventative, acute and rehabilitative care and techniques based on an Read More …
As part of Emory Libraries’ efforts to celebrate the 2026 World Cup in Atlanta, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library presents a new display, “Footwork: Soccer and the Healing Arts.” The display explores the evolution and current state of Soccer Medicine, a rapidly growing area of the wider discipline of Sports Medicine, which focuses on Read More …