Check Your Sources: Using AI for Literature Retrieval

AI chatbots have quickly become useful tools in the writing process for drafting manuscripts, scientific proposals and grant applications.  While the technology is advancing rapidly, output from generative AI systems (such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard) are prone to errors and fabrication. WHSC Librarians have noticed an increase in requests from researchers for articles that do Read More …

Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award, due March 24th

Emory Libraries invites applications for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award. Four $1,000 prizes will be granted for original papers, digital projects, or posters exhibiting outstanding library research skills, scholarly vigor, and originality. You are eligible to apply if: You are a currently enrolled undergraduate student at Oxford or Emory College The submitted research Read More …

Celebrating our Library Authors: Staff Publication Highlights for October’s National Medical Librarians Month

In honor of October as National Medical Librarians Month, the WHSC Library is celebrating the 13 publications authored by our Informationists over the past year (with four more in the pipeline as Epub ahead of print. Many of our librarians spend weeks and months collaborating on intensive evidence synthesis projects such as systematic reviews, providing Read More …

May 11 Webinar: ORCID Workshop for Researchers

Researchers, authors and students are invited to join an upcoming webinar to become more familiar with ORCID and it’s benefits. Beginning in November 2022, Emory has launched and Emory-ORCID connect campaign requesting all University researchers to connect their ORCID profiles with their Emory data. This 30-second action allows university systems to read a researches claimed Read More …

Emory Libraries Atwood Undergraduate Research Award, applications due March 25

Dear undergraduate students, did you work on a stellar research paper or digital project during the past academic year? If your answer is yes, please consider submitting it for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. The Emory Libraries are again sponsoring an award for undergraduate research. A panel of faculty and librarians from Emory’s Atlanta and Read More …

Nov 18 @ 3pm: Rigor and Reproducibility Seminar Series Data Sharing from the Data Sharer’s Point of View

WHSC Library Seminar Series on Rigor and Reproducibility presents: Data Sharing from the Data Sharer’s Point of View Date/Time: Friday, November 18, 2022 at 3 pm Register: https://emorylibraries.libcal.com/event/9888325 Speakers: Lance Waller, PhD & Vicki Hertzberg, PhD How should researchers think about sharing data? In this webinar, we provide some practical guidelines for how to approach Read More …

Nature Masterclasses at Emory: online training for researchers & scientists by the editors from Nature

The WHSC Library now offers an unlimited user subscription to Nature Masterclasses.  Nature Masterclasses is a suite of online professional development courses for researchers  and scientists created and presented by editors from the prestigious scientific journal, Nature. While Nature Masterclasses originally started with only the Scientific Writing and Publishing course it has now expanded to Read More …

Undergraduate Research Award applications due Friday, March 25

Originally posted as Announcing the 2022 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award from Libraries News, March 2 2022   Dear undergraduate students, did you work on a stellar research paper or digital project this academic year? If your answer is yes, please consider submitting it for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. The Woodruff Library is Read More …

New Journal Impact Factors and Newly Launched JCI Metric Now Available

The 2021 release of Journal Impact Factors are now available.  Access to the new Impact Factors is made available through the Emory University Libraries’ Journal Citation Reports subscription via the Web of Science platform.  Sign in with your Emory University NetID and password to view or browse impact factors.  These are the most recent Impact Read More …