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- Key features of EndNote 2025
EndNote 2025 is now available for University of Iowa faculty, staff, graduate and professional students, residents, and fellows. Below, you can see the new features that we think are relevant to your work and research. Find more […]
- Geology, Catholic Bishop and spirituality | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room
It’s July and time for a beloved week in television: Shark Week. These sleek, weird, and beautiful apex predators are mesmerizing and also a little terrifying. But what do sharks have to do with medicine? Surprisingly, quite a […]
- Benjamin Bell’s cancer treatise | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room
Benjamin Bell (1749–1806), a pioneering Scottish surgeon and father of the Edinburgh school of surgery, authored A Treatise on the Hydrocele, on Sarcocele, or Cancer, and Other Diseases of the Testes (1791). Known for his rational, […]
- The invention of the stethoscope and a featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room
This month, we highlight a book from the early 19th-century French physician who created the most iconic symbol of healthcare providers around the world. Assessing the condition of a patient in 1816, René Laënnec (1781–1826), rolled up […]
- Vegetable materia medica of the US | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room
We present William Paul Crillon Barton’s (1786–1856) masterwork, Vegetable materia medica of the United States (1817–1818). Barton was a well-known naval surgeon, medical botanist, artist, and professor. He was born on Nov. 17, 1786, […]
- How Springer Nature’s open access agreement benefits you
The University of Iowa Libraries’ new open access agreement with Springer Nature offers university-affiliated corresponding authors unlimited open access publishing in Springer’s hybrid journals portfolio without payment of article […]
- Preparing a graphical abstract for your next research manuscript
By Christine Blaumueller, PhDoriginally published in the Scientific and Research Communication Core newsletter Graphical abstracts are used by some publishers such as Lancet and Elsevier, and some journals now request them. Graphical […]
- Learn how to back up your EndNote libraries
by Riley Samuelson Now is a great time to back up your EndNote libraries and keep those citations safe! There are a couple of options for easy backup, syncing with an online account and creating a compressed library. To set up an account […]
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