While the Eccles Library remains closed, our faculty and staff are still here for you! We’re ready to meet the ever changing needs of students, faculty, clinicians, and just about anyone.

In the “OneU” spirit this symposium will highlight work being done across the University of Utah campus on issues of sex, gender, sexuality and women’s health. Presented by the Center
of Excellence in Women’s Health and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.

Rejuvenate your research! Join us for a Research Spa Day to meet with experts supporting researchers and the scholarly community, including a light lunch and free chair massages!

In July 2019, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a new requirement for individuals supported by research training, fellowship, research education, and career development awards beginning in FY 2020 to have ORCID iDs [1]. Dr. Michael Lauer, …Read More »

  The Research Reproducibility Conference will bring together researchers, students, and administrators for a frank discussion on how to build research integrity through reproducibility. We hope to further the dialog around open science, open data, transparency, and good research practices. The conference will be held June 15, 2018 at The University of Utah S. J. …Read More »

This September, UCLA in Los Angeles will be hosting the West Coast Systematic Reviews Workshop for Researchers. The four-day, free workshop will help health science professionals learn how to best perform searches, manage citations and better understand the systematic review process. For more information or to apply please visit the workshop website    

Congratulations to Mellanye Lackey, MSI! She is a recipient of the JoVE: MLA’17 Meeting Travel Award. A Librarian’s Role in Research Reproducibility: The award is intended to recognize librarians are working to advance scientific research by empowering scientists, faculty, and students with the necessary information, tools, and training to achieve research reproducibility. These librarians developed and …Read More »

The first Research Reproducibility Conference, sponsored by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the Vice President for Research on November 14-15, 2016, brought together researchers, students, administrators, NIH representatives, and more to start a frank discussion on how institutions can help support research reproducibility and make more research true. Conference attendees furthered the …Read More »

Breaking news: we are excited to announce that the following sessions of the Research Reproducibility Conference today will be live streamed on YouTube! Time Session 8:30 – 8:45 AM Opening Remarks: Melissa Rethlefsen (Utah) & Andy Weyrich (Utah) 8:45 – 9:45 AM Mayden Lecture: Hilda Bastian (NIH) 10:00 – 11:30 AM Federal Agency Support for …Read More »

Eccles Library faculty and staff attended the Joint Meeting of the Midwest Chapter and the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association on October 22-24 in Des Moines, Iowa. View the conference website here. The University of Utah represented about 1/3 of the presentations, including the keynote speaker!