Holiday Hours

We wish you a relaxing and joyful holiday season! Lane Library will be closed during Stanford University’s Winter Closure, but our online resources are always accessible on our website.  Winter Intersession Winter Intersession hours will begin on Friday, December 15, and end on Wednesday, December 20. Winter Closure Hours & Services Lane Library will be… Read more Holiday Hours

Covidence: The Tool You Need to Manage Your Review

Are you a seasoned researcher looking to streamline your systematic reviews, or are you just embarking on your first review project? Either way, Covidence is here to make your academic life easier. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, it can reduce the time spent on your reviews by up to 35%. What’s more, it… Read more Covidence: The Tool You Need to Manage Your Review

Fall 2023 Donation Drive

To celebrate World Kindness Day (November 13), please bring in donations of new, unused, travel-size personal care items to Lane Medical Library as part of the Cardinal at Work Cares Fall Donation Drive. We have two donation boxes in the library. Suggested donation items include: body and hand lotion, chapstick, deodorant, facial tissue, disposable razors… Read more Fall 2023 Donation Drive

Visual Dx

With over 43,000 curated medical images, Visual Dx offers health professionals a powerful tool to support the differential diagnosis process.  Once you have entered a symptom, medication, or diagnosis into the search box, the database will generate peer-reviewed photographs that visually represent potential medical conditions, such as skin diseases, ranked from most to least probable.… Read more Visual Dx

Attend Virtual Event with MedRxiv Co-founder for Open Access Week

This year, Lane Medical Library has the pleasure of virtually hosting Dr. Joseph Ross, co-founder of the preprint server medRxiv in honor of Open Access Week 2023! Register to attend his talk titled, Preprints, Open Access, and their Role in Scholarly Communication: In Conversation with medRxiv’s Dr. Joseph Ross on October 27th, 12-1pm.  Register to… Read more Attend Virtual Event with MedRxiv Co-founder for Open Access Week

American Archives Month

October is American Archives Month. We’ve asked Drew Bourn, our resident Historical Curator, his thoughts on: how you learn about the history of anything? Maybe you look things up online (like the National Library of Medicine’s exhibit on Frankenstein), or maybe you read a book (like Rebecca Skloots’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks), or… Read more American Archives Month

Celebrate Indigenous People's Day & Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month

We recently updated our Multicultural Health Guide to include new sections on Indigenous Health and Latine Health. These curated guides pull together resources from Lane Medical Library, Stanford Libraries, and other campus resources, in addition to government resources. Each guide page includes highlighted books, e-books, journals, databases, and other resources about health for these specific… Read more Celebrate Indigenous People's Day & Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month

Meet Your Lane Library Staff: Karen Selden

Every month, we are spotlighting an amazing member of our library staff. This month meet Karen Selden, Special Projects Cataloger. What do you do at the library? I work directly with Metadata Librarian Salma Berrada El Azizi to perform any special cataloging projects. I work part-time and entirely remotely from my home in Steamboat Springs,… Read more Meet Your Lane Library Staff: Karen Selden

Make Your Data More Usable: README Files with Dryad

A README file serves as a crucial component of data documentation, providing important context and instructions for understanding and utilizing the data. They can also be tricky to prepare and are a common sticking point in the data publishing process. Properly preparing a README can make sure your dataset is published rapidly and smoothly, and… Read more Make Your Data More Usable: README Files with Dryad

D-CORE Collection

October marks the 6th anniversary of the opening of the Diversity Center of Representation and Empowerment (D-CORE), a space located in Lane Library where any member of the Stanford Medicine community interested in issues of inclusion and diversity can hold meetings or just hang out and study. The D-CORE collection, established in 2020 by a… Read more D-CORE Collection