Samantha Kaplan

Sami is the Research and Education Liaison Librarian to the School of Medicine. She offers research services to School of Medicine teaching faculty, staff, and students. She works to enable and promote evidence-based practice at Duke Health. 

• PhD, UNC Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
• MLIS, University of South Carolina
• BA, University of Georgia

Office Hours

Available by appointment - please email me to set up a consultation!

Current Appointments and Affiliations

• Prof Library Staff, Medical Center Library & Archives, School of Medicine

Contact Information

• Subject Headings
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Information behavior
  • Library Services
  • Medical education
• Publications

  Journal Articles

  • Chen, A. T., Kaplan, S. J., & Carriere, R. (2017). A constant conversation: tuning into and harmonizing the needs and priorities of the body and mind. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well Being, 12(1), 1350550. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2017.1350550
  • Flaherty, M. G., Kaplan, S. J., & Jerath, M. R. (2017). Diagnosis of Life-Threatening Alpha-Gal Food Allergy Appears to Be Patient Driven. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 8(4), 345–348. https://doi.org/10.1177/2150131917705714
  • Chen, A. T., Carriere, R. M., & Kaplan, S. J. (2017). The User Knows What to Call It: Incorporating Patient Voice Through User-Contributed Tags on a Participatory Platform About Health Management. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(9), e292. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.7673
  • Gibson, A. N., Kaplan, S., & Vardell, E. (2017). A Survey of Information Source Preferences of Parents of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(7), 2189–2204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3127-z
  • Gibson, A. N., & Kaplan, S. (2017). Place, community and information behavior: Spatially oriented information seeking zones and information source preferences. Library and Information Science Research, 39(2), 131–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2017.03.001
  • Kaplan, S. J., Chen, A. T., & Carriere, R. M. (2017). De-constructing the co-construction: Researcher stance, the nature of data and community building in an online participatory platform to create a knowledge repository. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 203–212. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401023
  • Chen, A. T., Kaplan, S. J., Lach, P., & Xiao, L. (2017). Incorporating Values Sensitive Design into Crowdsourcing Methodologies for Knowledge Collaboration. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 545–548. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401068
  • Flaherty, M. G., & Kaplan, S. J. (2016). Health information: print materials assessment in public libraries. Reference Services Review, 44(2), 163–177. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-02-2016-0010
  • Chen, A. T., Carriere, R., Kaplan, S. J., Colht, K., Morey, O. T., Flaherty, M. G., … Price, C. (2016). Exploring collective tagging as a mechanism to elicit language about health management. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301104
  • Gibson, A., & Kaplan, S. J. (2015). “A family like ours”: Demographic variations in information seeking behavior and community participation among parents of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 52(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010060