Beth Blackwood

Beth Blackwood (she, her) is a Research & Education Librarian at the Medical Center Library & Archives, where she serves as the Lead for Research Impact and the Liaison to the Department of Global Health. Her primary duties focus on assisting researchers and administrators with bibliometric questions and program evaluations, as well as specialized teaching and searching. Prior to Duke, she served as the Digital Archivist & Data Librarian at California State University Channel Islands, where she on-boarded a variety of new library infrastructure, developed and taught for-credit courses in data and algorithmic literacy, and implemented data management best practices across campus.

Current Appointments and Affiliations

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

Contact Information

• Publications

  Journal Articles

  • Seas, A., Zachem, T. J., Valan, B., Goertz, C., Nischal, S., Chen, S. F., … Abd-El-Barr, M. M. (2024). Machine learning in the diagnosis, management, and care of patients with low back pain: a scoping review of the literature and future directions. Spine J. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2024.09.010
  • Trager, R. J., Bejarano, G., Perfecto, R.-P., Blackwood, E. R., & Goertz, C. M. (2024). Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation: A Review of Research Trends, Evidence Gaps, and Guideline Recommendations. J Clin Med, 13(19). https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13195668
  • Eagle, D., Holleman, A., Olvera, B. B., & Blackwood, E. (2024). Prevalence of obesity in religious clergy in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 25(7), e13741. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13741
  • Juarez, D., & Blackwood, E. (2022). Virtual Undergraduate Internships: One COVID-19 Side Effect THat Academic Libraries Should Keep. Portal, 22(1), 81–91. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2022.0010
  • Blackwood, E. (2021). Outside the R1: Equitable data management at the undergraduate level. IASSIST Quarterly, 45(2). https://doi.org/10.29173/iq1011
  • Fostering institutional awareness for copyright: Some practical strategies. (2020). The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(5), 102154–102154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102154
  • Blackwood, E. (2020). Integrating digital stewardship into library instruction: An argument for student (and librarian) success. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2019.102099

  Books

  • Blackwood, B. (2022). Low-Fat Research Data Management. In The Data Literacy Cookbook. Association of College & Research Libraries.
  • Blackwood, B., & Hoffmann, D. (2021). More Data, Less Dewey: Modernizing a For-Credit, Library Course to Support Data and Algorithmic Literacy for Undergrads. In Data Literacy in Academic Libraries Teaching Critical Thinking with Numbers (pp. 105–105). ALA Editions.

  Digital Publications

  • Blackwood, B., Joubert, D., & Sobczak, J. (2020). STL Data Curation Primer. Data Curation Network.