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Entries from August 29th, 2008

Europe Announces Pilot Project for Access to EU-Funded Research

August 29th, 2008 by Cathy · No Comments

The European Commission recently announced a new pilot program that allows for unrestricted access to EU-funded research results after an embargo period between six to 12 months. From the press release: “The Commission’s open access pilot, to run until the end of FP7, aims to ensure that the results from EU-funded research are progressively made available [...]

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Web inSuggest

August 22nd, 2008 by Cathy · No Comments

Check out Web inSuggest, a tool that provides related websites, images or bookmarks based on a website URL, image or del.icio.us user name that you enter.  According to the inSuggest blog, “inSuggest makes online life easier with advanced recommendation technology for bookmarks, images and web pages.”

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Tags:Support for Authors

PMID : PMCID Converter

August 15th, 2008 by Cathy · No Comments

The PMID : PMCID Converter is a new  tool on PubMed that allows for entry of a PubMed Indentifier number (PMID) for a work that is in PubMed Central in oder to find the associated PubMed Central Identifier number (PMCID), or vice versa.  The PMID : PMCID Converter also allows for entry of mulitple numbers as [...]

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Tags:Authors at WU, NIH Public Access Policy, Support for Authors

What is a Comprehensive Literature Search?

August 11th, 2008 by Cathy · 1 Comment

What is a comprehensive literature search? How to know when you’ve exhausted the literature? Questions to ask . . . · Do your research results provide a clear chain of evidence in demonstrating the accumulation of knowledge on a particular topic? · Did you find the first description or research of a particular topic? · [...]

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Tags:Responsible Conduct of Research, Support for Authors, Uncategorized