Looking for a place for your conference posters or oral presentation slides? If your institution does not have a repository, consider F1000 Posters. F1000 Posters is an open access repository of conference papers and oral presentation slides in biology and medicine. According to F1000, a number of publishers/journals do not consider deposit of posters or [...]
NIH recently issued a statement on implications of the NIH Public Access Policy. Points: NIH provides 32 billion dollars in support of biomedical research each year. Over 2.4 million articles are now in PubMed Central. Every weekday, one half million users access the database, retrieving over 1 million articles. An estimated 25% of users are [...]
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Elsevier issued a guidance document, Ways to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide, that outlines the rights of authors who publish in journals published by Elsevier.
Need help with writing a scientific publication? There are a number of resources that offer guidance on preparing for publication. Some examples include: Estelle Brodman: How to Write a Paper Dr. Estelle Brodman, former director of Bernard Becker Medical Library, presented this paper to the Department of Dermatology at Columbia University in 1947. Many of [...]
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Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) includes standards for determining authorship and contributorship on publications. “Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important [...]
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Do you have a promising biomedical research proposal that made its way through peer review but did not receive funding? Here is a new pathway for you that may lead to potential funding and help you bring your project to fruition. Health Research Funding is designed to bring researchers with peer-reviewed, worthwhile, unfunded projects together [...]
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“Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities: A guide for academics and researchers” by Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran and Patrick Dunleavy. Check out this guide on how get started using Twitter to use for scholarly efforts.
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“The title of a paper acts as a gateway to its content. It’s the first thing potential readers of the paper see, before deciding to move on to the abstract or full text. As academic authors want to maximize the readership of their papers it is unsurprising that they usually take a lot of care [...]
Nature Precedings is a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary findings. The archive allows for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and non-peer-reviewed manuscripts.
The Royal Society has announced the launch of Open Biology, a new open access journal.
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