Interesting article by Elisabeth Pain published in Science Career Magazine: Feeding your Research into the Policy Debate that discusses the pros and cons of scientists sharing research findings with policy-makers. According to Troy Benn,
“The most important lesson that I’ve learned is that scientists do play a role, and it’s a very large role, in … [...]

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Sage Publishers offers recommendations for authors to increase the visibility of published works using social media outlets, “10 Ways to Increase Usage and Citation of your Published Article Using Social Media.”

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eRA Commons has partnered with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in providing a link to My NCBI in Commons. My NCBI includes “My Bibliography,” a tool for users to maintain and manage a list of all of their authored works such as journal articles, manuscripts accepted for publication, books and book chapters.  A [...]

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Version 1.6 of the NIH RePORTER was released on June 24, 2010. Among the new features include:
General Updates:

MyRePORTER feature has been added allowing users to create a MyRePORTER account to save and manage queries. When users are logged into their account, the Hit List page now has a ‘Save Query’ button so users can save [...]

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Two interesting articles in Nature on demonstrating the impact of research:
In the Public Eye
“Society deserves to see a return on its investment in science, but researchers need help to make their case.”
Science Funding: Science for the Masses
“It makes scientists think more explicitly about how their work is connected to enhancing benefits to society.”

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Tools for Authors libguide is now available. It contains resource for authors such as how to find collaborators, how to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy, how to find who is citing your work, and more.

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Scopus just announced the new launch of an application that can downloaded on iPhones.
Scopus Alerts (Lite) gives researchers mobile access to the Searching and Alerting features of Scopus. It’s designed to eliminate the need for you to seek out a desktop or laptop computer to search for quality research data while travelling, attending conferences or [...]

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Need help deciding which journal to submit your work to? Check out Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator).
“Have you recently written a paper, but you’re not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to [...]

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What is the difference between the Impact score and the Significance score as part of the new enhanced review criteria for NIH applications?  A clarification to the notice was issued in January 2010 announcing the development of a working group to develop additional guidance on this issue.
For more information on Impact vs. Significance, see the [...]

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Two new tools (SNIP and SJR) have been added to the Journal Analyzer feature on Scopus.com and are publicly accessible. The indicators provide greater currency and flexibility in journal performance measurement.

Announcement
YouTube Presentation

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