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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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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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?
· Do scholarly books or [...]

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Who is citing your work? How is your research being used?
 One tool that you can use to find out who is citing your work is the Author Finder tool in the Web of Science database. Author Finder will produce a list of publications by a particular author that are indexed in the database.  Once a search is completed, a [...]

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SCOPUS just announced a new tool called Journal Analyzer. You can view details about a journal’s performance and create a graphical chart of up to ten journals for comparison of journals. The journal files are updated every two weeks and provides for a current perspective of journal performance factors such as the number of articles published per [...]

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The American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy recently created a slide-rule to help determine if a particular work is copyright protected. Pointing the red arrow to the date of first publication of the work provides information on the copyright status of the work.

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Are you considering publication in a journal but not sure which one? Check out our new guide: Preparing for Publication: Factors to Consider in Selecting a Journal for Publication. The guide contains a listing of factors such as indexing status, scope & aim, acceptance/rejection rate, length of review process, ranking/impact, funding agency policies along with resources [...]

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The International Mathematical Union just released a Citation Statistics Report that outlines the use of citations in assessing research quality.
Among the report’s key findings:
1.  Statistics are not more accurate when they are improperly used; statistics can mislead when they are misused or misunderstood.
2. The objectivity of citations is illusory because the meaning of citations is [...]

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Norka Ruiz Bravo, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, recently sent an email to NIH principal investigators reminding them of the NIH Public Access Policy. One part of the email that may be of interest:
“If you publish through a journal listed under http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm, there might be a slight delay in assignment of a PMCID. That is [...]

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As of May 25, 2008:
NIH applications, proposals and progress reports must include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) when citing an article that falls under the revised NIH Public Access Policy. The PMCID will need to be noted on documents such as the Literature Cited section and the Publication List that are included as part [...]

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