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 the points Dr. Brodman outlines in the presentation are still relevant today. For more information on Dr. Brodman, visit her oral history page.

The Consort Statement: CONSORT 2010

CONSORT 2010 is intended to improve the reporting of a randomized controlled trial (RCT), enabling readers to understand a trial’s design, conduct, analysis and interpretation, and to assess the validity of its results. It includes guidance in the form of a check-list for the Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Other Information for a manuscript.

American Chemical Society: Publishing Your Research 101 Series

The Publishing Your Research 101 video series, produced by ACS Publications, is designed to assist authors and reviewers in understanding and improving their experience with the processes of writing, submitting, editing, and reviewing manuscripts.

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to a Biomedical Journal

ICMJE outlines general principles for preparing manuscripts for submission to a journal.

“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 intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.”

Not sure about the authorship order of a work? Check out Authorder. Authorder® is a free, easy-to-use tool to allocate authorship order on publications.

Health Research Funding is designed to bring researchers with peer-reviewed, worthwhile, unfunded projects together with patient advocacy organizations and other funding sources. Working together, we hope to foster the funding of new research that will provide hope to millions of people in this country with chronic diseases and disabilities.

The National Health Council (NHC) developed this site with input from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Check out this guide on how get started using Twitter to use for scholarly efforts.

To learn more about the effect of the length of a title and punctuation, read the entire article by Sarah Huggett in Research Trends, September 2011.

The International Aging Research Portfolio (IARP) is an independent joint initiative of government, academic, corporate, patient advocacy and charitable funding organizations. AgingPortfolio.Org system is a flexible system to enable funding organizations to collaborate, track, analyze, structure, make decisions and set directions for future research efforts in aging and also address the needs of research investigators, health care policy makers, government officials, interest groups and general public.

The goal of the International Aging Research Portfolio is to become a centralized portal for aging research providing highly granular relevant information to scientists, funding organizations, policy makers and providing a platform for collaboration and research.

At present, IARP incorporates databases of grants from multiple sources such as the NIH, European Commission, CIHR, and MRC. It also incorporates MEDLINE publication abstracts under a license from the National Library of Medicine.

The database contains millions of research projects with funding information and is fully searchable. The system also provides a categorized directory for the aging research projects. In addition to the manual classification by the SAB members, the system uses semantic classification algorithms to automatically classify projects into research areas related to aging.

General Updates:

• A new “Similar Projects” tab has been added to the Project Information page (fiscal year 2007 and later projects only). This tab displays up to 100 projects similar to the selected project, based on overlap among the projects’ terms. The list of Similar Projects also can be modified to change the fiscal year, NIH spending category, agency/Institute/Center, and activity code of projects included in the list, or to exclude subprojects.
• A verification code is now required to view Principal Investigator and Program Officials’ email addresses on the Project Information Details page. This will help prevent the automatic harvesting of email addresses.

Query:

• Advanced search capability has been added to Term Search. Users can now use Boolean opeartors (and, or, not, and parentheses to control precedence) in their search criteria by selecting the ‘Advanced’ logic radio button.
• Users can limit their text search to abstracts, project titles and/or project terms.
• Separate search filters for SBIR/STTR Contracts and Non-SBIR/STTR Contracts have been added under ‘R and D Contracts’ in the Activity Code pick list and under ‘Contracts’ in the Funding Mechanism pick list.

Export to Excel:

• Users can now export a limited set of fields for up to 15,000 projects from the Search Results by selecting the ‘Basic’ export option. This is an increase from the current limit of 5,000.
• Project information export option has been added on the Project Information Subprojects and History tabs.

Search Results:

• The sorting of Search Results is optimized for better user experience.

MyRePORTER:

• Users will now need to enter a verification code while registering and using Forgot Password in NIH MyRePORTER.