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F1000 Posters

Cathy — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:48:28 +0000

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 slides as “previous publication.” See Journal Responses for more information. As with research articles, materials deposited in F1000 Posters may also be selected for evaluation by F1000.

NIH Public Access Policy: Implications

Cathy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:43:01 +0000

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 from universities, 17% are from companies, and 40% from the general public.

Ways to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide

Cathy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:56:08 +0000

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.

How to Write a Scientific Paper?

Cathy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:58:54 +0000

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 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.

Assigning Authorship Order

Cathy — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:31:09 +0000

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 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: Opening A New Door For Unfunded Research Projects

Cathy — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:36:09 +0000

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 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).

A Guide for Using Twitter

Cathy — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:33:00 +0000

“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.

Heading for success: or how not to title your paper

Cathy — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:47:51 +0000

“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 in choosing an appropriate title. But what makes a title draw in citations?”

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.

Nature Precedings: An Archive

Cathy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:20:37 +0000

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 Launches New Open Access Journal

Cathy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:28:14 +0000

The Royal Society has announced the launch of Open Biology, a new open access journal.