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Entries Tagged as 'Support for Authors'

ACS Publications: Publishing Your Research

August 9th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

ACS Publications has recently released two new videos in the Publishing Your Research 101 video series to assist authors and reviewers in understanding and improving their experience with the processes of writing, submitting, editing, and reviewing manuscripts. The two new videos discuss the cover letter that accompanies a submitted manuscript and how to select peers [...]

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My NCBI YouTube Video

July 29th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

Check out the My NCBI Video on YouTube. It provides a brief review of the features of My NCBI.          

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Google Scholar Citations

July 26th, 2011 by Cathy · 1 Comment

Google Scholar introduced a new tool, Google Scholar Citations, for tracking of citations. Three metrics are available: the  h-index, the i-10 index, which is the number of articles with at least ten citations, and the total number of citations to your articles.  Once a profile is created, users have the option of making the profile [...]

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Tags:Research Impact, Support for Authors

Washington University Copyright Addendum Form Revised

July 12th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

The Washington University Copyright Addendum form has been revised to allow for a completed addendum in PDF to be sent via email to the author. The WU Addendum allows authors to select from various rights such as: Comply with the NIH Public Access Policy Comply with funding agency policies for public access Post the work [...]

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Publishing Your Research 101 by the American Chemical Society

May 11th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced the launch of Publishing Your Research 101, a new educational, web-based video series designed to support authors and reviewers with the process of writing, submitting, reviewing, and editing reports of original scientific research intended for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The video series, freely available [...]

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PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature

April 29th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

“PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature” by Zhiyong Lu from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) outlines 28 tools based MEDLINE data and Entrez Programming Utilities. For more information, see the chart that notes the 28 tools as reviewed in the article plus additional tools.

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Information Visualization journal

April 26th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

The journal, Information Visualization, will be freely available through June.

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My NCBI Redesign

March 28th, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) announced that an improved user interface will be released for My NCBI. Among the new features for users who have eRA Commons Accounts include tools for management of citations applicable under the NIH Public Access Policy. See the 25 March 2011 NLM Technical Bulletin for full details including [...]

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Link Your RePORTER Records to Your Own Websites

February 2nd, 2011 by Cathy · No Comments

NIH just announced some upcoming new features available from the NIH RePORT website. One of the features is being able to add links from an institutional faculty or laboratory website page on PI profile pages in RePORTER. Learn about additional RePORT features and find out how to sign up for the RePORT listserv by reading [...]

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PubMed® Author ID Project

November 8th, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments

The National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI) is developing a system that will address the problem of ambiguous author names within PubMed and facilitate accurate search and retrieval of a participating author’s works. See the NLM Technical Bulletin for the full announcement.

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Tags:Author Disambiguation, Authors at WU, Support for Authors