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 [...]
Tags:Support for Authors
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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Martin Fenner’s Gobbledygook blog post, Scientific Attribution Principles, outlines an excellent set of points related to authors and scholarly research activities. Proper assigning of credit for scholarly work requires the ability to uniquely identify specific contributors to research. Proper assigning of credit for scientific work requires the ability to uniquely identify specific scientific contributions. In [...]
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Washington University Danforth Campus (WU) and the Medical School Campus (WUSM) members have access to journal titles published by open access publishers such as BioMed Central and PLoS (Public Library of Science). Publishing in open access journals usually requires an author publication fee to offset the cost of publication, and in some instances, publishers will [...]
Check out the new FACULTYof1000 database of expert evaluations of published articles. Also included is a Rankings section. Articles are ranked by: All Time Top 10s Current Top 10s All Time Most Viewed Current Most Viewed Hidden Jewels
The Washington University Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and General Counsel along with the Danforth Campus Libraries and the Becker Medical Library are pleased to present, Copyright Law and Your Rights as an Author. Do you have a manuscript or other work that you are preparing for publication? Do you know what rights you [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags:Dissemination of Research, NIH Public Access Policy, Research Data, Support for Authors
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