The Becker Medical Library staff provides a wide variety of services and resources to assist faculty, scientists and students in support of their scholarship efforts. We also provide classes to help you learn about the resources we offer. Please contact your Becker liaison for more information.

• Becker Library Services
• Becker Bioinformatics Services
• Becker Library Resources
• Washington University School of Medicine Services and Resources

Becker Library Services

The following services are examples of services that we provide for our users. If you are interested in any of these services or do not see a service listed that you need, please contact your Becker liaison.

Author Support

• Perform an author search in preparation for a CV
• Verify publications by an author
• Check your impact factor
• Check your h-index
• Assist with copyright questions
• Provide a list of citations to your work – who is citing you?
• Provide customized personal or group training or consultation sessions
• Provide hands-on workshops
• Assist with management of bibliographic software tools such as EndNote or Reference Manager
• Assist with migrating your citations from one software format to another
• Locate journal instructions for authors

Researching

• Responsible and Efficient Literature Searching
• Provide personal or group training or consultation sessions at Becker Library or at a location of your choice
• Make house-calls to your office to assist with research needs
• Consultation on databases to use for your research
• Do a literature search (current and historical)
• Assist with locating Meeting/Conference abstracts
• Assist you in setting up current awareness alerts or table of contents alerts from journals
• Assist you in setting up automated database search alerts
• Assist in importing citations from databases to your bibliographic software
• Assist with setting up RSS feeds
• Do a bibliometric analysis – how has your research impacted subsequent research or clinical applications?
• Locate contact information for a person or group

Writing

• Verify your citations in your bibliography or references used list for a manuscript or grant application
• Provide access to style manuals
• Locate a statistic
• Locate an image or graphic

Publishing

• Provide a presentation to your department or program on author rights
• Review a publication agreement of a journal you are considering submitting your work to
• Provide a Publication Agreement Amendment to retain full or partial copyright
• Check the copyright policy of a journal you are considering submitting your work to
• Direct you to sources for alternative copyright agreement addenda
• Assist with copyright questions
• Provide a list of journals relevant to your area of research/interest for possible submission
• Preparing for Publication: Factors to Consider in Selecting a Journal for Publication
• Locate journal instructions for authors
• Check an impact factor of a journal
• Submit your NIH funded research article to PubMed Central on your behalf
• Locate an open access journal
• Check for journal participation in PubMed Central
• Recommend author keywords
• Recommend MeSH keywords

Services for Authors Wishing to Comply with the NIH Public Access Policy

Customized Classes

• Develop a customized class (free) for your research or publication needs. Classes can be held at Becker Library or at a location of your choice.

Becker Bioinformatics Services

Becker-based bioinformatics research services include:

• Consultation on databases and research tools relevant for your research
• Assistance with biological database queries
• Assessment of current biomedical research in the lab
• Provide personal or group training or consultation sessions at Becker Library or at a location of your choice
• Integrative teaching of bioinformatics tools as well as other resource orientation services for researchers
• Needs assessment to determine appropriate content to answer research literature and data questions
• Assistance with identification and leverage of existing expertise and relevant programs in the school
• Promotion of professional relationships and collaborations with organizations such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Becker Library Resources

Visit Becker Scholarly Communications on del.icio.us. The del.icio.us page contains resources such as how to find abstracts of meetings, how to set up a saved search alert on a database, a list of databases that provide impact factor measurements, how to do a cited reference search, and many other resources in support of authors. The del.icio.us list of Scholarly Communications resources is searchable by a variety of different tags and allows subscription by RSS feed.

If you need assistance with any of these resources or do not see a resource listed that you need, please contact your Library liaison.

• Databases
• Electronic Journals
• List of Classes
• Resource Guides
  Becker Library provides resource guides on many topics to assist authors.
• Tutorials

Washington University School of Medicine Services and Resources

• WU Research Offices
  • Animal Studies
  • Division of Comparative Medicine
  • Environmental Health & Safety
  • Grants and Contracts
  • Human Research Protection
  • Office of Technology Management
  • Research Office
• WU Research Resources
  • Research@Washington University
  • Vice Chancellor for Research
  • Funding Resources
  • Proposal Development
  • Research Education
  • Research News
  • Research Policies and Procedures