Mastering Information

5 Tips to Simplify Academic Writing for General Audiences

By Mychal Voorhees — May 8, 2023

As a researcher, you communicate your work to a wide variety of people daily. Besides engaging in jargon-rich discussions with your peers, you might share your research on a personal website, talk about it at a community event, or write about it on social media. Plain language can help you reach beyond academia and ensure [Read more]

Phase 2: Expansion of the NIH Preprint Pilot and How to Report Preprints

By Amy Suiter and Cathy Sarli — April 27, 2023

The NIH Preprint Pilot began in June 2020 as a project by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make COVID-19 research discoverable in PubMed Central (PMC). In Phase 1 of the project, over 3,300 preprints reporting NIH-supported COVID-19 research were added to PMC and viewed 4 million times. Building on the success of Phase [Read more]

Mastering Information, Science and Informatics

Introduction to PIDs: What They Are and How to Use Them

By Seonyoung Kim — April 13, 2023

Persistent Unique Identifiers (PIDs), also known as Digital Persistent Identifiers (DPIs), are globally unique, persistent, machine-resolvable digital identifiers with an associated metadata schema. A PID identifies and locates an entity regardless of where it is hosted or published and enables its unambiguous and long-term identification. PIDs are an essential component of the research ecosystem, linking [Read more]

Mastering Information, Scholarly Publishing

ORCID: Reducing a Researcher’s Administrative Burden

By Brittney Sandler — March 31, 2023

While researchers already have to comply with items like the new Data Management Sharing Policy1, NSPM-332, the August OSTP memo3, and ORCID may feel like one more thing to check off the list, there are many reasons it’s worthwhile and even rewarding to devote a bit of your time to ORCID. If used effectively, an [Read more]

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Faster access to articles with LibKey Nomad

By Denise Hannibal — March 13, 2023

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that connects researchers to library-licensed and open-access full text articles in one-click!

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Resource spotlight: Stream videos and lectures with access to all JoVE research videos

By Denise Hannibal — February 3, 2023

Becker library now provides access to all JoVE Research videos including the new JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments. JoVE’s 13,000+ video protocols can be used to enhance your biomedical research and training. Content can be accessed 24/7 and there are text translations.

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How to back-up your EndNote Library and things to know

By Kim Lipsey — December 22, 2022

When you create an EndNote library, the software automatically creates the .enl and .data folders. Use the EndNote Library ‘Compress Library’ feature to back up your library or share a copy with a colleague.

Mastering Information, Science and Informatics

FAIR data principles: The keys to data sharing – part 4 of 4: Reusable

By Seonyoung Kim — November 15, 2022

This is part 4 of a four-part blog series on FAIR data principles (Part 1: Findable, part2: Accessible, part3: Interoperable, part4: Reusable). We reviewed making data findable in the part 1 blog, accessible in the part 2 blog, and interoperable in the part 3 blog. In this blog, we will discuss how to make data [Read more]

Mastering Information, Science and Informatics

FAIR data principles: The keys to data sharing – part 3 of 4: Interoperable

By Seonyoung Kim — November 9, 2022

This is part 3 of a four-part blog series on FAIR data principles (Part 1: Findable, part2: Accessible, part3: Interoperable, part4: Reusable). We reviewed making data findable using metadata in the part 1 blog and making data accessible in the part 2 blog. In this blog, we will discuss how to make data interoperable. Part [Read more]

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