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Interested in Publishing Your Personal Story?

By Cathy Sarli, Amy Suiter and Evan Sprague — January 7, 2019

Many journals offer authors the option of submitting personal essays or perspectives related to the teaching, learning or practicing of medicine. MEDLINE/PubMed has a search filter to search for these types of works indexed in MEDLINE: “Personal Narrative.” Personal Narratives are works authored by physicians, investigators and students that reflect upon personal experiences in medicine [Read more]

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What can Scopus do for you?

By Michelle Doering, Cathy Sarli and Amy Suiter — November 9, 2018

What is Scopus? Scopus is a citation database paid for by the library and available to users on the Washington University network or via a library proxy account. Scopus covers 22,000 journal titles and 150,000 books with over 70 million items and 1.4 billion cited references back to 1970. It also contains over 16 million [Read more]

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Scholarly Publishing Round-Up November 2018

By Cathy Sarli, Amy Suiter and Evan Sprague — November 8, 2018

Learn more about new videos from NIH, a new version of My Bibliography and a new retractions database. Try Out a New Version of My Bibliography in NCBI Labs NCBI is working on a new My Bibliography and needs your feedback. The new trial version of My Bibliography is an NCBI Labs experiment and incorporates [Read more]

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History of Central Institute for the Deaf Book Now Available in Digital Commons@Becker

By Evan Sprague and Cathy Sarli — October 30, 2018

Becker Library is proud to announce that we are hosting a digital copy of the book “The History of Central Institute for the Deaf” in our institutional repository for the School of Medicine, Digital Commons@Becker, where it can be freely accessed. The book contains a chronology of significant events related to Central Institute for the Deaf [Read more]

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ORCID ID: What is it and why should you have one?

By Evan Sprague, Amy Suiter and Cathy Sarli — October 24, 2018

ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides faculty, researchers and students with a unique alphanumeric identifier. The ORCID ID is a non-proprietary means of establishing your author name and identity and can be associated with scholarly works such articles, books/book chapters, posters and videos; and professional activities such as editorial work or grant submissions and [Read more]

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Open Access Week and Digital Commons@Becker

By Evan Sprague, Amy Suiter and Cathy Sarli — October 22, 2018

Oct. 22-28, 2018, is Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year, which is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make open access [Read more]

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Scholarly Publishing Round-Up September 2018

By Cathy Sarli, Amy Suiter and Evan Sprague — September 19, 2018

Learn more about lab manuals, NCBI tools and current trends related to open access and publishing issues. The key to a happy lab life is in the manual. Nature. September 5, 2018 Mariam Aly from Columbia University in New York provides a commentary on her inspiration from Jonathan Peelle from Washington University about sharing lab [Read more]

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Spotlight on Washington University in St. Louis: 2015-2017 Publications

By Cathy Sarli, Evan Sprague and Amy Suiter — August 6, 2018

As follows is a brief overview of the 2015-2017 publications produced by authors from Washington University in St. Louis using Elsevier Scopus and SciVal. Scopus is a large database of peer-reviewed literature that contains 69 million publication records representing 25,000 journals and other sources worldwide covering the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities. SciVal [Read more]

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Tips for NIH Public Access Compliance: The NIH Public Access Embargo Period

By Cathy Sarli and Amy Suiter — July 10, 2018

The word embargo is often in the news but it comes up in the academic publishing world, too. “Embargo” can have different meanings depending on the context and that can create confusion. Embargo periods related to the media The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature and other journals have embargo policies that allow qualified [Read more]

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