Becker Blog

Scholarly Publishing

NIH Encourages Use of Preprints and Other Interim Research Products

By Cathy Sarli and Amy Suiter — March 27, 2017

A new notice from the NIH (Reporting Preprints and Other Interim Research Products, NOT-OD-17-050) indicates that interim research products, including preprints, can soon be cited where other research products are cited. This includes the NIH Biosketch and Section C of the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR), among others. The change is effective for all applications [Read more]

Archives and Rare Books

Traces of the Past: Archival Research on an “Angel of Bataan”

By Caitlin Crane — March 23, 2017

One of my favorite parts of my job as a project archivist at Becker Medical Library is discovering individuals’ stories from the past.

Announcements

Join us at the Health Happening on March 14

By Mychal Voorhees — March 10, 2017

Stop by and see us at the School of Medicine's annual Health Happening on Tuesday, March 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Archives and Rare Books

Washington University Medical Alumni Quarterly now digitized for open access

By Stephen Logsdon — March 7, 2017

All 54 issues of the Washington University Medical Alumni Quarterly spanning the years 1937-1951 are now available online via Digital Commons@Becker.

Scholarly Publishing

Scholarly Publishing Round-up March 2017

By Cathy Sarli and Amy Suiter — March 3, 2017

Learn about correcting records for your works in PubMed, upcoming classes on the NIH Policy, My Bibliography and the NIH Biosketch, and pre-prints.

Science and Informatics

ChemOffice Professional Software Freely Available Campus-wide

By Maze Ndukum — March 3, 2017

Olin Library has renewed the ChemOffice Professional site license and continues to make it freely available to all in the Washington University community.

Mastering Information

Try a trial version of the Read by QxMD mobile app

By Angela Hardi — February 24, 2017

Archives and Rare Books

Joseph Jules Dejerine and Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke: Advancing Neurology at the Dawn of the 20th Century

By Martha Riley — February 24, 2017

Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849-1917), a French neurologist whose research focused early on the anatomy and pathology of the nervous system, and later on psychoneurosis, died 100 years ago on February

Staff News

Becker Librarian Quoted in Science Article on Measuring Academic Performance

By Becker Staff — February 15, 2017

Cathy Sarli, a senior librarian at Becker Medical Library who focuses on scholarly publishing support, is quoted in a feature titled “New tools for measuring academic performance” published in the February 10, 2017, issue of Science. Sarli specializes in analyzing the impact of research and is a principal author of the Becker Model for Assessing Research [Read more]

Scholarly Publishing

Selecting a Journal for Publication Class

By Cathy Sarli and Amy Suiter — February 9, 2017

Are you considering submitting a manuscript for publication but on the fence as to which journal to submit to?

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