Scholarly Publishing Round-up September 2016

By and — August 31, 2016

Scholarly Publishing Round-up September 2016

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Mark your calendars for two upcoming classes.

NIH Public Access Policy

This session will provide an overview of the NIH Public Access Policy including the steps involved in complying with the policy, how to demonstrate compliance and the use of NCBI’s My Bibliography for tracking compliance.  

  • DATE: Wednesday September 14, 2016
  • TIME: 12:30 to 1:30 pm
  • LOCATION:  Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 214

Registration highly encouraged to save a seat.

NIH Biosketch

The session will review the instructions for creating a biosketch and how to use two NCBI tools for creating a biosketch, My Bibliography and SciENcv.

  • DATE: Wednesday October 12, 2016
  • TIME: 12:30 to 1:30 pm
  • LOCATION:  Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 214

Registration highly encouraged to save a seat.

 

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged the OMICS Group, a publisher  of academic journals, with deceiving readers about reviewing practices, publication fees, and the nature of its editorial boards.

Need guidance with selecting a journal for publication? See Tools for Authors: Selecting a Journal for Publication. Contact Cathy Sarli or Amy Suiter if you would like a report of journals to consider for your manuscript. We will need a title and/or a one paragraph summary of the manuscript. The report will include titles based on several journal matching tools, current journal impact scores, PubMed/MEDLINE indexing status, the submission method of the journal for the NIH Public Access policy, among other information.

 

The Clinical Impact of Medical Journals in the Annals of Internal Medicine reviews an interesting study on clinical impact of journals using citations to articles in UpToDate, a point-of-care resource.

 

SciENcv users can now create biosketches in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) biographical sketch format which can be used to apply for IES funding. For more information: My NCBI — Institute of Education Sciences Biographical Sketch in SciENcv. Note that if you have citations to publications in the IES ERIC database, you can populate your My Bibliography account with the citations.

 

One in Five Genetics Papers Contains Errors Thanks to Microsoft Excel. Science. August, 2016. Autoformatting in Microsoft Excel has caused many a headache—but now, a new study shows that one in five genetics papers in top scientific journals contains errors from the program.

 

Have your works been commented on by others? Check out PubPeer. PubPeer enables scientist to search for their publications to find post-publication peer review comments.

 

Science in Brief: Six-Word Stories. July, 2016. Scientists were asked to submit six words to create a story about the life of a scientist in their field.