Altmetric's Top 100 for 2014

Altmetric has analyzed which academic papers have received the most "attention" online in 2014, as mentioned in news stories, tweets, blog posts and the like.

Check out Altmetric's Top 100 for 2014.

This paper in PNAS received the most attention in 2014, according to Altmetric.

GrantScoop trial

The Kresge Library has arranged a free trial for GrantScoop, a web-based resource for scientists who are seeking grant money. 

 GrantScoop "offers a curated, up-to-date list of private and government funding opportunities for basic and clinical researchers focused on human health," including opportunities for both U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens working in the U.S. It is written by scientists, for scientists.  

If you wish to try GrantScoop, instructions for creating your account are provided below. Once you are signed up, you may use a standard keyword search, a guided search, or you may enter selection criteria using 19 different parameters to identify funding opportunities the best meet your needs.

If you are currently a user of Grant Forward (the grant database that the Library currently subscribes to on your behalf) we would be most interested to learn which product you find of greatest value. The good news is that if the Library budget cannot support institutional subscriptions to both products, GrantScoop offers reasonably priced options for individuals (e.g., $25 gives you unlimited use for one week;  $75 gets you unlimited use for one month;  $400 gives you unlimited use for one year). For more information, see the FAQ.

To Access the Trial:

• Go to http://grantscoop.com
• Click on Create a User Account
• For Email, use your @scripps.edu email address
• For Plan (at the bottom of the page), select INSTITUTIONAL ACCESS
• The trial runs from December 8 – December 25.  We hope you find this useful in your work.

Please feel free to share any comments about this product with the Kresge Library, including suggestions on how to make it more useful.

New Books -Fall

Check out these new books added to the Library's collection in the Fall:

Bacterial membranes : structural and molecular biology

Career options for biomedical scientists

Computational methods for three-dimensional microscopy reconstruction

Effective academic writing

Experimental design for biologists

Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its founders

Lithium Compounds in Organic Synthesis (ebook)

Molecular biology of the cell, 6th ed.

Make it stick : the science of successful learning

Navigating metabolism

Nonuniform sampling : theory and practice

The organic chemistry of drug design and drug action, 3rd ed.

The polyvagal theory : neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communication, and self-regulation

Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology

Student solutions manual to An introduction to mathematical statistics and its applications

Windows 8.1 for dummies

Celebrating Jonas Salk

Today's Google Doodle honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the first polio vaccine, and the reason we have our neighbor, the Salk Institute.

With Dr. Salk's breakthrough on the polio vaccine the number of new polio cases in the U.S. and the world dropped dramatically. He even refused to patent it.

Read more about this historic moment in time from a UCSD alumni who got the chance to meet Dr. Salk.

Other articles:
Celebrating Jonas Salk's 'big life'

Jonas Salk: The man behind the science

Open Access Week

It's Open Access Week! A week to think about the future of scholarly publishing.

Here are some recent articles:

• From the co-founder of PLOS, an interesting read called The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing.

• Nature has a special issue called, The Future of Publishing, with many articles on the open access movement.

Chemistry Nobel Prize

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner  "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

Read the press release here.

Is Your Article Making an Impact?

Have you heard of altmetrics? Altmetrics are alternative metrics to traditional citation counts. They strive to measure the impact of a particular article by harnessing the power of the Internet and social media. Altmetrics gather data on an individual article from news stories, blog posts, tweets, Facebook or Google + mentions, social bookmarking and saves in collaboration tools like Mendeley or F1000.

If you want to see how altmetrics can work with your published articles, try the free Altmetric bookmarklet. Drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar and click on it when you’re in the abstract or full-text of a paper. Data on the article will appear in a small box in the upper right of your screen. Watch a short 40-second video that demonstrates the bookmarklet.

Many publishers are now offering some altmetric data on their websites, so keep an eye out for those as well. No one is suggesting these alternative metrics will replace the traditional ones, but it is interesting to see the reach and impact of individual research articles in the wider online world.

Other resources:

• Nature article: “Research impact: Altmetrics make their mark”
• Impact Story – an open-source tool to help researchers build “data-driven stories about their impacts”.  Here is a sample profile.
• Kudos – an open-source tool that “helps researchers and their institutions and funders to maximize the visibility and impact of their published articles.” Watch a two-minute video to see what Kudos can do.

New Books -Summer

Check out these new books purchased for the TSRI Libraries over the Summer:


Advanced practical organic chemistry


Anticarbohydrate antibodies : from molecular basis to clinical application

The antidote : inside the world of new pharma

Basic concepts in medicinal chemistry

Beginning PHP and MySQL : from novice to professional

Biophysics : searching for principles

Building biotechnology : business, regulations, patents, law, policy, science

Carbohydrate-modifying biocatalysts

Cellular and molecular immunology

Chemical information for chemists

Chemometrics with R

Design and strategy in organic synthesis : from the Chiron approach to catalysis

Drug discovery and development : technology in transition

Emerging imaging technologies in medicine

Essentials of neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurosciences

FDA regulatory affairs

Food and addiction : a comprehensive handbook

GPCR molecular pharmacology and drug targeting

The guide to investigation of mouse pregnancy

Hemostasis and thrombosis : basic principles and clinical practice

HIV glycans in infection and immunity

The hungry fly : a physiological study of the behavior associated with feeding

Inhibitors of molecular chaperones as therapeutic agents

In touch with the future : the sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality

Ion channels : from structure to function

Kuby immunology

Microbial biofilms : current research and applications

Modern Tools for the Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Molecules

Molecular biology of the gene, 7th ed.

The mouse nervous system

Nanotechnology for biology and medicine : at the building block level

Prescott's microbiology

Protein synthesis and translational control

Python for data analysis

Science and technology against microbial pathogens : research, development and evaluation

Statistical analysis of network data with R

Statistics for dummiesViral infections and global change

Structural aspects of protein synthesis

Ultrastructure atlas of human tissues

Writing science : how to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded

Your rights in the workplace

Ebola collection at Science

"Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of number of people killed and rapid geographic spread, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made this collection of research and news articles on the viral disease freely available to researchers and the general public."

Updated Chemistry Resources

The updated 95th edition of the classic reference, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now online. It contains 22 new tables and major updates and expansions, including a new series showcasing major historical figures in chemistry and physics.

To access the handbook:

• Browse the table of contents.
• Search by keyword.
• Search by substance or property (chemical name, formula or registry number).
• Structure Search—draw your structure using the Marvin Sketch Java Applet.

The Dictionary of Natural Products is a comprehensive database of 170,000 natural products that is continuously updated online. Data provided include names and synonyms, formulae, chemical structures, CAS Registry Numbers, extensive source data, uses and applications, physical state, melting point, boiling point, pKa and key literature citations. The database is searchable by text or substructure.

For more chemistry resources, check out the Library’s Chemistry Subject Guide

TSRI Ebola researchers lose funding

San Diego, California News Station - KFMB Channel 8 - cbs8.com

Dr. Ollman-Saphire: news video about Ebola

New Books - Florida

Stop by the Scripps Florida Library to check out new editions of highly used books that have been added to the collection.

• Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry, 3rd ed

• Atlas of Human Anatomy, 6th ed

• Basic One-and Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy, 5th ed

• Bioconjugate Techniques

• Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Discovery, 2nd ed

• Fundamentals of Enzyme Kinetics, 4th ed

• Guide to Effective Grant Writing, 2nd ed

• Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry, 29th ed

• How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 7th ed

• Introduction to Bioinformatics, 4th ed

• Lewin’s Cells, 3rd ed

• Medical Imaging Signals and Systems, 2nd ed

• The Molecular Biology of Cancer

• The Only Grant-Writing Book You’ll Ever Need, 4th ed 

• Organic Chemistry, 8th ed

• Physical Chemistry Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences, 5th ed

• Primer of Biostatistics, 7th ed

• Principles of Biochemistry, 6th ed

• Principles of Pharmacology

• Shaum’s Outlines Probability and Statistics, 4th ed

• Writing the NIH Grant Proposal, 2nd ed

• Theory of Addiction, 2nd ed

• Vaccines, 6th ed

• Wilson and Gisvold’s Textbook of Organic Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 12th ed

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Endnote Online Outage June 21

There will be an outage due to an upgrade to EndNote Online beginning Sat. June 21,  6 PM PDT for approximately 15 hours ending 9 PM, PDT, Sun. June 22).  This will not affect the desktop versions of EndNote, but can affect syncing to an iPad version of EndNote or exporting from Web of Science to the Online version of EndNote. Export from Web of Science to the desktop version of Endnote will not be affected.

If you use the iPad version of EndNote, you will not be able to download any PDFs stored in EndNote Online during this outage. Please sync your library on your iPad and download any PDFs you wish to access prior to the outage.

If you have any questions, please contact the Kresge Library (858-784-8705), or call EndNote support at 1-800-336-4474 (press 4 for Technical support, then 1 for ResearchSoft products).

SciFinder Seminar 4/7/14

SciFinder seminar, Monday, April 7, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Keck Amphitheater (BCC-1)

Learn about recent enhancements and key features in SciFinder, such as:

• Launching SciFinder directly from ChemDraw
• Grouping by transformations
• Refining large answer sets
• Or ask your own questions about SciFinder

Bring your laptop and stay for one-on-one consultations with Dr. Kaushik Patel, CAS Applications Specialist.

New Books - Winter

Adler's physiology of the eye

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, 2nd ed. 

Bioinformatics for Glycobiology and Glycomics: An Introduction

Molecular Communication

My LinkedIn®

Natural Products in Chemical Biology

Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th ed.

Powerful Phrases for Successful Interviews

Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual

Biophysics For Dummies

Biostatistics For Dummies

Instant Prezi for Education How-to

Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

MATLAB for Neuroscientists, 2nd Edition

Medical Imaging: Technology and Applications

Network Like You Mean It: The Definitive Handbook for Business and Personal Networking

OS X Mavericks For Dummies

Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

Speaker Camp: A Self-paced Workshop for Planning, Pitching, Preparing, and Presenting at Conferences