Altmetric's Top 100 Articles of 2015

Altmetric, a company that tracks the attention academic articles receive through multiple mainstream sources, has published their annual Top 100 Articles of 2015. This doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the articles, rather it provides an indicator of what was widely discussed and shared online.

The #1 article is "A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance", published in Nature in January 2015. Number 4 on the list is "Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions", published in Science in January 2015. See the full list here: http://www.altmetric.com/top100/2015/#explore Many publishers have started using the Altmetric donut visualization (the multi-colored circle) on their websites to indicate attention a particular article has received.  You can install the free Altmetric bookmarklet on your browser and find the altmetric data for your own papers.

Access to older issues of Science

The Library subscribes to ALL issues of Science, going back to volume 1, 1880.

However, access to the older issues of Science requires clicking on the correct link.

We have both links in the Library catalog and in the Journal A-Z list:


v.275(1997)- from HighWire: Current 12 months restricted to TSRI network

v.1(1880)- from JSTOR: Restricted to TSRI network: Current 6 calendar years no access at this site


When you are on the publisher's site for Science you have access only back to 1997, even though you may see other years listed. You will not be able to get access prior to 1997 on this site.

To access Science articles prior to 1997, please click on the second link that takes you to JSTOR. This is a platform that had access to the Science backfiles before they were even available with the publisher. It is also much more cost-effective.

New Books -Fall

Ebooks Added:

Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook

The Consultant's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Delivering High-value and Differentiated Services in a Competitive Marketplace 

Handbook of Fluorescent Dyes and Probes

High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition

Java in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Multicomponent Reactions: Concepts and Applications for Design and Synthesis

 Print Books Added:

AIDS : the biological basis

Annual register of grant support, 2016

 

Biochemistry of lipids, lipoproteins and membranes, 6th ed.

Brock biology of microorganisms

The cell : a visual tour of the building block of life

Cognition: Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology, v. 79

Density-functional methods for excited states: Topics in current chemistry, v. 368

HIV : from biology to prevention and treatment

Information, entropy, life, and the universe : what we know and what we do not know

Intellectual property law fundamentals

Iron catalysis II: Topics in organometallic chemistry, v. 50

 

Knock 'em dead 2016 : the ultimate job search guide

The mitochondrion in aging and disease

Navigating academia : a guide for women and minority STEM faculty

Neuronal tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP): Sub-cellular biochemistry, v. 76

Organometallic fluorine chemistry: Topics in organometallic chemistry, v. 52

R graphics cookbook

Research in medical and biological sciences : from planning and preparation to grant application and publication

Retinal glia

SialoGlyco chemistry and biology: Topics in current chemistry, v. 366-367

Spectrometric identification of organic compounds, 8th ed

Success strategies from women in STEM : a portable mentor

Translational biology in medicine : models from aging, muscle regeneration and infection

Using R at the bench : step-by-step data analytics for biologists

Writing for science and engineering : papers, presentations, and reports

Access to JoVE

New access to JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments

The Kresge Library is pleased to announce access to three sections of JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments.

 JoVE is a protocol resource that shows you experimental techniques through videos instead of simply reading about them. The visual format can help increase reproducibility and cut down on the time it takes to learn new experimental procedures. Each video normally includes step-by-step instructions, a demo of equipment and reagents and a discussion of possible issues and modifications.

• JoVE Biology is a diverse section which includes cellular biochemistry, physical biology, genetics, physiology, systems biology, molecular biology, organismal biology and eukaryotic and prokaryotic model systems
• JoVE Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary section whose primary emphasis is methods and techniques related to the structure, function, physiology and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous systems
• JoVE Immunology and Infection is on trial access through 2016. Techniques deal with pathogens and therapeutic agents and range from the molecular to the organism level.

Videos are authored by scientists like you. Currently we have 7 authors from TSRI who have authored JoVE videos. Other videos come from Harvard, Cornell, UCSD, Johns Hopkins, NIH and MIT among a long list of contributors. JoVE is indexed by PubMed, SciFinder and Scopus.

We hope you find this beneficial to your research and the Library would love to hear any comments you have about this resource.

Science of Synthesis Update

Science of Synthesis (SoS) has released a new update.

New features include:

• Enhanced text search functionality
• Better Structure/Reaction Searching and Retrieval
• DOI's to increase linking to literature

Science of Synthesis has 4 short tutorials to introduce you to the new features. 

Science of Synthesis was written by chemists for chemists and "provides a critical review of the synthetic methodology developed from the early 1800s to-date for the entire field of organic and organometallic chemistry."

Here's a quick overview of SoS.

GrantForward webinar

GrantForward is holding a free one-hour webinar on How to Use GrantForward as a Researcher, on September 22, 2015 at 1:00pm PST.

Topics to be covered include:

• creating an account
• simple searches and advanced filters
• exporting grants
• saving searches  
• creating a researcher profile

RSVP for the webinar

The GrantForward funding database is available via the Library's institutional subscription. It contains over 9000 active federal and private funding opportunities. Search for fellowships, travel grants, early career investigator funding and more. If you can't make this webinar, GrantForward offers other online tutorials to be accessed anytime.

OVID platform- no access Oct.1st

As of Oct. 1, 2015,  the Library will no longer be providing access to Agricola and Medline via the OVID platform.  These databases are not going away – you will still be able to access them from other platforms, just not on the OVID platform.

Medline is available:

1. via PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's native interface for Medline
2. through SciFinder 
3. or through Web of Science, in the "All Databases” search tab 

Agricola is available free from the National Agricultural Library at http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/.

If you have set up email alerts in OVID, you will be able to access them until Sept. 30, 2015.  Library staff can assist you with re-creating these alerts in any of the Medline databases listed above. Or, for more information on creating search alerts, see the library guide at http://library.scripps.edu/keepingup.

For questions or assistance, contact Library staff.

New Books - Summer

Antiangiogenic agents in cancer therapy

Autophagy in health and disease

Biostatistical analysis

The care and feeding of an IACUC : the organization and management of an institutional animal care and use committee

Chemistry : the molecular nature of matter and change

Chemistry of hazardous materials

Chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction

The craft of scientific presentations : critical steps to succeed and critical errors to avoid

Current occupational & environmental medicine

Developmental biology

Enjoy writing your science thesis or dissertation! : a step-by-step guide to planning and writing a thesis or dissertation for undergraduate and graduate science students

Essentials of licensing intellectual property

The fine art of small talk : how to start a conversation, keep it going, build networking skills, and leave a positive impression

The grant application writer's workbook: National Institutes of Health version

Handbook of neurochemistry and molecular neurobiology. Brain energetics : integration of molecular and cellular processes

How many subjects? : statistical power analysis in research

The immunoassay handbook : theory and applications of ligand binding, ELISA, and related techniques

In search of cell history : the evolution of life's building blocks

Introduction to protein-DNA interactions : structure, thermodynamics, and bioinformatics

An introduction to statistical learning : with applications in R

Introduction to the practice of statistics

Intuitive biostatistics : a nonmathematical guide to statistical thinking, 3rd ed.

Life in Our Phage World : a centennial field guide to the Earth's most diverse inhabitants

The matter factory : a history of the chemical laboratory

Membrane structural biology : with biochemical and biophysical foundations

The mouse nervous system

Muscle : fundamental biology and mechanisms of disease

Niedermeyer's electroencephalography : basic principles, clinical applications, and related fields

Parkinson's disease & movement disorders

The portable MBA

Recent developments in biomolecular NMR

Scientific writing and communication : papers, proposals, and presentations

The start-up of you

Talk like TED : the 9 public speaking secrets of the world's top minds

Tandem mass spectrometry of lipids : molecular analysis of complex lipids

Total synthesis of natural products : at the frontiers of organic chemistry

Writing the doctoral dissertation : a systematic approach



Online Books Added:

Access 2013 Bible 

Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry

Autophagy, infection, and the immune response

Bioinformatics Data Skills 

Biostatistics Decoded

Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications

Chemistry of Bioconjugates: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications

Circadian medicine

Excel 2013 Bible

Foundations of Web Design: Introduction to HTML & CSS

Idiot's Guides: Digital Photography

Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition

Modern nucleophilic aromatic substitution

Modern Synthetic Methods in Carbohydrate Chemistry: From Monosaccharides to Complex Glycoconjugates

OS X Yosemite For Dummies

Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: Kinetics and Mechanism

Take Control of Pages

Using Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

Elsevier Downtime Aug.1st

All of Elsevier's online products will be down for routine maintenance on Saturday, August 1st for approximately 4.5 hours, starting at 3:00 p.m. PST. This includes journals on their ScienceDirect platform as well as the Reaxys database.

Science: Promoting an Open Research Culture

An article published today in the journal Science, Promoting an Open Research Culture, spells out some guidelines for publishing scientific studies. They aim to bring more transparency, openness and reproducibility to the results of scientific research.

Written in part by Dr. Marcia McNutt, editor in chief of Science as well as thirty other scientists, the guidelines come out of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee that met late in 2014.

The article goes on to say that the academic promotion system does not reward open practices and that collective action is needed across scientific disciplines to make changes.

See the TOP guidelines and standards here.

ACS Mobile Journals

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that institutional journal subscribers can now access the full text of their ACS journals on mobile devices.  They're calling it ACS2Go.

To access ACS journals off campus on mobile devices you first need to pair up your device while on campus.  After you do this, you can access the full-text for 120 days. Just repeat the process
again for extended access. It's available for Apple, Android and Blackberry devices.

Follow these steps:

1. Go to http://pubs.acs.org on your mobile device while ON CAMPUS connected to the TSRI network.
2. It will ask you to "install ACS2Go" on your device using the download button, and to add it to your home screen.
3. You can then browse or search for journals or content while off campus and off the TSRI network for up to 120 days. 
4. You can renew the 120 days indefinitely by accessing this site again from on campus.

F1000 Presentation

The Kresge Library invites you to attend a presentation on Faculty of 1000 this Monday, June 15th, at 1:30 p.m. in the Keck Amphitheater in the Beckman building. The Library manages TSRI’s site license to Faculty of 1000, which includes access to F1000 Prime and F1000 Workspace.

Dr. Cesar Berrios-Otero will focus on the new F1000 Workspace that provides for collaborative writing, reference sharing, and reference management. He will also talk about F1000 Prime, the article recommendation service with ratings of top journal articles from F1000’s faculty of experts in their fields, including several TSRI faculty.
 
With F1000 Workspace you can:

• Manage your references - from the lab, your home, even the beach!

• Save, highlight and comment on references via the web or PDF

• Collaborate on sharing references and building bibliographies across institutes

• Automate reference discovery - never miss an important citation again!

• Watch a short intro video on Workspace

New Books - Spring

Online Books Added:

Comprehensive Organic Name Reactions and Reagents

Dendrimers: Towards Catalytic, Material and Biomedical Uses

Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis: 5th Edition

Lewis Basicity and Affinity Scales: Data and Measurement

NMR of Biomolecules: Towards Mechanistic Systems Biology


Print Books Added:

The biology of cancer

Brain structure and its origins : in development and in evolution of behavior and the mind

The cognitive-emotional brain : from interactions to integration

Comprehensive enantioselective organocatalysis : catalysts, reactions, and applications

Connecting with companies : a guide to consulting agreements for biomedical scientists

Engaging ideas : the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom


Epigenetics

Guide to effective grant writing : how to write a successful NIH grant application

Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world

How the NIH can help you get funded : an insider's guide to grant strategy

Innate immunity and inflammation

Intellectual property in molecular medicine

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology

Making scientists : six principles for effective college teaching

Molecular genetics of bacteria

Mouse models of cancer : a laboratory manual

Mucosal immunology. Volume 1

Organic Chemistry - Breakthroughs and Perspectives

Organic syntheses based on name reactions : a practical guide to 750 transformations

The patient will see you now : the future of medicine is in your hands / Topol

The rat nervous system

Site-directed insertion of transgenes

To catch a virus

Virology : principles and applications

Lasergene 12.2 available

Lasergene 12.2 is now available for download from the Kresge Library site at:

http://library.scripps.edu/lasergene

Product Keys are no longer required.

Lasergene is a comprehensive DNA and protein sequence and structure analysis software suite. TSRI has a site license for the Lasergene Structural Biology and Evolution Suites, formerly called the Core Suite.

Although TSRI's license is for the *network* version of Lasergene, you can check out a license using the Commuter License Manager for remote (off-network) access. This manager is installed on each client machine in the same directory as the Lasergene or ArrayStar applications. You may use the Commuter License Manager to check out one simultaneous use of a license for up to 30 days. Once a license is checked out, the client computer can be disconnected from the network and the client applications will continue to function. Remember to check the Commuter License back in when returning to the network version so that others can use it.

For assistance downloading and installing Lasergene, contact the IT Services Help Desk on your campus.

For assistance using the Lasergene programs, contact DNASTAR. Contact information is given at the download link given above or go tohttp://www.dnastar.com

New JCR data and InCites

The latest journal impact factors are out! Check out the Journal Citation Reports database to get the latest impact factor for a journal you are considering publishing in.

You may notice JCR looks a lot different. It has undergone a major update and is hosted on the InCites platform.
New features and metrics include:

• Visualizations -  dynamic and interactive link and node visualizations that enable users to see the strength of relationships at both the category and journal levels
• Comparison Tools - the Compare Journals feature enables users to select journals and view comparative data based on various indicators.
• Create and Save Reports - users can save comparison reports as well as journal lists they've created that can be accessed at a later time so long as they've logged in with a username and password.
• 5-Year Journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.
• Eigenfactor® Metrics, comprising the Eigenfactor® Score and Article Influence® Score, use JCR citation data to assess the influence of a journal in relation to other journals. These metrics, based on five years of citation activity, consider not just the count of citations but the structure of the citation network.

For an introduction to the new JCR InCites platform and how to search,  watch these short 3-5 minute video tutorials.

Biosketch training

The Library will be providing several training sessions on the New NIH Biosketch format.

Seminars giving an overview on the new format are scheduled for :

• Wednesday, April 22, from 10am-11am in the Committee Lecture Hall MBB2N
• Wednesday, May 6, from 11am-12pm in IMM 1W
• Monday, May 11, from 11am-12 pm in MEM 1 EP (podium side)

Please RSVP for the overview sessions to Angela at amurrell@scripps.edu.

Two hands-on training sessions are scheduled for:

• Monday, April 27, from 11am-12:30pm in the IT Training room located on the 2nd floor of the Science Park 3050 building
• Tuesday, April 28, from 1pm-2:30pm in the IT Training room located on the 2nd floor of the Science Park 3050 building

To register for the hands-on training session on April 27 & 28, please sign up here: http://www.scripps.edu/itsadmin/training/index.php 

Select the date you wish to attend.

Specify if you wish to use a Windows or Macintosh computer.

The Library's NIH Biosketch guide has some useful links,FAQs and handouts to get you started.

New Biosketch format

The NIH will require use of a new Biosketch format for grant applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2015.

The Library has created a guide to help you understand the new NIH Biosketch requirements.

Key changes include:

• Extends page limit from 4 to 5 pages.
• Allows applicants to add up to 4 peer reviewed publications that specifically highlight their experience to section A. Personal Statement.
• Changes section C from Selected Peer Reviewed Publications to Contribution to Science. Applicants can briefly describe up to 5 of their most significant contributions to science and include up to 4 peer reviewed publications or other non-publication products, such as patents, audio or video products, data and research materials, databases, educational aids or curricula, instruments or equipment, models, protocols, and software or netware. Each contribution should be no longer than one half page including figures and citations.
• Provide a URL to a full list of published work as found in a publicly available database, such as SciENcv or My Bibliography.

Check out the FAQs for the new NIH Biosketch format.

Classes reviewing the new Biosketch format will be announced soon.

BrowZine -Keeping Up

BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad, Android or Kindle Fire tablets or mobile phone. It works by organizing journal articles and arranging these journals on a common newsstand. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines. Browsing journals is a great way to keep up-to-date in your field.

With BrowZine, you can:

• Browse and read journals: Browse journals by subject, easily review tables of contents, and download full articles, all in a uniform format - no more searching for pdf's in different platforms!
• Create your own bookshelf: Add journals to your personal bookshelf and be notified when new articles are published
• Save and export articles: Save articles for off-line reading or export to services such as Endnote, DropBox, Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero, Papers and more

Getting started is easy! From your Android, Apple or Kindle Fire HD device, find BrowZine in the Apple App, Google Play or Amazon App store and download it for free. When initially launching BrowZine, select our institution's name from the drop down list. Enter your TSRI email credentials and start exploring BrowZine!

Watch this short 2-minute introductory video below:

Synthetic Reaction Updates

Synthetic Reaction Updates creates e-mail alerts, keeping you up-to-date on recent developments in synthetic organic chemistry. It replaces Methods in Organic Synthesis and Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions.

Create an weekly or monthly alert by:

• reaction type (can select catalytic or stereoselective reactions)
• subject keywords in the article title and/or abstract
• author
• journal

Sign up for a free RSC ID to log-in to save your alerts in Synthetic Reaction Updates. For tips on setting up these alerts, check out the User Guide.

Grants database webinar April 16

The grants database the Library subscribes to, Grant Forward, is hosting a one-hour webinar on how to find grants on April 16, 2015 from 12:30-1:30 PST. It is a free webinar, but you do need to register here to attend.

To learn more about Grant Forward and other grant resources available to you, visit the Library's Grants subject guide.

SciFinder Seminar 3/31/15

The Kresge Library will host a SciFinder seminar on Tuesday, March 31, at 1:30 PM, in the Beckman building’s Keck Amphitheater on the California campus. Representatives from Chemical Abstracts Services will provide updates on SciFinder’s key features and recent enhancements as well as news from the American Chemical Society’s recent meeting in Denver.

The seminar will include a demonstration of ChemBioDraw Ultra, from which TSRI scientists may now launch a SciFinder session.

Following the formal presentation, the speakers will be available for additional questions. Attendees may bring laptops to the event for help with specific search examples or problematic structure queries.

The Scripps Florida SciFinder seminar is scheduled for August.

For more information on SciFinder as well as tips and tutorials, check out the Library's SciFinder Guide.

New Journals 2015

The Library was able to obtain access to a number of new journal titles in 2015 through various package and consortial arrangements:

• ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
• ACS Infectious Diseases
• Coordination Chemistry Reviews
• Current Opinion in Virology
• Journal of Biotechnology
• Journal of Proteomics

Plus, there are new Open Access options for two highly requested titles:

• RSC’s Chemical Science - will be open access and freely accessible to everyone from 2015 going forwards. RSC is also waiving the open access article processing charge for the years 2015 and 2016.
• Nature Communications -is transitioning to open access in 2015 with many articles available for free this year, but not all. By 2016 all new articles in this journal will be open access and therefore freely available to everyone.

Computer Ebooks

Did you know the Kresge Library has a large computer ebook collection? You can see the full list of titles under our Custom Collection. We have the ability to add titles easily, so if you search the site and see a book you'd like access to, just send the Library an email with the details and we should be able to add it that same day. We have 2 seats, so that means only 2 people can be using the collection at the same time. If you get a "session unavailable" message, just try back later. It's usually not an issue (but may be for a while after this post).

Here are some recent additions to the collection:

Bioinformatics with R Cookbook

Bioinformatics for Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications

CSS3: The Missing Manual, 3rd ed.

High Performance MySQL, 3rd ed.

Java™ in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Covering Java 8), 7th ed.

Java in a Nutshell, 6th ed.

jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Learning Java, 4th ed.

Learning Perl, 6th ed.

Mastering Perl, 2nd ed.

Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology

OS X Mavericks: The Missing Manual

Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd ed.

PHP and MySQL® For Dummies®, 4th ed.

PHP Cookbook, 3rd ed.

PHP for Absolute Beginners

Programming Perl, 4th ed.

Programming PHP, 3rd ed.

Programming Python, 4th ed.

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, 7th ed.

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, 5th ed, Video Enhanced Edition

Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, 5th ed.

Using Office 365: With Windows 8

Organic Chemistry I For Dummies, 2nd ed.

New Books -Winter

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

Alan Turing : his work and impact

Bioactive proteins and peptides as functional foods and nutraceuticals

C-c bond activation

Development of the nervous system

Drugs, addiction, and the brain

Electronic effects in organic chemistry

Endogenous ADP-ribosylation

From molecules to networks : an introduction to cellular and molecular neuroscience

Gold clusters, colloids and nanoparticles I

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, 3rd ed. -online book

The IACUC handbook, 3rd ed.

Influenza pathogenesis and control

Interleukin-10 in health and disease

Introduction to bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology

Isotope labeling in biomolecular NMR

Knock 'em dead : the ultimate job search guide, 2015

Knock 'em dead cover letters : cover letters and strategies to get the job you want

Knock 'em dead resumes

Leptospira and leptospirosis

Linus Pauling : selected scientific papers, vols I & II

Microbicides for prevention of HIV infection

Molecular machines and motors : recent advances and perspectives

Mutant p53 and MDM2 in cancer

Neurobiology of chemical communication

Organo-di-metallic compounds (or reagents) : synergistic effects and synthetic

Oxford textbook of stroke and cerebrovascular disease

Polyarenes I

Polyarenes II

Physiology of behavior

The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates

Ruthenium in catalysis

Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers

Transcriptional control of lineage differentiation in immune cells

ChemTexts - a textbook journal of chemistry

Introducing a hybrid peer-reviewed textbook/journal, ChemTexts. It was conceived in response to the long publishing time current academic textbooks take to get to market, as well as the inability to add new and updated information to them quickly. ChemTexts will be free for 2015-2016.

Some of the first "lectures" in this textbook journal include:

Crossing the bridge between thermodynamics and electrochemistry. From the potential of the cell reaction to the electrode potential

First-order differential equations in chemistry

Library catalog down, Jan.2-3

Our library catalog (http://scripps-libraries.worldcat.org/) will be unavailable from 9:00 pm (EST) Friday, January 2nd, until noon Saturday, January 3rd. This is due to our vendor, OCLC, performing hardware maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.