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