December 16, 2015

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.




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.

December 10, 2015

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.