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.