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.