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PubMed announced a redesign of the PubMed interface. While retaining the robust functionality, the interface was simplified to make it easier to use while promoting scientific discovery. More features about the new interface. You can attend PubMed Redesign 30-minute Webcasts next week if you are interested.
How Can RSS Help You?
Many scholarly journals provide their table of contents or pre-print articles via RSS, often including complete article citations and links to abstracts. Furthermore, resources like Science Direct, PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, and OVID also offer topic alerts via RSS. But if you can receive the same information by e-mail, why would you use RSS?
Pubget—Get PDF Fulltext Articles from PubMed/Medline
Do you use PubMed/Medline to search for articles? Then you need to try Pubget. What does Pubget do? Pubget searches PubMed/Medline, it immediately retrieves PDF articles that the library has access to.
Top 5 things you can do at the library’s Web site
You might not realize you can do many things at the library’s Web site right from your desktop. Here are the top 5 things that are useful when you do research using library’s Web site.
Informed Consent Made Understandable
If you write, read, explain, review, or are otherwise involved with informed consent forms, the Readability Toolkit is an invaluable resource. It contains step-by-step guidelines for writing informed consents at a reading level required by many funding agencies (4th-8th grade).
MY NCBI: Beyond Saving PubMed Searches
My NCBI is a free registered space or personal account within PubMed, a life science database from the National Library of Medicine(NLM). NCBI stands for the National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI) and it is part of the NLM and the National Institute of Health(NIH).
Ethical Scientific Communication
Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing, a must-have booklet (about 60 pages) for faculty and students, contains many real-life examples and some exercises. While the author, Prof. Miguel Roig of St. John’s University, focuses on plagiarism, other scientific communication ethical issues are also covered: authorship, duplicate (redundant) publication, copyright, conflict of interest, responsible citation, and salami publishing. This resource is particularly valuable because of its emphasis on the sciences.
A printed copy is on reserve in the library.
EndNote Web
EndNote Web is a Web-based service allowing students and researchers to import and organize up to 10,000 references from PubMed, Web of Science, and other databases. References can then be inserted and formatted in a research paper using Microsoft Word or shared with colleagues.
