News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
The 2015 Journal Impact Factors are now available via Journal Citation Reports. These are the most recent Impact Factors. The 2016 metrics will become available in the summer of 2017. Journal Impact Factors are a proprietary measurement of journal quality based on the number of citations publications appearing in that journal have received in the Read More …
The 2015 International Open Access Week will be celebrated Oct 19-25. This year’s theme is Open for Collaboration. Open access buttons are available at the WHSC Library Information Desk to show your support. What is Open Access? Take a look at this quick video: Open Access in Four Minutes Open Access Journals provide a model Read More …
Currently, EndNote X7’s Cite While You Write feature is not supported by Mac Office 2016. While a patch to fix the issue will be released this fall, there is a workaround so that Mac Office 2016 users can still use EndNote X7. Office 2016 users can use EndNote’s “Format Paper” option until the patch is Read More …
Learn how to use the My NCBI tool to create the New NIH Biosketch required for all NIH grant submissions on or after May 25. The Health Sciences Library will offer two workshops (April 17 and 29) demonstrating how to create the NEW NIH Biosketch and track NIH Public Access Compliance using the MyNCBI tool. Read More …
Please join us for the following Scopus workshop to be held at the main campus library on April 21. Be sure to RSVP as refreshments will be provided and space is limited. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/emory-scopus
The Scholarly Communications Office will hold several workshops for graduate students that address copyright law and author rights and responsibilities surrounding theses and dissertations. Attending one of these 50 minute workshops will help prepare for thesis or dissertation copyright concerns and inform future academic publishing endeavors. Beginning graduate students are encouraged to attend. The workshops Read More …
Emory University Libraries are celebrating International Open Access Week, Oct20-22. Visit the events listed below to learn more about the Open Movement which includes Open Access Publishing, Open Data Sharing, and Open Educational Resources. Additional information about Open Access at Emory is available on the Woodruff Library’s website at http://web.library.emory.edu/research-learning/open-access.html
Beginning with the late July release of the 2013 Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports now has a new look. Accessible though the top navigation bar in the Web of Science Database, the InCites Journal Citaiton Reports features heat maps and other visualizations showing journal impact as well as measures of subject and journal relationships. Current Read More …
The 2013 Impact Factors are now available via Journal Citation Reports. These are the most recent Impact Factors. The 2014 metrics will become available in late July 2015. Journal Impact Factors are a proprietary measurement of journal quality based on the number of citations publications appearing in that journal have received in the last two Read More …
PLOS journals have released a new data policy, which states “authors must make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception.” PLOS Journals will now require authors to complete a Data Availability Statement when submitting a manuscript, which will describe how author’s intent to comply with this Read More …