Category: Publishing

Information Literacy, Publishing, STEMM

PRISMA-Statement.org: Your one-stop shop for everything PRISMA

What is PRISMA? Published for the first time in 2009, “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement” (Moher et al., 2009) provides succinct and (relatively) manageable guidance for structuring, and therefore conducting, Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses. Evinced by the primary image on its Wikipedia page, PRISMA is known for its flow diagram, where authors illustrate the systematic process of screening … Continue reading PRISMA-Statement.org: Your one-stop shop for everything PRISMA

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Open Access, Publishing, Tools & Resources

Research Organization Registry

I work for an institution that is commonly referred to in a dozen different ways, among them University of California Berkeley (also with a hyphen, comma, or “at” after “California”), UC Berkeley (also with periods after the initials), UCB, California, Cal, Cal Berkeley, and just plain Berkeley. Even institutions that are referred to in less variable ways can change names, merge with another organization, split … Continue reading Research Organization Registry

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Data Science, Information Literacy, Open Access, Publishing, Tools & Resources

FAIRsharing.org

FAIRsharing.org is a curated, searchable registry of metadata standards; databases and repositories; and funder and journal policies that are relevant to specific domains or types of data. Figure 1. FAIRsharing.org home page. Accessed 28 November 2022 at https://fairsharing.org/ Background: The benefits of data sharing have been powerfully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic: shared data made possible the rapid development of public health policies, treatment guidelines, … Continue reading FAIRsharing.org

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Tools & Resources, Publishing

Retraction Watch Revisited

Retraction Watch Revisited The Retraction Watch website was highlighted in a 2020 Inside Science Resources post (Kipnis, 2020). Several features of the website were mentioned including the blog, the Retraction Watch Leaderboard and the Retraction Watch Database. New features of the website include the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker, a list of retracted papers on COVID-19 as well as the continued growth of the Retraction … Continue reading Retraction Watch Revisited

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Publishing, Reader's Advisory

Science Writing and Publishing

Peer reviewed journal articles are typically considered the gold standard in science writing, but students often lack formal training in how to write about their research and get published. Likewise, junior faculty and new scientists may need tips and direction in publishing and/or presenting their work. A good guidebook can help alleviate anxiety of those new to the scholarly communication process and avoid potentially embarrassing, … Continue reading Science Writing and Publishing

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Publishing, Tools & Resources

The Online Technical Communication Center

Writing and communication have not historically been a focus of STEM programs in higher education. Many students concentrate solely on the technical skills required by their program without developing these “softer” skills. A student’s lack of writing and communication skills can lead to trouble once they graduate and enter into the work environment that requires reports to be written, ideas to be presented to various … Continue reading The Online Technical Communication Center

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Publishing, Tools & Resources

Research Resource Identification (RRID)

In 2016 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to require grant applications to be reviewed with respect to reproducibility criteria (see Notice NOT-OD-15-103, Enhancing Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency). This policy was a response to years of increasing concern about the reproducibility of scientific results: One barrier to reproducibility is a lack of sufficient detail about the materials and tools used in research. A … Continue reading Research Resource Identification (RRID)

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Open Access, Publishing

ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID

“ORCID is a non-profit organization supported by a global community of member organizations, including research institutions, publishers, funders, professional associations, service providers, and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem.” In the scholarly communication landscape, creating your unique profile has an advantage of establishing your identity in terms of your research outputs and interests. Tools for building profiles can be grouped in three broad categories: researcher … Continue reading ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID

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Retraction Watch

“Try not to panic, but science can sometimes go wide of the target: in 2011, there were 38 retractions for every 100,000 papers published.  Retraction Watch, a blog founded by Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, and Adam Marcus, managing editor of Anesthesiology News, highlights such errors.” (What People are Saying About Retraction Watch) Since August 2010, Retraction Watch has exposed scientific mistakes and … Continue reading Retraction Watch

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