Year: 2022

STEMM

Teaching Open Science/Scholarship Practices

What does it mean to teach open science research practices? An important component of open science (OS) is training and teaching OS practices in the curriculum (undergraduate or graduate) in order to instill OS practices in the current and future generation of professionals and researchers (Azevedo, et al., 2021; Strand & Brown, 2019). When it comes to teaching open science practices, there are various examples … Continue reading Teaching Open Science/Scholarship Practices

Sanja Gidakovic1 Comment
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

Elliott Smith2 Comments
STEMM, Tools & Resources

Epistimonikos: Dig in to Systematic Reviews

Systematic reviews, more broadly, evidence syntheses, collect and synthesize primary evidence in healthcare. Not only do these comprehensive documents save medical professionals’ time, they can also provide a higher level of evidence than individual studies do on their own. However, the sheer number of evidence syntheses (meta-analyses, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and more) published each year is beginning to render these time saving resources unmanageable. A simple search for epilepsy and cannabinoids on PubMed, limited to Systematic Reviews or Meta-Analysis, yields 37 results, 34 of which have been published in the last 5 years (since 2017). Continue reading “Epistimonikos: Dig in to Systematic Reviews”

STS Science ResourcesLeave a comment
Information Literacy, Open Access

Libraries and Undergraduate Research Training

University Libraries at Virginia Tech (UL at VT) has long supported students and faculty with a variety of formal, informal, or co-curricular undergraduate research (UR) training. Virginia Tech (VT) is a research-intensive (R1), land-grant institution with students participating in research projects across the university and beyond. Librarians at VT began to notice that multiple librarians were receiving similar instruction requests for sessions in support of … Continue reading Libraries and Undergraduate Research Training

Amanda MacDonaldLeave a comment
Data Science, Open Access

Getting Started with Text & Data Mining

Text & data mining (TDM) is quickly becoming a popular tool in STEM programs, but how do you get started? This blog post will help guide you with a general overview of TDM and provide links to open access data, subscription data resources, tools that will help you to analyze and visualize data and give suggestions to help you get organized. What is Text & … Continue reading Getting Started with Text & Data Mining

Kimberly M. ChesebroLeave a comment
Information Literacy, Tools & Resources

Explainers

Welcome to a somewhat normal start to the academic year! I am thrilled to see the students walking around campus again, but a bit overwhelmed by the mountainous piles of information flooding my inbox. I would imagine that I am not alone in that sentiment, so I promise to only add one rock to that mountain today – this post recommending two “explainer” websites. Shall … Continue reading Explainers

A. McCormickLeave a comment
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

STS Science Resources1 Comment
Antiracism, Reader's Advisory, Tools & Resources

Resources on Race and Racism in Medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic has made health disparities in the United States starkly apparent. Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people among Black, Latino, and Pacific Islander populations are more than 1.5 times greater than those of the White population, and among Indigenous populations are more than 2 times greater than those of the White population, according to APM Research Lab’s analysis of CDC data in the Color … Continue reading Resources on Race and Racism in Medicine

STS Science Resources1 Comment
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

STS Science ResourcesLeave a comment
Equity & Inclusion, Information Literacy

Creating Equity in the Classroom with Asynchronous Tutorials

Whether you are facilitating subject-specific instruction, or library and information literacy, one of the simple ways that instructors can bring equity into the classroom is through the use of online asynchronous tutorials (Webb & Hoover, 2017). The 2020 COVID pandemic sent the majority of campuses to an online learning format, but many were unprepared for the stress and hardship that caused both instructors and student … Continue reading Creating Equity in the Classroom with Asynchronous Tutorials

Kimberly M. ChesebroLeave a comment