IHBI-TILS News

December 2007

NPG to publish genomes using Creative Commons licence

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Creative Commons licence for original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism's genome for the first time in any of the Nature journals.

The Creative Commons licence will enable researchers to freely share and adapt the
work, provided the original is attributed and not used for commercial purposes, and that any resulting work is
distributed under a similar licence. No publication fees will be applicable, and the articles will be available free of charge.

For more information, see the NPG Press Release.

 

Library holds and Intercampus Requests can now be picked up at your choice of QUT Branch Library

QUT Library now offers all QUT staff and students more flexibility where they collect their holds. The concept of the borrower's home campus dictating the pickup location no longer applies. 
You can now elect from where you wish to collect your library items, on a case-by-case basis.

NOTE:

• Items showing as IN LIBRARY will not be delivered to the holds shelf of that same branch library. The catalogue system will deny your request
• Items showing as IN LIBRARY will not be transferred between Gardens Point (V block) and Law Library (C block) and vice versa.

More information is available at on the Library website

 

IHBI Connotea Library
Username: ihbi
password: running
Tag your journal articles and websites and share.

 

OECD Statistics beta version launched

OECD launches a beta version of OECD Statisticswhich enables you to extract data from across different OECD databases for the first time. This is the first phase of OECD's Statistics Dissemination Project which will offer a complete service by mid-2008. Another new service called OECD Core Data will provide access to OECD’s most frequently requested statistics.

 

Journals ranked by impact: Multidisciplinary Science

See the November sci-bytes for a table that compares citation impact of journals in "multidisciplinary science" as measured over three different time spans.

 

Any queries or suggestions regarding IHBI-TILS News can be directed to
Stephanie Bradbury
ph. 3138-6078 or email
ihbi-tils@qut.edu.au

Essential Science Indicators available now

Essential Science Indicators is a very exciting new tool to use for competitive analysis. 

QUT Library now has access to Essential Science Indicators (ESI), a resource that enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science.  It provides access to a compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data derived from journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases.

ESI uses citation analysis to rank scientists, institutions, countries and journals, covering a multidisciplinary selection of over 11,000 journals from around the world. It also offers the ability to link from highly cited papers (in ESI) to the corresponding record in Web of Science, where, if available, you can view the complete article.
Types of useful data available via ESI include:

• most cited author rankings
• institutional rankings
• national rankings
• journal rankings.

Many tables also include links to charts and other data sets. A unique feature is a listing called Research Fronts, new areas of current science that reflect intensive research and breakthrough areas. Highly Cited Papers and Hot Papers are also included. ESI presents data from the most recent 10 years from 22 broad fields and is updated every two months.

ESI can be accessed from the Library Databases Page via the Web of Science link.
Your Liaison Librarian is able to teach and demonstrate ESI for you individually or for a group meeting.

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QUT researchers can publish in BioMed Central

Queensland University of Technology is now afull institutional member of BioMed Central. This means that all QUT researchers can publish research articles in any of BioMed Central’s open access journals without paying the usual processing charges. Payment of your article processing charges is covered by QUT’s Prepay Membership.

The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are 'Open Access'. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge.

Of the 180 journals published in BioMed Central, Impact Factors are available for 28.  See http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/faq?name=impactfactor.

When you submit your research to any of BioMed Central’s journals, it will receive rigorous and rapid peer review. If your article is accepted:

• It will be accessible to anyone with an Internet connection - open access means no subscriptions or 'pay-per-view' charges for original research articles.
• It is more likely to be cited, as it will be freely available to the entire global biological and medical community.
• It will be listed in PubMed within days of publication.
• You retain the copyright of your work.
• You will be able to view your article's access statistics, which average over 200 downloads per month per article.
• Your articles will be securely and permanently archived in PubMed Central.

All research articles generated at QUT and published in a BioMed Central journal are listed on the BioMed Central QUT member’s site.  To view BioMed Central articles already published by QUT authors go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/52949 .

When submitting a manuscript, either via a journal home page or via http://www.biomedcentral.com/manuscript, if you are within QUT’s firewall, you will be identified as belonging to a member institute and should automatically be granted an article processing charge waiver.  If you are not within the QUT firewall when submitting your paper, you can still claim a waiver by stating your affiliation to QUT.

BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.

For further information contact Stephanie Bradbury, or your Liaison Librarian.

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New and nifty interfaces for PubMed

PubMed's standard interface does not suit some specialist users, and there are now alternate interfaces available that enable you to do things like cluster results, look for links between results, or map terms to specialist lists of terms. Below are several new and interesting interfaces for PubMed:

• PubFocus: http://pubfocus.com/
  Pubfocus performs statistical anaylsis of the MEDLINE/PubMed search queries enriched with the additional Impact Factor information gathered from ISI Journal Citation Reports. It outputs basic statistical information on publications trends, publishing journals and most prolific authors including separate analysis ofthe first authors.

• GoPubMed: http://www.gopubmed.org/
  Your keywords are submitted to PubMed and the resulting abstracts are classified using GeneOntology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
  MeSH is a hierarchical vocabulary covering biomedical and health-related topics. GO is a hierarchical vocabulary for molecular biology covering cellular components, biological processes and molecular functions.

• HubMed: http://www.hubmed.org/
  An alternative search interface to PubMed which allows you to create and visualize clusters of related articles, export citation data in multiple formats, receive daily updates of publications in your areas of interest, navigate links to full text and other related resources, retrieve data from formatted bibliographic lists and store annotated metadata for articles of interest.

Others:

• SLIM v.2 : https://pmi.nlm.nih.gov/slim/
• ClusterMed: http://demos.vivisimo.com/clustermed

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Happy Christmas from IHBI-TILS team

Merry Christmas from all of us at IHBI-TILS. We wish you a safe and happy festive season.

IHBI-TILS team:

• Stephanie Bradbury, IHBI Information Manager
• Paula Callan, eResearch Access Coordinator
• Lynn Evans, Liaison Librarian, Health (Nursing and Public Health)
• Ann-Maree Graham, Liaison Librarian, Health (Human Movements)
• Peter Sondergeld, Liaison Librarian, Health (Optometry)
• Brian Rice, Liaison Librarian, Health (Psychology and Counselling)
• Dr Brendan Sinnamon, Liaison Librarian, Science (Mathematical Sciences, Physical and Chemical Sciences)
• Dr Nina Prasolova, Liaison Librarian, Science (Life Sciences and Natural Resources Sciences)
• Graham Dawson, Liaison Librarian, Built Environment and Engineering, Engineering Systems
• Dr Joe Young, Manager, HPC and Research Support
• Lance De Vine, Research Support
• Bernadette Savage, Senior Research Support Specialist, HPC
• Carolyn Young, Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources)

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