Springer offers free access to research articles on E. coli bacteria

Springer Science+Business Media is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform http://www.springerlink.com. The articles can be found by using the search terms “Enterohaemorrhagic and Escherichia and coli” or by using the link http://www.springer.com/ehec. A total of over 400 scientific articles are available to print out or download from now until 1 September 2011.

Where to publish?

SCImago

Many authors use Journal Citation Reports from Web of Science to find journals in a field and to get their impact factor. You can also use SCImago to find journal rankings and comparisions in all major reseaech areas.

Where does the Journal of Liposome Resarch stand in the field of pharmacology journals?
How does Ireland compare with the European average for journal papers published in pharmacology?
How many papers were published in neuroscience in the past five years and how many were never cited?
Has the level of international collaboration among Irish researchers increased?

All this and more at SCImago - published by Elsevier

Uniquely you - ResearcherID

Variants in the published form of personal and institutional names can adversely impact research ratings and bibliometrics. Consistency in the form of author name used ensures full credit for all published work.

ResearcherID is one service that uniquely identifies researchers worldwide and intregrates with Web of Science. There are over 540 Irish researchers using ResearcherID at present.

Personal registration is free: ResearcherID will display all your Web of Science publications, citations, collaborations and metrics.

Standards for systematic reviews

Systematic assessment of the comparative effectiveness of medical or surgical interventions is the basis of evidence based decision making.

Finding What Works in Health Care is a new set of standards for researchers who wish to conduct systematic reviews.

Produced by the US Institute of Medicine, the standards cover how to initiate a review, finding and assessing studies, synthesizing the evidence has released and reporting results.

My RI - your Research Impact

My RI - my research impact

An open access toolkit to support bibliometrics training and awareness. This package of resources includes videos, quizzes and an online tutorial In 3 modules: introductory overview; journal ranking; bibliometrics to support your career and research strategy.

A DCU, DIT, DCU, NUIM collaboration.

Publish or Perish analyzes Google Scholar citations

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics:

• Total number of papers
• Total number of citations
• Average number of citations per paper
• Average number of citations per author
• Average number of papers per author
• Average number of citations per year
• Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
• The contemporary h-index
• Two variations of individual h-indices
• An analysis of the number of authors per paper.


Publish or Perish (PoP) is designed to empower academics to present their own research impact to advantage. Each discipline or research field has different publication patterns and arguably the established citation indexes Web of Science and Scopus comprehensively harvest bibliometic information from science, technology and medicine. However Publish or Perish does offer researchers another option to calculate research performance using Google Scholar data.

The Publish or Perish website has a variety of interesting papers and reports about citation and bibliometrics. PoP is free to download from the site.

Over 700 free healthcare eBooks at NCBI

Access Full Text Life Science and Healthcare Texts Using A New NCBI Bookshelf Homepage

The NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) has released a new version of their "Bookshelf" homepage.

The Bookshelf provides access to more than 770 free (full-text) items including biomedical textbooks, other scientific titles, some genetic resources, such as Gene Review, and NCBI help manuals.

To the Bookshelf