News and resources from the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at @ColumbiaMed. Our mission: Advancing meaningful engagement with information.

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We are planning to reorganize the content of the Library website so you can more easily find the information you need. This 5- to 10-min "card-sorting" exercise will provide us with invaluable feedback: ows.io/os/19pes39h. Please help us improve our site!
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Prof. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian @IllinoisLibrary: dropping the paywall does not automatically mean access, discovery & use. Why do patrons continue to request inter-library loan on articles in OA? @ResearchGate. Need better communication of OA. Libraries can fix tech
10 Feb 2023
We are honoured to have Claudio Aspesi, @lisalibrarian, Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz, and Claire Redhead (from @OASPA) discussing “Reforming scientific publishing.” Watch it live: un.org/en/library/os23 #OpenScienceUN
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How can we optimize clinical trial data capture in emergency settings and in the pre-emergency phase? @WHOSTP and @ONC_HealthIT want to hear your strategies for electronic data capture that can be used by a wide range of study sites that don’t usually work together.
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Very useful! How to write scientific article: Step by step guide for beginners 👏 sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #phd #research #researcher #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter
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Here's a Zotero Research Rabbit workflow that you can master in 25min to make your literature review process super-smooth:
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Today at 2 pm is the second of three virtual town hall meetings being led by @Columbia experts on the NIH data-sharing requirement that will go into effect in January. Today's focus will be on budgetary issues and concerns. There's still time to register! columbiacuimc.zoom.us/webina…

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Writing a literature review is not rocket science. Most scholars just don’t know where to start 🚀 Here’re four tools that will help you turn a literature review into an enjoyable process: #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdvoice #phd #phdchat #litreview
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The next @Columbia town hall meeting on the new NIH data-sharing requirement is taking place on Zoom this Friday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. Focus: Budget. library.cumc.columbia.edu/an…

"As editors we often find statements...declaring that the study was the first to do something, to explore something, or to come up with a particular perspective or theory. While these claims may well be justified, they raise concerns." rdcu.be/cYqeU via @advhlthsciedu

Still time to register for this important Columbia-specific webinar on the new NIH data-sharing policy, taking place tomorrow at noon!
Coming up this Thursday, October 27, at noon: the first of three @Columbia / @ColumbiaMed-focused webinars on the new @NIH data-sharing policy. Sign up to attend as many as you can! library.cumc.columbia.edu/an…
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Coming up this Thursday, October 27, at noon: the first of three @Columbia / @ColumbiaMed-focused webinars on the new @NIH data-sharing policy. Sign up to attend as many as you can! library.cumc.columbia.edu/an…

"One can ... engage in civil debate about how social determinants of health affect people. But there’s a problem when hateful stereotyping and inflammatory rhetoric enter the conversation." - @egottliebMD statnews.com/2022/10/17/upto… via @statnews

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Since the communication of scientific results begins with investigators, what responsibility do they have to ensure that the findings are communicated accurately? Howard Bauchner and @JAMANetworkOpen EIC Frederick P. Rivara have some thoughts. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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"APCs beget APCs. The more funds that are available to pay them, and the more researchers who have the ability to do so, the more journals will feel pressured to charge them." nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

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18 Aug 2022
5 years since the launch of the I4OC we hit our goal 🥳 i4oc.org/#progress 100% of the 61M articles with references in @CrossrefOrg have made their citations openly available (CC0). Please join us in celebrating this big milestone, stay tuned to hear what's next for I4OC!
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20 Sep 2022
Join us on 26 Sept (in Cambridge or via Zoom) 3-5 PM to discuss @eivinden & @MonaBaker11's Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics @CUPAcademic, w/ the authors & @jana_bacevic @KateMMcNeil & @jonathancgrant. More info here: gloknos.ac.uk/research/activ… @berytia @CRASSHlive
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