Fostering the discovery of STEM resources. All #InsideScience posts are authored by STEM Librarians in the @ALA_ACRL STEMM Librarianship Resources Committee.
Addressing social inequity and improving representation of historically marginalized groups has been a priority in academic libraries for decades, and STEM librarianship is no exception. One signif…
The NLM Dataset Catalog enhances the discoverability of biomedical datasets by providing a single search interface for standardized metadata from multiple repositories.
At this point (February 2024), most academic librarians are aware that ChatGPT will create citations to books and articles that don’t exist to satisfy a query. However, does that mean that ChatGPT …
OSF Logo” by Center for Open Science is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC0 1.0 Universal Open Science Framework (OSF) is a fully open access tool, for use in any discipline, whic…
Figuring out where to start when looking for datasets can be an arduous task for many students and faculty. Common roadblocks are buried information on government websites, limited access to datase…
Open Science is a hot topic right now, but it can be a little confusing as to what it all entails. Broadly speaking, Open Science is about making scientific research transparent and accessible to a…
I am a collaborator in my institution’s Responsible Conduct in Research instruction. After one recent session on data management best practices, a postdoc participant requested a consultation with …
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 (relative…
DrugBank Online is a free database that provides information on FDA-approved drugs and drug targets. The database started in 2006 in Dr. David Wishart’s lab at the University of Alberta, Cana…
Given that students at different educational levels are discovering ChatGPT and its functionalities, it is beneficial to demonstrate how to utilize this tool to enhance their learning. For instance…
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 (…
In March 2023, a student group at the University at Buffalo invited a speaker to campus who regularly espouses inflammatory rhetoric. Outraged and saddened by the speaker’s views, the campus commun…
eBird ( is a citizen science initiative created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. Through the website and mobile app, users can create a free account and contribute their bir…
ZbMATH Open is an open access database that indexes journals, monographs, proceedings, dissertations, conference proceedings, and collected volumes in pure and applied mathematics with database cov…
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…
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 als…
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…
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 …
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 inb…
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, th…