Meet Our Experts program ending November 14

After four years, Dykes Library has ended the Meet Our Experts program. Effective November 14, 2014, no new publication data or profiles will be added to Meet Our Experts. However, the site will remain online and accessible until November 2016.
The Library Technology team will work with departments and research teams to transport publication data from Meet Our Experts to ORCID Profiles.
Departments that link faculty web pages to Meet Our Experts profiles may consider several options:

• Continue to link to Meet Our Experts profile pages until November 2016.
• Replace the Meet Our Experts link with a link to PubMed's list of publications. See an example at Biochemistry faculty pages.
• Encourage faculty to sign up for an ORCID Profile and link to the ORCID record. See examples here and here.
• Work with the Library and Web Services to explore other options.

Efforts moving forward will focus on identifying better tools and services for the researcher community. The Library remains committed to improving researchers' ability to get correct attribution for their scholarships, highlighting research collaborations, and expanding the visibility of KU Medical Center scholarships. Please contact our Research and Learning team with comments or questions.

Scopus Trial

Scopus, a cited reference, article metrics and journal impact factor database is available on a trial basis through September 9. If you are familiar with Web of Science, you can compare it to Scopus. Web of Science is available on the library's database page. Please give Scopus a whirl and see what you think.

SciVal Trial

SciVal offers access to author and institution research output. The A.R. Dykes library is hosting this trial through September 9th. With SciVal, you can build researcher groups, identify research areas, make comparisons to other institutions and countries, view publication sets and save your searches in MySciVal.

To get started, follow the instructions on the registration link. Please register with your full KUMC email address and a unique secure password.  To learn more about SciVal features, see the Help guide in the upper right side of the screen to view user manuals and guides.

Columbia Research Data Symposium 2013

A Research Data Symposium was held at Columbia University on Wednesday, February 27. Here are a couple of projects that stood out while trolling tweets and @robincamille’s notes .

Two innovate startups that especially stood out to me:

• Figshare.com
• Nanohub.org

Both are novel approaches to sharing research data and even, in Nanohub's case, analysis software. Nanohub is building a more community-focused platform for nanotechnology researchers. Figshare, backed by for-profit MacMillan publishing company, is open to all disciplines.

Both strike me as repository platforms that people might actually want to use.

Henry Stewart Talks has a new look

The Henry Stewart Talks website has been redesigned to make it easier to quickly find relevant audio visual presentations by leading world experts (including Nobel Laureates).  

The website site can be accessed at

www.hstalks.com/access/

As a licensed resource be sure that when you are off campus you have signed on to licensed resources through the proxy server using CAS.

For those of you not familiar, The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection provides access to over 1,500 talks each specially commissioned from leading world experts. The talks are in the format of slides with synchronized narration and are arranged into comprehensive series. The talks are ideal for independent research and for teaching including distance learning. For advice on how best to use the talks in teaching or for assistance in identifying relevant talks please contact beth@hstalks.com

Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related Research with Human Participants

Our colleagues at AAHRPP recently brought to our attention a new World Health Organization publication, “Standards and Operational Guidance for Ethics Review of Health-Related Research with Human Participants.” This document "has been developed for individuals and organizations involved in health-related research with human participants, including biomedical, behavioural, social science, and epidemiological research...In particular, this document is intended to provide guidance to the research ethics committees (RECs) on which organizations rely to review and oversee the ethical aspects of research, as well as to the researchers who design and carry out health research studies."
http://www.who.int/ethics/publications/en/

What Will ORCID Do For Me?

What is ORCID?

ORCID stands for Open Researcher & Contributor ID. ORCID aims to solve the author or contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID and other current author ID schemes.

As of 2012, 300 organizations had joined ORCID as participants. Dykes Library is excited to participate in ORCID and to help realize the potential benefits to KU.

Intellectural Property rights changing at Univ of Minnesota and Penn State

Pennsylvania State University and the University of Minnesota recently announced major changes in their approach to intellectual property rights related to their research mission. PSU announced that "Effective Friday (Dec. 16), intellectual property that results from industry-sponsored research no longer is mandated to be owned by the University." Hank Foley, vice president for Research, said "In short we are doing it because we consider the net present value of the interactions and relationships that our faculty and students have with industrial professionals to be very important and therefore greater than the apparent future value of the proceeds from such intellectual property." http://live.psu.edu/story/56887

Connecting E-science and Team Science: The Changing Nature of Research

Join us on November 18 from 1:00-2:30 PM in Dykes Library Room 1028 for the webinar "Connecting E-science and Team Science: The Changing Nature of Research" presented by the Medical Library Association. Topics include an intro to eScience, understanding research, collaborative science, and librarians' roles in eScience. Please register here

Please go here to see the agenda and list of presenters.

Center for Innovative Science

UPMC announced on Thursday that it will invest nearly $300 million to create a Center for Innovative Science "that aims to revolutionize the way treatments are designed for individual patients." Funded by UPMC and scheduled to be completed in 2014, the center will focus on personalized medicine and the biology of cancer and aging, with the goal "of developing new understandings of disease to improve patient outcomes while reducing over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatments."http://tinyurl.com/6fh37mp

NIH: recommendations on mixed method health research

The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday released recommendations or best practices for scientists conducting mixed methods health research. Mixed methods research combines the strengths of quantitative research and qualitative research. The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) identified the need for this guidance and commissioned the report.

AAMC announced Foundations of AAMC History online exhibit

The Mary H. Littlemeyer Archives, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), has announced that its digital collection Foundations of AAMC History, is now available at http://www.aamc.org/about/history/foundations.  This digital collection includes AAMC proceedings, position statements, member institutions's course catalogs, association bylaws and constitutions, and other historical documents that describe the early history of the association.

In Medicine, new isn't always improved

An article in Sunday's New York Times reports "In Medicine, New Isn’t Always Improved." The article reports, "It is an American impulse to covet the new and improved — whether it’s a faster computer, a smarter cellphone or a more fuel-efficient car. And in medicine, too, new drugs, devices and procedures have advanced patient care. But the promise of innovation can also prove a trap, a situation now playing out with dire consequences for possibly tens of thousands of people who received artificial hips intended to let them remain active." The article further reports, "A review of the medical world’s embrace of the metal-on-metal hips over the past decade — including interviews with doctors, industry consultants, regulators, medical experts and patients — shows how innovation’s lure led almost everyone to seize on a product promoted as a breakthrough without convincing evidence that it was better or even as good as existing options." http://tinyurl.com/6gwfmgm

Can science fix its own mistakes?

Carl Zimmer authored an essay in Sunday's New York Times on whether science "can fix its own mistakes." He quotes the late Carl Sagan, "Science is a self-correcting process.” Mr. Zimmer cites several examples of research findings that were questioned, but where no efforts were made to replicate the research itself. He concludes, "If the scientific community put more value on replication — by setting aside time, money and journal space — science would do a better job of living up to Carl Sagan’s words."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26ideas.html