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Category Archives: Publishing
UCSF at the OpenCon Conference
OpenCon 2017 brings together leading student and early career academic professionals from around the world to learn, network and advance open access, open data and open education. The UCSF Library is sponsoring Assistant Professional Researcher Samantha Hindle to attend the … Continue reading
Altmetric’s Top 100 Articles of 2016 – check out UCSF!
The company Altmetric, which produces those colorful donut wheel scores you see in UCSF Profiles and many publisher websites, put together this beautiful compilation of the 100 articles with the top Altmetric scores for 2016. Altmetrics captures attention paid to … Continue reading
Posted in Article, Publishing, Research, Scholarly Communication
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Looking for Journal Impact Factors?
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) ® is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 11,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 80 countries. It … Continue reading
The Library’s Pop-Up Consultation Services
Maybe you’ve researching a health topic but can’t seem to find relevant papers in PubMed and are too busy to make a regular appointment with an export searcher. Or, you’re having trouble using reference management software such as EndNote or … Continue reading
H-Index: What it is and How You Find Yours.
Journals have long been ranked in order of relative “importance” by their journal impact factor (IF), but that system has come under increasing criticism. There is a more general debate on the validity of the impact factor as a measure … Continue reading
Posted in Journal, Publishing, Research, Tools & Technology, Tutorial
Tagged Citation Analysis, H-Index, Impact Factor (IF)
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ReadCube Enhanced PDF Launches Across Wiley Journal Content
ReadCube is a free desktop and browser-based program for managing, annotating, and accessing academic research articles. It also allows users to enhance eligible PDF files with both the browser-based and desktop application. Once enhanced, articles have interactive citations, … Continue reading
Posted in Citation management, Publishing, Research, Scholarly Communication, Software, Tools & Technology
Tagged Nature.com, Publishing, ReadCube, Wiley
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EndNote Update X7.2 Provides More Features for Collaboration
EndNote has released it’s latest update, X7.2. The major new feature is the ability to use an EndNote online account to share a library with up to 14 collaborators. You’re also given unlimited online storage so you can store and … Continue reading
RefWorks Write-n-Cite and EndNote Updates
EndNote. Summer usually sees the launch of a new version of EndNote, so I suppose we’re awaiting news on EndNote X8. In the meantime you can download X7.1, an update for X7. With … Continue reading
New UCSF Library Subject Guide for Citation/Reference Management Software
The UCSF Library has now given our citation management subject guide a complete overhaul, taking into account new developments in this area and the increasing popularity of applications such as Mendeley and Papers. A new section helps you decide which … Continue reading
Posted in Citation management, Publishing, Research, Software, Tools & Technology
Tagged Citation Management, EndNote, Mendeley, Papers, RefWorks, Zotero
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RefWorks’ Write-n-Cite Problems with Mac OS Mavericks
If you’re a Mac RefWorks user, and are thinking of upgrading to Apple’s new Mavericks version of the X operating system, you should be aware that Write-n-Cite is not compatible with OS X10.9. According to the RefWorks Facebook page, currently, … Continue reading
Posted in Citation management, Publishing, Research, Software, Tools & Technology
Tagged Mac, Mac OSX, Mavericks OS, RefWorks, Write-n-Cite
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