Here is the ScienceInsider article: In 'Insurrection,' Scientists, Editors Call for Abandoning Journal Impact Factors.

Also take a look at the response published in eLife: "It is time for the research community to rethink how the outputs of scientific research are evaluated... ."

Based on a recent post in the UCB Science & Engineering Libraries News blog.

• Adding a date range limit to your search;
• UN-checking "Embase Classic" on the advanced search screen

Embase, including Embase Classic, is a primary resources for evidence-based medical research. Coverage is especially strong in drug, pharmaceutical, and toxicological research including economic evaluations. More details on Embase Classic: http://www.elsevier.com/bibliographic-databases/embase-classic.

As always to locate full-text articles, please click on the UC-eLinks icon.

If you have any questions, please let us know!

Leverage over 15,000 US data indicators in PolicyMap to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block up to a national level, as well as by creating custom regions, for their research and studies. The indicators are related to demographics, neighborhood conditions, real estate markets, money and income, jobs and economy, education, crime, health, and more. PolicyMap data can be presented as maps, tables, charts and reports that can be incorporated into papers, presentations, blogs and websites. In addition, students can upload unlimited amounts of their own address-based data for use in PolicyMap, and can share these maps with others.

Trial runs through mid-May. Feedback appreciated!

The Scholarly Open Access blog maintains a list of individual journal titles that meet their criteria for determining predatory open-access publishers. It is recommended that you not accept an offer to be on their editorial board, nor pay their author fees to publish in one of these titles! In the most concise terms, if you've never heard of the journal, best to avoid it.

Much has been written on this, including articles in The New York Times, Nature, and The Scholarly Kitchen blog.

BUT - it's easy to pick on these predatory journals (fake conferences also exist). It's also relatively easy to avoid them. Perhaps more important to get upset over is "the $10 BILLION DOLLARS of largely public money that subscription publishers take in every year in return for giving the scientific community access to the 90% of papers that are not published in open access journals - papers that scientists gave to the journals for free! This ongoing insanity not only fleeces huge piles of cash from government and university coffers, it denies the vast majority of the planet's population access to the latest discoveries of our scientists." This quote is from a response by Michael Eisen to the predatory journals fiasco. I think the argument boils down to, let's spend our (limited) energy on the more significant problems in scholarly publishing.

 

Each year, NPHW focuses its effort on a different theme, and this year's theme is Public Health is ROI: Save Lives, Save Money. The 2013 NPHW theme was developed to highlight the value of prevention and the importance of well-supported public health systems in preventing disease, saving lives and curbing health care spending.

The American Public Health Association (APHA) serves as the organizer of NPHW and develops a national campaign to educate the public, policymakers and practitioners about issues related to each year's theme. APHA creates new NPHW materials each year that can be used during and after NPHW to raise awareness about public health and prevention.

Check out the NPHW Twitter chat!

Take action on important public health issues!

Do you use Microsoft® Excel to record, store, or analyze your data? DataUp is a free, open-source tool that integrates with Excel to help you:

• follow data management best practices to insure your data are well-formatted and -organized
• describe your data in a standard format for archiving and discovery
• assign a permanent identifier so that your data can be cited
• upload your data to a repository for archiving and sharing

Carly Strasser, Data Curation Project Manager for the UC Curation Center (UC3) of the California Digital Library, has been working on the development of DataUp since the project's inception. She will be presenting a hands-on workshop on DataUp's features, use, and future plans:

Date: Thursday, April 11
Time: 11 am - 12 pm
Place: Bioscience & Natural Resources Library training room (2189 VLSB)

We hope to see you there.

This post originally appeared on the Science & Engineering Libraries News blog.