Identifying Scholarly
Publications
Learn
about questionable, scholarly open-access journals and publishers and their
predatory solicitation practices. Find resources that help identify
questionable titles, review criteria to assist in evaluating publishers, and
look at tools to help identify potential journals in which to
publish.
Publications by MUSM
Authors
Learn
how to find publications by MUSM authors cited in PubMed, Embase, and Web of
Science
Instructions for Authors - Biomedical
Publications
The
Mulford Library at Medical College of Ohio provides a list of links to
instructions for authors for more than 3,500 publications in the health and
life sciences. All links are to the publishers and organizations with editorial
responsibilities for the titles. The database can be browsed or searched.
ACCESS: No restrictions
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals
Uniform
Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (also known as
Vancouver style) from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
These manuscript guidelines were first developed by a group of medical journal
editors in 1978. They have been revised frequently and are currently followed
by more than 500 biomedical journals, which include many of the requirements in
their instructions to authors. Points include:
- Issues to consider before submitting a
manuscript
- Requirements for submission
- Citation formats for references
- Tables, illustrations, legends, abbreviations
- Sending the manuscript to the journal
ACCESS: No
restrictions
Citing Medicine - 2nd Edition,
2007
The
National Library of Medicine's style guide for authors, editors, and
publishers. This online edition is free and allows you to search
the complete text of the book. Citing Medicine provides guidance for citing 26
types of published and unpublished material, ranging from print books and
journal articles to blogs and wikis. Authors
will find this a great resource for producing reference lists as they prepare
articles and books for publication. Editors and librarians now have easy access
to authoritative citation information, and publishers may discover useful
guidelines to incorporate into their instructions for authors.
ACCESS: No
restrictions
Vancouver Style Guide - also known as
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Style
This reference style is the one approved by
the International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors. Many biomedical
journals require using this format, although some have their own variations.
Check specific instructions
for authors for the journal
to which you're submitting.
ACCESS: No restrictions
American Psychological Association (APA)
Formatting and Style Guide
APA Style is most often used for social
sciences research. This style guide is from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue
University and is based on the 5th edition of the APA Manual.
ACCESS: No
restrictions
APA Electronic References
Guide
The APA has its own guide for using
electronic references.
ACCESS: No restrictions
ISI Web of Knowledge
Includes Web of Science,
Current Contents Connect, and ISI
HighlyCited.com.
Web of Knowledge provides high-quality content and
the tools to access, analyze, and manage research information in the sciences,
social sciences, and arts and humanities. Use Web of
Science to perform cited reference searches, to find where an
article or author has been cited; find articles that an article has cited; and
identify more recent articles on the same topic. Access to Current
Contents Connect allows you to browse a journal's table of
contents for current and past issues; search the
databases
for published works by topic, author,
address, journal, and more; and use the alerting option to have weekly updated
results automatically e-mailed to you. You also have the capability of cross
searching both of these databases. ISI
HighlyCited.com gives you author biographies and
bibliographies.
ACCESS: MUSM faculty,
staff and students only. Not available off campus.
Selecting Keywords for Your
Articles
This
resources from the National Library of Medicine offers suggestions for authors
of journal articles who are interested in selecting MeSH descriptors (terms) as
key words for their articles.
ACCESS: No
restrictions
Public Access Policy for NIH-Funded
Articles
The NIH
Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published
results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal
articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central.
ACCESS: No restrictions
Citation Management
Tools
Using
citation management tools, researchers can: create personal reference databases
by importing references from online databases or entering data; use these
references in writing their papers; and automatically format the paper and the
bibliography. As web-based products, these tools are available to users across
various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. For training on how to use
the system, contact the Medical Library.
Open Access Resources
BioMed Central
BioMed
Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate
free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All the original research
articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and
permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access.
This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to
rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to
research is hindering rather than helping scientific
communication.
ACCESS: All research articles
available with no access restrictions
Public Library of
Science
"The
Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and
physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a
freely available public resource ... To realize this potential, a new business
model for scientific publishing is required that treats the costs of
publication as the final integral step of the funding of a research project. To
demonstrate that this publishing model will be successful for the publication
of the very best research, PLoS will publish its own journals. PLoS Biology launched its
first issue on October 13, 2003, in print and online." [from the PLoS Web
site]. PLoS
Medicine began publishing in October, 2004.
ACCESS: No
restrictions
PubMed Central
PubMed
Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's permanent digital
archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and
unrestricted. There are currently approximately 150 titles maintained with more
being added.
ACCESS: No restrictions
Directory of Open Access
Journals
The
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) directs readers to free, full-text,
quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and
languages. There are now over 1,000 journals in the database. The service is
sponsored by Lund University Libraries in Sweden.
ACCESS: No
restrictions