Biology Library News

NIH Public Access Policy Overviews

The NIH Public Access Policy requires that investigators and scholars submit the final, peer-reviewed manuscript version of journal articles generated by NIH funding to PMC. Are you preparing a manuscript for a journal? Do you know the journal policy for NIH-funded authors? Are you preparing a grant application or submitting a progress report and need a PMCID? Do you know how to respond to a request from NIH asking for documentation of compliance with the NIH Policy for your publications cited in a progress report? Sessions are open to all NIH-funded investigators/authors, grant managers or support staff from both WU campuses. There is no charge for these presentations. The overview session is scheduled 3 times this fall:
-- Wednesday 19 September 2012, Noon-1:00 pm. Location: Medical Campus, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 213. Please send an email Cathy Sarli (sarlic@wustl.edu) if you plan to attend
-- Wednesday 24 October 2012, 3:30-4:30 pm. Location: Danforth Campus, Olin Library, Level A, Arc Presentation Room. Please preregister here if you plan to attend
-- Wednesday 14 November 2012, Noon-1:00 pm. Location: Medical Campus, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 213. Please send an email Cathy Sarli (sarlic@wustl.edu) if you plan to attend
More questions about this? Please contact your subject librarian, Ruth Lewis, for more info.

URGENT: What new journal subscriptions do we need for biology?

Recently I got some money to spend on new journal subscriptions. We've canceled a lot of titles in the last decade. What access do you miss a lot? Are there new journals you wish we had? What is really important to your research and teaching? I'd love to have your recommendations quickly; comments would be helpful but I'm more interested in a fast response. My deadline to spend this money is Sept. 10th!! Please send me your suggestions within the next day or two. I will work with the biology collection advisory group to prioritize suggestions. Email Ruth Lewis. Thank you for your help.

Olin Library Extended Hours Trial Period

During Fall 2012 and Spring 2013, Olin Library will be open 24/4, (24/7 during Reading/Exam Weeks). Circulation/Help Desk services end at 2 am; security guards will staff the library from 2 am-7:30 am. Fall 2012: 24/4 hours begin Sun., Sept. 9. | Spring 2013: 24/4 hours begin Sun., Jan. 27.
Open Sun. 10 am through Thurs.night/Fri. morning 2 am. Reopen Fri. 7:30 am - 8 pm; Open Sat. 9 am - 10 pm.
24/7 Reading Exam weeks: Fall: Sat., Dec. 8 9 am - Wed., Dec. 19 8 pm. Spring: Sat., Apr. 27 9 am - Wed., May 8 10 pm.
This is a trial in response to student requests. We will be tracking overnight use to help determine future hours.
Current hours are posted at http://library.wustl.edu/about/hours.html and on the library home page.

Reminders about library services as Fall 2012 semester nears

The New Faculty/New Graduate Student Reception will be August 27, 3-5 at Olin Library. More details TBA. Contact Ruth if you would like to arrange an individual or group orientation at some other time. The reception is fun, but a personal or small group orientation at a less busy, noisy time is probably the best opportunity to get your questions answered. Or check out this Orientation guide for tips for new graduate students and email your additional questions to me: rlewis@wustl.edu.

We are always happy to work with you to put materials on reserve for your students. Our eReserves systems works well with Blackboard or you may use it alone, without using Blackboard. We can also put paper books on short-term loan so that many students can share one copy. More information at http://library.wustl.edu/units/reserve/faculty.html.

I am eager to work with faculty and students. Here are a few services I can provide: tailor library research guides for a particular assignment or class, present workshops on particular databases or library search challenges, add myself to your class in Blackboard in order to monitor a discussion, meet with students in groups or individually (drop-ins or appointments). I'm happy to discuss other ideas! Please let me know how I can help. Contact Ruth Lewia at email rlewis@wustl.edu, phone: 935-4819 or chat from http://libguides.wustl.edu/biology.

Chat with Ruth now available (sometimes)

I now have a chat widget on my research guides, such as libguides.wustl.edu/biology. It works just like the AskUs Chat at the top of all library web pages and the catalog, except AskUs goes to whoever is "on duty" (sometimes me) and the chat on my research guides will only find me (when I am at my desk.) Email, phone or asking for me at the front desk in Olin Library continue to be very good ways to reach me also!

Biology Spring 2012 Dissertations

Many of these are now available in Open Scholarship. Electronic Theses and Dissertations is the new site for this collection. This search link should retrieve most of them for easy browsing, however since it's based on keyword searching you also get dissertations from other departments that include the word "biology" in their descriptions. If you want to refine the search, click on Show Search and revise the strategy.

Some Biology Faculty Publications now freely available in Open Scholarship

You may remember that "Open Scholarship" Repository [was] Launched in March. We are now beginning to work out procedures for getting faculty publications freely available there, when copyright transfer agreements allow and when faculty want their publications included. Please Contact Ruth Lewis if you want your recent publications included in Open Scholarship. I will check your publishers' policies and do the submissions where I can and get back with you if there are questions or if I need a preprint or postprint (where use of publisher PDF's is not allowed). Go to http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bio_facpubs/ and see what's there so far! We are really just beginning to explore potential uses for this platform so I would love to hear your questions and ideas!

Ethnographic Video Online trial

We have trial access to Ethnographic Video Online; this resource currently includes 803 anthropological videos. Some browsable subjects are Genetics, Environment, Biological Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Primates, and much more. We do not yet offer off-campus access to WU users. If you have comments about this resource, please send them to Ruth Lewis. We hope to have full access for all WU users soon.

Zotero or Mendeley classes in May

With Zotero or Mendeley you can easily:
- Gather citations from databases, catalogs, Google Scholar, and more!
- Keep your citations and PDFs in check with folders and tags.
- Insert citations into your papers, fully formatted in APA, MLA, Chicago, and thousands of other styles.
- Share your sources by creating research groups, all accessible on the web.
- And much more!
More information: How to Choose: Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote
Sign up for classes: http://wulibraries.doattend.com/

WUSTL Open Scholarship Repository

Washington University Libraries introduce Open Scholarship repository I hope to have more information about submitting materials soon. Meanwhile WUSTL dissertations and theses 2009+ and some student papers, including selected Biology senior honors theses from 2011 are included in openscholarship.wustl.edu.