In its place, you’ll find the new COS Pivot database.  Pivot is a major step forward for COS, combining a much easier searching interface with a new profile option for grant seekers.

Rest assured – your funding search still covers all the tens of thousands of opportunities the old database offered.  You can still search by title, sponsor, abstract, deadline, amount of award, and more.   You’ll be able to get regular alerts, share information about opportunities with colleagues, and track individual opportunities.

But click on the Profiles tab, and you’ll find that you probably already have a record in the database, so that potential collaborators can find you and vice versa.  Register with Pivot for your (FREE) account, and you’ll be able to update your profile whenever you please.

Under the Support tab, you’ll find videos and training materials to help focus your searching.  Of course, you can also contact our Ask a Librarian Consultation Service for assistance with your search strategy or updating your profile.

Your librarian can also help you set up a regular alert, so that Pivot automatically keeps you up to date on new opportunities and deadlines in your field.  Over 900 of your colleagues received emails this week with customized funding opportunities;  make sure YOU take advantage of this FREE service.

Try the new Pivot today

Request a consultation with a librarian

The death of a loved one or important person in our lives, through suicide or other traumatic event can be one of the most difficult and stressful experiences we ever face. With that loss comes a strong feeling of helplessness, loneliness and lack of hope.

Having access to the right tools to cope with our grief and loss is essential to the healing process. Recognizing this, Jefferson has recently formed JeffHELP, a campus-wide suicide prevention team. The group is currently in the process of determining ways in which it can most effectively support members of the Jefferson community who have experienced the loss of someone close to them through suicide or other event.

Please share your thoughts on possible services/activities JeffHELP could provide by participating in the brief survey below. The survey will be open until February 20. Your ideas and feedback will help the team better understand what services and activities our students, faculty and staff need most. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

Take the JeffHELP survey now.

The calendar provides users with an innovative way to find important dates in science, as well as events that have been specifically selected by Nature editors. Content includes:

• Conferences
• Training courses
• Careers events
• Journal publication dates
• International observances
• Congress
• Historical anniversaries
• Astronomical events
• Webinars/virtual events

Users can synchronize their personal calendar automatically with the events calendar using the iCal feed. Feeds can be tailored by a number of preferences including subject area, location and type of event, to match their interests. The iCal feed is supported by Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Apple iCal.

Visit the calendar

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TRI contains information on the annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment and is based on data collected by the EPA. Mandated by the Pollution Prevention Act, TOXNET TRI data covers air, water, land, and underground injection releases, as well as transfers to waste sites, and waste treatment methods and efficiency, as reported by certain industrial facilities around the United States. TRI also includes data related to source reduction and recycling.

TOXMAP contains 20,587 facilities that reported to the EPA TRI program in 2010, with 78,423 chemical submissions.  See the complete list of TRI chemicals required to be reported to the EPA.

TOXMAP maps the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) chemicals reported to the EPA, as required by the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA).  TOXMAP covers on-site TRI releases only and also includes EPA Superfund data.

Visit TOXMAP

VIsit TOXNET TRI

View the EPA’s TRI previous years’ basic data files

You were patient while we withdrew thousands of volumes of print journals (duplicated by our electronic subscriptions), and shifted the journal collection so that it now all fits on a single floor.

Over the next couple of months, we’ll be taking out the excess shelving, replacing the aged purple chairs, recarpeting the first floor, and replacing carpet on the second floor where the shelving is removed.

This is the first of two phases of Library space improvements. The second phase will involve the construction of 10 rooms for group study and will hopefully begin in May.

There will be some days when areas are unavailable, but the Library will always maintain some quiet study and group study areas for your use. We’ll post regular notices about the scheduled changes, so you know what to expect.

Thomson Reuters has released a new research report, ‘The Changing Role of Chemistry in Drug Discovery‘ in recognition of the International Year of Chemistry, 2011. By tracking pharmaceutical industry data over the past decade along with insights from industry experts, the new report forecasts the end of the blockbuster drug era.  In its place, the report suggests, a much more targeted, patient-specific approach will define the next decade for the pharmaceutical industry and the patients it serves.

Using data and analytics from Thomson Reuters’ Integrity drug discovery database, the report analyzes pharmaceutical industry productivity, patent data, changing dynamics in the new drug pipeline and trends in the use of biomarkers, among several other factors.

Read the report (requires free on-site registration).

Read the press release.

]]> http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?feed=rss2&p=2421 0 http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=2418 http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=2418#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:10:47 +0000 Ann Koopman http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=2418 RefWorks has announced a set of new features in its January update.   The new features will be available to you immediately the next time you log in.  RefWorks is the citation managment tool freely available to all Jeffersonians.

You said you wanted:

• Drag and drop of references between folders and tasks
  Streamlines your work and makes your RefWorks environment behave more like your desktop.
• Ability to share folders via social media
  Takes the concept behind RefShare a step further, to let you work where you want to be.
• Duplicate checking after import
  We’ve all been asking for this one for a long time.  Kudos to RefWorks for finally making it happen!

Log into RefWorks to see these and more new features in action.

The full release notes are also available.

Why?

The new lights are LED lamps, expected to use far less energy than the old lamps, while providing better light for studying.  When the project is completed, 111 carrels will be outfitted with the new technology.

You’ll also find power outlets accompanying these lamps, so you can plug in your mobile computers.

Other Green Projects

We’re paying attention in other areas, as well.  All of the withdrawn print journals, if unclaimed by individuals or other libraries, were recycled as paper.

And we’ve heard you asking for double-sided copying and printing options.  We’re looking for technology that will allow this with reliable performance.

Do you have ideas about more ways we could save energy?  Leave a comment on this blog, or contact Rod MacNeil, our Deputy University Librarian (Rod.MacNeil@jefferson.edu).

From the press release:

The new journal will feature interdisciplinary manuscripts describing original research, case studies and methods.  It is Springer’s  first open access journal to use a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum.  Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome.

The online-only format extends the range of acceptable data formats, including audiovisual formats, data reports, and extensive tables either as complete articles or part of the paper. There are no restrictions on the number of words or figures, and articles detailing statistically negative correlation will be considered.

Springer promises a transparent and fast publication process; if a manuscript meets the necessary scientific criteria as determined by peer review, the paper will be accepted immediately and without major revision. The only thing that counts is the high quality of research described. The peer review process is organized efficiently so that authors can count on a very short time to publication.

Like all other SpringerOpen journals, SpringerPlus will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution License. This means that authors retain copyright and all content is freely available in full to everyone immediately. Authors will be assessed a standard open access fee.

Visit the journal’s web page.

Read the full press release.

A new bill, The Research Works Act (H.R.3699), designed to roll back the NIH Public Access Policy and block the development of similar policies at other federal agencies has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives. Co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), it was introduced on December 16, 2011, and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Essentially, the bill seeks to prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grants to require that articles reporting on publicly funded research be made accessible to the public online.  That is, it would prohibit the NIH from requiring deposit of manuscripts about research funded by NIH grants.

The bill text is short and to the point. The main point reads:

“No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that — (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work.”

Several editorials and press releases have already appeared on the issue.  Here are a few:

• Michael Eisen, PhD, Research Bought, Then Paid For (New York Times)
• Rebecca J. Rosen, Why is Open Internet Champion Darrell Issa Supporting an Attack on Open Science? (The Atlantic)
• ACRL, Stop Making Sense (Library advocacy)
• Why Open Access Matters – articles for background reading from the Public Library of Science

Supporters of public access to the results of publicly funded research need to speak out against this proposed legislation. Contact Congress to express your opposition today, or as soon as possible.

For contact information and details on how to act, see the Alliance for Taxpayer Access Action http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/12-0106.shtml.

Note that 3 Pennsylvania congressmen sit on the relevant committee – if you are a constituent of Pat Meehan (7th District), Todd Platts (19th District), or Mike Kelly (3rd District), your voice may carry more strength.

No Delaware or New Jersey legislators sit on this committee.