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A FAQ for the U of Illinois Bio/Ag researcher!
Prof. Katie Newman, Biotechnology Librarian – http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/
florador@illinois.edu – 217-265-5386 – Rm. 2130 Inst. for Genomic Biology
Quick Links…
Homepage for the U of Illinois Library ................................................................................................. http://www.library.illinois.edu/
Homepage for the Biotechnology Information Center .............................................................. http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/
U of I Library Online Catalog ..................................................................................................... http://www.library.illinois.edu/catalog/
U of I Easy Search (search multiple literature dbs at once) .............. http://search.grainger.illinois.edu/searchaid2/searchassist.asp
E-Journals at U of I ........................................................................................................... http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/?mode=J
E-Journals at UIC (accessible w/in the Health Sci Library) ....................................... http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/journals
Article Indexes & Abstracts at U of I ................................................................................. http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/?mode=A
Accessing library resources from off-campus
Use Library Links
In order to access e-journals and library databases from off-campus, you should use the links provided from the U of
I Library’s Online Research Resources (ORR) site, http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/. All the resources in the ORR
have been registered in a database, with the proper proxy server address incorporated in the URL. When you click
on these links from off campus, you’ll be routed through a campus proxy server (Bluestem or Shibboleth), where you
can authenticate yourself as a legitimate U of I affiliate by entering your net ID (found on the I-card) & password.
Usually you’ll just have to authenticate yourself once per browser session.
If you want to bookmark various resources, use the URLs from the ORR for that, too. You’ll find that the URL for
some oft-used resources is not what you might think it would be! For example:
Biological Abstracts: ........................................................................ http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=517749
Web of Science: .............................................................................. http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258127
Faculty of 1000:............................................................................... http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=226365
PubMed: .......................................................................................... http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=406312
Journal of Biological Chemistry [JBC]: ................................................ http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=6673
Nature ............................................................................................. http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=299585
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS]: ............. http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=28317
Science: .............................................................................................. http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=5114
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology: .......................................... http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=325551
VPN
Alternatively, for many of our resources you can set your off-campus computer to work as if you were virtually oncampus! For this, you will need to download a small VPN (Virtual Private Network) client and install it on your
computer. See instructions: http://www.cites.illinois.edu/vpn/. Once you have logged into the VPN, most library
resources will be available to you as if you were located in your campus office.
Customize Google Scholar
If you’re a fan of Google Scholar, you’ll also want to customize Google Scholar so Discover links from it will lead to
the full text of journals when you are off-campus. Instructions are below, in the section about the Discover Button.
PubMed
Although not the most comprehensive database, many researchers are accustomed to using PubMed for many of
their research citations. It is particularly important that you use the Library’s URL to access PubMed since that URL
has been created to incorporate a code that will let you see the e-journals for which the U of I has access. This URL
will also allow you to see the articles that have been recommended as ‘must reads’ in the Faculty of 1000 database.
The standard PubMed URL, which is freely available to the whole wide world, is:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
But to be recognized at the NCBI site as a U of I user, and thus to see the U of I-specific e-journal links, F1000 links,
and to be able to access the U of I e-journals from off-campus, you should use this URL instead for PubMed:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=406312
which will expand to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/pubmed?otool=uiuclib&holding=uiuclib,f1000,deepblue
Note: While many researchers find most of what they need in PubMed, please also investigate these databases:
Web of Science; SciFinder Scholar; Biological Abstracts; CAB abstracts; Scopus. Learn about these dbs (and a few
more) from this 2-page flyer, Selected Journal Indexes for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Topics.
PubMed Alternative: Pubget
If you are a regular user of PubMed, you’ll want to give Pubget a try! One of the advantages of Pubget is that the
pdfs for available journals are immediately visible on the screen, allowing you to scan more than the title / abstract to
determine if the article is of interest! Link: http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=983930
Obtaining books or journal articles
Obtaining Books:
First, check to see if the book is available electronically!
More and more the Library is buying books in electronic format rather than in print. This is particularly true in the
sciences for books published by Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
The most comprehensive place to search for e-books is Easy Search.
http://search.grainger.illinois.edu/searchaid2/searchassist.asp
Second, check to see if the book is available on campus! Search the U of Illinois Library Catalog:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/catalog/
If it is, request delivery to your office via the Campus Mail option (faculty & graduate students). Just click on
“request”, and log in (see next note).
Note: we have TWO interfaces for our Online catalog, the Library Catalog and the Classic Catalog.
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For most purposes the Library Catalog will work fine and is faster.
http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/
To request items using the Library Catalog, register (providing your 14 digit U of Illinois Library ID
& lastname; and provide your own preferred login and password). Thereafter you will just need to
use your own login/password to login.
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The older Classic Catalog is still available, too. To request items from it you will need to provide
your Library ID and lastname every time. http://www.library.illinois.edu/catalog/
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Here’s a longer explanation of the differences: http://www.library.illinois.edu/catalog/vufind/
Third, check I-Share: Find the book in another Illinois academic library
If your search fails in the U of Illinois Catalog (or you find that our copy is checked out), click on the link to
“Repeat search in All I-SHARE Libraries” (I-SHARE is the name of a consortia of Illinois academic libraries). If
you locate another copy of the book, click on “Request”. You’ll need to login using the 14-digit U of Illinois library ID
number located on your I-card; then specify that your home library is the U of I. Choose to have the book delivered to
your office (faculty/graduate students) or to a convenient U of I library (undergrads). You will be subject to the
checkout rules of the lending library, so be sure to return the book before it is due, or keep renewing it online!
Fourth, request the book from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) if the book isn’t available from another I-SHARE
library… Use the Library’s Interlibrary Loan service. Usually there is a 5-8 day turnaround. For most requests,
there is not a fee for this service. The online form for requesting books (or journal articles) is at:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/irrc/.
Tip: Alternatively, use WorldCat to request books from ILL
Instead of manually filling in an ILL form to request a book we don’t have, you may search WorldCat for the
book, which allows you to request delivery without having to fill in a form with the bibliographic information for the
book – it will be filled in for you! To get into WorldCat, go the library homepage (http://www.library.illinois.edu),
click on “Library Catalog”, and then “WorldCat”. After you have found the book you need in WorldCat, just click
on the link to “Request a Loan (not articles)” and fill in your netID and password.
You can RENEW books online, too!
Via the U of I Online Catalog, http://www.library.Illinois.edu/catalog/, you can review your check-out record and renew
your books! When in the Library Catalog: Login (using the login/password that you established when you set up
your profile), click on “Checked out Items”, and choose which to renew.
Electronic Reference Books for Biologists
http://uiuc.libguides.com/lifesciencesreferences
Locally we have created a listing of many useful “Reference” books that are available for your use online -dictionaries, encyclopedias, lab manuals, writing style manuals, etc. This list includes such “books” as Current
Protocols in Molecular Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, Nature Protocols, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics,
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Men & Women of Science, Methods in Enzymology, the Springer books, and many
other titles.
Obtaining Journal articles:
If you know the citation for an article, and need to read the article…
First, check to see if the U of I has an electronic version of the journal. To do this, go to the ORR:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/ .
Or, add the citation elements to our Journal and Article Locator, http://search.grainger.uiuc.edu/linker/ .
Second, if we don’t have an electronic version, check the Library Catalog to see if we have a print
version, http://www.library.illinois.edu/catalog/.
Third, if the U of I doesn’t hold a subscription (print / electronic), check to see if UIC has an electronic
subscription. If they do, you may want to go to the Health Sciences Library (102 Medical Sciences Building),
which is part of UIC not the U of I, and print off or view a copy of the article there! Their online list is at:
http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/journals; their catalog is at http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/books.
Fourth, request the article from the Library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/irrc/.
Usually ILL requested articles will be provided to you electronically as PDF files, with notification by e-mail within
7-10 days, or less. You will need your Net ID and password, your Borrower Identification Number (14-digit
Library # usually located above the bar code on your I-card), and the complete citation to make a request. Note:
you can also use the DISCOVER button to request materials from ILL; see “Discover”, below.
For a “rush” journal request, if the article was published after 1994, you can come in person to a U of I library
during its reference hours. They will try to request the article from the British Lending Library for you, with
delivery within 24 hours. There is currently no fee for this service.
If you don’t know the citation for an article, but know the author of the article, or the subject
matter…
Use one of the biological indexes to find the full citation for the article(s). Many of the Bio-Ag indexes have links
directly to the full text of articles, or have “Discover” links, which will lead you to the full text of articles. See
below for more information about the “Discover Button”.
For a listing of the indexes you might want to use, please refer to the flyer, “Selected Journal Indexes for
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology Topics”, which is available on the web at:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/biotech/docs/Flyer-BiotechIndexes.pdf
Database news
Auto-alerts
Have your searches run in a database automatically, whenever the database is updated, and the results sent to you
via e-mail! Use auto-alerts to keep up-to-date on the research in a particular area, keep track of your colleagues’
research, or to receive the table of contents of selected publications. These are available from most databases and
journal publishers. Below are instructions for setting up alerts in Web of Science and PubMed and several
publishers. Other useful databases to set up alerts in include Scopus, CAB Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, and
SciFinder; just register, create a search, and save it as an alert!
Auto-alerts from Web of Science [or FSTA, CAB Abstracts, or Biological Abstracts].
Since Web of Science is multidisciplinary, covering all the major journals in most disciplines, and is updated weekly,
this is a terrific service! To set up an alert in Web of Science:
First, you must "register":
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To register, from the first Web of Science page click on the link to "sign in or register":
http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258127
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Now click on the "Register” link.
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Enter your email address and a password of your choosing.
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You are now registered and can save searches and set up alerts from Web of Science.
After you have logged in, you're ready to set up an alert:
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From the main Web of Science page, create a search strategy using either the “Quick Search” or the
“General Search” option. Run your search.
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Click on "Search History" [If you haven't already logged in, you'll be prompted to do so at this time.]
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If you've created several searches, the auto-alert will only be run against your most recently created search
(the one on the top of the Search History). So you may need to re-type an earlier search to force it to the
top.
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Click on "Save History/Create an Alert". Give your search a name, a description, and check the box, "Send
me e-mail alerts".
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Select an email format -- I'd recommend HTML, if your email program supports this, since this format will
include links back to the Web of Science database, so you can take advantage of the various links available
within the database.
Select frequency - I'd recommend weekly, since that's how often the database is updated.
Click on the "Save” button.
Now, each week, you'll receive an email the with new results of your search, with embedded links back into
the Web of Science database
You may create as many alerts as you need. E.g., you may want alerts based on author names, journal
names, as well as topical searches.
Auto-alerts from PubMed, GenBank, or other NCBI resources.
Recently it became possible to set up auto-alerts to run against the NCBI resources such as GenBank and PubMed.
PubMed is most likely the one you’ll want to use to set up an alert, so you’ll be notified of new articles in your subject
area, or written by particular scientists.
First, you must “register” :
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To register, from the main PubMed page, http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=406312
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Click on the link to “MyNCBI”
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You can either “register for an account” link and provide the information requested, or you can log in via your
U of I NetID, using the Partner Organization option.
After you have logged in, you’re ready to set up an alert:
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From the main PubMed page, create a search, and then click on “Save Search”.
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Choose a name for the search, and elect to receive email updates.
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Fill in the rest of the information requested – I’d recommend receiving the alerts weekly, in HTML format if
your email supports this. I usually set the number of results to send to the maximum number.
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Now, each week, you'll receive an email the with new results of your search, with embedded links back into
the PubMed database
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You may create as many alerts as you need.
Publisher-based Auto-alerts.
Many publishers and journals also allow you to set up “auto-alerts” for their journals, so you get the results as soon as
the new issue of the journal is posted – much faster than waiting for the articles to appear in indexes such as Web of
Science, PubMed, Scopus, etc.! Among the most popular sites for this are:
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Highwire (http://highwire.stanford.edu/) – several hundred mostly bio-med titles from scholarly societies,
including Journal of Biological Chemistry, PNAS, Agronomy J, JAMA, Plant Cell, etc.
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ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/) – for journals published by Elsevier or Academic Press
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American Chemical Society (http://pubs.acs.org/action/showPublications?display=journals)
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Nature (http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=299585)
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Science (http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=5114)
Faculty of 1000
Faculty of 1000 (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=226365) is another great tool for keeping up to date.
Based primarily on citations in PubMed, F1000 allows you to read comments by “experts” in the field concerning
hand-picked journal articles – find out which articles are considered controversial; or must-reads. Particularly
valuable for graduate students who may not yet have built a wide network of “recommenders”. To set up an alert:
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Register for an account
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Use the Advanced Search to run a search (by topic, author, subject area, etc.)
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Click on “Store Search”, and set up the frequency for receiving email alerts.
SciFinder Web (Chemical Abstracts)
Chemical Abstracts is the BEST resource for locating articles that involve chemistry in its broadest and most
comprehensive sense. Scifinder is the product for searching Chemical Abstract & Medline (PubMed) simultaneously,
as well as finding chemical structures, and more. Alerting is available from the SciFinder db.
For many years we’ve had access to SciFinder, but to use it you had to download a SciFinder client to your computer.
Recently SciFinder Web became available! Initially you will need to register for access (be sure to use your
Illinois.edu email address). Here are the instructions as well as the link you can use after you’ve registered for
access: http://www.library.illinois.edu/chx/sfchanges.html
Discover Button
A button labeled “Discover” was recently added to many of our indexes and abstracts, including PubMed, Web of
Science, Biological Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Scopus, and more.
What does it do?
The primary function of the Discover service is to give you a link to the full-text version of the article if the U of I has
rights to it. While many of the databases already have links to the full text in them (e.g., PubMed, Web of Science),
through the Discover button, you should uncover e-access for even more publications! If we don't have e-access to
the article, the Discover window will provide you with other tools for obtaining the article.
What happens when you click on the Discover button?
When you click on the Discover button, a new window will pop up that will contain links to various types of resources:
1. Links to the full text of the article (if the U of I has e-access). Note: if there isn’t a link to the e-version of
an article, check the ORR or the Catalog, and search for the journal title! Note: Discover doesn’t work ALL
the time!
2. A link to the U of I Online Catalog record for the journal (so you can see if we have print / e-access to
the journal)
3. If we don’t have e-access to the article, you’ll find a link to Interlibrary Loan, with the citation
information already filled in. All you have to do is login with your NetID. The ILL office will send you a link
via email to a pdf version of the article within a few days.
4. A link to RefWorks and EndNote, which will automatically add the basic citation to RefWorks (see more
about RefWorks, below)
5. A link to Google Scholar, so you may search for other articles by this author, or other articles on the topic
in the Google Scholar database.
** Customize Google Scholar for access to the U of I’s journals via Discover
The U of I Library regularly sends Google lists of the journals for which we have e-access. When you’re on campus,
your computer IP is recognized and you’ll find links to journals via Discover under a link “Discover UIUC full text”. But
when you are off-campus, customize Google scholar so you see these same links!
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Click on Scholar Preferences
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Under “Library Links” search for “University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Select this option
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Tip: Under Bibliography manager, you might also want to select EndNote or RefWorks, to facilitate
exporting basic citations into whichever tool you use.”
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Click on “Save Preferences.
Scholarly Communication Issues –
The Scholarly Commons, Open Access, h-index,
Journal Impact Factors, IDEALS, Citation Management Tools, NIH Public Access Mandate,
NSF Data Management Plans
Scholarly Commons
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/
Recently the Library opened up the Scholarly Commons office whose mission is to “provide faculty, researchers and
students access to experts in digital content creation and analysis; scholarly communication; geospatial, textual, and
numeric data analysis; and innovative teaching and learning methods.
Make an appointment with them if you have questions about IDEALS, open access, author rights, GIS, copyright
issues, developing data management plans, meeting the requirements of the NIH Public Access Mandate, and more.
IDEALS & Open Access
Are you interested in learning how you can provide wider readership for your research articles? Consider depositing
them in the University’s open access archive (IDEALS, http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/ ), or publish them in an open
access fashion. IDEALS is also an option for meeting the requirements of the NSF’s Data Management Plan –
deposit your finished datasets in IDEALS.
If you are uncertain if you have the “right” to deposit a copy of your paper in IDEALS (or PubMed Central or
elsewhere), consult the Sherpa/Romeo publisher copyright policies & self-archiving database:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Learn more about your open access options, and the many issues that surround the crisis in scholarly communication
at the U of I Scholarly Communication website: http://www.library.illinois.edu/scholcomm/ . The Library also offers
regular workshops on Open Access and Author Rights. See:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/basics/workshops.html#4 . You may also make an appointment with someone in
the Scholarly Commons for assistance.
h-Index and Impact Factors
For purposes of promotion, faculty are sometimes asked to supply their h-index and the Impact Factors for the
journals in which they publish.
h-Index
The h-index is based on the number of citations to your articles. There are two databases that will automatically
calculate h-index values for authors – Web of Science and Scopus. Additionally, Google Scholar will provide
information on how many times particular articles have been cited, and you can use this information to calculate your
h-index. A freely available program, Publish or Perish (http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm) will calculate h-index
values based on citations in Google Scholar. If you have a list of your publications and how many times each has
been cited, it’s quite easy to calculate you h-index manually; contact Katie Newman or flip through the Impact Factors
Powerpoiint presentation: http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/biotech/docs/ImpactFactors.ppt
Impact Factors
Journal Impact Factors may be determined using the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258273 .
Periodically the Library offers a workshop on Impact Factors and the h-index. Check the Savvy Researcher
schedule for dates and times. http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/basics/workshops.html .
Alternatively, flip through the Powerpoint used during the presentation, “Impact Factors”
http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/biotech/docs/ImpactFactors.ppt
Support for Citation Management Programs – RefWorks and EndNote
RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager. Use it when working on a research project to collect
references from online databases, building your own library of references. You can then insert the references into
your paper using Word and the free Write-N-Cite plug-in, which automatically formats the paper and the bibliography
in a wide variety of journal styles.
RefWorks is similar in function to bibliographic management software products such as EndNote, Reference
Manager, and ProCite; in fact, citations from these programs can be easily imported into RefWorks or vice versa.
RefWorks differs from these other programs in that the personally created databases (libraries, folders) are stored on
the RefWorks web server and can be accessed via the Web from wherever you happen be. In addition, lab groups
may choose to “share” an account, which allows all the members of a group to have access to the same pool of
references for writing papers, grants, etc.
Read more about RefWorks, sign up for an account, and start using it! Go to:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/refworks/.
RefWorks has been licensed for use by anyone at the U of I; sign up for your free individual account(s). Please feel
free to tell your students about it and urge them to create a login so they can use it to build bibliographies for their
papers. Alumni will continue to have access to their RefWorks accounts though they will not be able to access the
full text of journals through the Discover button, since they will no longer have active netids.
EndNote
Many researchers are using EndNote to manage their citations. It does the same things as RefWorks, but the
program usually resides on your computer. For power users, it is more customizable and has more "styles" than
RefWorks.
The Library maintains an EndNote Support site that provides information for customizing the use of EndNote at the U
of I. See: http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/biotech/endnotesupport.html; see also the guide, “How to use
EndNote: A guide for U of I users”, http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/biotech/EndNoteGuide.html
Training in the use of EndNote and RefWorks
Training is periodically available as part of the Savvy Researcher series:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/basics/workshops.html .
Or contact Katie Newman for customized sessions for your lab group or class.
NIH Public Access Mandate
As of April 7, 2008, all peer-reviewed works that are the result of funding from the NIH must be submitted into
PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/), making them freely available to all. An embargo on the
availability of the research is allowed of up to 12 months after publication.
The Library has created a guide that will help you through the process of submitting your articles and meeting the
requirement of the NIH Public Access Mandate: http://uiuc.libguides.com/NIH. Please contact Katie Newman for
additional assistance.
NSF Data Management Plans
As of January 18, 2011, all proposals submitted to the NSF for funding must include a data management plan (DMP)
that describes how the proposal will adhere to the NSF policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results.
Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within a reasonable
time, the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course
of work under NSF grants. The DMP should not exceed 2 pages. Find information about the DSP requirements at
the NSF site: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp
Working together with OSPRA, the Library is gearing up to help you meet this requirement. In 2011 we will hire a
librarian whose work will encompass helping our faculty with their data management needs – be it for the NSF or
otherwise. The Library Scholarly Commons will also provide assistance on the local options for preserving your data
(including putting the data into IDEALS). Please visit the Scholarly Commons site for additional information
(http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/ ) as well as the Publishing Tools tab on the Biotechnology Information Center
website (http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/publish.html).
Additional Helpful Tidbits
Savvy Researcher Workshop Series
Several times in this guide we have referred to the Savvy Research Series. This is a series of workshops that are
offered for free by the Library on a diverse array of topics. E.g. RefWorks, EndNote, Open Access, Zotero,
Mendeley, Copyright, Finding / Securing Grant Funding, GIS, Impact Factors & h-Index, and more! Find the schedule
at: http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/basics/workshops.html.
Finding Biomedical / Agricultural Protocols
The Library has gathered quite a set of online protocols for your use, including Wiley’s Current Protocols series, Cold
Spring Harbor Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology (Springer Protocols), Nature Protocols, Methods in
Enzymology, and more! Find links to these gathered on the Biotechnology Information Center’s Research Tools tab:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/researchtools/index.html
Quick Links to Grant Opportunities and Information
Click on the “Grants Info” tab on the Biotechnology Information Center’s website for quick links to Grants.gov, IRIS,
and the grants sites of the USDA, NIH, NSF, and DOE. http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/grant.html
Online Citation Style Guides
Several styles guides are available to you online for checking questions of grammar and style. Among those that you
will probably find the most useful are the AMA Manual of Style Online, Citing Medicine (from the National Library of
Medicine), and the Chicago Manual of Style. Find the links to these under the Citation Guides and Tools tab of the
Life Sciences Electronic Reference Guide, http://uiuc.libguides.com/lifesciencesreferences .
Journal Abbreviation Help
Do you need to find the full title of a journal, when all you have is the abbreviated title, or vice versa? We’ve compiled
a list of online resources that will assist you. Take a look: http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/j-abbrev.html.
If you’re stuck and can’t decide what the “authoritative” abbreviation should be, call us!
Biotechnology Information Center’s Blog: BIC News
To keep up to date on Library news, visit the Biotechnology Information Center’s Blog,
http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/bicnews/. If you’re using an RSS reader, add BIC News to your feeds!
Didn’t find what you need?
Give me a call or drop me a line! I also am available to teach research literature skills to lab groups, etc.
Prof. Katie Newman, Biotechnology Librarian
Biotechnology Information Center ….... Room 2130 Institute for Genomic Biology
florador@illinois.edu ………………….. 217-265-5386
Website: ……………………………….... http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/
Updated: 3/1/11 kn
This guide is available on the web at: http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/Flyer_BiotechFAQ.pdf