May 16th, 2013 by Mary Wood
from OLAW Current News Flashes
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Nature Announcement: Reducing our Irreproducibility
Nature introduces editorial measures to improve consistency and quality of reporting in life-sciences articles. Central to this initiative is a checklist intended to prompt authors to disclose technical and statistical information in their submissions, and to encourage referees to consider aspects important for research reproducibility. The checklist includes information to be provided for animal studies and recommends consulting the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal experiments.
…”We recommend consulting the ARRIVE guidelines (PLoS Biol. 8(6), e1000412, 2010) to ensure that other relevant aspects of animal studies are adequately reported”…
Download the Reporting Checklist For Life Sciences Articles or learn more at Reporting Life Sciences Research.
ARRIVE Guidelines developed by
UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)
Tags: Animal Welfare, research
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May 9th, 2013 by Amy Studer
What’s All the Fuss About Open Access? What Do I Need to Know, and How Does it Benefit Me?
Join us for a presentation by Pete Binfield (previously the Publisher of PLoS One, and now the Publisher and Co-Founder of PeerJ) as he provides an overview of the current landscape of Open Access publications; highlights some of the more innovative models that are being tested in the marketplace; talks about items such as article level metrics and open peer review, and shows how these new developments can benefit you as both a researcher and author.
Click on image to read about Pete Binfield
- Date: May 29, 2013
- Time: 3-4 pm
- Place: 1065 Kemper Hall
Hosted by UC Davis Library. Contact:
Amy Studer, Health & Life Science Librarian
astuder@lib.ucdavis.edu | (530) 752-1678
Related:
Howard, J. (2013, April 29). Asking authors to buy memberships for open access. Chronicle of Higher Education.
VanNoorden, R. (2013, March 27). Open access: The true cost of science publishing. Nature News, 495(7442).
UC Davis Library Blog entry about PeerJ: March 1, 2013
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May 3rd, 2013 by Amy Studer
Image credit: judepics License: CC-BY-NC 2.0
Do you know someone who has “used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through Open Access — to make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole?” (ASAP)
Nominate them in the Accelerating Science Award Program.
Three top awards of $30,000 each will be presented. Nominations are accepted from May 1 to June 15, 2013 . Winners to be announced in October 2013 during Open Access Week.
Sponsors of ASAP include Google, PLoS, Wellcome Trust, Association of Research Libraries, and SPARC, among others. Here is a complete list: http://asap.plos.org/sponsors/
Perhaps you have a success story about open access that you would like to share with others at UC Davis? We would love to hear from you.
Contact: Amy Studer | astuder@lib.ucdavis.edu | 530-752-1678
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May 3rd, 2013 by Amy Studer
Image credit: By net_efekt. License: CC-BY 2.0
I had the wonderful experience of spending March and April enrolled in a new course sponsored by the National Library of Medicine:
A Librarian’s Guide to NCBI
We started with an online preparatory course, which culminated with a week of instruction on NCBI bioinformatics databases at NLM on the NIH Campus in Bethesda.
The course was taught by NCBI staff and Diane Rein, Ph.D., M.L.S., Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Liaison from the Health Science Library, University at Buffalo.
The goal was to learn how to search within and across the NCBI bioinformatics resources, such as:
Also, we experimented with tools like:
I am interested in finding out more about how members of the UC Davis community are using and learning about these databases. If you are currently using these databases for your research or want to learn more about them, please consider contacting me:
Amy Studer, Health & Life Sciences Librarian
astuder@lib.ucdavis.edu | 530- 752-1678
Tags: Bioinformatics, National Library of Medicine, NCBI
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May 3rd, 2013 by Mary Wood
NIH Office of Extramural Research Grants and Funding
Extramural Nexus News
Progress Reporting Changes begin this month
from NIH Extramural Nexus:
NIH grantees with Streamlined Noncompeting Award Process (SNAP) and Fellowship awards are now required to use the eRA Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) Commons Module, for awards with start dates on or after July 1, 2013 (due dates on or after May 15 and May 1, respectively). Progress reports for these awards submitted in any other format will not be accepted and must be resubmitted in the RPPR format. If a progress report has been initiated as an eSNAP, the format must be changed to the RPPR, with the help of the eRA help desk. It is important to be aware of these requirements because noncompliance with them will jeopardize the NIH’s ability to issue timely awards.
Not sure if this requirement applies to your NIH grant? Your Notice of Award will specify whether an award uses SNAP. If you need additional help, you can find contact info for assistance in this NIH Guide notice, or get in touch with your grants management specialist. The RPPR page and Frequently Asked Questions also contain additional information.
Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR)
Update: NIH Public Access Compliance previous blog post
NIH Public Access Mandate UC Davis Library Guide
Tags: grants, NIH Mandate
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April 30th, 2013 by Mary Wood
Excerpted from the April/May 2013 AltTox Digest
A Field Guide to the Alts
ALTEX Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal featuring research and commentary on the development of alternatives to animal experimentation. Produced by the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at Johns Hopkins University, ALTEX is the “official journal” of CAAT, the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EUSAAT), and the Transatlantic Think Tank of Toxicology (t4).
Altweb is CAAT’s website for news, notices of meetings and events, information on alternative methods for biomedical research, testing, and education. Altweb includes such features as a step-by-step guide to searching for alternative methods, links to external literature databases, links to international policies and regulations on the use of animals in research, and tutorials and information on replacement, refinement, and reduction.
AltTox is a website devoted exclusively to promoting the development, validation, and acceptance of non-animal toxicity testing methods. Its focus is limited primarily to replacement and one area of animal use toxiciology. Other resources include extensive information on international programs and policies, and a unique Table of Validated and Accepted Alternative Methods that covers methods reviewed by ICCVAM, ECVAM, and JaCVAM.
UC Davis Center for Animal Alternatives Information
Tags: animal alternatives, Animal Welfare
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April 25th, 2013 by Amy Studer
April 25, 2013 is National DNA Day, commemorating:
- completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003, and
- discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953.
You may wish to celebrate the day by playing with a few molecules. Here is one tool to explore:
Molecules free app for iOS:
Molecules allows you to view and manipulate three-dimensional renderings of molecules. You can search the PubChem and RCSB Protein Data Bank for interesting molecules and download them onto your iOS device.
Image credit: DNA Tower by Steven2358
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April 23rd, 2013 by Mary Wood
Which Primate is the Most Likely Source of the Next Pandemic?
Smithsonian Surprising Science Blog April 22, 2013
photo by AfrikaForce
“…Most emerging infectious diseases in humans have indeed arisen from animals… Therefore, experts prioritize the task of figuring out which animals in which regions of the world are most prone to delivering the latest novel pathogen to hapless humanity.
With this in mind, researchers at Harvard University, the University of Granada and the University of Valencia set out to develop a new strategy for predicting the risk and rise of new diseases transmitted from animals before they happen, describing their efforts in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Centrality in primate–parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1220716110 PNAS April 22, 2013…”
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School of Veterinary Medicine | One Health Institute |
PREDICT: Building global surveillance to detect and prevent spillover of pathogens of pandemic potential
USAID PREDICT Summary
.Morse SS, Mazet JA, Woolhouse M, Parrish CR, Carroll D, Karesh WB, Zambrana-Torrelio C, Lipkin WI, Daszak P.
Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis
Lancet 2012 Dec 1;380(9857):1956-65 PMID: 23200504
“…In order to predict, respond to, and prevent the emergence of novel infectious diseases in humans, pathogens must be identified at their source. The PREDICT project, led by Principal Investigator and Co-Director Dr. Jonna A.K. Mazet, DVM, MVPM, PhD of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and Co-Director Stephen S. Morse, PhD of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, recognizes that explosive human population growth and environmental changes have resulted in increased numbers of people living in close contact with animals.
PREDICT, a project of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats Program, is building a global early warning system to detect and reduce the impacts of emerging diseases that move between wildlife and people (zoonotic diseases)…”
Tags: Epidemiology, Veterinary Medicine
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April 22nd, 2013 by Bruce Abbott
The Library has subscribed to all the parts of JoVE, so all content is now available. The URL for JoVE is:
http://www.jove.com/
Tags: Journals, video
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April 17th, 2013 by Ferguson Mitchell
UC Davis undergraduates in all academic fields are invited to submit an abstract and registration information to participate in the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference. Research projects must have been conducted under the supervision of a faculty member or professional in the field. The conference is designed to acquaint undergraduates with the process and academic rigors of presenting research in a scholarly manner.
Additionally, the conference will stimulate interaction between students and faculty, while encouraging undergraduates to pursue advanced degrees toward the goal of research and college teaching.Student poster presenter
Poster Presentations • Friday, April 26, 2013 • Freeborn Hall • 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Arts Exhibit • Friday, April 26, 2013 • Memorial Union II • 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Oral Presentations • Saturday, April 27, 2013 • Wellman Hall • 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Students will present their research projects to faculty, staff and other conference participants in either an oral or poster format. The oral presentation will allow students to give a 15-minute presentation of their topic and includes time for questions. Each oral session will be moderated by a faculty member. In the poster session, students will have designed a visual poster representing their research and will be presenting their work to individual conference participants over a 1-hour session.
While participating in research provides excellent preparation for graduate study, presenting your work at this conference will further enhance your experience and become even more valuable as you are considered for admission to graduate or professional schools. Each student selected to be a presenter will be individually recognized for his/her contribution to university academic achievement.
The Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference is organized by a campus-wide committee and chaired by Tammy Hoyer, Undergraduate Research Center. The conference is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
Image courtesy NWABR via Flickr.
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