FYI....
*Posting at the request of the Journal Shelf development group at NIAID.
Please contact Sanhya Xirasagar directly at [email protected]
<[email protected]> with any questions.*
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NIH Catalyst, May-June 2014
News You Can Use
Keeping Up with New Discoveries through My Journal Shelf
BY SANDHYA XIRASAGAR, NIAID
Scientific innovation often relies on the ability to quickly spot new
advances and hot topics in interdisciplinary areas. But it can be a
challenge to sift through the vast literature for relevant findings,
resources, approaches, and methodologies. How can anyone possibly keep up
with current advances in multiple disciplines?
Enter My Journal Shelf <http://journalshelf.niaid.nih.gov>, a virtual
library shelf chock-full of your favorite biomedical journals. It’s a
publicly accessible, simple-to-use, and researcher-friendly Web tool that
allows you to efficiently browse and search the latest biomedical journals
as soon as they’re published. My Journal Shelf started out as a
collaborative pilot project between the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Division of Intramural Research and NIAID’s
Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB). It was
led by senior investigator *Michael Lenardo* and me (I’m a project manager
in OCICB). Now the project is available to everyone at NIH.
Cover images of the most recent issues (updated nightly) of NIH e-access
journals are displayed and are linked to their table of contents on the
publishers’ Web sites. Users can get a snapshot of highlighted research
featured on the journal covers. The journals on the shelf are based on the
preferences of NIH researchers and only include those for which permission
is granted by the publishers. NIAID is working with additional journal
publishers and the NIH Library subscription team to add other covers to the
shelf.
Users can customize their profiles to include favorite journals,
search-term lists, and more. Integration with the NIH remote access to
subscribed e-access literature and iPad compatibility enables anytime,
anywhere access. The PubMed search tool allows uses to perform keyword
searches of current articles so all citations from the most recent issues
can be filtered by the search criteria. Retrieved citations are linked to
PubMed abstracts.
NIH researchers can login using NIH credentials to customize My Journal
Shelf: Create a personalized shelf (favorites) by selecting a subset of the
journals available; store a personalized search-term profile so you can
perform repeated searches easily; choose whether to search all journals
displayed or a combination of one or more journals; select whether to have
retrieved citations sent—via e-mail or computer download—in either a
human-readable format or for use in a reference-manager program such as
EndNote.
Journals that include articles that match one researcher-specified favorite
search term can be automatically searched and flagged on the researcher’s
favorites shelf. Journals that have been updated since the researcher last
logged in are also highlighted on the shelf. Authentication also allows
users to remotely access full-text articles via the NIH library’s proxy
servers for remote access.
So what are you waiting for? See for yourself how great this tool is at My
Journal Shelf (http://journalshelf.niaid.nih.gov).
