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Did you know that authors at Cincinnati Children's get a 15% discount on BioMed Central and SpringerOpen article-processing charges (APCs) as members of BMC? Content is freely accessible (open access) and offers over 290 peer-reviewed journals in disciplines including Biology, Clinical Medicine and Health . Login to BMC from a CCHMC computer and you will see Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center at the top of the page (see screenshot below).

Do you have a public research product (aka Interim Research Project or IRB) or a preprint (a complete and public draft of a scientific paper)?  Do you want to learn more about IRBs and preprints including where to deposit them and how to cite them in a grant application ? Check out our new guide: http://libguides.cchmc.org/IRBsandpreprints

ClinicalTrials.gov recently began implementing usability updates focused on improving searching, the display, and review information about clinical research studies registered with the site.  The updates are being released in stages and the process has already begun and additional updates are being tested on the beta site which is available at: https://clinicaltrials.gov/beta/  

Research Assistant Jillian Ellis and Principal Investigator, Dr. Chunyue Yin, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital's Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition department were just published in JoVE Developmental Biology! Click the link below to check out the video from campus:

NLM Announces First Complete Major Release of SimpleITK. NLM Tech Bull. 2017 May-Jun;(416):b3.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Steven Crone and Research Assistant Sarah Turner, from the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, for their recent video publication in JoVE Medicine. You can view the video by clicking the link below from CCHMC's campus:

National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and it’s a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. Celebrate with the Edward L. Pratt Research Library staff at S9-125 Refreshments Available

Symplectic Elements has a new look! On Monday March 27, 2017 a vendor recommended upgrade to the Symplectic Elements application is now ready to use. You will notice significant changes to the application. Improvements include:

Symplectic Elements is getting a new look! On Monday March 27, 2017 a vendor recommended upgrade to the Symplectic Elements application will be ready to use. You will notice significant changes to the application. Improvements include:

The NLM has updated their NLM catalog sidebar filters (not to be confused with the PubMed catalog) so that the user can combine filters. They have also added two more filters: PubMed/PMC journals and All MEDLINE journal.