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Springer Nature No Longer Providing Manuscript Deposition Service

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Effective immediately, Springer Nature has decided to no longer offer a full manuscript deposition service to their NIH-funded authors. Authors (usually the corresponding author) or their assigned delegate, will now be responsible for handling the task of depositing the accepted manuscript in the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system to fulfill any funder or institutional mandate. Instructions for this task can be found on the Memorial Sloan Kettering NIH Public Access Policy LibGuide. Look for the tab labelled, Submission Method C.

Springer Nature will continue to automatically deposit gold open access (OA) articles in PMC (PubMed Central) and EPMC (Europe PubMed Central) if the research paper meets the PMC deposition guidelines on publisher deposition of papers published open access. Authors can confirm if a journal has a full PMC deposition agreement by searching for the journal title here.

It is critical that authors provide details of the grant when submitting their manuscript for publication to enable Springer Nature to identify eligible OA NIH-funded articles for deposit in the NIHMS system.

Should you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out to Donna Gibson, Director, Library Services.

Did You Know? A Benefit of AAMC Membership

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As a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), MSK leaders, faculty, and staff have exclusive access to AAMC’s professional development resources, networking opportunities, and content.

Content Update: AAMC Faculty Salary Report
In 2023 the AAMC released its annual Faculty Salary Report in electronic format with no provision to offer a print version. AAMC is not currently offering an institutional subscription to this resource but online access is available to faculty and staff at member institutions for $50 from the AAMC Store. To receive the AAMC member discount, you can register using your MSK email for a free account on the AAMC website or login here if you are already registered. 

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Tenzing – A Tool for Capturing Author Affiliation and Authorship Contribution Data

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As team science and research articles with multiple authors (not to mention the “hyperauthorship” of “big team” science) have become the norm in the biomedical sciences, tools that help with tedious tasks (like keeping track of the credentials, affiliation and contact information for an unwieldy number of author contributors) are increasingly being developed and adopted by researchers eager for a simplified process.

In a previous blog post, the National Cancer Institute’s AuthorArranger tool was discussed. Developed in 2018, the AuthorArranger helps researchers collect the key author and affiliation details needed for manuscript submission. Although this tool is a huge time-saver and likely greatly increases the accuracy of the title page author information details transmitted to journal publishers, it could be even more useful if it collected some additional author data points (for example, ORCiD and individual author funding information).

In comes Tenzing, a more recent tool that elevates authorship data collection further, as it is “a web-based app that makes it easier for researchers to indicate who did what in their manuscripts”. Tenzing leverages the standardized CRediT (the Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system to collect details regarding how authors in different roles contributed to the project, in addition to, author contact, affiliation, ORCiD, and funding information.

To learn more about these tools and why they are so useful, see:

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