Have you ever found a really great article and want to know what others are saying about it? Do you ever feel like posting a comment about an article for others to see? Perhaps you just want to know what people are saying about your own published work? If these questions spark your interest then you might want to check out PubMed Commons and PubPeer.

PubMed Commons offers users the ability to view and post comments on publications in the PubMed database. It’s a space of scientific discourse and a forum for sharing opinions on a work. Any PubMed user can view the comments directly from the database but in order to post new comments, users must have a MyNCBI account and at least one authored work in PubMed. Their Getting Started page details the eligibility requirements.

PubPeer offers a different level of service when it comes to user comments. It acts as an online journal club of scholarly works. Users can search for articles by PMID, DOI, arXiv ID, keyword, author, etc. If a comment on the retrieved article exists, it will appear in the search results. Commenting on articles is also possible in PubPeer, although there is little restriction on who can contribute. See their How To page for details.

AccessMedicine recently enhanced the personal login portion of their database. Now through your MyAccess account, you can take advantage of the following functions:

• Remote Access
• Accessing Custom Curriculum Assignments
• Favorite/Bookmark Content (NEW)
• Access Self-Assessment Q&A and Cases
• Access Self-Assessment History (NEW)
• Download Images and Tables
• See Recently Viewed Content (NEW)
• Access CME Credits (NEW)

Here is a video tutorial (5:10) on the new features!

SciENcv is an optional tool designed to facilitate the creation of biosketches for NIH and NSF grant applications and annual progress reports.  MSK Librarians understand how busy you are so “How-to-Instructions” (.pdf version available as well!) have been developed for researchers who decide to use this tool.

Check out the “MyNCBI: SciENcv” tab located on the MSK NIH Public Access LibGuide.  This page was organized to include the following sections with training and support materials embedded in each section:

• What is SciENcv?
• Steps to Setup My Bibliography
• Steps to Setup SciENcv
• Steps to Setup SciENcv (via Delegate)
• Additional Related Training and Support Materials

This page was updated recently to include the July 2015 webinar entitled “Creating Your NIH Biosketch with SciENcv” (31.56 min) and instructions for users to help them convert biosketches from the former NIH biographical sketch to the new format.