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The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) has a Proposal Writing Support page with links to several training resources, including in-classroom courses and online video tutorials, such as “NIH Peer Review Process Revealed“. The NIH Center for Scientific Review site also provides tools and guides for those tasked with reviewing the applications.
Looking for alternate ways of organizing your references and PDFs? Want to be able to automatically export citations from Google Scholar and PubMed? ReadCube, one of the newest bibliographic management tools to hit the scene offers enhanced PDF viewing, editing, sharing, and importing/exporting.
ReadCube features an easy PDF viewing interface where users can highlight and take notes on articles within the application. Adding articles as Favorites is another useful function of ReadCube that other citation management tools lack. Searching PubMed and Google Scholar from inside ReadCube allows users to easily view reference abstracts, download PDFs instantly, and export citations to EndNote and RefWorks. ReadCube is setup with the MSK proxy URL meaning it recognizes what the Library subscribes to electronically for quick and easy access to full text content.
Give ReadCube a try by downloading the resource and viewing the different video tutorials containing helpful tips, tricks, and useful features. For more information on ReadCube and other bibliographic management tools, our Reference Librarians are knowledgeable on current and upcoming resources that may help to better manage your lists of article references.
If you are completing a manuscript and are thinking about where to submit it for publication, you may find the tool, JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator, to be very helpful. JANE is a free website which can help identify journals for publication based on the subject about which you have written. In addition, JANE can find relevant articles that you can cite in your paper. If you enter the title and/or abstract in the search box, you have the option to click on “Find journals,” “Find authors,” or “Find articles.” Your document will be compared to millions of articles in MEDLINE to extract the most relevant matching journals, authors or articles.