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Web of Science is a database platform owned by Clarivate Analytics.  It compromises several literature search resources which help meet the ongoing scientific and scholarly research needs at NCI at Frederick.

The Scientific Library sponsored a Web of Science Webinar on October 17th, 2023 for NCI at Frederick users hosted by trainer Marisa Ruccolo from Clarivate Analytics. 

Web of Science provides a common search language, navigation environment, and data structure allowing researchers to search broadly across disparate resources and use the citation connections inherent to the index to navigate to relevant research results and measure impact. Some of the database highlights include:

• Web of Science Core Collection, which contains literature citations across several database indices (see image below) from over 22,000 indexed journals, over 104,000 editorially selected books, and coverage of over 205,000 conferences.
• Consistent application of subject categorization across all items selected for coverage.
• Since 2007, the Core Collection has featured links between authors and their stated affiliations.
• All institutional affiliations are indexed and searchable.
• Includes funding acknowledgment data from 2008 to present and is integrated with MEDLINE for further funding data from the National Library of Medicine.
• All cited references are indexed and searchable via the Cited Reference Search feature.
• Web of Science ResearcherIDs (formerly Publons) and ORCID IDs are searchable and displayed when available.

Enhancements made to the platform during the past year were covered in the webinar including: new searchable fields recently added to the interface such as PubMed ID, Keywords Plus, Author Keywords, and Publication Date, more granular affiliations, new ways in which users can visualize publishing trends of researchers, and the addition of preprint coverage to the database. 

For anyone who was unable to attend the webinar in person earlier this fall, a link to this recording is available upon request from the Scientific Library.

To learn more about this valuable resource, please visit the Web of Science LibGuides page or contact the Scientific Library if you have any additional questions or need searching tips.

Did you know government employees can access a free digital subscription of the Washington Post using their .gov email address?

Follow the steps outlined in the help guide “Start a free subscription with a valid .gov or .mil email address” from the Washington Post Help Center. 

If your email address is not yet registered:

1. Register your email address ending in .gov at https://www.washingtonpost.com/subscribe/signup.
2. You will receive an email asking you to verify your email address. Click through that email to verify your email address and then go to My Post.
3. Click 'Manage Account' in the top right corner. From there, click the 'Subscription & Billing' tab, and then click 'Activate free digital access'.

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1. Go to your Profile at https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/profile/#!/profile/access
2. Make sure your email address is Verified, and if not, click "Unverified" to be sent a verification email.
3. Click through the verification email, which will confirm your eligibility for a free subscription.
4. Go to My Post, click 'Manage Account' in the top right corner. From there, click the 'Subscription & Billing' tab, and then click 'Activate free digital access'.

Library Orientations

Library Orientation sessions are held monthly via Webex on Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  The dates of upcoming sessions are January 18, February 8, and March 14.  We invite all employees to attend these sessions to learn about the many services and resources offered by the Library.

If you are not able to make it to our scheduled webinars, our librarians can work with your schedule to provide one-on-one training at your convenience via Webex or Microsoft Teams.  For questions, or if you have a suggestion for a class offering, please contact us with your thoughts.

Each month the Library will feature a different resource and offer to provide more supporting information about this resource.  Watch for announcements about the resources highlighted in 2024 or e-mail the Library for more information:

JANUARY – COCHRANE LIBRARY

This regularly updated collection of databases is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care.  In addition to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the suite comprises other database resources which  leverage health care information & ease decision making processes.

FEBRUARY - WebCSD

WebCSD allows online searching of the experimentally determined small molecule structures deposited in the Cambridge Crystallographic Database. Results are displayed in 3D and 2D with experimental, chemical, and crystal details provided, as well as links to cited literature.

MARCH – STAT+

STAT+ provides in-depth analysis, timely news, and exclusive content for healthcare professionals, researchers, and policymakers. Topics include: Biotech, Business, Health Tech, In the Lab, Pharma, Politics & Policy, and more.

Bibliographies at the Scientific Library: The Scientific Library staff create bibliographies for some of the seminar series hosted by NCI at Frederick. These bibliographies provide links to publications written by upcoming speakers, allowing those attending the talks the opportunity to dive deeper into each topic. Access this resource free of charge by visiting the Bibliographies webpage. 

NCI at Frederick and FNL employees now have access to Cabell’s Journalytics, a resource which gathers relevant information about medical and academic journals to help research professionals looking to publish research, review scholarly contributions, or gain accreditation.  It categorizes publications by 7 academic and 34 medical disciplines. 

Cabell’s houses a database of verified, reputable journals that feature individual dashboards for each publication outlining up to date scite and altmetric scores, discipline snapshots, and other available publication data. 

One of Cabell’s signature features is Predatory Reports, which is the most comprehensive database of predatory journals currently containing over 17,000 academic and medical titles.  Predatory Reports provides publication overviews, types of violations, as well as the criteria by which Cabell’s deems a journal as predatory.

Please contact the Scientific Library if you have any additional questions or need searching tips regarding Cabell’s Journalytics.

Devita, Hellmann & Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology

Wolters Kluwer, 12th edition, 2023.

Description: The standard-setting text in oncology for 40 years, DeVita, Hellman and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 12th Edition, provides authoritative guidance and strategies for managing every type of cancer by stage and presentation:

• Integrates basic science into individual cancer chapters for more efficient reference. 
• Features quarterly updates that include late-breaking developments in oncology such as new drugs and clinical trials, as well as new case studies and interactive algorithms. 
• Offers balanced, multidisciplinary advice from a surgeon, a medical oncologist, and a radiation oncologist. 
• Provides updated content on immunotherapy and genetics throughout 
• Includes important related topics such as cancer screening and prevention, palliative care, supportive oncology, and quality of life issues. 

Cheminformatics, QSAR, and Machine Learning Applications for Novel Drug Development

Academic Press, 2023.

Description: Cheminformatics, QSAR and Machine Learning Applications for Novel Drug Development aims at showcasing different structure-based, ligand-based, and machine learning tools currently used in drug design. It also highlights special topics of computational drug design together with the available tools and databases.

Ethics and Pandemics : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

Springer, 2023.

Description: This book is for readers who wish to understand the ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic — holistically — on communities, politics, the economy, the environment, international relations, public health, and, most importantly, on their own lives and their own futures. It also helps readers to think through the wide-ranging ethical implications of the new age of global pandemics.  The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives to such an extent that no single publication will ever be able to capture its complexity. The book acknowledges this complexity by embracing interdisciplinary dialogue. It is open to diverse points of view, different ethical systems, and a wide variety of academic disciplines.

Functional Ultrastructure: Atlas of Tissue Biology and Pathology

Springer, 3rd edition, 2015.

Description: This atlas provides a detailed insight into the complex structure and organization of cells and tissues and highlights their specific functions as well as the dynamics of diverse intracellular processes. Highly informative electron micrographs are complemented by explanatory texts, selected references and schemes. The concept that subcellular organelles provide the structural foundation for fundamental processes of living organisms is emphasized.

Python Data Science

Springer, 2023.

Description: Rather than presenting Python as Java or C, this textbook focuses on the essential Python programming skills for data scientists and advanced methods for big data analysts.

Unlike conventional textbooks, it is based on Markdown and uses full-color printing and a code-centric approach to highlight the 3C principles in data science: creative design of data solutions, curiosity about the data lifecycle, and critical thinking regarding data insights. Q&A-based knowledge maps, tips and suggestions, notes, as well as warnings and cautions are employed to explain the key points, difficulties, and common mistakes in Python programming for data science. In addition, it includes suggestions for further reading. 

Winning Grants

Springer, Cham, 2023.

Description: You will need to write grants at some point in your career. Writing them though is not enough, what you also need to know is how to win grants. The difficulty in getting a grant, in particular an NIH grant like an R01 in the USA is often described, it is competitive and gets tougher every year. Your proposal therefore must stand out, it must connect with the reviewers. This is true for all types of grants, give the reviewer what they want always. But also, you need to connect to the program officer, the committee that ultimately makes funding decisions and you must take care of a myriad of other details outside of the main event which is describing the “science”.  This book will provide some advice that will help you learn how to do a better job of winning grants. This book is written by a scientist who writes the grants and develops commercial products; It provides a unique perspective on what you need to write better grants, teaches you how to continually win grants, and provides examples from the authors own grant applications.  

The Library staff was pleased to resume the Library Book Swap this Fall. Donations of books were accepted throughout the month of September, with a Swap kick off date of the 27th. This year the Library hosted the Swap in the journal alcove within the Library. This was a change from the past when the initial display was in the Conference Center lobby.  Over 1600 items were collected.  One group who came to peruse the offerings commented, “Wonderful event.  The Library makes the patrons lives better!”  The staff is certainly pleased to be able to encourage reading and recycling with this ever-popular event.  This was the twentieth year the Library has offered the Book Swap.  Ultimately the materials that remained were donated to a local charity.