Day 1: Tools You Can Use
Objectives:
- ILLIAD -- Locate on Miner's homepage, learn how to use
- JoVE/Current Protocols -- Find the guide, overview of why these are important
- Citation software -- Broad overview of EndNote and RefWorks
- Box -- Learn why you should use Box.com
- Browzine -- Learn how to keep up on the articles you want to read
Additional reading:
- Read: "How to read a scientific paper", by Adam Ruben, posted on 20 Jan 2016, a tongue-in-cheek take on trying to squeeze knowledge out of journal articles
- Read: "How to (seriously) read a scientific paper", by Elisabeth Pain, posted on 21 Mar 2016, a summary of advice on how to effectively keep up with the literature, from scientists in a variety of disciplines and at different levels of experience
ORCID
Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCiD):
- Open, non-profit, community driven organization
- Free
- Allows user to control privacy
- Allows user to "claim" their publications, grants etc.
Browzine
- Allows the user to brows the most recent issues of a wide array of journals in an electronic format
- iPad version provides PDF's which can be saved in a variety of programs such as reference management software, box.com and notability.
- Web Version allows patrons to read articles online from a web browser
- Requires an account to save favorite journals
- Available to University of Rochester students, staff and faculty from Miner Library
Why science demands a leap into the unknown
JoVE/Current Protocols
Box.com Tutorials
- Introduction to Box.com
- Requesting an account
- Logging in
- Finding help
- Creating a new folder
- Uploading files and folders
- Creating new files
- Adding collaborators and setting user permissions
- Sending links / sharing
- Notification settings
- Folder settings
- Assigning tasks
- Comments
Source Material: University of Rochester SON box.com tutorial page
Box.com Instructions
- Logging in- If this is your first time logging in to Box, you must first initialize your Box account
- Go to https://rochester.box.com and click continue
- Enter your NetID username and password
- Accept terms and conditions when prompted, you are nore logged in
- Uploading and downloading files
- Edit folder and file names
- Collaborating with colleagues
- Due to concerns regarding sensitive, privileged, or restricted information, you will be unable to share files with anyone outside of URMC from your Box account. Please use only "...@urmc.rochester.edu" when inviting collaborators
