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New Open Access Feature in Google Scholar: “Public Access”

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Google Scholar added a new feature to the Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles. The Public Access section is meant to be an overview to check, whether your open-access mandated papers are freely available or not.

  • Contains articles that are expected to be publicly available
  • Click “VIEW ALL” to check those articles mandates and see if they are available
  • If publicly available, PDF or HTML links appear
  • Authors have to manually update or correct the listed articles

Authors are encouraged to check their profiles and make corrections or updates to their list of articles.

The new feature has also been critiqued by some sources, citing that Google Drive should not be used to deposit your papers. To make your research publicly available, you can deposit your published articles in repositories such as the MPG’s PuRe, guaranteeing the long-term availability of these documents.

You can find a detailed Q&A concerning the Public Access feature here.

CAS Common Chemistry

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CAS Common Chemistry provides access to several thousand substances and associated data. Now it includes authoritative information on nearly 500,000 substances from CAS REGISTRY. Reusable licensing of content is ensured through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

We have full access to the CAS content collection through SciFindern (registration required).

FHI Library to Launch New Catalog

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We have launched a new library catalog with an updated interface and improved search functionalities.

New and improved features include

  • User friendly interface
  • Refine your search results by using filters on the sidebar
  • Limit your search to different criteria, e.g. shelving location (via advanced search)
  • Create a cart/mark list and export titles in different formats, e.g. BibTeX
  • Watch your search history for the current session

https://fhilibrary.koha.mpg.de

Web of Science News: February 2021

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This exciting new feature has been added to the Web of Science (WoS) – available via the preview of the new Web of Science – in the February release:

Author Impact Beamplots

  • Visualize the citation performance of an author’s entire publication list
  • Publications performances are compared to similar records and put into percentiles (a 90% + score means the paper is among the 10% most cited in the field)
  • Adding more context than single-point metrics e.g. performance change over time

Look at authors Impact Beamplots by accessing their Author Record via the Author Search, or click any author name in a Core Collection document.

You will find a complete timeline of the Authors works (1980- ) under the “Author Impact Beamplot” tab. Hover over the elements of the beamplot to see article, citation, and percentile information and click through to see the full record.

For more information on Author Impact Beamplots check out this video:

Other Updates

  • Author field search suggestions – get author names suggestions based on your input
  • Publisher added as a search field
  • Categories field search suggestions – get categories suggestions based on your input

ACS Gold Open Access Journals

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Now the ACS fully open access journals are part of the agreement between the Max Planck Society and the American Chemical Society. The article processing charges will be paid centrally by the MPS.

ACS Open Access Journals:

The journals will be added to the OA Gold List (list of journals with central APC payment) shortly.