Announcements & News

NIH staff now have access to SciFinder-n, a comprehensive collection of chemical substances, reactions, and literature references, curated by expert scientists. 

The NIH Library is hosting the Scholarly Publishing Symposium: Elevate Your Research Visibility, on March 18 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, and via videocast.

This free service features bioinformatics consulting, training, analysis tools and databases hosted on high-performance computing workstations in the NIH Library and other open sources in NIH.

Register to attend this class on SciFinder, a chemistry database that provides integrated access to a comprehensive collection of chemical substances, reactions, and literature references. 

The NIH Library is presenting Reaxys Training on October 23, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Reaxys is a chemistry database that provides access to information about millions of chemical structures, reactions, and properties.

The NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program is offering the class MetaCore: Enabling Systems Biology Research through Pathway Analysis on September 20. This free training will be held in the NIH Library Training Room, Building 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

This one-hour overview class introduces NIH authors to the major issues surrounding the topic of publication ethics. A foundation of best practices for professional writing will help authors identify and avoid career-damaging mistakes.

The NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program is offering “MetaCore: Enabling Systems Biology Research through Pathway Analysis” on September 2. The free training will be held in the NIH Library Training Room, Building 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. Registration is required.

In conjunction with the NIH Research Festival​, the Library’s open house will showcase why we truly are “Your Partner in Research.” New this year will be a demonstration of the data visualization touch screen provided by the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science.

Plagiarism—whether intentional or not—can be damaging to a researcher’s career. To help NIH authors check that all of a manuscript’s sources are cited, the NIH Library offers its Plagiarism Checking Service.