The beginning of a new year is a great time to make a fresh start. Your writing and publishing muscles might be ready for a good workout. If that’s the case, consider the Library as your publishing gym and the librarians as your personal trainers for research and writing.

Bonus workout:

Peruse our list of mobile resources and download a few.

Check out the calculators in uCentral.

Build a differential diagnosis using VisualDx.

Browse your favorite journal’s most recent issue in BrowZine or Read by QXMD

The beginning of a new year is a great time to make a fresh start. Your writing and publishing muscles might be ready for a good workout. If that’s the case, consider the Library as your publishing gym and the librarians as your personal trainers for research and writing.

Workout tips for Week 4:

Learn how to navigate the new PubMed

Learn how to improve your search results by using PubMed’s MeSH database.

Find clinical studies in PubMed with Clinical Queries

Explore databases beyond PubMed: Embase, Global Health, SciFinder, Web of Science, and more

Meet with your personal trainer to pump up your search skills.

The beginning of a new year is a great time to make a fresh start. Your writing and publishing muscles might be ready for a good workout. If that’s the case, consider the Library as your publishing gym and the librarians as your personal trainers for research and writing.

Workout tips for Week 3:

Identify the most relevant publications to submit your manuscript using PubsHub, JANE, or EndNote Online.

Contribute to the effort to increase value and reduce waste in biomedical research by following reporting guidelines.

Track the impact of your publications – see our Research Metrics guide.

Meet requirements for NIH grant and cooperative agreement bio sketches: set up a SciENcv profile.

Make an appointment with your personal trainer to help you make the most of your research.

The beginning of a new year is a great time to make a fresh start. Your writing and publishing muscles might be ready for a good workout. If that’s the case, consider the Library as your publishing gym and the librarians as your personal trainers for research and writing.

Workout tips for Week 2:

Distinguish yourself from other researchers: get an ORCiD and link it to your NCBI account.

Your ORCiD ID is used within NIH and grants.gov to relate publications to grants. Link your ORCiD ID from your eRA Commons Personal Profile.

Make an appointment with your personal trainer to link your publications.