Bibliothèque universitaire
de médecine
Research support
BiUM library is offering numerous services and trainings to support researchers at multiple steps of the research workflow: discovery, writing, publishing & archiving, outreach & assessment. Our publication management unit is well experienced in using scholarly traditional tools as well as the most recent innovative tools specially tested and selected to help researchers. Learn more about our services and tools.
Publication & Open Access
Definition and advantages to Open Access Scientific Publication and Research Data Open Access (OA) means unrestricted and free of charge online access and reuse of scientific information. In the context of research, scientific information can refer to (i) peer-reviewed publications (published in scholarly journals) or (ii) research data (data underlying publications, curated data and/or raw […]
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Data management & Open Data
The content and the structure of this Web site is licensed under the Creative Commons License (CC BY NC ND Lebrand C.- BiUM library-2016) unless otherwise noted. In order to build on previous findings, improve transparency and increase results reproducibility, it is important for researchers to be able to re-use research data. For all these […]
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Research visibility & ORCID
The content of this Web site is licensed under the Creative Commons License (CC BY NC ND Lebrand C.- BiUM library- 2016) unless otherwise noted. Why improving your online visibility? To make your research studies and activities known. Researchers in the biomedical field have to face the information overload problem (Infobesity) with more than 1.2 […]
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Research impact (Bibliometrics & Altmetrics)
The content of this Web site is licensed under the Creative Commons License (CC BY NC ND Lebrand C.- BiUM library- 2016) unless otherwise noted. Bibliometrics are designed to quantitatively assess the quality of published research using scientometric indicators. Various metrics exist, from conventional indicators (Journal Impact Factor (JIF), number of published articles, citations per […]
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