New Faculty Expertise Database offers email funding alerts, faculty web pages
Through a collaborative effort of Scott Library and the Office of Scientific Affairs, Thomas Jefferson University now subscribes to the Community of Science Expertise database. Now full-time Jefferson faculty can publish searchable profiles of their research interests, publications and grants on the World Wide Web, and take advantage of several useful tools.
Participants in the service are eligible for:
- weekly email alerts on new Funding Opportunities in their fields
- individual faculty web pages
- automatic NIH biosketch formatting
- links from publications to Medline abstracts
- help identifying research mentors at Jefferson
The Expertise database is an international directory of researchers and faculty from 700 universities and research institutions. Our participation will allow funders, researchers, residents, postdoctoral fellows, editors, study section leaders, etc. to identify members of our faculty to act as research collaborators, reviewers, and commentators. It also has the potential to allow department chairs and committees to order custom reports on Jefferson's research activities and publications.
The subscription also offers access to databases of conferences and patents, Agricola, the Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily.
While faculty can enter their own records at any time, a campus-wide effort is underway to upload faculty profiles from existing resources, such as electronic copies of curricula vitae. Then each faculty member will be able to edit his or her record before it's released for viewing. So make sure your Chairman has an up-to-date, electronic copy of your c.v.
In the coming weeks, training in using the new services and JEFFLINE links to the resources will be made available. For more information in the meantime, please contact Margy Grasberger, COS-Jefferson liaison, margaret.grasberger@mail.tju.edu, 215-503-7815.
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