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National Institutes of Health Public Access Law

Beginning April 7, 2008 all peer-reviewed manuscripts based on NIH funding must be deposited to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. See NIH Public Access Law in a Nutshell or ask you Lane departmental liaison for details.

Journal instructions

To locate a journal's instructions for authors, first try Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences, which links to Web sites providing author instructions for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. For further tips, please see our FAQ.

Classes on writing

Lane offers classes on writing for medical and scientific journals, as well as Endnote, Finding Funding and other relevant topics. Please visit our workshops page for the latest schedule, links to handouts, course videos, and more.

Support for meta-analyses

Contact your liaison to help with your next meta-analysis. Liaisons will identify relevant databases for your topic, develop an optimized search matrix configure strategy-sharing utilities such as PubMed�s My NCBI, deliver citations in a variety of formats, including EndNote libraries.

EndNote

Lane offers hands on workshops on EndNote, FAQs, and 1-1 support through our Liaison Program.

Copyright

Copyright is a very important issue. Lane staff can provide some information, but the most definitive source is the university's website on fair use. Stanford's Office of the General Counsel also has information about copyright and intellectual property.

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