LibGuides: New Article Databases and Modifications to Existing Electronic Resources: February 2020

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ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication

The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is now available to APSU users from both on campus and remote locations.

The ACS Guide is a great resource for best practices in scholarly communication for science, technology, and math disciplines. The guide not only covers the ACS citation style format, but deals with data, copyright issues, and details like table formatting and how to organize your research article.

Sections new to the 2020 ACS Guide include the following:

Different Ways Scientists Communicate
Communicating Safety Information
Intellectual Property
Open Access
Chemistry Preprints
Writing About Your Research: Best Practices
Selecting a Scientific Journal
Submission Procedures
Post submission Procedures
Data in the Google Era

The previous ACS Style Guide was last updated in 2012; the new ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication came out January 2020 and will be updated regularly with new content. Additional content coming out this year will cover effective PowerPoint presentations and presenting research posters. Next year, content is already planned on digital biological data, patents, and communicating research for funding.

You can get to the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication from A-Z List of Databases, the Chemistry Research Guide, and the Chemical Engineering Research Guide.

ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
A new, online version of the ACS Style Guide for reference formatting that also addresses best practices for scholarly communication in the science, technology, and math disciplines

The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is always up-to-date: digital-first, and updated and expanded biannually.

Given the rapidly changing publishing landscape, the new version of the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication will be a digital-first resource, with regular and timely updates. New topics will be added to (1) expand scientific communication beyond the scientific journal, including patents, communicating science to the public, and communicating science to decision-makers; (2) expand data conventions beyond chemistry; and (3) broaden our reach beyond ethics in scientific publications to ethics in scientific research.

Now in a digital-first format, the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides students, researchers, educators, and librarians with the instruction and advice they need to master the art of scholarly communication. It contains:

*New content to help authors navigate modern challenges in publishing
*A library of real-world examples to help users create engaging tables, charts, and references
*A multidisciplinary author and editor team to ensure the needs of the student, the library, the education, the investigator, and even the corporate reader are supported
*Always up-to-date with digital format
*Video best practices for authoring scholarly communication, brought to life through annotated published examples

With over 1.3 million digital downloads of the current edition, the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to best practices for scientists across the STM disciplines.