Open access agreement with Springer Nature & F1000
Monash Health staff can now publish open access articles in over 2,000 journals through the library. After much negotiation, the Victorian Health Libraries Consortium, led by Monash Health Library Manager for Access & Discovery, Cassandra Gorton, has secured a groundbreaking deal with Springer Nature. This new partnership allows Monash Health clinicians and researchers to publish open access in high quality journals at no cost.
Learn more about publishing in Springer Nature.
F1000 is an open research platform offering open peer review. Monash Health clinicians and researchers can now benefit from a 15% discount on article processing charges when publishing in F1000. To access the discount, use your Monash Health email and select Monash Health as your affiliation.
Learn more about publishing in F1000.
Special Webinar: How to to publish open access at Monash Health
There are increasing requirements to publish publicly funded research open access. This webinar will delve into the benefits of open access (OA), how to publish OA without incurring processing charges, selecting high quality OA journals with Q & A time for all your publishing questions.
When? Wednesday 19 March at 1:00pm
Register here to attend live or be notified when the recording is available on our Latte page.
Therapeutic Guidelines new app
Therapeutic Guidelines has a new app and access mode for mobile users. If you previously downloaded the app using a token, you will need to set up the new app and re-do your registration through the Clinicians Health Channel.
Find instructions on how to create your Clinicians Health Channel account and download the app in iOS, Chrome and Android in our Therapeutic Guidelines User Guide.
Can’t find a time that suits? Email library@monashhealth.org to book a custom training session for your team.
Health literacy training
The Patient Experience Office is conducting online Health Literacy training for Monash Health Employees. This training will benefit anyone who is involved in communicating health messages, whether it’s training frontline staff in communicating effectively with patients, families and carers or building capacity to create easy read, plain language materials and resources.
When? 1:30pm - 3:00pm Tuesday 18 February 2025
As numbers are limited, register you interest on Latte by Wednesday 12 February 2025.
Below is a selection of reports and guidance recently published by Australia state and federal government.
Victorian
Federal
Having trouble finding government publications? Try site:.gov.au shortcut in Google. For more tips visit our Grey Literature Guide or watch our Grey Literature Search Strategies video.
Our collection is always evolving. See a full list of our new books here.
Scientific publishing ecosystem : an author-editor-reviewer axis
Challenges in research policy : evidence-based policy briefs with recommendations
Randomistas : how radical researchers changed our world
The Power of Experiments
Resources for new starters
A warm welcome to our new junior doctors, graduate nurses and midwives and junior pharmacists. The library has a summary of what the library can do for you, including research support such as research consultations and literature searching.
Further guidance can be found on these library website pages:
Equip yourself with clinical decision support tools; UpToDate, BMJ Best practice, Therapeutic Guidelines, and eMIMS Elite. Find information, set up instructions and troubleshooting in the library’s User Guides and our how to videos.
Access SPSS & EndNote on library computers or laptops
The EndNote reference manager and SPSS statistical analysis software are now available on the Library’s loanable laptops. Borrow a laptop from Clayton, Casey or Dandenong when you need to use this software for a research project. EndNote and SPSS are also available on computers in each of our libraries (MMC, Dandenong, Casey, Moorabbin).
Journal recommendations for publishing
Receive a list of up to 10 recommended journals to publish in, based on your professional field and manuscript topic. This library service considers relevancy to your research, journal impact and journal quality. Request a Journal recommendation report from the library.
Look out for problematic journals
Library LibKey links to journals and the BrowZine eBookshelf now integrate data from Cabells on problematic journals to improve awareness and warnings about journals that may be predatory or linked to paper mills. Articles from problematic journals will now include a red problematic journal warning.
See our LibKey Nomad User Guide for more information about BrowZine. Guidance about problematic journals is available in our Predatory Publishing A-Z.
The following journals are some of the most popular titles in the new Open Access publishing offer from SpringerNature, which allows Monash Health researchers to publish open access without author processing fees. The selected reviews come from the latest issues.
View all journals in BrowZine.
Maternal and Child Health Journal
Congratulations to Prof. Allen Cheng AC for being awarded the Companion of Australia for extraordinary contributions to medicine, infectious and communicable disease research and education. See Prof. Cheng’s latest research on SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells from people with long COVID establish and maintain effector phenotype and key TCR signatures over 2 years.
View more publications from the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology team in the Monash Health Research Repository.
Selection of publications recently added to the MHRR (click on the DOI to check for full-text):
The prevalence of local symptoms in benign thyroid disease: a systematic review with meta-analysis. - Yogaraj V.;Sinclair C.;Tchernegovski A.;Phyland D (Department of Otolaryngology)
Outcomes of massive transfusion recipients administered abo-incompatible fresh frozen plasma. Loh J, Wood E, McQuilten Z. (Haematology)
Novel vascular territory mapping algorithm as a predictive tool for identification of antegrade flow in middle cerebral artery occlusion. - Valente M, Ma H. (Neurology)
Exploring the acceptability of a risk prediction tool for cardiometabolic risk (gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy) for use in early pregnancy: a qualitative study. - Thong E. (Diabetes and Vascular Medicine)
The MHRR has to be seen to be believed – book a 5-minute lightning demo for your next team meeting by emailing library@monashhealth.org.
We finish this first newsletter for 2025 with resources inspired by the themes of the new Thrive program at Monash Health. Thrive is an employee mental health and wellbeing program focusing on resources and tools to support individuals and teams.
Validate
Normalise
Pause
Speak up