NIH Announces First National Research Study Recruitment Registry

Nationwide Registry to “Match” Volunteers with Researchers
The NIH on Tuesday announced the creation of ResearchMatch.org, which allows individuals who want to participate in research studies to connect online with researchers nationwide through “the first disease-neutral, volunteer recruitment registry.” The site is a collaborative effort of the institutions affiliated with the NCRR’s Clinical and Translational [...]

From ASU Libraries–Spotlight Video: Google Scholar

The Library Channel is premiering a new series which will “Spotlight” key research resources available to the ASU community. Our first resource to spotlight is “Google Scholar” – a valuable tool to locate academic research.
The program will show you what’s special about the ASU customized version of Google Scholar, where to find it, how the [...]

FDA Amendments Act of 2007 now in effect…

As of Sept. 27, 2008, the U.S. FDA Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA 2007) will require that clinical trial results be made publicly available on the Internet through an expanded “registry and results databank.”  Under FDAAA, enrollment and outcomes data from trials of drugs, biologics and devices (excluding phase 1 trials) must appear in an [...]

An Open Access Mandate for the NIH

An Open Access Mandate for the NIH
Posted: 14 Jan 2008 03:44 PM CST
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of [...]