Announcing our New Read and Publish Agreement with the Company of Biologists To advance the Open Access and Open Science movements at the Rockefeller University, the Rita and Frits Markus Library has entered into a “Read and Publish” Agreement with the Company of Biologists, the publisher of the journals Development, Journal of Cell Science, and [...]
Dear Rockefeller University Community, To better promote the Open Science movement at the Rockefeller University, the Rita and Frits Markus Library is excited to announce that we now have a membership with Datacite. This membership enables the Library to create DOI’s (Digital Object Identifiers) for your research objects. With access to Datacite, the Rockefeller University members can [...]
In conjunction with the RISI group, The Rita & Fritz Markus Library is looking to expand its collection of books on diversity, inclusivity, and equality. If you have a suggestion on a book or books that might be relevant to this collection, we would love to hear from you. More information about our Diversity, Inclusivity, [...]
Season’s Greetings from the Markus Library The library will be closed during the university's winter recess from 12/24/2020 to 1/3/2021. We will resume all our online services on Monday 1/4/2021 while our physical library will remain closed under the university's guidelines. For immediate assistance during our winter recess, please e-mail us at markuslibrary@rockefeller.edu We [...]
Library Virtual Office Hours From 11am to 1pm Every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays on Zoom! If you have any questions regarding library resources, need assistance finding resources, need help trouble shooting access to our resources, or have questions for librarian/ informationists, please come to our virtual office hours. Please contact us at Markuslibrary@rockefeller.edu for [...]
Monthly Readership Totals: Last month, Digital Commons @ RU had 10742 full-text downloads and 53 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 3825. Rockefeller University scholarship was read by 612 institutions across 118 countries. The most popular papers were: JAMES WATSON AND FRANCIS CRICK (1677 downloads) https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/transforming-principle-dna/23 ERWIN CHARGAFF (414 [...]
In celebration of winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Rockefeller University Press created a collection of articles from their journals, Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) and Journal of Cell Biology ( JCB), authored by Rice and Houghton on the topics of Hepatitis C virus, yellow fever, and SARS-CoV-2. These articles are free [...]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 goes to.... Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, jointly for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. Illustration: Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media Their contribution, the discovery of Hepatitis C virus, revealed the cause of the cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests [...]
Monthly Readership Totals: Last month, Digital Commons @ RU had 5603 full-text downloads and 197 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 3712. Rockefeller University scholarship was read by 404 institutions across 100 countries. The most popular papers were: JAMES WATSON AND FRANCIS CRICK (908 downloads) https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/transforming-principle-dna/23 ERWIN CHARGAFF (203 [...]
Dear Rockefeller Community, In conjunction with the RISI Group, the Rockefeller University has taken action to advance the causes of diversity, inclusivity, and equality. We are proud to announce that The Rita & Fritz Markus Library has created a new collection of books called “Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equality” which are now available in the new [...]
