DRAFTEstrella Mountain Community College Library is a fantastic resource for students, staff, and faculty, but it can also be daunting.  Library faculty and staff are here to help you overcome your research hesitancy or just find something to engage your curiosity.Library physical items, including humans that serve as your personal guides, are located in Estrella Hall.  A wealth of material is also online at library.estrellamountain.edu, including research databases, How To guides, and Ask A Librarian 24/7 online chat.This resource will help remove some of the (stumbling blocks?) to accessing library resources. (add graphic of barrier coming down??)**cover photo from EMCC stock of Estrella hall 

The OSF Collections repository platform supports the discoverability and reuse of research by enabling the aggregation of related projects across OSF. With OSF Collections, any funder, journal, society, or research community can show their commitment to scientific integrity by aggregating the open outputs from their disciplines, grantees, journal articles, or more. Learn how research collections can foster new norms for sharing, collaboration, and reproducibility.

We also provide a demo of how OSF Collections aggregates and hosts your research by discipline, funded outcomes, project type, journal issue, and more.

Visit cos.io/collections to learn more.

Open science reduces waste and accelerates the discovery of knowledge, solutions, and cures for the world's most pressing needs. Shifting research culture toward greater openness, transparency, and reproducibility is challenging, but there are incremental steps at every stage of the research lifecycle that can improve rigor and reduce waste. Visit cos.io to learn more.

In her talk, Professor Vazire covers the role of open practices in allowing science to work the way it was intended to work—through self correction. By being able to “look under the hood,” we are able to evaluate scientific claims in the way that they should be.

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.

Openstax Psychology for General Psychology classes. Presented by Dr. Mark Hatala, Professor of Psychology at Truman State University, these videos cover topics from the Openstax textbook for Psychology chapter by chapter.

Many in the global research community are adapting to conducting work remotely while exploring the best ways to maintain collaboration with colleagues across teams and institutions.

Join us as we discuss the OSF tools available for contributors, labs, centers, and institutions that support stronger collaborations.

We demonstrate: contributor management, the OSF wiki as an electronic lab notebook, how to affiliate research projects for institution-wide discovery, using OSF to manage online courses and syllabi, and more. Plus, see examples from the research teams optimizing their workflows for inclusive collaboration and efficient data management.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"NOTCH1 is a protein implicated in various diseases, including breast cancer. In order to control Notch signaling, researchers have developed a light-activated tool called OptoNotch. OptoNotch is an engineered form of NOTCH1 that is activated under blue light. This mimics NOTCH1’s natural activation program: activation, release from the plasma membrane, translocation to the nucleus, and initiation of potentially harmful expression of different genes. The ability to activate NOTCH1 using only light makes OptoNotch highly targeted and easier to implement than chemical- or genetic-based systems. When deployed in two lines of breast cancer cells, OptoNotch could track how NOTCH1 contributed to accelerated cell proliferation, as well as cell migration, the phenotype of cancer cells in 3D cultures, mimicking patients' tumors, and resistance to common chemotherapy drugs. OptoNotch could help scientists to understand the roles of NOTCH1 in normal and disease conditions, and help screen for promising drug candidates..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

A worksheet and short presentation in PDF format designed to introduce students to different strategies for oganizing research. 

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Phosphorus is essential for life to function. It is a critical component of the energy metabolism molecules, genetic materials, and cell structures of all life. Phosphorus only enters natural ecosystems through the slow weathering of stone. Then microbes help maintain and regulate phosphorus by cycling it between its organic and inorganic forms. Understanding microbial phosphorus cycling is critical to many fields of study, like ecology and agriculture. However, researchers lack a comprehensive understanding of the phosphorus cycling genes microbes use, but the recently developed curated phosphorus cycling database (PCycDB) could help close that gap. PCycDB covers 10 phosphorus metabolic processes and 139 gene families, including several that have been missed elsewhere. Testing PCycDB with simulated datasets revealed high annotation accuracy, positive predictive value, sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive value..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Passion-Driven Statistics is an NSF-funded, multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum that supports students in conducting data-driven research, asking original questions, and communicating methods and results using the language of statistics. The curriculum supports students to work with existing data covering psychology, health, earth science, government, business, education, biology, ecology and more. From existing data, students are able to pose questions of personal interest and then use statistical software (e.g. SAS, R, Python, Stata, SPSS) to answer them. The e-book is presented in pdf format for ease of use across platforms.

Polar ice sheets are sensitive indicators of current climate and also preserve evidence of past climate conditions. Scientists studying Earth's climate history core thousands of meters deep into ancient ice to retrieve gas bubbles trapped in ice sheets. Ice cores help reconstruct climatic conditions from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Join Dr. Jeff Severinghaus as he explains how gas bubbles are trapped, how they provide detailed chemical clues to the past and how they are helping to shape future climate scenarios. (45 minutes)

The advent of rapid methods for sequencing DNA has resulted in major advances in our understanding of the Evolution and distribution of a wide variety of marine organisms. Join Scripps researcher Ron Burton as he describes the surprising array of applications for these techniques in marine science. (56 minutes)

Join Fred Fisher, co-inventor of FLIP, or Floating Instrument Platform as he shares a unique look at this strange research vessel's rich history. (37 minutes)

Join climate modeling expert Guillermo Auad as he explains the various kinds of models that researchers use to understand and forecast climate scenarios and how this science has impacts well outside of the research community. (46 minutes)

Join Richard Somerville as he weaves critical findings in climate science into a compelling story, making the most important issues of our time understandable to all. (57 minutes)

Learn about the challenging research work of many of the fellowship students at Scripps. Hear three short presentations that represent a sampling of the broad spectrum of research work Scripps graduate students are conducting to understand climate change and its impact on Earth. (58 minutes)

Learn about the challenging research work of three outstanding fellowship students at Scripps on topics as diverse as climate science, coastal Geology|Earth Science, and deep-sea diversity as they share their research discoveries and their visions for the future of their disciplines. (59 minutes)

This presentation teaches students about the different types of plagiarism and how to avoid plagiarizing borrowed materials.

This tutorial is designed to challenge your understanding of plagiarism and the ethical use of sources in academic writing. You will see ten samples of source material and ten corresponding examples of student writing. It is up to you to determine if the student has used each source responsibly.

At the end of this exercise, you will be asked to list three best practices for using sources responsibly. These rules and your results can be shared with your professor.