Getting Started:
Create a free account in the following platforms:
| Platform | Description |
|---|
| Platform | Purpose / Notes |
|---|---|
| ๐ ORCID | Create a persistent researcher identifier. Use ORCID for single sign-on across many academic platforms. |
| ๐๏ธ Login.gov | U.S. federal single sign-on used for research funding portals including eRA Commons, NIH ASSIST, and Grants.gov. |
| ๐งฌ My NCBI | Manage PubMed bibliographies, link publications to NIH grants, and maintain compliance with NIH reporting requirements. |
| ๐ Google Scholar | Maintain your public citation profile and track publications and citation metrics. |
| ๐ Scopus | Maintain your Scopus author profile and ensure publications are correctly attributed. |
| ๐ Clarivate / Web of Science | Citation indexing platform used for author profiles, citation tracking, and integration with EndNote. |
| ๐๏ธ EndNote | Reference management software integrated with Web of Science and Microsoft Word. |
| ๐ Zotero | Citation manager with integrations for Chrome, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf. |
| ๐ Overleaf | Collaborative LaTeX writing platform for manuscripts, grants, and presentations. |
| ๐ Springer Nature Research Communities | Create an account using your ORCID credentials to participate in scientific discussion communities. |
| ๐ป GitHub | Version control and collaboration platform. Used for authentication with Posit Cloud, Posit Connect Cloud, and VS Code (Web). Integrates with Overleaf. โข GitHub Pages Profile: Create a Quarto-rendered GitHub Pages profile in a repository named YOURUSERNAME.github.io, similar to this example. Notify me once complete so you can be added to the McPherson Lab People page. |
| ๐งพ Zenodo | Open science repository for datasets, software, and preprints. Join the McPhersonLab community. |
| ๐ Figshare | Repository for datasets, figures, and research outputs (Springer Nature). |
| ๐ Interfolio | Platform for academic dossiers, recommendation letters, and faculty applications. |
Future endeavors: Science via Emerald Cloud Labs (ECL), CLC Genomics (Qiagen) and AWS, which I maintain access via the SIBโs AWS-Docker
Begin reading, writing, publishing in our Favorite Journals
Place your research posts as a sub-folder in folder โpublicationsโ such as that of mine mine. I will pull it into the Lab publications folder
Universities of Active Recruitment
We actively recruit talented researchers from the following institutions worldwide: