Tools
This page presents information tools that can be helpful for all areas of the scientific communication process and for which DKFZ employees have a license to use. These are, for example, literature management programs, educational training courses, identifier systems, etc. Please feel free to contact us if you think you are missing a helpful tool or if you cannot find a suitable tool for a specific task.
The Creative Commons licenses (CC licenses) are standardized licenses for published works, such as publications or data. They regulate how these may be reused. You can find the currently valid CC 4.0 licenses here: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/
For articles in Golden Open Access journals in particular, publishers offer researchers the option of selecting a CC license for their articles. If possible, the CC BY license should always be chosen, as it offers the most comprehensive reuse. There are a few research funders who require a CC BY license for publications resulting from their funding and do not accept a stricter CC as "open access".
Contact:
Dagmar Sitek
Tel.: 06221/42-2245
E-Mail
With the help of a reference management system, scientific sources can be collected, organized, saved and, if required, output again in the appropriate citation style. By integrating the software into text programs, the creation of citations and footnotes is supported electronically. The DKFZ provides a campus license for EndNote via the software depot.
Help page for EndNote: https://clarivate.com/academia-government/training-support/endnote/
Please also note the SciFlow tool as a supplement to this topic.
Contact:
Andrea Heppert
Tel.: 06221/42-3669
E-Mail
10 e-learning courses created by Karger (each lasting between 90 and 120 minutes) for authors of research papers in the health sciences. The courses guide through the key challenges faced in successfully publishing research. The program includes the following courses:
1. How to conduct ethically sound research
2. How to avoid your paper being rejected
3. How to write a compelling case report
4. How to write a clinical research paper
5. How to review a clinical research paper
6. How to choose a target journal
7. How to review a systematic review paper
8. How to write a systematic review paper
9. How to decide on preprints and open access license
10. How to get your paper noticed following publication
DKFZ employees have access to the courses via the training portal on the intranet.
In addition to English, the courses are also offered in the following languages: Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Portuguese.
Persistent Identifier / ORCiD
With a persistent identifier, authors can link their own name uniquely and permanently to their own publications, workplace, peer review or funding organization. This can be difficult without an ID, especially in the case of frequently occurring surnames, surnames with special characters or name changes due to marriage. By creating a persistent identification number such as the ORCID ID, your own research can be made more visible in the sense that it can be found and reused. It should be emphasized that the public visibility can be defined granularly for each individual ORCID entry and changed again at any time.
The maintenance of author profiles in various databases such as Web of Science or Scopus is considerably simplified by an ORCID ID.
You don't have an ORCID yet?
Link to the ORCID page: https://orcid.org/
Short video information and instructions: https: //info.orcid.org/video-tutorials/
Do you need support?
The library will advise, help or take over the creation and permanent maintenance of your ORCID data record if you wish.
Contact:
Andrea Heppert
Tel.: 06221/42-3669
E-Mail
Attention: fraudulent open access publishers
There are a large number of publishers that do not offer reputable publication procedures . It is not permitted to publish in such journals. Publishers and journals that are not known should be checked for reputability before submitting an article. In any case, they should be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (https://doaj.org/If in doubt, contact the library, which will assist you with the check.
Contact:
Dagmar Sitek
Tel.: 06221/42-2245
E-Mail
SciFlow Authering Platform
With SciFlow, researchers and students can easily create and format scientific papers - in collaboration, in real time, with literature management and based on thousands of journal and institute templates.
Access to your own registration: https://sciflow.net/helmholtz
with your own institutional e-mail address
or alternatively
with your Helmholtz ID(select German Cancer Research Center from the list of institutions)
The advantages of SciFlow at a glance:
Large selection of journal templates take care of formatting
The appropriate template for a manuscript can be selected from thousands of existing templates from renowned journals and standard documents from the journal template database.
Direct collaboration between all authors
Writing takes place in the cloud so that all co-authors can access the document simultaneously and independently of their organization. Existing texts in Word documents can be easily inserted into the editor. Co-authors can communicate with each other using the comment function.
Managing references / reference management
References can be imported from all common reference management programs into a library belonging to the document. All authors can work with this library. SciFlow supports over 8,000 citation styles. References are simply dragged and dropped into the right place. Formatting to the selected style takes place automatically. Please also refer to the entry under EndNote on the subject of reference management.
Professional text check
LanguageTool checks spelling, grammar and style directly in the document while you are writing. The text checker is currently available for English and German.
Export
At the end of your work with SciFlow, you can export/download a ready-to-submit journal export as a Word file, PDF, HTML or JATS export.
Data protection
All data is stored anonymously on servers in Germany.
Help
There are regular training sessions in German and English. However, the site also has a help function and contact options.