From the Macaulay Library of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, the Sound and Video Catalog provides access to the world's largest natural sound and video archive of animal behavior. Although birds are favored, many other animals are covered. The site is fully searchable.
The Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors is a chemistry dictionary that can be downloaded and used with Microsoft Office (Windows or Mac) or Open Office (Windows or Linux). It contains approximately 104,000 words. The dictionary was created by Adam Azman (Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) announced that SciFinder Scholar now contains the largest collection of predicted proton NMR spectra (also called 1H-NMR). SciFinder Scholar users can access more than 23,800,000 spectra. These spectra augment the 1.9 billion predicted and experimental properties already available. The proton NMR spectra is being made available through an agreement between CAS and ACD/Labs.
Due to site maintenance, there may be an interruption in the online service for Wiley journals on Saturday, December 27, 2008. The service interruption is scheduled to begin at 9 AM and may last from 2 to 6 hours.
I've selected the following as the top 10 Science Resources for 2008. These are my favorites. There were so many great resources, that the list grew to 15; so you get a bonus of 5. They are in the chronological order that they appeared in Science Resources. Links are provided to the original blog post.
Programmers at Work
Bytesize Science
International Field Guides
Online Journals from the New York State Library
High-Energy Physics Labs Join to Build a New Scientific Information System
Fora.tv: Tech & Science
FreeBookCentre.net and Computer Programming Ebook Collection
National Science Foundation: Multimedia Gallery: Video
ScienceBlogs
Free Chemistry Drawing Programs
SciFinder Podcasts
Decoder for Biochimica et Biopysica Acta
ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents Service
The Periodic Table of Videos
As part of the University Energy Savings Initiative, the Science Library will be closed December 20, 2008 through January 4, 2009. When the Science Library reopens at 8 AM on January 5, 2009, it will be heated to 63 to 65 degrees F, hot water will be available, and interior lighting will be turned on as needed. The Science Library will return to normal conditions on January 20, 2009.
While it is closed, materials from the Science Library will be paged. Please use UA Delivery to request materials. Book requests will be paged and held at the University Library for you to pick up. Journal articles will be scanned, and made available electronically.
There will be no interruption to Interlibrary Loan and UA Delivery electronic article delivery services during this period. However, due to seasonal shutdowns in many research libraries, ILL article turnaround time may in some cases be slower than normal.
New Journal of Physics celebrates its 10th anniversary. For the past 10 years, NJP has been providing permanently free access to peer-reviewed research covering all areas of physics. During this time, over 1,500 articles have been published, and there have been over 2,000,000 downloads. More interesting facts and figures about NJP are available here and here.
From the American Physical Society (APS), Physical Review Focus is a free online resource that provides brief articles based on selected research papers from the Physical Review family of journals. The articles are written so they are accessible to students as well as researchers from all fields of physics. Videos and links to the original article are also included.
ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents Service is a table of contents service developed by a consortium of United Kingdom universities and information providers. ticTOCs is free and covers over 11,000 journals from over 400 publishers. Tables of contents can be accessed by searching by journal title; links are provided to the full text. Users can also register and use MyTOCs to create and permanently save a set of journals titles for future use. It is also possible to export TOC RSS feeds to feedreaders.
From the University of Nottingham, The Periodic Table of Videos is a collection of short, informative videos about each of the elements in the Periodic Table of the Elements.
From Time magazine's The Top 10 Everything of 2008, the Top 10 Scientific Discoievers lists and describes some of the most important discoveries of 2008. Also, check out these science/technology lists: Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs and Top 10 Gadgets.
Symyx is offering to academic and personal users a no-fee version of Symyx Draw, an all-purpose structure drawing program. Information about Symyx Draw along with downloading instructions is available at http://www.symyx.com/getdraw. A video demonstration is available here.
On November 21, 2008, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registered its 40 millionth substance. The substance is an azulenobenzofuran derivative, and it was assigned the CAS registry number 1073662-18-6. It was described in the journal article:
Oh, C.H.; Lee, J.H.; Lee, S.J.; Kim, J.I.; Hong, C.S. Intramolecular Huisgen-Type Cyclization of Platinum-Bound Pyrylium Ions with Alkenes and Subsequent Insertion into a Benzylic C-H Bond. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 7505-7507.
The CAS registry system is world's largest and most authoritative collection of disclosed chemical substance information, and is available via SciFinder Scholar.
The November 2008 (vol. 41, no. 11) issue of Computer is a special issue featuring several articles on e-Science.
Do you use an iPhone (or similar device) to read Science Resources? If you do, doYouFeed will transform the RSS feed into iPhone-friendly format. Copy http://tinyurl.com/6pry4c into your iPhone, or visit doYouFeed from your iPhone and bookmark Science Resources.
Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access , edited by E. Canessa and M. Zennaro, servies as guide to the scientific community on the requirements of open access, and contains numerous inexpensive solutions. The book encourages institutions to adopt open access policies.
On Saturday, November 15, Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable for scheduled upgrades during the following periods:
Scopus: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
ScienceDirect: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The IEEE Compter Society is offering online training on its Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL). The one hour session will take place on November 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM EST. It will cover the best practices in searching CSDL content as well as new features. Registration is required; to sign up go to: http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_cs/csdl/jsp/signup/seminar.jsp.
BioOptics World "tracks technologies, applications, and business trends related to the use of optical technologies and instrumentation in the life sciences. Comprising a magazine, e-newsletter, and web site, BioOptics World covers cutting-edge research related to the design, development, and utilization of optical technologies for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disease processes. BioOptics World is intended for researchers and engineers involved in the development and fabrication of optical components and instrumentation used in the life sciences." BioOptics World is open access, but registration is required.
SPIE Letters Virtual Journal is an open access journal containing the rapid communications (letters) from the six journals published in the SPIE Digital Library:
Chemical Abstract Service has produced a series of podcasts that relate chemistry and scientific discovery to SciFinder. The latest podcast, "From Fairy Gloves to Nanocrystals: How a Folk Remedy Became One of the Greatest Drug Discoveries," explores "the history of the foxglove, from its earliest development and uses of its extract Digitoxin, to research done in modern times." [UAlbany SciFinder Scholar users should note that this podcast uses the Web-based SciFinder. We will be migrating to the Web-based SciFinder in 2009.]
ScienceDirect divides Biochimica et Biopysica Acta (BBA) by section, not by sequential volume number. There are 25 sections of BBA. Developed at the Oregon Health & Science University Library, the BBA Decoder can be used when the volume is known, but the section is not known. When the section is know, the UAlbany community should use the journal listing in the Minerva catalog to gain access.
The American Chemical Society has initiated a free social networking Website for ACS members and student affiliates. Called ACS Network, its purpose is to facilitate scientific collaboration among chemists around the world. Over 15,000 chemists have registered.
New content in JSTOR:
Economic Botany; Vols. 1 – 56; 1947-2002, Moving Wall: 5 years, Publisher: Springer on behalf of the New York Botanical Garden Press.
Scopus trainers will be in the Science Library Atrium on Wednesday, September 17, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. They will be demonstrating the Scopus database, and will be available to answer you questions. Students and faculty are welcome to stop by. Refreshments will be served.
From SciFinder Solutions:
CAS databases, the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of disclosed chemistry-related information, have recently been updated with the following key enhancements:
176,000 experimental spectra have been added to CAS REGISTRYSM - this includes 90,000 proton NMR spectra, 15,000 carbon-13 spectra, and 71,000 mass spectra. CAS REGISTRY now includes more than 480,000 experimental spectra.
CAS databases now contain more than 200 million cited references.
More than 163,000 exemplified prophetic substances (from the example section of all English, French, and German language basic patents) from over 1,700 published patents have been added to CAS databases.
CASREACT has recently surpassed 15 million single- and multi-step reactions and coverage has been extended to include prophetic reactions.
South Korean patent data is now current through February 2008.
Japanese (JPO), Chinese (SIPO), and South Korean (KIPO) utility models are now being added to the CAS databases. By the end of this year, a backfile from the beginning of 2006 will be included in the CAS databases.
CAS databases have been enhanced with approximately 3,500 World Traditional Medicine (WTM) Chinese patents, bringing the total to 13,500 WTM patents.
Mexican patents through the end of 2007 have been added to CAS databases.
Over 1 million 10-digit CAS Registry Number identifiers have been assigned to newly registered chemicals.
New content in JSTOR:
5 free chemistry drawing programs:
New content in JSTOR:
Computer Programming Ebooks Collection is a resource for locating free online programming books. It is arranged in blog format; that is, chronological order. However, there is also a category (subject) guide.
The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia recently began publishing 2 open access journals:
From the American Chemical Society, ACS Careers allows job seekers to search or browse position listings or post a resume, and employers to post job openings or search resumes. Some functions require registration. Additional chemistry career information is also provided.
Physics is an online publication from the American Physical Society (APS). Its goal is to highlight selected articles published in APS publications, and to offer expert commentary. Physics has 3 types of entries: : “Viewpoints discuss and explain a particular article's findings in a manner accessible to all physicists. Trends cover a recent body of work in a specific field, but also look ahead to the challenges and questions that fascinate that field’s top researchers. Synopses summarize articles that merit wider attention among physicists in all fields."
Energy & Environmental Science is a new journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. It covers "all aspects of the chemical sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies, and environmental science." Although the University at Albany does not have a subscription to Energy & Environmental Science, our institutional subscription to other RSC journals allows free access during 2008 and 2009. The first issue is now available.
JSTOR has added the following journals:
From the American Chemical Society, Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of society 's most challenging problems and how chemistry research is finding some of the solutions.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will discontinue print subscriptions after 2010. This policy applies to all AGU journals, except Eos Transactions. For additional information, please see: The Demise of Print by Francis Albarède, Eos Transactions, 89 (28), 257.
The journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials has changed publishers and is now open access. The new publisher is the National Institute for Materials Science. It has moved from ScienceDirect to the Institute of Physics ( IOP) platform. Volume 1, 2000+ is available on the IOP Website.
80beats is a science news aggregator from Discover Magazine. It can be viewed as a single blog or via subject: health & medicine, mind & brain, technology, space, human origins, living world, environment, and physics & math. Each subject is further divided into subcategories. 80beats is searchable and RSS feeds are available.
FreeBookCentre.net provides access to numerous online computing books in the following categories: computer science, programming languages, Java, Unix/Linux, Web technology, database systems, networking, Microsoft technology, and special topics.
The New York State Library has begun digitizing important resources in the sciences. The New York State Library Digital Collections currently has two important works:
These resources are also available in Special Collections of the UAlbany Libraries.
Citation Statistics is a report commissioned by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). It is "about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research," and "is based on practices as reported from mathematicians and other scientists from around the world."
From the U.S. National Science Foundation, this growing collection of videos from the Multimedia Gallery highlights some of the latest scientific research findings. Although the videos are produced for children, its content is informative for all. The multimedia collection is searchable and RSS feeds are available.
Hosted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Nanoparticle Information Library is a database containing reports on health and safety-associated properties of nanomaterials. The reports include composition, methods of production, particle size, applications, availability, publications, and contacts for additional information. The database is fully searchable.
JACSΒ (JACS Beta) is "the testing ground for the Journal of the American Chemical Society Website." It will use "new approaches to the presentation of chemical and related research to further communication and understanding as emerging fi