SPIE launches a new open open access journal: SPIE Reviews. The journal will publish original, in-depth review articles on emerging and evolving fields in applied optics and photonics. It is truly open access, with no charges to either authors or readers. SPIE Reviews will also provide access to selected review articles from other SPIE journals in the SPIE Digital Library at no charge.
New content in JSTOR:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health [1979- ]
Previous Title: Epidemiology and Community Health [1979]
Previous Title: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health [1978]
Previous Title: British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine [1953-1977]
Previous Title: British Journal of Social Medicine [1947-1952]
Release Content::
Vol. 2, No. 1 (January, 1948) – Vol. 6, No. 4 (October, 1952);
Vol. 7, No. 1 (January, 1953) – Vol. 31, No. 4 (December, 1977);
Vol. 32, Nos. 1-4 (March-December, 1978);
Vol. 33, No. 1 (March, 1979);
Vol. 33, No. 2 (June, 1979) – Vol. 59, No. 12 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Note: The content for Vol. 1 (1947) and Vol. 60 (2006) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
Journal of Medical Ethics
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1975) – Vol. 32, No. 12 (December, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
The National Center for Biotechnology Information "bookshelf" contains The National Academies Collection: Reports Funded by National Institutes of Health. These reports "address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public in all areas of scientific and technological endeavor."
He may not use the scientific method, but Punxsutawney Phil seems to always get it right. Check out Phil's Website to see what he predicts this year or watch the video or learn some facts about his forecast.
arXiv is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers covering physics and the related disciplines of mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer science. It can be searched, browsed, and personalized. Cornell spends about $400,000 a year to maintain arXiv, and is seeking support from its heaviest institutional users to sustain this repository. Many of these institutions have already pledged their support. UAlbany is not among the top 200 users, but support may be requested. For more information, please see this news release,and the arXiv Business Model White Paper. [This post was updated with additional information on January 29, 2009.)
Sponsored by ProQuest, AtmosPeer is an atmospheric science social network. From the AtmosPeer about page:
AtmosPeer is a research tool designed specifically for researchers, faculty, librarians & students in the atmospheric science community. AtmosPeer provides:
- A central source of news in the atmospheric sciences (from reputable established sites like AMS, UCAR, Royal Meteorological Society, Scientific American, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- Current lists of conferences, scholars, and funding related to the Atmospheric Sciences, sourced from the ProQuest RefWorks COS Scholar Universe, Funding Opportunities and (Conference) Papers Invited products.
- Capability to search recent research in the Meteorological & GeoAstrophysical Abstracts (MGA) collection – a product developed in partnership between AMS and ProQuest.
- Social Networking - find, evaluate and initiate contact with new people. Share documents and receive feedback and collaborate on research.
More information is available here.
Compiled by Erwin Tomash, this bibliography catalogs an extensive collection of books and manuscripts related to the history of computing. The Edwin Tomash Library lists and describes over 5,000 items from 12th century manuscripts to modern publications. The descriptive essays explain the uses of little known instruments and techniques that are discussed in the entries. Entries consist of a bibliographic citation, the author's biographical information, a description of the contents, and illustrations of interesting pages and diagrams. In PDF format, the bibliography is alphabetically arranged in chapters. There are name, subject, and illustration indexes, and a listing by date of publication.
The UAlbany community can now access the IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP). ASPP is a collection of 138 IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines covering cutting edge technologies. The peer-reviewed publications contain theoretical and experimental articles, and the magazines focus on practical aspects in research and design. The periodicals are not yet cataloged in the Minerva catalog, so use the link above or access this collection via this Databases & Indexes page.
Two articles have come my way during the last 24 hours. They're on cited references, impact factors, the H-index, and the ranking of scientific publications (and scientists). They are:
Integrity Under Attack: The State of Scholarly Publishing, by Douglas N. Arnold in SIAM News.
I've always felt uncomfortable providing this type information for promotion and continuing appointment cases. These articles are not helping me feel better.
In 2009, the content of BRENDA has been substantially increased and these new features for the Web interface were implemented:
Published by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Inspec is the world's largest bibliographic database in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering, and information technology. In 2009, Inspec marked it's 40th anniversary, and added it's 11,000,000th record. Each year, Inspec indexes and abstracts over 4,000 journal titles, 2,700 conference proceedings, numerous books, technical reports, and dissertations, for a total of about 700,000 new records annually. Additional information is available here.
This posting is a milestone for Science Resources; it is the 600th posting.
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, January 23, 2009, beginning at 8:00 am EST. The downtime may last up to 12 hours.
Managed by EDP Sciences, Web of Conferences contains open access conference proceedings in physics and related subjects. It includes an international meetings calendar and a place to collect all of the conference proceedings published by EDP Sciences. It also offers a complete and flexible proceedings publishing service.
Zorb'a Guide to Free Ebooks is Chapter 3 of 50 Benefits of Ebooks: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Digital Reading Revolution, by Michael Patore. It's a comprehensive guide to free online books, and is divided into the following sections: free ebook Websites; ebook directories; ebook search sites and search engines; audio books, ebooks about aspects of writing, publishing, Internet, and epublishing; literature, classic books, and biographies; nonfiction ebooks (science, technology, & computing); scholary offerings; children's literature; and 1,001 noteworthy ebooks to read before you diet.
Elsevier announced that all articles in its Cell Press collection of journals will be published in the "article of the future" format. "The 'article of the future' is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how scientific articles are presented online. Successful ideas from this project are planned to be rolled-out across Elsevier’s portfolio of 2,000 journals available on ScienceDirect." This "new article format provides authors and readers with more effective and efficient ways to present and access scientific information.” For additional information, please see this news release.
Al's Morning Meeting blog outlines Resources for Tracing Extreme Weather Conditions including NCDC climate data and maps, monthly extreme maps, and display of averages and extremes by ZIP code.
From USA People Search, this Web page provides links to other Websites that contain biographies of well-known and lesser known women scientists. (Thanks to Crystal Sawyer for suggesting this page!)
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is offering a free version of CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index). CASSI can be used to determine journal titles and abbreviations used by CAS in products like SciFinder Scholar. Additional information like CODEN, ISBN, and publisher is also furnished. More information about CASSI is available here.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prizes to four teams for creating innovations in a range of applications. The Gordon Bell Prizes recognize outstanding achievements in high-performance computing. Information about the winning teams is available here.
The Science Library will be closed December 23, 2009 through January 3, 2010, and will reopen on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 8:00 AM. Science Library hours are available here. During the closure, materials from the Science Library will be paged daily. To use this service, please check with the University Library Circulation Department (442-3569).
What are the new titles recently cataloged in the Minerva catalog? One way to find out is to come the Science Library and peruse the "new book" shelves opposite the Circulation Desk on the first floor. Another way would be to use the Minverva catalog. Log into Minerva, and simply click the New Titles tab. This will provide you with all of the materials cataloged in the previous month. This list is divided by broad subjects. If you click on Q (science), R (medicine), S (agriculture), and T (technology), this will provide you with the new titles in the Science Library. The entire list as well as the individual broad subjects have RSS feeds. Paste the RSS feed URL into your RSS aggregator (Bloglines, Google, etc.), and the list will be automatically sent.
Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley InterScience resources may be interrupted on Monday, December 21, 2009 at 4:00 am EST. The downtime may last up to 1 hour.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has added information from the Philippines Intellectual Property Office to its patent coverage. Coverage goes back to 2007. CAS now includes chemical patent information from 60 patent authorities. A list of patent authorities covered by CAS (with years covered) is available here.
The American Institute of Physics has launched its next-generation hosting platform, Scitation C3. Scitation C3 has an XML infrastructure and includes features like full-text HTML rendering, the ability to enlarge tables and figures, faceted results, real-time institutional mapping, and an upgraded tables of contents service. More information is available here.
Has the global warming bubble finally burst? As a science student, I was taught to report the data that was collected, and to not "fudge" findings. I learned that science was after the truth. For more information, please see this Washington Times "Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling" editorial, as well as more here and here.
Chemical Synthesis Database (ChemSynthesis) is a collection over 40,000 compounds with citations to their synthesis. Each record also includes physical properties like density, melting point, and boiling point. ChemSynthesis is searchable by chemical name, CAS registry number, molecular formula, InChiKey, smiles, and journal title. It also has structure search capability.
NOAA releases the World Ocean Database 2009. It is an update of the 2005 edition, and contains a collection of scientific information about the oceans with records dating as far back as 1800. It is part of NOAA's climate services, and provides "about 9.1 million temperature profiles and 3.5 million salinity reports. The 2009 database also captures 29 categories of scientific information from the oceans, including oxygen levels and chemical tracers, plus information on gases and isotopes that can be used to trace the movement of ocean currents." The news release is available here.
These are Time magazine's picks for the best new gadgets, gizmos, and breakthroughs for 2009. Check them out here. Also, be sure to take a look at the 5 worst inventions.
Springer offers free access to all journal articles and book chapters written by 2009 Nobel Prize laureates in Springer publications. This offer runs through December 31, 2009. More information along with a list publications is available here.
Finding IR, NMR, ESR, and UV spectra for common compounds is sometimes difficult. The following books may be helpful; they are indexes to journals and other books that contain spectra:
From Conservation International, Biodiversity Hotspots highlights 25 critically threatened ecosystems (hotspots) around the world. Its purpose is to focus on areas where biodiversity is at greatest risk. Information includes an overview, unique biodiversity, human impacts, conservation actions, and in depth information. There is also an outline map, a reading list, and related links.
Safari Tech Books Online releases version 6.0. This version includes enhanced usability, optimized search, user ratings and reviews, categorization, and improved readability. More information is available here. Reminder: The UAlbany collection consists of 132 Safari titles.
Don't laugh! Deep Dyve has launched a rental service for research articles in science, technology, and medicine. For as little as 99 cents, you can "rent" for 24 hours one of 30 million articles in the Deep Dyve database of thousands of journals. There's a small catch ... the article cannot be printed. Deep Dyve has other options: for $9.99 a month, you can download up to 20 articles and keep them for 7 days; these cannot be printed either. However, the premium plan, which costs $19.99 a month, allows you to print and download an unlimited number of articles. This deserves some serious consideration. A 14-day free trial is available here and more information is available here.
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours, from 9:00 pm EDT Saturday, October 31 to 5:00 am EST Sunday, November 1.
Math Vids provides free instructional videos for students in middle school through college. The college section includes videos on calculus (I, II, III), beyond calculus, statistics, linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics.
A university consortium has been awarded $12,200,000 to create a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers, a "Facebook for scientists." The funding is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Institutions involved are the University of Florida, Cornell, Indiana University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Washington University, the Scripps Research Institute, and the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. More information is available here.
$12,200,000! We already have social network tools for scientists, and I've written about a few:
2collab
ACS Network
ACS Nanotation.
And, I am sure there are others.
Selected publications of the New York State Museum have been digitized by the New York State Library. Most of these publications are in the fields of biology, geology, and paleontology, and are freely available in PDF format here. The following publications are currently available:
Bulletin of the New York State Museum; an index is available here.
Circular – New York State Museum (nos. 14, 49, & 57); accessible here.
Education Leaflet (nos. 1 & 34); accessible here.
New York State Museum Handbook; accessible here.
New York State Museum Memoir; accessible here.
Natural History of New York; accessible here.
If you have trouble viewing any of the items, you may need to allow "pop-ups" in your browser.
Nobel chemistry laureate Linus Pauling conducted research on swine flu in 1976. Read his opinions on the vaccine and here.
Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley online resources may be interrupted on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:00 AM EDT. This interruption of service may last up to one hour.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is making available numerous resources on this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics. The resources include interviews, photos, and related Web links as well as free access to the laureates' articles in AIP journals. All resources are available here.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) releases the iResearch application. This application is an electronic reader that allows users to save PDF files to iPhone and iPod touch devices, and read them offline without a WiFi or cellular connection. The journals available in the iResearch application include: Applied Physics Letters, Biomicrofluidics, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Low Temperature Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, and Review of Scientific Instruments. iResearch is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch devices running software version 3.0 and above. More information on iResearch is available here.
This has little to do with science, however, since Major League Baseball's postseason begins today, I thought I would point out Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress. It is "a guide to baseball resources available on the Library's Web site and in its physical collections. The breadth and depth of materials highlighted will appeal to baseball researchers, while casual and diehard fans alike will find many digitized items documenting the history of baseball to fuel their passion for the game." If you are interested in the science of baseball, check out The Physics of Baseball by Robert Kemp Adair (Science Library / Browse Collection: QC 26 A23 1990).
Compiled by Karen Scarfone and Victoria Thompson at the Computer Security Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations is a listing of information technology acronyms and abbreviations. This glossary is in PDF format, and is also known as NIST Interagency Report 7581.
This video from Google explains their forthcoming collaborative tool, Google Wave, in under 8 minutes. Want to know more, check out this longer video; it's an hour and 20 minutes.
Project Euclid is an archive for independent mathematics and statistics publishers. It is jointly managed by Cornell University Libraries and Duke University Press. Project Euclid went live in August 2001, and in September 2009 it reached the significant milestone of 100,000 articles. It is important to note that 70% of its articles are available without any access restrictions.
Kaye and Laby Online contains the entire 16th edition (1995) of Kaye and Laby's Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants. It is freely available from the UK's National Physical Laboratory, and includes important physical and chemical property data. Kaye and Laby Online is searchable, or may be browsed.
Due to essential site maintenance, resources from Wiley InterScience may not be available on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 4 am EDT. This service interruption may last up to one hour.
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 8:00 am through 9:00 pm EDT.
The New York State Library (NYSL) is a great resource, especially for items that the UAlbany Libraries do not own or provide. You should always check our holding in the Minerva catalog, before trying the New York State Library. The New York State Library is a research library located on Madison Avenue in Albany; it is in the Cultural Education Center across from the Empire State Plaza. New York residents (18-years-old and older) and State government employees may borrow materials and access online resources (journals and databases). Library users (in person and online) need a NYSL borrower's card. NY residents can apply for a borrower's card here; State employees can apply here. To see if NYSL has what you are looking for, check their catalog or their electronic resources listings.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has created a new social network called AIP UniPHY. The purpose of AIP UniPHY is to link physical scientists. Scientists can share global connections that occur through similar publications. Membership is free, but registration is required.
