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Published by the Beilstein-Institut, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC) is one the first chemistry journals accepted by PubMed Central, the leading global publisher of open access journals. BioMed Central currently has over 150 open access journals. BJOC is available at http://bjoc.beilstein-journals.org/.
Published annually by Wiley, Organic Syntheses is a collection of books that provide "detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds." The Science Library has most of the volumes from 1921 forward at QD 262 O7 with collective volumes at QD 262 O722. There is also an Organic Syntheses Web site that contains all of the information in the print volumes; it can be browsed by volume or searched by structure and keywords.
Bound by Law? has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for March. Published by Duke University's Law School, Bound by Law? is a comic book that expains copyright and fair use. It is available in HTML, Flash animation, and PDF. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.
Authors, Philip M. Davis and Michael J. Fromerth: Does the arXiv lead to higher citations and reduced publisher downloads for mathematics articles? Abstract: "An analysis of 2,765 articles published in four math journals from 1997 to 2005 indicated that articles deposited in the arXiv received 35% more citations on average than non-deposited articles (an advantage of about 1.1 citations per article), and that this difference was most pronounced for highly-cited articles. The most plausible explanation is not Open Access or Early View, but Self-Selection, which has led to higher quality articles being deposited in the arXiv. Yet in spite of their citation advantage, arXiv-deposited articles received 23% fewer downloads from the publisher's website (about 10 fewer downloads per article) in all but the most recent two years after publication. The data suggest that arXiv and the publisher's website may be fulfilling distinct functional needs of the reader."
For those who are looking for new ways to find cited references, Dana Roth (California Institute of Technology Library System) has researched and written an excellent article entitled "The Emergence of Competitors to Science Citation Index and the Web of Science. It appeared in Current Science 89 (9): 1531-1536, November 2005. Resources coverd include SciFinder Scholar, Scopus, Scitation/Spin Web, PROLA, CiteSeer, ScienceDirect, PsychINFO, and Institute of Physics.
This site, also known as Certification Crazy, provides information and free resources for all of the major computer certifications, such as CIW (webmaster), Cisco, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Linux, security, and Unix. There are study guides, practice exams, discussion groups, and other important certification information.
Hindawi Publishing Corporation offers an expanding list of scholarly journals in science, mathematics, and technology. Their open access model puts the burden of payment on the the author. Among their offering are the following journals which may be of interest to UAlbany faculty and students:
Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
International Journal of Photoenergy
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Forthcoming:
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
International Journal of Image and Video Processing
Journal of Nanomaterials
PPAR Research
OpenDOAR is the Directory of Open Access Repositories. It lists, organizes, and describes world wide open access research reportories. OpenDOAR can be searched by subject keywords, or browsed by country of origin, content type, or general subject.
The 5th edition of Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry is now available in the Science Library (Science Ref QD 5 I5 2005). As the central science, chemistry has become more and more important to other scientific and technical fields This one-volume encyclopedia not only covers the traditional topics in chemistry, but also covers subjects in nanotechnology, fuel cell technology, forensic chemistry, and materials chemistry. The entries range in length from a few sentences to several pages. The longer entries are signed and include a list of additional readings. There are numerous cross-reference throughout the text and a comprehensive subject index. Sorry, but this is a print resource; you will have come to the Science Library to use it.
Through a joint purchase with the SUNY University Centers as well as the SUNY Health Science Centers, the UAlbany Libraries is now providing online access to all of the journals from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Access is available for:
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (formerly Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology)
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Eukaryotic Cell
Infection and Immunity
Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Journal of Virology
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Looking for entries in Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet) that have an "amusement factor?" Exceptional MathReviews lists entries from MathSciNet that are "unexpected, witty, scathing, humorous, or are just not the standard run-of-the-mill reviews." And, yes, the compiler, Kimball Martin, is looking for additional entries to add to his list.