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SciFinder Scholar has a new tool: Categorize. You can use Categorize to tease information from a large answer set or to quickly sort and evaluate the contents of an answer set. See this guide from Chemical Abstracts Service to learn more about Categorize.
Are you going to the 6th International Semantic Web Conference in Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007? If your answer is "no," then you may want check out volume 4825 in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. It contains 79 papers presented at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference. Proceedings of many important conferences and workshops are published in this series, often before the actual conference and sometimes immediately following.
Covering biology, medicine, chemistry, and earth sciences, Nature Precedings is an repository for scientists and researchers to deposit and share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened, but are not peer reviewed. Nature Precedings may be browsed or searched, and RSS feeds and email alerts are available for several subjects. Developed by Nature Publishing Group.
The Global Compendium of Weeds is a list of 28,000 named plant species that have been cited as weeds. The list of weeds may be browsed, and is arranged by the first letter of the genus name. The species profiles include the data source, synonyms, status, origin, and sometimes native range and reported medicinal/herbal uses.
Elsevier has announced that it is conducting an ebook trial on ScienceDirect with over 900 research libraries and corporations, and apparently the University at Albany Libraries has been included in the trial. A press release is available here.
The trial provides access to 500 Elsevier books with copyright dates from 1995 and forward. To access the ebooks on ScienceDirect click on a subject below Browse by subject and then check off full text available and All Books. This will bring you to a list of ebooks for the subject selected.
Do you have questions about copyright?
Lorre Smith, the Libraries' expert on copyright, will be presenting a class entitled "The Rights of Scholarly Authors: Our Copy Rights and How to Keep Them" on Friday, October 26, 11am - 12 noon (Room: Bio 248a) and repeated on Friday, November 30, 1 - 2pm (Room: Hum 354).
The class "will provide a discussion of author copyright, negotiation of copyright with publishers and the implications of publisher copyright agreements. Participants will discover resources to help clarify author rights and take away tools to negotiate rights with publishers."
No registration is necessary.
In recognition of National Chemistry Week (October 21 - 27, 2007), a bulletin board display has been mounted in the Science Library by Irina Holden, Sue Kaczor, and Michael Knee. The theme of National Chemistry Week and the bulletin board display is "the many faces of chemistry." The bulletin board is on the first floor adjacent to the Circulation Desk. Other activities include a chemistry quiz (with prizes), a chemistry reference book display (near the bulletin board), and SciFinder Scholar tutorials.
Find White Papers contains a collection of up-to-date IT and computing reports, case studies, podcasts, Web casts, and presentations. The collection is organized into 10 categories: data management, enterprise applications, IT management, knowledge management, networking, platforms, security, software development, storage, and wireless. Each category is further divided into numerous sub-categories. The categories and sub-categories can be browsed or the entire collection may be searched using basic and advanced modes. RSS feeds are available for each category and sub-category.
Due to scheduled maintenance, ScienceDirect will be unavailable Saturday, October 20, 2007 for approximately 2 hours starting at 8:00 AM EST.
The National Library of Medicine recently released Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. It updates and supercedes two previous NLM publications and is freely available on the NCBI Bookshelf. Citing Medicine provides guidance for citing 26 types of published and unpublished material, ranging from print books and journal articles to blogs and wikis.
The Future of U.S. Chemistry Research: Benchmarks and Challenges has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for October. At the request of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Research Council conducted an in-depth benchmarking analysis to gauge the current standing of the U.S. chemistry field in the world. This book highlights the main findings of the benchmarking exercise. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.
Former U.S. vice president (1992-2000) and 2000 Democrat presidential candidate Al Gore shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They were cited by the Nobel Committee "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
Earlier this week (Wednesday, October 10, 2007) "a British judge ruled that Al Gore's award winning climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth should only be shown in schools with guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination." The judge went on to say "some of the errors in Mr Gore's work had arisen in 'the context of alarmism and exaggeration' to support the former US vice-president's thesis on global warming." The judge set out nine alleged errors in the film in which statements were made that were not supported by the current mainstream scientific consensus.
Maybe the Nobel Prize Committee should reconsider!
The articles describing the 2007 Nobel Physics Prize winning work of Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg are freely available from the American Physical Society, here and here.
Articles published (1988-1997) by the American Institute of Physics by Fert and Grünberg are freely available here.
Articles published (1973-1992) by the American Institute of Physics by 2007 Nobel Chemistry Laureate Gerhard Ertl are freely available here.
From Harzing.com, Publish or Perish "is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these, and presents various metrics." The software must be downloaded, and is available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Let the user beware.
Through its Multimedia Directory and Media Center, the IEEE Computer Society provides access to a growing collection of podcasts. The collection covers a wide variety of topics that may interest students and professionals.
The key selection criteria for BioOne to include a journal are a commitment to furthering bioscience research, ISI ranking, relevant research focus, international scope or appeal, and not-for-profit status. BioOne has added or will be adding the following:
Avian Diseases Digest (American Association of Avian Pathologists)
Invasive Plant Science and Management (Weed Science Society of America)
Journal of the North Atlantic (Humboldt Field Research Institute).
The following open access titles will also be added:
Advances in Applied Biodiversity Science
Edentata
Neotropical Primates
Primate Conservation
Rapid Assessment Program Bulletin of Biological Assessment.
CAplus, the bibliographic databases available via SciFinder Scholar, has been enhanced with pre-1907 records from Chemisches Zentralblatt. Nearly 18,000 records from 1905-1906 issues of Chemisches Zentralblatt have been added to CAplus (and SciFinder Scholar). Chemisches Zentralblatt, is a predecessor to Chemical Abstracts; it is the German abstracting journal for chemistry, that was published from 1830 to 1969. It is still available in the Science Library at QD 1 C7.
PMC Physics A, the first PhysMath Central journal, has published its first research articles. PhysMath Central is BioMed Central's open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science. An earlier announcement about PMC Physics A can be found here.
The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is a 4-volume set containing nearly 300 artilces on scientific advances in the field of human nutrition. In its second edition, the Encyclopedia was extensively updated, and includes "expanded coverage of epidemiology of diet-related diseases, functional foods, food safety, clinical nutrition, and gastrointestinal disorders." Access is provided by a table-of-contents and a detailed subject index in volume 4. The Encyclopedia is available in the Science Library reference section at QP 141 E526 2005.
