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Developed by Elsevier, CiteAlert is a free, "keep me posted-type" email service. Once an author is registered, the author will receive an email alert when the author's article is cited by another author in a newly published article. What the catch? 1. The newly published article must be an Elsevier journal. 2. The author's original article must be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus databae, and published since 2005. 3. No self citations.
The following have been added to JSTOR:
Behaviour. Supplement. . Release Content: Nos. 1 – 20 (1950 – 1977)
Systematic Botany Monographs. Release Content: Vol. 1 (October, 1980) – Vol. 66 (September 29, 2003), Moving Wall: 5 years
Water Environment Research [1992- ]. Release Content: Vol. 64, No. 1 (January/February, 1992) – Vol. 73, No. 6 (November/December, 2001), Moving Wall: 7 years
Moving Wall Reductions:
Ecological Applications. Moving Wall: 2 years
Ecological Monographs . Moving Wall: 2 years
The fulltext of Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (JPCRD) Monographs (numbers 1 to 9) and Supplements (1973 - 1988) are available in PDF format from this National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Website. Several of these monographs are very large files, and will take some time to download.
Created by Springer using their Journal collection of 1,900 titles, AuthorMapper is an online tool that aids document discovery by subject. With a keyword search it is possible to:
AuthorMapper includes advanced search features which help refine a search. Results contain visualization tools like graphs, timelines, and keyword tag clouds.
On the Scriptol programming language Web site, the History of Computer Languages and Their Evolution tracks the history and evolution of computer programming languages, from 1945 to 2007. It also includes some future trends.
There will be a online training seminar for the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library on January 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM EST. The seminar is free, but registration is required. Registration is available here.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is testing a program that provides open access to peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts. The program is currently available to authors who publish papers in ACS Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, Journal of Proteome Research, and Molecular Pharmaceutics. Authors can opt to have their manuscript available online within three days of acceptance. More information is available here.
For a limited time, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is offering free access to the most current issues of three new journals:
Owned and operated by Elsevier publishers, SciTopics is a free, wiki-like platform that provides summaries of scientific topics by experts in the field. Using Scopus, it links to important journal articles for the topic (a subscription may be required to use Scopus and a subscription may be required to access the journal article). Using Scirus, it links to important Web pages. SciTopics is searchable, and RSS feeds are available.
SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO) is a web-based, open access publication devoted to undergraduate research in applied and computational mathematics. It is published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
SIAM offers free membership for students. More information is available here.
History of the Internet is an animated, documentary video covering 1957 - 2009. It explains the important inventions and innovations, from time-sharing to file sharing, from ARPAnet to the Internet.
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.