Engineering Dictionaries
From Babylon Ltd., Engineering Dictionaries provide definitions of engineering terms from one or more dictionaries. Enter a term and receive definitions from several dictionaries.
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From Babylon Ltd., Engineering Dictionaries provide definitions of engineering terms from one or more dictionaries. Enter a term and receive definitions from several dictionaries.
From Babylon Ltd., Physics Dictionaries provide definitions of physics terms from one or more dictionaries. Enter a term and receive definitions from several dictionaries.
arXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution service for research papers covering physics and the related disciplines of mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computer science, and quantitative biology. Theoretical physicist David Bacon recently developed an iPhone application for arXive.org called arXiview. It has several nifty features and functionalities including browsing and searching arXive.org, and reading PDFs. Screenshots and more information about arXiview are available here.
From Babylon Ltd., Mathematics & Statistics Dictionaries provide definitions of mathematical & statistical terms from one or more dictionaries. Enter a term and receive definitions from several dictionaries.
From Babylon Ltd., Computer & Internet Dictionaries provide definitions of computing and internet terms from one or more dictionaries. Enter a term and receive definitions from several dictionaries.
From Babylon Ltd., Chemistry Dictionaries provide definitions of chemistry terms from one or more dictionaries. Enter a term and receive definitions from several dictionaries.
Hosted by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the E-print Network, Scientific Societies is a collection of worldwide scientific and technical associations and societies. Specialized lists of societies can be generated by checking off one or more subject discipline and one or more language. Once the list is displayed, links are provided to the societies' Websites.
The publisher Walter de Gruyter is offering a new hybrid open access model called de Gruyter Open Library. It is available for its journals and book series. Open access articles will be available in their own OA repository. Additional information is available here.
Looking for advice on finding a job? The Science Library has several books in the reference collection that may help you, including these new books:
Career Opportunities in Computers and Cyberspace by Harry Henderson. Science REF QA 76.25 H46 2004.
Great Jobs for Biology Majors by Blythe Camenson. Science REF HF 5381 C35 2004. (There is also a copy of this book in the University Library.)
Top 100 Computer and Technical Careers by Michael Farr. Science REF QA 76.25 F37 2009.
These 3 books are temporarily located behind the Science Library reference desk.
Informaworld will have scheduled downtime on:
Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 18.
Informaworld is the online home of publications from Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
Chemistry Conferences lists future conferences for several chemistry disciplines including materials science and nanotechnology. The conferences are browsable by topic and date (via calendar). Updates are available with RSS feeds.
SHERPA RoMEO was developed by a consortium of United Kingdom research libraries. Its purpose is to provide publisher's policies on preprint and postprint archiving in repositories, which is a part of a copyright transfer agreement. SHERPA RoMEO can be searched by journal title or publisher name, and browsed by publisher name.
Beginning at 6:00 PM EDT on Saturday, April 4, 2009 and lasting about 9 hours, Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Looking for a place to publish your article? The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now lists 4,000 journals! More information is here. More information about open access is here.