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ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable on Saturday, August 29th due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 7.5 hours, from 2:30 PM EDT to to 10:00 PM EDT.
Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that is currently under development. Speculation in a recent Nature News article is that Google Wave may change scientific and scholarly communication. For additional information about Google Wave, see Nature news and the video on the Google Wave Website.
The UAlbany community can now access 2 new databases:
Computer Source - Providing access to nearly 300 full text academic journals, magazines, and trade publications, this resource covers computers science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. An additional 150 periodicals are also indexed and abstracted.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete - Indexes and abstracts over 1,900 academic journals and professional publications, and provides full text access to more than 830 periodicals, books, conferences, and encyclopedias. Subject coverage includes computing theory and practice; engineering and applied science; and social and business implication of technology.
Both databases are available SUNY-wide through SUNYConnect, and are accessible on the Ebsco platform.
The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) is offering mobile access as a beta project. JACSB currently has a table of contents project and an article project. The goal of these "is to create the most useful and enjoyable mobile experience possible." More information is available here.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is on target to register its 50 millionth substance on September 7, 2009. It seems like just yesterday that CAS registered its 40 millionth substance, but it was 9 months ago. For more information, please see news release here.
Journal articles from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) from 2004 forward are in arXiv. The articles are in either the Probability Theory or Statistics sections. Additional information is available here.
viXra.org (reverse of arXiv) is a new preprint archive alternative. It places no restrictions on the sorts of papers that can be posted, and at the same time, they are trying to determine "what kind of stuff is not managing to get into the arXiv." At the moment, viXra covers physics, mathematics, biology, and computational science. For additional information, please see physicsworld.com.