Science Resources

Don't laugh! Deep Dyve has launched a rental service for research articles in science, technology, and medicine. For as little as 99 cents, you can "rent" for 24 hours one of 30 million articles in the Deep Dyve database of thousands of journals. There's a small catch ... the article cannot be printed. Deep Dyve has other options: for $9.99 a month, you can download up to 20 articles and keep them for 7 days; these cannot be printed either. However, the premium plan, which costs $19.99 a month, allows you to print and download an unlimited number of articles. This deserves some serious consideration. A 14-day free trial is available here and more information is available here.

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ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours, from 9:00 pm EDT Saturday, October 31 to 5:00 am EST Sunday, November 1.

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Math Vids provides free instructional videos for students in middle school through college. The college section includes videos on calculus (I, II, III), beyond calculus, statistics, linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics.

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A university consortium has been awarded $12,200,000 to create a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers, a "Facebook for scientists." The funding is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Institutions involved are the University of Florida, Cornell, Indiana University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Washington University, the Scripps Research Institute, and the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. More information is available here.

$12,200,000! We already have social network tools for scientists, and I've written about a few:

2collab
ACS Network
ACS Nanotation.

And, I am sure there are others.

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Selected publications of the New York State Museum have been digitized by the New York State Library. Most of these publications are in the fields of biology, geology, and paleontology, and are freely available in PDF format here. The following publications are currently available:

Bulletin of the New York State Museum; an index is available here.
Circular – New York State Museum (nos. 14, 49, & 57); accessible here.
Education Leaflet (nos. 1 & 34); accessible here.
New York State Museum Handbook; accessible here.
New York State Museum Memoir; accessible here.
Natural History of New York; accessible here.

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Nobel chemistry laureate Linus Pauling conducted research on swine flu in 1976. Read his opinions on the vaccine and here.

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Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley online resources may be interrupted on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:00 AM EDT. This interruption of service may last up to one hour.

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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is making available numerous resources on this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics. The resources include interviews, photos, and related Web links as well as free access to the laureates' articles in AIP journals. All resources are available here.

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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) releases the iResearch application. This application is an electronic reader that allows users to save PDF files to iPhone and iPod touch devices, and read them offline without a WiFi or cellular connection. The journals available in the iResearch application include: Applied Physics Letters, Biomicrofluidics, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Low Temperature Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, and Review of Scientific Instruments. iResearch is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch devices running software version 3.0 and above. More information on iResearch is available here.

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This has little to do with science, however, since Major League Baseball's postseason begins today, I thought I would point out Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress. It is "a guide to baseball resources available on the Library's Web site and in its physical collections. The breadth and depth of materials highlighted will appeal to baseball researchers, while casual and diehard fans alike will find many digitized items documenting the history of baseball to fuel their passion for the game." If you are interested in the science of baseball, check out The Physics of Baseball by Robert Kemp Adair (Science Library / Browse Collection: QC 26 A23 1990).

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Compiled by Karen Scarfone and Victoria Thompson at the Computer Security Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations is a listing of information technology acronyms and abbreviations. This glossary is in PDF format, and is also known as NIST Interagency Report 7581.

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This video from Google explains their forthcoming collaborative tool, Google Wave, in under 8 minutes. Want to know more, check out this longer video; it's an hour and 20 minutes.

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Project Euclid is an archive for independent mathematics and statistics publishers. It is jointly managed by Cornell University Libraries and Duke University Press. Project Euclid went live in August 2001, and in September 2009 it reached the significant milestone of 100,000 articles. It is important to note that 70% of its articles are available without any access restrictions.

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