Science Resources

The NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) is the Web counterpart to NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, published by Cambridge University Press. It replaces the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, published in 1964 by the National Bureau of Standards and edited by M. Abramowitz and and I. A. Stegun. All of the mathematical information contained in the printed handbook is also contained in the DLMF, along with additional features such as more graphics, expanded tables, and higher members of some families of formulas. Consequently, the printed handbook has occasional gaps in the numbering sequences of equations, tables, and figures. DLMF has many active links including definitions of symbols and to external sources of reviews, full texts of articles, and items of mathematical software.

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A Guide to Bioethics Resources on the Web provides access to bioethics resources in these categories: quick facts, university pages, U.S. resources, international and non-U.S. resources, Christian bioethics, and news.

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Scitable is the online learning portal from Nature Education. It contains articles written by Nature editors. This Spotlight covers basic explanations of nanotechnology, early visions, uses and applications, safety and ethics issues, and other information.

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Scopus offers a new mobile application for the iPhone. The app gives users mobile access to the searching and alerting features of Scopus, and includes the following:

* Search across thousands of scholarly journals.
* Share search results and article links through e-mail or Twitter.
* Save important abstracts in one place for easy look-up.
* Set up and review e-mail alerts for favorite searches.
* Set up e-mail alerts for when an author cites a particular article.
* Annotate abstracts with your own notes.

Download information is available here. The app is free, but an institutional subscription to Scopus is required.

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I blogged about Pubget here in June 2009. The last line of that posting stated that the University at Albany had not yet "signed on." The University at Albany is now registered with Pubget. Pubget works fairly well, but it has crashed Firefox from time to time, and it cannot retrieve ScienceDirect articles.

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Over 300 oral presentations from the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in San Francisco (March 21 - 25, 2010) are now available online. Many of the presentations also feature accompanying PowerPoint slides.

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Based on symposia presented at American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings, the books in the ACS Symposium Series contain chapters that are peer-reviewed. The series covers a wide range of chemistry-related topics including agricultural and food chemistry, biochemistry, chemistry education, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer science, and materials science. Earlier volumes (1975-2009) are available in the Science Library print collection, and are accessible via Minerva.

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