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There's a new and very important blog: Science of Blogging. Why is it important? Science of Blogging will attempt to help scientists to use social media to disseminate, communicate, and explain their research better.

From Science of Blogging: "Science of Blogging will not only highlight the ways by which social media is changing the way science and research is communicated, but also will provide basic guidelines for those individuals or organizations who seek to use social media to increase the public understanding of scientific research."

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The Beilstein-Institut has launched a new journal, the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechology. It is an open access, peer reviewed journal that provides rapid publication without author charges. It covers all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including both fundamental and applied research in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials science and engineering.

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AIP has just launched AIP Advances. It is an open access, peer reviewed journal focusing on applied research. There are author publication charges, however free publication is being offered to the first 100 authors whose articles are accepted. More information is available here.

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Since UAlbany's IP range is registered with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing, we have free access to:

* All content of the newest journals for the first two volumes.
* Any articles that are part of a special free access promotion.
* All content of RSC journals published from 1997 to 2007.
* A sample chapter from each book in the RSC eBook Collection.

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Enter a chemical name, draw a chemical structure (substructure, similar, or exact match), or upload a structure, and Chemicalize.org will search the Web for pages that have been chemicalized. The result contains structures and the Web pages that include the target structure. It is also possible to find properties. Check out this video for a quick demo.

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Looking for science images, graphs, tables, figures, or videos? Try ScienceDirect. Click on Search, then the Images tab, and enter your search strategy. ScienceDirect contains more than 2,500 journals, and may have what you are looking for.

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If you missed the 2010 Annual SIAM meeting in Pittsburgh last summer, video highlights are available on SIAM's YouTube channel.

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Aviation Month
Good Nutrition Month
National Epilepsy Month
National Model Railroad Month
X-Ray Day (November 8th)
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day (November 14th)
America Recycles Day (November 15th)

November is also...
Alzheimer's Disease Month
Lung Cancer Month
Marrow Awareness Month
National Diabetes Month

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48,000 citations from the 1946 Current List of Medical Literature have been added to Medline (PubMed). The National Library of Medicine has been adding new records to Medline for a while, and this new addition represents the 20th year going backwards from the original 1966 starting date for Medline. Additional information is available here.

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I wrote about UniPHY, AIP's social network, here. AIP has added a new feature to UniPHY that "will allow UniPHY members to form collaborative environments centered on any number of common interests, including journals, disciplines, institutions, organizations, or upcoming events. It gives researchers the ability to create public groups, which any UniPHY member can join; create private groups and invite selected members to join; create or comment on threaded discussions within group pages; and search for groups created by other members." Additional information about this new feature is available here.

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