Predatory Open Access Scholarly Publishers
There's an excellent review of "Predatory" Open Access Scholarly Publisher by Jeffrey Beall. It appears in The Charleston Advisor, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2010, pages 10-17. And it is openly available.
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There's an excellent review of "Predatory" Open Access Scholarly Publisher by Jeffrey Beall. It appears in The Charleston Advisor, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2010, pages 10-17. And it is openly available.
ReactionFlash is new app for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch from Elsevier/Reaxys. The app is a tool to help users learn and understand named reactions. It can also be used to explore mechanisms, review examples from Reaxys, and test yourself. ReactionFlash costs $9.99 and can be download from iTunes. Additional information is available here.
Developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, Dryad is a repository for data from peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Researchers can deposit their data, and other researchers can validate it, explore new analysis methodologies, or re-purpose it. A list of partner journals and repositories is available here. The repository can be browsed by author and journal (and subject), or it can be searched.
Part of NSF's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program, ASDL is a digital library that collects, catalogs, and publishes peer-reviewed educational resources in the analytical sciences. ASDL can be browsed by techniques, applications, format, and teaching resources, or the entire digital library can be searched.
Part of ICPCNanoNet, Nano Archive is a fully automated electronic archive for nanoscience and nanotechnology. Researchers can freely deposit full text papers. The archive can be browsed by year, subject, or author, and there is a search engine.
The Nanoinformatics 2020 Roadmap has been released by the National Nanomanufacturing Network. This guidance document encompasses the identification of information relevant to the nanoscale science and engineering community and the implementation of effective mechanisms for working with that information. It is available in wiki and PDF formats.
Developed by the Faculty of 1000, F1000 Posters is an open access repository for biology and medical conference posters. By depositing a poster in F1000 Posters, research findings will be broadcast to a wider audience, feedback and ideas may be generated, and it could be evaluated by F1000. The repository may be browsed by topic or conference, or there is a search engine.
I wrote about ACS Mobile back in March 2010. At that time there was only an app for iPhones and iPods (which would also work on iPads). ACS recently introduced an app for Android that is available from the Android Market. On the ACS Mobile Website, there is a good video that demonstrates the app's features.
Chemical Abstracts Service has released SciFinder Mobile. SciFinder Mobile requires a Web-enabled smartphone and a SciFinder Login ID. There’s no app to download and you do not have to be on campus. It should work anywhere you can access the Web with a smartphone. SciFinder Mobile users do not occupy a "regular" SciFinder seat, however, users are restricted to 100 detailed substance or reference displays per day. More information is available here. Please see this page to view supported platforms.
The University at Albany will be hosting the 17th Conversation on structural biology, June 14 - 18, 2011. Sponsors include the UAlbany departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences. Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak from Harvard University will deliver the keynote address. The Book of Abstracts is open access and available here. Information about the 17th Conversation is here.
Mathematics Journals: What is Valued and What may Change is a report from a workshop held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA, February 14 - 16, 2011. The first part of the report summarizes the workshop findings, and second part contains the reports of the workshop sessions.