The Directory of Open Access Books has launched with the goal to increase the discoverability of OA books. DOAB was developed by OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) and contains peer reviewed books for many subjects. DOAB can searched using basic and advanced modes or it can be browsed by title, subject, or publisher. More information is available here.
From the U.K.'s Digital Curation Centre (DCC), this guide shows how and why to cite data. It's also available in PDF format.
Proteopedia is a wiki-based resource containing information about proteins, RNA, DNA, and other macromolecules. It can be accessed using a table of contents, a structure index, or a search engine.
Launched in 2007, Nature Preceding was described in this blog in October 2007. Nature Publishing Group recently announced that beginning today (April 3, 2012), they will no longer accept submissions. However, Nature Precedings will be archived and all hosted content will remain freely accessible. Additional information is available here.
Covering biology, medicine, bioengineering, and chemistry, the Journal of Visualized Experiments: JoVE is a scientific journal that uses videos to elucidate procedures, techniques, and protocols in accompanying articles. JoVE has been reviewed in The Charleston Advisor and Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. JoVE is available in PubMed Central with a 24 month embargo, however, many of the articles during the embargo period are open access.
The goal of SciVee is to advance the dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge by making research more visible. Researchers can promote their work by uploading video presentations that serve as more approachable guides to their research. SciVee offers the capability to synchronize video with text-based documents. This capability can be used to create PubCasts, PosterCasts, PaperCasts, and SlideCasts. SciVee is searchable and can be browsed by broad subject. (This post updates the post from August 22, 2007.)
Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers lists and describes publishers that exploit the open access system for their own profit. The list is also available in PDF format.
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
Awesome!
When I'm asked by the Chemistry Department or the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) to provide citation metrics for a faculty member’s continuing appointment and/or promotion case, I usually run the search in two databases: SciFinder and Scopus. Web of Science is not considered because we do not have a subscription. I started using two databases because CNSE is a relatively young college (established in 2001) with a faculty that consists of scientists and engineers that have research proficiencies new to the university. I was simply not sure which database would generate the best results, and I thought I could find out by running a few searches and comparing the results. However, it wasn’t clear cut. Some of the results were startling and I decided to extend the "two database policy" to searches for the Department of Chemistry as well.
Although I began running the cited reference searches in two databases in 2008, I never had the time to analyze the results and find out why one database was better than the other. During the next few months, I will be revisiting some of the original searches that showed significant differences. I will run the search again, and if there are still significant differences in the results, I will try to determine the cause. I will be presenting some of the findings on this blog.
The first case involves
Strain dependent facet stabilization in selective-area heteroepitaxial growth of GaN nanostructures, Applied Physics Letters 87, 233108 (2005).
Scopus found 7 cited references and SciFinder found none. Scopus found citing articles in Physica Status Solidi C (2 articles), Journal of Crystal Growth, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Physica E, and Journal of Applied Physics. SciFinder indexes all of these journals, in fact, all 7 cited references from Scopus are also in SciFinder. There is simply no link in SciFinder between the records of the 7 cited references and the record for Applied Physics Letters article. Furthermore, the full records for each of the 7 lists the Applied Physics Letter article in its "citations" list. Since there is no clear explanation of why this is happening, I will be contacting SciFinder for a clarification. If you can explain this, please comment below.
It's interesting to note that Google Scholar found 9 cited references for the APL article.
The F1000 Librarian Newsletter announced that the Faculty of 1000 will be launching their own journal ranking system. The announcement stated, "In the next couple of months, Faculty of 1000 will be launching F1000 Journal Rankings. These will be calculated using the F1000 Article Factor (FFa) and based on the opinion of our 10,000 strong faculty. This will deliver a new kind of metric, one based on the opinions of the most prestigious scientists in their field and one that is generated at the article level. With this new metric, F1000 aims to deliver a more accurate and up to date overview of STM journals. It will also be updated monthly and back dated to 2007." The rankings will be subscription-based; more information is here.
Nature Publishing Group just announced that its flagship journal Nature has the highest journal Impact Factor (36.101) and has most citations (over 500,000), based on data from the recently published 2010 JCR. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is published annually by Thomson Reuters and uses data from the 2 previous years. We no longer subscribe to the JCR, so I decided to look at SCImago Journal & Country Rank and see their journal rankings for 2010. SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a product of SCImago, a research group from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares. SCImago Journal & Country Rank is based on data from the Scopus database, for the 3 previous years. It is freely available. SCImago uses 2 measures to rank journal impact: SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and H-Index.
The top 5 journals ranked by SJR are: 1. Annual Review of Immunology, 2. Nature Genetics, 3. Cell, 4. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and 5. Immunity. Nature is ranked 8th.
The top 5 journals ranked by H-Index are: 1. Nature, 2. Science, 3. New England Journal of Medicine, 4. Cell, and 5. PNAS.
The journals can be sorted and ranked by other fields. For example, the top 5 journals ranked by total citations are: 1. PNAS, 2. Nature, 3. Science, 4. Journal of the American Chemical Society, and 5. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius), not a pleasant topic. By now, most have heard about the resurgence of bed bugs around the world, and many know people who have experienced infestations. Many people, who are traveling or moving, may know about the Bed Bug Registry, a database where you can find reports about hotels and apartments in the U.S. and Canada. An excellent resource for finding information is Bed Bug Information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It contains information on identifying, treating, and preventing infestations, as well as hiring a pest management professional and bed bug biology. Be sure to check out common myths and the top 10 bed bug tips.
In partnership with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic, and Scientific American, Google has launched an online science fair called Google Global Science Fair 2011. Young scientists from around the world who are 13 - 18 years-old and enrolled in a public or private school or home schooled are eligible. Students may enter as individuals or in teams of up to 3. Complete rules are available here. Entries may be submitted until April 4, 2010. The grand prize is a $50,000 scholarship. Although this is generous, come on Google, you're a billion dollar company!
Three Chinese science journals will be published by Springer as open access journals and will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio and Springer’s Chinese Library of Science. The journals are Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China Life Sciences, and Photonic Sensors. A list of other SpringerOpen journals is here.
Metadata from Cornell University's pre-print service arXiv has been added to the Ebsco Discovery Service. arXiv contains pre-print papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. Ebsco Discovery Service is available to the UAlbany community in beta format as eDiscover. Since the Inspec database is already a part of eDiscover, physics and computer science searches should "discover" additional resources. Additional information is available here.
It was cited here a few days ago that NPG would be renting articles from some of its journals via DeepDyve. Springer follows by announcing that later in first quarter of 2011, they will rent articles from more than 100 journals in DeepDyve. The journals will be in the biomedical, public health, and business and economics subject areas. Furthermore, as a way to promote the rental service to non-subscribers, Springer will provide a link directly to DeepDyve.
Another NPG item ... In June 2011, Nature Publishing Group will launch a new open access, peer-reviewed journal, Scientific Reports. The new publication will cover the natural sciences: biology, chemistry, earth sciences and physics, and will have an article processing fee of $1,350. More information is available here.
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) offers a new access option. Articles from Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Medicine, and Nature Chemical Biology are available for 24-hour, view-only access on the DeepDyve platform. Additional information is available here.
In recognition of the International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011), the American Chemical Society releases 365: Chemistry for Life, an online calendar that highlights important events and scientists that help shape modern society through chemistry.
Just a quick note: This is Science Resources' 700th blog entry.
A group of 8- to 10-year-old children publish a peer-reviewed article in Biology Letters. The children are students in the Blackawton Primary School (Blackawton, Devon, UK). Working with a scientist from University College London, they investigated the way bumblebees see colors and patterns.
Science.gov now provides image searching. It uses image metadata from 3 federal agencies: NBII, NASA, and NOAA. Search one, two, or all three image database.
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) offers 15 new open access options from its stable of journals. NPG now has 41 journals with open access options, which is 80% of its academic journals. NPG currently publishes 83 journals. More information, including a list of OA journals, is available here.
PhysOrg.com provides comprehensive coverage of science, technology, and medical news from major news services, universities, and private research centers. It covers nanotechnology, physics, space & earth, electronics, chemistry, biology, medicine & health, and other sciences. RSS feeds and social networking tools are available.
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."
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.
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.
Due to essential site maintenance, Wiley online resources may be unavailable on Saturday, October 30, 2010, 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM.
Thanks to John Dupuis at Confessions of a Science Librarian, this blog has received an honor. Science Resources is now listed and aggregated among the top science and technology librarianship blogs at FriendFeed in a group called Scitech Librarians. So, if you have an interest in science resources as well as issues and the latest in science/technology librarianship, be sure to follow Scitech Librarians or add it to your RSS feed reader.
Open Access Week is over, but here are a few additional resources:
Bailey, Charles W. Jr. Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, 2005. Covering 1999 through 2004, this bibliography lists over 1,300 items (books, conference papers, debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other print and online resources). Links are provided to sources that are freely available. Access is provided by a table of contents, author and title indexes, and a search engine. This bibliography is the basis for the Bibliography of Open Access, available on the Simmons College OAD wiki.
Bailey, Charles W. Jr. Open Access Journals Bibliography, version 1, 2010. This bibliography includes mostly scholarly journal articles and books from 1999 to the present. Links to freely available items are included. A table of contents and a search engine provide access.
OAD [Open Access Directory]. Hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, the OAD is a compendium of open access information in wiki format. It includes acronyms, blogs, disciplinary repositories, discussion forums, free journal management software, educational materials, guides for publishers, institutions that support OA, speaker’s bureau, statements by learned societies, videos, and volunteer opportunities.
SHERPA/RoMEO. The SHERPA/RoMEO Website is useful for finding publisher policies on the self-archiving of journal articles on the Web and in open access repositories.
Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter. “The purpose of Suber’s newsletter is share news and analysis of the open access movement, and to explore how the Web is transforming scholarly research and publication. It is free of charge and free of unnecessary licensing restrictions.“
Another important OA resources is the Directory of Open Access Repositories [OpenDOAR]. OpenDOAR lists and provides access to open access repositories around the world. In addition to the geographically-arranged listing, it is possible to search for repositories and search the repositories’ contents.
This is the second installment on open access resources for Open Access Week. The resource I would to highlight today is the Directory of Open Access Repositories [openDOAR}. OpenDOAR lists and provides access to OA repositories around the world. It is arranged geographically, and it is possible to search for repositories and search the repositories' contents.
Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley online resources may be unavailable from 7:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST on Saturday, October 16, 2010.
Beginning October 16, 2010, the New York State Library and the New York State Archives will be open on Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Free parking will be available in the Madison Avenue parking lots adjacent to the Cultural Education Center.
Microsoft's Bing and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France have signed an agreement to allow Bing to search and index the library's Gallica online archive of 1,250,000 books and documents. Gallica contains a large collection of mathematics and science journals and books. The agreement is non-exclusive and allows BNF and Bing to sign similar agreements.
Online access to the presentations at the recent American Chemical Society national meeting are freely available. Audio and slides are accessible for many presentations. Find a list of presentations here. The list can be sorted by session code, speaker, or date.
Due to essential site maintenance, Wiley online resources may not be available on Saturday, October 2, 2010, from 5:00 AM EDT to 7:00 AM EDT.
BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Research Notes announces plans to increase access to research data. The plan will provide researchers with best practice guidance on releasing their data. The press release is available here.
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, August 28, from 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM EDT.
From MedlinePlus, Oil Spills contains links to information about possible effects and steps to take to protect yourself.
I noticed today that several Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals, that we do not subscribe to, are available through Ebsco's Academic Search Complete. They are:
Nature Immunology
Nature Methods
Nature Nanotechnology
Nature Physics
Nature Reviews: Microbiology
Nature Reviews: Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews: Neurobiology
There is a one year embargo for all of them, but access to the previous years is available.
Videolectures.net is a repository for free educational lectures in science, technology, business, arts, education, law, and the humanities. Given by renowned scholars, the lectures are derived from conferences, workshops, summer schools, and other promotional events. The lectures are categorized into several broad subjects such as biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics, and technology. The site is also searchable.
Due to essential site maintenance, Wiley InterScience online resources will not be available on Saturday, June 19, 2010 beginning at 8:00 AM EST. This interruption of service may last up to 5 hours.
Publsihed by Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Nature Chemistry is a "monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research in all areas of chemistry." The University at Albany does not subscribe. In April, Nature Chemistry marked its first anniversary. In celebration, the editors have a assembled a set of their favorite articles. These articles are freely available until the end of June 2010.
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.
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.
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.
Technology Review describes the 10 Emerging Technologies for 2010. The editors of Technology Review selected the items on the list based on the question, will the technology change the world? Some have a great chance to change the world or at least have an impact.
ResearchGATE is social networking platform for scientists and researchers. It is Facebook for scientists. Although it focuses on science, it is open to many other disciplines. ResearchGATE is a repository and discovery tool containing thousands of articles and millions of abstracts. Scientists can create profiles, discover collaborators, upload articles, discover articles, find jobs, and discuss their work. ReseardhGate is free of charge. For more information, see this New York Times article or this BusinessWeek article or this video.
ticTOCs has evolved into Journal TOCS. I described ticTOCS in December 2008 here. Journal TOCs is a free table-of-contents alerting service. Currently, it covers more than 14,000 journals from over 450 publishers; more that 360,000 articles. Jounranl TOCs can searched or browsed, or journals can be saved with a "tick" to be viewed again or exported into an RSS feed reader. Registration is required to save and view journal tables-of-contents.
This was recently announced on the Nature News Website:
All content hosted on the Nature News site is now freely available. This includes online news articles, and news and news features articles published in Nature. Previously, this content was free for the first four days from publication before becoming subscription-access only.
For additional information, see this NPG news release.
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announces their 2011 open access prices. Currently, NPG has a 10% OA threshold, and publishes 15 journals with an OA option. In 2009, 3 journals published more than 10% OA content. For more details, please see the NPG news release.
From The New York Botanical Garden, the Index to American Botanical Literature is a searchable database covering American botanical literature from late 1995 forward in journals and books. "The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). 'America' is defined in the broadest possible sense."
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8 1/2 hours from 10:30 pm EST on Saturday, March 13 to 8:00 am EDT Sunday, March 14.
New content in JSTOR:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health [1979- ]
Previous Title: Epidemiology and Community Health [1979]
Previous Title: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health [1978]
Previous Title: British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine [1953-1977]
Previous Title: British Journal of Social Medicine [1947-1952]
Release Content::
Vol. 2, No. 1 (January, 1948) – Vol. 6, No. 4 (October, 1952);
Vol. 7, No. 1 (January, 1953) – Vol. 31, No. 4 (December, 1977);
Vol. 32, Nos. 1-4 (March-December, 1978);
Vol. 33, No. 1 (March, 1979);
Vol. 33, No. 2 (June, 1979) – Vol. 59, No. 12 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Note: The content for Vol. 1 (1947) and Vol. 60 (2006) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
Journal of Medical Ethics
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1975) – Vol. 32, No. 12 (December, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
The UAlbany community can now access the IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP). ASPP is a collection of 138 IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines covering cutting edge technologies. The peer-reviewed publications contain theoretical and experimental articles, and the magazines focus on practical aspects in research and design. The periodicals are not yet cataloged in the Minerva catalog, so use the link above or access this collection via this Databases & Indexes page.
Two articles have come my way during the last 24 hours. They're on cited references, impact factors, the H-index, and the ranking of scientific publications (and scientists). They are:
Integrity Under Attack: The State of Scholarly Publishing, by Douglas N. Arnold in SIAM News.
I've always felt uncomfortable providing this type information for promotion and continuing appointment cases. These articles are not helping me feel better.
In 2009, the content of BRENDA has been substantially increased and these new features for the Web interface were implemented:
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, January 23, 2009, beginning at 8:00 am EST. The downtime may last up to 12 hours.
Managed by EDP Sciences, Web of Conferences contains open access conference proceedings in physics and related subjects. It includes an international meetings calendar and a place to collect all of the conference proceedings published by EDP Sciences. It also offers a complete and flexible proceedings publishing service.
Zorb'a Guide to Free Ebooks is Chapter 3 of 50 Benefits of Ebooks: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Digital Reading Revolution, by Michael Patore. It's a comprehensive guide to free online books, and is divided into the following sections: free ebook Websites; ebook directories; ebook search sites and search engines; audio books, ebooks about aspects of writing, publishing, Internet, and epublishing; literature, classic books, and biographies; nonfiction ebooks (science, technology, & computing); scholary offerings; children's literature; and 1,001 noteworthy ebooks to read before you diet.
Elsevier announced that all articles in its Cell Press collection of journals will be published in the "article of the future" format. "The 'article of the future' is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how scientific articles are presented online. Successful ideas from this project are planned to be rolled-out across Elsevier’s portfolio of 2,000 journals available on ScienceDirect." This "new article format provides authors and readers with more effective and efficient ways to present and access scientific information.��? For additional information, please see this news release.
From USA People Search, this Web page provides links to other Websites that contain biographies of well-known and lesser known women scientists. (Thanks to Crystal Sawyer for suggesting this page!)
The Science Library will be closed December 23, 2009 through January 3, 2010, and will reopen on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 8:00 AM. Science Library hours are available here. During the closure, materials from the Science Library will be paged daily. To use this service, please check with the University Library Circulation Department (442-3569).
What are the new titles recently cataloged in the Minerva catalog? One way to find out is to come the Science Library and peruse the "new book" shelves opposite the Circulation Desk on the first floor. Another way would be to use the Minverva catalog. Log into Minerva, and simply click the New Titles tab. This will provide you with all of the materials cataloged in the previous month. This list is divided by broad subjects. If you click on Q (science), R (medicine), S (agriculture), and T (technology), this will provide you with the new titles in the Science Library. The entire list as well as the individual broad subjects have RSS feeds. Paste the RSS feed URL into your RSS aggregator (Bloglines, Google, etc.), and the list will be automatically sent.
Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley InterScience resources may be interrupted on Monday, December 21, 2009 at 4:00 am EST. The downtime may last up to 1 hour.
Springer offers free access to all journal articles and book chapters written by 2009 Nobel Prize laureates in Springer publications. This offer runs through December 31, 2009. More information along with a list publications is available here.
From Conservation International, Biodiversity Hotspots highlights 25 critically threatened ecosystems (hotspots) around the world. Its purpose is to focus on areas where biodiversity is at greatest risk. Information includes an overview, unique biodiversity, human impacts, conservation actions, and in depth information. There is also an outline map, a reading list, and related links.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you have trouble viewing any of the items, you may need to allow "pop-ups" in your browser.
Nobel chemistry laureate Linus Pauling conducted research on swine flu in 1976. Read his opinions on the vaccine and here.
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.
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.
Due to essential site maintenance, resources from Wiley InterScience may not be available on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 4 am EDT. This service interruption may last up to one hour.
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 8:00 am through 9:00 pm EDT.
The New York State Library (NYSL) is a great resource, especially for items that the UAlbany Libraries do not own or provide. You should always check our holding in the Minerva catalog, before trying the New York State Library. The New York State Library is a research library located on Madison Avenue in Albany; it is in the Cultural Education Center across from the Empire State Plaza. New York residents (18-years-old and older) and State government employees may borrow materials and access online resources (journals and databases). Library users (in person and online) need a NYSL borrower's card. NY residents can apply for a borrower's card here; State employees can apply here. To see if NYSL has what you are looking for, check their catalog or their electronic resources listings.
Beginning today and running through October 30, 2009, the University at Albany has a trial of the Springer ebook collection. The collection contains over 30,000 ebooks, including monographs, book series, and reference works. The trial is set up to recognize the University’s IP range; no password is required. During the trial, the ebook collection is not available off campus, unless you have the University’s VPN client running.
The Springer ebook collection is available here. Or, you can access it via http://www.springerlink.com/ (click on books, book series, or reference works in the middle of the page).
The ebook collection is divided into 13 subject collections, including:
biomedical and life science
chemistry and materials science
computer science
earth and environmental science
mathematics and statistics
physics and astronomy
professional and applied computing.
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.
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.
The managing editor of PLoS One, Peter Pinfield , outlines and discusses the article-level metrics being implemented by the open access publisher, PLoS (Public Library of Science. It is interesting to note that he also advocates for other publishers to open up their usage data and to use the PLoS-developed metrics.
Developed by the publisher Springer, SpringerImages is a collection of over 1,600,000 scientific, technological, and medical images. The images include photos, tables and figures, charts, graphs, histograms, and illustrations. All science disciplines are covered, however, more than 61% of the images are medical or life sciences-related. Although, SpringerImages is subscription-based, over 29,000 images are freely available.
Access to several journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry are (or will be) available for a limited time. The journals are:
Analytical Methods (free online access available later in 2009 until December 2010).
Energy and Environmental Science (free online access available until December 2009).
Integrative Biology (free online access available until December 2010).
Metallomics (free online access available until December 2010).
Nanoscale (free online access available later in 2009 until December 2010).
Developed in association with the medicals schools at Harvard, Stanford, and Michigan, and UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, Medpedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia covering up-to-date, unbiased medical and health information. The articles in Medpedia are written and edited by health experts for the general public. It can be browsed or searched.
Pubget is a search tool for the life sciences. Enter search terms and the results are the actual PDFs of the documents. Working with a library's journal subscription holdings, it's supposed provide one click to the PDF. More information about Pubget is available here. Please note that the University at Albany has not yet signed on to Pubget.
From Mary Spiro of the Baltimore Science News Examiner: Top 20 websites every scientist (or engineer) ought to know.
Due to Website maintenance, Wiley resources will not be available on Saturday, June 13 beginning at 9 am EDT. The downtime may last up to one hour.
Stephen Wolfram demonstrates his creation Wolfram|Alpha at Harvard University on April 28, 2009. Wolfram|Alpha is a new knowledge search engine.
Due to scheduled maintenance, Scopus will be unavailable on Saturday, May 16, 2009 for about 9.5 hours starting at 8:00 AM EDT.
arXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution service for research papers covering physics and the related disciplines of mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computer science, and quantitative biology. Theoretical physicist David Bacon recently developed an iPhone application for arXive.org called arXiview. It has several nifty features and functionalities including browsing and searching arXive.org, and reading PDFs. Screenshots and more information about arXiview are available here.
Hosted by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the E-print Network, Scientific Societies is a collection of worldwide scientific and technical associations and societies. Specialized lists of societies can be generated by checking off one or more subject discipline and one or more language. Once the list is displayed, links are provided to the societies' Websites.
The publisher Walter de Gruyter is offering a new hybrid open access model called de Gruyter Open Library. It is available for its journals and book series. Open access articles will be available in their own OA repository. Additional information is available here.
Informaworld will have scheduled downtime on:
Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 18.
Informaworld is the online home of publications from Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
SHERPA RoMEO was developed by a consortium of United Kingdom research libraries. Its purpose is to provide publisher's policies on preprint and postprint archiving in repositories, which is a part of a copyright transfer agreement. SHERPA RoMEO can be searched by journal title or publisher name, and browsed by publisher name.
Beginning at 6:00 PM EDT on Saturday, April 4, 2009 and lasting about 9 hours, Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Looking for a place to publish your article? The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now lists 4,000 journals! More information is here. More information about open access is here.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty vote unanimously to make their scholarly articles freely available to anyone on the Web. This new policy, which takes immediate effect, will use DSpace, an open-source software platform. MIT faculty will give nonexclusive permission to disseminate their articles via open access, however, faculty may opt out. More information is here.
Please note that I am not endorsing file sharing Websites and copyright violations; I am simply reporting information that I recently came across and did not know. File sharing Websites contain more than music and movies, they contain scholarly books and journals. For more on this subject, please see this blog posting from The Ubiquitous Librarian.
Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 6 PM EST, Saturday March 7 to 7:30 AM EDT, Sunday March 8.
UAlbany's online access to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has changed. Online access is now only available with a username and password. If you need an article, please ask a reference librarian to log you into the JAMA Website. A better alternative is to use ILLiad via the UA Delivery service. UA Delivery staff will delivery the article to you electronically.
New content in JSTOR:
Also, JSTOR coverage for the American Journal of Mathematics is changing from a wall fixed at 1996 to a 5 year moving wall.
From March 2nd to March 30th, the contents all of the journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will be available to the University at Albany community. This is in addition to the journals we subscribe to; it includes Analyst, Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions, Chemical Biology, Chemical Technology, CrystEngComm, Energy & Environmental Science, Green Chemistry, Integrative Biology, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Lab on a Chip, Metallomics, Molecular BioSystems, Natural Product Reports, Natural Product Updates, Pesticide Outlook, Photochemical & Photobiological Science, and Soft Matter. This is for March 2009 only.
Research Blogging identifies and aggregates blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research. The posts are about real developments in science; they are not press releases or news reports. Research Blogging includes science research in biology, chemistry, computer science, geosciences, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and other subject areas. Bloggers who want their posts aggregated must register. RSS feeds are available for all topics or by individual subject.
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is now offering RSS feeds by major subject category. By subscribing to an RSS feed from NTIS, you will receive summaries of all newly cataloged reports for the subject category. Links to additional information are also furnished. The full list of NTIS RSS subject feeds is available here, and includes feeds for atmospherics, chemistry, computers, energy, environment, materials, mathematics, medicine & biology, natural resources & earth sciences, nuclear science & technology, and physics.
Academic Earth is an organization with the goal of giving a world-class education to everyone on Earth. To achieve this goal, Academic Earth identifies and provides access to lectures given by leading experts from the some of the top universities. Subject coverage from this growing collection includes biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics.
Wikibooks is a collection of open content textbooks. Open content means that these textbooks are freely available online. A textbook is defined by Wikibooks as "a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study. They are produced according to the demand of educational institutions." Wikibooks is not... Wikibooks provides access to textbooks for these science/technology subjects: biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, natural sciences, and physics.
Developed by Elsevier, CiteAlert is a free, "keep me posted-type" email service. Once an author is registered, the author will receive an email alert when the author's article is cited by another author in a newly published article. What the catch? 1. The newly published article must be an Elsevier journal. 2. The author's original article must be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus databae, and published since 2005. 3. No self citations.
The following have been added to JSTOR:
Behaviour. Supplement. . Release Content: Nos. 1 – 20 (1950 – 1977)
Systematic Botany Monographs. Release Content: Vol. 1 (October, 1980) – Vol. 66 (September 29, 2003), Moving Wall: 5 years
Water Environment Research [1992- ]. Release Content: Vol. 64, No. 1 (January/February, 1992) – Vol. 73, No. 6 (November/December, 2001), Moving Wall: 7 years
Moving Wall Reductions:
Ecological Applications. Moving Wall: 2 years
Ecological Monographs . Moving Wall: 2 years
Created by Springer using their Journal collection of 1,900 titles, AuthorMapper is an online tool that aids document discovery by subject. With a keyword search it is possible to:
AuthorMapper includes advanced search features which help refine a search. Results contain visualization tools like graphs, timelines, and keyword tag clouds.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is testing a program that provides open access to peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts. The program is currently available to authors who publish papers in ACS Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, Journal of Proteome Research, and Molecular Pharmaceutics. Authors can opt to have their manuscript available online within three days of acceptance. More information is available here.
For a limited time, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is offering free access to the most current issues of three new journals:
Owned and operated by Elsevier publishers, SciTopics is a free, wiki-like platform that provides summaries of scientific topics by experts in the field. Using Scopus, it links to important journal articles for the topic (a subscription may be required to use Scopus and a subscription may be required to access the journal article). Using Scirus, it links to important Web pages. SciTopics is searchable, and RSS feeds are available.
From the Macaulay Library of Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, the Sound and Video Catalog provides access to the world's largest natural sound and video archive of animal behavior. Although birds are favored, many other animals are covered. The site is fully searchable.
Due to site maintenance, there may be an interruption in the online service for Wiley journals on Saturday, December 27, 2008. The service interruption is scheduled to begin at 9 AM and may last from 2 to 6 hours.
I've selected the following as the top 10 Science Resources for 2008. These are my favorites. There were so many great resources, that the list grew to 15; so you get a bonus of 5. They are in the chronological order that they appeared in Science Resources. Links are provided to the original blog post.
Programmers at Work
Bytesize Science
International Field Guides
Online Journals from the New York State Library
High-Energy Physics Labs Join to Build a New Scientific Information System
Fora.tv: Tech & Science
FreeBookCentre.net and Computer Programming Ebook Collection
National Science Foundation: Multimedia Gallery: Video
ScienceBlogs
Free Chemistry Drawing Programs
SciFinder Podcasts
Decoder for Biochimica et Biopysica Acta
ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents Service
The Periodic Table of Videos
As part of the University Energy Savings Initiative, the Science Library will be closed December 20, 2008 through January 4, 2009. When the Science Library reopens at 8 AM on January 5, 2009, it will be heated to 63 to 65 degrees F, hot water will be available, and interior lighting will be turned on as needed. The Science Library will return to normal conditions on January 20, 2009.
While it is closed, materials from the Science Library will be paged. Please use UA Delivery to request materials. Book requests will be paged and held at the University Library for you to pick up. Journal articles will be scanned, and made available electronically.
There will be no interruption to Interlibrary Loan and UA Delivery electronic article delivery services during this period. However, due to seasonal shutdowns in many research libraries, ILL article turnaround time may in some cases be slower than normal.
ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents Service is a table of contents service developed by a consortium of United Kingdom universities and information providers. ticTOCs is free and covers over 11,000 journals from over 400 publishers. Tables of contents can be accessed by searching by journal title; links are provided to the full text. Users can also register and use MyTOCs to create and permanently save a set of journals titles for future use. It is also possible to export TOC RSS feeds to feedreaders.
From Time magazine's The Top 10 Everything of 2008, the Top 10 Scientific Discoievers lists and describes some of the most important discoveries of 2008. Also, check out these science/technology lists: Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs and Top 10 Gadgets.
The November 2008 (vol. 41, no. 11) issue of Computer is a special issue featuring several articles on e-Science.
Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access , edited by E. Canessa and M. Zennaro, servies as guide to the scientific community on the requirements of open access, and contains numerous inexpensive solutions. The book encourages institutions to adopt open access policies.
On Saturday, November 15, Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable for scheduled upgrades during the following periods:
Scopus: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
ScienceDirect: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
BioOptics World "tracks technologies, applications, and business trends related to the use of optical technologies and instrumentation in the life sciences. Comprising a magazine, e-newsletter, and web site, BioOptics World covers cutting-edge research related to the design, development, and utilization of optical technologies for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disease processes. BioOptics World is intended for researchers and engineers involved in the development and fabrication of optical components and instrumentation used in the life sciences." BioOptics World is open access, but registration is required.
Chemical Abstract Service has produced a series of podcasts that relate chemistry and scientific discovery to SciFinder. The latest podcast, "From Fairy Gloves to Nanocrystals: How a Folk Remedy Became One of the Greatest Drug Discoveries," explores "the history of the foxglove, from its earliest development and uses of its extract Digitoxin, to research done in modern times." [UAlbany SciFinder Scholar users should note that this podcast uses the Web-based SciFinder. We will be migrating to the Web-based SciFinder in 2009.]
ScienceDirect divides Biochimica et Biopysica Acta (BBA) by section, not by sequential volume number. There are 25 sections of BBA. Developed at the Oregon Health & Science University Library, the BBA Decoder can be used when the volume is known, but the section is not known. When the section is know, the UAlbany community should use the journal listing in the Minerva catalog to gain access.
New content in JSTOR:
Economic Botany; Vols. 1 – 56; 1947-2002, Moving Wall: 5 years, Publisher: Springer on behalf of the New York Botanical Garden Press.
Scopus trainers will be in the Science Library Atrium on Wednesday, September 17, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. They will be demonstrating the Scopus database, and will be available to answer you questions. Students and faculty are welcome to stop by. Refreshments will be served.
New content in JSTOR:
New content in JSTOR:
Energy & Environmental Science is a new journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. It covers "all aspects of the chemical sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies, and environmental science." Although the University at Albany does not have a subscription to Energy & Environmental Science, our institutional subscription to other RSC journals allows free access during 2008 and 2009. The first issue is now available.
JSTOR has added the following journals:
From the American Chemical Society, Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of society 's most challenging problems and how chemistry research is finding some of the solutions.
80beats is a science news aggregator from Discover Magazine. It can be viewed as a single blog or via subject: health & medicine, mind & brain, technology, space, human origins, living world, environment, and physics & math. Each subject is further divided into subcategories. 80beats is searchable and RSS feeds are available.
The New York State Library has begun digitizing important resources in the sciences. The New York State Library Digital Collections currently has two important works:
These resources are also available in Special Collections of the UAlbany Libraries.
Citation Statistics is a report commissioned by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). It is "about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research," and "is based on practices as reported from mathematicians and other scientists from around the world."
From the U.S. National Science Foundation, this growing collection of videos from the Multimedia Gallery highlights some of the latest scientific research findings. Although the videos are produced for children, its content is informative for all. The multimedia collection is searchable and RSS feeds are available.
ScienceBlogs is a collection of blogs in science, health & medicine, brain & behavior, and technology, along with non-science blogs covering the humanities & social sciences, education & careers, and politics. The individual blogs can be browsed by channel (subject) or the entire collection can be searched. RSS feeds are available for the entire collection, the channels, selected best posts, or individual blogs.
A recent article on impact factors has been made open access by Chemical & Engineering News, the newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. The article, authored by Sophie L. Rovner, is entitled "The Import of Impact." It is available here.
Fora.tv contains video content on "ground breaking ideas from important thinkers." Fora.tv's Tech & Science section is divided into 8 subject sections: energy, engineering, environment, health & wellness, personal tech, science, technology, and the Internet. There is content overlap among the sections. The site is fully searchable, with basic and advanced search modes. Each video includes a written transcript of the program.
Using data from the Scopus database, Top Cited lists the top 20 cited articles for 26 subject areas. The default provides the top cited articles for all subject areas; users can select a subject as well as three time periods: 2004-2008, 2005-2008, or 2006-2008. RSS feeds are available and a Google map shows authors' locations.
A joint effort of the MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard's Countway Library of Medicine, the Bioinformatics Tutorials Series (BITS) is a growing collection of bioinformatics tutorials in video format.
Peptide Guide provides a basic introduction to the field of peptide chemistry along with some applications of peptides. It includes an overview of amino acids, a protein builder that constructs text representations for simple peptides and proteins, a peptide mass calculator, and a glossary as well as information about bonds and synthesis.
An article in ComputerWorld describes an erasable high-tech paper. Scientists at Xerox PARC have developed a high-tech paper that can be printed on, the text "deletes itself" in 24 hours, and it can be re-used up to 100 times.
SKS Science Products is a Watervliet, NY-based distributor of chemistry and general science labware, laboratory equipment, and laboratory containers. Products they carry include disposable lab supplies, pipetting supplies, digital scales and balances, beakers, glass and plastic sampling containers, and safety items.
An Earth Day 2008 posting: It was revealed on the ABC-TV newsmagazine 20/20 that An Inconvenient Truth, the supposed "documentary" by Nobel Laureate and former vice president Al Gore, uses computer-generated scenes from the 2004 science fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow. The scene shows ice shelves collapsing. Clips of the scene can be seen here. Other convenient lies are documented here.
Due to scheduled maintenance, please be advised that ScienceDirect will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes from 10:00 to 11:00 pm EDT on Friday, April 11, 2008.
The New York State Library (NYSL) has a growing collection of online journals in science. I've discovered several journals that NYSL provides access to, that UAlbany does not. For example, they provide access to the following journals from the American Scientific Publishers:
Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics
Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy
Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology
Journal of Bionanoscience
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Also, Wind Energy from John Wiley & Sons.
You can find out what they have at this page http://ty7zv9nn5c.search.serialssolutions.com/, where you can search by title or browse alphabetically.
THE CATCH: In order to remotely access the online journals from the New York State Library (NYSL), you must be a registered borrower of the New York State Library, which provides you with a borrower's card, a borrower's number, and a PIN. UAlbany's NetID will NOT work. For more information on obtaining a NYSL borrower's card, please see http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/apply.htm. Anyone can access NYSL's online journals, if they are in the New York State Library.
Cornell University's Engineering Library has updated its online "sticker shock" exhibit: Sticker Shock 2. The exhibit includes updated prices and cost per use information for Cornell University. This and the original Sticker Shock exhibit highlight the rising cost of journal subscriptions. The University at Albany provides access to most of the titles in this exhibit.
The ACS journal Biochemistry is now publishing Rapid Reports. Rapid Reports are an expedited manuscript type encouraging short, timely papers on topics of unusual importance or interest, and are limited to three printed journal pages. For additional information, please see these guidelines. Editors will make every effort to come to a decision on Rapid Reports within three weeks of receipt of the manuscript.
Editorial in the Swarthmore College student newspaper The Daily Gazette says "It is Time for Open Access."
From the American Chemical Society (ACS), Bytesize Science is a series of podcasts created to be both educational and entertaining. Bytesize Science translates research from ACS peer-reviewed journals, along with content from the ACS newsmagazine, Chemical & Engineering News, into short podcasts about science, health, medicine, energy, food, and other scientific topics.
From Knowledgespeak:
"Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has reportedly voted for a policy that allows the university to make their scholarly articles available online for free. Under the proposal, Harvard would deposit finished papers in an open access repository run by the library that would instantly make them available on the Internet. The copyrights of the articles will be held under Harvard's license. However, faculty members can request a waiver of the licence for particular articles."
In honor of Black History Month, the staff of the Science Library have created 3 displays: on the bulletin board adjacent to the circulation desk is a display on African American scientists and engineers, in the exhibit case outside the current periodical reading room are several books about African American scientists and engineer, and there are a few books about African American scientists and engineers displayed on the low shelving in the reference area. The next time you are in the Science Library, please take a look.
International Field Guides contains a searchable database to field guides for plants, animals, and other objects in North America and around the world. It may also be browsed by by type of organism and region covered. This site was created by Diane Schmidt, Biology Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
February 12, 2008 is the 199th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth! The Science Library will be honoring Sir Charles with birthday cake. Stop by the Science Library atrium between 12 noon and 2 pm, and celebrate with us with a piece of cake. And, don't forget to sign the card!
In 2008, BioOne will be adding the following journals:
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Invasive Plant Science and Management
Journal of the North Atlantic
Novon.
These open access journals will also be available:
Advances in Applied Biodiversity Science
Edentata
Neotropical Primates
Primate Conservation
Rapid Assessment Program Bulletin of Biological Assessment.
From the LJ Academic Newswire:
In a landmark post, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published on its Website the first ever public access policy for a major government agency and a lengthy FAQ explaining the policy and how to comply. According to the site, the policy will take effect on April 7, when "all articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication." In addition, the policy includes a citation component as well, as of May 25, 2008, that will require all NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports to include "the PubMed Central reference number when citing an article that falls under the policy and is authored or co-authored by the investigator, or arose from the investigator's NIH award." The policy was signed into law on December 26 after years of support by the library community.
Our subscription to the American Chemical Society journal collection now includes all of their titles. The UAlbany community can now access the following journals:
ACS Chemical Biology
ACS Nano
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Molecular Pharmaceutics
All American Chemical Society journals can be accessed via the ACS Publications Website.
SciLink is like MySpace, but it's for scientists. SciLink provides a networking environment with management tools. Using data mining techniques, it claims to have established a database of over 5,800,000 scientists with over 104 million relationships, and SciLInk knows who is connected to who. It has an article database, a tree of science, a job board, and a science news section; all are searchable. SciLink is free, but registration is required to get its full benefits.
President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764). This law includes a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded research. For more information, please see http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/release07-1226.html.
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) maintains and disseminates a large collection of scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information produced for and by U.S. government agencies. The NTIS database contains the records of millions of publications along with audiovisual materials, computer data files, and software. Nearly 1,000 new items are added weekly, many only available through NTIS. Recently, the Web-based database was extended back to 1964, and its search capabilities have been enhanced. Over 3 million items are in the NTIS database.
All World Scientific and Imperial College Press journals to offer an open access option. Authors have the option to pay $2,500 for their articles to be open access. Please see http://www.worldscinet.com/authors/openaccess.shtml for more information.
Elsevier launches of 2collab, a free online platform for scientific collaboration. "2collab provides the platform and tools needed for researchers to connect with their peers, enhancing the way they work together and offering an open and accessible space that will foster collaboration." Users can add and share bookmarks, tag resources, comment, and create groups. For a quick demo of 2collab, see this video on YouTube.
The Library is providing trial access to Scopus through December 18, 2007. It is available on campus only. Scopus covers 15,000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine, and social science. For an overview, please see http://www.info.scopus.com/about/; for more detailed information please see http://www.info.scopus.com/detail/what/; for reviews please check the Charleston Advisor here and here. It has been proposed that the Library cancel its subscriptions to print and CD-ROM citation indexes published by Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI), and replace them with Scopus. Please send me any comments or questions.
Oxford Reference Online provides access to several resources in its Biological Sciences section. They may be searched together or separately at the links below:
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
From Credo Reference, the Reader's Guide to the History of Science is an encyclopedia covering individuals, institutions, disciplines, and general themes and central concepts. Each entry includes a detailed bibliography to locate addition information. This resource may be searched or browsed.
Covering biology, medicine, chemistry, and earth sciences, Nature Precedings is an repository for scientists and researchers to deposit and share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened, but are not peer reviewed. Nature Precedings may be browsed or searched, and RSS feeds and email alerts are available for several subjects. Developed by Nature Publishing Group.
The Global Compendium of Weeds is a list of 28,000 named plant species that have been cited as weeds. The list of weeds may be browsed, and is arranged by the first letter of the genus name. The species profiles include the data source, synonyms, status, origin, and sometimes native range and reported medicinal/herbal uses.
Elsevier has announced that it is conducting an ebook trial on ScienceDirect with over 900 research libraries and corporations, and apparently the University at Albany Libraries has been included in the trial. A press release is available here.
The trial provides access to 500 Elsevier books with copyright dates from 1995 and forward. To access the ebooks on ScienceDirect click on a subject below Browse by subject and then check off full text available and All Books. This will bring you to a list of ebooks for the subject selected.
Do you have questions about copyright?
Lorre Smith, the Libraries' expert on copyright, will be presenting a class entitled "The Rights of Scholarly Authors: Our Copy Rights and How to Keep Them" on Friday, October 26, 11am - 12 noon (Room: Bio 248a) and repeated on Friday, November 30, 1 - 2pm (Room: Hum 354).
The class "will provide a discussion of author copyright, negotiation of copyright with publishers and the implications of publisher copyright agreements. Participants will discover resources to help clarify author rights and take away tools to negotiate rights with publishers."
No registration is necessary.
Due to scheduled maintenance, ScienceDirect will be unavailable Saturday, October 20, 2007 for approximately 2 hours starting at 8:00 AM EST.
The National Library of Medicine recently released Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. It updates and supercedes two previous NLM publications and is freely available on the NCBI Bookshelf. Citing Medicine provides guidance for citing 26 types of published and unpublished material, ranging from print books and journal articles to blogs and wikis.
From Harzing.com, Publish or Perish "is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these, and presents various metrics." The software must be downloaded, and is available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Let the user beware.
The key selection criteria for BioOne to include a journal are a commitment to furthering bioscience research, ISI ranking, relevant research focus, international scope or appeal, and not-for-profit status. BioOne has added or will be adding the following:
Avian Diseases Digest (American Association of Avian Pathologists)
Invasive Plant Science and Management (Weed Science Society of America)
Journal of the North Atlantic (Humboldt Field Research Institute).
The following open access titles will also be added:
Advances in Applied Biodiversity Science
Edentata
Neotropical Primates
Primate Conservation
Rapid Assessment Program Bulletin of Biological Assessment.
The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is a 4-volume set containing nearly 300 artilces on scientific advances in the field of human nutrition. In its second edition, the Encyclopedia was extensively updated, and includes "expanded coverage of epidemiology of diet-related diseases, functional foods, food safety, clinical nutrition, and gastrointestinal disorders." Access is provided by a table-of-contents and a detailed subject index in volume 4. The Encyclopedia is available in the Science Library reference section at QP 141 E526 2005.
Naturally Dangerous: Surprising Facts About Food, Health, and the Environment by James P. Collman "summarizes the science behind the issues of food, health, and the environment. It will not tell you what to do, but provides enough facts and background for readers to make more informed decisions." The author's Website contains supplements and updates to the book. This book can be found in the Science Library in the Reference collection at TX 531 C58 2001.
Book Reviews in Scientific Journals in CLICAPS contains links to book reviews in chemistry, biology, and pharmacy journals and Websites, that have been cataloged in CLIPCAPS, the library catalog at ETH Zürich. Since it is based on RSS feeds, this site is automatically updated and may be subscribed to using an RSS reader or aggregator.
From ISI's Journal Citation Reports, via Sci-Bytes, The Ten Most-Cited Journals of 2006.
National Academy of Sciences: Biographical Memoirs are biographies of deceased members, written by those who knew them or their work. Currently, there are over 900 biographies, however, all 1,400 memoirs will be available online in the near future.
From the American Chemical Society (ACS), Science Elements offers brief webcasts on cutting-edge discoveries described in ACS journals. In addition to chemistry, ACS journals cover topics in fields like medicine, health, nutrition, energy, and the environment.
The JSTOR Health and General Sciences collection currently includes 14 titles. 15 new titles will be added in the near future, including the backfile of BMJ: British Medical Journal; Journal of Infectious Diseases; and the Journal of Medical Ethics.
SciVee is operated as a partnership of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). It's similar to YouTube, but for science. The goal of SciVee is to enhance the "free and widespread dissemination and comprehension of science." Researchers are encouraged to post video presentations that will serve as quicker, more approachable guides to their work. SciVee also offers guidance on video production, and it allows scientists to make their recordings available as podcasts.
WikiPatents is a free U.S. patent database beginning with patent 3,930,271, and running through the most recent patents and patent applications. It includes a basic patent number search as well as an advanced search mode. In addition to providing both HTML and PDF versions of patents, WikiPatents features a wiki-like interface to review, rate, and discuss patents. Registration is required to access PDFs and use the wiki-like features.
Instant Message reference service is being offered in the Science Library. The IM service is using Meebo messaging, which does not require users to have an account or log in. To ask a question via the IM reference service, simply go to the Libraries' Contact Us Web page and use the Meebo widget to enter a question. Summer hours of the IM reference service corresponds with the Science Library's summer reference desk schedule: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Friday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
This entry is based on an email message from Irina Holden.
Current Science, India's premiere science journal, enters partnership with Nature Publishing Group. At some point in the future Current Science with be available on the Nature Web site, however, it will remain open access. Presently, the entire backfile of Current Science is available open access. For additional information, please see the story in The Hindu.
On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 the new borrowing interface for ILLiad will be available. The interface will be more intuitive for users, and the interaction between Interlibrary Services and UA Delivery Services will be more seamless. There will be new forms to request formats like videos, CDs, and dissertations.
WorldWideScience is a search engine and gateway to global science and technology resources. It accesses national portals such as Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), DEFF Research Database (Denmar), J-STAGE (Japan), Science.gov, and Scientific Electronic Library Online (Brazil). WorldWideScience features both basic and advanced search options as well as direct access to the portals. Since it searches online catalogs, the full text of some of the resources may not be accessible.
Launching with over 1,000 entries, SciTalks is a repository of science lectures and talks from all over the world. The lectures (talks) range in length from brief to lengthy, and from basic or humorous to complex and serious. SciTalks can be browsed by scientific fields, or the entire collection can be searched.
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary contains definitions of more than 59,000 medical terms. The dictionary may be searched or browsed, and links to additional information on other health and medical Web sites are also provided.
Ebooks on ScienceDirect is available via trial access. At the moment, there appears to be 524 books in this collection. Using the “browse box��? on the left, it is possible to sort the collection by subject. There are some non-science books in the collection. The trial runs through July 31, 2007, and is available to the UAlbany community only.
JSTOR has added the following new content:
Epidemiology and Infection (Health & General Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: The Journal of Hygiene (0022-1724)
Release Content: Vols. 3 – 127, 1903-2001
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
NOTE: Volumes 1-2 (1901-1902) of The Journal of Hygiene are not available for release at this time. The content will be publicly released at a later date.
Isis (Arts & Sciences II Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 93 – 97 (Issue 2), 2002-2006
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the History of Science Society.
Philosophy of Science (Arts & Sciences II Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 69 – 72 (Issue 3), 2002-2005
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association.
The Quarterly Review of Biology (Biological Sciences and Ecology & Botany Collections)
Release Content: Vols. 77 – 81 (Issue 3), 2002-2006
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press.
The backfile of the Biological Abstracts database now extends back to 1993, and the number of simultaneous users has been increased to 10.
From the Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory (CICC) at Indiana University, ChemBioGrid: Chemistry Databases on the Web lists and describes many major chemistry and biology databases and resources on the Web. It is classified into these categories: general; 2D structure; specific classes of compounds; drug-related; disease-related; physical properties, spectra, etc.; toxcity and environmental; biomolecules; metabolic pathways; Web services-enabled biosciences; commercial; and miscellaneous. There is also an alphabetical list of databases (resources) that is annotated.
Biointerphases is a new open access journal published by the American Vacuum Society and hosted on AIP's Scitation platform. "Biointerphases will include all topics relevant to the study and understanding of interfaces and confined phases in biomaterial science and biophysics." It will publish "original articles, reviews, a 'myth and reality' section addressing controversial models and experiments, editorial commentarly, letters to the editor, perspectives on evolving research, reports on interdisciplinary research programs, and opinionated essays." There is a general author a fee of $800, but reduced rates are available. For additional author information, please see http://www.biointerphases.org/author.html.
The OpenScience Project contains a directory of open source scientific software. It lists resources under several categories including: chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, forensics, life sciences, mathematics (including statistics), nanotechnology, and physics. A search engine is also provided.
The following Internet resource guides have been checked for broken links and errors. Numerous broken links have either been fixed, deleted, or a new similar resource has been added.
Protocol Online is a database of lab protocols. The database may be searched by topic or browsed by categories like animal techniques, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics and genomics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, and plant biology. Results include links to protocols hosted by research labs, companies, and personal Web sites. Protocol Online also hosts discussion forums and blogs, and contains links to scientific news sites.
If you are blogging or podcasting, or just thinking about it, you should check out Blogging & Podcasting magazine. It provides sound advice for both the beginner and advanced blogger or podcaster. Although the Web and podcast editions are free, registration is required.
An article entitled "Serial Wars" by Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born appears in the April 15, 2007 Library Journal. The authors survey the market, and found "for the second year in a row, academic libraries saw overall journal price increases just under 8%, U.S. titles rose 9% on average; non-U.S. titles were up 7.3%. The authors expect overall price increases to be in the seven to nine percent range again next year." The article is full of revealing information, including average prices for STM subjecs. Chemistry wins with the highest average price per title - $3,429. Other subject's average price per title are physics - $2,865; biology - $1,676; geology - $1,424; mathematics and computer science - $1,313; general science - $1,139. My guess is that this will translate into another budget reduction next year. Faculty and students should give serious thought to publishing in open access journals and other alternatives.
Our subscription to a package of Institute of Physics (IoP) journals includes online access to the Journal of Instrumentation (JINST). JINST is new multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published through a collabration of the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) and the IoP. Coverage begins with volume 1, 2006.
The Science Library recently installed a new 46 inch LCD television monitor. The monitor is located on first floor, above the right side of the circulation desk. It will be used to alert library users about new services and resources in the Science Library as well as other information about the Libraries in general. The first slide show is up and running. This project is being coordinated by Irina Holden.
The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) is once again available to the UAlbany community. Now published by Wiley InterScience, ELS covers the entire spectrum of the life sciences, containing more than 3,900 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles. Numerous color illustrations and tables accompany the articles.
The Science Library will offer extended hours during the Spring final exam period. The hours will be extended Tuesday to Thursday, May 8-10 and Sunday to Wedneday, May 13-16. On these days the Science Library will be open until 1:00 AM.
JSTOR has added the following title: Epidemiology (Health & General Sciences Collection), Vols. 3 – 12, 1992-2001.
Prebiotic Chemistry: From Simple Amphiphiles to Protocell Models, edited by Peter Walde, has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for March. Prebiotic Chemistry is volume 259 of the Topics in Current Chemistry series. All books in this series, received by the UAlbany Libraries, now come in "online only" format. I failed to announce February's Electronic Book of the Month; it was Mathematics into the Twenty-First Century, edited by Felix E. Browder. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.
Ever wonder ... what's the maximum weight of a giraffe? how fast your fingernails grow? the amount of energy you consume while sleeping? how much saliva you produce each day? You can find the answers to these and many other questions in Amazing Numbers in Biology by Rainer Flindt. It can be fond in the Science Library reference section at QH 310 F4413 2006. The answers to these questions can be found on pages 2, 214, 224, and 236 respectively.
ScienceDirect will not be available on Sunday, March 11, 2007, beginning 1:00 AM EST. The downtime will be used to make adjustments for Daylight Savings Time, and may last up to 7 hours.
Effective April 1, 2007, the contract between SUNY and BioMedCentral (BMC) will expire. The contract was negotiated by the SUNY Council on Access and Collections (SCAC), and supported by a two-year grant from the Joint Labor/Management Committee of United University Professions, the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations, and a subsidy from the SUNY University and Health Science Center Libraries. The contract enrolled all SUNY four-year colleges, and university and health science centers as BMC members. During the membership period which ran from April 2005 to March 2007, SUNY faculty and researchers were entitled to submit an unlimited number of research papers to BMC open access journals without incurring article processing fees. Instead, the cost was covered by a $12,500 per year membership fee. Forty-five articles were published under these terms yielding a cost per article of approximately $555.00.
The contract was not renewed because a change in the pricing model used by BMC would lead to significantly higher costs (over $1,200 per article) without any benefits for a consortial arrangement.
Please note that this will NOT affect our access to the journals on BioMedCentral.
ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, March 3rd for approximately 9 hours starting at 6:30 AM EST.
From the Library of Congress, Biographical Sources in the Sciences: General Works and National Sources is a revision of LC Science Tracer Bullet 88-3. It "offers a systematic approach to the wide variety of published biographical information on men and women of science and technology. Both historical and contemporary scientists are covered, with emphasis on Americans."
Now in its second edition, Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty is based on courses given at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. It contains a "collection of practical advice and experiences from seasoned investigators. The new edition includes chapters on laboratory leadership, project management, and teaching and course design."
Micropaleontology, published by MicroPress, has formally suspended delivery of current content to BioOne, beginning with vol. 51, no. 2, 2005. Volumes 48-51 (2002-2005) of Micropaleontology will remain on BioOne.
According to the ScienceDirect Connect newsletter for January/February 2007, ScienceDirect will be launching two new Cell Press titles in 2007: Cell Host & Microbe (available March 14, 2007) and Cell Stem Cell (available from June 6, 2007). Update: After an initial period of free availability, these titles will not be part of our ScienceDirect subscription, unless we enter a separate subscription.
ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th for approximately 9 hours starting at 6:00 AM EST.
Joseph S. Nelson's Fishes of the World has been revised and is now available in its fourth edition. The goal of this book is "to present a modern introductory systematic treatment of all major fish groups, both fossil and living." It is a "guide and reference to the classification of fishes." Most levels of the systematic hierarchy are described, and there are illustrations for most families. Fishes of the World is available in the reference section of the Science Library at QL 618 N4 2006. Older editions of this book are available in the Science Library circulating book collection.
The Library is now providing access to the Institute of Physics journal Physics in Medicine and Biology. Access includes the current issues as well as the backfile beginning with vol. 1, 1956.
Online access to American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Journals has been restored.
Online access to American Society of Microbiology (ASM) journals is currently unavailable. Library staff are working to correct this situation.
The Information Commons on the first level of the Science Library now has a scanner. The scanner uses both Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop to create PDFs or images.
I was about to recommend the purchase of a new book on scientfic and technical writing when I checked the Minerva catalog and discovered that we already have several excellent books on this subject. A few titles that struck me are:
The Best of Technology Writing 2006, edited by Brendan I. Koerner; Science Library / T 11 B463 2006.
Writing for Engineers by Joan van Emden; Science Library / T 11 V365X 2005.
To find more like these, search the Minverva catalog using the subject heading: Technical Writing.
Systematic Botany returns to BioOne. Systematic Botany is published by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. After the backfiles are added, the archival content will be the year 2000 and forward. Volumes 1 through 26 (1976-2001) are available on JSTOR.
On Saturday, January 20, 2007 ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 2:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Elsevier will be upgrading the search functionality.
The journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences are open access, and all issues are available from their Web site. The journals are Current Science, Journal of Chemical Sciences, Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences, Journal of Earth System Science, Sadhana (proceedings in engineering sciences), Pramana - Journal of Physics, Journal of Biosciences, Bulletin of Materials Science, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Journal of Genetics, and Resonance - Journal of Science Education.
The University of Alberta Libraries offer an excellent set of Web pages on open access. These pages cover background information, funding agencies, news, publications, publishers, a reading list, and a page on "what you can do."
It is now possible to browse an alphabetical listing of our journals and magazines via the Minerva catalog. The list includes both print and online journals. To access the journal title list go to http://minerva.albany.edu/journals.
Our trial access to Scopus concludes at the end of 2006. It will not be available in 2007.
Science Resources has been "re-designed." It now uses the pale palettes "subtle" theme from Movable Type. Please let me know, via the comments feature, if you are having difficulty reading Science Resources.
The European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) announced that beginning in January 2007, The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports would have an open access option. All authors submitting manuscripts would have the option of designating their articles open access by paying a publication fee. Print subscription prices will not be affected, however, site license prices will be adjusted in line with the amount of subscription-content published annually. More information is available at http://www.embo.org/about_embo/press/open_access.html.
Biological and Medical Data Analysis has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for December. Published by Springer, this title is part of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, which is a sub-series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Most of the books in the LNCS series, published since 2000, are available both online and in print. Beginning in 2007, the newly published books in this series will be available online only. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.
Ornithological Monographs is now available on BioOne. Published by the American Ornithologists' Union, Ornithological Monographs contains major papers and presentations too long for inclusion in The Auk. Online availability begins with vol. 60, 2006.
Today marks the first anniversary of the Science Resources blog. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
When I started out, I wasn't sure how it would go. Although I previously had a "what's new" Web page for new Web sites I added to my Internet resources pages, I wasn't sure if I would find enough to write about. This is blog entry numer 184; that's a blog entry every other day for the year, but who's counting. I think I found enough to write about. Hopefully, the readers have learned something, and I've provided a valuable service. I know I've learned a lot. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, please use the "comments" feature.
What's in store for next year? Much of the same ... new or underutilized science resources. I also hope to do a site re-design or makeover to make the blog easy on the eyes.
What would help me as I head into year 2? A spell checker! Come on MoveableType, isn't that basic for a writing tool?
The NBII Digital Image Library contains a diverse collection of images related to nature and the environment, mainly focusing on plant and animal species, scenic landscapes, wildlife management, and biological study/fieldwork. The Digital Image Library may be browsed by broad subject categories or searched for specific images.
The six-volume Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation is a comprehensive resource on biomedical instrumentation. It covers a wide range of subjects including articles on topics like audiometry, biomaterials, biomechanics, assistive technology, artificial blood, computed tomography, computer-assisted diagnosis, electrophoresis, engineered tissue, glucose sensors, medical physics, neonatal monitoring, nuclear medicine, optical tweezers, radiation therapy, spinal implants, and x-ray equipment. The articles are alphabetically arranged and include cross references and bibliographies. There is an extensive subject index in volume 6. The set can be found in the Science Library at Science REF R 856 A3 E53 2006.
The new fourth edition of this dictionary not only covers biotechnology, but also includes the addition of nanobiotechnology terms. The definitions are concise and are written for the the non-specialist. There are numerous cross-references throughout the book. The Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology Terms can be found in the Science Library reference section at TP 248.16 F54 2006.
This encyclopedia contains information on sexually transmitted diseases and allied subjects. The entries on the STDs are generally five to ten pages in length and include etiology, epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, risk factors, and precautions. Most other entries are shorter. There is a listing resources, and a subject index. The Encyclopedia of Sexually Transmitted Diseases is available in the Science Library reference section at RC 200.1 M66 2005.
The University Libraries has purchased a site-wide subscription to Science magazine. This subscription provides online access from 1997 forward from any location on campus, and off campus by authentication. To access articles prior to 1997, check the Minerva record for Science.
The Popular Science Browsing Collection in the Science Library has moved from the Current Periodicals Room on the first level to the Barnes & Noble Room on the garden level. For more information on this collection, please see this post.
Developed and funded by the Beilstein Institute and the Institute for Information Technology at the University Klagenfurt (Austria), MedPhyt is a database containing information about plants of medicinal and pharmaceutical interest. Initially, it will contain data on European plants. Plants from other continents will be added later. MedPhyt is freely available, but registration is required. English and German versions are available.
On Thursday, October 19, 2006, it was announced on this blog that our online access to Science magazine was curtailed. The University Libraries will be purchasing a site-wide subscription, which will provide online access to the campus. When it becomes available, an announcement will be made on this blog.
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online contains the major works of the English naturalist. It is the largest collection of his work ever assembled, and includes searchable text pages and images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. Descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens are included along with first editions of Journal of Researches (1839), The Descent of Man (1871), The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (1838-43), and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the Origin of Species. Additional materials will be forthcoming.
Online access to Science magazine via the journal's Web site has been curtailed because the publisher (AAAS) no longer allows subscription access to individual workstations. They now require a site-wide subscription, which is under consideration. Online access to the backfile of Science is still possible. JSTOR provides access to 1880-2000. (JSTOR has a 5 year moving wall, so in 2007, the 2001 issues of Science will be added.) Ebsco Academic Search Premier provides access to 1997-2004. Don't forget the print version; the Science Library has Science magazine from 1908 forward, including the current issues.
Available from UCLA, the goal of the Mouse Atlas Project (MAP) is "to develop a dynamic, probabilistic atlas of the adult and developing C57BL/6J mouse. Users can import their own data into the atlas and use the same tools to visualize, compare and measure domains of gene expression in normal, gene-targeted knock-out, or transgenic mice."
The World Enformatika Society launches open access journal: International Journal of Biomedical Sciences. It is is a "refereed journal for scientific papers dealing with any area of biomedical sciences research." The first two issues and a part of a third issue are currently available.
The Encyclopedia of Earth is a "new electronic resource about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. It is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public." Althougt the Encyclopedia is a wiki, all content is reviewed and approved by editors prior to being published.
BioOne announces the addition of Wildlife Monographs to its content. Published by the Wildlife Society, Wildlife Monographs supplements the Journal of Wildlife Management, and "presenta substantial, focused scientific investigations pertaining to the knowledge, management, and conservation of wildlife."
The Information Commons, located on the first floor, east side of the Science Library, offers a variety of research and technical resources in an environment that fosters collaboration and creativity. 60 new computers provide a full suite of software as well as Internet access. For more information, visit the Information Commons Web site at http://library.albany.edu/infocommons/.
JSTOR's General Science Collection has been renamed as the Health and General Sciences Collection. It will be expanded to include several well-respected health sciences titles. The first three journals to be added are: the American Journal of Nursing (began publication in 1900), Environmental Health Perspectives (began 1972), and the Journal of Community Health Nursing (began 1984). During the next 2 years at least ten more journals will be added, including Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Infection, and European Journal of Epidemiology.
BioOne is a collection of over 60 bioscience research journals. Most of the titles are published by small societies and associations, or non-commercial publishers. BioOne has it's own search and browse functions, or it may be searched using the BioOne Abstracts and Index database, published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. List of current journals.
For authors that want to make their articles available with full open access, Springer offers the "Open Choice" option. If an author selects this option and pays the article processing fee, the article will be free to anyone, any time, anywhere in the world. Springer will continue to offer the traditional publishing model. For more information on Springer Open Choice, please see http://www.springer.com/openchoice/.
During the next few weeks, the journal collections from the major publishers, which the UAlbany Libraries subscribe to, will be desribed in this blog. The American Physical Society journals will be the first.
Based on arXiv.org from the Cornell University Library, Eprintweb.org is a free e-print service from the Institute of Physics (IoP). Updated on a daily basis, it is a searchable database covering the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. One of Eprintweb.org's key features is personalization. Registration is not required, but it is necessary to register to take advantage of personalization features like email alerts and tagging.
Publisher John Wiley & Sons announces a new open access initiative referred to as "funded access." Under this program, journal article authors will have the option of paying a fee to ensure that their article is available to non-subscribers upon publication. Wiley developed this program "for those authors who want to publish in a Wiley journal, and whose funding agency requires deposit in an archive." Initially, "funded access" covers 45 biomedical journals and the fee is $3,000. For more information and list of journals in the program, please see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/funded_access.html.
Oxford University Press launches a hybrid open access system. Authors can now choose to make their papers available immediately after publication by selecting the open access option and paying a publication fee. For more information and a list of Oxford journals that offer the open access alternative, please see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/.
BioOne announces the launch of a new expanded service called forward linking. Forward linking provides a link to articles, published after the article currently being read, that have cited the article. It is similar to a cited author searches in Science Citation Index. It links to articles both within BioOne as well as articles elsewhere. The link to these articles is available by clicking on See Articles Citing This Article in the contents box on the right-hand side of the article text screen.
Elsevier announces that ScienceDirect will receive an interface redesign over the next few leases beginning with the release that will take place this month (August 2006). The redesign is supposed improve navigation, contain a quick search feature, and enable customization and personalization. For more information, and user guides and tutorials, see http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/using/.
Beginning January 2007, Nature Publishing Group will provide open access to all online content published before January 2003 for its academic and society journals. See press release for additional information.
Guide to Information Sources in the Forensic Sciences by Cynthis Holt covers the major resources on all aspects of forensics, including those from anthropology, biology, chemistry, criminology, law, and medicine. After an introduction on subject classification systems, there are chapters on bibliographic, historical, and biographical sources; abstracting and indexing services; journals; books; online sources; non-bibliographic information sources; and research essentials. Name/title and subject indexes provide access to the contents. This resource is available in the Science Library at Science REF HV 8073 Z999 H65 2006.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education's The Wired Campus: Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, discourages academic use of his creation. See: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1328/wikipedia-founder-discourages-academic-use-of-his-creation.
Elsevier is providing free access to its ScienceDirect China journal collection until the end of 2006. The collection covers biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and other science/technical subject areas. Most of the journals in the ScienceDirect China collection are published in English; some are translated into English. A list of journals appears at the bottom of
http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/journals/china/.
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the Chemical Biology Virtual Journal contains research articles, reviews, book reviews, current awareness, news, and opinion from other RSC journals on the subject of chemical biology. By collecting the information all in one place, it provides easy access without the need to publish a new journal. Contents are available back to 2002, with new issues released twice a month. Its table-of-contents is available via RSS feeds.
The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior is a 3-volume resource on the scientific study of animal behavior. It contains over 300 articles written by scientists from many different disciplines, including biology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, veterinary medicine, and religious studies. The articles reflect some the latest research in behavioral studies. The Encyclopedia is arranged alphabetically by the title of the article, and includes a detailed subject index in volume 3. It is available in the Science Library reference section at Science REF QL 750.3 E53 2004.
The Royal Society (UK) will be running an open access trial. During the trial authors will have the option to pay publication costs ($553 / £300 / €439 per page). The papers of those authors who select this option will be freely available. For additional information, please see the Royal Society's FAQ. From the Financial Times, June 20, 2006.
SUNY currently has an institutional membership with BioMed Central. Any SUNY author submitting an article for publication in a BioMed Central journal will have the publication charges covered by that institutional membership. BioMed Central publishes over 150 peer-reviewed open access journals.
The third edition of the Guide to Reference and Information Sources in Plant Biology is now available. After an introduction to the literature of plant biology and a chapter on general sources, the remaining chapters cover resources by topics including: history and biography; plant evolution and paleobotany; ethnobotany; ecology; anatomy, morphology, and development; genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology; plant physiology and phytochemistry; and systematics and identification. Print and electronic resources, books, journals, and Web sites are covered. The authors maintain an assoicated Web site to keep the URLs up-to-date, which also appears to include most of the resources in the book. A detailed index provides access to the contents. The Guide is available in the Science Library reference section at Science REF QK 45.2 Z999 S35 2006.
The two main sections of the Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine cover the 100 key medicinal plants and 450 other medicinal plants. The entries in each section are arranged by the scientific name and include common names, habitat and cultivation, related species, key constituents and actions, research, traditional and current uses, parts used, key preparations and their uses, and self-help uses. Additional topics are covered in otherr sections of the Encyclopedia. There is a general index and an index of herbs by ailment. This book is available in the Science Library at Science Ref RS 164 C4437 2000.
“Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles,��? an article by Gunther Eysenbach published in the May 2006 issue of PLoS Biology, finds that articles published as an immediate open access (OA) article on a top journal site have higher impact than self-archived or otherwise openly accessible OA articles. The article finds strong evidence that, even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal. It concludes that OA is likely to benefit science by accelerating dissemination and uptake of research findings. From SPARC eNews.
The Sciences at the University at Albany, 1845-2006 is currently on exhibit in the lobby of the Science Library.
The exhibit contains items from the University Archives as well as contributions from current faculty members. A small number of items and information from the exhibit are made available online at http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/sciences/ as an introduction to the physical exhibit.
The exhibit examines the growth of and changes in science education and research at the University at Albany over its long history through publications, photographs, class notes, memorabilia, and other records documenting University students, faculty, departments, and research centers.
I would like to thank science faculty member who loaned us research covers for the exhibit.
Beginning in June 2006, reserve circulation services will be available in the Science Library. Faculty may select the Science, Dewey, or University Library as the location of reserve items.
Elsevier will be offering their authors the option to pay a sponsorship fee to ensure that their article, already accepted for publication, is made freely available to non-subscribers via ScienceDirect. The fee for article sponsorship is $3,000.
The following physics journals are the first to offer this option:
Nuclear Physics A
Nuclear Physics B
Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Physics Letters B
Astroparticle Physics
Thirty more journals also plan to offer this option in the next two months. From Carl Schwartz, Elsevier Physics and Astronomy Publisher.
160 Essential Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for May. This title is published by Blue Poppy Press and available on NetLibrary. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.
The list of proposed titles to be cancelled as part of the Libraries’ budget reduction is now available on the Libraries’ Web site. It’s in the News and Events section. Faculty are encouraged to review the list and to send comments to their bibliographer. The deadline for responding is June 16, 2006.
The Caltech Library System's Open Access Book Series is a growing collection of books by Caltech authors. They cover several subjects, and currently include books on chemistry, geology, and mechanical engineering. The collection can be searched or browsed.
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is offering free access to two of its journals through July 31, 2006: Soft Matter and Molecular BioSystems. "Soft Matter covers the generic science underpinning the properties and applications of soft materials; Molecular BioSystems has a particular focus on the interface between chemistry and the -omic sciences and systems biology."
The new edition of CASSI is now available in the Science Library. It can be found in the Index and Abstract area at QD 1 A514X 1907/2004. CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Serivice Source Index) is the best source for deciphering journal and serial abbreviations used in chemistry resources like SciFinder Scholar, Chemical Abstracts, Chemische Zentralblatt, and Beilstein as well as in journal articles and books. The new edition covers the literature through 2004 for chemistry sources and the related sciences of biology, physics, and engineering.
Developed by Bedford/St. Martin's publishers, this online guide covers the elements of citing Internet sources for several styles include CBE (Council of Biological Editors). It covers: WWW site, subscription service, email message, discussion forum posting, listserv message, newsgroup message, real-time communication, and telnet, FTP, and gopher sites. The print version, Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, is avialable in the Science Library at REF T 11 S386 1994.
Trial access to the ISI Web of Knowledge begins immediately and will run through Wednesday, May 31, 2006.
It is available at http://isiknowledge.com/.
The following products and backyears will be available:
Biological Abstracts: 1969 - present
Current Contents Connect
Derwent Innovations Index: 1963-present
ISI Proceedings: 1990-present (both editions)
Medline: 1950 - present
Web of Science:
- Science Citation Index Expanded: 1975-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index: 1975-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1975-present
- Index Chemicus and Current Chemical Reactions
PLEASE NOTE:
Trial access is limited to five simultaneous users. Any subsequent attempts to access the database after five users are logged on will generate a message indicating that the maximum number of concurrent users is already in effect. For this reason, we strongly recommend that all participants use the LOG OUT button at the end of each search session when they finish. This immediately frees the session for the next user.
Please send me any comments or evaluations about ISI Web of Knowledge or any of the databases
Bound by Law? has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for March. Published by Duke University's Law School, Bound by Law? is a comic book that expains copyright and fair use. It is available in HTML, Flash animation, and PDF. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.
For those who are looking for new ways to find cited references, Dana Roth (California Institute of Technology Library System) has researched and written an excellent article entitled "The Emergence of Competitors to Science Citation Index and the Web of Science. It appeared in Current Science 89 (9): 1531-1536, November 2005. Resources coverd include SciFinder Scholar, Scopus, Scitation/Spin Web, PROLA, CiteSeer, ScienceDirect, PsychINFO, and Institute of Physics.
Hindawi Publishing Corporation offers an expanding list of scholarly journals in science, mathematics, and technology. Their open access model puts the burden of payment on the the author. Among their offering are the following journals which may be of interest to UAlbany faculty and students:
Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
International Journal of Photoenergy
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Forthcoming:
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
International Journal of Image and Video Processing
Journal of Nanomaterials
PPAR Research
OpenDOAR is the Directory of Open Access Repositories. It lists, organizes, and describes world wide open access research reportories. OpenDOAR can be searched by subject keywords, or browsed by country of origin, content type, or general subject.
The 5th edition of Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry is now available in the Science Library (Science Ref QD 5 I5 2005). As the central science, chemistry has become more and more important to other scientific and technical fields This one-volume encyclopedia not only covers the traditional topics in chemistry, but also covers subjects in nanotechnology, fuel cell technology, forensic chemistry, and materials chemistry. The entries range in length from a few sentences to several pages. The longer entries are signed and include a list of additional readings. There are numerous cross-reference throughout the text and a comprehensive subject index. Sorry, but this is a print resource; you will have come to the Science Library to use it.
Through a joint purchase with the SUNY University Centers as well as the SUNY Health Science Centers, the UAlbany Libraries is now providing online access to all of the journals from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Access is available for:
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (formerly Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology)
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Eukaryotic Cell
Infection and Immunity
Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Journal of Virology
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Charleston Advisor contained an extensive review of Web of Science vs. Scopus in vol.6 (3) January 2005. The authors of the review, Louise Deis and David Goodman, provide an Update on Scopus in The Charleston Advisor, vol. 7 (3) January 2006. They found that there are still serious gaps in Scopus. See the review and update for more.
Do you ever have to convert a document into PDF, but you don't have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? A free software program called pdf995 can do this for you. In fact, it can convert a document from any application into PDF from the printer dialog. Simply download pdf995, install it, and you are ready to convert your documents in PDF.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for February. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive was updated.
The Berkeley Electronic Press (BE Press) offers “quasi-open��? access for scholarly journals. Quasi-open access allows users to access articles after a form is submitted. BE Press uses the form to notify libraries that their users are accessing particular journals, and are encouraged to enter subscriptions. Journals offered by BE Press include:
The International Journal of Biostatistics
The International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
Looking for a translation? Did your search in Translations-Register Index [Science Library / Reference - Index: Q 1 Z999 T73] and World Translations Index [Science Library / Reference - Index: Q 1 Z999 W67], and come up empty? The British Library will check their fairly extensive translation collection via Web form? Although there is no charge for them to check it, getting a copy of the translation does involve a fee. The translations pre-check form is available near the bottom of this Web page. Thanks to Ben Wagner (chemistry and physics librarian at the University at Buffalo, Science and Engineering Library) for this excellent suggestion.
Medicinal Plants of the World: Chemical Constituents, Traditional, and Modern Medicinal Uses has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for January. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive was updated.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary database covering science, medical, technical, and social science subjects. The Scopus Citation Tracker feature offers powerful citation analysis, yet it is simple to use. Three brief Flash "movies" demonstrate: reviewing a citation list by author, reviewing a citation list by subject, and use of the refine box to view a citation summary. Scopus is on trial through December 31, 2006.
Developed by Nature Publishing Group, Connotea is a free service that stores and organizes links to important journal articles and Web sites. Once an account is created in Connotea and the links are saved, the journal articles and Web sites can be accessed from anywhere or shared with anyone.
Produced by BIOSIS, BiologyBrowser provides links to a large collection of life sciences information. It can be browsed or searched by organism, subject, or geography; or the entire site can be searched.
This Web site presents news from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). News items are organized into several categories including bird flu, global health, emerging and recurring disease, food and agriculture, bioethics, genomics, stem cells, and regulation.
Xreferplus offers several online dictionaries in its Science and Technology sections.
The Technology section contains:
Collins Dictionary of Computing
Compact American Dictionary of Computer Words
Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations
Dictionary of Multimedia and Internet Applications: A Guide for Developers and Users
Dictionary of Personal Computing and the Internet
Focal Dictionary of Telecommunications
Hargrave's Communications Dictionary
Webster's New World Computer Dictionary
Arranged taxonomically, Beacham's contains data, habitats, and ecosystems of more than 1,200 endangered species. Each entry includes introductory and summary information, an image, distribution, threats, conservation and recovery efforts, and references.
This encyclopeida covers deserts and semideserts of the world. There are early 700 entries on topics from desert survival to the way deserts are formed.
The Encyclopedia of Public Heath covers a range of topics such as "environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, and diseases. Includes overviews, definitions, and biographical entries."
The dog genome, which was sequenced by the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, is available at this National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Web site and mirrored at other sites around the world. Other dog genetics resources are also available.
Submitted by Sue Kaczor.
Access the full text of the second edition (2004) of Grzimek's. This encyclopedia contains revised information as well as recent developments in the animal world.
The third edition (2003) of the Environmental Encyclopedia "provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. The articles are written in a nontechnical style and furnish current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible."
