Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures

Received as email to several listservs, from Gerry McKiernan (McKiernan, Gerard) [LIB] [gerrymck@iastate.edu], June 29, 2009.

IEEE Xplore just released a beta mobile search interface. The interface provides a single search box that is easy to view on a mobile display. Searches display the top ten results with full abstracts. Useful results can be emailed for later retrieval. To start searching, point your mobile browser to http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org/

Or for regular searching, visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp

Scitopia.org has added three new content partners to its free science and engineering search portal. The Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (GEF), and the Institute for Computer Science, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) will join 21 other science and engineering societies, including AIAA, ASME, IEEE, SPIA and more, in making their journal and scholarly material easily searchable via Scitopia.org. 

Scitopia.org which originally offered basic keyword and advanced searching, now also offers "extras" such as RSS feeds, alert emails, a browser plug in, and a variety of widgets. This is a great free search engine to use along side or instead of Google Scholar. If you are are searching from Princeton University, look for the Find it at PUL button when you click on the link for an article. To learn more, visit Scitopia.org or start searching here:

The announcement from this week's Special Libraries Association Conference in Washington DC was reported by KnowledgeSpeak.co.

Pennsylvania State University announced Tuesday that it's "Scientific Literature Digital Library and Search Engine," CiteSeerX has reached over 1 million articles and other scholarly works. Focusing on literature in computer and information science, CiteSeerX allows you to do more than just search the literature. Most articles are available in fulltext via PDF or PS format. In addition, CiteSeerX provides citation information for the articles available and allows citation searching. You can search for documents, authors, and even tables. Their Autonomous Citation Indexing facilitates finding the Most Cited documents, citations, and authors, as well as creating a Venue Impact Rating.

To read Penn State's press release click here, or click here to start searching.

Last month Sciencewatch.com put out a ranking of the top 20 countries in engineering. The ranking is based on "the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals of Engineering over an 11-year period." You can view the list below, or read about it here.

Sciencewatch.com is put out by Thomas Reuters, makers of the popular citation searching database Web of Science, and offers a wealth of information and tools to keep you up to date with new research in science, technology, and medicine. Some of the useful resources from Sciencwatch.com include:  New Hot Papers lists new papers that are among the top tenth of a percent in citations for the last bimonthly period and Research Front Maps creates a visual representation of links between new highly cited papers in a particular field.

Both the United States and Canada launched new data web portals this month.

Data.gov is the United States' new data website offering a limited number of datasets in a broad range of categories including: Energy and Utilities, Science and Technology, and Transportation among others. Two searchable catalogs are provided, a raw data catalog and a tools catalog with links to data mining tools. A video tutorial is available at http://www.data.gov/howtouse. You can also make recommendations for datasets that are not already included. To read the Whitehouse press release visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Democratizing-Data/

In Canada, the National Research Council launched the new Gateway to Scientific Data which provides access to Canadian scientific, technical and medical data sets as well as information for scientists on best practices for managing data. The Scientific Data Sets cover a wide range of subjects including Aerospace, Biochemistry, Environment, Geosciences, Physics, and Thermodynamics among others. To learn more or search the data sets visit http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/cisti/gateway-scientific-data.html

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) now publishes pre-print copies of manuscripts online within 72 hours of of acceptance to an ASCE journal, making information available months before the copyedited version is available online and in print. According to ASCE:

"Preview papers are functionally integrated into ASCE's Research Library and all papers are searchable. Preview papers are also included in the e-mail notification of new papers, which can be requested through the ASCE Research Library's email alerting system."

To read more about ASCE Preview Manuscripts and how to cite them visit: http://pubs.asce.org/journals/pap/ or to search the ASCE Research Library visit: http://www.ascelibrary.org/

Princeton University Libraries has a five day trial to ASM International’s Alloy Phase Diagram Center. This online tool “allows subscribers to explore, search and view more than 28,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6,200 systems from their Web browsers.”

The trial is available until May 19^th at http://www.asminternational.org/AsmEnterprise/APD/

If you have any questions or comments about the Phase Diagrams Center or the trial, please contact myself at wdressel@princeton.edu or Adriana Popescu at popescua@princeton.edu.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has a new desktop program called ASCE Research Library NOW!

ASCE Research Library NOW! allows you to easily search the ASCE Research Library, Bookstore, and Career Connections, as well as receive Civil Engineering alerts right on your desktop.

This PC based software is free and does not require an ASCE membership. A brief registration is required for the download and access to the internet is needed to use the software.

To learn more and download the ASCE Research Library NOW! visit: http://www.asce.org/bookstore/widget.cfm

To search the Civil Engineering Database and ASCE Research Library online, visit: http://cedb.asce.org/ and http://www.ascelibrary.org/