Monthly Archives: June 2008

Journal of Life Sciences — open access

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From their “About Us” page:        

“The Jour­nal of Life Sci­encesis a bi-monthly mag­a­zine founded in 2007. Focus­ing on the space ‘where sci­ence and soci­ety meet,’ the Jour­nal offers fresh analy­sis and com­men­tary about the impact of biotech­nol­ogy and the other bio sci­ences on busi­ness, pol­icy, and cul­ture. The Journal’s intel­li­gent, inci­sive, and skep­ti­cal edi­to­r­ial style helps read­ers keep up with the changes in the life sci­ences, which will soon affect nearly every aspect of mod­ern life, from the food we eat to the way we approach dis­eases, clean the envi­ron­ment, and defend coun­tries from terrorism.

The Jour­nal is pub­lished by Bur­rill & Com­pany and the Cal­i­for­nia Health­care Insti­tute (CHI). Burrill & Com­pany is a life sci­ences mer­chant bank and CHI is a non­profit pub­lic pol­icy research orga­ni­za­tion for California’s life sci­ences industry.”

World Wide Science database

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From Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, June 18th:

“US DoE expands global sci­ence gate­way — 18 Jun 2008

The US Depart­ment of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion has announced that inter­na­tional sci­ence por­tal WorldWideScience.org has expanded its scope to include con­nec­tions to data­bases and sci­en­tific web sites from over 44 nations.

WorldWideScience.org allows users to ques­tion over 200 mil­lion sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy doc­u­ments not indexed by pop­u­lar search engines. The por­tal linked to 12 data­bases from 10 coun­tries when it debuted in June 2007. The lately expanded ser­vice includes 32 national sci­en­tific data­bases and links to por­tals from 44 countries.

DOE and the British Library along with eight other par­tic­i­pat­ing coun­tries first struck an agree­ment to estab­lish the por­tal in Jan­u­ary 2007. WorldWideScience.org gives sci­ence infor­ma­tion con­sumers a sin­gle entry point for search­ing far-reaching sci­ence por­tals in par­al­lel, with only one query, sav­ing time and effort.”

Caveat: 

IF YOU WANT A CERTAIN ARTICLE, FIRST CHECK THE PRINCETON ONLINE CATALOG FOR THE AVAILABILITY HERE.  (Then you may (1)download or print, (2) request via doc­u­ment deliv­ery ‚or (3)order directly on your own.)

As great as this ser­vice is, I must point out that you will be invited to pur­chase papers to which the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library has already pur­chased sub­scrip­tions.   You will want to re –search for the full text arti­cle by arti­cle, prob­a­bly most reli­ably via the online cat­a­log.  (Alter­na­tives would be the e-journals list­ing or the e-journal finder.)  Addi­tion­ally, I must say that not all articles/papers are missed by the pop­u­lar search  engines. 

Conservation Letters — new title. Free in 2008

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Conservation Letters

Sub­mit your man­u­script to Con­ser­va­tion Let­ters for max­i­mum exposure

Fast, global and policy-relevant, Con­ser­va­tion Let­ters is a new, online-only sci­en­tific jour­nal, pub­lished on behalf of the Soci­ety for Con­ser­va­tion Biol­ogy. Pub­lish­ing empir­i­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal research with sig­nif­i­cant impli­ca­tions for the con­ser­va­tion of bio­log­i­cal diver­sity, the jour­nal will draw on knowl­edge, tools and inter­ac­tions from many dis­ci­plines — geog­ra­phy, ecol­ogy, evo­lu­tion, math­e­mat­ics, eco­nom­ics, psy­chol­ogy, soci­ol­ogy and anthro­pol­ogy among them.

Three types of arti­cle are pub­lished in Con­ser­va­tion Let­ters:

  • Let­ters: novel find­ings with high rel­e­vance for prac­tice or policy
  • Mini-Reviews: overviews of emerg­ing sub­jects that merit urgent cov­er­age or suc­cinct syn­the­ses of impor­tant top­ics that are rarely encoun­tered in the main­stream literature
  • Pol­icy Per­spec­tives: brief essays for a gen­eral audi­ence on issues related to con­ser­va­tion and society
   Conservation Letters

For more details — the rest of the page is linked here.

NARCIS, the Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information

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DAREnet,  the Dig­i­tal Aca­d­e­mic Repos­i­to­ries Net­work, in the Nether­lands, is now part of the sci­en­tific por­tal,  NARCIS.  “The sci­en­tific por­tal offers, amongst oth­ers, access to tens of thou­sands of aca­d­e­mic pub­li­ca­tions in full text. Spe­cial col­lec­tions in the NARCIS port­fo­lio include Cream of Sci­ence, show­cas­ing promi­nent research from the Nether­lands and the col­lec­tion Promise of Sci­ence, access­ing doc­toral e-theses from all Dutch uni­ver­si­ties.”   There are also 2100 datasets.

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, June 5, 2008

These pub­li­ca­tions do seem to be picked up by Sco­pus (Scirus), and Google Scholar, but not Web of Sci­ence and its Web Cita­tion Index.