Monthly Archives: July 2008

VerticalNews hosts 38 new science titles

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“US NewsRx launches 38 new sci­ence titles - 30 Jul 2008

Pub­lisher and inter­na­tional news organ­i­sa­tion NewsRx, US, has launched 38 new sci­ence titles under its Ver­ti­cal­News imprint. The new sci­ence titles will pro­vide cur­rent news, sci­en­tific research, and devel­op­ments on national defense, aero­space, agri­cul­ture, chem­i­cals and chem­istry, ecol­ogy, envi­ron­ment, con­ser­va­tion, energy, engi­neer­ing, food sci­ence, farm­ing, min­ing and min­er­als, nan­otech­nol­ogy, physics, robot­ics and machine learn­ing, ver­t­eri­nary sci­ence, math­e­mat­ics, and global warming.

Each of these new sci­ence titles will be avail­able in print or online at www.VerticalNews.com. The titles offer read­ers both a broad overview and an insider’s knowl­edge, ensur­ing that read­ers stay on top of the sci­ence that is impor­tant to them. Titles include Defense & Aero­space Week; Agri­cul­ture Week; Jour­nal of Farm­ing; Chem­i­cal & Chem­istry; Ecol­ogy, Envi­ron­ment & Con­ser­va­tion; Energy Weekly News; Jour­nal of Engi­neer­ing; Food Weekly News; Math­e­mat­ics Week; Min­ing & Min­er­als; Nan­otech­nol­ogy Weekly; Physics Week; Robot­ics & Machine Learn­ing; Vet­eri­nary Week; and The Busi­ness of Global Warm­ing.

As part of this launch and to pro­mote inter­na­tional under­stand­ing of climate-impacting issues, NewsRx is mak­ing an elec­tronic ver­sion of its title The Busi­ness of Global Warm­ing avail­able at no charge for six months. The free sub­scrip­tion is avail­able on the VerticalNews.com homepage.

Now with a port­fo­lio of 194 titles, NewsRx claims to be one of the largest con­tent com­pa­nies in the world. Each month, over a mil­lion read­ers glob­ally view and down­load NewsRx arti­cles and pub­li­ca­tions online.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 30th.

Citation mapping tool provided in ISI’s Web of Knowledge

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“US Thom­son Reuters adds new fea­tures to ISI Web of Knowl­edge plat­form - 29 Jul 2008

The Sci­en­tific busi­ness of Thom­son Reuters, US, has announced that new fea­tures have been added to ISI Web of Knowl­edge. Most notably, a cita­tion map­ping tool has been incor­po­rated to pro­vide researchers with a visual result to their research.

The cita­tion map­ping tool tracks an article’s cited and cit­ing ref­er­ences through two gen­er­a­tions, allow­ing researchers to visu­ally dis­cover an article’s wider rela­tion­ships. The result­ing ‘fam­ily tree’ of infor­ma­tion can be utilised by the researcher to high­light the cita­tion rela­tion­ships most impor­tant to their research.

ISI Web of Knowl­edge is an inte­grated research plat­form that deliv­ers access to diver­si­fied schol­arly infor­ma­tion in the sci­ences, social sci­ences and arts and human­i­ties, as well as search and analy­sis tools that enhance this con­tent. It pro­vides users the abil­ity to search the right con­tent and find rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion — whether that infor­ma­tion is found in inter­na­tional jour­nals, open access resources, books, patents, pro­ceed­ings or websites.

Click here”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 29th.

From the ISI Thom­son web­page What’s New:

Cita­tion Map­ping • Be the first to see the beta ver­sion of this pow­er­ful new Web of Sci­ence® visu­al­iza­tion tool. Visu­al­ize cita­tion rela­tion­ships and under­stand the mean­ing of a cited ref­er­ence search. Map cita­tions by author, insti­tu­tion, coun­try, sub­ject, and more! ONLINE TUTORIAL

Scopus adds pre-print research abstracts from publishers

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“Netherland Sco­pus adds pre-print research abstracts from pub­lish­ers — 29 Jul 2008

Abstract­ing and index­ing data­base Sco­pus, part of STM pub­lisher Else­vier, Nether­lands, has announced that it has added ‘Articles-in-Press’ (AiP), abstracts of accepted research papers pub­lished prior to being printed, from jour­nals pro­duced by Karger Med­ical and Sci­en­tific Pub­lish­ers, and Nature Pub­lish­ing Group (NPG). Later this year, AiPs from Bio­Med Cen­tral and IEEE will also be avail­able. Sco­pus pre­vi­ously offered access to AiPs from Else­vier and Springer that included 2500 titles. This num­ber will now rise to about 3000.

Sco­pus AiP abstracts are citable and pre­cede the final pub­lished, printed ver­sion by up-to-four months, sig­nif­i­cantly accel­er­at­ing the knowl­edge dis­cov­ery process for researchers. Researchers will gain access to the full-text by link­ing from Sco­pus to the pub­lish­ers’ dig­i­tal library. This early access pro­vides greater con­nec­tiv­ity to the cur­rent state of research in a range of fields, as well as a more timely method for eval­u­at­ing the out­put of authors and institutions.

Since AiPs are posted online either as an accepted man­u­script or online pub­li­ca­tion (accord­ing to each publisher’s release pol­icy), they may still be sub­ject to changes and/or cor­rec­tions by the author or pub­lisher. Sco­pus clearly labels AiPs as such so researchers are aware that an updated abstract will be made avail­able once the papers are in print.”
 

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 29th.

Journal of Biological Databases and Curation — coming in 2009

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 “Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press announces forth­com­ing jour­nal on OA data­bases in biol­ogy - 29 Jul 2008
Oxford Jour­nals, a divi­sion of Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press (OUP), UK, has announced plans to launch a new online-only jour­nal — The Jour­nal of Bio­log­i­cal Data­bases and Cura­tion. Com­pu­ta­tional biol­o­gist David Lands­mann will serve as the journal’s editor-in-chief.

Sched­uled for launch in Jan­u­ary 2009, the Jour­nal of Bio­log­i­cal Data­bases and Cura­tion aims to strengthen the bridge between data­base devel­op­ers and users. It seeks to pro­vide a plat­form for ‘novel ideas in data­base research sur­round­ing bio­log­i­cal infor­ma­tion.’ The jour­nal will report­edly cover only open-access databases.”

 
Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 29th.

Bioinformatics: A brief review of resources on the Web

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Bioin­for­mat­ics: A brief review of resources on the Web

Tina O’Grady has writ­ten a nice, con­cise arti­cle which cat­e­go­rizes and lists  major bioin­for­mat­ics data­bases cur­rently avail­able on the web.  The cat­e­gories are:  Back­ground infor­ma­tion, Find­ing sequences,  Sequence analy­sis, Sequence align­ment, Phy­lo­ge­net­ics, Struc­ture pre­dic­tion, Func­tion pre­dic­tion, Genome/model organ­ism data­bases, and Infor­ma­tion and tuto­ri­als.  It is pub­lished in C&RL News (Col­lege & Research Library News), v.69(7), July/August 2008, pp.404–407+ here, on the web.

Physics — new APS journal of highlights & summaries

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“The Amer­i­can Phys­i­cal Soci­ety (APS) has announced that the inau­gural issue of its new jour­nal – Physics — is now online. David Voss, for­merly a senior edi­tor of Sci­ence, serves as edi­tor of the jour­nal. Physics does not pub­lish orig­i­nal research arti­cles, but short pieces to high­light, explain and dis­cuss impor­tant arti­cles pub­lished in other APS journals.

The jour­nal high­lights excep­tional papers from the Phys­i­cal Review jour­nals. To accom­plish this, Physics fea­tures expert com­men­taries writ­ten by active researchers who are asked to explain the results to physi­cists in other sub­fields. These com­mis­sioned arti­cles are edited for clar­ity and read­abil­ity across fields and are accom­pa­nied by explana­tory illustrations.

Each week, edi­tors from each of the Phys­i­cal Review jour­nals choose papers that merit this treat­ment, aided by ref­eree com­ments and inter­nal dis­cus­sion. The jour­nal fea­tures three kinds of arti­cles – View­points, which are 1000–1500 word essays that focus on a sin­gle Phys­i­cal Review paper or PRL let­ter and put this work into broader con­text; Trends, which are 3000–4000 word review arti­cles that sur­vey a par­tic­u­lar area and look for inter­est­ing devel­op­ments in that field; and Syn­opses, which are 200 word staff-written dis­til­la­tions of inter­est­ing and impor­tant papers each week. In addi­tion, the jour­nal intends to pub­lish selected Let­ters to the Editor.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak newslet­ter, July 28, 2008

Human Ontogenetics — new OA interdisciplinary journal

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“human_ontogenetics is an inter­na­tional inter­dis­ci­pli­nary open access jour­nal edited under the aus­pices of the Soci­ety of Human Onto­ge­net­ics and pub­lished by Wiley-Blackwell.

The sci­ence of human onto­ge­net­ics deals with the devel­op­ment of the human indi­vid­ual as a biopsy­choso­cial unit from con­cep­tion until death. It aims – as crit­i­cal the­ory, con­cep­tual frame­work and research pro­gram – at a holis­tic com­pre­hen­sion of man in his struc­tural and tem­po­ral dimensions.

human_ontogenetics is a forum for orig­i­nal dis­ci­pli­nary research, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies, con­cep­tual work and metadis­ci­pli­nary syn­the­ses focus­ing on the ontogeny of human beings and its evo­lu­tion. The jour­nal cov­ers devel­op­men­tal and evo­lu­tion­ary aspects of all human sci­ences – the scope ranges from empir­i­cal bio­med­ical stud­ies to philo­soph­i­cal con­cepts. Spe­cial focus will be given to stud­ies on the devel­op­men­tal ori­gins of health and disease.”

Source:  Ad from Wiley-Blackwell ()  

Energy & Environmental Science — New Journal from RSC

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Today the Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry has announced that its new jour­nal,  Energy and Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence is freely acces­si­ble, at least for 2008 and 2009.  They do ask each indi­vid­ual to reg­is­ter for access, how­ever.
 
“A new jour­nal link­ing all aspects of the chem­i­cal sci­ences relat­ing to energy con­ver­sion and stor­age, alter­na­tive fuel tech­nolo­gies and envi­ron­men­tal science.”

 

BioData Mining — New Open Access Journal by BioMed Central

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“Open access pub­lisher Bio­Med Cen­tral, US, has announced the launch of a new open access jour­nal — Bio­Data Min­ing. Dr Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz of the Pablo De Ola­vide Uni­ver­sity and Dr Jason H. Moore of the Dart­mouth Med­ical School will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the jour­nal. They will be sup­ported by an expert Edi­to­r­ial Board.

Bio­Data Min­ing pub­lishes orig­i­nal arti­cles on all aspects of data min­ing applied to high-dimensional bio­log­i­cal and bio­med­ical data, focus­ing on com­pu­ta­tional aspects of knowl­edge dis­cov­ery from large-scale genetic, tran­scrip­tomic, genomic, pro­teomic, and metabolomic data. As well as being open access, the jour­nal also oper­ates an open peer review process, which the edi­tors hope will fos­ter con­struc­tive reviews and there­fore enrich the criticism.

All Bio­Data Min­ing arti­cles are archived in PubMed Cen­tral, the US National Library of Medicine’s full-text repos­i­tory of life sci­ence lit­er­a­ture, and also in repos­i­to­ries at the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam in Ger­many, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Nether­lands’ dig­i­tal archive of all elec­tronic pub­li­ca­tions. The jour­nal is also par­tic­i­pat­ing in the British Library’s e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all arti­cles with the British Library.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter (7/22/08)