Monthly Archives: February 2009

CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics 2008–2009

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The Hand­book of Chem­istry and Physics is now in its 89th edition.

The cur­rent print edi­tion is @ Lewis (Infor­ma­tion Desk) Ref­er­ence QD65 .H3 

*New Fea­ture — Struc­ture searching!

Now you can search the hand­book by chem­i­cal struc­ture. Sim­ply down­load the intu­itive Mar­vin Sketch Java Applet from ChemAxon and then draw your struc­ture query. Search over 10,000 com­pounds! Try Struc­ture Search­ing Now >

New Tables  include:

  • Energy Con­tent of Fuels
  • Global Warm­ing Poten­tial of Green­house Gases
  • Weather-Related Scales    

VADLO — a search engine for the Life Sciences

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VADLO search engine, devel­oped by 2 biologists, caters to all branches of bio­med­i­cine and life sci­ences. Searchers may delve within five cat­e­gories: Pro­to­cols, Online Tools, Sem­i­nars, Data­bases and Software.

“Pro­to­cols cat­e­gory will let you search for meth­ods, tech­niques, assays, pro­ce­dures, reagent recipes, plas­mid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater cal­cu­la­tors, servers, pre­dic­tion tools, sequence align­ment and manip­u­la­tion tools, primer design etc. Sem­i­nars are essen­tially pow­er­point files for pre­sen­ta­tions, lec­tures and talks. Data­bases will take you to, well, data­bases, resources, com­pi­la­tions, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and pro­teins. Soft­ware cat­e­gory is for bioin­for­mat­ics experts who are look­ing for codes, scripts, algo­rithms, exe­cuta­bles, down­load­able pro­grams and collaborations”

Direct to VADLO

Taken from the VADLO site, and repro­duced in the lat­est ResourceShelf Newslet­ter, No. 397.

e-Science — a Research Guide from the Library of Congress

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Sci­ence Ref­er­ence Ser­vices of the Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Busi­ness Divi­sion of the Library of Con­gress, has cre­ated this research guide E-SCIENCE dated Jan­u­ary, 2009.  There are many use­ful research guides at their web­site;  they list key books, jour­nals, data­bases, tech­ni­cal reports, dis­ser­ta­tions, etc.   The series is called “Sci­ence Tracer Bul­lets Online”

The def­i­n­i­tion of “e-science” from the intro­duc­tion to the guide:

“The term e-Science refers to large scale sci­ence that is car­ried out through dis­trib­uted global col­lab­o­ra­tions enabled by the Inter­net. Typ­i­cally, such col­lab­o­ra­tive sci­en­tific enter­prises require access to very large data sets, very large scale com­put­ing resources, and high per­for­mance visu­al­iza­tion. e-Science is a dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture that allows sci­en­tists to con­duct research in new ways. Com­mon ter­mi­nol­ogy related to e-Science include cyber­in­fra­struc­ture, grids, grid com­put­ing, dis­trib­uted net­works, and high per­for­mance computing.”

University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship–A Call to Action

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“US Lead­ing asso­ci­a­tions call for uni­ver­si­ties need to pro­mote broader dis­sem­i­na­tion of research and schol­ar­ship - 16 Feb 2009

Four lead­ing asso­ci­a­tions serv­ing research uni­ver­si­ties — the Asso­ci­a­tion of Research Libraries (ARL), the Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ties (AAU), the Coali­tion for Net­worked Infor­ma­tion (CNI), and the National Asso­ci­a­tion of State Uni­ver­si­ties and Land-Grant Col­leges (NASULGC) — have issued a joint state­ment, ‘The University’s Role in the Dis­sem­i­na­tion of Research and Schol­ar­ship.’ The state­ment is a call to action for uni­ver­si­ties to ensure the broad­est pos­si­ble access to the prod­ucts of their work.

The state­ment is an out­growth of a round­table dis­cus­sion hosted by the four organ­i­sa­tions that engaged provosts, chief research offi­cers, chief infor­ma­tion offi­cers, senior fac­ulty, and library and uni­ver­sity press direc­tors. These lead­ers iden­ti­fied a set of actions that should be taken to expand the dis­sem­i­na­tion of the full range of prod­ucts of the uni­ver­sity community’s research and schol­ar­ship. The call to action offers a broader vision for the university’s role and pro­vides a series of rec­om­mended actions, both for cam­pus lead­ers and for col­lec­tive action by the uni­ver­sity community.

The com­plete doc­u­ment, ‘The University’s Role in the Dis­sem­i­na­tion of Research and Scholarship—A Call to Action,’ is avail­able online at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/disseminating-research-feb09.pdf.”

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

Rice Database, formerly Rice Bibliography

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The Inter­na­tional Rice Research Institute’s Library is respon­si­ble for main­tain­ing the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy. Whereas the library cat­a­logue con­tains a large col­lec­tion of books and jour­nals of inter­est to sci­en­tists research­ing rice or rice-related top­ics, the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy is a com­pre­hen­sive bib­li­og­ra­phy of all books and arti­cles directly per­tain­ing to rice. It endeav­ours to include all arti­cles and books relat­ing to rice in the world, and is the world’s largest and most com­plete source of sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion about rice with almost 8,000 new ref­er­ences added each year. All arti­cles per­tain­ing to rice are sought out for the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy and IRRI Library acquires copies of the arti­cle whether or not it holds the par­tic­u­lar ser­ial in its col­lec­tion.Over the years the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy has been mounted on a total of four soft­ware pack­ages. The ver­sion on the screen before you con­tains ref­er­ences from 1970 onwards. Older ref­er­ences, a few going back to the mid-18th cen­tury, are avail­able for search­ing at IRRI Library.

From their web­site and from the announce­ment by ALA (ACRL-STS) of the 2009 (bien­nial)Oberly Award for Bib­li­og­ra­phy in the Agri­cul­tural or Nat­ural Sciences.

Portico Archive now holds 10 million articles

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US Ten mil­lion jour­nal arti­cles pre­served within Por­tico archive — 06 Feb 2009

“Non-profit elec­tronic archiv­ing ser­vice provider Por­tico, US, has announced that more than 10 mil­lion jour­nal arti­cles are pre­served within the Por­tico archive. Launched in 2005 with sup­port from JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, Ithaka, and the Library of Con­gress, Por­tico pro­vides a per­ma­nent archive of schol­arly lit­er­a­ture pub­lished in elec­tronic form.

The Por­tico archive is sup­ported by both pub­lish­ers and libraries and is increas­ingly cen­tral to the dig­i­tal preser­va­tion and per­ma­nent access strate­gies of insti­tu­tions around the world.

The growth of the archive under­scores the impor­tance of preser­va­tion archives in facil­i­tat­ing a secure tran­si­tion from print to elec­tronic col­lec­tions. At the close of 2008, 68 pub­lish­ers pro­duc­ing jour­nals and e-books on behalf of hun­dreds of schol­arly soci­eties par­tic­i­pated in Por­tico and have entrusted over 8,200 jour­nal titles and 4,600 e-books to the archive. Libraries from the global com­mu­nity have been equally sup­port­ive of Por­tico with nearly 500 cur­rent par­tic­i­pants from 13 countries.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

Open Access & Article Depostion from Nature Pub. Group

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 Nature Pub­lish­ing Group and ASGT announce open access and arti­cle depo­si­tion ser­vices for authors — 26 Jan 2009

Sci­en­tific pub­lisher Nature Pub­lish­ing Group (NPG), UK, and the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Gene Ther­apy (ASGT) have announced the launch of two new ser­vices to help authors com­ply with fun­der and insti­tu­tional man­dates for pub­lic access. Under the ini­tia­tive, Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy, the offi­cial jour­nal of the ASGT, will now offer authors the option of imme­di­ate open access on pub­li­ca­tion, includ­ing depo­si­tion in PubMed Cen­tral, sub­ject to the pay­ment of a pub­li­ca­tion fee. In addi­tion, as a fur­ther author ben­e­fit to aid com­pli­ance with sev­eral fund­ing body man­dates, NPG will deposit all Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy arti­cles to PubMed Cen­tral upon final pub­li­ca­tion, to be made pub­lic after 12 months.

Upon sub­mis­sion of orig­i­nal research arti­cles, authors have the option of pub­lish­ing their arti­cles as open access for a pub­li­ca­tion fee of £2,000 / $3,000 / €2,400. Open access arti­cles will be freely avail­able upon pub­li­ca­tion. By pay­ing this one-time fee, authors are also enti­tled to self-archive the final pub­lished PDF of their arti­cles on a web­site, insti­tu­tional repos­i­tory, or other free pub­lic server upon pub­li­ca­tion. Open access arti­cles will be des­ig­nated by the MTOpen logo in both the print and online edi­tions of the jour­nal and will be freely acces­si­ble via PubMed Cen­tral imme­di­ately after publication.

Open access arti­cles will be pub­lished under a Cre­ative Com­mons license. Authors may choose between the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Deriv­a­tive Works 3.0 Unported and the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence. The Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Licence per­mits deriv­a­tive works, ensur­ing that authors can com­ply with fun­ders such as the Well­come Trust. Under both licenses, the final pub­lished ver­sion of MTOpen arti­cles can be down­loaded and shared as long as the author and orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion are cited.

Under the terms of NPG’s License to Pub­lish, self-archiving is encour­aged on all orig­i­nal research arti­cles pub­lished in Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy. In all cases, the author’s ver­sion of the accepted man­u­script can be made pub­licly acces­si­ble six months after pub­li­ca­tion. This applies regard­less of whether the authors choose the MTOpen option.

Mol­e­c­u­lar Ther­apy joins The EMBO Jour­nal, EMBO reports and British Jour­nal of Can­cer, which already offer an open access option to authors. NPG also announced the intro­duc­tion of an open access option on ten fur­ther journals.

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Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 26 Jan., 2009

AuthorMapper.com — free online analytical tool — Springer

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German Springer launches free ana­lyt­i­cal online tool, AuthorMapper.com — 04 Feb 2009

STM pub­lisher Springer Science+Business Media, Ger­many, has launched AuthorMapper.com, a free ana­lyt­i­cal online tool for dis­cern­ing trends, pat­terns and sub­ject experts within sci­en­tific research.

The por­tal cur­rently searches over three mil­lion jour­nal arti­cles to deliver a vari­ety of use­ful infor­ma­tion. The cur­rent search­able con­tent is from all Springer jour­nals. Meta­data from other STM pub­lish­ers will be included in the near future. The tool can pro­vide a vari­ety of analy­ses, such as key­word tag clouds and “Top 5″ bar charts for var­i­ous impor­tant met­rics, and includes an inter­ac­tive world map of the results.

AuthorMapper.com’s advanced search func­tion also allows com­plex queries using key­word, dis­ci­pline, insti­tu­tion, jour­nal and author. The results can iden­tify new and his­toric sci­en­tific trends through time­line graphs and bar charts of top sta­tis­tics, allow­ing for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of trends in the lit­er­a­ture, dis­cov­ery of wider sci­en­tific rela­tion­ships, and locat­ing other experts in a field of study.

The trend time­line graph, for instance, allows authors to see whether their area of exper­tise is grow­ing or has already peaked. Users that are only inter­ested in open access con­tent can restrict their searches accord­ingly, and all search results pro­vide link-outs to con­tent on Springer­Link. For grad­u­ates, post-docs and emerg­ing researchers, AuthorMapper.com shows which insti­tu­tions are the most pro­lific in spe­cific research areas and allows for their comparison.

AuthorMapper.com’s can even be use­ful for mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic seek­ing to iden­tify experts, for exam­ple, med­ical spe­cial­ists, work­ing close to where they are located.

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Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter (2/4/09)