Monthly Archives: October 2009

Open Access to research is coming — eventually!

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Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told [The Chron­i­cle of Higher Education]

 

 

Here is the link: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Open-Access-to-Research-Is/8475/

 

From “Library Link of the Day” Octo­ber 19th.

 

ArXiv, the physics open repository, is men­tioned as the excep­tion, and even this doesn’t get all of the papers  researchers should, or would want to see.  The Direc­tor of the Max Planck Insti­tute for Grav­i­ta­tional Physics, says that the U.S. lags way behind Europe and other countries.

On a more hope­ful note, the Johns Hop­kins Data Con­ser­vancy project Direc­tor, Say­eed Choud­hury, envi­sions a time when huge amounts of data will be avail­able to researchers everywhere.

An Asso­ci­a­tion of Research Libraries panel admits that progess is slow-going, but will come to pass.

Open Access Repositories joined by the UK’s JISC

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UK JISC becomes found­ing mem­ber of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Open Access Repos­i­to­ries — 26 Oct 2009

“The UK’s Joint Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Com­mit­tee (JISC) has become a found­ing mem­ber of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Open Access Repos­i­to­ries (COAR). COAR is an inter­na­tional not-for-profit asso­ci­a­tion that aims to pro­mote greater vis­i­bil­ity and appli­ca­tion of research out­puts through global net­works of Open Access (OA) dig­i­tal repositories.

Inspired from the Euro­pean DRIVER repos­i­to­ries project, which helps to enhance repos­i­tory devel­op­ment, COAR takes this vision to an inter­na­tional scale. Found­ing mem­bers of the Con­fed­er­a­tion include mem­bers from North Amer­ica, China, Japan and Europe. Join­ing COAR at the early stage of its devel­op­ment means mem­bers will be able to con­tribute to shap­ing the organisation’s objec­tives which will look at inter­op­er­abil­ity, rais­ing aware­ness and pro­mot­ing OA repos­i­to­ries, sup­port­ing the repos­i­tory com­mu­nity and work­ing with part­ners in closely related fields such as research man­age­ment and publishing.

Open Access repos­i­to­ries seek to offer researchers and uni­ver­si­ties the chance to sig­nif­i­cantly increase the impact of their research out­puts, with the poten­tial for sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits for UK higher edu­ca­tion and the econ­omy and soci­ety more widely. The aim of COAR is to enhance and progress the pro­vi­sion, vis­i­bil­ity and appli­ca­tion of research out­puts through global net­works of Open Access repos­i­to­ries.”
 

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Oct. 26, 2009

OpenHelix — resources portal for genomics research

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Open­Helix Resource Newslet­ter today pro­claims the launch of an open access search and learn por­tal: openhelix.com web site to help researchers find the most rel­e­vant of the thou­sands of data­bases and analy­sis tools.

From their “About’ page:

Open­Helix allows “More effi­cient use of the most rel­e­vant resources means quicker and more effec­tive research. Open­Helix empow­ers researchers by
  • pro­vid­ing a search por­tal to find the most rel­e­vant genomics resource and train­ing on those resources.
  • dis­trib­ut­ing exten­sive and effec­tive tuto­ri­als and train­ing mate­ri­als on the most pow­er­ful and pop­u­lar genomics resourcs.
  • con­tract­ing with resource providers to pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive, long-term train­ing and out­reach programs.”

There is a blog.  There is a newslet­ter to which one is free to subscribe.

Landolt-Bornstein data series — online trial

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Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library has arranged for a trial of Landolt-Bornstein from Springer­Ma­te­ri­als.  The books which are housed in the Lewis Library have 8 groupings:

Ele­men­tary Par­ti­cles, Nuclei and Atoms; Mol­e­cules and Rad­i­cals; Con­densed Mat­ter; Phys­i­cal Chem­istry; Geo­physics; Astron­omy and Astro­physics; Bio­physics; and Advanced Mate­ri­als and Technologies.

Springer­Ma­te­ri­als
Trial ends: 1/29/2010
Please for­ward com­ments to (Chem­istry Librar­ian ) Julie Arn­heim (jarnheim@princeton.edu)

Landolt-Bornstein Database demonstration Oct. 23rd at 10:10

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Jane Holmquist, the Astro­physics Librar­ian, will be demon­strat­ing the Landolt-Bornstein Data­base,  tomorrow, Friday morn­ing, in Grand Cen­tral — as part of a trial that the Uni­ver­sity has from Springer­Ma­te­ri­als.  She will answer any ques­tions you may have in this sec­ond ses­sion of “Tool Time”, a series fea­tur­ing Library resources in astro­physics.  (Group VI of L.B. is Astron­omy and Astrophysics.)
 
 

Chemical Abstracts Service and FIZ Karlsruhe strengthen partnership

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“Sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion ser­vices provider FIZ Karl­sruhe, Ger­many, and Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS), a divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, recently signed an agree­ment to fur­ther strengthen a part­ner­ship that began in 1983 with the foun­da­tion of STN Inter­na­tional. STN Inter­na­tional is an online ser­vice for patent and research information.”

“Begin­ning Jan­u­ary 2010, a team of sci­en­tists at FIZ Karl­sruhe will per­form value-added index­ing of selected lit­er­a­ture doc­u­ments, accord­ing to the con­ven­tions used by CAS to make the infor­ma­tion acces­si­ble within the CAS databases.”

“FIZ Karl­sruhe joins a global net­work of sci­en­tists whose exper­tise con­tributes to CAS data­base build­ing. Teams of sci­en­tists in Ohio, India, China, Japan and else­where con­sti­tute the prin­ci­pal con­trib­u­tors to this more than 100 year-old resource.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Oct 21, 2009

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has access to this Chem­i­cal Abstracts data­base via SciFinder Web– for­merly SciFinder Scholar.  To reg­is­ter to use Chem­i­cal Abstracts Web, con­tact Julie Arn­heim, ( Chem­istry Librar­ian)