Monthly Archives: February 2010

Geoscientific & Environmental Data available linked to ScienceDirect articles

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Netherland Else­vier, PANGAEA link con­tent for eas­ier access to full earth sys­tem research — 25 Feb 2010

“STM pub­lisher Else­vier, Nether­lands, has announced that the data library PANGAEA - Pub­lish­ing Net­work for Geo­sci­en­tific & Envi­ron­men­tal Data — and Else­vier have imple­mented rec­i­p­ro­cal link­ing between their respec­tive con­tent in earth sys­tem research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are now auto­mat­i­cally linked to the cor­re­spond­ing arti­cles in Else­vier jour­nals on its elec­tronic plat­form Sci­enceDi­rect and vice versa. The link­ing func­tion­al­ity also pro­vides a credit mech­a­nism for research data sets deposited in this data library.

The inter­ac­tion of a pub­lisher with an open access data repos­i­tory is pro­jected as being ideal to serve the require­ments of mod­ern research by dimin­ish­ing the loss of research data. It also enables the reader of a pub­li­ca­tion to ver­ify the sci­en­tific find­ings and to use the data in his/her own work. The Elsevier-PANGAEA coop­er­a­tion fol­lows the most recent rec­om­men­da­tions of fund­ing bod­ies and inter­na­tional organ­i­sa­tions, such as the OECD, about access to research data from pub­lic funding.

Work­ing with the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity to pre­serve sci­en­tific research data is also an objec­tive of the Else­vier Con­tent Inno­va­tion pro­gramme. Through the lat­est agree­ment, Else­vier expects to sup­port long-term stor­age, wide avail­abil­ity and preser­va­tion of large research data sets.

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Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

American Mathematical Society Books Online

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Amer­i­can Math­e­mat­i­cal Soci­ety Books Online [pdf]

“The Amer­i­can Math­e­mat­i­cal Soci­ety (AMS) was founded in 1888 in order to fur­ther math­e­mat­i­cal research and schol­ar­ship. Since that time, they have embarked on a num­ber of out­reach pro­grams designed to edu­cate the pub­lic about the impor­tance of var­i­ous math­e­mat­i­cal endeav­ors. In the past sev­eral years, they have been devel­op­ing the AMS Books Online web­site, and it’s quite a resource. The works were all orig­i­nally pub­lished by the AMS, and they can be browsed by author or sub­ject. The sub­ject head­ings include analy­sis, gen­eral inter­est, logic and foun­da­tions, and num­ber the­ory. Users can down­load indi­vid­ual chap­ters from each book, and there are cur­rently over thirty books avail­able on the site. Vis­i­tors should make sure and check back, as there are plans to add books to the site periodically.”

Source:  The Scout Report from the Univ. of Wis­con­sin, Feb. 19, 2010

NTRL — an expanded version of NTIS Government Reports Index

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Besides NTIS, avail­able via Engi­neer­ing Village/Elsevier, Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity now has access to NTRL (National Tech­ni­cal Reports Library) (1800+) from the U.S. Government.

It pro­vides index­ing and access to a col­lec­tion of more than 2,000,000 his­tor­i­cal and cur­rent unclas­si­fied gov­ern­ment tech­ni­cal reports archived by the National Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice.  Over 500,000 doc­u­ments are avail­able in full-text from depart­ments such as Depart­ment of Energy, NASA, and the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency.

NTRS dif­fers from NTIS in that it cov­ers more years, mainly from 1960, but as far back as 1800.  The data­base is updated daily and there is full text for about 25% of the reports. 

Source:  P.U.‘s Engi­neer­ing Library and  Data­base Man­age­ment Group

RCA’s ChemSpider offers beta Synthetic Pages

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UK Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry announces beta release of Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta — 05 Feb 2010

The Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry (RSC), UK, has announced the release of Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta, a com­mu­nity resource of reac­tion syn­the­sis pro­ce­dures. The launch of a beta site is the result of a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Chem­Spi­der, a free online struc­ture cen­tric com­mu­nity for chemists, and the orig­i­nal Syn­thet­ic­Pages. Syn­thet­ic­Pages is a freely avail­able inter­ac­tive data­base of syn­thetic chem­istry for the dis­sem­i­na­tion of prac­ti­cal and reli­able organic, organometal­lic and inor­ganic chem­i­cal syn­the­sis, reac­tions and pro­ce­dures deposited by syn­thetic chemists.

Under the part­ner­ship, Chem­Spi­der will host con­tent from Syn­thet­ic­Pages. A search of Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta allows iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and detail­ing of the exper­i­men­tal pro­ce­dures for the syn­the­sis of spe­cific chem­i­cal com­pounds. The data­base has been seeded with SyntheticPages.org data and will be expanded by inclu­sion of data from jour­nal arti­cles pub­lished by RSC.

Researchers will also be able to deposit their own syn­thetic pro­ce­dures to the site. Using online seman­tic markup tech­nolo­gies and inte­grat­ing to the Chem­Spi­der data­base will allow inter­ac­tive dis­play of chem­i­cal struc­tures, spec­tral data and a mul­ti­tude of related data. Sci­en­tists can com­ment upon a grow­ing resource of inter­ac­tive syn­thetic processes, while lever­ag­ing the resources con­tained within the Chem­Spi­der databases.

Chem­Spi­der Syn­thet­ic­Pages­beta is released in beta form for feed­back from the com­mu­nity at www.chemspider.com/syntheticpages.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter