Report Card Highlights from NOAA
Surface air temperatures in the Arctic continued to warm at twice the rate relative to the rest of the globe. Arctic air temperatures for the past five years (2014-18) have exceeded all previous records since 1900.
Source: Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal Dec. 20, 2018. More data, graphs photos, text here:
“Today, we’re asking “How many national libraries are there in the United States?”
For most countries, the answer is usually one.
But the United States actually has five.
In addition to the National Library of Medicine, the other national libraries are the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, the National Library of Education, and the National Transportation Library.
National libraries or libraries established by the government of a country serve as preeminent repositories of information. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works and play an important role in the preservation of their countries’ cultures and intellectual traditions.
National libraries are commonly open to the public for research, and while members of the public may not directly check out items, they may be able to obtain them through interlibrary loan. National libraries are also increasingly making their collections available online, as copyright and digitization projects allow.”
Source: NLM Announcements from the NLM Office of Communications, July 25, 2018.
Explore this dynamic interactive to learn the basic principles of how this revolutionary tool works and the many ways in which scientists are using it in their research.
The Peter B. Lewis Library is pleased to present BenchSci to the Princeton research community.
Registration is free to all scientists with a princeton.edu or affiliated institutional emails at https://www.benchsci.com
BenchSci is a online platform designed to help scientists find antibodies from publications. Their proprietary machine-learning algorithm was trained by PhD-level scientists to identify and understand the usage of commercial antibodies in the research literature.
When searching for a specific protein target, BenchSci curates published data in the form of figures to simplify the literature search process. The figures can then be filtered by specific experimental contexts cited in the paper such as techniques, tissue, cell lines, and more, to help users pinpoint antibodies that have been published under experimental conditions matching their study interest.
For more information about BenchSci, please refer to this article: https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies
To learn how to navigate BenchSci, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4
For further inquiries or feedback, contact Maurice Shen, PhD, the Head of Academic Relations at BenchSci, at maurice@benchsci.com
SPIE Press has published a book that should be valuable to all students and faculty in science and engineering: How to Write a Good Scientific Paper by Chris A. Mack.
We are pleased to announce that it is available, for personal use only, at no charge as a PDF eBook, with the link at the book’s web page.
Alternatively anyone can order How to Write a Good Scientific Paper from SPIE’s Bookstore as a softcover book.
Princeton University Library has a link to the online version here:
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/10712422
From the description: “This book is all about teaching the style and conventions of writing for a peer-reviewed scientific journal. From structure to style, titles to tables, abstracts to author lists, this book gives practical advice about the process of writing a paper and getting it published”.
Contents:Preface — Chapter 1. Getting started — Chapter 2. Structure and organization — Chapter 3. Language and style — Chapter 4. Figures and tables — Chapter 5. Citations — Chapter 6. Abstract and title — Chapter 7. What an editor looks for — Chapter 8. Picking the right journal — Chapter 9. Cover letter — Chapter 10. The editorial review process — Chapter 11. Review articles — Chapter 12. The ethics of scientific publication — Chapter 13. Authorship — Chapter 14. Plagiarism — Chapter 15. Double publication — Chapter 16. Editorial ethics — Appendix: A checklist for editors, reviewers, and authors.
https://www.epa.gov/nscep
EPA Publications
“You can search, retrieve, download, print, and order EPA technical, scientific, and educational materials from this site – all free of charge!”
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“Human Anatomy Atlas 2018 is an excellent app that brings human anatomy to life. The app has beautifully rendered 3D images of the major anatomical systems that can be explored and dissected from the interface. However, the really interesting part of the app comes with the Augmented Reality feature. By allowing the app to use your phone’s camera, it finds a surface in your environment and places the anatomical model there, giving the impression that it is right in the room with you. This feature also allows the user to “dissect” the anatomical model, making this an incredibly useful accompaniment for anyone studying human anatomy. Human Anatomy Atlas 2018 is an incredibly designed and executed app that is not only informative but fascinating and fun to use, without the formaldehyde smell that typically permeates such an in-depth look at human anatomy.”
https://www.genengnews.com/best-science-apps/human-anatomy-atlas-2018/448
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, January 01, 2018 (Vol. 38, No. 1)
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The Encyclopedia of Life is 10 years old! It is freely available on the web. From their statistics, as of May 11, 2017, they have 5.5 million pages. Responsibilities are shared by interested groups and individuals. “The founding partners of the project include the Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The Missouri Botanical Garden later joined, and negotiations are ongoing with the Atlas of Living Australia. Other partners are the American Museum of Natural History (New York), Natural History Museum (London), New York Botanical Garden, and the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew).”
From https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Scientists_to_bring_all_species_together_in_Encyclopedia_of_Life
There is also a Wikipedia article about the EOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life
Efforts began with plants, animals and fungi. It appears now that microorganisms have been added, as they’d hoped. If one searches for tuberculosis, there are many hits, but many are not very productive. Searching on the Genus is the key – Mycobacterium. The site provides the NCBI ( National Center for Biotechnology Information) taxonomy for these organisms. There are many entries on Staphylococcus species. Not all hits will be productive, and they urge inquirers to request information.
There are tabs for: Overview, Detail, Data, Media (including some videos), Maps, Names, Communities (which include related EOL groups, e.g. “Birds of America”), Collections (on-line databases), Resources, Literature and Updates. These headings also serve as filters or limits.
I tried cardinal, but Cardinalis cardinalis — the scientific name, Genus and species — works best, if you are looking for our most common red bird.
There are data which indicate species to species interactions, from this site: http://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/ There are many links to many collections.
I looked up cedar and from starting to browse through <6400 entries, I soon (within the first page of 25) came upon Cedrus libani, and found much information, including a video about the restoration of the “Cedars of Lebanon”. The page steers one to many “traits” including the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) status, which is “vulnerable” for this tree: Its populations are declining. Searching can be a bit tricky. Scientific name works best.
” The UK Medical Heritage Library now available online for free – 10 May 2017
A £1m project to digitise more than 15 million pages of 19th century medical texts has been completed and the material is now available online for free. It has taken three years to convert these historic published works for use in the 21st century by learners, teachers and researchers.
Covering much more than just medical sciences, this enormous library of text and images encompasses consumer health, sport and fitness, diet and nutrition, along with some weird and wonderful historical medical practices such as phrenology and hydrotherapy.
The project was jointly funded by education technology solutions not-for-profit, Jisc, and Wellcome Library, which contributed its entire 19th century collection, along with content from nine partner institutions: Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of England, University College London, University of Leeds, University of Glasgow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, King’s College London and the University of Bristol. As a collective, this will make a valuable resource for the exploration of medical humanities.
The aim has been to create a comprehensive online resource for the history of medicine and related sciences, which significantly increases the availability of digitised text for teaching, learning and research.
The collection, called the UK Medical Heritage Library, is completely open and can now be accessed for free via Jisc’s Historical Texts resource or via the Wellcome Library’s website.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) Services, Knowledge Modeling Services (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction Services.”
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter
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