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SCOPUS launches iPhone app — as of May 12th

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Today SCOPUS has launched their new mobile appli­ca­tion for the iPhone.  If you have an iPhone, and since Prince­ton sub­scribes to SCOPUS, you are free to down­load it.

SCOPUS web­page announcement:

http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESC001/mSR4081F/uDF5Q4/xWHWI81F

SCOPUS — large Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Med­i­cine sub­scrip­tion data­base from Else­vier, 1996+

WorldCat, world’s largest book catalog, now lists JSTOR articles!

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“JSTOR now indexed in WorldCat.org — 18 Jan 2010

Authen­ti­cated schol­ars and researchers with online access to full-text con­tent in JSTOR can now locate and con­nect to arti­cles through WorldCat.org. JSTOR is a preser­va­tion archive and research plat­form for the aca­d­e­mic community.

Over 4.5 mil­lion JSTOR article-level records from more than 1,000 jour­nals, selected mono­graphs, and other schol­arly con­tent are now indexed in WorldCat.org, the Web des­ti­na­tion for dis­cov­ery of mate­ri­als in libraries world­wide. JSTOR records are deliv­ered in WorldCat.org search results. Schol­ars and researchers using WorldCat.org can now iden­tify con­tent in JSTOR and con­nect to the full-text using the autho­ri­sa­tion pro­vided by their library.

WorldCat.org is a Web des­ti­na­tion with search and social net­work­ing fea­tures that allow infor­ma­tion seek­ers to dis­cover, localise, and per­son­alise con­tent from local col­lec­tions and those of more than 10,000 World­Cat libraries world­wide. WorldCat.org index­ing of JSTOR meta­data helps researchers eas­ily iden­tify resources in the col­lec­tion along­side other mate­ri­als rel­e­vant to their work. An autho­riza­tion is required for access to full-text mate­ri­als in JSTOR.

World­Cat claims to be the world’s largest data­base of bib­li­o­graphic infor­ma­tion built con­tin­u­ously by libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the World­Cat data­base con­tains a bib­li­o­graphic descrip­tion of a sin­gle item or work and a list of insti­tu­tions that hold the item. The insti­tu­tions share these records, using them to cre­ate local cat­a­logs, arrange inter­li­brary loans and con­duct ref­er­ence work. There are now more than 165 mil­lion records in World­Cat span­ning five mil­len­nia of recorded knowl­edge. Like the knowl­edge it describes, World­Cat grows steadily. Every sec­ond, OCLC and its mem­ber libraries add seven records to WorldCat.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter.

American Institute of Physics to secure all journals in dark archive

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Melville, NY, June 12, 2009 — “The Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Physics (AIP) announced today that online ver­sions of all its jour­nals will soon reside in the dark archive, CLOCKSS (Con­trolled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a joint ven­ture by libraries and pub­lish­ers com­mit­ted to ensur­ing long-term access to schol­arly pub­li­ca­tions in dig­i­tal for­mat. CLOCKSS will make AIP con­tent freely avail­able in the event that AIP is no longer able to pro­vide access.” 

“CLOCKSS cre­ates a secure, multi-site archive of web-published con­tent that can be tapped into to pro­vide ongo­ing access to researchers world­wide, free of charge.”

“The Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Physics is a fed­er­a­tion of 10 phys­i­cal sci­ence soci­eties rep­re­sent­ing more than 135,000 sci­en­tists, engi­neers, and edu­ca­tors and is one of the world’s largest pub­lish­ers of sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion in physics. Offer­ing full-solution pub­lish­ing ser­vices for physics sci­en­tific soci­eties and for sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tions in sci­ence and engi­neer­ing, AIP pur­sues inno­va­tion in elec­tronic pub­lish­ing of schol­arly jour­nals. AIP pub­lishes its own

12 jour­nals (many of which have the high­est impact fac­tors in their cat­e­gory); two mag­a­zines, includ­ing its flag­ship pub­li­ca­tion Physics Today; and the AIP Con­fer­ence Pro­ceed­ings. Its online pub­lish­ing plat­form Sci­ta­tion hosts nearly two mil­lion arti­cles from more than 185 schol­arly jour­nals, and other pub­li­ca­tions of 28 learned soci­ety publishers.”

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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.

40 millionth chemical substance — CAS

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US CAS reg­is­ters 40 mil­lionth sub­stance - 04 Dec 2008

Chem­i­cal data­base provider Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS) has announced that CAS Reg­istry now includes 40 mil­lion organic and inor­ganic sub­stances. The CAS Reg­istry is one the most com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tions of chem­i­cal sub­stances and the CAS Reg­istry Num­ber is the recog­nised global stan­dard for chem­i­cal sub­stance iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. More than 100 mil­lion CAS Reg­istry Num­bers have been assigned to organic and inor­ganic sub­stances and biosequences.

The 40 mil­lionth sub­stance was iden­ti­fied by CAS sci­en­tists in a jour­nal arti­cle pub­lished in Ange­wandte Chemie Inter­na­tional Edi­tion. The arti­cle describes a novel method for the syn­the­sis of poly­cyclic sub­stances with ‘a cen­tral seven-membered car­bo­cy­cle’, includ­ing the 40 mil­lionth substance.

A divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, CAS pro­vides the world’s largest and most cur­rent col­lec­tion of chem­i­cal and related sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion, includ­ing the author­i­ta­tive data­base of chem­i­cal sub­stances, the CAS REGISTRY. CAS com­bines these data­bases with advanced search and analy­sis tech­nolo­gies to deliver com­plete, cross-linked and effec­tive dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion envi­ron­ment for sci­en­tific research and dis­cov­ery, includ­ing such prod­ucts as SciFinder, STN, STN Express and STN AnaV­istTM, among others.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter Dec. 4, 2008

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.

DOE Data Explorer — online scientific research data portal

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“ US Depart­ment of Energy launches open data repos­i­tory - 04 Jul 2008

The US Depart­ment of Energy has launched the DOE Data Explorer (DDE), a tool to find sci­en­tific research data gen­er­ated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in var­i­ous sci­ence dis­ci­plines. The data that can be found include com­puter sim­u­la­tions, numeric data files, fig­ures and plots, inter­ac­tive maps, mul­ti­me­dia and sci­en­tific images.

The DOE Data Explorer includes a data­base of cita­tions pre­pared by the Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (OSTI) based on the infor­ma­tion found at data-hosting web sites. It is intended to be par­tic­u­larly use­ful to stu­dents, the pub­lic, and to researchers who are new to a field or look­ing for exper­i­men­tal or obser­va­tional data out­side their nor­mal field of expertise.

One can browse or search the data­base, then link to a data col­lec­tion where it resides. Users will often find spe­cialised search inter­faces and soft­ware toolk­its devel­oped by the data own­ers. These allow the users to search deeper into the data files and help them under­stand, analyse and use the data within the con­text of their own research interests.

The pub­licly avail­able data col­lec­tions sup­port DOE research results that are well doc­u­mented in jour­nal arti­cles, con­fer­ence lit­er­a­ture and tech­ni­cal reports. Key DOE data­bases of R&D infor­ma­tion are search­able through the Sci­ence Accel­er­a­tor. The DOE Data Explorer will include enhanced search capa­bil­i­ties across spe­cialised web sites as it con­tin­ues to grow.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 4, 2008

British Library owns world’s largest research collection

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British Library Direct is a reis­sue of British Library Inside.

You can search the lat­est 5 years of the 20,000 jour­nals in the British Library’s col­lec­tion for free via British Library Direct   You can register, order arti­cles directly and pay by credit card.   How­ever, as long as you are con­nected with Prince­ton University, the Library will obtain anything/everything needed at no charge — through our Doc­u­ment Deliv­ery Ser­vice and Inter­li­brary Loan.

A dis­ad­van­tage of this data­base is that there are no links to Prince­ton hold­ings, but many arti­cles are freely avail­able.  For exam­ple, an advanced search on “fuel cells”  (in title) yielded a total  of 3199, and 1708 are imme­di­ately avail­able (free).    The empha­sis is on sci­ence & technology.

About British Library Direct  Some­thing to keep in mind when/if you are unaf­fil­i­ated with academia!

British Library Direct Plus is a subscription-based ser­vice with 67,000 titles and goes back to the 1940’s.