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March to the Moon — new digital archive from NASA & ASU

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“Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity announced last week the launch (no pun intended) of the new Project Gem­ini Online Dig­i­tal Archive, an online archive of NASA’s Gem­ini space­craft flights. (From the announce­ment: “Project Gem­ini (1964–1966) was the sec­ond United States human space­flight pro­gram, after Project Mer­cury (1960–1963). The over­ar­ch­ing goal was to test sys­tems and oper­a­tions crit­i­cal to the Apollo pro­gram (1961–1975), con­ceived with the pur­pose of ‘land­ing a man on the Moon and return­ing him safely to the Earth’.” The archive is avail­able at http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/. ”

Source:  Tara Calishain’s Research­Buzz Jan. 19, 2012

Microbe World — Website with news, videos, images…

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Microbe World (Last reviewed in the Scout Report on Novem­ber 19, 1999)

http://www.microbeworld.org/

“Microbe World has grown by leaps and bounds since the Scout Report last reviewed the site. First-time vis­i­tors will notice that the home­page con­tains a fea­tured image and a fea­tured video, which usu­ally fea­tures a sci­ence expert speak­ing on microbes via an archived web­cast. Mov­ing on, the right-hand side of the home­page con­tains infor­ma­tional videos that cover how to get started with using Microbe World. The “Videos” tab will allow users to learn from dozens of videos that cover a gamut of top­ics, such as genet­i­cally engi­neered bac­te­ria and an inves­ti­ga­tion into the ori­gins of the Black Plague. Vis­i­tors can also use the “Images” tab to view high qual­ity images of microbes taken from var­i­ous research lab­o­ra­to­ries, sci­ence orga­ni­za­tions, and so on. Finally, users can use the “Resources” area to view lab­o­ra­tory demon­stra­tions and find out about new microbe-related apps that are under development.”

Source: Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin’s Scout Report 10/21/11 

Image Search comes to Science.gov

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“Science.gov intro­duces Image Search link — 21 Dec 2010

Science.gov, a gate­way to gov­ern­ment sci­ence infor­ma­tion pro­vided by US Gov­ern­ment sci­ence agen­cies, has intro­duced an Image Search link under Spe­cial Col­lec­tions to enable users to quickly find sci­ence images, includ­ing ani­mal and plant, weather and space, and earth and sun images and more. The infor­ma­tion is free and no reg­is­tra­tion is required.

To begin with, three data­bases are being searched from one search box. These include: The National Bio­log­i­cal Infor­ma­tion Infra­struc­ture (NBII) Library of Images from the Envi­ron­ment (LIFE), The National Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA) Image eXchange (NIX) and The National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion Photo Library. More image data­bases will be added in the com­ing months.

In addi­tion to the image search, Science.gov has under­gone sig­nif­i­cant soft­ware upgrade for quicker per­for­mance. It has included both the Fed­eral Reg­is­ter and Code of Fed­eral Reg­u­la­tions in the basic search and also pro­vides an author clus­ter on the results page. The alerts ser­vice has also been upgraded so that users can man­age their Science.gov alerts directly from their alerts email and get daily alerts rather than weekly.

Science.gov is hosted by the Depart­ment of Energy Office of Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion, within the Office of Sci­ence, and is sup­ported by CENDI, an inter­a­gency work­ing group of senior sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion man­agers. Cur­rently in its fifth gen­er­a­tion, Science.gov pro­vides a search of over 42 sci­en­tific data­bases and 200 mil­lion pages of sci­ence infor­ma­tion with just one query.”
Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 12/21/10

PubMed bibliographic records are enhanced by Images from NCBI

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“The PubMed Abstract dis­play for PubMed Cen­tral® arti­cles will be enhanced to include an image strip gen­er­ated from the soon-to-be-released National Cen­ter for Biotech­nol­ogy Infor­ma­tion (NCBI) Images data­base.”  To see an exam­ple, click on the linked arti­cle below:

 

Canese K. PubMed® Dis­play Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Data­base. NLM Tech Bull. 2010 Sep-Oct;(376):e14.

Geological resources from the Scout Report

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Today’s Scout Report from the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin high­lights a cou­ple of websites/resources of interest:

The Perkins Geol­ogy Museum at the Uni­ver­sity of Vermont
http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/index.html  — The “Perkins Dig­i­tal Archive” con­tains >1000 images of min­er­als, fos­sils and rocks. Their col­lec­tion of  > 24,000 pho­tos doc­u­ment­ing Vermont’s “Land­scape Change Pro­gram” dates from 1690.  These col­lec­tions are searchable.
 
The Bar­ren Lands

The area west of Hud­son Bay in north­ern Man­i­toba and Saskatchewan was thor­oughly doc­u­mented and explored by Cana­dian geol­o­gist, J.B. Tyrrell in 1893 and 1894.  There are >5000 images in this col­lec­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Toronto.

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