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The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey

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Astro2010: The Astron­omy and Astro­physics Decadal Sur­vey [pdf]

 

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_049810

 

“Every ten years, the National Research Coun­cil (NRC) of The National Acad­emy of Sci­ences pro­duces a series of sur­veys related to their areas of sci­en­tific inquiry. The pub­lic release of the Astro2010 sur­vey of astron­omy and astro­physics took place on August 13, 2010, and vis­i­tors to this site can read the report and also watch the web­cast from the release event. The goal of this pub­li­ca­tion is to “rec­om­mend pri­or­i­ties for the most impor­tant sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal activ­i­ties of the decade 2010–2020.” Draw­ing on the exper­tise of schol­ars at Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, Vas­sar Col­lege, the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago, and other insti­tu­tions, the report is a cru­cial piece of work on what should be done across the board in these two branches of the phys­i­cal sciences.”

 

From the Scout Report, Univ. of Wisconsin, Aug.27, 2010

National New Biology Initiative — report from NRC

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Phillip Sharp - co-chair of the committee.

Sep­tem­ber 17, 2009 — Accord­ing to a new report from the National Research Coun­cil, the emer­gence of “New Biol­ogy” — where sci­en­tists and engi­neers from many dis­ci­plines col­lab­o­rate on ways to take advan­tage of dra­matic recent advances in biol­ogy, such as the abil­ity to sequence entire genomes — offers an oppor­tu­nity to solve some of society’s most press­ing prob­lems. The report rec­om­mends a National New Biol­ogy Ini­tia­tive to accel­er­ate such research and apply it to our great­est challenges.

 

Source: National Acad­e­mies News, Sept. 17th.

Canada’s National Research Council Sci-Tech article database

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“NRC-CISTI offers pay-per-article ser­vice for data­base — 14 May 2008
 
Canada-based National Research Council’s Insti­tute for Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (NRC-CISTI) has launched Dis­cover, a suite of cur­rent and planned pay-per-article ser­vices. Dis­cover is designed to allow any researcher to search a data­base of more than 20 mil­lion arti­cles for free and pay by credit card to view and print those selected. No pre-registration, user name or pass­word is required.

Each arti­cle costs C$12, plus pub­lisher fees and applic­a­ble taxes. Users see the full and exact cost of items added to their shop­ping carts. Open access arti­cles are avail­able free of any charges. Arti­cles from NRC-CISTI’s elec­tronic col­lec­tion (indi­cated with a green mouse sym­bol) are avail­able for view­ing imme­di­ately. Arti­cles in the print col­lec­tion (indi­cated with a red fly­ing enve­lope sym­bol) must first be scanned, and users receive a link by e-mail when the arti­cle is ready to be viewed and printed. Access to all arti­cles is for one view, one print. Access begins when the link is opened and ends when the link is closed. Users may not save the doc­u­ment to their desktop.

NRC-CISTI is plan­ning to launch a free Dis­cover Alerts ser­vice later in the year. This ser­vice will allow users to reg­is­ter to receive elec­tronic noti­fi­ca­tion of new arti­cles based on search cri­te­ria or jour­nal title. The alerts will be deliv­ered either via e-mail or RSS feeds.”  

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter
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This will be a ser­vice to keep in mind par­tic­u­larly when one is no longer con­nected to a uni­ver­sity or com­pany which pro­vides easy and free doc­u­ment deliv­ery.  While one is at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, do uti­lize our Doc­u­ment Deliv­ery /Interlibrary Loan ser­vice  — a resource of which we are proud.  Of course, an indi­vid­ual on his own should have access through a pub­lic library.  The price of this new ser­vice  from CISTI seems very reasonable.