From Physics World newsletter, June 20, 2019
Category Archives: Scientific communication
NOAA Says The Polar Freezer is In Defrost Mode
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:
NOAA’s Says The Polar Freezer is In Defrost Mode
BenchSci, an antibody-finding search engine free to academics
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
How to Write a Good Scientific Paper by Chris A. Mack…free download
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.
Data Management Plan Presentation – Wed., March 28th
Data Management Plan Presentation
Wednesday, March 28, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
347 Lewis Science Library, Washington Road & Ivy Lane
[Lunch will be provided. RSVP here.]
This one-hour presentation by PU librarians, OIT and PICSciE/Research Computing staff is open to Princeton researchers, graduate students and grants personnel. Please share with those who may benefit from this presentation.
Topics
- Why manage research data?
- Elements of data management
- How to write a data management plan
- Common data management issues
- Best practices for managing research data
- Resources and support on campus
Best of the Web, GEN (Vol. 37, No. 8) SciPy PYTHON
“Computer programming is becoming (or rather, already has become) an essential skill for modern-day life scientists. A popular programming language in many fields is Python, in large part due to its open-source development. As a result, there exist many free resources available to both experienced and novice Python users. A large collection of such resources can be found on SciPy.org, home of a number of scientific and computational software packages/libraries for Python. In addition to offering free downloads of those packages, the SciPy website also includes SciPy Central (a collection of useful Python code snippets), a blog, documentation for the various software packages, and a place for users to report bugs. Site visitors in search of even more information can browse the SciPy Cookbook, a collection of user-contributed “recipes” that span topics such as graphics, linear algebra, simple plotting, and differential equations.”
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, April 15, 2017, URL:scipy.org
Rated “Excellent”, free software downloads, good documentation
Chemists to get their own preprint server
World’s largest scientific society plans to introduce ChemRxiv for a traditionally reluctant discipline.
- Daniel Cressey
11 August 2016
Nature DOI: doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20409
http://www.nature.com./news/chemists-to-get-their-own-preprint-server-1.20409
From Bob Buntrock (Princeton Class of ??) on the CHMINF Listserv.
Like arXiv and bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, hopes to facilitate the discovery and sharing of significant happenings in Chemistry. ACS is welcoming input during this planning stage.
Viral Zone Best of the Web, Genetic Engng & Biotech News
Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
| Source: The Scout Report — Volume 22, Number 16
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| “NASA’ s Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet website features a diverse set of resources related to the measurement, analysis, and dangers of global climate change. Here readers will find a collection of Interactive Features all designed to bring to life the sometimes abstract conclusions of scientific articles on climate and its effects on human and other life on Earth. For example, the Climate Time Machine allows readers to go backward and forward through four different key climate indicators, including Sea Ice, Sea Level, Carbon Dioxide, and Global Temperature. Perfect for educators who are looking for impactful visual representations of the rising temperatures on the planet, the interactive makes these measurements visceral in a way that charts and graphs are seldom able to do. Other interactives on the page include the Global Ice Viewer, Quizzes, The Sun: A Virtual Tour, The Water Cycle, and others. [CNH]” | |
Emerging trends and top innovators in science & technology — Thomson-Reuters
Follow the links to learn about some of the…
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/
- 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators
- Predicting the World in 2025 (Emerging trends in Science & Technology)
- Innovation — from Discovery to Delivery (video) (Controlling the innovation life cycle)
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Thomson Reuters announces the world’s most influential scientific minds – 18 Jan 2016The Intellectual Property (IP) and Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the release of ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds,’ a citation analysis identifying the scientists – as determined by their fellow researchers – who have made the most significant global impact within their respective field of study.
The two-part study includes an 11 year assessment of research paper citations to determine the leaders within 21 broad fields of science and a ranking of 2015’s top scientists or ‘hottest researchers,’ revealing significant growth in cancer genomics and improvements in converting solar cells into renewable energy.
The report draws on data and analysis performed by Thomson Reuters IP & and Science bibliometric experts via InCites™ Essential Science Indicators℠, a leading web-based research analytics platform and a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data from the Web of Science™, the premier web-based environment for scientific and scholarly research.
The longer-range study, widely known as the Highly Cited Researchers, recognises nearly 3,000 scientists who published the greatest number of articles ranking among the top one percent by citations received in their respective fields in each paper’s year of publication. Analysts assessed more than 120,000 papers indexed between 2003 and 2013 throughout each area of study.
The 2015 hottest researchers ranking spotlights the scientific community’s emerging trends and 19 innovators, who recently published at least 14 papers with notably high levels of citations. The list was identified by tabulating citations within the Web of Science recorded during calendar year 2014 for papers published between 2012 and 2014.
Stacey B. Gabriel of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard tops the list for the second consecutive year for her contributions to the Cancer Genome Atlas project, providing molecular portraits of tumors afflicting the breast, lung and other areas of the body. Her most recent papers examine the genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. She is followed by newcomer, Oxford University’s Henry J. Snaith, a physics and material scientist for his work on perovskite solar cells to advance solar energy technology. ”
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).
Jan. 18, 2016
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