“In a stunning example of the power of the Internet to attract and connect the smartest minds on earth around the most difficult problems, scholars at UC Berkeley and Stanford have created a free website, called MathOverflow, which is transforming math research.”
Category Archives: Web resources
National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus — new features
The National Library of Medicine announced today that their MedlinePlus websitefor consumer health went live today with a new look and new features. One of the more interesting features is here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/videosandcooltools.html
There are videos available on topics such as human anatomy, surgical procedures and health news. "Test your knowledge with the interactive tutorials and games." NLM has employed social networking connections, and provides a medical dictionary.
Source: Terri Ottosen, M.L.I.S., AHIP Consumer Health Outreach Coordinator, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Baltimore
WorldWideScience.org Goes Multilingual
"WorldWideScience.org Goes Multilingual
OAK RIDGE, TN – Now you can find non-English scientific literature from databases in China, Russia, France, and several Latin American countries and have your search results translated into one of nine languages. With the beta launch today of Multilingual WorldWideScience.org, real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed collections of scientific literature is possible. This new capability is the result of an international public-private partnership between the WorldWideScience.org Alliance and Microsoft Research, whose translation technology has been paired with the federated searching technology of Deep Web Technologies.
Microsoft Research Corporate Vice-President Tony Hey said, "We are extremely pleased to have our Microsoft Translator technology used with WorldWideScience. Built at Microsoft Research, this translation technology already provides translations to millions of users. Partnering with WorldWideScience is an opportunity to advance science across language barriers and improve scientific discovery."
While a large share of scientific literature is published in English, vast quantities of high-quality science are recorded in languages where the research is performed, and the pace of non-English scientific publishing is increasing. Multilingual WorldWideScience.orgBETA will benefit the English-speaking science community, enabling searching and translation of non-English sources. It will also benefit native speakers of other major languages (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian) by translating search results into the user’s language of choice. More languages will be added in the coming months.
Multilingual WorldWideScience.orgBETA was officially launched at the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) annual conference held in Helsinki, Finland.
Dr. Walter Warnick, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information within the Office of Science, emphasized both the "open government" aspects and the potential for accelerating scientific discovery with the addition of multilingual translations across nationally-sponsored R&D results and other science. OSTI serves as operating agent for WorldWideScience.org. WorldWideScience Alliance Chairman, Richard Boulderstone from the British Library, noted that WorldWideScience.org has become "the world’s most important scientific resource, where the global science community can share knowledge."
About WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience.org was formally launched in 2007 with federated searching of 12 databases in 10 countries. Through early 2010, it had grown to search national scientific databases in 65 countries, covering some 400 million pages of science. In addition to other WorldWideScience Alliance members, key partner organizations taking part in the ceremony included the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China), and ICSTI."
Source:
Tim Byrne
DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information
P.O. Box 62
Oak Ridge,TN 37831
Phone: 865-241-2358
E-mail: byrnet@osti.gov
DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information
P.O. Box 62
Oak Ridge,TN 37831
Phone: 865-241-2358
E-mail: byrnet@osti.gov
NSF requests data sharing plans with grant applications
"National Science Foundation Sets Rules for Sharing Data
The National Science Foundation will soon begin requiring all grant applicants to submit a two-page plan describing how they will manage and share any data that is accumulated as part of their grant, in the latest example of a growing effort to ensure public access to findings financed with taxpayer dollars, Science magazine’s ScienceInsider blog reported."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 2010, via Jane Holmquist
BMC Biology + Journal of Biology = BMC Biology
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"BMC Biology and Journal of Biology are joining forces as a single journal committed to the publication of high-quality commissioned content and research articles of exceptional
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importance. The combined journal will operate under the name BMC Biology, reflecting the strong relationship with the subject-specific BMC-series journals, and will be edited by Miranda Robertson, who explains in an inaugural editorial how she sees the fusion combining the strengths of both journals, with continuation of the re-review opt-out experiment initiated by Journal of Biology."
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Read more at the BioMed Central Blog.
Source: Info@Biomedcentral.com
PubMed adds citations to books and chapters — from “Bookshelf”
Source: NLM-ANNOUNCES@LIST.NIH.GOV
The National Library of Medicine Week of Apr 5, 2010
*NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2010, Book Citations Added to PubMed and Changes to Displays
It’s new and books are not retrievable labled as such in PubMed, but they will be retrieved in Medline searches. Bookshelf is separately searchable.
For example, if you search (in PubMed/Medline) feingold syndrome in the title, you will retrieve the book, chapter, or document, as well as articles, too. NIH is now using color highlights to clearly indicate full text availability.
Feingold syndrome searched in the field labeled book, will retrieve 0.
The following search terms can be used to retrieve the Bookshelf citations in PubMed, e.g., pmcbook feingold syndrome:
| To retrieve books and chapters: | pmcbook | |
| To retrieve books: | pmcbooktitle | |
| To retrieve book chapters: | pmcbookchapter |
Ecological Society of America — experts database
"Ecological Society of America offers search facility in database of experts – 05 Apr 2010
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has unveiled its updated resource for policymakers and members of the media. The Rapid Response Team (RRT) database, an ESA resource for several years, has now been made fully searchable. Users can find ecological scientists who specialise in a variety of fields, including climate change, invasive species, urban ecology, conservation and biofuels, or can locate an RRT member by name, affiliation or keyword.
Members of the RRT seek to provide on-call ecological expertise in a variety of ways, such as serving as panelists in briefings for congressional staff; providing expert testimony to Congress; analysing the likely ecological consequences of proposed changes to environmental regulations; and providing scientific feedback for news stories.
ESA claims to be the world’s largest professional organisation of ecologists, representing 10,000 scientists in the US and around the globe. Since its founding in 1915, ESA has sought to promote the responsible application of ecological principles to the solution of environmental problems through its reports, journals, research and expert testimony to Congress. The Society publishes four journals and convenes an annual scientific conference."
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter 4/5/10
MIT’s open access policy supported by scholarly publishers
"Scholarly publishers confirm support for MIT’s open access policy – 22 Mar 2010
The faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that a year after the faculty adopted a policy to open access to their scholarly articles, many scholarly publishers have confirmed their support. More than 850 articles have been added to the MIT Open Access articles collection in the MIT Libraries’ digital repository, DSpace@MIT, where they are freely available on the web.
Publishers who are supporting the MIT policy include American Economic Association, American Institute of Physics, American Mathematical Society, Beilstein-Institut, BioMed Central, Hindawi Publishing, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), The Optical Society of America (OSA), Public Library of Science (PLoS) and the University of California Press, among others. Many of these publishers allow the MIT Libraries to capture copies of the final published PDF for deposit, so that authors do not need to take any action in order to have their articles openly accessible.
In a move aimed at broadening access to the institution’s research and scholarship, MIT faculty, in March 2009, voted to make their scholarly articles available to the public for free and open access on the web. The MIT Libraries, with the guidance of the Faculty Committee on the Library System, continue to work with MIT faculty to help further the policy’s goal of broadening access to MIT’s research and scholarship.
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Source: Knowledgespeak Newletter 3/22/10
OSU Geodetic Scientists at the Chilean Earthquake Feb. 27, 2010
"A team of OSU geodetic scientists just happened to be working in Chile when the earthquake occurred. Here is are links to the press release and their map:"
From Geonet, and Mary Woods Scott , Geology Librarian at Ohio State University, 3/9/10
American Mathematical Society Books Online
American Mathematical Society Books Online [pdf]
"The American Mathematical Society (AMS) was founded in 1888 in order to further mathematical research and scholarship. Since that time, they have embarked on a number of outreach programs designed to educate the public about the importance of various mathematical endeavors. In the past several years, they have been developing the AMS Books Online website, and it’s quite a resource. The works were all originally published by the AMS, and they can be browsed by author or subject. The subject headings include analysis, general interest, logic and foundations, and number theory. Users can download individual chapters from each book, and there are currently over thirty books available on the site. Visitors should make sure and check back, as there are plans to add books to the site periodically."
Source: The Scout Report from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Feb. 19, 2010