| From today’s Knowledgespeak Newsletter (of the STM publishing industry): |
| Knovel expands Crude Oil Assay Database and boosts Chemical Data Records |
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Two of Knovel’s Critical Content Databases have received significant updates. Yaws’ Critical Property Database for Chemical Engineers and Chemists has increased by 160,000 data records to include almost 450,000 records in total. With this update, Knovel offers the largest compilation of correlations for chemical engineers online. In addition, the Crude Oil Assay Database has expanded to feature over 400 assays. More Princeton has a subscription to Knovel. The Knovel database is constituted mainly of engineering resources…some manipulable.
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Finding NCDC Climate Data and Resources
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration presented an online webinar on Feb. 26, 2014. From their description:
- Duration: 40 minutes
- Speakers:
- Greg Hammer , Meteorologist, NCDC
- Scott Stephens, Meteorologist, NCDC
- Stuart Hinson, Meteorologist, NCDC
- Mara Sprain, MALS Librarian, NCDC
- Susan Osborne, Technical Writer and Communications Specialist, NCDC
“Summary: NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) maintains the world’s largest climate data archive and provides climatological services and data to every sector of the United States economy and to users worldwide. Records in the archive range from paleoclimatic data, to centuries-old journals, to data less than an hour old. The Center’s mission is to preserve these data and make them available to the public, business, industry, government, and researchers.
Data come to NCDC from not only land-based stations but also from ships, buoys, weather balloons, radars, satellites, and even sophisticated weather and climate models. With these data, NCDC develops national and global datasets. The datasets are used to maximize the use of our climatic and natural resources while also minimizing the risks caused by climate variability and weather extremes. NCDC has a statutory mission to describe the climate of the United States, and it acts as the “Nation’s Scorekeeper” regarding the trends and anomalies of weather and climate. NCDC’s climate data have been used in a variety of applications including agriculture, air quality, construction, education, energy, engineering, forestry, health, insurance, landscape design, livestock management, manufacturing, national security, recreation and tourism, retailing, transportation, and water resources management.”
“Participation is free, however registration is required. Upon registering, an e-mail confirmation of registration will include instructions for joining the Webinar. …Parts 2 and 3 of the webinar series will be presented in the spring of 2014. More information will come out on those individual webinars later.”
The NCDC webinar is directly at: http://login.icohere.com/connect/d_connect_itemframer.cfm?vsDTTitle=NCDC%20%2D%20The%20World%3Fs%20Largest%20Climate%20Data%20Archive&dseq=18332&dtseq=84935&emdisc=2&mkey=public1172&vbDTA=0&viNA=0&vsDTA=&PAN=2&bDTC=0&blog=0&vsSH=A
Government webinars are listed here: http://login.icohere.com/public/topics.cfm?cseq=1172.
New Ocean Climate Change Web Portal (NOAA)
The NOAA and NOAA Fisheries are collaborating in a new ocean climate change Web portal in trying to assess the effects of climate change on fish.
What is the Ocean Climate Change Web Portal?
“It’s an online system that provides an easy way to display maps of climate data, such as ocean temperature and salinity, over portions of the globe. For example, it can allow you to view how the temperature in the North Atlantic would change in the 21st century as compared with the 20th century.”
Reported by ResearchBuzz, Tara Calishain, Mar. 5, 2014.
Climate Change, new publication from NAS & Royal Society
NAS, Royal Society Release Publication on Climate Change
“The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, the national science academy of the U.K., released a new joint publication that explains the clear evidence that humans are causing the climate to change, and that addresses a variety of other key questions commonly asked about climate change science. “
From What’s New @ the National Academies, Feb.,27, 2014
Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer World This Century
“Warming Up to End Times: What the coming apocalypse means for libraries”
“There is no longer any point in debating the reality of global warming (or, if you prefer to be politically correct, climate change). The handwriting is on the wall: 2012 was the hottest year on record and the polar ice caps are melting at an alarmingly fast rate. Then there’s the new research report from the University of Cambridge, which says that the thawing of the Arctic permafrost layer could trigger the release of billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere, accelerating the dire consequences of climate change.”
So writes Will Manley in “American Libraries” Issue: November/December 2013
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/warming-end-times
Will writes the column, “Will’s World” in each issue.
“Warming Up to End Times” reviews a Work Bank sponsored report warning of consequences of 4 degree global warming:
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/11/18/Climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-this-century
1000 Human Genomes
GenEngNews – http://gen.epubxp.com/t/13060/2
“Best of the Web”, Jan, 15, 2014: 1000 Genomes could keep “genetics junkies” happy for days. Discover human variation. Engage in a project. http://www.1000genomes.org
Bioinformatics Organization
From GEN’s “Best of the Web”, Jan. 15, 2014, there is a glowing review of http://www.bioinformatics.org which makes available an assortment of resources for everyone, from beginners to experts. There is introductory information, databases, software development projects, and analytical tools, such as PrimerX, which automate the design of mutagenic PCR primers.
GenEngNews – http://gen.epubxp.com/t/13060/2
Silence of the Genome
Cold Spring Harbor has provided a website with complete lab protocols for classroom experiments exploring the use of RNA interference in Caenorhabditis elegans, RNAi in C. elegans http://www.silencinggenomes.org
There are 7 modules as part of the process for manipulating genes of C. elegans.
From GENENGNEWS, Jan. 15, 2014, “Best of the Web”
bioRxiv — the Preprint Server for Biology
bioRxiv is in beta. This is from their “about” page:
“bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online. However, all articles undergo a basic screening process for offensive and/or non-scientific content. No endorsement of an article’s methods, assumptions, conclusions, or scientific quality by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is implied by its appearance in bioRxiv. An article may be posted prior to, or concurrently with, submission to a journal but should not be posted if it has already been published.
Authors may submit a revised version of an article to bioRxiv at any time and can update the bioRxiv record with a link to a version of an article that has been published in a journal. Once posted on bioRxiv, articles are citable and therefore cannot be removed.”
From an email/ad from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
New Web of Science platform Sunday, January 14, 2014
Web of Science is rolling out a new platform on Sunday January 14, 2014. The new platform features an updated user interface with improved results page and record layout. Visit the following links to get more information, view training videos, or download the quick reference guide.
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