JoVE to include: Neuroscience and Immunology & infectious Diseases

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“The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the first video journal for biological sciences, is delighted to announce the 2011 launch of two new specialized content sections – Neuroscience and Immunology & Infectious Diseases.

 

JoVE is a peer reviewed methods video journal indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed and Chemical Abstracts that was launched in 2006.  A unique tool in scholarly communication, JoVE has opened up a new frontier in educational research by the systematic publication of video demonstrations in biological fields.”

Email Tue 8/17/2010 12:46 PM, from Kerianne R. Crandall

Journal of Visualized Experiments – JoVE, www.jove.com 

Astronomy and Astrophysics — the 10-year plan

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August 12, 2010 — A new report by the National Research Council identifies the highest-priority research activities for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade that will “set the nation firmly on the path to answering profound questions about the cosmos.” The decadal survey — the Research Council’s sixth — prioritizes activities based on their ability to advance science in key areas, and for the first time also takes into account factors such as risks in technical readiness, schedule, and cost.

Source:  WhatsNew@nationalacademies.org Aug 16, 2010

Stanford and UC Berkeley create massively collaborative math

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MathOverflow

“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.”

Article from the Mercury News 8-8-10

PANGAEA (Geoscience & Environmental Data) linked with Elsevier’s Science Direct

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Netherland Elsevier and PANGAEA announce next step in connecting research articles to data – 30 Jul 2010

“STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and PANGAEA – Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data – have announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are deposited at PANGAEA.

PANGAEA is a data library which links primary data related to articles in earth and environmental science journals and thus may serve some hundred journals of the Elsevier portfolio. In the first phase, more than 1,000 articles from various earth science journals were linked. The data are freely available from the publication’s page in ScienceDirect, without a login or subscription.

The latest initiative follows the introduction, last February, of ‘reciprocal linking’ – automatically linking research data sets deposited at PANGAEA to corresponding articles in Elsevier journals on its electronic platform ScienceDirect and vice versa. The new feature adds a map to every ScienceDirect article that has associated research data at PANGAEA. It displays all geographical locations for which such data is available. A single click then brings the user from the ScienceDirect article to the research data set at PANGAEA.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter

Institute for Web Science (UK) not to get funding…

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However, [Tim] "Berners-Lee and [Nigel] Shadbolt are hopeful that earlier statements and commitments by members of the new government to open government data indicate that support for open-linked data initiatives will continue, despite the cuts. They believe that the http://data.gov.uk website, a similar initiative to the U.S. government’s www.data.gov portal, will continue to grow over the coming months. The U.S. service now has more than 270,000 data sets available for developers. The U.K. version is somewhat smaller with a little more than 3,000 data sets."

Source:  Jim Ashling. Information Today. Medford: Jul/Aug 2010. Vol. 27, Iss. 7; pg. 20, 2 pgs

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=569&curl=http%3A%2F%2Fproquest.umi.com%2Fpqdweb%3Fdid%3D2080617381%26sid%3D1%26Fmt%3D3%26clientId%3D17210%26RQT%3D309%26VName%3DPQD&TS=1279289390  (whole article)

National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus — new features

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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

 

Springer offers personal copies of their e-books for ~$25

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"More than 15,000 books included at $24.95/24,95 euros each

The MyCopy offer is currently valid on more than 15,000 electronic Springer books published since 2005. The new soft cover edition is branded as a MyCopy book with a color cover and black and white book content.

 
 

All books will be sold at the same price, $24.95 for customers in the US and Canada or 24,95 euros in Europe. Each price includes shipping and handling. Local VAT will be added.

 
 

MyCopy books can only be ordered by registered patrons of academic libraries that have purchased the corresponding eBook Collection. The entire ordering and shipping process will be handled by Springer in cooperation with a print-on-demand (POD) provider."

Princeton University subscribes to most of Springer’s ebook packages.

Source: a Springeralerts email, June

Journal Citation data released for 2009

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) now has 10 years of journal metrics available:

Journal Citation Reports  (1999+)  (Science & Social Science Editions.)

From Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, "JCR claims to be the most widely used tool for assessing the world’s leading journals. The metrics it offers, including Journal Impact Factor, empower users to objectively evaluate a journal’s performance and its influence on research globally."  JCR ranks 9100 journals from 2200 publishers in 78 countries.

Source:  Knowledgespeak Newsletter, June 18, 2010

 

WorldWideScience.org Goes Multilingual

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"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 

SCOPUS launches iPhone app — as of May 12th

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Today SCOPUS has launched their new mobile application for the iPhone.  If you have an iPhone, and since Princeton subscribes to SCOPUS, you are free to download it.

SCOPUS webpage announcement:

http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESC001/mSR4081F/uDF5Q4/xWHWI81F

SCOPUS — large Science, Technology & Medicine subscription database from Elsevier, 1996+