Sigma Xi, an international society of science and engineering, has partnered with the online resource ResearchGATE (researchGATE.net) to provide new networking opportunity for its membership of 50,000 scientists and engineers.
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, Aug. 19, 2010
"Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has announced that its federated search product, Explorit Research Accelerator, now includes seamless integration with RefWorks, a web-based solution for citations management."
source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, July 30, 2009
Scitopia was developed by 21 top technological and scientific societies. It is a freely available database mainly in physics and engineering. Component societies are listed on a webpage off www.scitopia.org. It lists papers going back as early as 1665, some of which are digitized.
Full text is offered on a pay-per-view basis, so currently it is better to search Princeton’s subscription databases which have links to our full-text subscription resources. INSPEC and Compendex cover even more resources than Scitopia. IEEE — Xplore & IEL — are other overlapping subscription databases we have, and they are completely full-text.
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the "moon walk", AAAS and Science has made this issue available to everyone. Princeton University has had access via JSTOR for some time: http://www.jstor.org/stable/i299517
At the AAAS link, you’ll see the link to the special "Moon issue"
New Portuguese scientific OA repository launched – 19 Dec 2008
Portugal’s publicly-funded Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) was recently launched at the 3rd Open Access conference that took place at University of Minho on December 15 – 16, 2008. RCAAP gathers content from 10 institutional repositories from across the country.
The new open access repository currently indexes more than 13091 documents from 10 repositories. The project is funded by the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) and will be technically maintained by the National Scientific Computations Foundation (FCCN).
The 10 repositories that are currently contributing to this main centralised repository are mainly university DSpace-based repositories or similar.
Approximately 10% are in English. Topics appear to be mainly biomedical.
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, Dec. 19, 2008.
Science.gov is a free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies. In this new 5.0 version, launched on Sept. 15th, there are 7 additional portals or databases that quadruple its content. New content includes patents, toxicology data, e-prints from the Dept. of Energy and OSTI, and journal archives from PubMed Central, and Cancer.gov.
The search engine is improved with clustering technology, and Science.gov now provides links to science news, the EurekAlert! and Wikipedia.
"Science.gov is hosted by DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within DOE’s Office of Science. In addition to DOE, Science.gov is supported by contributing members of the Science.gov Alliance, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration."
From Tim Byrne at osti/gov
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