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March 30, 2005
New Science Library Books
Looking for something interesting to read at the Science Library? Here are just a few examples of some books recently purchased.
Rachel Carson : A Biography
Arlene R. Quaratiello
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc
Science Library Stacks -- QH31.C33 Q37 2004 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: Few people have had as great an impact on the modern environmental movement as has the great writer and scientist Rachel Carson. This readable and up-to-date biography traces the famous environmentalist's development as a writer from earliest childhood through the publication of her best-known work Silent Spring (1962).
Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World
Carl Selinger
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Science Library Stacks -- TA190 .S45 2004 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: Congratulations! You're an engineer, and now you're ready to take the corporate world by storm. But in order to succeed in your career, you'll need more than just great technical skills. You'll need to be able to promote your ideas, share them with others, and work with a wide variety of people. Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World is designed to give engineers entering the corporate world the "soft" skills they'll need to succeed—in business, and in life.
Clara's Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Glynis Ridley
Atlantic Monthly Press
Science Library Stacks -- QL737.U63 R53 2005 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: Awarded the prestigious Institute of Historical Research Prize, Ridley's sparkling history brings vividly to life the tragicomic story of a rhinoceros named Clara who became a star in 18th century Europe.
Posted by erushton at 12:51 PM
March 29, 2005
Water Information Center
The National Academies has created a new Web site that provides free access to more than 100 Academies reports on water-related issues. The Water Information Center aims to assist the work of water scientists, engineers, managers, policy-makers and students in the developing world.
http://water.nationalacademies.org/
From What's New @ National-Academies.org
Posted by amcmanus at 03:37 PM
March 23, 2005
Medicinal Plants
The Library of Congress occasionally creates "Tracer Bullets" - research guides that help you locate information on science and technology subjects. The most recent Tracer Bullet is about Medicinal Plants.
Posted by erushton at 12:30 PM
March 18, 2005
New pollution control regulations
From the National Academy of Sciences:
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new pollution control regulations, requiring 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia to comply with stringent new air quality standards. The new Clean Air Interstate Rule seeks to cap the emission of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to help more than 450 counties where federal standards for air quality are not being met.
http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/#sh0315
Posted by amcmanus at 03:31 PM
March 16, 2005
Illiad- Inter Library Loan
Message to all current users of ILLiad:
Illiad will not be available March 21, 2005 due to Illiad upgrades and maintenance. Illiad users will not be able to make requests or receive articles via e-mail until the upgrades are completed.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Illiad staff
Posted by admin at 09:08 AM
March 14, 2005
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry Announced
From the Beilstein-Institut:
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, the Open Access publisher. The peer-reviewed online journal will begin publication during 2005, and a call for papers will be issued in May.
Professor Jonathan Clayden, of the University of Manchester, has been confirmed as the Editor-in-Chief, and an international editorial advisory board is also being appointed.
Areas covered in the journal will include: organic synthesis, organic reactions and mechanisms, natural products chemistry and chemical biology, organic materials and macro- and supramolecular organic chemistry.
For more information: http://www.beilstein-journals.org/
Posted by ebrown at 09:09 AM
March 09, 2005
Public Library of Science Launches New Open-Access Journal for the Pathogen Research Community
From Press Release: The Public Library of Science (PLoS) today announces the launch of PLoS Pathogens, an international open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal is accepting submissions at www.plospathogens.org, and commences publication in September 2005. PLoS Pathogens aims to address research on pathogens including bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions, and viruses.
Read more of the press release at http://www.plos.org/news/announce_pathogens.html
Posted by erushton at 10:03 AM
New Open Access Computing Journal
Theory of Computing
Fulltext v1+ (2005+)
http://theoryofcomputing.org/
It has a separately published section, Quantum Computing
Posted on ERIL-L by George Porter.
Posted by amcmanus at 09:28 AM
March 08, 2005
American Chemical Society Broadens Access to its Articles
From the American Chemical Society:
The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is broadening access to research articles published in its 33 scholarly journals. The Society is introducing two new experimental policies that define how readers can view free digital versions of ACS articles beginning one year after publication.
First, in response to public access guidelines recently released by the NIH(1), the ACS will post, for public accessibility 12 months after publication, the peer-reviewed version of authors' manuscripts on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central during 2005. The NIH policy encourages authors whose work it funds to submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the agency's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
ACS Publications Senior Vice President Brian Crawford:
"We understand that NIH-funded authors will wish to comply voluntarily with the NIH's policy request. By introducing this service, the ACS will take on the administrative burden of compliance and at the same time will ensure the integrity of the scientific literature by depositing the appropriate author version of the manuscript after peer-review."
Second, as a value-added service to ACS authors and a method of further opening access to its content, the full-text version of all research articles published in ACS journals will be made available at no charge via an author-directed Web link 12 months after final publication. Allowing unrestricted access to articles 12 months after publication is an expansion of the Society's current practice of permitting 50 downloads of authors' articles free of charge during the first year of publication. This initiative will go into effect during 2005.
Released: March 7, 2005
Posted by ebrown at 12:09 PM
March 07, 2005
Francis Crick Papers
The papers of DNA researcher Francis Crick have been added to the National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science archive.
Posted by amcmanus at 08:31 AM
March 04, 2005
Computing Reviews Now Available
We now have access to Computing Reviews from the Association for Computing Machinery. This database, a companion product to the ACM Digital Library, identifies the “best new books and articles in all areas of computer science”. To access Computing Reviews, go to http://www.reviews.com.
Posted by amcmanus at 06:21 PM
March 01, 2005
RSS Feeds available for American Physical Society Journals
The American Physical Society (APS) is now providing content awareness using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds as a convenience to our readers. Journal feeds contain recently published articles in each journal and are updated as new articles are published. A list of all available feeds along with a FAQ can be found at http://feeds.aps.org/ or by following the RSS link on journal home and Scitation pages.
As the web matures, researchers, students, publishers and librarians are seeking new ways of disseminating and sharing information. Technologies such a RSS, blogs and wiki’s are being experimented with and used for sharing and establishing communities.
We, along with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), are seeking ways to improve our offerings, to support the directions in which scientists are evolving their use of the web.
from
Robert Kelly
Director - Journal Information Systems
The American Physical Society
Posted by ebrown at 02:20 PM
Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2005 Update
Nucleic Acids Research Molecular Biology Database Collection is a public online resource that lists freely available databases. The 2005 update includes 719 databases.
Read more at: http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/021105/itin_explosion.html
Posted by erushton at 12:47 PM
New Science Library Books
Looking for something interesting to read at the Science Library? Here are just a few examples of some books recently purchased.
Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession
Jack Meadows
British Library Publishing
Science Library Stacks -- Q141 .M382 2004 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: At the start of the nineteenth century science was a minority cultural interest. By the end it had become one of the central components of contemporary thought. The growth of science as a profession was largely due to the influence of just a small group of men, and who these men were, and how they created the foundations of the modern scientific community is revealed in this thought-provoking book. Set against the backdrop of a changing world of improved communication and travel, the author uncovers how scientists such as Darwin, Faraday and Buckland fought against the limitations of an education in the classics and strove to develop their scientific interests into a profession.
The Temperament Perspective: Working with Children’s Behavioral Styles
Jan Kristal, M.A.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.
Science Library Stacks -- BF723.T53 K75 2005 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: Once you understand the basics of temperament, you can use that knowledge to address children’s behavior challenges and improve classroom interactions. This is your practical guide to understanding and working with children’s individual temperaments.
Digital Speech: Coding for Low Bit Rate Communication Systems, 2nd edition
A. M. Kondoz
Wiley
Science Library Stacks -- TK7882.S65 K62 2004 -- REGULAR LOAN
From publisher: Building on the success of the first edition Digital Speech offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. This Second Edition continues to provide the fundamental technical background required for low bit rate speech coding and the hottest developments in digital speech coding techniques that are applicable to evolving communication systems.
Posted by erushton at 12:17 PM
VoIP articles from IEEE
VoIP FOCUS: FREE PAPERS ADDRESS UPCOMING CHALLENGES
IP telephony has experienced tremendous growth in the last several months, but it still has a way to go. To help address upcoming challenges with the technology, the IEEE Communications Society has made more than 20 journal and conference papers on VoIP available for free online for a limited time. The papers include topics like voice quality measurement and predication in the VoIP environment, VoIP network admission control, and VoIP network reliability. Visit: www.comsoc.org/tech_focus/index.html
From What's New @ IEEE for Libraries February 2005
Posted by amcmanus at 09:49 AM
New ACM title
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) Fulltext v1+ (2005+)
Posted on the Electronic Resources in Libraries listserv (ERIL-L) by George Porter.
Posted by amcmanus at 09:11 AM