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December 19, 2005
New Publications by BU researchers
Blind statistical steganalysis of additive steganography using wavelet higher order statistics
Authors: Holotyak, T; Fridrich, J; Voloshynovskiy, S
Source: COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA SECURITY, 3677: 273-274 2005
Title: Instruction replication for reducing delays due to inter-PE communication latency
Authors: Aggarwal, A; Franklin, M
Source: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, 54 (12): 1496-1507 DEC 2005
Posted by amcmanus at 04:07 PM
December 16, 2005
Holiday Reference Services
Need research assistance over the holidays? Even though the science library is closed between Christmas and New Years you can still contact a reference librarian at the Bartle Library. Hours for instant messaging, in-person, email and phone reference are posted on the Library Hours page. If you plan on instant messaging a librarian please use the BUmainlib account during these times.
Posted by erushton at 02:02 PM
December 14, 2005
PubMed Online Training Page
PubMed has created a new PubMed Online Training page. This page links to the PubMed Tutorial (based on the NLM's one-day PubMed training course) and a variety of animated tutorials with audio.
From: NLM Technical Bulletin
Posted by erushton at 08:10 PM
December 13, 2005
Open Access chemistry journal -- Bioinorganic Chemistry & Applications
Bioinorganic Chemistry & Applications is an Open Access journal published by Hindawi Publishing.
The journal's raison d'être "... is to publish original research ..." "...relating to metalloenzymes and model compounds, metal-based drugs, biomaterials, biocatalysis and bioelectronics, metals in biology and medicine, metals toxicology and metals in the environment, metal interactions with biomolecules and spectroscopic applications."
Bioinorganic Chemistry & Applications - Fulltext v1+ (2003+); ISSN: 1565-3633.
Posted by George Porter on the Open Access News Weblog.
Posted by ebrown at 03:42 PM
RSS Feeds and Podcasts from the U.S.Government
The U.S. Government has created a RSS Library of their news feeds. You can find RSS feeds for various topics including Agriculture and Energy, Health and Science. You can also search for U.S. Government Podcasts. Examples of government podcasts include Health Care Information from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Feature Stories and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Research and Development News.
Posted by erushton at 10:07 AM
Search pages available for science/engineering book series
We have created a search page for book series in science and engineering. This search page enables you to to input the volume number from a citation for a book series and retrieve the record for the individual volume in our library catalog, infoLINK.
These search pages are linked from the following subject resources pages: biology, chemistry, computer science, electrical & computer engineering, engineering, environmental studies, geology, mathematical sciences, physics & astronomy, and psychology.
To see an example, go to http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/subjects/biology/bioseries.html and input a volume number for Methods in Enzymology e.g. 191.
Posted by amcmanus at 09:56 AM
BioMed Central Journal Accepted by ISI
BioMed Central has recently announced that the journal BMC Plant Biology has been accepted for tracking by The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The journal has an unofficial impact factor of 2.10.
Posted by erushton at 09:21 AM
December 09, 2005
IEEE Xplore maintenance
IEEE has scheduled necessary maintenance to the IEEE Xplore digital library for Thursday, 15 December from approximately 2 - 3 PM EST. During maintenance the site will be unavailable to users.
Posted by amcmanus at 08:59 AM
December 06, 2005
Nature Blogs
Nature Publishing Group has recently launched three new blogs.
Nascent: Nature Publishing Group's blog on web technology and science.
Action Potential: Nature's neuroscience blog.
Free Association: Nature's genetics blog.
Found on Library Stuff
Posted by erushton at 03:08 PM