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May 24, 2007
Ocean Drilling Program Publications Online
The Ocean Driliing Program Publications in print are being made available online by the Ocean Drilling Program and Texas A&M with a grant from the NSF. To view the publications go to http://www.odplegacy.org and click on Samples, data & publications. Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project will be made available in the fall of 2007 at http://www.deepseadrilling.org.
To read the official press release, please read the extended entry below.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2007
CONTACT: Jon Corsiglia, IODP U.S. Implementing Organization
(202) 232-3900, jcorsiglia -at- joiscience.org
Pushing Scientific Ocean Drilling Results to the Desktop
COLLEGE STATION, TX Published volumes detailing nearly 40 years of scientific discoveries from ocean drilling research a vast reservoir of valuable and citable data for geoscientists will soon be freely accessible online. These publications represent the scholarly results of an important global science endeavor that forever changed mankind¹s understanding of the Earth.
All findings and data published in volumes from the Ocean Drilling Program
(ODP) are now available at http://www.odplegacy.org (click on Samples, data & publications.) The second phase of the digitization project, to be completed by this fall, will bring the Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project series (Volumes 196) and other printed ODP and Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) reports online. The DSDP publications will be available at http://www.deepseadrilling.org.
The Texas A&M Digital Library, which until recently operated under the university¹s vice president of research, produced more than 185,000 pages of digital files from original print publications in a joint venture with ODP.
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding the project.
³This makes one of the great bodies of marine geologic literature easily accessible worldwide,² said Dr. Mitchell Lyle, a professor in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University.
ODP was a 20-year international partnership of scientists and research institutions organized to explore the evolution and structure of the Earth through scientific ocean drilling. ODP conducted drilling operations in the world¹s oceans from January 1985 through September 2003. The program succeeded DSDP, which began drilling operations in 1968 and concluded its explorations in 1983. The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) has been building upon the legacy of success of both its predecessor programs since 2004.
James Allan, IODP program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation said, ³NSF is delighted that these written results covering 35 years of scientific ocean drilling will be made easily available to the science community and society at large. We are very grateful for the efforts of the Texas A&M University Digital Library and Texas A&M University for serving as a partner in supporting this accomplishment, which provides many enhancements over the original printed versions.²
The Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program includes an Initial Reports volume of shipboard reports for each ODP research cruise and a companion Scientific Results volume of peer-reviewed postcruise research results. ODP first began publishing its Proceedings online in 1997. Through the digitization effort, scanned versions of ODP Proceedings volumes originally published between 1986 and 1996 have been made Web-accessible.
The PDF chapter files generated through the digitization project started as scanned images of each original page. Through the use of an optical character recognition process, a searchable text layer was added to the PDF files, making it possible to copy and paste text from the final PDF file of each chapter. HTML volume tables of contents provide online navigation to individual chapter files. The digitized volumes include links to individual core photographs scanned from original film as part of a separate ODP legacy project.
Every chapter in both the Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program and the Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project will have a digital object identifier (DOI) associated with it. Scholarly and professional publishers create links between reference lists and the online content of cited papers using DOIs. With information about DSDP and ODP publications deposited with the DOI registration agency CrossRef, publishers will be able to link directly online to cited papers across the entire DSDP and ODP series.
IODP welcomes scientific ocean drilling expedition and engineering proposals from many disciplines, and from any country. With the newly digitized ODP data resource available to them, scientists and engineers writing new proposals will ultimately make new discoveries, develop new technologies and contribute to greater scientific knowledge.
Information about the IODP proposal submission process is available at http://www.iodp.org
Posted by ajbrown at 10:55 AM
May 21, 2007
New Biology Publications by BU Researchers
Title: Scintillation proximity assay for DNA binding by human p53
Author(s): Gal S (Gal, Susannah), Cook JR (Cook, Jeffery R.), Howells L (Howells, Leighton)
Source: BIOTECHNIQUES 41 (3): 303-+ SEP 2006
Title: Genetics, behavior and ecology of a paper wasp invasion: Polistes dominulus in North America
Author(s): Liebert AE (Liebert, Aviva E.), Gamboa GJ (Gamboa, George J.), Stamp NE (Stamp, Nancy E.), Curtis TR (Curtis, Tracy R.), Monnet KM (Monnet, Kimberley M.), Turillazzi S (Turillazzi, Stefano), Starks PT (Starks, Philip T.)
Source: ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI 43 (5-6): 595-624 DEC 29 2006
Title: Title: Update on Sphagnum perichaetiale in New Zealand
Author(s): Karlin EF (Karlin, Eric F.), Andrus RE (Andrus, Richard E.)
Source: NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY 44 (4): 421-424 DEC 2006
Posted by erushton at 04:48 PM
May 11, 2007
New Computer Science and Engineering Publications by BU researchers
Special Issue on the 2006 International Symposium on Physical Design
Hu J (Hu, Jiang), Madden PH (Madden, Patrick H.)
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 26 (4): 617-618 APR 2007
Grid colorings in steganography
Fridrich J (Fridrich, Jessica), Lisonek P (Lisonek, Petr)
Source: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY 53 (4): 1547-1549 APR 2007
Minimizing makespan during environmental stress screening using a genetic algorithm and an ant colony optimization
Pradhan S (Pradhan, Salil), Lam SSY (Lam, Sarah S. Y.)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 32 (5-6): 571-577 MAR 2007
Location verification and trust management for resilient geographic routing
Liu K (Liu, Ke), Abu-Ghazaleh N (Abu-Ghazaleh, Nael), Kang KD (Kang, Kyoung-Don)
JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING 67 (2): 215-228 FEB 2007
Effective image retrieval based on hidden concept discovery in image database
Zhang RF (Zhang, Ruofei), Zhang ZF (Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark))
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING 16 (2): 562-572 FEB 2007
Posted by amcmanus at 11:21 AM
ePosters - new OA journal for scientific posters
From Peter Suber's Open Access News blog
ePosters is a new OA journal of scientific posters. (Thanks to Science Quick Picks.) From the site:
Welcome to ePosters.net, the free online journal where you can share your scientific or medical poster with the world.After you present your poster at a conference or meeting you why not upload it here at ePosters.net?....
Benefits of submitting your poster:
• The process is easy and free of charge
• You can cite your poster by its reference number and date on your résumé
• Access to your work is no longer restricted to meeting attendees; it will have worldwide exposure
• Your poster can always be found using keywords or it's unique reference number
• Readers can contact you directly about your work (via anonymous email) increasing collaborative opportunities
• Visitors can print your poster locally thereby reducing your administration.
ePosters.net is now accepting submissions
ePosters.net is now accepting submissions
Posted by amcmanus at 07:56 AM
May 10, 2007
Recent Mathematics Publications by BU Researchers
Root-n consistent density estimators of convolutions in weighted L-1-norms
Schick, Anton; Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE 137 (6): 1765-1774 JUN 1 2007
Invariants associated to the pure braid group of the sphere
Juan-Pineda, Daniel; Millan-Lopez, Silvia
BOLETIN DE LA SOCIEDAD MATEMATICA MEXICANA 12 (1): 27-32 APR 2006
Posted by ebrown at 08:49 AM
Recent Chemistry Publications by BU Researchers
Biophysical characterization of V3-lipopeptide liposomes influencing HIV-1 infectivity
Rizos, Apostolos K.; Baritaki, Stavroula; Tsikalas, Ioannis; Doetschman, David C.; Spandidos, Demetrios A.; Krambovitis, Elias
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 355 (4): 963-969 APR 20 2007
Epitaxial growth of Cu on Au(111) and Ag(111) by surface limited redox replacement - An electrochemical and STM study
Viyannalage, L. T.; Vasilic, R.; Dimitrov, N.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 111 (10): 4036-4041 MAR 15 2007
Oxidation of the Cu(100) surface induced by local alkalization
Vasiljevic, N.; Viyannalage, L. T.; Dimitrov, N.; Missert, N. A.; Copeland, R. G.
JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY 154 (4): C202-C208 2007
Synthesis and biological activity of 2,5-diaryl-3methylpyrimido[4,5-c]quinolin-1(2H)-one derivatives
Metwally, Kamel; Aly, Omar; Aly, Enayat; Banerjee, Abhijit; Ravindra, Rudravajhala; Bane, Susan
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 15 (6): 2434-2440 MAR 15 2007
Posted by ebrown at 08:44 AM
May 08, 2007
New Beta Version of Entrez Database
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is getting ready to launch it's new Entrez databases. The database is currently available in BETA. Click here to read the update.
Posted by erushton at 11:55 AM
May 07, 2007
Recent Geology and Environmental Studies Publications by BU Researchers
Title: Sphagnum oregonense sp nov from western North America
Authors: Andrus, RE
Source: BRYOLOGIST 110 (1): 123-125 SPR 2007
Posted by ajbrown at 01:53 PM
Recent Psychology Publications by BU Researchers
Title: Comparing associative, statistical, and inferential reasoning accounts of human contingency learning
Authors: Pineno, O; Miller, RR
Source: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 60 (3): 310-329 MAR 2007
Title: Selective septohippocampal - but not forebrain amygdalar - cholinergic dysfunction in diencephalic amnesia
Authors: Savage, LM; Roland, J; Klintsova, A
Source: BRAIN RESEARCH 1139: 210-219 MAR 30 2007
Title: Differential expression of ethanol-induced hypothermia in adolescent and adult rats induced by pretest familiarization to the handling/injection procedure
Authors: Ristuccia, RC; Hernandez, M; Wilmouth, CE; Spear, LP
Source: ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 31 (4): 575-581 APR 2007
Title: The increased construct validity and clinical utility of assessing relationship quality using separate positive and negative dimensions
Authors: Mattson, RE; Paldino, D; Johnson, MD
Source: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 19 (1): 146-151 MAR 2007
Title: Assessment of adolescent neurotoxicity: Rationale and methodological considerations
Authors: Spear, LP
Source: NEUROTOXICOLOGY AND TERATOLOGY 29 (1): 1-9 JAN-FEB 2007
Title: Chronic tolerance to the social consequences of ethanol in adolescent and adult Sprague-Dawley rats
Authors: Varlinskaya, EI; Spear, LP
Source: NEUROTOXICOLOGY AND TERATOLOGY 29 (1): 23-30 JAN-FEB 2007
Title: Biological significance and posttraining changes in conditioned responding (vol 34, pg 303, 2003)
Authors: Savastano, HI; Miller, RR
Source: LEARNING AND MOTIVATION 38 (1): 103-103 FEB 2007
Title: Timing of omitted events: An analysis of temporal control of inhibitory behavior
Authors: Denniston, JC; Miller, RR
Source: BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES 74 (2): 274-285 FEB 22 2007
Posted by ajbrown at 01:37 PM
J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition in PLoS Biology
From the Public Library of Science:
"Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute recently published several studies from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition in PLoS Biology. This research details the discovery of millions of new genes after a voyage of thousands of miles. The PLoS pages devoted to this expedition also include a web seminar, interactive poster, editorial, and several links." Click here to access this item.
Posted by erushton at 12:53 PM
May 04, 2007
Science.gov Releases Version 4.0
The Science.gov Alliance recently released version 4.0 of the Science.gov website.
New features include:
*DeepRank - uses information gathered from the full-text document, when available, to perform relevancy ranking.
*Refine results - allows you to refine results by searching for another term or phrase within the original set of results.
*Result sorting - sort and view results by title, date or author as well as by relevancy rank and source.
*E-mail results - allows you to e-mail the results to yourself or another person or listserv, along with an optional comment.
Posted by erushton at 02:19 PM
May 03, 2007
Plant Physiology Announces Open Access Initiative
The editor of Plant Physiology recently announced that all papers in Plant Physiology corresponded by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) will be published with full Open Access. This includes full access to the publish-ahead-of-print version (Plant Physiology Preview) as well as to the final, fully edited version, full access to supplemental data, and full access to all the advanced linking and tracking tools. According to the editorial, since more than 50% of the papers currently published in Plant Physiology are corresponded by ASPB members, more than half of the papers in the January 2007 issue will be fully Open Access. Read more here….
Posted by erushton at 03:09 PM
May 02, 2007
Eigenfactor, a new website that ranks journals
Eigenfactor http://www.eigenfactor.org ranks journals much as Google ranks websites.
The website provides influence rankings for 7000+ science and social science journals and rankings for an additional 110,000+ reference items including newspapers, and popular magazines.
Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington.
The Eigenfactor Web site http://www.eigenfactor.org is still under development.
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Posted by ebrown at 10:11 AM
May 01, 2007
International Polar Year
2007-2008 is the fourth International Polar Year, the first being in 1882. If you would like to read more about it, visit this page:
http://www.us-ipy.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=70
If you would like to download and/or print-out posters:
http://www.us-ipy.gov/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticleDetails.aspx?ItemID=257
The posters document the scientific research efforts of federal agencies.
Posted by ajbrown at 01:52 PM