Great News to all you Web of Science users! We have partnered with the Colliege of Information Science and Technology to purchase an additional 10-year access to the Web of Science for all three indexes, Science Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Index; Social Sciences Index. We now have searching and citation access to papers published 1980 onward. This should allow for more robust citation analysis. YEAH!
Check it out:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://isi01.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame
Ah, not those “Pods”. I am talking about Podcasts, specifically science podcasts. Interestingly, podcasts with science content are popping up all over the Internet. Some are news-like programs providing video- or audio-bites on the latest, hottest topics with a mixture of entertainment that appeal to a general audience. Some are in-depth presentations by the leading researchers directed at the scientific community. Many programs can be downloaded into your MP3 players. Some come with subscriptions that will automatically update your iTune directory.
In this space I will be reviewing podcasts with a mathematics focus, as well as other related sites. Today I am highlighting: The Math Factor
A professor of mathematics, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, at the University of Arkansas presents a weekly radio program. They are short and simple, 5-8 minute gems, just enough to keep a high student or undergraduate interested in the conversation. The format is rather simple: to pose a math question, then give prizes during the next to those who write in to the station with solutions. Popular math! Might make good homework assignments…
Go to: http://www.podcast.net/show/83323
Open J-Gate is a free online multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from more than 3,000 open access publications, with links to the full texts of the articles at Publisher sites. About half of the indexed publications are peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Users can search by keywords, title, and author, and also browse the tables of contents of the indexed publications. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI (Open Access Initiative). At present, it seems that Open J-Gate works better with Internet Explorer.
This is so newly on the scene, I don’t know how it compares to Google Scholar, except that in Open J-Gate there is some ability to formulate a search strategy and all results will be full-text.
Go to: http://www.openj-gate.com/
We are currently trialing a new product from ISI. Web Citation Index offers bibliographic and cited reference data from preprints, open access journals, technical reports, dissertations, proceedings, and other gray literature. It appears they are pulling some of their data from institutional repositories and preprint databases. Since researchers will upload a paper into a preprint database prior to the paper appearing in the “published” literature, this might be an efficient way to stay on top of hot new research and perhaps access papers not otherwise available to us.
This product is still in beta testing. You may send feedback or report any problems to Thomson Scientific from their Feedback Form
Access restricted by license to the Drexel University community. Go to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WCI&Func=Frame
trial access ends October 7, 2006
Have you heard about the Google Library Project? Or maybe the question would be more correct to say “What haven’t you heard about the Google Library Project?” In my opinion, this baby has more “sides” than the NBA.
I just stumbled across this article by Jonathan Band, “The Google Library Project: Both Sides of the Story” recently published in the new journal Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification. I recommend it as a thought-provoking and even-handed discussion.
Copyright and intellectual property are important factors in the ongoing dialogue revolving around Scholarly Communications. For information about Drexel University Libraries’ Symposium on Scholarly Communications go to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/services/symposium2006.html
In this space I will be announcing new resources, probably electronic, as they are added to the Libraries’ catalog.
Today I want to hightlight the “Cryptology ePrint Archive”. The Cryptology ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. Papers are placed there by the authors and do not undergo any refereeing process other than verifying that the work seems to be within the scope of cryptology and meets some minimal acceptance criteria and publishing conditions.
RSS feeds for new papers are available.
This resource can be accessed through our catalog.
Spanish Minister for Education announced the creation of a new digital library to provide the academic community in Spain with immediate access to scientific articles and books…This new digital collection will be called the Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y TecnologÃa (Electronic Library of Science and Technology) and it is expected to cost about 80 million euros. According to the Education Minister, it will have 8,000 data bases and users will be able to consult the online editions of all the world’s main scientific journals.
Wow! What a great service.
Excerpted from: http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2006/04/spains-government-announces-new.html
