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 physics/astronomy focus, as well as general science content. Today I am highlighting: Science Update produced by AAAS.
Quirky, entertaining and informative, Science Update is a daily, 60-second feature covering the latest discoveries in science, technology and medicine. Produced as a “radio” series since 1988 Science Update has reported on thousands of scientific and medical breakthroughs—and won dozens of national awards in the process. You can subscribe to have the shows delivered directly and automatically to your computer and/or you can download to your MP3 player. This is an audio podcast.
Go to: http://www.scienceupdate.com/index.cfm
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/
Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, Socialist (autobiography)
The Right Honourable Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS (18 November 1897–13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/drexel/Doc?id=10093977
World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist’s Path to Freedom
How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was “simply a man with an unusual fate.” http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/drexel/Doc?id=10103564
Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, natural philosophy, and the rise of modern theoretical science
A pioneering British physicist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Cavendish was widely
considered to be the first full-time scientist in the modern sense.
http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/drexel/Doc?id=10103585
Essential David Bohm(collection of works)
David Bohm (1917 – 1992) is perhaps the most quoted physicist after Einstein, and yet his work is almost unknown among other physicists. Includes previously unpublished essays and a contribution of H.H. the Dalai Lama. http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/drexel/Doc?id=10096596
Access to these electronic books are restricted to Drexel University.
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
The current issue of Science has a couple of articles about retracted papers and how they linger in the journal literature as well as citations:
SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: Cleaning Up the Paper Trail by Jennifer Couzin and Katherine Unger
Science 7 April 2006: 38-43
(this link is restricted to Drexel University access)
SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: Even Retracted Papers Endure by Katherine Unger and Jennifer Couzin.
Science 7 April 2006: 40-41
(this link is restricted to Drexel University access)
Makes for rather fascinating reading.
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
