American Physical Society has launched another experiment. Physical Review letters will make a small number of “Suggestions” for readers to examine particular Letters each week. “Editors Suggestions” will be based on the potential interest in the results presented and, importantly, on the success of the paper in communicating its message, in particular to readers from other fields. For the full story, go to:
http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PRLTAO000098000001010001000001&idtype=cvips&prog=normal

The Astrophysics Data System has become the repository for the full text of astronomy and astrophysics journals from a variety of publishers freely available to all. Until now there was not an easy way to display these journal holdings in our catalog. We can now display these titles in our catalog with links to the ADS search screen. We are pleased to announce that we have added 56 titles to the catalog with links to ADS! From Acta Astronomica to Zeitschrift fur Astrophysik. With some journals reaching back into the 19th century.

So when you are tracking down a citation, check our catalog!

The following new electronic reference books have recently been added to our “collection”:

Black’s Medical Dictionary, 41st Edition, A&C Black
Collins Dictionary of Biology
Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Wiley
Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils, Philip’s
Guide to Seashells of the World, Philip’s
Guide to Stars and Planets, Philip’s
Guide to the Oceans, Philip’s
McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Applied Physics Reviews has been a key component of Journal of Applied Physics (JAP) since 1980. These review articles vary in scope and length from relatively short, but authoritative state-of-the art summaries to comprehensive, critical monograph-length reviews of specific applications.

The new electronic version of APR includes a complete backfile of APR articles, providing users with access to more than 25 years of critical review articles on experimental and theoretical research in applied physics and applications of physics to other branches of science and engineering.

A new, dedicated website: http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://apr.aip.org/
will make this APR content easier to find.

Although Springer-Verlag has taken over distribution of Indian Academy of Sciences journals, and will have its own online versions of them, the Indian Academy of Sciences will continue to provide open access to all of their journals at their own web site http://www.ias.ac.in/.

The Indian Academy of Sciences is to be commended for this service to the world scholarly community.

Here is a list of Indian Academy of Sciences publications:
Current Science
Journal of Chemical Sciences
Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences
Journal of Earth System Science
Sadhana (proceedings in engineering sciences)
Pramana – Journal of Physics
Journal of Biosciences
Bulletin of Materials Science
Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Journal of Genetics
Resonance – Journal of Science Education

For those interested in ancient life on earth, this site is a great resource. The Paleontology Portal, http://www.paleoportal.org, provides access to fossil images from many museum collections, explores paleontology investigations in the US by state and time period, fossil image database searchable by taxon and time and significant fossil localities and assemblages. There are extensive resources for educational activities and even career opportunities.

This site was developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology in partnership with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Paleontological Society, and the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, and funded by the national Science Foundation.