The University of Michigan Library’s Documents Center provides excellent compilation of various statistics.
Health statistics compilation can be accessed at Statistical Resources on the Web- Health.
Try the following sites as well
Health statistics from NLM’s Medlineplus
National Center for Health Statistics from CDC
National Center for Health Statistics faststatsAtoZ

How has the digital age transformed the ways scholars exchange ideas? How will this impact our intellectual growth in the future? What does this mean to the academic careers of faculty and students?

Drexel University Libraries, in its third year of exploring the world of Scholarly Communications, will host its first mini symposium. Three speakers will share their perspectives on the issues of Scholarly Communication in Science and the Humanities.

Time: 8:30 am-1 pm
Location: Paul Peck Alumni Center at 3142 Market Street

Registration (free) information is available at: Scholarly Communications Symposium
For more information, please contact Peggy Dominy at dominymf@drexel.edu

Nanodot is the original nanotechnology weblog, started in spring 2000. It is a project of Foresight Nanotech Institute, the leading public interest group in nanotechology founded in 1986.

This weblog can be accesse at: Nanodot: the original nanotechnology weblog.

We have expanded our access to all three Web of Science Indexes (Science Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Index; Social Sciences Index). We were previously subscribing to access only through 1990, but we can now access citations from the index from as far back as 1980. This expansion is a joint effort with the College of Information Science and Technology, that allows for more robust citation retrieval and report creation.
To access, please go to Engineering Databases and click on Science Citation Index or check out the expanded index coverage from Science Citation Index (Web of Science).

ChemSpy.com is one of the top portals for chemical searching and chemical databases. Chemistry professionals, including scientists, engineers, students and anyone else interested in finding chemical industry information will find this resource very useful. RSS feeds are also available. Various chemical databases, chemistry related tutorials, latest chemical news and other important chemical links can be accessed through chemspy.

There are numerous blogs and RSS feeds available from a variety of scientific databases, electronic journals and electronic books still not well-utilized by many academic libraries supporting scientific disciplines. Read the full article at ‘Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries’. See also Other Higheredblogcon’s presentations on Library and Information Resources. LISNews entry ‘Blogosphere: channel for scholarly communication?’ points out “those involved in the process of scholarly communication would do well to consider such options as blogs and open access for sharing their work: to maximize readership and impact.”

CoS links researchers worldwide through products designed to meet the information needs of the scientific R&D community. Among various resources included are an expertise directory, funding opportunities, a funded research directory, profiles of researchers, MEDLINE and the Federal Register.

To access: Click on CoS

We will be presenting a poster on CoS during the Research Day.
Our poster number is 442F on row 28.

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Web Citation Index offers bibliographic and cited reference data from preprints, open access journals, technical reports, dissertations, proceedings, and other gray literature. Trial access ends October 7, 2006

To access, please go to: Web Citation index

NLM Technical Bulletin now has an RSS Feed

NLM Technical Bulletin articles are now available as RSS feeds. For more information, see : NLM Technical Bulletin RSS feed . You can subscribe to the feed by copying and pasting RSS URL into your feedreader. Originally reported on nn/lm scr blog.

AccessScience provides online full text access to science reference material from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It also now provides RSS feeds however the full articles are only available through subscribing libraries