Science Dissemination Using Open Access
Overview
Open Access aims to remove restrictions that exist on the access to articles and knowledge to the world-wide scholarly community, in particular to those in developing countries. Scientists in these countries still have difficulty in publishing their work due to the lack of access to the network, to their institutional economic difficulties or to the [...]
New Electronic Books–Nutrition & Food Science
Recently added to our collection of electronic books:
Nutrigenomics and beyond [electronic resource] : informing the future : workshop summary / Ann L. Yaktine and Robert Pool, rapporteurs Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
QH447 .N87 2007eb
Genomics — Congresses.;Nutrition — Genetic aspects — Congresses.;Nutrition policy — Congresses
Improving the fat content of foods [...]
Turtles: Mystery Brings Researchers to Park
Our turtle people making the news again!
This time it is our own graduate students, Steven Pearson and Julia Stone, from Drexel’s Bioscience department. Read about their research efforts at Silver Lake Park in Bristol Township, recently published in the Courier Times.For the text of the article go to:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-08042008-1572258.html
For the photo gallery for some really cool images go [...]
(from Drexelbioscience)
ACS Member Network
The American Chemical Society has just launched its flavor of social networking. ACS claims it’s the world’s largest scientific society for chemical professionals. It’s safe. It’s searchable. It’s FREE. And it’s a great way to stay connected with the best and brightest.
Why Join?
Create and build your personal scientific network
Find friends and colleagues by career, education, [...]
Chemistry Department to Host ChemSpider Seminar
I know all you chemistry folks are busy with the annual conference of the American Chemical Society here in Philadelphia this week, but I hope you can spare some energy to attend this seminar. I have spoken about ChemSpider in this blog earlier (August 1, 2008). This is well worth your time.
The Department of Chemistry [...]
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information.
ChemSpider is a chemistry search engine. It has been built with the intention of aggregating and indexing [...]
(from Drexelchemistry)
Math Qualifying Exam
Dear Drexel Math Graduate Students,
Will you be taking the Ph.D. qualifying exam in the next year? Want to start preparing for it? The faculty of Drexel’s Mathematics Department have selected a set of books, they believe to be pertinent to the Math Ph.D. qualifying exam. These books have been placed on Reserve in Hagerty Library [...]
Graduate Junction
The Graduate Junction is the first website to give graduate researchers an easy way of making contact and communicating with other researchers who share their research interests no matter which department, institution or country they work in.
Tell the world…
…about your work on your very own research homepage
Summarise your research interests and current work
Review your educational [...]
Citation Statistics
A report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
(from Drexelmath)
International Year of Astronomy 2009
International Year of Astronomy 2009
The vision of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) is to help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the day- and night time sky, and thereby engage a personal sense of wonder and discovery. All humans should realize the impact of astronomy and basic sciences [...]
Rappin’ Physics
They do seem to have fun at CERN!
CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.
DOE Data Explorer
DOE Data Explorer
The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) is an information tool which includes a database of citations prepared by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) based on the information found at various data-hosting Web sites.
The DOE Data Explorer can be used to find collections of scientific research data, such as computer simulations, figures [...]
(from Drexelphysics)
