tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55158472023-10-22T10:12:33.878-04:00bioscienceNews, events, and resources from the Drexel University Libraries relating to biology, nutrition, food science and environmental sciencePeggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1141671686298923062006-03-06T14:00:00.000-05:002006-03-06T14:01:26.320-05:0060 Seconds With..(drum roll)...Me!The very nice folks at Institute of Physics sent me a survey last summer as part of their "getting to know librarians" series. I completed the survey and here it is!Enjoy...http://journals.iop.org/sixty/46Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com73tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1140109625247992782006-02-16T12:05:00.000-05:002006-02-16T12:07:05.256-05:00A Patent on Thinking? Huh?Ok the U.S. Patent office has been known to give patents to some bizarre inventions, but a patent on thinking? Paleeeeze!From Chronicle of Higher EducationChronicle ReviewFrom the issue dated February 17, 2006POINT OF VIEWThe Patent Office as Thought PoliceBy LORI B. ANDREWS(Lori B. Andrews is a professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1139491091329618512006-02-09T08:17:00.000-05:002006-02-09T08:18:11.340-05:00What's Happening to Peer Review???Two articles (at least) have recently appeared discussing the peer review process. One makes a case for the whole process being broken. The other offers a new twist to it."Is Peer Review Broken?" by Alison McCookThe Scientist, vol 20 (2), pg 26.http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/2/1/26/1/Submissions are up, reviewers are overtaxed, and authors are lodging Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1138889891498334322006-02-02T09:16:00.000-05:002006-02-02T09:18:11.506-05:00Science CommonsScience Commons devotes its legal and technical expertise to help scientific researchers make the best possible uses of new communication technologies for purposes of scholarly communication.What is it? Science Commons is a project of the non profit corporation Creative Commons. Science Commons was launched in 2005 with the generous support of the HighQ Foundation and Creative Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1129305325425350562005-10-14T11:51:00.000-04:002005-10-14T11:55:25.433-04:00New GAO Report HIGHER EDUCATIONScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Programsand Related TrendsOfficials from 13 federal civilian agencies reported spending about $2.8billion in fiscal year 2004 for 207 education programs designed to increasethe numbers of students and graduates or improve educational programs inSTEM fields, but agencies reported little about their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1128447364251790072005-10-04T13:27:00.000-04:002005-10-04T14:56:13.986-04:00Intelligent Discussion of "Intelligent Design"At "How Stuff Works", one of my very favorite web sites, there is an intelligent discussion of "Intelligent Design" presenting, what I feel is balanced discourse of both sides of the issue. The intelligent design (ID) movement claims that life as weknow it could not have developed through random naturalprocesses -- that only the guidance of an Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1122380354653056752005-07-26T08:12:00.000-04:002005-07-26T08:25:26.910-04:00The Enviromental Impact of Our Consumerism!A special issue of The Journal of Industrial Ecology is devoted to the environmental impact of what we buy and use. The connection between consumption and environmental impact is analyzed in new and important ways in this special issue of Yale's Journal of Industrial Ecology. Articles in the special issue analyze the environmental impactof consumption Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1118762434005209282005-06-14T08:28:00.000-04:002005-06-14T11:20:34.043-04:00Great News!We have heard your requests and have figured out a way to list new books added to the collection. We will be posting the list every month under "New Resources" from the Libraries' main page.To view the list of books added in May go to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/booklist.htmlNote the subject categories near the top. For Environmental Science, we added 10 books. Just Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1116855482023855842005-05-23T09:36:00.000-04:002005-05-23T09:44:28.786-04:00What is Your Role in the Scholarly Communication Cycle--What Should it Be?Thursday, May 19, we had our 4th and final speaker of the Libraries' Scholarly Communication Speaker Series for 2005. Power point links to all four presentations can be found at: http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.htmlIn today's Wall Street Journal a timely article on the cost of scholarly communications Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1116339880484864122005-05-17T10:23:00.000-04:002005-05-17T10:24:40.490-04:00Journal Title Searching now via Library CatalogThe libraries have now implemented "one-stop shopping" for journal titles in the Library Catalog. Records for electronic journals have been added to the catalog, allowing use of the full range of catalog search options for both print and online journals. "Journal Search" links throughout the library web site will now point to a search page that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1114712922211009362005-04-28T14:27:00.000-04:002005-04-28T14:28:42.213-04:00Benchmarking Drexel University ResearchThe Drexel Science and Math Librarian (Peggy Dominy) and the IST/Education Librarian (Tim Siftar) presented the poster entitled “Benchmarking the Research Impact of Drexel University through Analysis of Citations in the Scholarly Literature 1994-2004.”The research examined the citations per article published by Drexel faculty in six disciplines over a periodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1114093294665782792005-04-21T10:20:00.000-04:002005-04-21T10:21:34.666-04:00Scholarly Communication: Does Open Access Increase Authors’ Citation Rates?Want your articles cited more? Is Open Access the answer?Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for Information Technology at NCSU Libraries and author of “Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Research Impact?” College & Research Libraries 65:5 (2004), will address these questions and more when she speaks on Thursday, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1114007391857072322005-04-20T10:29:00.000-04:002005-04-20T10:34:46.626-04:00mypyramid.gov The US Department of Agriculture has recently updated the “Food Pyramid” which had been criticized over the years by nutritionists. USDA literally turned the pyramid on its side. Now the food guidance system displays food-groups for a healthy diet in a color coded proportions. And for the first time, shows a figure climbing stairs to represent balancing activity with food intake.ForAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1113940800231847472005-04-19T15:27:00.000-04:002005-04-19T16:00:00.233-04:00Databases Covering Bioscience Literature Available at Drexel UniversityOver the next few days I will be highlighting databases available through the Drexel University Libraries that pertain to biosciences.BasicBiosisThis is a basic index about biology and other life sciences; it covers the core of life science journals found in college and university libraries. It is a rolling file which is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1109273296323496232005-02-24T14:26:00.000-05:002005-02-24T14:28:16.326-05:00Our Scholarly Communication Speaker Series has started again!Our first speaker will be Thomas Krichel. He will be speaking at March 3, Hagerty Library, 33rd and Market, 3pm, in the Stern Conference Room on the 3rd Floor.Below is some information about the speaker:Thomas Krichel was born in 1965 in Völklingen,Germany. He studied economics and social sciences at the universities of Toulouse, Paris,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1067007513490721512003-10-24T10:58:00.000-04:002003-10-24T10:59:28.130-04:00Heard all the buzz about the Public Library of Science? Well, they have just launched their first journal "Biology". You can now access this new journal from the Hagerty library's web page. Go to the "Journal Title Search" box on the library's home page (http://www.library.drexel.edu) and enter PLOS Biology and on the next page you will see a link to this new journal. Explore this site and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1058300330843912672003-07-15T16:18:00.000-04:002003-07-15T16:18:50.903-04:00BioTech Located in Dr. Andrew Ellington lab at University of Texas at Austin, BioTech is a hybrid biology/chemistry educational resource and research tool on the World Wide Web. BioTech is intended to be a learning tool that will attract students and enrich the public's knowledge of biology issues in the world today. At the same time, BioTech is also a research tool for those already involved inAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1057847698323794292003-07-10T10:34:00.000-04:002003-07-10T10:34:58.256-04:00A database that came with the merger with the Health Sciences: BasicBiosis This database is constructed from the much larger database, Biosis. This database covers the "basic" biological literature and is intended to serve the needs of the undergraduate student, but is certainly useful to the researcher, as well. Check it out! You can find it in our "Databases by Title" under "B". As Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1056655267520230912003-06-26T15:21:00.000-04:002003-06-26T15:29:59.566-04:00Biodiversity Hotspots The hotspots described on this site are "the 25 richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on Earth." Search, browse by name of spot, or click on the map to access vital statistics; ecosystem, biodiversity, human impacts, and conservation information; a detailed map; and related links. Also includes a glossary and a definition of theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515847.post-1056654819234462092003-06-26T15:13:00.000-04:002003-06-26T15:52:12.226-04:00Nutrition Resource Guide A new resource guide is available from Hagerty library's web site. This guide will be useful to students and faculty needing nutrition information from a variety of library resources and more... To access the guide go the library's home page, select Research Help/Science & Math (me)/Resource Guides/Nutrition. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0