tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55651682023-10-25T09:46:46.362-04:00PhysicsNews, events and resources from the Drexel University Libraries relating to physics.Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1141671489573018782006-03-06T13:53:00.000-05:002006-03-06T13:58:09.653-05:0060 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.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1140109767764418122006-02-16T12:07:00.000-05:002006-02-16T12:09:27.776-05:00A 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.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1139490630592190642006-02-09T07:54:00.000-05:002006-02-09T08:10:30.633-05:00What'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 McCook, The 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.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1138889692037052642006-02-02T09:05:00.000-05:002006-02-02T09:14:52.093-05:00Science 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 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1130504982824292732005-10-28T08:51:00.000-04:002005-10-28T09:09:42.913-04:00Physics in the MoviesI found this site to be funny and insightful. It has been around for awhile, but is updated to the most recent releases. Check it out...http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/Here is a power point presentation analysing physics as "portrayed" in the movies. Uhmm, serious stuff!http://www.kent.ac.uk/physical-sciences/RePh/Physics%20at%20the%20Movies%202.pdfHey Physics Pholks, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1129305837486477832005-10-14T12:02:00.000-04:002005-10-14T12:03:57.493-04:00New from the GAOHIGHER 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 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1118752112706515112005-06-14T08:21:00.000-04:002005-06-14T08:28:32.713-04:00Great 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.In May we added 25 physics books to the collection. To see the list for May, go to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/booklist.htmlClick on the link "Science and Mathematics" to quick jump Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1116854474619712802005-05-23T09:14:00.000-04:002005-05-23T09:48:17.810-04:00What 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-5565168.post-1116339304242940962005-05-17T10:13:00.000-04:002005-05-17T10:20:09.636-04:00Journal 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-5565168.post-1114712991857296762005-04-28T14:29:00.000-04:002005-04-28T14:29:51.860-04:00Benchmarking 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1114093358398932612005-04-21T10:22:00.000-04:002005-04-21T10:22:38.400-04:00Scholarly 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-5565168.post-1112303303993783362005-03-31T15:52:00.000-05:002005-03-31T16:08:23.996-05:00Why are there so few women in Physics?"Women in Physics and Astronomy, 2005" a report sponsored by AIP.One of the conclusions..."Examination of the academic “pipeline” reveals that women disproportionatelyleave physics between taking it in high school and earning a bachelor’s degree.While almost half of high school physics students are girls, less that one-fourthof bachelor’s degrees in physics Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1112019422303835882005-03-28T09:17:00.000-05:002005-03-28T09:38:13.673-05:00World Year of Physics 2005 Yes! This is the Year of Physics and a number of web sites are participating. Check out Quantum Diaries (http://interactions.org/quantumdiaries/) where 31 physicists from around the world submit their own blogs about themselves and their researchThe official web site is: http://www.wyp2005.org/activities.html (Warning it loads slowly)Related sites are:FermiLab: httpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1110394457900466972005-03-09T13:46:00.000-05:002005-03-09T13:54:17.900-05:00IOP Has Joined the RSS Club!Institute of Physics has made available RSS feeds for its collection of journals as well as by catagories. Check out your favorite physics journal or topics to keep up to date on.http://syndication.iop.org/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1109711522195578242005-03-01T16:08:00.000-05:002005-03-01T16:12:02.196-05:00From my friend Bob Kelly at the American Physical Society...The American Physical Society (APS) is now providing content awareness using Really Simple Syndication (RSS)feeds as a convenience to our readers. Journal feeds contain recently published articles in each journal andare updated as new articles are published. A list of all available feeds along with a FAQ can be found athttp://Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1109273096599766352005-02-24T14:20:00.000-05:002005-02-24T14:24:56.600-05:00Our 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-5565168.post-1108069791319101952005-02-10T16:49:00.000-05:002005-02-10T16:09:51.320-05:00Occasionally I will use this space to review relevant resources, either newly added, updated favorites, or a reintroduction to an oldie. Today, we look at a trio of established resources from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology): Atomic Spectral Line Broadening Bibliographic Database This database contains approximately 800 recent references, all collected after our last Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1105030106988635612005-01-06T11:37:00.000-05:002005-01-06T11:48:26.986-05:00Physics Today has redesigned their web site! I rather like the site for it's coverage of physics-related news gleaned from other web sites and journals. Also, they have a nice way of narrowing down a search by fairly specific fields to spot check recent research papers (updated three times a day!) Of course some content is restricted to individual subscribers (not libraries however, even when weAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1099415422589390122004-11-02T12:02:00.000-05:002004-11-02T12:10:22.590-05:00Never Type a Bibliography Again! RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography.For more information, please see the Refworks Tutorial This service is only available to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1099341463047462762004-11-01T16:31:00.000-05:002004-11-01T15:37:43.046-05:00Acoustics and Vibration Animations (http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos.html) by Dan Russell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Kettering University in Flint, MI The links below contain animations which visualize certain concepts concerning acoustics and vibration. The choice of animations coincides with topics covered in the courses PHYS-382, Acoustics I: Sounds and Sources,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1058299289447787312003-07-15T16:01:00.000-04:002003-07-15T16:01:48.403-04:00Music Acoustics! Physics and music have been closely related for thousands of years. This site presents, in musician-friendly format, some of our research work in music acoustics. Navigate around the site: there are sections on various types of musical instruments and on speech. In each case, there is a simple introduction suitable for non-technical readers, as well as sections on research. The 'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565168.post-1057849543402216942003-07-10T11:05:00.000-04:002003-07-10T11:05:43.400-04:00Greetings from Peggy Dominy. This is a new service for the Physics Department. Look here often for news from the library related to physics--teaching, research or phun! Peggy Dominy 215-895-2754 dominymf@drexel.eduAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0