tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206028829407239422012-04-16T05:36:45.433+02:00A Weblog Communication channel from the Library to the University of Johannesburg Science Community. Created on 25th October 2007.UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125UJScienceLibrarianBloghttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-69327491289831438312011-11-12T22:58:00.001+02:002011-11-12T23:33:53.877+02:00

Find out more about the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Science Departments and their Research & Teaching focus. These are the 2011 Departmental Newsletters from: Academy of Computer Science Applied Mathematics & Statistics Departments Biochemistry Department Biotechnology Department Chemical Technology Department Department of Chemistry Food Technology Department Geography,

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  ScienceDirect: Top 25 Hottest Articles January-March 2010Check out the the hottest articles per subject area!

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The Research Information Network has published in March 2010 a Guide to provide researchers with an understanding of the peer review process and some of the current issues surrounding the debate about peer reviewDownload the Peer Review: Guide for researchers (16 pages)Read more about the GuideThe issues discuss are:What is peer review? How does it work?Support and criticism.Is it effective?Is it

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I have found on the news 1-2 weeks ago, the announcement for a new search engine - “Wolfram Alpha Knowledge Engine”. I have spent some time searching, but definitely more time is required to get to know it better. It is different from any other search engine I had used. It could of great interest to the sciences & engineering users; health sciences, education , finances, etc.Read the “iLibrarian

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I have participated in Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of Science and Research workshop, that took place on May 14, 2009 at CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. The workshop was organised by Susan Veldsman, Director: Scholarly Publishing Unit, ASSAf, & Iryna Kuchma, Open Access program manager, eIFL.net. The workshop presentations are available HERE. Some of the

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SciTopics is a free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. Developed (by Elsevier) to serve as an information and collaboration service for researchers, SciTopics offers authors a dynamic, quick, informal yet authoritative online publication platform.Following an extensive trial period, scientific researchers, editors and authors can now quickly and efficiently

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Journal Citation Report (JCR)The Impact Factor can be a very valuable metric—but it can also be misused and viewed in the wrong context. A significant enhancement to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) offers new metrics and data that complement the Impact Factor, and helps users more fully understand their journals’ place in the scholarly world. Librarians have long relied on Journal Citation

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online!Click HERE for access. Only this site contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000 private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and much more.For decades available only to scholars at Cambridge University Library, the private

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Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009From the database of Essential Science Indicators from Thomson, this list of Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009, has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period of September 31, 2002-August 31, 2008, and the previous period of July 2002-June 30, 2008 (sliding 6-year period). The following Sciences fields are represented: Agricultural

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Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service.What it is?ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) service.It’s FREE, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps

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Compliments for the New Year! The 2009 academic year is just around the corner. In the library you can see number of students, but mostly the work we do is behind the desks. I'm busy with annual reports, preparing statistics' forms, finalising the information for the subject web pages; creating useful information to help teaching, learning and research; books for reserve; preparation for

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This is a message from Dr. Richard Price:With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a website Academia.edu, which does two things:- It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.- It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers

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All UJ users can access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles July-September 2008 on Science Direct. Select your subject of interest and read the articles' full-text.View this LINK if you are non UJ user.

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These are some useful links to explore in your free time during the holiday:"100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web" (thanks to Kelly Sonora, for letting me know. I’m using at least 1/3 of these 100 tools)- Meta-Search Engines- Semantic Search Tools and Databases- General Search Engines and Databases- Academic Search Engines and Databases- Scientific Search Engines and Databases-

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Faculty Acknowledge Blogs Contribute to Scholarly CommunicationBy noreply@blogger.com (Eric Schnell) on communications One of my more recent hot topics is the need for librarians to expand how we define our own scholarly communications to keep up with changes in the practice of librarianship. A new report by the Ithaka Group being distributed by ARL explores how (non-librarian) faculty /

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Science ResearchA free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily. Nature Precedings Nature Precedings is a free online service from Nature Publishing Group that enables researchers in the life

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ScienceWatch.com WHAT'S HOT IN... PHYSICS , Sep/Oct 2008- With Applications Looming, Is Graphene the New Silicon?- Physics Top Ten PapersSCI-BYTES - WHAT'S NEW IN RESEARCH : Jan – Oct 2008COUNTRY PROFILES- Output in Science: Top Ten Countries, 1998-2008 - The Top 20 Countries in Geosciences- Top 10 Countries in Chemistry Including Most Cited Paper- Top 20 Countries in PhysicsNEW HOT PAPERS- Hot

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This post focus is on Physics resources: UJ PHYSICS FULL-TEXT DATABASES:AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) JOURNALSINSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP) 1. Physics: Spotlighting Exceptional Research (APS) NEW!!!!Physicists are drowning in a flood of research papers in their own fields and coping with an even larger deluge in other areas of physics. The Physical Review journals alone published over 18,000

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Celebrate Open Access Day on 14 October 2008.Visit Open Access Day blog What Is Open Access?Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Encouraging the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, the Open Access movement is gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy

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The Nobel Prize season began on Monday, 6th of October 2008. These are the winners in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine:Chemistry Three U.S.-based scientists share Nobel chemistry prizeRoger Y. Tsien of UC San Diego, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and researcher Osamu Shimomura developed a fluorescent protein from jellyfish that allows researchers to trace cell molecules.PhysicsThree

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What do today’s undergraduate students expect from their educational experience? Online lectures are moving to the top of the list, according to a new study released by the University of Wisconsin E-Business Institute and Sonic Foundry, Inc. Set against the backdrop of a national trend for webcasting college lectures, the study was designed to understand student attitudes regarding the addition

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Free books can be found everywhere-if you know where to look. This list shows you 50 places to find free books online. Offerings include free fiction and nonfiction books, free audio books, free reference books and free textbooks. Free Education Books and TextbooksFree Tech Books - This site offers a wide range of free computer science and programming textbooks, lecture notes and ebooks.Freeload

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Find below links to articles, which are available full-text on ScienceDirect. I searched for 2008 publications only, by researchers from UJ Physics (APK), Botany & Plant Biotechnology, Geography, Geology and Zoology Departments. Zoology DepartmentThe ultrastructure of the digestive cells of Argulus japonicus, Thiele 1900 (Crustacea: Branchiura), Arthropod Structure & Development, In Press,

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Access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles April-June 2008 on ScienceDirect Database on:http://0-top25.sciencedirect.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/Select your subject of interest and read the articles' full-text. If you like you can also Browse the Top 25 Archive.

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This Elsevier "Library Connect" issue theme is "e-Learning". "If anyone knows eLearning, it’s Generation Y, right? We thought it only fitting to launch Library Connect’s new Next Gen section in this issue, since next-gen’ers can practically eLearn with their eyes closed." * SpotlightHear from Next Gen librarians as they discuss their experiences with eLearning.- eLearning: Libraries increasingly

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