tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356251272024-10-06T23:43:47.198-07:00chhandakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421507714786143970noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35625127.post-81734281622108453242010-03-22T18:48:00.002-07:002010-03-22T18:57:55.150-07:00

The 137-year-old magazine, 'Popular Science' partnered with Google Books to offer entire archive for free browsing. Each issue of the magazine appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. You can also browse the full archive at http://www.popsci.com/For the full report, please click here.Jayati

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A good selection of 2009 Science Books from The Economist.Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity. By Mike Hulme.Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species. By Sean B. Carroll.The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom. By Graham Farmelo.Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. By

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Check out the 2009 Nobel Prize winners from http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/2009.htmlYou can read the article “Telomeres, Telomerase and Cancer,” by Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Nobel Prize winners in Medicine. This article was originally published in Scientific American, February 1996, Vol. 274 Issue 2, p92. Because of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,

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The October 2008 proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the Google Books digitization project has serious implications for every author of a published book before January 5, 2009. Authors must decide whether to participate in the settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought against Google.These decisions are important because they will affect the

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The University of Michigan Press is announced couple of weeks ago that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital.Press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year -- currently in book form -- to be released only in digital editions within two years. Readers will still be

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Scitable is a collaborative learning space for science undergraduates, a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science. In Scitable, faculty can create a classroom group and student can as ask expert for question or access 200 key concepts. Jayati

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Here are Best Science Books list from 3 renowned publications.New York Times - The 10 Best Books of 2008Publishers Weekly - Top 10 Sci-Tech BooksBooklist Online - PW's Best Books of the YearEnjoy & happy holidays!Jayati

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PubMed Advanced Search will soon no longer be a beta site. It is now the place to go to use features such as field searching and limits. It looks like many of us are looking forward to use this advance search option in PubMed.For more information please click here.Jayati

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GIS Day(November 19th, 2008) is part of the National Geographic Society's Geography Action, to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of children. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. More

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Hurricane Ike made landfall as Category 2 hurricane near Galveston, Texas, on September 13, 2008. The USGS has created a web page depicting pre- and post Hurricane Ike photos. This page also includes data relevant to coastal impacts to severe storms.http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/Jayati

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Vadlo is a search engine brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web.The search engine is still in beta, allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. I really like the Powerpoint seminars search and the daily research cartoons section.http://www.vadlo.com

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Check out the new updated look on the first floor of Michener Library. Also I have updated the science research guide, or the libguide for you all. Please take a look here!Jayati

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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) recently announced that they will begin depositing authors’ accepted manuscripts in PubMed Central (PMC) and UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) for free!Steven Inchcoombe, Managing Director of NPG said "We invite authors, funding bodies, institutions, archives and repositories to work with us as we move forward." Authors can opt-in during the submission process. NPG will

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The entire contents of journal Development and Development'spredecessor, JEEM (the Journal of Embryology and ExperimentalMorphology) is now freely available online. The Company of Biologistsannounced the completion of digitization of its entire content recently.The complete archive of JEEM, from 1953 - 1986 (after which the journal wasrenamed Development) can be accessed through Development's

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Click here to preview the new JSTOR platform. According to the JSTOR webpage the preview offers.A new look and feel A single, improved format of PDF files, to simplify printing and expand accessibilityPersonalized account functionality, called "MyJSTOR", you can store your user information and your saved citations, you can select one-time acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions for PDF access

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You will find a new Web of Science search interface next time you log into Web of Science. This new search interface offers you more search options with a well designed, well organized page. You now have option to easily add another field to search for your topic.To find out more, please click here.Jayati

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I am so glad to share really good news in the beginning of the 2008! AAAS has changed their decision about pulling out of JSTOR. Many readers will be able to continue to read Science from JSTOR. Thanks to AAAS and Science for this re-consideration their decision.It is good news for all librarians and readers. For more information please read here.Jayati

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Check out the Best Science Books of 2007 by Amazon Editors’.1. The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS/Helen Epstein2. Einstein: His Life and Universe/ Walter Isaacson3. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature/ Steven Pinker4. Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology/Bernd Heinrich5. I Am a Strange

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Chemistry - The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl (Germany). He has been awarded Nobel Prize "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces".Physics - Albert Fert of the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg of the Forschungszentrum in Jülich, Germany, have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics ‘for the discovery of Giant

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Encyclopedia of Life is a free online encyclopedia and reference source aim to provide ‘information about 1.8 million species that are names and known on this planet, as well as all those later discovered and described. Encyclopedia of Life can be used as both a teaching and a learning tool, helping scientists, educators, students, and the community at large gain a better understanding of this

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The Reed Elsevier, publishers of more than 400 medical and scientific journals, is experimenting and introduced a Web portal OncologySTAT, http://www.oncologystat.com/ that gives free access to the latest articles from 100 of its own pricey medical journals. Once oncologists register to this site with their personal information, they get access to the latest cancer-related articles from Elsevier

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Science, a renowned journal in science, is going to withdraw its participation with JSTOR.The American Association for the Advancement of Science, announced that “it will end its participation in JSTOR, This means that Science will no longer contribute its content to JSTOR, and that the year 2002 will be the last year of Science contained within the JSTOR collection.” [from AAAS News Release]It

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ScienceDirect contains “over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information” now will be available from Google and Google Scholar. It is undoubtedly good news that Elsevier articles will be indexed by Google. For more information please click here.Also, like many other traditional publishers Elsevier post selected full texts to non-subscribers on the

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SciTalks, a repository of video recordings of science lectures from all over the world. Launched on June 19th, this site has over 1,000 lectures online, and more are being added daily. Currently the site has subcategories for academic, broadcast and corporate science lectures.This is an open access and free site, users can set up a free user name and password to create their own collection of

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15 leading science and technology societies have created scitopia.org, the federated search portal for science and technology. Please go to www.scitopia.org to search for more than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers from scitopia.org. You can access the full text of the article by clicking on a link if your library has the subscription

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