Nyheter Biologi & Geo-biblioteken
28 oktober 2005
Jo, man tackar... BioGeo's blog finns med på Thomson-Petersons (Thomson Peterson's, del av The Thomson Corporation) blog: Syndication for Higher Ed. (26 oktober) Visserligen i litet format, men ändå.
27 oktober 2005
Från Thomson -ISISCI-BYTES: Highest-Impact Journals (All Fields), 1995-2005 Här placerar sig tidskriften "Cell" som nummer 1 och "Science" som nummer 3.
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance Google, Yahoo & MSN...
(via SearchEngineWatch Blog 26 oktober)
(via SearchEngineWatch Blog 26 oktober)
Nytt från Yahoo: Yahoo Site explorer (beta) Skriv in en webbadress- och du får en lista på alla sidor som Yahoo indexerat från den sidan. Kan användas t.ex. när siten inte har en "site map", eller för att se vilka sidor som länkar tillbaka till sidan.
25 oktober 2005
The National Academy of Sciences firar Ernst Mayr's 100 års dag genom att göra hans bok Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary (2005) fritt tillgänglig på webben.
19 oktober 2005
Vetenskapsrådet har startat en ny webbtidning: Tentakel. I första nr. berättas t.ex. om Kinnavika-projektet och Veijho Pohjola, docent vid institutionen för geovetenskaper vid Uppsala universitet intervjuvas.
Påminnelse: PubMed erbjuder nu RSS för sökresultat
BBC NEWS Science/Nature Sweden discovers 'zombie worms' Hela artikeln finns i FirstCite Early Online Publishing
från Royal Society: Proceedings Biological sciences:
"World-wide whale worms? A new species of Osedax from the shallow north Atlantic"
från Royal Society: Proceedings Biological sciences:
"World-wide whale worms? A new species of Osedax from the shallow north Atlantic"
14 oktober 2005
Ny open access tidskrift från PLoS: PLoS Pathogens
12 oktober 2005
ISI Thompsons InCite: Impact siffror för Mineralogy 2004: SCI-BITES: Journals Ranked by Impact: Mineralogy
Scientific American: Science & Technology Web Awards 2005. Många bra vetenskapliga webbsidor har fått pris.
Geologi under queen Victorias tid...Victorian Geology Här finns information om några utvalda geologer, en diskussion om vetenskap och religion, länkat och referenser.
The DINOSAUR ENCYCLOPAEDIA Data och information i detta referensverk online. Av G. Worth,
HyperWorks Reference Software
HyperWorks Reference Software
10 oktober 2005
I dessa nobelprisens tider har också Ig Nobel Prize delats ut "The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK." :Winners of the Ig 2005 Nobel Prize
I fysik: "PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
REFERENCE: "The Pitch Drop Experiment," R. Edgeworth, B.J. Dalton and T. Parnell, European Journal of Physics, 1984, pp. 198-200."
I kemi:"CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?
REFERENCE: "Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?" American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Brian Gettelfinger and E. L. Cussler, vol. 50, no. 11, October 2004, pp. 2646-7." Läs mera
I fysik: "PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
REFERENCE: "The Pitch Drop Experiment," R. Edgeworth, B.J. Dalton and T. Parnell, European Journal of Physics, 1984, pp. 198-200."
I kemi:"CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?
REFERENCE: "Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?" American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Brian Gettelfinger and E. L. Cussler, vol. 50, no. 11, October 2004, pp. 2646-7." Läs mera
07 oktober 2005
I sökmotorn Scirus kan man numera också söka Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). "Elsevier today announced a landmark partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)"
(pressrelease från Elsevier 5 oktober)
(pressrelease från Elsevier 5 oktober)
05 oktober 2005
Denmark's Electronic Research Library har en sida för samsökning i en mängd olika e-prints arkiv: Deff - Search Services- Global E-prints..."DEF Global Eprints Search is such an "OAI Service Provider" developed and run by the Center for Knowledge Technology on the basis of financial support from DEF and the Technical University of Denmark. The development project is part of a suite of projects, initiated by the DEF E-publication Committee, that seek to contribute to the development towards a more open, efficient and affordable system of scholarly communication. It is the vision of this project to make the open access literature as accessible to the users of DEF and its libraries as the journals of the big commercial publishers." Bra!
04 oktober 2005
Ett par artiklar: PLoS Biology: First Observation of Tool Use in Wild Gorillas, och Scientific American: Big Mammals Evolved Thanks to More Oxygen
Yahoo versus Google...Nu ger sig även Yahoo in i digitaliseringsprojekt av böcker: Open Content Alliance (OCA) - Home. Läs också artikel från New York Times eller