27 september 2006

Inside Google Book Search: Madrid's Complutense University opens its library to the world

Madrid's Complutense University opens its library to the world. "Out-of-copyright books previously only available to people with access to Madrid’s Complutense University Library, or the money to travel, will now be accessible to everyone with an Internet connection, wherever they live. We are quite literally opening our library to the world. - Carlos Berzosa Alonso-Martínez, Chancellor of the Complutense University of Madrid "
via Inside Google Booksearch 26 september

26 september 2006

OpenCourseWare

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) började... nu följer fler efter: Yale ska lägga ut utvalda kurser. Likaså The Open University i London. Släpp ut texterna...

Nytt utseende på NTRS

Nytt utseende på NTRS- NASA Technical Reports Server.

19 september 2006

Thomson Scientific Predicts the Nobel Prizes in 2006 - Thomson Scientific

Kan årets vinnare av Nobelpriserna förutses? Thomson Scientific Predicts the Nobel Prizes in 2006 Thomson Scientific har gjort en lista över presumtiva vinnare av priserna i medicin, kemi, fysik och ekonomi.

Royal Society Publishing

Royal Society (London) ger gratis tillgång till hela sitt arkiv under två månader. Innehåller material från 1665 och framåt.

13 september 2006

Science Research Portal - Search Page

En sökmotor för "samsökning inom naturvetenskap: Science Research Portal "ScienceResearch.com allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science-related information, quickly, easily, and with confidence from both public and private high quality research journals and databases via a single portal. Depending on the source, full text documents may be available. In the event full text is not available, the results pull up an abstract of the article and a link to the source. " Lovande försök.

11 september 2006

BioWizard - The Biomedical Research Portal



BioWizard - The Biomedical Research Portal med en hel del intressanta funktioner: "BioWizard is a new, free of charge web-based resource empowering life scientists and promoting research collaboration. A host of features assist researchers in searching, sharing, and discussing all types of scientific information. Our goal is to make the world's biomedical research information universally accessible and useful. " Här finns t.ex. PubMed Wizard- "...which allows everyone in the scientific community to Rank and Discuss ALL published literature in an open setting. See if your papers are ranked by others in life science! Thousands of the most recently published articles have already been ranked and discussed by your peers and colleagues"

eEarth


En open access tidskrift inom "earth sciences": eEarth. ..."Its scope ranges from processes in the deep interior of the Earth and the terrestrial planets; magmatism, metamorphism and volcanism; the creation, deformation and destruction of lithosphere; fluids, fluxes, and reservoirs of mineral and energy resources; surface processes such as erosion, transport, deposition of sediments and resulting geomorphology; and the response of the Earth to climate change." The process of peer-review and publication in the interactive scientific journal eEarth (eE) differs from traditional scientific journals. It is a two-stage process involving the scientific discussion forum eEarth Discussions (eED), and it has been designed to use the full potential of the internet to foster scientific discussion and enable rapid publication of scientific papers.
Här finns också ett forum: eEarth Discussions (eED)

Vi gratulerar...

Vi gratulerar Karin Martinsson vid Botaniska trädgården som utsetts till årets DISApristagare! Läs mer i pressmeddelandet från universitetet.

08 september 2006

The Darwin Digital Library

The Darwin Digital Library: ett projekt från Biodiversity Heritage Library Consortium samt med medverkan av Natural History Museum (London) och Missouri Botanical Garden. "The goal of this undertaking is to make the full literature of evolution available online within a historically and topically coherent structure. The work of Charles Robert Darwin is our pivot, but our framework includes the 17th century to the present and encompasses the history of evolution as a scientific theory with deep roots and broad cultural consequences. "

06 september 2006

Textbook Revolution

Tror att jag nämnt denna förut, men förtjänar att nämnas igen: Textbook Revolution. Jason Turgeon, student vid Boston University har skapat denna sida fylld med gratis material för studenter. Här finns mer än 150 titlar tillgängliga- gratis.

01 september 2006

Book Search Help Center - How can I find books that I can download?

Nu när Google Book search gör vissa böcker tillgängliga för download kan det ju vara bra att veta hur man hittar dessa: Titta på denna sida: Book Search Help Center - How can I find books that I can download?