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The 2009 Colorado College State of the Rockies Report Card was released April 5, 2009. Quoting from the report homepage, "Speaking to a long-standing tradition of the Rockies Report Cards "grading" the region on a variety of attributes, this year we briefly look at three areas: crime and incarceration in the Rockies, historic preservation in the Rockies, and an evaluation of regional representation by elected officials. The Report Card also tackles issues of wildlife in the Rockies, dedicating three sections to the topic."

Previous report cards from 2004-2008 are also available from the website.

State of the Rockies Project Homesite
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/stateoftherockies/

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The University of Michigan Press announced today that it will, "shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital." Read more about it.... http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/michigan

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Panel presentation about open science from an event at Columbia University. The video is available from: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-science-good-research-good-researchers

Panelists include: Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Coordinator of E-Learning for the School of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University; Barry Canton, founder of Gingko BioWorks and the OpenWetWare wiki Bora Zivkovic, Online Discussion Expert for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and author of "A Blog Around the Clock."

Information for this post was obtained from the STS-L listserv posting about the panel.

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The Future of Colorado Agriculture Blog was announced and launched on February 19, 2009 during a forum about Colorado Agricultue. The blog and a current research study, headed by Dr Steve Davies chair of the CSU Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, is seeking input on economic, water, and other factors impacting Colorado Agriculture.

The information above is from a Today @ CSU story available from: http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=673

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Join students, researchers, and others at the February 4 & 5th teach-in about Climate Change. Sessions will be held in Lory Student Center. See the schedule for more information.

There is a book display at Morgan Library from January 20-February 5, 2009.

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The National Academies want to develop podcasts and more, take their 2 minute survey.

Survey about topics in science and engineering. What Matters Most to you?

Survey link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/85927/what-matters-most-to-you-c

National Academies [ http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/ ]

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Do you need a short article about a science or technology topic? Consider using:
Access Science, the McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science. It is available online for CSU faculty, staff, or students.
Go online to the encyclopedia

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From the Libraries news announcement about the Safari trial,
"Safari Books Online is a collection of tech books and computer manuals from some of the industry's most important publishers, including O'Reilly, Microsoft Press, and more. Topics include a wide variety of technologies including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Safari's powerful search engine features:

Searching by keyword, phrase, author, ISBN, publisher, or category
Relevancy-ranked results for both books and terms
Cut-and-paste code fragments to save time and eliminate typos"

Visit the Safari Trial Information Page at: http://libguides.colostate.edu/safari.

Or go directly to the Safari Trial.

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Web of Science has some new features with the October 2008 release. Some highlights include:
author/address association
citation mapping
NCBI button
and more, visit: http://images.isiknowledge.com/help/WOS/whatsnew_wos.html#whats_new_v44

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We have lots of passwords and accounts to remember. If you have forgotten your CSU Library PIN, no worries, there is now a way to reset your PIN online.

For more information, go to : http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/ForgotPin/http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/ForgotPin/

Continue reading "Reset Your Pin ONLINE" »

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Go to the CSU Libraries Databases page, http://lib.colostate.edu/databases/, under the subjects listing--select Ecology.

The ecology databases include:
Web of Science
CAB Abstracts
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
Biological Abstracts
EIS Digests of Envionrmental Impact Statements
Human Population and Natural Resource Management
and more

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Due to a change in work assignments for Spring semester, the BANR Blog will not be updated until August, 2008. Thanks for your support of the project. We hope to resume postings in the Fall of 2008.

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