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CSU access to key scientific journals has been expanded with the addition of new collections in environmental sciences, energy, power, and other subject areas. Researchers may search via databases like Web of Science, then be seamlessly connected to full-text content of back-issues of many Science-Direct journals.

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, known as "the Alliance," consists of ten institutions representing twelve major libraries located in Colorado and Wyoming. The consortium has enabled CSU to purchase a wide array of electronic resources that CSU would not have otherwise been able to afford. This most recent purchase involved leveraging the monies each library had already spent on portions of backfile collections combined with a new monies provided by the University of Wyoming. Prior to this year, CSU had already purchased 22 of Elsevier's ScienceDirect journal backfile packages on its own. Now without CSU spending any additional funds, the deal helped expand access to backfile collections by 9 packages and includes 385 unique journal titles.

The newly added collections include:

* Energy and Power
* Environmental Sciences
* High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
* The Lancet
* Materials Science
* Medicine and Dentistry
* Nursing and Health Professions
* Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
* Physics General

Some text for this posting is quoted from the CSU Libraries Website news about Science Direct Backfiles.

Posted by Allison Level at 01:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Evaluation Guidelines for Intute: Health and Life Sciences (including the former BIOME gateways - OMNI, AGRIFOR & VETGATE)

"INTUTE < http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/ >is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Intute: Health and Life Sciences applies strict evaluation procedures when assessing internet resources for possible inclusion. These procedures cover criteria reflecting the quality of a resource, such as authority and reputation; currency, scope and accuracy of content; and accessibility, design and ease of use. Detailed guidelines explaining these procedures have recently been revised and can be found in full at (click on Evaluation Guidelines):

http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/policy.html

Included in the same document you will find:

- a step by step guide to help you evaluate an internet based resource;
- a discussion of quality issues pertaining specifically to the individual gateways (Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Natural History,
etc.) that make up Intute: Health and Life Sciences.

For further information about these guidelines please contact Laurian Williamson at laurian.williamson@nottingham.ac.uk

Peter Hoare, Service Officer, Intute Health & Life Sciences University of Nottingham. UK"

Information for this post is quoted from the IAALD-L Listserv

Posted by Allison Level at 02:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Introducing The Imaging Gateway
From The Scientist and Invitrogen

"The Imaging Gateway is a free, comprehensive resource from The Scientist. This first Gateway, focusing on the topic of Imaging, is a collaboration with Invitrogen, the leader in imaging products.

Access the in-depth information and resources you require to make the best imaging decisions by visiting www.the-scientist.com/imaging.

In The Imaging Gateway you'll find:

'How it Works' articles, best practices and tips from The Scientist archives
A compilation of the best features on imaging from 20 years of archives.

Antibody Search Database
Select the antibody to your protein of interest and filter by validated application, reactivity, conjugate, or host."

Posting quoted from an email by The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/imaging/

Posted by Allison Level at 02:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Quoted from the SPARC press release,

"CERN, Geneva, Switzerland - As part of OAI5 - the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, held at the CERN Laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland, the SHERPA partnership was presented with the 2007 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Europe initiated the Award in 2006 to recognise the work of an individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in our understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the current systems. In making the Award to SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) the judging panel noted their advocacy for the adoption of institutional repositories and their development of a suite of tools in support of Open Access, including OpenDOAR (a world-wide directory of repositories hosting freely available peer-reviewed publications), JULIET (a listing of funding bodies' policies regarding deposit mandates) and RoMEO (listing publishers' copyright policies in relation to articles deposit)."

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

For more information, contact: David Prosser, david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Posted by Allison Level at 03:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A Blog Carnival is a compilation of blog entries from several sources on a particular theme. The Carnival host usually relies on readers to submit relevant entries and summarizes a list of links. A list of Blog Carnivals in the Sciences can be found at Blog Carnival - this website lists Carnivals by subject and lists the date of the next issue.

Some of the Carnival topics include Ecology, Neuroscience, and Genetics.

Posted by Joanna Blair at 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A new website is now available that has the full-text of Charles Darwin's original works. The first six editions of The Origins of the Species has been scanned in and is available for viewing at http://darwin-online.org.uk/. This site also has the transcribed notes from Darwin's Beagle notebook as well as a comprehensive collection of his manuscripts. Many of the works are also available as mp3 files broken into 50kb parts.

via Science News: The library blog for science faculty and students at Georgia State University

Entry edited to remove broken links 21 March 2007

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The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is sponsoring a workshop for undergraduate educators in the Biological Sciences. Participants will receive training in integrating the use of digital libraries into classrooms. The workshop will take place from December 7-10, 2006 in Washington, D.C. and participants will receive travel support as well as a small stipend.

"The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Biological Sciences Pathway invites undergraduate faculty in the biological sciences to apply to become BiosciEdNet (BEN) Scholars. The BEN Scholars Program is one of the grassroots outreach activities of the BEN Collaborative. BEN Scholars will promote the use of digital libraries and inquiry-based learning in higher education biological sciences lecture and laboratory courses." quoted from BEN "

entry edited to remove broken links 20 March 2007

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The online version of the 20 volume, print encyclopedia by Nature Publishing Group is now available at CSU Libraries. The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) online can search the full-text of the entire encyclopedia and results are available in PDF and HTML. This is a fantastic resource for reliable, quick, factual information. The ELS is also in the process of incorporating the 5 volume, Encyclopedia of the Human Genome into the online version. This resource can be accessed through the databases page.

Posted by Joanna Blair at 09:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

CSU Libraries has enhanced our historical scientific content with two recent additions. The Web of Science - Century of Science collection added the records for 262 scientific journals published between 1900-1944 to the Web of Science database. This is a broad collection and includes subject matter in the biological sciences, chemistry, and math. The CAB Abstracts Archive includes 1,860,000 records from 1900-1973. The focus of this resource is agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine, and natural resources. Both of these resources are available through CSU Libraries databases page.

Posted by Joanna Blair at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Open Access journal PLoS Biology, launched in 2003, received its first ISI impact factor. The impact factor of 13.9 puts PLoS Biology at the top of the ISI group for Biology Journals.

via STS list by Flora Grabowska, originally published in the 1/27/2006 PLoS e-Newsletter .

Continue reading "PLoS Biology has Impact Factor of 13.9" »

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Elsevier and Thomson ISI each offer free online, science-specific search engines. Biology Browser is the Thomson product and indexes websites that are of interest to researchers in the life sciences. Biology Browser is searchable by organism, geographic region or subject. Scirus claims to be "the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet....Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages." Scirus is particularly strong on patent searches.

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