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Greater Access to the NTIS Collection Now Available Search NTIS.GOV for titles from 1964 to present
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx

NTIS is pleased to launch its improved search engine with features such as: Enhanced retrieval with search functionality for categories, collections, and source agencies.

The NTIS search engine now more powerfully finds the information you need.

The Advanced Searching capabilities allows for an even greater
focus on appropriate content for your search.

Expanded access to the NTIS collection now includes the ability to
search, retrieve and select from over 3.0 million products.

==Improved access with new NTIS titles added each week.
==Customers are provided a Product File of related purchased titles
==Now you can find virtually any item in the NTIS collection and order many in your choice of format (downloads, printed copy, CD ROM or microfiche).
==Search Help has step by step instructions and graphics: http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx
==All search results include a brief product description and easy access to place your order online, quickly, easily and securely.

Information for this posting came from the STS-L LIstserv posted on 12-12-2007

Posted by Allison Level at 10:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Oak Ridge, TN===The nation's "go to" Web portal for government science information recently added the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) to its collection. This means that users can search all the science databases and more than 1,800 science Web sites at Science.gov, plus the 1.1 million records of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education resources at NSDL, with just one click.

This one-stop search is free of charge, free of ads, and returns only reliable science information.

"I think teachers and students are going to be especially pleased," said Eleanor Frierson, Science.gov Alliance co-chair and deputy director of the National Agricultural Library. "Science.gov already is widely used by the education sector; the NSDL addition expands and enhances our science education emphasis."

In addition to science education, the Science.gov collection includes approximately 50 million pages of research and development results from a wide range of categories. These include agriculture and food, applied sciences and technologies, astronomy and space, biology and nature, computers and communications, earth and ocean sciences, energy and energy conservation, environment and environmental quality, health and medicine, math, physics and chemistry, and natural resources and conservation.

Information for this post is quoted from the Science.gov communications webpage

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The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has launched the NAL Digital Repository (NALDR), providing convenient access to the full text of selected USDA publications. http://naldr.nal.usda.gov/

The NALDR contains a wide variety of publications that have been digitized by NAL. One example is the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, which was published from 1864 to 1992. The Yearbook provides statistical information and comprehensive surveys of particular subjects important to agriculture and in its later years covered more popular topics of interest to both urban and rural audiences. The volumes for 1894 through 1914 are currently available in the repository and the remaining volumes will be added later in 2006.

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The National Institute of Health (NIH) is making NIH lectures, seminars, and conferences freely available on the web via videocasts. To view the webcasts your computer must have an updated version of RealPlayer which is available for free here . Upcoming videocasts can be seen live and include broadcasts for the Frontiers in Live Cell Imaging meeting (April 19-21, 2006) and Linking Molecular Motors to Signaling and Neurodegenerative Disease presented by Dr. Larry Goldstein (May 8, 2006). Recent videocasts are available as archives. There are 2864 videocasts on file; recent titles include Host-Pathogen Interactions as Competitive Genomics: Immunologic Challenges of Tuberculosis, presented by Carl Nathan and NIH's New Electronic Grant Application Process and the SF424 (R+R) Afternoon Session. Archived videocasts are available here.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials are proposing to cut funding by 80% for the agency's national library network, a system that supports the research needs of thousands of EPA staff scientists and enforcement personnel, environmental biologists and ecologists in academia and industry, and members of the general public.

"The libraries are a good resource," said Fred Stoss, associate librarian for biological and environmental sciences and mathematics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. "Closing down the library network will have great ramifications for EPA staff scientists and policy analysts," he told The Scientist.

via The Scientist Website. The complete article By Ted Agres is available on the magazine's website. http://www.thescientist.com/news/display/23221/
NEWS Budget cuts imperil EPA library system
Research database, access to documents may be curtailed in Fiscal 2007 budget proposal
[Published 10th March 2006 04:37 PM GMT]

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