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February 25, 2005
Article in BIO IT World about OA Biology Databases
More than 700 'open' databases now available from around the world
BY KEVIN DAVIES
"The 2005 compendium of molecular biology databases compiled and published by Nucleic Acids Research shows a dramatic increase of 171 databases from 2004, bringing the new total up to 719."
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:16 PM
Biodiversity Research and Copyright
Donat Agosti, Is Copyright undermining Biodiversity Research and Conservation? A preprint from Biodiversite: Science et Gouvernance, L'Institut International du Développment Durable.
[source: Open Access News blog]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 06:43 AM
February 24, 2005
EDUCAUSE Blogs: Share Experiences and Information
EDUCAUSE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Do you have a keen interest in emerging technologies and a spirit of
adventure? Then play an active part in the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a
pilot project to give association members a hands-on opportunity to
explore the use of blogs and to create a new, vibrant medium for
professional information sharing. Current posting topics span a wide range
of issues important to campus IT.
- Browse postings by topic or blog on the Community Blog site, or
sign up to receive syndicated feeds by selected topic or blogger.
-Contribute to the dialogue on a particular blog entry by posting
your own comments.
-Download podcast recordings (MP3 format) for listening to
anytime.
-If you are comfortable in the blog environment and are part of an
EDUCAUSE member organization, set up your own blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:43 AM
February 22, 2005
Message from PLoS
To the PLoS Community:
The U.S. National Institutes of Health recently announced its
long-anticipated "Public Access Policy," designed to make the results of
NIH-funded research freely available online. As of May 2005, the agency
will request that all NIH grantees deposit copies of all papers arising
from NIH-funded research in PubMed Central (PMC), the National Library of
Medicine's online library of scientific and medical literature. These
articles will then be made freely available and fully searchable through
PMC within 12 months of publication. (More information about the policy is
available here.
PLoS welcomes this announcement. It is an important step for those of us
who believe that the results of publicly funded scientific and medical
research can and should be made freely available to researchers and the
public. However, because of the way the NIH has structured this policy,
successful implementation will depend upon the supportive actions of
NIH-funded researchers.
Under the NIH'S Public Access Policy, grantees are requested to send a copy
of every manuscript describing NIH-supported work to PMC immediately upon
acceptance by a peer-reviewed journal. The manuscripts will be formatted
for online display, and made freely available through PMC at a time
specified by the author. Clearly it would be ideal if there were no delay
between publication by the journal and posting in PMC, so that all
scientists and the public would have immediate access to NIH-funded
research. This is the case for articles published in all PLoS or other
open-access journals. However, authors who publish in most other journals
may be pressured to delay public posting of their articles or not to post
them at all. This pressure must be resisted.
It is critically important that all of us do everything we can to make sure
this new system succeeds. Technically, submission of articles to PMC is
voluntary, and the policy allows a delay of up to 12 months. However, it is
clear that the NIH, Members of Congress, and the public desire and expect
full participation. If we fail to meet these expectations, it could
undermine the existing broad public and legislative support for scientific
research at a time when such support is especially vital.
We therefore urge everyone who receives this message to make your
NIH-funded articles available in PMC immediately upon publication. This can
be accomplished in either of two ways:
(a) Publish your papers in open-access journals that already deposit their
papers in PMC and make them immediately and freely available.
(b) If you publish in non open-access journals, deposit your manuscripts in
PMC and exercise your right to stipulate that they be posted online
immediately upon publication.
Please share this message with your colleagues and urge them to help foster
the success of the new policy. We would be happy to answer any questions,
and we again thank you for your attention to and support of Open Access.
Harold Varmus
Patrick Brown
Michael Eisen
PLoS Founders
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:37 PM
Japanese Scientists to speak at UT
The School of Information Sciences is pleased to host two information scientists from the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST).
This Thursday, Chikako Maeda and Ritsuko Nakajima will give an informal presentation on Japanese scientific and technical information policies and activities.
Presentation: 'Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Activities at JST and the Status of STI Policy in Japan.'
When: At 1:00 p.m., Thursday, February 24
Where: Room 420, Communications Bldg.
Chikako Maeda is responsible for planning and coordination at the Science and Technology Agency (JST) and will be accompanied by Ms. Ritsuko Nakajima, the Chief Analyst of the Department of Infrastructure is responsible for computer networks within the agency.
Both Maeda and Nakajima are guests of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa) and CENDI.
CENDI is an interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Managers from 12 U.S. federal agencies.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:51 PM
February 21, 2005
EV2 has RSS Feeds
Engineering Village 2 provides RSS feeds of your search queries. Once you have executed a search, you can post the latest updated records that match your query to your RSS aggregator and share the results with others within your institution. Engineering Village 2 RSS feed includes titles of the records and links back to Engineering Village 2 for the detailed record. You need to be in an IP authenticated environment that has access to Engineering Village 2 to view the detailed record.
This feature will allow you to get automatic weekly updates of your search queries' results within your RSS readers.
To use the RSS feeds from Engineering Village 2, execute and refine your search until you have the search strategy that you wish to use as your feed. If your organization has enabled the RSS feed, an RSS feed link will appear following your search statement.
Want more info on RSS and Readers? Check out the 'What does this button do?' to the left.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:44 PM
New Science.gov Service Delivers Science Information to Desktops
Alliance helps public stay "alert" to the latest science discoveries
from 12 federal science agencies, introduces Science.gov
Alert Service
Science.gov, the "go to" Web portal for federal science information, now
provides a free and convenient "Alert" service that delivers information
about the most current science developments right to desktops each Monday.
Launched at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (Feb. 17-21, 2005) in Washington, D.C., the
Science.gov Alert Service provides weekly emails to those interested in
science.
From the Science.gov homepage, individuals can set up
an account and let Science.gov do the searching for them. Each week, up
to 25 relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to
the subscriber's email account. Results are displayed in the Alert email
and in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts
results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert
profiles edited.
Individuals can choose specific sources to monitor, or select the "All
Sources" option. Science.gov drills down into hard-to-find research
information collections, spanning more than 47 million pages of
government R&D results. More than 1,700 government information resources
and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics are available -
all in one place and searchable with just one search tool.
Since its launch in 2002, Science.gov, the science companion to
FirstGov, has been the one-stop gateway to reliable federal science and
technology information. Science.gov allows individuals to search for
information based on subject, rather than by government agency.
Science.gov is made possible by the Science.gov Alliance, a
collaboration of 12 federal agencies, including the Departments of
Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human
Services and the Interior, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the Government Printing Office, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, with support
from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:03 PM
February 15, 2005
Francis Crick Papers Online
Bethesda, Md.--The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, is proud to present an extensive selection from the papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists, Francis Crick, on its Profiles in Science Web site.
This latest collection on Profiles in Science represents a close collaboration between the National Library of Medicine and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine in London, which holds the Crick papers. The Crick collection brings to 14 the number of notable researchers and public health officials whose personal and professional records are featured on Profiles.
[press release]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:27 PM
February 14, 2005
New Articles by UT Science Faculty
Web of Science can be used to set up alerts on a particular topic, author, or author address. For more information on setting up your own alerts, contact your subject librarian or view the WoS tutorial.
Title: Statistical distributions of uncertainty and variability in activated sludge model parameters
Author(s): Cox CD
Source: WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH 76 (7): 2672-2685 NOV-DEC 2004
Title: Rescue of memory CD8(+) T cell reactivity in peptide/TLR9 ligand immunization by codelivery of cytokines or CD40 ligation
Author(s): Toka FN, Gierynska M, Suvas SM, Schoenberger SP, Rouse BT
Source: VIROLOGY 331 (1): 151-158 JAN 5 2005
Title: Studying multiprotein complexes by multisignal sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation
Author(s): Balbo A, Minor KH, Velikovsky CA, Mariuzza RA, Peterson CB, Schuck P
Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102 (1): 81-86 JAN 4 2005
Title: Assembly history interacts with ecosystem size to influence species diversity
Author(s): Fukami T
Source: ECOLOGY 85 (12): 3234-3242 DEC 2004
Title: Functional analysis of the Drosophila Rad5l gene (spn-A) in repair of DNA damage and meiotic chromosome segregation
Author(s): Yoo S, McKee BD
Source: DNA REPAIR 4 (2): 231-242 FEB 3 2005
Title: A model for the three-dimensional structure of human plasma vitronectin from small-angle scattering measurements
Author(s): Lynn GW, Heller WT, Mayasundari A, Minor KH, Peterson CB
Source: BIOCHEMISTRY 44 (2): 565-574 JAN 18 2005
Title: Status of the Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus) in southwestern Florida
Author(s): Enge KM, Krysko KL, Hankins KR, Campbell TS, King FW
Source: SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST 3 (4): 571-582 2004
Title: A parallel implementation of ALFISH: simulating hydrological compartmentalization effects on fish dynamics in the Florida Everglades
Author(s): Immanuel A, Berry MW, Gross LJ, Palmer M, Wang DL
Source: SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY 13 (1): 55-76 JAN 2005
Title: Physiological status and microbial diversity assessment of microbial mats: The signature lipid biomarker approach
Author(s): Villanueva L, Navarrete A, Urmeneta J, White DC, Guerrero R
Source: OPHELIA 58 (3): 165-173 DEC 2004
Title: Signature lipid biomarkers of microbial mats of the Ebro Delta (Spain), Camargue and Etang de Berre (France): An assessment of biomass and activity
Author(s): Navarrete A, Urmeneta J, Cantu JM, Vegas E, White DC, Guerrero R
Source: OPHELIA 58 (3): 175-187 DEC 2004
Title: Biotic resistance to invader establishment of a southern Appalachian plant community is determined by environmental conditions
Author(s): Von Holle B
Source: JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 93 (1): 16-26 FEB 2005
Title: Toxicity of metals and organic chemicals evaluated with bioluminescence assays
Author(s): Ren SJ, Frymier PD
Source: CHEMOSPHERE 58 (5): 543-550 FEB 2005
Title: The tortoise and the hare II: Relative utility of 21 noncoding chloroplast DNA sequences for phylogenetic analysis
Author(s): Shaw J, Lickey EB, Beck JT, Farmer SB, Liu WS, Miller J, Siripun KC, Winder CT, Schilling EE, Small RL
Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 92 (1): 142-166 JAN 2005
Title: Investigation of the relationship between chemical structure and color stability of monoacylated anthocyanins from Daucus carota.
Author(s): Welch KT, Whittemore NA, Cox JR, Dougall DK, Baker DC
Source: ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 227: U267-U267 032-CARB Part 1, MAR 28 2004
Title: Statistical distributions of uncertainty and variability in activated sludge model parameters
Author(s): Cox CD
Source: WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH 76 (7): 2672-2685 NOV-DEC 2004
Title: Statistical analysis of the effect of processing conditions on the strength of thermal point-bonded cotton-based nonwovens
Author(s): Rong HM, Leon RV, Bhat GS
Source: TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL 75 (1): 35-38 JAN 2005
Title: Comparisons of fully differential exact results for Omicron(alpha) virtual corrections to single hard bremsstrahlung in e(+)e(-) annihilation at high energies
Author(s): Glosser C, Jadach S, Ward BFL, Yost SA
Source: PHYSICS LETTERS B 605 (1-2): 123-128 JAN 6 2005
Title: Highly deformed bands in Hf-175
Author(s): Scholes DT, Cullen DM, Kondev FG, Janssens RVF, Carpenter MP, Hartley DJ, Djongolov MK, Sletten G, Hagemann G, Wheldon C, Walker PM, Abu Saleem K, Ahmad I, Balabanski DL, Chowdhury P, Danchev M, Dracoulis GD, El-Masri HM, Goon J, Heinz A, Kaye RA, Khoo TL, Lauritsen T, Lister CJ, Moore EF, Riedinger LL, Riley MA, Seweryniak D, Shestakova I, Wiedenhover I, Zeidan O, Zhang JY
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW C 70 (5): Art. No. 054314 NOV 2004
Title: Understanding the electronic structure, optical, and vibrational properties of the Fe8Br8 single-molecule magnet
Author(s): Baruah T, Kortus J, Pederson MR, Wesolowski R, Haraldsen JT, Musfeldt JL, North JM, Zipse D, Dalal NS
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B 70 (21): Art. No. 214410 DEC 2004
Title: Phase diagram of hydrogen on Be(0001) from reconstruction-induced surface core-level shifts
Author(s): Pohl K, Plummer EW, Hoffmann SV, Hofmann P
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B 70 (23): Art. No. 235424 DEC 2004
Title: Interference effects in the conductance of multilevel quantum dots
Author(s): Busser CA, Martins GB, Al-Hassanieh KA, Moreo A, Dagotto E
Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B 70 (24): Art. No. 245303 DEC 2004
Title: Thermography during laser surface melting of cast aluminium alloy
Author(s): Nayak S, Wang H, Dahotre NB
Source: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 20 (12): 1609-1614 2004
Title: Observation of exothermic reaction during laser-assisted iron oxide coating on aluminum alloy
Author(s): Nayak S, Wang H, Kenik EA, Anderson IM, Dahotre NB
Source: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING 390 (1-2): 404-413 JAN 15 2005
Title: Origin of the sphere-to-rod transition in cationic micelles with aromatic counterions: Specific ion hydration in the interfacial region matters
Author(s): Geng Y, Romsted LS, Froehner S, Zanette D, Magid LJ, Cuccovia IM, Chaimovich H
Source: LANGMUIR 21 (2): 562-568 JAN 18 2005
Title: Viscosity measurement technique using standard glass burette for Newtonian liquids
Author(s): Igathinathane C, Pordesimo LO, Womac AR, Malleswar VK, Rao UA
Source: INSTRUMENTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 33 (1): 101-125 JAN-MAR 2005
Title: Comparison of the thermodynamic properties of particulate and monolithic columns of molecularly imprinted copolymers
Author(s): Kim HJ, Guiochon G
Source: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 77 (1): 93-102 JAN 1 2005
Title: Comparison of the thermodynamic properties of particulate and monolithic columns of molecularly imprinted copolymers
Author(s): Kim HJ, Guiochon G
Source: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 77 (1): 93-102 JAN 1 2005
Title: Using a non-prior training active feature model
Author(s): Kim S, Kang J, Shin J, Lee S, Paik J, Kang S, Abidi B, Abidi MG
Source: ADVANCES IN MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION PROCESSING - PCM 2004, PT 3, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3333: 69-78 2004
Title: Persistence is the key
Author(s): Thompson DL
Source: ACSMS HEALTH & FITNESS JOURNAL 9 (1): 3-3 JAN-FEB 2005
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:36 PM
February 07, 2005
Web of Science Workshop
Interdisciplinary Research using Web of Science
[register online]
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
3:00 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
Location: 211 Hodges Library (InfoLab)
Instructor: Donna Braquet, Life Sciences Librarian (braquet@lib.utk.edu)
Web of Science is an interdisciplinary database that consists of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This workshop will cover both General Search and Cited Reference Search, which allows one to find articles that have cited an article since it was published. In addition, we will look at a few of Web of Science’s new features such as 'Analyze' and 'Find Related Records'. There will be time for Q&A and hands-on practice.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:48 PM
February 03, 2005
NIH Funded Research Policy: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 3, 2005
CONTACTS:
Don Ralbovsky
OD Office of Communications and Public Liaison
301-496-5787
NIH CALLS ON SCIENTISTS TO SPEED PUBLIC RELEASE OF RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Online Archive Will Make Articles Accessible to the Public
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today a
new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to
published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The
policy - the first of its kind for NIH - calls on
scientists to release to the public manuscripts from
research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within
12 months of final publication.
These peer-reviewed, NIH-funded research publications will
be available in a Web-based archive to be managed by the
National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of NIH. The
online archive will increase the public's access to health-
related publications at a time when demand for such
information is on a steady rise.
"With the rapid growth in the public's use of the Internet,
NIH must take a leadership role in making available to the
public the research that we support," said NIH Director
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "While this new policy is
voluntary, we are strongly encouraging all NIH-supported
researchers to release their published manuscripts as soon
as possible for the benefit of the public. Scientists have
a right to see the results of their work disseminated as
quickly and broadly as possible, and NIH is committed to
helping our scientists exercise this right. We urge
publishers to work closely with authors in implementing
this policy."
"In developing this policy, we made a concerted effort to
balance the importance of this archive to NIH's public
health mission, with the need to provide flexibility for
authors, their institutions, and publishers in those cases
where immediate release is not possible," Zerhouni added.
"NIH recognizes the importance of preserving quality peer
review and the viability of a diversity of publishing
models. Nevertheless, we expect that only in limited cases
will authors deem it necessary to select the longest delay
period."
The NIH policy will achieve several important goals,
including:
(1) creating a stable archive of peer-reviewed research
publications resulting from NIH-funded studies to ensure
the permanent preservation of these vital research
findings;
(2) securing a searchable compendium of these research
publications that NIH and its awardees can use to manage
more efficiently and to understand better their research
portfolios, monitor scientific productivity, and,
ultimately, help set research priorities; and
(3) making published results of NIH-funded research more
readily accessible to the public, health care providers,
educators, and scientists.
Beginning May 2, 2005, the policy requests that NIH-funded
scientists submit an electronic version of the author's
final manuscript, upon acceptance for publication,
resulting from research supported in whole or in part by
NIH. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final
version accepted for journal publication, and includes all
modifications from the publishing peer review process.
The policy gives authors the flexibility to designate a
specific time frame for public release - ranging from
immediate public access after final publication to a 12
month delay - when they submit their manuscripts to NIH.
Authors are strongly encouraged to exercise their right to
specify that their articles will be publicly available
through PubMed Central (PMC) as soon as possible.
PMC a part of the NIH's
National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the agency's digital
repository of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical,
behavioral, and clinical research journals. It is a
publicly-accessible, stable, permanent, and searchable
electronic archive.
The release of this policy follows months of intensive
deliberations with representatives of patient and
scientific organizations, researchers, and publishers. NIH
posted the draft policy for public comment in September,
and received and reviewed over 6,000 public comments.
As part of on-going efforts to implement this new policy,
NIH plans to establish a Public Access Advisory Working
Group, as a subgroup of the NLM's Board of Regents. The
Working Group will include representatives of the patient
advocacy, scientific, library, and publishing communities,
and will provide advice on implementation issues and assess
progress in meeting the new policy's stated goals.
Additional information on the new policy and related
documents, including a "Questions and Answers" fact sheet.
<>.
The NIH comprises the Office of the Director and 27
Institutes and Centers. The Office of the Director is the
central office at NIH, and is responsible for setting
policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating
the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The
NIH, the Nation's medical research agency, is a component
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is
the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting
basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and
investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:35 PM
Medical History backfile now in PubMed Central
Journal: Medical History
Archive includes: Vols. 1-16*
Medical History is the first journal to be released as part of NLM's
collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the U.K. Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC). Information on the collaboration as well as NLM's back
issue scanning project is available. The NLM press release
provides additional information about the agreement.
.
*Completion of the archive for Medical History is on-going and there may be
gaps in the content while the digitization of the back issues is in
progress.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:56 PM