Defense of Your Thesis
Mastering Your Ph.D.: Countdown to Your Thesis Defence
Bart Noordam, Patricia Gosling
Netherlands
23 November 2007
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:26 PM
Springer E-Book Collection
The UT Libraries now has access to thousands of Springer books online.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:42 PM
Nature Archive Now Available
The UT Libraries has purchased an archive to the journal NATURE--UT Libraries now provides online access to NATURE from 1950-present.
Pre-1950 volumes are located in Hodges stacks at Q1 .N2
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:48 PM
Library purchases backfiles to Nature
UT patrons now have electronic access to Nature back to 1950.
Search for Nature in the e-journals list or bookmark the link below.
http://www.lib.utk.edu/cgi-bin/auth/connect.cgi?sfxejournal=0028-0836
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:15 PM
Good news for Scirus users
You can now see a FindText@UTLibraries link with the journal results in Scirus, a science-specific search engine, thus providing a shortcut to the library's online subscriptions and catalog. If you are using Scirus from off-campus, the FindText link will send you through our proxy server to authenticate access to our licensed content.
To enable this feature, click on Search Preferences within Scirus. Click on Enable for library partners, and choose the University of Tennessee Libraries in the drop down box, then Save Preferences.
Posted by teresa berry at 04:51 PM
Web of Science - Citation Searching Workshop
Have You Been Cited?
Attention Science Students and Faculty-- Don't miss this introduction to the citation analysis
features in Web of Science. We'll also touch on Journal Citation Reports and the h Index.
(Optional: Bring a list of your publications.)
Dates: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 (3:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
Thursday, March 29, 2007 (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: 211 Hodges Library (InfoLab)
Instructor: Donna Braquet, Life Sciences Librarian (dbraquet[at]utk.edu)
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:50 PM
Review of Scirus
Scirus -- for Scientific Information
Sara R. Tompson
Science and Engineering Team Leader
USC Libraries
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:41 PM
Article on Impact Factors
The Number That's Devouring Science
The impact factor, once a simple way to rank scientific journals, has become an unyielding yardstick for hiring, tenure, and grants
By RICHARD MONASTERSKY
In the beginning, during the late 1950s, it was just an innocent idea in Eugene Garfield's head. A Philadelphia researcher who described himself as a "documentation consultant," Mr. Garfield spent his free time thinking about scientific literature and how to mine information from it.
continue to the full article>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:38 AM
Carey Lecture - AAAS Policy Meeting
Harold Varmus, President and Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, gave a speech at the AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy last month titled Science, Government, and the Public Interest. [the full-text of the speech is online]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:32 PM
New Science Related Websites
The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences & Physical Sciences
Volume 4, Number 9
April 29, 2005
A Publication of the Internet Scout Project
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin
The Topic in Depth section of the Life Sciences Report annotates sites on Animal Reproduction. The Physical Sciences Report's Topic in Depth section offers websites and comments about Meteor Showers.
More Info>> National Science Digital Library
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:45 AM
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
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
Article about Science Funding in the US
The Politics of Science [free registration required]
The Scientist
Excerpt:
UNITED STATES: Speaking of Politics US scientists interviewed for this article agree that the worst thing to US science in 2004 was the $388 billion 2005 which Congress passed over a weekend in late November. The National Institutes of Health got a 2.1% increase, the smallest in more than 15 years. "No one knows what the budget for 2006 will be, but there is a great deal of concern that the increase will be less than this year's and possibly even an actual decrease," says Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former scientific director at the National Institute of Mental Health.
.....
Just two years after supporting a plan to double the NSF's budget by 2007, Congress cut the agency's funding by $105 million to $5.473 billion, and warned the foundation to expect more belt-tightening for several years to come. "I think that it's a statement of individual priorities among members of Congress, and frankly I think it's a national mistake," says Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
.....
Statistical evidence exists for a decline in foreign interest in US graduate programs in science education as well. From 2003 to 2004, the number of foreign students applying to US graduate programs in the life sciences fell by 24%, according to a survey by the Council of Graduate Schools. Overall enrollment by foreign students in US graduate programs fell by 6% during the same time period, the third decrease in three years. Applications from Chinese students fell by 45%; those from India fell 28%, and 14% fewer Korean students applied.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:09 PM
OSTI selected as SPARC partner
January 10, 2005
For more information, contact:
Alison Buckholtz, SPARC, alison@arl.org
Susan Tackett, OSTI, tacketts@osti.gov
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced that the E-print Network, a free service of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), has been chosen as a SPARC 'Scientific Communities' partner. The selection recognizes the contribution of the E-print Network to expanded availability and use of open-access scientific and technical research on the Internet.
Read the entire press release>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:08 AM
Catalogue of Scientific Papers now online
CSP is now included in 19th Century Masterfile.
This first installment, now online, comprises the three (3) Subject
Indexes to the original 19 volume author/title catalogues published
between 1867 and 1902. Seventeen subject index volumes were planned, but only the initial three were ever completed.
These three indexes now online are:
--Mathematics (1908)
--Mechanics (1909)
--Physics (2 volumes)(1912 and 1914)
The CSP is also available from the Bibliotheque nationale de France (National Library of France).
Announcement from the Vendor:
Dear 19th Century Masterfile Library:
Paratext has received a great deal of interest in our announcement of the first installment of the 'Catalogue of Scientific Papers 1800-1900' now available online for searching in our *19th Century Masterfile.*
This first installment, now online, comprises the three (3) Subject
Indexes to the original 19 volume author/title catalogues published
between 1867 and 1902. Seventeen subject index volumes were planned, but only the initial three were ever completed.
These three indexes now online are:
--Mathematics (1908)
--Mechanics (1909)
--Physics (2 volumes)(1912 and 1914)
The three Subject Indexes contain English language subject headings based on the Schedules of the *International Catalogue of Scientific
Literature.* The 19th Century Masterfile edition of Catalogue of
Scientific Papers will include expanded journal titles, unlike the
abbreviated titles in the print volumes.
Paratext is currently processing the 19 author/title volumes. As these
volumes work their way through quality control and verification over the next few months, they will be added to the 19th Century Masterfile
database.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:41 AM
Francis Crick dies
Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1968.
See a video clip of Crick receiving the Nobel Prize.
Books in the catalog written by Crick.
Books in the UT Library about DNA
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:07 PM