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Monday, September 24th, 2007WRS: WorldWideScience.org
Friday, July 6th, 2007From GCN:
“A new portal that crosses both international and database boundaries was launched recently for people interested in scientific sources that are unavailable through commercial search engines such as Google.
WorldWideScience.org was developed by the Energy Department and the British Library, along with science and technology organizations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. It employs federated search technology — a search method that simultaneously executes a query against an array of databases, then aggregates and ranks the results — and gives users a single entry point for searching far-flung science portals in parallel with only one query.
“Scientific research results are archived globally in a plethora of sources, many unknown and unreachable through [the] usual search engines,” said Raymond Orbach, Energy’s undersecretary for science. “This international partnership will open up this vast reservoir of knowledge in a rapid and convenient manner, something that will add great value to our existing knowledge.”
WorldWideScience.org follows the model of Science.gov, the searchable portal for science databases of federal science agencies. WorldWideScience.org was developed and is maintained by Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information, which also played a central role in the development of Science.gov. The participating countries contributed databases that can be searched through the portal.”
WRS — Nursing and Allied Health Source
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007LSU Libraries has just subscribed to a new database from ProQuest: Nursing and Allied Health Source.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 650 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.
WRS — Science Resources from the University at Albany
Monday, May 14th, 2007The Science Library at the University at Albany publishes a blog similar to this one, with information on new and useful science resources online. Although some of the information is specific to Albany, much of it is not, and may be useful to you. Consider adding it to your RSS feeds.
Bioenergy Blog
Friday, May 11th, 2007“The Bioenergy Blog is devoted to the identification and promotion of key primary and secondary/tertiary literature relating to biorenewable fuels, most notably bioethanol and biodiesel.
It will focus on the technical aspects and technologies associated with the production of these fuels, as well as other bio-based fuels.
It will seek to identify significant monographs as well as conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, reports and other grey literature, as well as popular works and relevant digital sources, notably DVDs and significant Websites. Select major review articles will also be profiled.
With proper support, it is hoped that the major publications and presentations cited in The Bioenergy Blog will be compiled into a Web-based annotated bibliography.”
WRS — Encyclopedia of Earth
Thursday, May 10th, 2007The Encyclopedia of Earth is an open-access encyclopedia of topics in the biological and earth sciences, with articles written by reliable professionals in their fields, but aimed at a non-technical audience. The Encyclopedia is free and fully searchable.
The homepage includes a featured article, as well as a biography on a featured contributor, country profile, featured ecosystem, and a featured “classic” paper in environmentalism. The content can be browsed as well as searched by title of article, author, or topic.
The Encyclopedia also offers RSS feeds which alert users to new articles, new featured articles, and new revisions of older articles.
WRS: arXiv
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007arXiv is an archive of full text journal articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, and computer science.
The mathematics arXiv was formed from a number of smaller mathematical archives, with some in the arXiv system and some elsewhere, at the beginning of 1998. The system as a whole has over 200,000 articles in physics, over 20,000 in mathematics, and over 2,000 in computer science. The ultimate goal is to distribute all new research literature in all three disciplines worldwide, to store it permanently, and to keep it freely available.
Avian Literature Database
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007This week’s resource shows just how specified some of the bibliographic resources out there can get. The Avian Literature Database from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory provides access to information on the effect of wind energy development on birds.
WRS — Know Your Copyrights
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007The Association of Research Libraries has launched a new site http://www.knowyourcopyrights.org/ to provide a concise guide to teaching faculty on exactly how copyright law affects the classroom. This is a great resource, so check it out.
WRS — Macaulay Library Sound and Video Catalog
Monday, February 5th, 2007From http://www.animalbehaviorarchive.org/:
“The Macaulay Library is the world’s largest archive of animal sounds.We have more than 160,000 recordings of 67 percent of the world’s birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals.”
These recordings, as well as selected video recordings of animal behavior, are available to be listened to or watched free on the site. Really great place to go if you’ve ever wondered just what a particular animal sounds like in the wild.