http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:28:04 +0000 http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/?v=1.0.1 en WRS: Environmental and Energy Resources Library http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/26/wrs-environmental-and-energy-resources-library/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/26/wrs-environmental-and-energy-resources-library/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:28:04 +0000 jryan1 Weekly Resource Spotlight http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/26/wrs-environmental-and-energy-resources-library/ From their website:
“eERL’s mission is to be the best possible online collection of environmental and energy sustainability resources for community college educators and for their students. The resources are also available for practitioners and the public.”

http://www.eerl.org/index.php

A clearinghouse for Environmental Science and Technology related websites and electronic resources.

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You can find it on our webpage under indexes and databases.

Check out these World Book Resources!

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbkids.html - World Book Kids

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbspanish.html - World Book Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbadvanced.html - World Book Advanced

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbreference.html - World Book Online Reference Center

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbdecouverte.html - L’Encyclopédie Découverte

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbdiscover.html - World Book Discover

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/18/worldbook-is-now-available/feed/ Hooke’s Books http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/08/hookes-books/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/08/hookes-books/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:03:28 +0000 jryan1 Uncategorized http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/08/hookes-books/ There is a new site from the National Library of Medicine called “Hooke’s Books: Books that influenced or were influenced by Robert Hooke’s Micrographia“

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/08/hookes-books/feed/ PAWS and Moodle Downtime this Sunday http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/06/paws-and-moodle-downtime-this-sunday/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/06/paws-and-moodle-downtime-this-sunday/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:11:03 +0000 jryan1 News http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/06/paws-and-moodle-downtime-this-sunday/ To accommodate LSU ID project work, PAWS will not be available on Sunday, August 10, from 7:00 am until 11:00 am. In addition, all applications linked through PAWS will not be accessible during this time. These include the following database systems:

Accounts Payable

Advance Billing

Employee Time

Human Resources

Personal Access Web Services (PAWS)

Procurement

Registration

Security Access Maintenance

Sponsored Programs

Student Records

Treasurer’s Database

Also, the Moodle Learning System will not be available through PAWS, but users may access it directly by going to http://moodle.lsu.edu.

Expected Resolution Date/Time:

Sunday, 8/10/2008, 11:00am.

If you have any questions concerning this change or its effects, please contact the UIS Database Administration group at 578-3700.

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/08/06/paws-and-moodle-downtime-this-sunday/feed/ MAC / SAFARI USERS CANNOT ACCESS SCIENCE DIRECT ARTICLES http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/17/mac-safari-users-cannot-access-science-direct-articles/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/17/mac-safari-users-cannot-access-science-direct-articles/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:04:17 +0000 jryan1 Uncategorized http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/17/mac-safari-users-cannot-access-science-direct-articles/ A problem with the current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader prevents Macs users with Safari from ScienceDirect PDF articles. ScienceDirect has reported this problem to Adobe and Safari. Until it is fixed:

* Hold the control button, click on the PDF link and select “download link to disk.” Save the file to the hard drive and view it from there.

OR

* Use Mozilla Firefox instead of Safari, which does not seem to have this problem.

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/17/mac-safari-users-cannot-access-science-direct-articles/feed/ Early Bird Project http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/14/early-bird-project/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/14/early-bird-project/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:33:39 +0000 jryan1 News http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/14/early-bird-project/ LSU Researchers Help Decode Evolutionary History of Birds

The full text of the Science article can be found here.

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/07/14/early-bird-project/feed/ Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings now available online http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/13/vertebrate-pest-conference-proceedings-now-available-online/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/13/vertebrate-pest-conference-proceedings-now-available-online/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:25:11 +0000 jryan1 News Weekly Resource Spotlight http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/13/vertebrate-pest-conference-proceedings-now-available-online/ The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (http://icwdm.org) is pleased to announce that it has finished scanning and posting the first 16 volumes of the Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings, spanning 32 years, to its Digital Commons site http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm/

The Vertebrate Pest Conference is the longest running animal damage control conference in North America. These proceedings contain valuable information on the management of a variety of animal species that have had negative impacts on human health and safety. It is a veritable gold mine of information for researchers and practitioners.

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/13/vertebrate-pest-conference-proceedings-now-available-online/feed/ New Science Direct Features http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/new-science-direct-features/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/new-science-direct-features/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 17:23:06 +0000 jryan1 News http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/new-science-direct-features/ From Science Direct:

New to ScienceDirect are features that make the platform even more user friendly and deliver better, clearer results in fewer clicks.

Researchers like to quickly evaluate articles before reading them

Researchers can now use preview tabs that provide quick access to the important article assessment components: the abstract, figures/tables and references. These tabs are on the results page, the table of contents page and the article page.

Researchers have to scroll to the foot of articles to view reference information, which hinders reading

We’ve made it possible for researchers to view reference information within the body of a paper when their cursor moves over a reference marker.

Researchers want to access specific information quickly

A new navigation pane on the search results page provides a view of the research output on a subject by year, by content type or by journal/book titles with the most results. By using these filters researchers can refine their search results without having to return to the search form.

Once a researcher has evaluated and read an article, they often want to email it to their peers

A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including ‘Cited By’, ‘Download PDF’, ‘E-mail Article’ and more, into one easy-to-find location. Researchers can now take further action quickly and easily with little extra effort.

Researchers are interested to know how other experts rate articles they read

Due to be launched in phases over the coming months, the integration of article comments and ratings from Elsevier’s social collaboration site, 2collab enables researchers to evaluate papers according to colleague-driven comments and ratings of articles right on the article page.

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/new-science-direct-features/feed/ Bioinformatics Series Tutorials (BITS) http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/bioinformatics-series-tutorials-bits/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/bioinformatics-series-tutorials-bits/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 17:18:22 +0000 jryan1 News Weekly Resource Spotlight http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/bioinformatics-series-tutorials-bits/ “Introducing BioInformatics Series Tutorials (BITS) brought to you by MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.

These video tutorials highlight bioinformatics resources such as NCBI Entrez, BLAST, and the UCSC Genome Browser and focus on specific activities for conducting genomic research. BITS can be viewed at a user’s own pace and own convenience.

The first installment of BITS covers the UCSC Genome Browser, which contains reference sequences and working draft assemblies for a large collection of genomes. Users will learn how to retrieve DNA sequence, display and configure the annotation tracks, identify gene intron-exon boundaries, and use the BLAT tool.

BITS are available here:MIT Engineering and Science Libraries: http://libraries.mit.edu/video
Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine: http://countway.harvard.edu/video_tutorials

Questions?
MIT Engineering and Science Libraries ask-bioinfo@mit.edu
Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine countref@hms.harvard.edu”

From David L. Osterbur and Paul A. Bain, Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine and Courtney D. Crummett, NLM 2nd Year Associate Fellow, MIT Engineering and Science Libraries

]]> http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/05/07/bioinformatics-series-tutorials-bits/feed/ New Dictionary of Scientific Biography http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/04/29/new-dictionary-of-scientific-biography/ http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/04/29/new-dictionary-of-scientific-biography/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:14:15 +0000 jryan1 New Reference Books http://biology.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2008/04/29/new-dictionary-of-scientific-biography/ New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Ed. by Noretta Koertge
Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008
Call# Ref Q141 .N45

From Gale:
“Charles Scribner’s Sons releases the first major expansion of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, entitled The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, featuring more than 775 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all regions and historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature. More than 500 of the new articles are devoted to scientists deceased since 1980 and not previously treated in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography including Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Fred Hoyle, Mary Leakey, Konrad Lorenz, Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edward Teller. There are also more than 75 articles on figures overlooked in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (from Chrysippus to Kinsey) and 250 “postscript” commentaries on important careers that have inspired new research and interpretation (from Archimedes and Aristotle to Darwin, Einstein, and Oppenheimer).

The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography guarantees the permanent relevance of the original work and constitutes a huge expansion of its scope.

Selected biographies include:

  • Luis Walter Alvarez
  • Aristotle
  • Charles Babbage
  • Francis Bacon
  • Charles Robert Darwin
  • Albert Einstein
  • Rosalind Elsie Franklin
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  • Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Carl Gustav Jung
  • Isaac Newton
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Jean Piaget
  • Claudine Picardet
  • Julia Bowman Robinson
  • Carl Sagan
  • Beatrice Tinsley
  • Alan Mathison Turing
  • And many more”
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