Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine, which were published on 18th & 25th of January 2008. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text access.
25 January 2008, Vol 319, Issue 5862, Pages 381-499:
http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5862/index.dtl
* News of the Week
- GERMANY: Max Planck Accused of Hobbling Universities
- SCIENCE STATISTICS: Got Data Questions? NSF's Indicators Has (Most of) the Answers
- ASTROPHYSICS: "Little" Cosmic Ray Observatory Aims to Make a Big Mark
- GEOCHEMISTRY: Where Has All the Stardust Gone?
* News focus
- GEOLOGY: A Time War Over the Period We Live In
- HUMAN EVOLUTION: Why We're Different: Probing the Gap Between Apes and Humans
* Perspectives
- SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: Enlightening Rhythms
- GEOCHEMISTRY: The Rise and Fall of a Great Idea
- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Structural Nanocomposites
18 January 2008Vol 319, Issue 5861, Pages 243-368
http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5861/index.dtl
* News of the Week
- SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Uncle Sam's Biomedical Archive Wants Your Papers
- REMOTE SENSING: Satellite Company Offers Earth-Observing Researchers a Ride
- ASTRONOMY: New Dark-Matter Map Reveals Where Galaxies Gambol
* Letters
- Putting a Human Face on Energy Usage
* Policy Forum
- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Aging Infrastructure and Ecosystem Restoration
- ECOLOGY: Managing Coastal Wetlands
- GEOLOGY: Dreams of Natural Streams
- PHYSICS: Probing Quantum Magnetism with Cold Atoms
* Reports
- Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Lulu: Web-based self-publishing service
I was reading through "ILibrarian" blog and found there a post named "7 Things You Should Know About Lulu". I was curious to read through the post and then to look at the web site. This is what I found and what you should know and eventually use ( maybe in the near future?):
* What is it? Lulu is an web-based self-publishing service. It provides online access to the tools an individual needs to design, publish, and print original material, including books, brochures, reports, yearbooks, annual reports, training manuals, and posters. Writers can obtain an ISBN through the site, allowing them to sell their books through online or traditional retailers.
* Who is doing it? Some faculty use Lulu to create textbooks or course packs for the classes they teach, sending students to the site to either download a digital copy (often for free) or buy a printed copy. In some cases, faculty at other institutions use these learning materials in their own courses. Students can use dissertation templates to self-publish doctoral or master’s theses.
* How does it work? Lulu provides templates for each product category and applications to format text, images, or other material into a final product. For example, authors select the size of the book and the type of binding, choose color or black and white, and select a copyright license.
* Why is significant? Self-publishing offers an alternative to traditional publishing by allowing authors and creators of content to decide what gets published and in what form.
* What are the downsides? Allowing authors to make all publishing decisions does little to assure readers that a self-published work will justify the cost to buy it or the time to read it.
* Where this going? Self-publishing is part of the movement toward user-generated content, and services such as Lulu have the potential to extend that movement to creators and consumers of content who are more comfortable with traditional media.
* What are the implications for teaching and learning? Self-publishing offers several advantages to Faculty and students. Having more texts to choose from, or being able to easily prepare their own textbooks, instructors gain considerable flexibility in selecting materials for a course and in updating syllabi more frequently. The Lulu model offers opportunities for students to save significant amounts of money on course texts—a large and growing concern at many institutions.
Visit LULU website: http://www.lulu.com/ and have a look.
* Who is doing it? Some faculty use Lulu to create textbooks or course packs for the classes they teach, sending students to the site to either download a digital copy (often for free) or buy a printed copy. In some cases, faculty at other institutions use these learning materials in their own courses. Students can use dissertation templates to self-publish doctoral or master’s theses.
* How does it work? Lulu provides templates for each product category and applications to format text, images, or other material into a final product. For example, authors select the size of the book and the type of binding, choose color or black and white, and select a copyright license.
* Why is significant? Self-publishing offers an alternative to traditional publishing by allowing authors and creators of content to decide what gets published and in what form.
* What are the downsides? Allowing authors to make all publishing decisions does little to assure readers that a self-published work will justify the cost to buy it or the time to read it.
* Where this going? Self-publishing is part of the movement toward user-generated content, and services such as Lulu have the potential to extend that movement to creators and consumers of content who are more comfortable with traditional media.
* What are the implications for teaching and learning? Self-publishing offers several advantages to Faculty and students. Having more texts to choose from, or being able to easily prepare their own textbooks, instructors gain considerable flexibility in selecting materials for a course and in updating syllabi more frequently. The Lulu model offers opportunities for students to save significant amounts of money on course texts—a large and growing concern at many institutions.
Visit LULU website: http://www.lulu.com/ and have a look.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Institute of Physics: Librarian Insider
In the latest December 2007 issue, you will find the following information:
* Things you need to know right now: The Astronomical Journal publishes its first issue with IOP in January 2008;
* News: New look for IoP. Some improvements to the website were made* Did you know? NEW! IOPscience … always more to discover. IoP introduces their new platform for electronic journal content, IOPscience. Some of the features are:
- Related Articles: A ‘Related Articles' tab has been added to every abstract page in IOPscience.
- Content Finder: The introduction of the ‘Content Finder’ allows you to go straight to a specific article in the service.
- Saved Searches: Personalization features have been enhanced, with the inclusion of a brand new tab called ‘My IOPscience’.
- Most cited: The IOPscience homepage, and all journal homepages, now show the 5 most cited articles
- Enhanced PDFs: All PDFs downloaded from IOPscience now include an interactive coversheet, allowing you to link back to IOPscience at any time.
IOPscience provides site-wide access to content from 1874 to the present day, and is available by electronically license. IoP want to give every customer cost-effective access to IOP content, through our tailored pricing model, which is based on a number of factors including the size of relevant research at your institution and your geographic location.
P.S. Trial can be arranged for UJ. Please let me know if you are interested. Click on the TITLE to view the Newsletter
Friday, January 25, 2008
Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter Vol.6, no. 1, 2008
In this newsletter:
* Sign up for Research Trends: To fulfill the increasing demand for high-quality research performance measurement (RPM) and trend-related information, the Scopus team recently launched Research Trends, a free bimonthly e-newsletter delivering updates on developments, approaches and tools in this area. Launched in October 2007, Research Trends provides objective, up-to-the-minute news on scientific trends as well as articles based on bibliometric data. The articles are written by experts in the field of bibliometrics. Each issue focuses on five categories: the value of bibliometric measures, research trends, country trends, expert opinion and citation choices of individual authors. Developed for deans, faculty heads, researchers, funding bodies, ranking agencies and research libraries, Research Trends aims to be an essential source of information for the research community at large: www.researchtrends.com
* How marketing can help increase the value of e-resource investments: Five key findings
1. Interpersonal connections make the difference
2. Training is a key component of the marketing mix
3. Never underestimate the importance of a librarian
4. Interactive promotions are effective
5. Repetition is important
* Research watch
- Academic libraries positively impact student retention
- Assessing library instruction indicates lasting results
* Community connections
- European libraries feel effects of VAT on e-publications: At the moment, many libraries are hanging in limbo, stuck between traditional print materials and the advancement of electronic publications. Statistics tracked by libraries often compare usage metrics and budget percentages allotted for each format so as to try and find a happy medium for users who prefer holding physical forms of information in their hands and users who routinely conduct research using online resources.
- Study shows migration to online books saves libraries money and increases usage: The availability of digital journals is without doubt one of the cornerstones of today’s academic library. Thousands of STM journals are currently accessible via increasingly sophisticated electronic platforms like ScienceDirect. Now, many publishers, including Elsevier, are making significant progress in bringing book content online.
* Staying connected
- Want to learn more about tagging and RSS? Visit the Elsevier TrainingDesk and register for a free topic-focused online training. The TrainingDesk also offers downloadable presentations, tutorials, practice exercises and reference materials covering best-practice use of Elsevier electronic products. While visiting the TrainingDesk site, take a look at the blog and wiki.www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com
- Reprints Desk delivering ScienceDirect articles: Since November 2007, Elsevier has been partnering with Reprints Desk, a new content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing, to provide full-service article delivery. Through this initiative, customers can order individual articles from over 2,000 scientific journals published by Elsevier and receive the articles electronically or in print. Reprints Desk delivers articles in their original format and color, either in PDF or in professionally printed hardcopy: www.reprintsdesk.com
- Academic Database Assessment Tool: JISC Collections, in partnership with DataSalon Ltd., UK, has created the Academic Database Assessment Tool — a free online database comparison tool. Librarians can use it to evaluate and make purchasing decisions for online resources. The tool provides title lists for bibliographic and fulltext databases, plus service information regarding content platforms. Sponsors include Scopus, Engineering Village and EMBASE.com, as well as Thomson Scientific and ProQuest: www.jisc-adat.com/adat/home.pl
Click on the TITLE to access this newsletter. Even if it is addressing librarians, can be very useful to the researchers and academics to read.
Emerald Author Workshop @ UJ in April
The upcoming Emerald Author Workshop will be held on 7th April 2008. The Emerald’s Business Manager, Eric Broug will be visiting Johannesburg and will hold author workshops for lecturers, researchers and students. The idea is to focus on and encourage South African (aspiring) authors to submit articles for publication to their journals.
See below more information on Emerald journals and the workshop. Please let me know if you are interested to attend or sent your postgraduates (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)
Emerald publishes in the following subject areas:
Accounting and Finance; Advanced Automation; Business Ethics and Law; Computational Mathematics; Economics; Education Management; Electronics Manufacture & Packaging; Enterprise and Innovation; Healthcare Management; Human Resource Management; Industry and Public Sector Management; Information and Knowledge Management; International Business; Learning and Development; Library and Information StudiesManagement; Science/Management Studies; Managing Quality; Marketing; Materials Science & Engineering; Operations & Logisitics Management; Organization Studies; Performance Management & Measurement; Property & Real Estate; Strategy; Tourism and Hospitality.
For a full title list of all Emerald journals, please go to:
http://0-www.emeraldinsight.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/info/products_services/AtoZList.jsp
Some of the titles of interest to the Faculty of Science Departments are: COMPEL: International; Journal of Computations & Mathematics in Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Engineering Computations International; Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow; Nutrition & Food Science; British Food Journal; International Journal of Energy Sector Management; Information Technology & People; International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics; International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications; International Journal of Web Information Systems; Internet Research; Journal of Systems and Information Technology; Kybernetes; Forthcoming International Scientific and Technical Conferences; Additional journls on Education, Learning & Development, etc.
* Venue: The venue will only be finalised and communicated to us at the end of March, however, Eric Broug (Emerald Business Manager - Africa) indicated that due to the positive response of UJ we have quite a strong case to host it.
* Costs: It's free!* Number of participants that can attend: unlimited for now
For more information on "Emerald Author Workshop", view their website: http://0-www.emeraldinsight.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/info/authors/workshops/intro.jsp or Click on the TITLE.
Why this workshop is Important:
* They encourage novice researchers to publish and assist university research co-ordinators in this respect
* They allow us to discuss emerging issues in publishing and research with more experienced groups
* They can be run as pre-event workshops at conferences worldwide
* They support the Emerald sales and editorial efforts
* They support efforts to bridge the gap between the practical and academic worlds and inform prospective authors from commercial and public sector organizations how to get published, often introducing them to the whole publishing process.
* They allow us to discuss emerging issues in publishing and research with more experienced groups
* They can be run as pre-event workshops at conferences worldwide
* They support the Emerald sales and editorial efforts
* They support efforts to bridge the gap between the practical and academic worlds and inform prospective authors from commercial and public sector organizations how to get published, often introducing them to the whole publishing process.
Visit also Emerald for Autors webpage:
Databases Subscriptions News
The latest news from the UJ E-resources librarian:
New Databases Subscriptions:
* BlackwellSynergy (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com). Soon available through the databases list
* Gale Virtual Library (Ebooks)
- Advances in Banking Technology and Management
- Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
- Entrepreneurship and innovations in ebusiness: an integrative perspective
- Web Semantics Ontology
* Who owns Whom – South African Sector
* Travel Technology Update
* International Tables of Crystallography
Databases Cancellations:
* Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources
* Marine, Oceanographic & Freshwater Resources
* Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide.
Databases Upgrades:
* Emerald - Upgrade to EMX150 in 2008. This will allow you to keep step with the growth of our portfolio.
Access to EMX150 will give you access to journals such as:
- International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
- International Journal of Energy Sector Management
- International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing
- Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy
- Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
Databases Interface Changes:
* Ovid/Silver platter
* ISI
* Emerald
New Databases Subscriptions:
* BlackwellSynergy (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com). Soon available through the databases list
* Gale Virtual Library (Ebooks)
- Advances in Banking Technology and Management
- Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
- Entrepreneurship and innovations in ebusiness: an integrative perspective
- Web Semantics Ontology
* Who owns Whom – South African Sector
* Travel Technology Update
* International Tables of Crystallography
Databases Cancellations:
* Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture & Fisheries Resources
* Marine, Oceanographic & Freshwater Resources
* Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide.
Databases Upgrades:
* Emerald - Upgrade to EMX150 in 2008. This will allow you to keep step with the growth of our portfolio.
Access to EMX150 will give you access to journals such as:
- International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
- International Journal of Energy Sector Management
- International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing
- Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy
- Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
Databases Interface Changes:
* Ovid/Silver platter
* ISI
* Emerald
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The World Resources 2005 - The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight poverty
The latest 2005 edition of World Resources book is available online (Click on the TITLE for access). The book can be useful as reference source for UJ students and academics. See below a short Table of Content:
Part 1: The Wealth of the Poor
* Chapter 1: Nature, Power and Poverty
* Chapter 2: Ecosystems and the Livelihoods of the poor
* Chapter 3: The role of governance
* Chapter 4: Four steps to greater environmental income
* Chapter 5: Turning natural assets into wealth: Case Studies ( NATURE IN LOCAL HANDS: The Case for Namibia’s Conservancies; Regenerating Woodlands: Tanzania's HASHI Project)
* Special section - Global development policies: Making MDGs and PRSPs work for the poor and the environment
Part 2: Data Tables (The World Resources 2005 data tables present information for 155 countries). The following statistics are available: Population & Education; Human Health; Gender & Development; Income & Poverty; Economics & Financial Flows; Institutions & Governance; Energy; Climate & Atmosphere; Water Resources & Fisheries; Biodiversity; Land Use & Human Settlements; Food & Agriculture.
References
Other direct link is available under "E-books" on the left side of this blog.
Monday, January 14, 2008
SciFinder News
The latest on SciFinder solutions:
* New Record for Content Enrichment Set in 2007! During its 100th anniversary year, CAS has set a new record for the largest number of document references added to its databases within a single week: 24,623 records. CAS continues to provide scientists using SciFinder access to the largest and most comprehensive chemical database.
* Search Tips: Exploring Reactions: Functional Groups
Click on the TITLE to read more or click on: http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/sfsolutions/index.html
* New Record for Content Enrichment Set in 2007! During its 100th anniversary year, CAS has set a new record for the largest number of document references added to its databases within a single week: 24,623 records. CAS continues to provide scientists using SciFinder access to the largest and most comprehensive chemical database.
* Search Tips: Exploring Reactions: Functional Groups
Click on the TITLE to read more or click on: http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/sfsolutions/index.html
Nature Magazine: Latest issues
Look at the first two issues topics of Nature Magazine
Volume 451 Number 7175, 10 January 2008
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/index.html
* News: India aims for 'quantum jump' in science; Could global gardening fix climate change?; Fears for oldest human footprints; Software magnates give $30 million to telescope; National Academies updates book on evolution
* News Features: Conservation: Providential outcome; Cell biology: Bacteria's new bones;
* Correspondence: Conservation: academics should 'conserve or perish'; Frog transparency led to discovery of melatonin
* News & Views: Molecular biology: RNA rules; Materials science: Desperately seeking silicon; Conservation biology: Cats, rats and seabirds; Stem cells: A new year and a new era; Physics: The force of fluctuations; Quantum mechanics: Evolution stopped in its tracks
Volume 451 Number 7174, 3 January 2008
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/index.html
* Editorial: Think about it (Reliable policy research is an underrated planning tool in developing countries..)
* News: Budget blow to US science; Airgun ban halts seismic tests; Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market;
* News Features: Geology: The next land rush
* News & Views: Magnetism: Freedom for the poles; Aquaculture: The price of lice; Carbon cycle: Sources, sinks and seasons; Optics: Watch your back; Astronomy: Extrasolar planets
* Letters: Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming; Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming;
Volume 451 Number 7175, 10 January 2008
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/index.html
* News: India aims for 'quantum jump' in science; Could global gardening fix climate change?; Fears for oldest human footprints; Software magnates give $30 million to telescope; National Academies updates book on evolution
* News Features: Conservation: Providential outcome; Cell biology: Bacteria's new bones;
* Correspondence: Conservation: academics should 'conserve or perish'; Frog transparency led to discovery of melatonin
* News & Views: Molecular biology: RNA rules; Materials science: Desperately seeking silicon; Conservation biology: Cats, rats and seabirds; Stem cells: A new year and a new era; Physics: The force of fluctuations; Quantum mechanics: Evolution stopped in its tracks
Volume 451 Number 7174, 3 January 2008
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/index.html
* Editorial: Think about it (Reliable policy research is an underrated planning tool in developing countries..)
* News: Budget blow to US science; Airgun ban halts seismic tests; Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market;
* News Features: Geology: The next land rush
* News & Views: Magnetism: Freedom for the poles; Aquaculture: The price of lice; Carbon cycle: Sources, sinks and seasons; Optics: Watch your back; Astronomy: Extrasolar planets
* Letters: Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming; Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming;
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Latest from Science Online Magazine
Have a quick look at the last three issues of Science Magazine, which were published lately. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text access to these and many more articles.
Vol. 319, no. 5860, 11 January 2008
* News of the Week: VIROLOGY: HIV Gets By With a Lot of Help From Human Host; GEOPHYSICS: Daggers Are Drawn Over Revived Cosmic Ray-Climate Link ; PALEOCLIMATE: More Climate Wackiness in the Cretaceous Supergreenhouse? REGULATORY POLICY: Panel: EPA Proposal for Air Pollution Short on Science; ECOLOGY: The Importance of Being Eaten; ENVIRONMENT: Marine Mammals Still Imperiled After Sonar Ruling
* News Focus: CHINESE UNIVERSITIES: Gunning for the Ivy League; CHINESE UNIVERSITIES: Engineers Aim for a Quality Boost; VALÉRIE PÉCRESSE INTERVIEW: After Initial Reforms, French Minister Promises More Changes; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING: Getting a Quick Read on the Biggest Tsunami Earthquakes; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING: Climate Tipping Points Come In From the Cold; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY: Cancer's Bulwark Against Immune Attack: MDS Cells
* Letters: Fighting Algae in Kaneohe Bay;
* Policy Forum: ENVIRONMENT: Ocean Iron Fertilization--Moving Forward in a Sea of Uncertainty
* Perspectives: BIOCHEMISTRY: Dicey Assemblies; GEOPHYSICS: What Triggers Tremor?; CHEMISTRY: Not So Simple
* Review: Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon
* Technical Comment: Comment on "The Southern Ocean Biological Response to Aeolian Iron Deposition" ; Response to Comment on "The Southern Ocean Biological Response to Aeolian Iron Deposition"
Vol. 319, no. 5859, 4 January 2008
Special issue: Cosmic Web
* News of the Week: GENETICS: The Elusive ALS Genes; PLANETARY SCIENCE: Saturn's Rings Look Ancient Again;
* News Focus: SCIENCE POLICY: Science and the Next U.S. President
* Letters: In Search of Peer Reviewers; A Peer Review How-To; Climate Change Goals: Where to Begin?
* Perspectives: CHEMISTRY: Beyond Born-Oppenheimer; CHEMISTRY: A Phase Transition Hidden in Higher Dimensions; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: How Green Are Biofuels?
Vol. 318, no. 5858, 21 December 2007
* Breakthrough of the Year News: Human Genetic Variation; It's All About Me (personal genomics); The Runners-Up (advances in cellular and structural biology, astrophysics, physics, immunology, synthetic chemistry, neuroscience, and computer science); Global Warming, Hotter Than Ever; Areas to Watch (Science's editors will be watching Europe's Large Hadron Collider, microRNAs, humanmade microbes, paleogenomics, multiferroics, the human microbiome, and neural circuits in 2008)
* News of the Week: RESEARCH FUNDING: U.K. Cutbacks Rattle Physics, Astronomy; AIDS RESEARCH: Trials of NIH's AIDS Vaccine Get a Yellow Light; MICROBIOLOGY: Detoxifying Enzyme Helps Animals Stomach Bacteria; EVOLUTION: Did an Asteroid Shower Kick-Start the Great Diversification? UNIVERSITIES: Questions Swirl Around Kessler's Abrupt Dismissal From UCSF
* News Focus: SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC: Animal Extremists Get Personal; CLIMATE CHANGE: Global Warming Coming Home to Roost in the American West; INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Chikungunya: No Longer a Third World Disease;
* Educaion Forum: MENTORING: Linking Student Interests to Science Curricula
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
ScienceDirect & Elsevier Focus
What's of interest from ScienceDirect & Elsevier?
* Top 25 Hottest Articles: July-September 2007 - Select your subject area to view the Hottest articles:
* Learn how to Publish an article with Elsevier:
Want to experiment a new way of sharing ideas and doing research? Get started with 2Collab!
- Connect with others in your field; Free to use, free to share; Collaborate without email;
Discover new research material; Share information with your groups;
Discover new research material; Share information with your groups;
- Bookmark any item of interest – such as websites, articles, references, news, blogs - and share with your group; whether that’s your research group, colleagues, friends or students.
- Browse and search through 2collab to find interesting new topics, research ideas, or new people who you can invite to become a member of your groups.
- 2collab enables you to create your own groups or join others to share, collaborate and network. Groups can be private with invited people only, or public groups: open to wider use by the scientific community.
* New Journals in 2008:
- The Journal of Proteomics covers all areas of applied and basic research in Proteomics using multi-disciplinary approaches to unravel biological processes. Emphasis is placed on translational research and biomarker discovery in human, animal, micro-organism and plant systems. The journal provides a forum for activities in proteomics and helps strengthen the links between research scientists all over the world. Articles in Press are available on: http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/science/journal/18743919
- Elsevier announced today (3/01/08) that it is launching a new journal, the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. The journal will be published bimonthly, and will focus on the advances in the rapidly expanding area of natural gas science and engineering. The first issue will appear in late 2008. cover the fields of natural gas exploration, production, processing and transmission in its broadest possible sense. The objective of the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering will be to bridge the gap between the engineering and the science of natural gas by publishing papers by and for scientists and engineers working in any field of natural gas science and engineering
* Elsevier News, Announcements and other useful information is available on:
* Elsevier News, Announcements and other useful information is available on:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): Conferences & Events
Visit the RSC website to view 2008 Conferences & Events in:
* Analytical , Organic, Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
* Analytical , Organic, Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
* Biosciences
* Education
* Environment, Sustainability & Energy
* Food & Nutrition
* General
* Materials & Polymers
* Industry & Technology
Do you know?
You can submit an event to RSC, just click on "Submit an Events"
Click on the TITLE to access these events.
American Chemical Society (ACS): The most-cited, The most-accessed, most-read and the most-influential articles
The most-cited, most-accessed, most-read, and most-influential research in the chemical and related sciences is published by the journals of the American Chemical Society.
Please use the links below for easy access to the most current ACS Publications listings of Most-Cited Articles, Hot Papers, and Most-Accessed Articles. Rankings of Most-Cited Articles listed are based on data from Thomson ISI® Web of Science. Hot Papers listed are articles published within the last 2 years receiving the most citations over the most recent 2-month period, as identified by Thomson ISI® Essential Scientific Indicators. Most-Accessed Articles listed are based on article web view data collected following COUNTER-compliant ACS Usage Reports. Listings are organized by journal. Please check back to these article listings frequently, as regular updates are made throughout the year.
As reported in 2006 Thomson Scientific (ISI) Journal Citation Reports®, the peer-reviewed journals of the American Chemical Society rank #1 in citations or ISI® Impact Factor in the seven core chemistry categories as well as eight additional categories ranging from agriculture and crystallography to polymer science and nanoscience & nanotechnology.
Hot Papers are articles published within the last 2 years receiving the most citations over the most recent 2-month period. In a typical 2-month period, the ISI® could recognize more than 200-300 total Hot Papers in chemistry alone, and amongst those Hot Papers in chemistry, ACS journals are typically responsible for nearly half of the top 100 ‘hottest’ papers in chemistry! Thomson's ISI® also recognizes articles in additional categories such as the Agricultural Sciences, Environment/Ecology, Engineering, and Materials Science, and ACS Publications are well represented in these categories as well.
Visit ACS website for the latest News, Research Highlights, Announcements and Journal changes: http://0-pubs.acs.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/
Show me the Data: Impact Factor
The article "Show me the Data" in The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 179, no. 6, Dec 2007 the authers' discussed the impact factor data that are gathered and sold by Thomson Scientific (formerly the Institute of Scientific Information, or ISI) and which have a strong influence on the scientific community, affecting decisions on where to publish, whom to promote or hire (1), the success of grant applications (2), and even salary bonuses (3).
The impact factor for a journal in a particular year is declared to be a measure of the average number of times a paper published in the previous two years was cited during the year in question. For example, the 2006 impact factor is the average number of times a paper published in 2004 or 2005 was cited in 2006. There are, however, some quirks about impact factor calculations that have been pointed out by others....
Click on the TITLE to read the 2 pages article.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Snap Shots from Snap.com on UJ Science Librarian Blog
Happy New Year to all of you and welcome back to the 2008 Academic year. After a good rest I hope we are ready to face the information overload once again. I had the good intentions to work during the holidays, but I developed a real "holiday virus" - swimming, tanning and reading books. Let's not forget the number of parties, the Christmas shopping's and the movies that came along. In between I managed to exercise, to keep from piling the many calories from the delicious treats. Overall I have an relaxed and enjoyable holiday and I can "hopefully" face the pressure of work.
What is new on this blog?
I have installed in December a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not. The icon is easy to spot next to the titles. Just take the cursor there. Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.
Personally I like this tool. It provide a "quick look" at the web page you want to view, even without clicking on the link.
Let me know if you find it useful? Sent me a comment!
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