Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online!
Click HERE for access.

Only this site contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000 private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and much more.

For decades available only to scholars at Cambridge University Library, the private papers of Charles Darwin, one of the most influential scientists in history, can now be seen by anyone online and FREE of charge.
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (or Darwin Online) began in 2002 to assemble in one scholarly website all of Darwin's published writings and unpublished papers. Read MORE.....
This is the largest ever publication of Darwin papers and manuscripts, totalling about 20,000 items in over 100,000 electronic images. Charles Darwin's private papers and handwritten manuscripts are preserved in public institutions and private collections around the world. The online images are mostly scans from copies of early black and white microfilms produced by the Cambridge University Library Imaging Service, mostly in the 1990s.
Searching Darwin Online!
You can use this USER GUIDE to help you with retrieving information from Darwin Online!
Click on ADVANCED SEARCH for advanced search of the collection!
Enjoy exploring Darwin Online!

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Essential Science Indicators: Fast Moving Fronts, Emerging Research Fronts & Hot Papers in Science

Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009
From the database of Essential Science Indicators from Thomson, this list of Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009, has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period of September 31, 2002-August 31, 2008, and the previous period of July 2002-June 30, 2008 (sliding 6-year period).
The following Sciences fields are represented:
Agricultural Sciences; Biology & Biochemistry; Chemistry; Computer Sciences; Environment / Ecology; Mathematics; Physics, etc.
"MULTILAYER GRAPHENE," from the field of Physics was selected for mapping as a Fast Moving Front as well as a Top Topic for this period. View a list of only Fast Moving Front Maps, or all Research Front Maps (site-wide)
Essential Science Indicators, contains data on Research Fronts (see Research Front Methodology) which are updated every two months. As part of this bimonthly processing, Special Topics identifies the Research Fronts that are appearing for the first time in each of the 22 major fields covered by Essential Science Indicators. A new Front consists of core papers not previously included in any prior Front.
Every two months, Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters lists a new crop of what it calls hot papers in science. Hot papers are selected by virtue of being cited among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) in a current bimonthly period. Papers are selected in each of 22 fields of science and must be published within the last two years. Because the hot papers are updated every two months, new papers are added with every update, and ScienceWatch.com tracks these new additions.

SCHOLARLY JOURNALS - NEW FREE JOURNALS TABLE OF CONTENTS: ticTOCs

Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service.

What it is?
ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) service.
It’s FREE, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers.

It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.

How to find Journal Titles

Using ticTOCs, you can:

* Find journals of interest by TITLE, SUBJECT or PUBLISHER;
* View the latest TOC;
* Link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow)
* Save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs).
* ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC' RSS feeds to popular feed readers such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and in addition you can import article citations into RefWorks (available through the UJ Library web page. Contact your librarian for assistance and training where necessary ).
* You can select TOCs by ticking those of interest - thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).
I have searched for journals per SUBJECT. The following number of journals are available (24/01/2009) for:
Zoology - 87 titles
Botany 125 titles
Biology - 291 titles
Microbiology - 110 titles
Biochemistry - 223 titles
Chemistry - 170 titles
Analytical Chemistry - 51 titles
Inorganic Chemistry - 22 titles
Organic Chemistry - 70 titles
Physical Chemistry - 72 titles
Mathematics - 363 titles
Statistics - 31 titles
Astronomy - 48 titles
Physics - 255 titles
Biophysics - 34 titles
Geophysics - 49 titles
Nuclear Physics - 39 titles
Geology - 89 titles
Geography - 70 titles
Earth Sciences - 58 titles
Computers - 81 titles
Computer Security - 23 titles
and many more.....
For help use the available HELP menu or ask your librarian for assistance!

ticTOCs has been funded under the JISC Users & Innovations programme and has been developed by an international consortium consisting of the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.

For the full press release, click HERE.

Since the launch, several hundred more journal Tables of Contents have been added to ticTOCs: over 60 titles from Palgrave, over 185 former Haworth Press titles, 82 open access titles from Libertas Academica, 27 Edinburgh University Press journals, and titles from Longwoods Publishing, Living Reviews, IM Publications and others.

Journals from 431 publishers are currently included in ticTOCs. Read more about the latest news HERE!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

UJ Sciences Librarian News (APK)

Compliments for the New Year!
The 2009 academic year is just around the corner. In the library you can see number of students, but mostly the work we do is behind the desks. I'm busy with annual reports, preparing statistics' forms, finalising the information for the subject web pages; creating useful information to help teaching, learning and research; books for reserve; preparation for training sessions, etc.
For the latest UJ Sciences Librarian News (APK) visit THIS web page (NEW!). The following information is available:

Please note, that this information will be re-packeged and soon will be available through the subject webpages.

UJ LIBRARY HOURS (APK): JANUARY 2009
Learn about the library hours during January

LIBRARY ACCESS: POSTGRADUATES
Extended membership for postgraduates until 28th February 2009 (access to databases)

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP
Who & how can have access in the UJ Library

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP TO OTHER LIBRARIES
Postgraduates & academics can request access to other University libraries. Learn how?

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: ACCESS & CIRCULATION
Circulation/Lending Desk products & services

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: RESERVE COLLECTION
How to place items both in PRINT & ELECTRONIC form on Reserve for the 1st semester & year course.

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: STUDY COLLECTION
How to place items & search.

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: PREVIOUS EXAM PAPERS
Students always want to know what questions have been used at previous exams. Lecturers can learn how to submit previous exam papers and students can learn how to access them.

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: INTER CAMPUS LOAN
Do you know that you can request book/journal article from other UJ Campus Library? Learn more.

UJ LIBRARY SERVICES: INTER LIBRARY LOAN (ILL)
UJ Academics, staff and Masters & PhD's, learn how can ILL help your research & teaching needs.

UJ SCIENCES LIBRARIANS
Need to contact UJ Sciences Librarians for help. Find the contact information.