tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206028829407239422011-11-13T06:26:30.946+02:00A Weblog Communication channel from the Library to the University of Johannesburg Science Community. Created on 25th October 2007.UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.comBlogger1651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-69327491289831438312011-11-12T22:58:00.001+02:002011-11-12T23:33:53.877+02:00

Find out more about the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Science Departments and their Research & Teaching focus. These are the 2011 Departmental Newsletters from: Academy of Computer Science Applied Mathematics & Statistics Departments Biochemistry Department Biotechnology Department Chemical Technology Department Department of Chemistry Food Technology Department Geography,

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  ScienceDirect: Top 25 Hottest Articles January-March 2010Check out the the hottest articles per subject area!

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The Research Information Network has published in March 2010 a Guide to provide researchers with an understanding of the peer review process and some of the current issues surrounding the debate about peer reviewDownload the Peer Review: Guide for researchers (16 pages)Read more about the GuideThe issues discuss are:What is peer review? How does it work?Support and criticism.Is it effective?Is it

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I have found on the news 1-2 weeks ago, the announcement for a new search engine - “Wolfram Alpha Knowledge Engine”. I have spent some time searching, but definitely more time is required to get to know it better. It is different from any other search engine I had used. It could of great interest to the sciences & engineering users; health sciences, education , finances, etc.Read the “iLibrarian

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I have participated in Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of Science and Research workshop, that took place on May 14, 2009 at CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. The workshop was organised by Susan Veldsman, Director: Scholarly Publishing Unit, ASSAf, & Iryna Kuchma, Open Access program manager, eIFL.net. The workshop presentations are available HERE. Some of the

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SciTopics is a free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. Developed (by Elsevier) to serve as an information and collaboration service for researchers, SciTopics offers authors a dynamic, quick, informal yet authoritative online publication platform.Following an extensive trial period, scientific researchers, editors and authors can now quickly and efficiently

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Journal Citation Report (JCR)The Impact Factor can be a very valuable metric—but it can also be misused and viewed in the wrong context. A significant enhancement to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) offers new metrics and data that complement the Impact Factor, and helps users more fully understand their journals’ place in the scholarly world. Librarians have long relied on Journal Citation

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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

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Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009From 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

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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

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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

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This is a message from Dr. Richard Price:With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a website Academia.edu, which does two things:- It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.- It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers

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All UJ users can access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles July-September 2008 on Science Direct. Select your subject of interest and read the articles' full-text.View this LINK if you are non UJ user.

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These are some useful links to explore in your free time during the holiday:"100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web" (thanks to Kelly Sonora, for letting me know. I’m using at least 1/3 of these 100 tools)- Meta-Search Engines- Semantic Search Tools and Databases- General Search Engines and Databases- Academic Search Engines and Databases- Scientific Search Engines and Databases-

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Faculty Acknowledge Blogs Contribute to Scholarly CommunicationBy noreply@blogger.com (Eric Schnell) on communications One of my more recent hot topics is the need for librarians to expand how we define our own scholarly communications to keep up with changes in the practice of librarianship. A new report by the Ithaka Group being distributed by ARL explores how (non-librarian) faculty /

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Science ResearchA free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily. Nature Precedings Nature Precedings is a free online service from Nature Publishing Group that enables researchers in the life

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ScienceWatch.com WHAT'S HOT IN... PHYSICS , Sep/Oct 2008- With Applications Looming, Is Graphene the New Silicon?- Physics Top Ten PapersSCI-BYTES - WHAT'S NEW IN RESEARCH : Jan – Oct 2008COUNTRY PROFILES- Output in Science: Top Ten Countries, 1998-2008 - The Top 20 Countries in Geosciences- Top 10 Countries in Chemistry Including Most Cited Paper- Top 20 Countries in PhysicsNEW HOT PAPERS- Hot

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This post focus is on Physics resources: UJ PHYSICS FULL-TEXT DATABASES:AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) JOURNALSINSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP) 1. Physics: Spotlighting Exceptional Research (APS) NEW!!!!Physicists are drowning in a flood of research papers in their own fields and coping with an even larger deluge in other areas of physics. The Physical Review journals alone published over 18,000

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Celebrate Open Access Day on 14 October 2008.Visit Open Access Day blog What Is Open Access?Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Encouraging the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, the Open Access movement is gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy

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The Nobel Prize season began on Monday, 6th of October 2008. These are the winners in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine:Chemistry Three U.S.-based scientists share Nobel chemistry prizeRoger Y. Tsien of UC San Diego, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and researcher Osamu Shimomura developed a fluorescent protein from jellyfish that allows researchers to trace cell molecules.PhysicsThree

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What do today’s undergraduate students expect from their educational experience? Online lectures are moving to the top of the list, according to a new study released by the University of Wisconsin E-Business Institute and Sonic Foundry, Inc. Set against the backdrop of a national trend for webcasting college lectures, the study was designed to understand student attitudes regarding the addition

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Free books can be found everywhere-if you know where to look. This list shows you 50 places to find free books online. Offerings include free fiction and nonfiction books, free audio books, free reference books and free textbooks. Free Education Books and TextbooksFree Tech Books - This site offers a wide range of free computer science and programming textbooks, lecture notes and ebooks.Freeload

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Find below links to articles, which are available full-text on ScienceDirect. I searched for 2008 publications only, by researchers from UJ Physics (APK), Botany & Plant Biotechnology, Geography, Geology and Zoology Departments. Zoology DepartmentThe ultrastructure of the digestive cells of Argulus japonicus, Thiele 1900 (Crustacea: Branchiura), Arthropod Structure & Development, In Press,

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Access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles April-June 2008 on ScienceDirect Database on:http://0-top25.sciencedirect.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/Select your subject of interest and read the articles' full-text. If you like you can also Browse the Top 25 Archive.

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This Elsevier "Library Connect" issue theme is "e-Learning". "If anyone knows eLearning, it’s Generation Y, right? We thought it only fitting to launch Library Connect’s new Next Gen section in this issue, since next-gen’ers can practically eLearn with their eyes closed." * SpotlightHear from Next Gen librarians as they discuss their experiences with eLearning.- eLearning: Libraries increasingly

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Selected links to various materials received by e-mail (Aug-17 Sep 2008) from D. Nicholson, WITS, Copyright Services Librarian ( see below her e-mail, if you would like to subscribe to her e-mail alert): Library/FacultyIthaka’s 2008 report on its 2006 faculty and librarian surveyshttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/ithaka-2008-report-on-its-2006-faculty.htmlhttp://www.ithaka.org/research/

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Researchers' use of academic libraries and their services (http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/libraries-report-2007.pdf Appendixes: http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Appendix_0.pdf)This study was designed to provide an up-to-date and forward-looking view of how researchers interact with academic libraries in the UK. Harnessing empirical data and qualitative insights from over 2250 researchers and 300 librarians

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Highlights from the latest three issues of Science Online Magazine:5 September 2008Vol 321, Issue 5894, Pages 1268-1374 Table of Contents - Scientific Publishing Standards * News of the Week- PLANT SCIENCE: China Plans $3.5 Billion GM Crops Initiative - MATHFEST 2008: Shapeshifting Made Easy * News Focus:- LARGE HADRON COLLIDER* Books:- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended

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On 2nd of September 2008 Google has released a new product: Google Chrome Browser. So far there are mixed reviews and experiences. Google on Google Chrome - comic book step-by-step guide was released to help people learn more about the browser. In competition to Firefox & Explorer, this product is coming strong on the market. Use these links to learn more about this browser and what competitors

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The latest, July 2008 statistics from the World Universities' ranking on the Web: Home are available now. View the TOP Universities in various categories: - Top 4000 Universities- Top USA & Canada- Top Africa- Distribution by Country- Top 1000 R & D Institutions- Research Councils- Best Practices, etc. Read more "About the Ranking" for criteria for institutions to be ranked. Also you can view

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Keep abreast with the latest Wiley-Blackwell developments (August, 2008): Latest News in Select Subject Areas * Earth and Environmental Science News: - The Journal of Flood Risk Management is available FREE ONLINE in 2008. * New Life Science Journals:- The Conservation Letters, A new journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. Free access to institutions for 2008-2009 - The Evolutionary

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The Open Access Journal of "Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics" provides a global stage for presenting, discussing and developing issues concerning ethics in science, environmental politics, and ecological and economic ethics. This journal can be accessed also through A-to-Z List. The 2008, Vol. 8(1) is dedicated to The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly

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These are the highlights of the latest (20 June-15 August 2008) isues of Science Magazine:Access to Quarterly Author Index. 15 August 2008Vol 321, Issue 5891, Pages 888-986 Table of Contents Issue HighlightsGeomagnetic Substorm TriggerSmall RNAs Provide Bacterial DefenseIroning Out Ancient Ocean ChemistryNeutrophil-Assisted Parasite Infection News of the Week: CLIMATE PREDICTION; APPLIED PHYSICS;

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It has been a while since I blogged last. This is what I have found on the iLibrarinan blog, that could be of interest: A New Look for DeliciousThe Delicious social bookmarking website has undergone a transformation to a sleek new design which is much easier on the eyes. What has change:- “Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster.- Search: We’ve completely

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University sets the pace in geology research: Creamer Media's Mining Weekly, South Africa - 12 Jun 2008Geology research in South Africa is growing significantly and the internationally competitive analytical infrastructure provided at the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ’s) analytical facility is engaged in more than a dozen collaborative research programmes, with close ties being forged with the

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In the latest Elsevier "Library Connect" Newsletter, vol.6, no.2, 2008 one of the articles focuses on TopCited and 2collab - the two new Elsevier tools to keep up with the latest technological developments.* TopCitedTopCited (www.topcited.com), a new Scopus service, gives visitors an instant overview of the top 20 cited articles in 26 subject areas over the past 5 years of publications. Scopus

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This issue explores how libraries and publishers are seeking to understand and serve upcoming generations — in particular Millennials, the generation born from about 1979 to 1994. This generation includes Net natives — people who’ve always known the digital world and embrace its latest offerings.(also useful to those who teaches the undergraduates and need to addapt to their changing needs)

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13 June 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5882, Pages 1392-1524: Special Issue: Forests in Flux * News- A Second Chance for Rainforest Biodiversity - Critical Time for African Rainforests: As threats to the Congo Basin's vast forests grow, scientists race to sharpen assessments and stem destruction. - Letting 1000 Forests Bloom: China's biodiversity to recover from decades of clear-cutting, but threats still

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The latest (4th June, 2008) from JSTOR Publishers:* The first journal to be released on the new JSTOR platform is available now, The Willson Bulletin, Life Sciences Collection; Release content: Vol.1-116, 1889-2004 (full-text through the UJ Databases)* Platform updates during the week of 9th June:- The "Page of First Match" will be restored. Selecting this option will once again take users to the

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The latest "Librarian Insider" Newsletter, June 2008 (Read June's issue now for the latest news and developments ) will give you information on the latest news & developments from IOP. One of them is the launch of new Open Access journal.The Institute of Physics (IoP) launched the "IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES)" , a new open access proceedings service based on their

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Bianca Saporiti, Ovid's Regional Sales Manager was invited to the UJ Library (6th June 2008) to present a talk on "Information Resources: Options and Opportunities Available for the End-user Today". A number of librarians and lecturers attended this presentation. What a better way to start if not to look back at where the Universities has started:* Kant, the German 18th century philosopher who

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At the recent SAOUG Conference (3-5 June 2008) a number of presenters talked about the Open Source Institutional Repositories. World-wide the paradigm is to make research collections available online and to improve the access to information, which is of great value for research. Since the facilitation of access to information is a primary function of academic or research libraries, they can take

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Meet some of the vendors at the SAOUG ConferenceAbove: The ladies from Red Pepper BooksBelow:Colleen Mills from Ebsco PublishingBelow: Yann from Institute of Physics Michelle from NISC Below: Bianca from OVID Publishers

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Pavlinka Kovatcheva, UJ - responsible for this blog & Dr. Glenda Myers, WITS Health Library presenting the Evidence-based workshop Welcome to the Ninth Southern African Online User Group Conference, 3-5 June 2008, CSIR, Pretoria.Today, 3rd of June is the Pre-Conference day. Workshop A: Evidence-based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP). Dr. Glenda Myers, from WITS Health Sciences Library

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The UJ Library subscribes from 2008 for "Nature Geoscience" magazine. The access is through the Library webpage: http://www.uj.ac.za/library >Database> A-to-Z list> type the title If you haven't look at the journal yet, these are the highlights of this years January-May issues:* In May 2008, Volume 1 No 5 pp281-338 you will find some interesting articles on: - The drive for fuel - p281- Thirst

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For all scientists/researchers/academics, who want to keep up with the latest in their field, these two website can be very useful:* World Science: http://www.world-science.net/Red Spot—the Third Gen­er­a­tion Ju­pi­ter's red spots now seem to have a ba­by—again. The famed and cen­tur­ies-old "Great Red Spot" at right, ac­tu­al­ly a gi­ant storm, was joined about three years ago by a sec­ond, "

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ScienceDaily (May 28, 2008) — The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) has released "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States." The CCSP integrates the federal research efforts of 13 agencies on climate and global change. This report is one of the most extensive

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Science in Africa On-line magazine has been available since 2001. Have a look at the latest issue and explore the available links from this web page. * No. 64, May 2008 issue you can read about:- Research identifies best drug combination for patients starting HIV therapy for the first time- Preparing SA's farmers with a range of options to help them prepare for a water-scarce future- With the

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Have a look at selected topics from Nature Magazine: 29 May 2008,Vol. 453, Number 7195, p563-696* Editorial- Linking up development p564An initiative to link scientists in the poorest nations with colleagues around the world deserves support. PDF (87K)* Research Highlights- Zoology: Pretty good p566- Cell biology: Bean counting p566- Theoretical physics: Better out than in p566- Nanotechnology:

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Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) has brightened enough to see with binoculars and, if you're lucky, with naked eyes. Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) continues to brighten faster than predicted, and has now reached about 6th magnitude. That's bright enough that you can see it without optical aid under excellent conditions, and it should be a relatively easy target through binoculars. The comet currently lies

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Keep abreast with the latest Wiley-Blackwell developments (May 2008), by reading through this newsletter: The sections under New Titles Online highlight some of Wiley-Blackwell latest publications, and be sure to check Platform Update for up-to-the-moment news on the merger of Blackwell Synergy content into Wiley InterScience. * Latest News in Select Subject Areas featuring Life Science

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23 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5879, Pages 981-1096: Table of Contents Don't forget that the Library subscribe to the full-text online!Special Issue: Microbial Ecology In the 23 May 2008 issue, Science and its online companion Science Signaling explore the stunning diversity and dynamics of the microbial universe. In Science, News stories look at the hidden microbial world inside sponges and

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Have a look at selected articles from Nature: 22 May 2008; 453 (7194): 427 - 562* Editorials- Two symbols, one solution p.427: Saving a handful of photogenic species — or iconic rainforests — is no substitute for a comprehensive plan that deals with climate, economics and the environment together. Full Text PDF (62K)- The Universe at home p428The digitization of astronomy is a transformation

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China's devastating earthquake!More satellite images have been released portraying the devastation caused by the May 12, 2008 earthquake that struck China's Sichaun Basin. This pair of images, captured by Taiwan’s Formosat-2, illustrates the challenges faced by rescuers bringing equipment and supplies to survivors of the massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake. Universe Today: More Satellite Images of

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Finally we have the new Ovid/SilverPlatter (OvidSP) interface.The two Bibliographic databases relevant to the Sciences are: - Analytical Abstracts (1 user at the time), Coverage: 1980-2008 - Parasitology (1 user at the time), Coverage: 1973 - 2008Access is available through the UJ Library Databases Analytical Abstracts is the world's most comprehensive abstracts service dealing solely with

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I have found about this product through the Nature issue dated 8/05/08.This New Chemical Search Engine can be accessed @ http://www.chemspider.com/ According to their web page:ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest

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The latest two issues of Nature (some full-text is available)15 May 2008; 453 (7193): 257 - 426* Editorials- The next big climate challenge p257Governments should work together to build the supercomputers needed for future predictions that can capture the detail required to inform policy.- Stuck in the mud p258The Environmental Protection Agency must gather data on the toxicity of spreading

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Look at the latest two issues from Science Online Magazine. Don't forget that you have a full-text access to these articles: 16 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5878, Pages 845-954* News of the Week- LATIN AMERICA: Price Is the Main Barrier to Wider Use of Papillomavirus Vaccine - ITALY: A Plea for 'Transparent' Funding A furor over political meddling in grants for stem cell research in Italy has

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View ScienceDirect the TOP 25 Hottest Articles, October-December 2007 per subject area:* Agricultural and Biological Sciences -->The fathead minnow in aquatic toxicology: Past, present and future * Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology * Chemical Engineering * Chemistry * Computer Science * Earth and Planetary Sciences -->Do evolution and ecology need the Gaia hypothesis? -->Australian

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WorldWide Telescope (WWT)Software giant Microsoft is now reaching for the stars with the release of its WorldWide Telescope (WorldWideTelescope.org)* Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research with those images? * Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? WorldWide

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Summary of valid ratings per institution in all disciplines: 2006

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Celebrate the Astronomy Day, 10th of May by looking at these and more pictures @ Astronomy Picture of the DayPicture 1: Galaxies Collide in NGC 3256; Picture 2: Shaping NGC 6188; Picture 3: The Tarantula Zone

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Open Access Journals Collection (Beta)Welcome to the beta version of Sabinet's Full Open Access Journal Collection.The collection currently comprises 44 South African journals, which may be searched individually, and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles. Of the journals in the collection, 14 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or

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It could be the scene from a movie: huge plumes of ash and gas rising during a ferocious volcanic eruption, sparking off a dazzling lightning storm; lightning bolts thundering to life inside and out of the hot cloud. However, this is the reality down on the ground for the people living near the Chaiten Volcano, southern Chile, who have been evacuated since the volcano erupted on Friday. Activity

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RefWorks has just released three new features:1. Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline CapabilitiesRefWorks is pleased to inform you that Write-N-Cite III for Windows is now available for downloading. This optional plug-in provides you with single document formatting (and unformatting) as well as the ability to write and format a paper completely offline! Simply* download your RefWorks

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Lumifi is a research focused search engine and service that uses a different approach to regular search engine in terms they focus in context and not freshness, so the relevance is not affected by the date of the data called into a query.You can use Lumifi as a personal research service so you can save your searches, analyze that search and even analyze documents you upload and if you want to

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Search directly for any research topic

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NEW: Encyclopedia Britannica WebShareEncyclopedia Britannica launched in April a new, competitive to Wikipidia program, called Britannica Webshare . It provides free access to articles if you are a “web publisher.” The definition of a web publisher is rather squishy: “This program is intended for people who publish with some regularity on the Internet, be they bloggers, webmasters, or writers.

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PDF Creator: Instead of paying for a program that can generate PDF files: use this convenient tool instead. It easily creates PDFs from any Windows program ( Power Points, Publisher, Word, etc.) I have found this Open Source PDF Creator on Monday and decided to download it. I always have the need to convert documents in PDF and every time I run to our IT for assistance. But, now I can do it

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The latest from Science Online Magazine:2 May 2008Vol 320, Issue 5876, Pages 569-700: Table of Contents * News of the Week- ENDANGERED SPECIES: Spotted Owl Recovery Plan Flawed, Review Panel Finds - GLOBAL WARMING: Mother Nature Cools the Greenhouse, but Hotter Times Still Lie Ahead - PALEOECOLOGY: Fossils Help Figure Out Food Webs Old and New * News Focus- NEIL TUROK PROFILE: Wishing for an

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Through ARROW Discovery Service you can search 143,587 Australian research outputs, including theses; reprints; post prints; journal articles; book chapters, etc.The ARROW Discovery Service searches simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories. The list of currently participating universities, and the number of outputs currently in each repository are listed.

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Whats new in the latest two issues of Nature Magazine:Volume 453 Number 7191 pp1-132, 1 May 2008* News- Sediment cores reveal Antarctica's warmer past p13- Warming Antarctic waters begin to cool p15* News Features- Stem cells: The 3-billion-dollar question p18Can a state do what a country cannot, and transform the way stem-cell research is funded?- Physics: Quantum all the way p22How does our

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1st of May has been named RSS Awareness Day. A very good initiative, as many people still don't know "What is RSS" and "How to use the RSS feeds" to keep up with the latest information, such as news feeds, journals' table of content, newsletters feeds, websites of interest, etc. What is RSS?RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get

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Whats new in Nature Magazine: 17 April, Volume 452, Number 7189, pp781-912 News:* James Watson's genome sequenced at high speed p788New-generation technology takes just four months and costs a fraction of old method.* Novel analysis identifies highly biodiverse hotspots p789New method plots Madagascar's species in unprecedented detail.* Merck accused of disguising its role in research p791Drug

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The latest from Science Online Magazine: 18 April 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5874, Pages 285-389 * Editorial: - New Career Paths for Scientists* News of the week:- CLIMATE CHANGE: IPCC Tunes Up for Its Next Report Aiming for Better, Timely Results- GLACIOLOGY: Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly- SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Croatian Editors Fight With Medical School Over Journal's Fate-

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Read about the latest on ScienceDirect Database: * New functionality added to ScienceDirect to meet researchers' needs! New to ScienceDirect are features that make the platform more user friendly and deliver better, clearer results in fewer clicks. Preview tabsResearchers like to quickly evaluate articles before reading them. They will find preview tabs that provide quick access to the important

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Scirus.com New InterfaceFor those of you who are still not familiar with Scirus.com - this is the Best Science & Technology Search Engine, an Elsevier product.The Scirus development team worked closely with Elsevier's User-Centered Design Group to create a new user interface design. The clean, refreshed interface will enable you to find the precise scientific, scholarly, technical and medical

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Some of the topics in the UKSG Searials-eNews in the latest, 18 April 2008 Newsletter are:UKSG Conference, 7-9 April 2008 (The Conference official webpage: http://www.uksg.org.uk/events/conference08) Catch up with what has been going on at the UKSG 2008 conference via Serials-eNews, the UKSG website and blog. Main reports of plenaries are on the blog. This issue covers the six plenary sessions,

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Welcome to the new JSTOR interface!From the first sight I looked at the new JSTOR website I love it. It is wonderful that JSTOR finally took under consideration the users needs. To make it easy to use, more tools and capabilities for users have been integrated. Now, with just one click you can have the full-text article. I have looked at the training presentation from JSTOR and these are some of

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EBSCO has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to develop a global Open Science Directory which is available via the Internet at no charge. The Open Science Directory provides developing regions with a comprehensive search tool for

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This post is just an alert about the upcoming next generation EbscoHost user interface in July 2008. According to information from their website the new interface is " based upon results gathered from extensive user testing. EBSCOhost 2.0 offers a clean new look and feel, for a technologically sophisticated, yet familiar search experience, with the built-in flexibility to provide individual user

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In a post dated 1st of April (UKSG Serials E-News) I have mentioned that EbscoHost offers a number of free databases. After contacting Ebsco representatives, we are please to announce that these databases have been ADDED to the UJ Library EbscoHost list (find them at the end of the list). * GreenFile GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact

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If you have not had time to look at the latest content of the leading science journals, these are some quick links to view the latest issues:Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/index.html)Some papers of interest in the latest (10 April) issue are:- Advanced biofuels face an uncertain future - Cleaning up the final phase of the fossil-fuel industry- New Spring Books: http://www.nature.com

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Let's look at the the latest two issues of Science Magazine. 11 April 2008Vol 320, Issue 5873, Pages 151-250* News of the Week- ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: New Rules on Saving Wetlands Push the Limits of the Science - MEDICINE: Drug Bestows Radiation Resistance on Mice and Monkeys - PLANETARY GEOLOGY: An Early Big Hit to Mars May Have Scarred the Planet for Life - APPLIED PHYSICS: At Mixed Odds,

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Good news! We have in the Library another blogger. Our Copyright officer Thapelo Mashishi has created a Copyright blog: http://copyrightuj.blogspot.com/. As he says in his welcome note "this publication will provide UJ academic staff with copyright information as it relates to the University and educational environment in general". Good luck Thapelo.

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Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine. Please note, that I select some of the titles only. Click on the TITLE link to access the UJ full-text issues. 28 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5871, Pages 1715-1882 : Special Issue: Gene Regulation * News- MicroRNAs Make Big Impression in Disease After Disease * Perspectives- Multilevel Regulation of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs

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Reading through the latest two issue of UKSG Serials E-news, I have found number of news, which could be of interest to you. Especially I found interesting, that Ebsco offers a free bibliographic database, GreenFILE which can be searched through EbscoHost. Other free database through EbscoHost is Teacher Reference Center. Read also about the Open Science Directory, which utilises EBSCO's A-to-Z

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Have a quick look at the latest 14th of March issue of Science Online Magazine, Please note, that I select only some of the titles. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text issues. 14 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5869, Pages 1453-1551 (Click on the TITLE for full-text) * News of the Week- SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT: Two Papers From Korean Lab Found to Lack 'Scientific Truth' - DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

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It is Saturday morning and I have been reading "Sky and Telescope newsletter" on my e-mail, when I saw the announcement of the new Google development - Google Sky. I click on the link and the sky came directly in front of me. For those like me, who love watching the evening sky & what is out there, I'm providing some additional information on this new web tool.Google has unveiled a browser

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ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2008) — Ten questions driving the geological and planetary sciences were have been identified in a new report by the National Research Council. Aimed at reflecting the major scientific issues facing earth science at the start of the 21st century, the questions represent where the field stands, how it arrived at this point, and where it may be headed.* How did earth and

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Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine, which were published on 29th February & 7th March 2008. Please note, that I select only some of the titles. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text issues.7 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5868, Pages 1303-1414http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/current.dtl* News of the Week- NATURAL DISASTERS: Ecologists Report Huge

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I have attended a workshop, where we had been introduced to the latest project from FOTIM (Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis) - the VUMA! Portal. The purpose of the workshop was also for FOTIM to learn more on: How to enhance this Portal, how to promote, etc. Below I'm giving you a short explanation about this initiative and how can be used by students and

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Keep abreast with the latest Wiley-Blackwell news, by reading through this newsletter:* View the latest news in Key Subject Areas (Life & Environmetal Sciences, Physical Science, Engineering, Computing & Technology, Agricultural & Animal Sciences, etc.)* New Titles online from Wiley-Blackwell (journals, books – some highlighted titles of interest)* Platform Updates* Just for fun (statistics show…

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Mathew Crook from Wiley-Blackwell visited the UJ Library on 3rd of March. We discussed the current BlackwellSynergy subscription, the upcoming integrated platform for Wiley & Blackwell titles and the available e-books collections. I have look at the Wiley InterScience web site and added some useful links.1. BlackwellSynergy & Wiley InterScience Journals Collections(http://www3.

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Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine, which were published on 15th & 22nd of February 2008. Please note, that I select only some of the titles. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text issues. 22 February 2008Vol 319, Issue 5866, Pages 1005-1123http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5866/index.dtl * News of the Week- SCHOLARLY

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Click on the picture to enlargeThe ISI Web of Knowledge databases have been given a "makeover" - a new interface! For couple of weeks we have been straggling with access and now we know why. So what is NEW? How can you search this new features? I find this interface user-friendly and easy to use and navigate. It does have RSS feeds, which are useful addition to the database. The availability of

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The Royal Society is the independent scientific Academy of the UK and the Commonwealth, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. It supports many top young scientists, engineers and technologists. It influences science policy, it debates scientific issues with the public and much more. It is an independent, charitable body which derives its authoritative status from its 1400 Fellows and

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Have you heard about Golonka initiative for Africa?The aim of the Golonka is to co-ordinate the efforts to make an African consortium for e-journals and databases. The main purpose is to promote the use of Open Access journals and other scientific resources, as well as being a platform for consortia building.Currently, Golonka provide access to:* E-Math Africa (http://math.golonka.se)* E-Physics

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Dialog alertsAs a Dialog customer, you’re eligible for our special alert setup service . Utilize our expert search staff – at no charge – to assist with setting up alerts on your most business-critical strategies. You’ll be the first to know of essential information that will keep you at the forefront of your industry and eliminate hours of research time. You can also have teammates included in

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Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to announce that over the next few months approximately 1500 books from the former Blackwell Publishing will be incorporated into the OnlineBooks™ program on Wiley InterScience. This milestone in the integration of content from the two publishing operations will dramatically expand the scope of the online book offering on Wiley InterScience, and enable your library and

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