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Find out more about the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Science Departments and their Research & Teaching focus. These are the...

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

The Research Information Network has published in March 2010 a Guide to provide researchers with an understanding of the peer review proces...

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 ti...

I have participated in Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of Science and Research workshop, that took place on May 14, 20...

SciTopics is a free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community . Developed (by Elsevier) to serve as an infor...

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....

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online! Click HERE for access. Only this site contains Darwin's complete publications , 20,000 pri...

Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009 From the database of Essential Science Indicators from Thomson, this list of Fast Moving Fronts – Janua...

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

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 t...

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 ...

All UJ users can access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles July-September 2008 on Science Direct. Select your subject of interest and read ...

These are some useful links to explore in your free time during the holiday: "100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web" ...

Faculty Acknowledge Blogs Contribute to Scholarly Communication By noreply@blogger.com (Eric Schnell) on communications One of my more rece...