The Latest from Science Online Magazine

Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine, which were published on 1st & 8th of February 2008. Click on the links to access the UJ full-text issues.

8 February 2008, Topic: "Cities", Vol. 319 (#5864) Pages 681-860

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5864/index.dtl

This special issue is dedicated to "Cities":

- Reimagining Cities

* News:

- China's Living Laboratory in Urbanization

- Durban's Poor Get Water Services Long Denied

- Pipe Dreams Come True

- Rebuilt From Ruins, a Water Utility Turns Clean and Pure

- Living in the Danger Zone

- Unclogging Urban Arteries

- Imagining a City Where (Electrical) Resistance Is Futile

- Money--With Strings--to Fight Poverty

* Perspectives:

- The Urban Transformation of the Developing World

- Health and Urban Living

- The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities

* Reviews:

- Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

- Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations

* News of the Week:

- AFRICA: Kenyan Scientists Endure Violent Unrest, University Closings

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Lifting the Veil on Traditional Chinese Medicine

* News focus:

- U.S. BUDGET 2009: A Science Budget of Choices and Chances

- SOLAR ENERGY: Can the Upstarts Top Silicon?

- WILDLIFE BIOLOGY: Berkeley Hyenas Face an Uncertain Future

* Policy Forum:

- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change--the Chinese Challenge

* Perspectives:

- GENETICS: Dwarfism, Where Pericentrin Gains Stature

- IMMUNOLOGY: The Right Resident Bugs

- CHEMISTRY: Taking a Selective Bite Out of Methane

1 February 2008Vol. 319 (#5863) Pages 545-738

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5863/index.dtl

* News of the Week:

- ENERGY RESEARCH: DOE's Disappointing Budget Makes It Harder to Stick to the Basics

- CHEMISTRY: DNA Assembles Materials From the Ground Up

- DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Aging of the Ovary Linked to PTEN Pathway

* News Focus:

- CELL Biology

- NASA

- CLIMATE CHANGE: The Big Thaw Reaches Mongolia's Pristine North

* Policy Forum:

- CLIMATE CHANGE: Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

* Perspectives:

- IMMUNOLOGY: The Toll of Cathepsin K Deficiency

- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: The Art of Assembly

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Glass Surfaces Not So Glassy

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Nanowires in Nanoelectronics

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Toward Flexible Batteries

- CLIMATE: Food Security Under Climate Change

- PHYSICS: Amplifying a Tiny Optical Effect

Essential Science Indicators

In "Essential Science Indicators" website you will find the latest comments & interviews from the authors of the "Hot Papers"- January 2008. Some of the topics are on Environment/Ecology, Physics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Mathematics, Computer Science & Agricultural Science.

You can also view the "Fast Breaking Papers" from December 2007 in Geosciences, Immunology, Microbiology, Biology & Biochemistry, etc.

Select from a list the available "Archived Special Topics", with information on Hot Papers, Top Authors, Top Institutions, Top Nations, Top Journals over 10 years period: Air Pollution (2005); Artificial Neural Networks (Dec 2007); Assymetric Catalysis (Jan 2006); Comets (Feb 2005); Coral Reef Ecology (Sep 2004); Earthquakes (Sep 2003); Global Warming (Sep 2006); Microfluidic Devices (Sep 2007); Nanocrystals (Mar 2007); Solar Cells (May 2007); Volcanoes (Dec 2004)

Read about "Fast Moving Fronts" - January 2008 and "Emerging Research Fronts" - December 2007

This site will be useful to all, for keeping you informed about the latest and past research in your areas.

NRF: 2007 Facts & Figures

In 2007 the National Research Foundation published its evaluation and rating research figures. It says "Universities should aspire to have at least 25% of their academic staff rated by the NRF to be regarded as a research-intensive university".

* In 2005 the top 10 Universities in SA in terms of percentage of their research/instruction staff with a valid NRF rating are: UCT, Stellenbosh, WITS, Rhodes, UWC, UFS, UP, NWU, UKZN, Nelson Mandela.

* According to the report in 2006 the number of rated researchers in Natural Sciences & Engineering were: UCT - 196; UP- 154; Stellenbosh - 151; WITS - 135; UKZN - 102; NWU - 56; UJ- 41, etc.

* The rated researchers in various rating categories per subject area in Natural Sciences & Engineering for 2006 are: Animal & Veterinary Sciences - 183; Health Sciences - 180; Engineering - 156; Mathematical Sciences - 139; Physics - 109; Earth Sciences - 98; Chemistry - 92; Plant Sciences - 89; Macrobiology and Plant Pathology - 68; Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology - 63; Forestry & Agricultural Sciences - 26.

* Percentage per rated researchers at institutions (2005), UJ- with 64 rated researchers and 917 professional/research professionals take the 11th place with 7.0%, compared to UCT - 31,6; Stellenbosh - 26.9; WITS - 16.9; UP - 11,2, etc.

Clich on the TITLE to access the full report. Find more information on: Nuts and Bolts of NRF Evaluation and Rating; The vital role of Expert reviewers; rationale for obtaining an NRF rating, How to apply for evaluation and rating, etc.

Library trainings for the Sciences Departments at APK

The following library trainings were sheduled for February for the Faculty of Science students (P.Kovatcheva, pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za) :

4th Feb, 8.30-10.00h, Zoology, Masters (3)

5th Feb, 14.00-15.30h, Parasitology, 2nd year

5th Feb, 15.30-16.20h, IT, 2nd year

5th Feb, 16.30-17.20h, IT, 2nd year

6th Feb, 9.30-11.00h, Biochemistry, 2nd year

7th Feb, 9.30-11.00h, Biochemistry, 2nd year

7th Feb, 14.30-15.20h, IT, 3rd year

7th Feb, 14.30-15.20h, IT, 3rd year

9th Feb, 9.00-12.00, Geography, Masters

11th Feb, 11.30-12.55h, Geology, 3rd year

11th Feb, 15.30-17.30h, Geography, Honours

12th Feb, 9.00-11.00h, Zoology, Honours

13th Feb, 13.00-15.00h, Physics, 3rd year + Honours

20th Feb, 15.30-16.30h, IT, Honours

20th Feb, 16.35-17.35h, IT, Honours

19th, 25th & 26th Feb, 15.30-16.30h - Geography, SET 1st year visit time

For 1st year students, the Library provides four training courses during February & March:

* How to use UJ Library Catalogue;

* How to find information;

* How to search Full-text databases;

* How to search Bibliographic database

Time: 8.30-9.30h; 10.30-11.30h; 14.00-15.00h daily.

Booking: At the entrance of the APK Library entrance

Please, advice your 1st year students to attend these trainings at times, which accomodates them.

All trainings will be held at Library computer room (SSIT), Level 1.

The latest from Science Online Magazine

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

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.

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

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.

Visit also Emerald for Autors webpage:

http://0-www.emeraldinsight.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/info/authors/index.jsp

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

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.

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

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;

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

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5860/index.dtl

* 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

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol319/issue5859/index.dtl

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

http://0-www.sciencemag.org.ujlink.uj.ac.za/content/vol318/issue5858/index.dtl

* 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

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:

http://0-top25.sciencedirect.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/

* Learn how to Publish an article with Elsevier:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors

* 2Collab: http://www.2collab.com/.

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;

- 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:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home