Sunday, November 04, 2007
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting strives to identify serious academic blog posts about peer-reviewed research by offering an icon and an aggregation site where others can look to find the best academic blogging on the Net
Small and Special
"Small and Special is a collection of resources relating to the early years of The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, England's first in-patient children's hospital. Here you can trace a patient, learn about childhood diseases, or investigate a member of the medical staff. Small and Special includes a database of patient admission records - from the Hospital's first in-patient in 1852 to the last admission in 1914; a collection of articles on the early history of the Hospital and pen-portraits of the Hospital's personalities; and a gallery of images"
Thomson Scientific adds EMBASE Classic to Dialog and DataStar
Thomson Scientific has announced that it has added EMBASE Classic to the Dialog (File 772) and DataStar (EM73, EMXX) platforms, providing access to more than 25 years of archived life sciences data available for the first time in electronic format
EQUATOR Network
The EQUATOR Network is a new initiative that seeks to improve the quality of scientific publications by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of health research
Cathedral Libraries catalogue loaded onto Copac
"The Cathedral Libraries catalogue has been loaded onto Copac. This catalogue includes details of materials printed on the continent of Europe before 1701 and held in the libraries of 37 Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales. Records for Cathedral Libraries books printed in the British Isles and British America and English books printed elsewhere are included in the English Short Title Catalogue"
Oxford Journals and London Mathematical Society launch Journal of Topology
"Oxford Journals has announced that papers from the first issue of the Journal of Topology, published on behalf of the London Mathematical Society, are now freely available online. The Journal of Topology publishes papers of high quality and significance in topology, geometry, and adjacent areas of mathematics. Many important and often unexpected links connect topology and geometry with many other parts of mathematics, and the editors welcome submissions on exciting new advances concerning such links, as well as those in the core subject areas of the journal"
The Renaissance Library Calendar 2008
The Renaissance Library Calendar 2008 - 12 colour photographs of beautiful old libraries, from the year 750 to 1918, with brief history and description of items of special interest
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Chemistry.org/exchange
"Chemistry.org/exchange is user-driven scientific content: you can share, vote, and comment on articles and news among a global community. Chemistry.org/exchange is a scientific community: create a profile, assign tags (keywords) to your account, and find and network with other registered users. Chemistry.org/exchange is an article repository: start a library of scientific research that's important to you--publications you've authored, or articles that furthers your research"
OAI-ORE open meeting
A meeting will be held on March 3, 2008 at Johns Hopkins University to roll-out the first beta release of the OAI-ORE specifications. These specifications describe a data model to identify and describe aggregations of web resources, and the encoding of the data model in the XML-based Atom syndication format
Guardian First Book Award 2007 shortlist
The shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award 2007 has been announced
T S Eliot Prize 2007 shortlist
The shortlist for the T S Eliot Prize 2007 has been announced. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Wallace Collection on Monday 14th January 2008
New grant for the eXtensible Catalog project
"Libraries will soon be able to offer their patrons quicker and easier access to collections with use of new software being developed at the University of Rochester. A $749,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University's River Campus Libraries will be used toward building and deploying the eXtensible Catalog (XC), a set of open-source software applications libraries can use to share their collections. The grant money will also be used to support broad adoption of the software by the library community. The grant and additional funding from the University and partner institutions makes up the $2.8 million needed for the project. The resulting system will allow libraries to simplify user access to all library resources, both digital and non-digital. This is the second grant awarded to the University by the Mellon Foundation for XC development"
Daily Mail/Transworld First Novel Competition winner announced
The winner of the inaugural Daily Mail/Transworld First Novel Competition 2007 is Roland Vernon. "Vernon's novel, A Dark Enchantment, was admired by all the judges for its evocation of a wild and beautiful part of 19th Century Greece and the complex emotional lives of its inhabitants, both the indigenous Greeks and the unconventional English settlers. A historical drama with a love story at is heart, his novel vividly describes what can happen when worlds and cultures collide. Transworld will publish A Dark Enchantment on its Black Swan imprint in April 2008"
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #115
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #115 - November 2 2007 is now available
Intwine from Archives Hub
"Intwine is a subject guide to more than seventy 'Collections of the Month' features, inspired by the Intute guide to web resources for education and research. But don't forget, this Intwine subject guide represents only a small selection from the 20,000 archival collections described on the Archives Hub. You can see lots more by following the links to the Archives Hub's Subject Finder included with each of these subject guides. There is also a chronological list of all the Collections of the Month features"
Friday, November 02, 2007
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Extreme Sports. Answers here.
1. Riding on land on a single flexible board, longer and wider than the foot, fixed with four small wheels on the underside.
2. A sport in which one throws oneself from a high place such as a bridge to which one is attached by an elasticised cord.
3. Technique of unpowered flying using air currents. The aeronaut is strapped into a carrier, attached to a sail wing of nylon stretched on an aluminium frame like a paper dart, and jumps into the air from a high place.
4. The sport of riding across snow standing on a wide single ski resembling a small surf board.
5. Mountain or rock climbing done without aids such as spikes and ladders, though usually with ropes and other safety equipment.
6. Racing on light toboggans, typically in a head-first position, on a dangerously winding, steeply banked channel of ice: named from a tobogganing course built each year at St Moritz, Switzerland.
7. A long-distance race on foot, usually 42.195km.
8. The sport of jumping from an aeroplane with a parachute and performing manoeuvres before opening it.
9. A water sport in which the participants ride on surfboards with a kite attached to their bodies to give propulsion and lift.
10. An extreme sport that emerged in New Zealand in the mid-1990s and that consists of hurling oneself down hills or fast-flowing streams in a large perspex ball
1. Riding on land on a single flexible board, longer and wider than the foot, fixed with four small wheels on the underside.
2. A sport in which one throws oneself from a high place such as a bridge to which one is attached by an elasticised cord.
3. Technique of unpowered flying using air currents. The aeronaut is strapped into a carrier, attached to a sail wing of nylon stretched on an aluminium frame like a paper dart, and jumps into the air from a high place.
4. The sport of riding across snow standing on a wide single ski resembling a small surf board.
5. Mountain or rock climbing done without aids such as spikes and ladders, though usually with ropes and other safety equipment.
6. Racing on light toboggans, typically in a head-first position, on a dangerously winding, steeply banked channel of ice: named from a tobogganing course built each year at St Moritz, Switzerland.
7. A long-distance race on foot, usually 42.195km.
8. The sport of jumping from an aeroplane with a parachute and performing manoeuvres before opening it.
9. A water sport in which the participants ride on surfboards with a kite attached to their bodies to give propulsion and lift.
10. An extreme sport that emerged in New Zealand in the mid-1990s and that consists of hurling oneself down hills or fast-flowing streams in a large perspex ball
Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until November 30, 2007
SAGE has announced free access to all its 460+ journals including deep backfile until November 30, 2007
TropIKA
"The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases has established TropIKA.net as a global knowledge management electronic portal to share essential information and to facilitate identification of priority needs and major research gaps in the field of infectious diseases of poverty"
Information Architecture: Exploring the Fundamentals
"Information Architecture (IA) involves understanding your content and your users in the context of your business and applying that understanding to the design and structure of your online information spaces, whether intranet, website or other online content system. This one-day introduction will explore the fundamentals of IA and good usability design. It will involve a blend of presentation, discussion and practical exercises that can be taken back and applied within your own organisations" - 21 November 2007; 15 April 2008; 10 October 2008 - London, UK
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