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Direct to Science For Environment Research Repository Browse by category or keyword search. [Science for Environment Research Repository is] an online bank of research results for evidence-based policy making. The studies have been carefully selected for policy relevance and quality. These include studies that have been featured in the Science for Environment Policy News Alert. […]
New from National Library of Medicine: Learn About Toxic Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
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|From the NLM Tech Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine TOXMAP now provides information on the toxic chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. Companies involved in hydraulic fracturing are not currently required to report to the US EPA Toxics Release Inventory Program and so are not represented in TOXMAP. However, TOXMAP provides information on many of […]
Cambridge Digital Library Launches (Free) with 4000 Pages of Material by Sir Issac Newton
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Resources
|From Wired UK: A copy of the Principia Mathematica filled with annotations made by Sir Isaac Newton is among 4,000 pages of material that are being made available online by Cambridge University Library. As part of the Cambridge Digital Library project started in 2010, the world’s largest and most significant collection of the scientific works […]
From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: To mark World AIDS Day 2011 (December 1), a redesigned AIDSinfo Web site has been released, along with the Spanish-language infoSIDA. These sister sites offer federally approved information on HIV treatment and research to health care providers, researchers, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and the public. Resources include […]
From PhysOrg.com: Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler. Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter […]
Happy Anniversary and Congrats to the Entire JOVE Team! Via Newswise: In the 10 billion dollar academic publishing industry producing over 25,000 scholarly journals, there is only one peer reviewed science video journal. This month, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) celebrates the fifth anniversary of its first issue. The journal is the brainchild of […]
Scholarly Publishing: BioOne Officially Launches Mobile Interface To Access All Content
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|From the BioOne News Release: BioOne is pleased to announce the official launch of BioOne Mobile, an optimized website now available to smartphone users at www.bioone.org. With this new mobile interface, all content from BioOne’s 167 journals and book series is available for easy access to faculty, students, and researchers via their iPhones, Androids, and […]
From the JISC Web Site: A series of 21 ‘living books’ has been launched online as part of a pioneering initiative designed to provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. The Living Books About Life series is written and produced by humanities scholars from universities across the world – from the UK and […]
Updated Research Guide from LC: Selected Internet Resources (Astronomy)
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|The Selected Internet Resources (Astronomy) guide from the Science, Technology, and Business Division at the Library of Congress was updated earlier this month. It features Internet resources organized into the following categories: News & Events Our Sun & Solar System Planets & Planetary Systems Near-Earth Objects Extrasolar Systems Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Digital Libraries, […]
Free Access Alert: 1845-1909 Archive Collection of Scientific Amercian
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Publishing, Resources
|Free Access (Through November 30, 2011) to All Issues From 1845-1909 of Scientific American . More than 75,000 articles. Direct to Scientific American, 1845-1909 On November 1st we learned that the digital archive of Scientific American, back to vol. 1, no. 1, was complete and accessible online. The 1845-1909 collection chronicles major inventions, including the […]