From the European Commission: The earth sciences, like geology, oceanography and astronomy, generate vast quantities of Big Data. Yet without the right tools scientists either drown in this sea of Big Earth Data or it sits in an archive, barely used. The vision of the EARTHSERVER project is to offer researchers ‘Big Earth Data at […]
Projects: “EARTHSERVER: Big Earth Data at Your Fingertips Becomes a Reality”
Filed by on July 22, 2015
Science Reference: A New Thesaurus Created for the Astronomy Community
Filed by on January 25, 2013
From IOP Publishing: The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers. [Our emphasis] The AAS will make the UAT freely available for […]
New Article: “Research Blogging: Indexing and Registering the Change in Science 2.0”
Filed by on December 17, 2012
The following article was published on the PLOS One web site on December 12, 2012. Title Research Blogging: Indexing and Registering the Change in Science 2.0 Authors Sibele Fausto Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Fabio A. Machado Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Luiz Fernando J. Bento Instituto […]
Open Access: First Articles Published on F1000 Research
Filed by on July 17, 2012
From a F1000.com Post by Adie Chan: At the start of this year, we announced our plans to develop a new project – F1000 Research – an attempt to create a new open access, open data publishing model within biology and medicine, with open and transparent peer review. Well, we’re pleased to announce that the […]
Full Text Book Available Online (Free): “Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine”
Filed by on July 11, 2012
Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine is available FREE (122 pages; PDF) and/or for $31.24 from Amazon. It was published in April. A new article in NLM In Focus provides some highlights along with comments from the editor. “If I have a gift for anything, it’s that I love to find obscure and wonderful […]
Seth MacFarlane’s Generosity Allows Library of Congress to Acquire Personal Papers of Carl Sagan
Filed by on June 27, 2012
From LC: The Library of Congress has acquired the personal papers of American astronomer, astrobiologist and science communicator Carl Sagan (1934-1996). A celebrated scientist, educator, television personality and prolific author, Sagan was a consummate communicator who bridged the gap between academe and popular culture. The Sagan collection has come to the Library through the generosity […]
Substance Abuse Librarians Raise the Alarm as Libraries Continue to Close
Filed by on June 14, 2012
From a News Release: Members of the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS) are calling for urgent action to halt the closure of specialist libraries and databases, before valuable resources and expertise are lost forever. Since SALIS started actively campaigning against the closure of alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) libraries and databases eight […]
Department of Homeland Security Joins Science.gov Alliance
Filed by on May 24, 2012
From the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information: The Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, has joined the Science.gov Alliance. This brings the voluntary, interagency Alliance membership to 17 organizations from 13 federal agencies. The Alliance is responsible for creating Science.gov a decade ago, and continues to govern the […]
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Issues Policy Statement On Scientific Integrity and Importance of Transparent Access to Scientific Information
Filed by on May 15, 2012
From the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy: In response to the White House memorandum asking all federal agencies to establish a scientific integrity policy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently issued the Secretarial Policy Statement on Scientific Integrity. In it, Secretary Chu emphasizes the importance of the “free flow of scientific […]
