tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206028829407239422009-11-16T15:22:04.177+02:00UJ Science Librarian BlogA Weblog Communication channel from the Library to the University of Johannesburg Science Community. Created on 25th October 2007.UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-74031150574905171472009-06-04T00:23:00.003+02:002009-06-04T00:32:23.213+02:00WOLFRAM ALPHA KNOWLEDGE ENGINE: NEW SEARCH ENGINE 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 time searching, but definitely more time is required to get to know it better. It is different from any other search engine I had used. It could of great interest to the sciences & engineering users; health sciences, education , finances, etc.Read the “iLibrarianUJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-63537977995581961122009-06-03T23:08:00.003+02:002009-06-04T00:00:52.008+02:00OPEN ACCESS & ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & RESEARCH: WORKSHOP IN SOUTH AFRICAI have participated in Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of Science and Research workshop, that took place on May 14, 2009 at CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. The workshop was organised by Susan Veldsman, Director: Scholarly Publishing Unit, ASSAf, & Iryna Kuchma, Open Access program manager, eIFL.net. The workshop presentations are available HERE. Some of the UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-20391010871805571082009-04-02T21:35:00.006+02:002009-04-02T22:30:40.631+02:00Want research summaries by experts? Look to SciTopicsSciTopics is a free expert-generated knowledge-sharing service for the scientific community. Developed (by Elsevier) to serve as an information and collaboration service for researchers, SciTopics offers authors a dynamic, quick, informal yet authoritative online publication platform.Following an extensive trial period, scientific researchers, editors and authors can now quickly and efficiently UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-16061642484326091772009-03-18T23:02:00.003+02:002009-03-18T23:21:51.673+02:00Beyond the Impact Factor: JCR enhancementsJournal Citation Report (JCR)The Impact Factor can be a very valuable metric—but it can also be misused and viewed in the wrong context. A significant enhancement to Journal Citation Reports (JCR) offers new metrics and data that complement the Impact Factor, and helps users more fully understand their journals’ place in the scholarly world. Librarians have long relied on Journal Citation UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-25989205900061407632009-01-25T14:39:00.006+02:002009-01-25T15:44:08.840+02:00The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online!Click HERE for access. Only this site contains Darwin's complete publications, 20,000 private papers, the largest Darwin bibliography, manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works: specimens, biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and much more.For decades available only to scholars at Cambridge University Library, the private UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-4883315774074680202009-01-24T14:02:00.007+02:002009-01-24T14:42:52.971+02:00Essential Science Indicators: Fast Moving Fronts, Emerging Research Fronts & Hot Papers in ScienceFast Moving Fronts – January 2009From the database of Essential Science Indicators from Thomson, this list of Fast Moving Fronts – January 2009, has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period of September 31, 2002-August 31, 2008, and the previous period of July 2002-June 30, 2008 (sliding 6-year period). The following Sciences fields are represented: Agricultural UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-15046502159894415392009-01-24T13:13:00.005+02:002009-01-24T13:46:10.782+02:00SCHOLARLY JOURNALS - NEW FREE JOURNALS TABLE OF CONTENTS: ticTOCs Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service.What it is?ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) service.It’s FREE, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-3339199969203251722009-01-08T02:15:00.003+02:002009-01-08T03:02:33.858+02:00UJ Sciences Librarian News (APK)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 the work we do is behind the desks. I'm busy with annual reports, preparing statistics' forms, finalising the information for the subject web pages; creating useful information to help teaching, learning and research; books for reserve; preparation for UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-3469428932974119562008-12-03T15:55:00.005+02:002008-12-03T16:53:36.714+02:00Academia.edu for ReserchersThis is a message from Dr. Richard Price:With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a website Academia.edu, which does two things:- It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations.- It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-74369381135204565202008-12-03T15:42:00.004+02:002008-12-03T15:54:52.440+02:00ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles: July - September 2008All UJ users can access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles July-September 2008 on Science Direct. Select your subject of interest and read the articles' full-text.View this LINK if you are non UJ user. UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-4523347634662247972008-12-03T15:27:00.004+02:002008-12-03T15:40:52.923+02:00Research ToolsThese are some useful links to explore in your free time during the holiday:"100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web" (thanks to Kelly Sonora, for letting me know. I’m using at least 1/3 of these 100 tools)- Meta-Search Engines- Semantic Search Tools and Databases- General Search Engines and Databases- Academic Search Engines and Databases- Scientific Search Engines and Databases- UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-45975748680773346032008-12-03T10:05:00.003+02:002008-12-03T10:13:19.736+02:00Faculty Acknowledge: Blogs contribute to Scholarly Communication Faculty Acknowledge Blogs Contribute to Scholarly CommunicationBy noreply@blogger.com (Eric Schnell) on communications One of my more recent hot topics is the need for librarians to expand how we define our own scholarly communications to keep up with changes in the practice of librarianship. A new report by the Ithaka Group being distributed by ARL explores how (non-librarian) faculty / UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-21727654696295415282008-11-16T19:46:00.003+02:002008-11-16T20:27:06.026+02:00Scientific Research: Useful links Science ResearchA free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily. Nature Precedings Nature Precedings is a free online service from Nature Publishing Group that enables researchers in the life UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-43379803086509788712008-10-21T21:31:00.009+02:002008-10-21T23:48:08.559+02:00Science Watch: Trends & Performance in Basic Research ScienceWatch.com WHAT'S HOT IN... PHYSICS , Sep/Oct 2008- With Applications Looming, Is Graphene the New Silicon?- Physics Top Ten PapersSCI-BYTES - WHAT'S NEW IN RESEARCH : Jan – Oct 2008COUNTRY PROFILES- Output in Science: Top Ten Countries, 1998-2008 - The Top 20 Countries in Geosciences- Top 10 Countries in Chemistry Including Most Cited Paper- Top 20 Countries in PhysicsNEW HOT PAPERS- Hot UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-68020586245541879122008-10-20T14:00:00.006+02:002008-10-20T15:47:46.708+02:00Physics Resources in support to Research and InnovationThis post focus is on Physics resources: UJ PHYSICS FULL-TEXT DATABASES:AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) JOURNALSINSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP) 1. Physics: Spotlighting Exceptional Research (APS) NEW!!!!Physicists are drowning in a flood of research papers in their own fields and coping with an even larger deluge in other areas of physics. The Physical Review journals alone published over 18,000 UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-60134659799173289542008-10-10T17:13:00.004+02:002008-10-10T18:11:39.095+02:00OPEN ACCESS DAY - 14 OCTOBER 2008 Celebrate Open Access Day on 14 October 2008.Visit Open Access Day blog What Is Open Access?Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Encouraging the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, the Open Access movement is gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-17772123552089328832008-10-09T14:53:00.006+02:002008-10-14T11:00:28.090+02:00NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2008The Nobel Prize season began on Monday, 6th of October 2008. These are the winners in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine:Chemistry Three U.S.-based scientists share Nobel chemistry prizeRoger Y. Tsien of UC San Diego, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and researcher Osamu Shimomura developed a fluorescent protein from jellyfish that allows researchers to trace cell molecules.PhysicsThree UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-27010882274262088782008-10-06T13:56:00.006+02:002008-10-06T14:24:33.925+02:00Online Lectures vs Traditional Classes: Study results What do today’s undergraduate students expect from their educational experience? Online lectures are moving to the top of the list, according to a new study released by the University of Wisconsin E-Business Institute and Sonic Foundry, Inc. Set against the backdrop of a national trend for webcasting college lectures, the study was designed to understand student attitudes regarding the addition UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-4623939536589015502008-10-06T13:34:00.003+02:002008-10-06T13:38:45.511+02:00Free Books - 50 places to find Free Books OnlineFree books can be found everywhere-if you know where to look. This list shows you 50 places to find free books online. Offerings include free fiction and nonfiction books, free audio books, free reference books and free textbooks. Free Education Books and TextbooksFree Tech Books - This site offers a wide range of free computer science and programming textbooks, lecture notes and ebooks.FreeloadUJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-20966473355399676902008-09-18T08:43:00.018+02:002008-09-18T14:25:21.504+02:00University of Johannesburg Research articles on ScienceDirectFind below links to articles, which are available full-text on ScienceDirect. I searched for 2008 publications only, by researchers from UJ Physics (APK), Botany & Plant Biotechnology, Geography, Geology and Zoology Departments. Zoology DepartmentThe ultrastructure of the digestive cells of Argulus japonicus, Thiele 1900 (Crustacea: Branchiura), Arthropod Structure & Development, In Press, UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-52207909085422065062008-09-18T08:43:00.014+02:002008-09-18T11:49:26.640+02:00ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles: April-June 2008Access the latest Top 25 Hottest Articles April-June 2008 on ScienceDirect Database on:http://0-top25.sciencedirect.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/Select your subject of interest and read the articles' full-text. If you like you can also Browse the Top 25 Archive. UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-48198580544820362482008-09-18T08:43:00.010+02:002008-09-18T11:31:22.618+02:00Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter: 6:3 August 2008This Elsevier "Library Connect" issue theme is "e-Learning". "If anyone knows eLearning, it’s Generation Y, right? We thought it only fitting to launch Library Connect’s new Next Gen section in this issue, since next-gen’ers can practically eLearn with their eyes closed." * SpotlightHear from Next Gen librarians as they discuss their experiences with eLearning.- eLearning: Libraries increasingly UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-36183793025069570412008-09-18T08:43:00.005+02:002008-09-18T09:04:09.098+02:00Useful Links to Articles: Open Access, Scholarly Publishing, Institutional RepositoriesSelected links to various materials received by e-mail (Aug-17 Sep 2008) from D. Nicholson, WITS, Copyright Services Librarian ( see below her e-mail, if you would like to subscribe to her e-mail alert): Library/FacultyIthaka’s 2008 report on its 2006 faculty and librarian surveyshttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/ithaka-2008-report-on-its-2006-faculty.htmlhttp://www.ithaka.org/research/UJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-49980557428355565062008-09-16T11:15:00.005+02:002008-09-16T12:03:17.562+02:00Researchers' use of Academic Libraries and their ServicesResearchers' use of academic libraries and their services (http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/libraries-report-2007.pdf Appendixes: http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Appendix_0.pdf)This study was designed to provide an up-to-date and forward-looking view of how researchers interact with academic libraries in the UK. Harnessing empirical data and qualitative insights from over 2250 researchers and 300 librariansUJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820602882940723942.post-50541154431523555772008-09-07T12:33:00.005+02:002008-09-07T13:22:26.360+02:00Latest in Science Online MagazineHighlights from the latest three issues of Science Online Magazine:5 September 2008Vol 321, Issue 5894, Pages 1268-1374 Table of Contents - Scientific Publishing Standards * News of the Week- PLANT SCIENCE: China Plans $3.5 Billion GM Crops Initiative - MATHFEST 2008: Shapeshifting Made Easy * News Focus:- LARGE HADRON COLLIDER* Books:- A listing of books received at Science during the week endedUJ Science Librarian Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09948936539910080732noreply@blogger.com0