Darwin's 200th Birthday - February 2009

Visit the updated list of Evolution and Darwin websites on the CSULB Biological Sciences Research Guide at http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/biology/websites.html#evolution. Also, get ready for the big day by ordering one of these... http://www.mcphee.com/items/11855.html

Welcome Science Teachers!

We're glad you could join us today here at the CSULB Library. We hope you find today's presentation useful and that you will use us as a resource for your future research needs.

Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells - New York Times

Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells - New York Times

CERN - Large Hadron Collider - Particle Physics - A Giant Takes On Physics' Biggest Questions - New York Times

CERN - Large Hadron Collider - Particle Physics - A Giant Takes On Physics' Biggest Questions - New York Times

ScienceDaily: Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc

ScienceDaily: Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc

We could hand the entire library to each student their first day of class.... :)

Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study -- Tang and Ng, 10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE -- BMJ

A new use for Google: diagnose your most complicated health issues. Type in your symptoms and get a diagnosis. Researchers Tang and Ng found that the right diagnosis came up in Google about 58% of the time.
The researches do point out that it still took medical expertise to identify the Google result with the correct diagnosis.

Googling for a diagnosis--use of Google as a diagnostic aid: internet based study -- Tang and Ng, 10.1136/bmj.39003.640567.AE -- BMJ

Back On Line

I have returned from leave and will be updating this blog once again. Thanks for reading!

Cathy

The Monarch Butterfly Migration Mystery - Donald G. McNeil Jr. - New York Times

The Monarch Butterfly Migration Mystery - Donald G. McNeil Jr. - New York Times

Cathy On Leave - Blog on Hiatus

Sorry readers, this blog is on temporary hiatus for the next few months. Check back around September for a revival.

Open Access Journals

Some open access news and new titles:

Geosphere from Geological Society of America is a new open-access e-jounal that will allow authors to include animation and other things that would not be possible in print.

PLoS has launched Clinical Trials.

Biomed Central has a new journal, Plant Methods and recently its journal Veterinary Research was added to PubMed Central.

Theory of Computing is "an open-access journal dedicated to free global dissemination of research in theoretical computer science."

The International Journal of Biological Sciences and The International Journal of Medical Sciences are both put out by IvySpring.

Clinical Medicine and Research is also now available at PubMed Central and indexed by Medline.

As always, look at the Directory of Open-Access Journals for more listings.

Christmas Trees to become Bird Flu drug

CNN.com - O Tamiflu: Turning Christmas trees into flu drug - Jan 20, 2006

Now from Creative Commons: Science Commons

"Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. We're a nonprofit. All of our tools are free."
Now there is a special project specifically set up for sharing science research. Read more here:
About Science Commons Science Commons

Global Trend: More Science, More Fraud - New York Times

Read about the recent scandal in South Korea and an overview of the current state of ethics and truth in scientific publishing.

Global Trend: More Science, More Fraud - New York Times

Dog Genome Sequenced

The genome sequence of a dog is now available on open-access from several sites. This site from NCBI also has lots of other interesting genetics links and tools.

NCBI Dog Genome Resources

My dog Pinky ----------->

What good is a journal article if you don't know it is there?

In order for journal articles to be used by students and scholars, they must have some way of being found. That is what indexing and abstracting services are for. The index takes all of the titles, authors and other pertinent information from published journals and makes it searchable for users. As new open-access publications are gaining reputations, various indexing services are picking them up. Biomed Central, the largest collection of open access science journals maintains a list of where their journals are indexed:

BioMed Central for libraries Journal indexing

Recently four titles (BMC Developmental Biology, BMC Immunology, BMC Neurology, and BMC
Structural Biology) were picked up for indexing by Thomson ISI, in their Science Citation Index. (CSULB staff, faculty and students have access to this index through Web of Science here)

Popular President Robert Maxson Lifted Campus Standards, Morale - LATimes

Read about Robert Maxson, his history, and his time here at CSULB.
Popular President Lifted Campus Standards, Morale - Los Angeles Times

Read articles by Chemistry Nobel prize winners

ACS offers free access to journal articles written by 2005 Chemsity Nobel Laureates.

(CSULB users always have access to the journals through their library's subscription to ACS Web Editions)

Vampire spider craves your blood

Vampire Spiders

Scientists Blogging? Yes they are!

Read this article in The Scientist (August 1, 2005) about scientists using Blogs as a way of furthering scientific communication. The Power of the Blog

Looking for Science Images?

Try these two free online image databases:

The Science and Society Picture Library

Earth Science World Image Bank