Trial access to ISI’s Essential Science Indicators
Trial access allows 5 simultaneous users only, so ISI recommends log-off after use. An annual subscription would cost about $16,000 per year. Is it worth the money?
Includes over 7 million authors and over 17 million publications from nearly 900 repositories.
ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge. These are the valuable sources for the ScientificCommons.org project. The ScientificCommons.org project makes it possible to access the largely distributed sources with their vast amount of scientific publications via just one common interface. ScientificCommons.org identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transparent and visible to anyone across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries.
Core functions and aims of the project for now and the future are to provide the identification of repositories, the indexing of full-text documents, the extraction of author relationships and personalization services.
The 2008 Winter issue of Speaking of Computers is now available.This e-newsletter highlights the latest news in technology-related and computing activities, services, and resources on the Stanford campus. The table of contents for this latest issue is below:
Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Data visualization has historically been accessible only to the elite in academia, business, and government. But in recent years web-based visualizations — ranging from political art projects to news stories — have reached audiences of millions. Unfortunately, while lay users can view many sophisticated visualizations, they have few ways to create them.
In order to “democratize” visualization, IBM’s Visual Communication Lab has built Many Eyes, a web site where people may upload their own data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. The goal is to foster a social style of data analysis in which visualizations serve not only as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a means to spur discussion and collaboration.
Swain’s new book list for January 2008 is now available:
The Cambridge Structural Database has been updated. Any earlier versions you downloaded have expired. SuperStar, a program for Predicting Protein-Ligand Interactions Using Experimental Data, will be available for downloading for Stanford students, faculty, and staff soon.
Three methods are being used to make the CSD available to you:
More eBooks Available to You!
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ENGnetBASE (793 titles as of 1/29/08)
Now featuring our bestselling handbooks and references, ENGnetBASE continues to provide all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.
Information about eBook packages that allow you to do full-text searching and in most cases view the full-text too:
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Sci-Tech Library Newsletter: 2007 Special Holiday Edition
While the holidays are over, it’s not too late to check out this special issue.
“There are lots of holiday sites on the WWW, but you’ll find more than just Santa here. These sites sites were chosen for your enjoyment and are of special interest to the sciences and social sciences, but still, I hope, reflect some of the joys of the season!”
The Stanford Libraries provides access to a number of key eBook sites. Please note that most commercially distributed e-book and e-text collections are licensed for the non-profit educational use of the Stanford community, and access to them is restricted. Their use is governed by copyright law and individual license agreements. Systematic downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of licensed information is prohibited.
