Which interface you prefer for searching Chemical Abstracts Online: SciFinder on the web or SciFinder Scholar?
Please send comments to graceb@stanford.edu by February 25, 2008.
I was so excited about structure searching being integrated into the Web of Science that I sent out a note about this before I had actually tried it. To make a long story short, unless we subscribe to Index Chemicus and/or Current Chemical Reactions, we cannot do structure searching in the Web of Science.
Even though we are unable to search Index Chemicus or Current Chemical Reactions, we are able to view brief records from these two databases through the DiscoveryGate interface. The brief record format includes the journal citation.
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.
While the aim of the JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool is to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic and full text databases, you might find info about “what’s under the hood” of interest too.
This site provides access to detailed information and title lists for major bibliographic and full text databases, and key service information for database and eBook content platforms. In each case the information has been provided directly by the relevant suppliers. The site provides functionality to compare databases automatically.
About JISC
The mission of Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of information and communications technology to support education and research. JISC funds a national services portfolio and a range of programs and projects.
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.
This new version of DiscoveryGate provides significant changes.
To take advantage of these improvements you must download the new installer and install it on your client machines and/or enable Autoupdate at your site. Be sure to use a current version of your browser software too (IE for PCs, Safari for Macs). If you have any questions or experience any problems, please contact graceb@stanford.edu.
ISI Web of Knowledge has a new face and powerful new search features built into its newly designed interface. Based on months of intensive usability testing and studies, we have developed a new approach to research. Both novice and professional researchers have told us what they wanted — a simplified user interface and a streamlined search process that’s easy to navigate, with easy-to-read fonts and a clear, intuitive presentation of search results. You will soon see these new features in all ISI Web of Knowledge products.
Web version, retired version, connection problems, and Mac issues.
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Thomson Scientific announced the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research evaluation — from Thomson Scientific’s own Journal Impact Factor to emerging citation metrics, such as the h-index. The company hopes that by promoting an understanding and discussion of scholarly metrics, those in the industry will be encouraged to use metrics more effectively.
CAS, the world’s leader in providing chemical information, is spotlighting the most cited, most requested, and most intriguing journal articles and patent families.
The Most Requested documents are tallied using Real-Time Document Request (RDR) ranking. RDRs measure researchers’ actual requests for full-text articles via CAS electronic services.
CAS provides this information as a free service to the scientific community.
