June 07, 2006

Science & Engineering State Profiles: 2003-04

The Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) publishes Science and Engineering State Profiles annually. The 2003–04 report, published only on the Web, includes a data source page and a set of 52 one-page science and engineering (S&E) profiles (in Excel) that summarize state-specific data on personnel and finances. Rankings and totals are for the 50 states; Washington, DC; and Puerto Rico.

I have included a portion of Ohio's statistics.

Ohio Science.bmp

(Via: ResourceShelf, May 9, 2006)

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May 18, 2006

Whole Brain Atlas

Complete with a neuroimaging primer, the Whole Brain Atlas web site by two Harvard doctors lets you look inside the human head from several angles with several imaging techniques. A three-paned viewer lets you compare brain slices that pass through a spot of your choosing in three different directions. Once you've mastered that, move on to study brains of tumor, Alzheimer's and other patients.

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April 10, 2006

Search Conference Proceedings

Science Conferences
The OSTI Science Conferences portal was devised to expedite access to conference papers and proceedings in various fields of science and technology. Emphasis is on U.S. conferences hosted and/or published by scientific and professional organizations whose areas of focus relate substantially to the Department of Energy's mission. This portal provides the capability to search for conference information on multiple web sites and databases with a single query utilizing a combination of surface web and deep web tools (specifically Distributed Explorit from Deep Web Technologies) that can reach where ordinary search engines cannot.From here you can simultaneously query about 16 organizations and collections for scientific and technical conference proceedings or papers.

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March 17, 2006

The British Library: Listen to Nature

The British Library owns a collection of over 150,000 sounds of every animal group and habitat from all over the world. They have highlighed 400 of the recordings on the Listen to Nature web site.

(Originally shared on The Scout Report, January 27, 2006 - Volume 12, Number 4)

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February 21, 2006

National Climatic Data Center

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the nation's source for climate information and data.

[About NCDC]

NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC operates the World Data Center for Meteorology which is co-located at NCDC in Asheville, North Carolina, and the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology which is located in Boulder, Colorado.

NCDC supports a three tier national climate services support program - the partners include: NCDC, Regional Climate Centers, and State Climatologists.

(Highlighted by the The Internet Scout Report, February 17, 2006, Volume 12, Number 7)

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February 09, 2006

Ben Franklin Web Portal

Thanks to the recent Research Newsletter (January 19, 2005) of the CASE Office of Student Projects, we get word of a new Ben Franklin web portal.

Ben Franklin Web Portal Brings the Man to the Masses (NSF Press Release 06-006, January 9, 2006)

In time for the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, a Web portal (http://ben.clusty.com) based on clustering technology is offering a new method to separate useful Franklin facts from the normal flood of online information.
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Franklin was an important figure not only in U.S. history, but also for science and engineering. From studies of electricity, weather and ocean currents to his development of the lightning rod, double spectacles (bifocals) and the odometer, many of his innovations and discoveries were groundbreaking.
The NSF release talks about the web portal's development with information on Vivisimo, Clusty, and the related NSF grant.

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January 18, 2006

Scientific Research and Papers - Statistical Analysis

InCities provides behind the scence look at the scientists, journals, institutions, nations and papers selected by Essential Science Indicators (ESI).
ESI is a resource that enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science. Covering a multidisciplinary selection of 11,000+journals from around the world, this in-depth analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. InCities is an editorial component of ESI. It pulls together in one convenient location information on "hot papers" and "hot topics" in a variety of fields. Provides lists of top scientists , papers, jopurnals, institutions and countries as well as most cited papers. Also includes interviews with leading scientists.

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December 07, 2005

Explore Paleoclimatology

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service--National Climatic Data Center have created a web site that explains and helps us study what went on, climatologically, in the past. This type of information can help scientists make better predictions about what will occur in the future. "Paleoclimatologists use clues from natural 'proxy' sources such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments to understand natural climate variability." Before you dig too deeply into this site, you may want to have a look at the Paleoclimatology Primer, which provides an overview and perspective.

A collection of slide sets is available; topics include The Ice Ages, Climate and the Classic Maya Civilization, Coral Paleoclimatology: Natural Record of Climate change for High School Student, Polar Ice Cores, and Tree Rings: Ancient Chronicles of Environmental Change. A Climate Timeline Information Tool -- which includes Climate Science (processes) and Climate History (events) pulls it all together for you.
The site features an extensive collection of data sets, accessible via a search form that facilitates queries by investigator name, geographic location, data type and other attributes. To get an idea of how this data is used, take a look at the archive of climate reconstructions "of past temperature, precipitation, vegetation, streamflow, sea surface temperature, and other climatic or climate-dependent conditions."
The interested non-scientist might enjoy looking through Paleo Perspectives, a set of three comprehensive websites that explore abrupt climate change, North American drought, and global warming. An Education & Outreach page offers pointers to information and resources that may be useful to teachers and students. Personally, I was fascinated by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer's Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages; Dr. Grissino-Mayer is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee. It includes an extensive gallery of photos of interest to dedrochronologists.

From Gary Price's Resource Shelf

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December 03, 2005

Knovel Roll-Out Kit - Updated Entry

Knovel has created a Roll-Kit that includes suggested announcements, field guides, print materials, search examples, and other training materials.

CASE's subscription can be accessed directly from www.knovel.com or the research database list.

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November 28, 2005

ACS Directory of Graduate Research (DGR)

The ACS Directory of Graduate Research (DGR) is the most comprehensive source of information on chemical research and researchers at universities in the U.S. and Canada. DGRweb, the searchable online version of the DGR, is now available free of charge. New to DGRweb 2005 are the upgraded interface and functionality which allow advanced searches of both faculty and institutions.

[About DGR]
The directory:


Inside you will find information on:

and listings for:


For the CASE community, the link for ACS Directory of Graduate Research has been added to the Library Catalog and the Research Database List.

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November 11, 2005

Einstein Light

The Scout Report (Volume 11, Number 44, November 4, 2005) shared a web site called Einstein Light.

[From the Scout Report]

The basic mission of the Einstein Light site is to present a brief overview of Einstein’s theory of relativity and its relationship to the work done by Galileo and Newton. This of course means they must address such thorny topics as time dilation and length contraction.

The web site uses a combination of flash modules, explainations with or without the use of mathematics, and related links. The web site was created by the University New South Wales, and has endorsements from Science and Scientific American magazines.

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October 21, 2005

Journal Impact Factors - Good & Bad

The Chronicle of Higher Education, on October 14, 2005, published an article called The Number That's Devouring Science. The article points out ways publishers are exploiting the system to increase their visibility, and how the impact factor has become a measure for hiring, tenure, and research grants. The article points out how publishers, because of how the impact factors are measured and used, may be harming scientific research and publication.

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August 01, 2005

Looking up File Extensions

The File Extensions web site is a good resource for researching which software application is needed to utilize a file.

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July 26, 2005

IEEE Xplore & Apple Safari Incompatible

Through the Kelvin Smith Library, the CASE community has access to all IEEE titles through IEEE Xplore.

IEEE Xplore has been fully tested for use in Internet Explorer and Netscape for the Mac platform. In addition, all search functions (such as Basic Search, Advanced, Author, and CrossRef) work properly in Safari. IEEE is aware that the browse functions do not work in Safari, and continues to work to resolve that issue. As a result, Safari is not currently one of our recommended browsers for accessing IEEE Xplore.

The recommended platforms and browsers for IEEE Xplore can be found at these locations:
FAQ - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/guide/g_oview_faq.jsp#4
Release Notes - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/guide/g_oview_notes_20.jsp
IEEE Publications Online site - http://www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/news/0804_01.html

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June 22, 2005

Information Bridge - Department of Energy

The Information Bridge provides free access to full-text and bibliographic records of the Department of Energy research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

[From Information Bridge web site]
The Information Bridge consists of full-text documents produced and made available by the Department of Energy National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward. Additional legacy documents are also included as they become available in electronic format.

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June 13, 2005

The eSkeletons Project

"The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of the large apes are represented as well as other species from different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or endangered species." [Description eSkeletons Project]

(First viewed on ResourceShelf)

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May 25, 2005

Printable Graph or Grid Paper by PDF

The MAKE: BLOG points out several websites that allow a user to create graph paper utilizing PDF. The main entry highlighted free graph paper available from incompetech.com. The graph paper utility allows the user to set various criteria such as grid size, color of lines, borders, etc. Several readers of the MAKE: BLOG have added their favorite graph paper sites as well.

MAKE is a hybrid magazine/book from the computer book publisher O'Reilly. [About MAKE]

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May 23, 2005

Interactive Periodic Table

The American Chemical Society offers a Macromedia Flash version of the periodic table.

A user can click on a single element and view various properties, such as atomic number, molar mass, metling point, atomic radius, and many other properties. A user can also view the electron configuration of each element using a secondary table. A third table allows the ability to graph several properties, such as ionization energy or electronegativity.

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May 12, 2005

Atlas of the Human Journey - The Genographic Project

National Geographic and IBM have partnered together to collect DNA samples in order to create maps of man's migratory history. The result of The Genographic Project will be to create a research database of genetic samples and the related anthropological data.

The Atlas of the Human Journey allows a user to explore photos, facts, and other information about various eras of human development and travel.

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May 04, 2005

Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

CASE now has access to the Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.

Description:
Placing specialists at the forefront of the nanoscience revolution, this reference identifies current challenges and development paths sure to influence fields ranging from materials and surface science, chemistry, and biomedicine to computer technology, information processing, and mechanical, optical, and electrical engineering—examining the design, application, and utilization of devices, techniques, and technologies critical to research at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels ranging from 1–100 nanometers.


Link updated on 8/19/05.

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April 29, 2005

Scirus Toolbar for Scientific Information

The search engine Scirus (designed specifically for scientific information) has released a tool bar interface.

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages...About Scirus.

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April 27, 2005

Physics/Astronomy Alerting Service

From Press Release (April 18, 2005):

The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), headquartered at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., is a virtual library that offers "one-stop shopping" for physicists and astronomers seeking the latest research. ADS provides free access to a huge database of abstracts and full-text papers in those scientific fields. Many of those papers reside within the arXiv.org e-print server, which is owned and operated by Cornell University.

Sifting through these huge research archives presents an ongoing challenge. In April 2005, ADS and arXiv will join forces to improve the services they offer scientists by implementing three separate customizable Web and e-mail alerts. Now, scientists around the world will be automatically notified when preprints or journal papers relevant to their research field are published.

Read the full story for more information.

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April 12, 2005

Math & Statistics Research Guide Updated

The Research Guide for Mathematics & Statistics has been redesigned and updated to become the primary information gateway in support of all math and statistics queries. Based on suggestions from the Faculty and students, the Research Guide will continue to evolve and improve.

Kelvin Smith Library's research guides are pointers for locating information on specific topics. To view other available topics, proceed to the Research Guides web page.

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April 06, 2005

New search engines for free scientific e-journals

EEVL has announced the release of 4 new search engines that index freely available e-journals in engineering, mathematics, and computing. The EEVL search engines search over 250 free titles.

[Source: About EEVL]
EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources, and be the national focal point for online access to information in these subjects. It is an award-winning free service, created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK.

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April 04, 2005

Collection of Math Internet Resources

The EM Collection is a collection of links to Internet resources related to mathematics and teaching in mathematics. The purpose of Collection is to facilitate searching the Internet for math-related sites.

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March 31, 2005

Science.gov ALERTS

Science.gov now offers an email alerting service.

A user that completes a simple registration process can have a weekly notice of new resources sent directly to their email. The registration process will allow the user to pick a specific topic area (such as astronomy & space) or seach the whole site.


About Science.gov (Source: http://www.science.gov/about.html)
Science.gov provides public access and a unified search of the government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 17 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies.

Two major types of information are included — selected authoritative science Web sites and often hard-to-access scientific databases (specific content varies by database). This gateway to government science information allows searches across 30 databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites. Science.gov currently accesses over 47 million pages of government science information.

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March 29, 2005

INSPEC database expands coverage

The INSPEC database has long been available through the KSL scienece and technology electronic resources. A additional database has been added covering content from 1898-1968
The new Inspec Archive can be reached at
(http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/ins0).
The Inspec Archive 1898-1968 covers:
* All aspects of physics (originally published as Physics Abstracts)
* Electrical and electronic engineering (introduced as a separate journal in
1903, and originally published as Electrical and Electronic Abstracts)
* Computing and control engineering (introduced as a separate journal in
1966, and published initially as Control Abstracts, later renamed to
Computer and Control Abstracts)

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