From their website:
“eERL’s mission is to be the best possible online collection of environmental and energy sustainability resources for community college educators and for their students. The resources are also available for practitioners and the public.”
A clearinghouse for Environmental Science and Technology related websites and electronic resources.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbkids.html - World Book Kids
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbspanish.html - World Book Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbadvanced.html - World Book Advanced
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbreference.html - World Book Online Reference Center
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbdecouverte.html - L’Encyclopédie Découverte
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbdiscover.html - World Book Discover
The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (http://icwdm.org) is pleased to announce that it has finished scanning and posting the first 16 volumes of the Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings, spanning 32 years, to its Digital Commons site http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm/
The Vertebrate Pest Conference is the longest running animal damage control conference in North America. These proceedings contain valuable information on the management of a variety of animal species that have had negative impacts on human health and safety. It is a veritable gold mine of information for researchers and practitioners.
BioMed Central Launches Biology Image Library Online Resource for Biological Images will aid in Research and Education
BioMed Central today announced the launch of Biology Image Library, an online resource that provides access to over 11,000 carefully selected biology-related images. This is the latest service from BioMed Central, part of the Science Navigation Group of companies which was also responsible for the creation of images.MD, a popular medical image resource.
The Library is a new subscription-based service offering access to an annotated selection of high-quality biological images, movies, illustrations and animations. Subscribers may make royalty-free use of images in the collection for research and educational purposes, while commercial usage rights will be available for an additional fee.
“Biology Image Library will be an invaluable resource for biological researchers and educators” said Matthew Cockerill, Publisher, BioMed Central. “Researchers often maintain their own collections of useful images, but until now there has been no easy way for others to find them. By annotating the best images, making them searchable and accessible, and licensing them to allow convenient reuse, Biology Image Library will help academics and other biologists to illustrate their work and to create eye-catching presentations and course material.”
Biology Image Library gives researchers, teachers and students an easy way to find and download high-quality visual material. All content comes from sources that are peer-reviewed by academic editors prior to publication online, so researchers can be sure that the images are scientifically reliable. Subjects covered include developmental biology, histology & pathology, immunology, microbiology & parasitology, molecular & cellular biology, neuroscience and plant biology.
The Biology Image Library is continuously working to expand its collection of images. Potential contributors should email:
info@biologyimagelibrary.com or see
http://www.biologyimagelibrary.com/contribute for more information.
To view Biology Image Library and register for a free trial, visit http://www.biologyimagelibrary.com.
The National Chemistry Week Blog is live. Check it out for lots of chemistry-related information.
From GCN:
“A new portal that crosses both international and database boundaries was launched recently for people interested in scientific sources that are unavailable through commercial search engines such as Google.
WorldWideScience.org was developed by the Energy Department and the British Library, along with science and technology organizations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. It employs federated search technology — a search method that simultaneously executes a query against an array of databases, then aggregates and ranks the results — and gives users a single entry point for searching far-flung science portals in parallel with only one query.
“Scientific research results are archived globally in a plethora of sources, many unknown and unreachable through [the] usual search engines,” said Raymond Orbach, Energy’s undersecretary for science. “This international partnership will open up this vast reservoir of knowledge in a rapid and convenient manner, something that will add great value to our existing knowledge.”
WorldWideScience.org follows the model of Science.gov, the searchable portal for science databases of federal science agencies. WorldWideScience.org was developed and is maintained by Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information, which also played a central role in the development of Science.gov. The participating countries contributed databases that can be searched through the portal.”
The Science Library at the University at Albany publishes a blog similar to this one, with information on new and useful science resources online. Although some of the information is specific to Albany, much of it is not, and may be useful to you. Consider adding it to your RSS feeds.
“The Bioenergy Blog is devoted to the identification and promotion of key primary and secondary/tertiary literature relating to biorenewable fuels, most notably bioethanol and biodiesel.
It will focus on the technical aspects and technologies associated with the production of these fuels, as well as other bio-based fuels.
It will seek to identify significant monographs as well as conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, reports and other grey literature, as well as popular works and relevant digital sources, notably DVDs and significant Websites. Select major review articles will also be profiled.
With proper support, it is hoped that the major publications and presentations cited in The Bioenergy Blog will be compiled into a Web-based annotated bibliography.”
The Encyclopedia of Earth is an open-access encyclopedia of topics in the biological and earth sciences, with articles written by reliable professionals in their fields, but aimed at a non-technical audience. The Encyclopedia is free and fully searchable.
The homepage includes a featured article, as well as a biography on a featured contributor, country profile, featured ecosystem, and a featured “classic” paper in environmentalism. The content can be browsed as well as searched by title of article, author, or topic.
The Encyclopedia also offers RSS feeds which alert users to new articles, new featured articles, and new revisions of older articles.
arXiv is an archive of full text journal articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, and computer science.
The mathematics arXiv was formed from a number of smaller mathematical archives, with some in the arXiv system and some elsewhere, at the beginning of 1998. The system as a whole has over 200,000 articles in physics, over 20,000 in mathematics, and over 2,000 in computer science. The ultimate goal is to distribute all new research literature in all three disciplines worldwide, to store it permanently, and to keep it freely available.