tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111439072023-10-29T11:42:59.707-04:00ChemistryNews, events and resources from the Drexel University Libraries related to chemistry.Peggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1141671618416662942006-03-06T13:59:00.000-05:002006-03-06T14:00:18.433-05:0060 Seconds With..(drum roll)...Me!The very nice folks at Institute of Physics sent me a survey last summer as part of their "getting to know librarians" series. I completed the survey and here it is!<br /><br />Enjoy...<br /><a href="http://journals.iop.org/sixty/46">http://journals.iop.org/sixty/46</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1141317096520606372006-03-02T11:29:00.000-05:002006-03-02T11:31:36.533-05:00Kudos to the Royal Society of Chemistry!The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it will give Africa free access to its journal archives.<br /><br />A total of 1.5 million pages and 250,000 articles will be available electronically to African scientists.<br /><br />Get the rest of the story from:<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4760074.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4760074.stm</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1140793051217467362006-02-24T09:24:00.000-05:002006-02-24T09:57:31.266-05:00Peggy's First PodcastYesterday, I participated in my first podcast: <br /><br /><strong>Peer Review in the Google Age: Is technology changing the way science is done and evaluated?</strong><br /><a title="http://drexel-coas-talks-mp3-podcast.blogspot.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://drexel-coas-talks-mp3-podcast.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://drexel-coas-talks-mp3-podcast.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><br />Four of us were involved in the discussion: <br /><a href="http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/2006/02/peer-review-in-google-age.html">Jean-Claude Bradley</a>, E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Chemistry, Drexel University<br /><a href="http://drexelchemistry.blogspot.com/2006/02/whats-happening-to-peer-review.html">Peggy Dominy</a> and Jay Bhatt, Librarians at Hagerty Library, Drexel University<br /><a href="http://bceln.blogspot.com/2006/02/open-data-and-e-research.html">Heather Morrison,</a> Librarian at Simon Fraser University<br /><br />During the discussion, it was mentioned that we, in fact, use a form of peer review through our blogs in the structure of comments and responces. In the sciences, this is particularly helpful to prevent an experimental failure or to point a colleague in a more productive direction. Rather than have the peer review after a paper is submitted, we have a sort of 'pre' peer review on research that develops into papers.<br /><br />I was interested to see the blog entry on the ACRL site:<br /><a title="Permanent Link: Do Academic Librarians On The T-Track Blog" href="http://acrlblog.org/2006/02/23/do-academic-librarians-on-the-t-track-blog/" rel="bookmark">Do Academic Librarians On The T-Track Blog</a><br /><a href="http://acrlblog.org/2006/02/23/do-academic-librarians-on-the-t-track-blog/">http://acrlblog.org/2006/02/23/do-academic-librarians-on-the-t-track-blog/</a><br />Here is a thoughtful argument about blogs along with the interactivity of commenting (peer review?) might actually be helpful to the academic librarian on the tenure track.<br /><br />So is peer review broken or is it evolving? I guess we'll see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1140109446455795352006-02-16T11:45:00.000-05:002006-02-16T12:04:06.466-05:00A Patent on Thinking? Huh?Ok the U.S. Patent office has been known to give patents to some bizarre inventions, but a patent on thinking? Paleeeeze!<br /><br />From Chronicle of Higher Education<br />Chronicle Review<br />From the issue dated February 17, 2006<br />POINT OF VIEW<br /><br /><strong>The Patent Office as Thought Police</strong><br />By LORI B. ANDREWS<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Lori B. Andrews is a professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology and director of the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology there. Her first novel, Sequence, will be published in June by St. Martin's Press.)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>The boundaries of academic freedom may be vastly circumscribed by the U.S. Supreme Court this term in a case that is not even on most universities' radar. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories Inc. is not a traditional case of academic freedom involving professors as parties and raising First Amendment concerns. In fact, nobody from a university is a party in this commercial dispute, a patent case between two for-profit laboratories. But at the heart of the case is the essence of campus life: the freedom to think and publish.<br />[...]<br />LabCorp appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals. Astonishingly, it held that LabCorp had induced doctors to infringe the patent by publishing the biological fact that high homocysteine levels indicate vitamin deficiency. The court also ruled that the doctors had directly infringed the patent by merely thinking about the physiological relationship. (Metabolite had not sued the doctors, probably because such lawsuits would have cost more than they would have netted the company and would have produced negative publicity.)<br />[...]<br /><br />To read the entire article go to:<br />Chronicle of Higher Education (may require Drexel logon)<br /><a href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i24/24b02001.htm">http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i24/24b02001.htm</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1139490949935534012006-02-09T08:14:00.000-05:002006-02-09T08:24:31.793-05:00What's Happening to Peer Review???Two articles (at least) have recently appeared discussing the peer review process. One makes a case for the whole process being broken. The other offers a new twist to it.<br /><br />"Is Peer Review Broken?" by Alison McCook<br />The Scientist, vol 20 (2), pg 26.<br /><a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/2/1/26/1/">http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/2/1/26/1/</a><br />Submissions are up, reviewers are overtaxed, and authors are lodging complaint after complaint about the process at top-tier journals. What's wrong with peer review?<br /><br />"Journal lays bare remarks from peer reviewers" by Emma Marris<br />Nature, vol. 439, 9 February 2006, page 642 <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7077/full/439642b.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7077/full/439642b.html</span></a><br />Cloak of anonymity shed by new publication. Editors of a journal launched this week are out to revolutionize peer review. By publishing signed reviews alongside papers, they hope to make the process more transparent and improve the quality of the articles.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><em>(the link to the Nature article may require Drexel authentication)</em></strong></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1138890021327963832006-02-02T09:18:00.000-05:002006-02-02T09:20:21.350-05:00<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Science Commons</span></strong><br /><br />Science Commons devotes its legal and technical expertise to help scientific researchers make the best possible uses of new communication technologies for purposes of scholarly communication.<br /><br /><strong>What is it?</strong><br />Science Commons is a project of the non profit corporation Creative Commons. Science Commons was launched in 2005 with the generous support of the <a href="http://www.highqfoundation.org/">HighQ Foundation</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a>. It receives additional funding from the <a href="http://omidyar.net/">Omidyar Network</a> and the <a href="http://teranode.com/">Teranode Corporation</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Who runs it?</strong><br />It is overseen by members of the Creative Commons board; including MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael Carroll, and Lawrence Lessig, and lawyer and documentary filmmaker Eric Saltzman. Bioinformatics entrepeneur and metadata expert John Wilbanks is the Executive Director of the project.<br /><br /><strong>What does it do?</strong><br />"Our goal is to encourage stakeholders to create areas of free access and inquiry using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science Commons' built out of voluntary private agreements."<br /><br /><strong>To find out more go to:</strong> <a href="http://sciencecommons.org/">http://sciencecommons.org</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1129306032097819862005-10-14T12:05:00.000-04:002005-10-14T12:07:12.103-04:00New from the GAOHIGHER EDUCATION<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Programs<br />and Related Trends</span></strong><br /><br />Officials from 13 federal civilian agencies reported spending about $2.8<br />billion in fiscal year 2004 for 207 education programs designed to increase<br />the numbers of students and graduates or improve educational programs in<br />STEM fields, but agencies reported little about their effectiveness.<br /><br />Highlights: <a href="http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06114high.pdf">http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06114high.pdf</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1118751022775886672005-06-14T08:04:00.000-04:002005-06-14T08:11:29.630-04:00New Chemistry Books in May!Great News!<br /><br />We have heard your requests and now have figured out a way to list new books added to the collection. You can see the entire list: <a href="http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/booklist.html">http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/booklist.html</a><br /><br />Or here are just the chemistry books added in May:<br /><br /><strong>QD79.C4 P74 2005</strong>. Preparative chromatography of fine chemicals and pharmaceutical agents / edited by Henner Schmidt-Traub. Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH, c2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1522321">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD96.A8 .H54 2005</strong>. High-resolution continuum source AAS : the better way to do atomic absorption spectrometry / Bernhard Welz ... [et al.]. Weinheim, Germany ; [Great Britain] : Wiley-VCH, c2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1522308">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD116.I57 I47 2005</strong>. Impedance spectroscopy : theory, experiment, and applications / edited by Evgenij Barsoukov, J. Ross Macdonald. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1522577">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD151.3 .L35 2005</strong>. Lalena, John N. Principles of inorganic materials design / John N. Lalena, David A. Cleary. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1525245">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD196 .M37 2005</strong>. Mark, James E., 1934- Inorganic polymers / James E. Mark, Harry R. Allcock, Robert West. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1524480">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD262 .K48 2005</strong>. Kurti, Laszlo. Strategic applications of named reactions in organic sythesis : background and detailed mechanisms / by Laszlo Kurti and Barbara Czako. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, c2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1524858">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD381.9.E4 M64 2005</strong>. Molecular simulation methods for predicting polymer properties / edited by Vassilios Galiatsatos. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1522317">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD431.25.S93 P47 2005</strong>. Peptide synthesis and applications / edited by John Howl. Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1525243">full Catalog record</a><br /><br /><strong>QD923 .O8913 2004</strong>. Oswald, Patrick. Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals : concepts and physical properties illustrated by experiments / Patrick Oswald, Pawel Pieranski ; translated by Doru Constantin. Boca Raton, Fla. : Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2005. See <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/record=b1522583">full Catalog record</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1116855240484430532005-05-23T09:31:00.000-04:002005-05-23T09:47:04.106-04:00What is Your Role in the Scholarly Communication Cycle--What Should it Be?Thursday, May 19, we had our 4th and final speaker of the Libraries' Scholarly Communication Speaker Series for 2005. Power point links to all four presentations can be found at: <a href="http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.html">http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.html</a><br /><br />In today's Wall Street Journal a timely article on the cost of scholarly communications these days and what some of your colleagues are doing about it:<br /><br /><strong>Peer Pressure: Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web;</strong><br />More Research Is Free Online Amid Spurt of Start-Ups;<br />Publishers' Profits at Risk;<br />A Revolt on UC's Campuses<br />Bernard Wysocki Jr.. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: May 23, 2005. pg. A.1<br /><br />Check out the article at:<br /><a href="http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=843300241&Fmt=1&clientId=18133&RQT=309&VName=PQD">http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=843300241&amp;Fmt=1&clientId=18133&RQT=309&VName=PQD</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1116340128528523542005-05-17T10:27:00.000-04:002005-05-17T10:28:48.533-04:00Journal Title Searching now via Library CatalogThe libraries have now implemented "one-stop shopping" for journal titles in the Library Catalog. Records for electronic journals have been added to the catalog, allowing use of the full range of catalog search options for both print and online journal. "Journal Search" links throughout the library web site will now point to a <a href="http://innopac.library.drexel.edu/screens/s2.htm">search page</a> that offers searching of our complete journal collection by title, keyword or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). The alphabetical lists of electronic journals is still offered for those use to that option.<br /><br />Catalog search results will include both print and electronic versions of a journal title, depending on what is included in our collection. Electronic Journal listings (labelled with "[Electronic Resource]") will link to an SFX menu, listing the available electronic sources.<br /><br />Any questions or problems please feel free to contact me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1114712620582227192005-04-28T14:12:00.000-04:002005-04-28T14:23:40.586-04:00Benchmarking Drexel University ResearchThe Drexel Science and Math Librarian (Peggy Dominy) and the IST/Education Librarian (Tim Siftar) presented the poster entitled “Benchmarking the Research Impact of Drexel University through Analysis of Citations in the Scholarly Literature 1994-2004.” <br /><br />The research examined the citations per article published by Drexel faculty in six disciplines over a period of ten years, as compared to citations per article of faculty at a set of benchmark technologically-oriented universities. The rate of citations showed that Drexel compares favorably to its benchmark institutions, and in all cases performs above the average for the disciplines in which it ranked above the minimum publication threshold. <br /><br />The citation data for this poster came from a subset of the Thomson-ISI “Web of Science” database that is sold as a separate product called “Essential Science Indicators” to which the Library had a trial subscription.<br /><br />The poster was well received and stimulated many discussions on the role citations play in measuring the intellectual output of faculty and universities as a whole. Faculty were keen to pick up the brightly colored handouts that listed the Drexel authors of the most highly cited papers in the six disciplines of Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Social Science and Clinical Medicine. <br /><br />The poster itself is available at the following URL: <div><a href="http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/445">http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/445</a> </div><br /><br /><br />Questions about the research or using the Web of Science? Email dominymf@drexel.edu or siftar@drexel.edu.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1114093061246155652005-04-21T10:15:00.000-04:002005-04-21T10:17:41.250-04:00Scholarly Communication Speaker Series<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Scholarly Communication: Does Open Access Increase Authors’ Citation Rates?<br /></span></strong><br />Want your articles cited more? Is Open Access the answer?<br /><br />Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for Information Technology at NCSU Libraries and author of “Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Research Impact?” College & Research Libraries 65:5 (2004), will address these questions and more when she speaks on <strong>Thursday, April 28, 2005 from 3-5 p.m. in Hagerty Library, Stern Conference Room, third floor (33rd and Market Streets).<br /></strong><br />Antelman will report on a study that looked at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access—philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics—to see whether they have a greater impact when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. She will also look at emerging research into open access and citation rates and its implications for open-access-related services that are designed to appeal to authors.<br /><br />This lecture is part of the Scholarly Communication Speaker Series sponsored by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies and Drexel University Libraries. The event is open to students, faculty and staff. Refreshments will be served.<br /><br />For more information, visit <a href="http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.html">http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/scholcomm2005.html</a> or contact Peggy Dominy at <a href="mailto:dominymf@drexel.edu">dominymf@drexel.edu</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11143907.post-1109619873636743512005-02-28T14:41:00.000-05:002005-02-28T14:44:33.636-05:00Our Scholarly Communication Speaker Series has started again!Our first speaker will be Thomas Krichel. He will be speaking at March 3, Hagerty Library, 33rd and Market, 3pm, in the Stern Conference Room on the 3rd Floor.<br /><br />Below is some information about the speaker:<br />Thomas Krichel was born in 1965 in Völklingen,Germany. He studied economics and social sciences at the universities of Toulouse, Paris, Exeter and Leicester. Between February 1993 and April 2001 he lectured in the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. In 1993, he founded the NetEc, a consortium of Internet projects for academic economists. In 1997, he founded the RePEc dataset to document economics. Between October and December 2001, he held a visiting professorship at Hitosubashi University. Since January 2001, he is an assistant professor at the Palmer School.<br /><br />This will be a one-hour presentation which will have three parts. A theoretical introduction (20% of time) will be followed by a backward looking part (40% of time) and a forward-looking part (the remaining 40% of time).<br /><br />In the theoretical part, I will argue that while a lot has been written about open access, little has been achieved to date. Much of the written work adopts a cross-discipline, general perspective. Scholarly communication, however is conducted within communities of scholars. Each community is sufficiently different in a way that no single policy will push all communities in a desirable way. Thus, any action must be tailored to a community.<br /><br />In the backward-looking part, I will illustrate the work of RePEc. This is a very distributed academic digital library for the economics community. I am the creator and principal architect of the system. It has its origins in my making the world's first open access online research paper in economics available in 1993. I will insist on special components that have made RePEc so successful. These are the logging features and the author registration.<br /><br />In the forward-looking part, I will illustrate my plans for rclis. "rclis" is pronounced as "reckless" but stands for "Research in Computing and Library and Information Science". It is my attempt to build a system that is similar to RePEc but adopted to a new target group. I will discuss systems such as DoIS and DoCIS,as well as E-LIS. I will also give a rough outline of the things that need to be done.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843913166994439043noreply@blogger.com2