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Identify journal titles and abbreviations quickly with CASSI.

Login on the CD Server with your SUNet ID to search a networked CD version of CASSI.

CASSI includes:

• Bibliographic information for approximately 80,000 publications indexed by CA since 1907
• Serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications
• Complete publication titles for abbreviations used in CA
• More than 155,000 entries, mainly for periodicals
• A choice of many search terms, i.e., author name, keyword, CODEN, etc., for easy access to the bibliographic information

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The Scientist: Blogs
[Entry posted at 22nd February 2008 05:57 PM GMT]

Online video methods journal to work with major publishers
By Alla Katsnelson

Scientific and medical publisher Wiley-Blackwell announced this week (February 20) that they will work with the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the first online video methods journal, to add methods videos to the journal Current Protocols.

Rumors of JoVE’s deal with Wiley-Blackwell and other mainstream science publishers have been circulating in the blogosphere since late January. Moshe Pritsker, CEO of JoVE, told The Scientist this week that he had also signed similar deals with Annual Reviews and Springer Protocols.

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Scintilla collects data from hundreds of news outlets, scientific blogs, journals and databases and then makes it easy for you to organize, share and discover exactly the type of information that you’re interested in. For example, you can keep track of life science podcasts, or the latest papers on schizophrenia, DNA methylation or immunology. Interested in physics blogs? Scintilla can help. You can rate items and recommend them to any colleagues who’ve also signed up to the site. You can also create or join groups centered around particular areas of interest (like bioinformatics or open science).

Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and other scientific documents. Submissions are screened by our professional curation team for relevance and quality, but are not subjected to peer review. We welcome high-quality contributions from biology, medicine (except clinical trials), chemistry and the earth sciences.

Launching in April 2009, Nature Chemistry will provide a unique forum for the publication of high-quality research in all areas of chemistry.

Aims and scope

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The Lane Medical Library offers a broad array of workshops on campus. Users outside the Medical School are welcome to attend. Workshops that will be held in March include: EndNote, Advanced SQL Querying of Bionformatics Databases, Advanced Google: Services, Tools and Search Techniques, and PubMed: Basic to Advanced Techniques so You Don’t Miss Key Research.

Earlier this month, I participated in a class that Yannick taught on patent searching. This WebEx session was archived and is available for viewing. Handouts and other materials are available for many previously offered sessions.

Maintained by Yannick Pouliot, a member of the Lane Library’s Knowledge Management Center, the Bioresearch Portal is a one-stop collection of high quality software research tools and databases, primarily oriented toward Life Sciences laboratory researchers. Its purpose is to raise awareness and understanding of these resources. The Bioresearch Portal is a product of the Lane Library’s Bioresearch Informationist program.

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Chuck Bailey in the February 2008 issue of Current Cites wrote this summary about a mandate approved recently at Harvard:

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Published continuously since 1994, the Scout Report is one of the Internet’s oldest and most respected publications. The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. A team of librarians and subject matter experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison select, research, and annotate each resource.

Created by a network of UK universities and partners, Intute is a free online service providing you with access to high quality web resources for education and research. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. As of 22 February 2008, the database has 121,376 records.