Here and there - Interesting sites and reading

    -- We now have online access to the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Biofolk may be interested in the extensive entry for Charles Darwin and others.
    -- The Biodiversity Heritage Library image collections are beginning to be a useful source. Searching isn't optimum but the images are lovely. http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/collections/72157627047804261/
    -- Want to Be a Good Researcher? Try Teaching [Chronicle of Higher Education, August 18, 2011] "Graduate students in the sciences who both teach and conduct research show greater improvement in their research skills than do those who focus exclusively on laboratory work, says a report to be published in the August 19 issue of Science. The report, "Graduate Students' Teaching Experiences Improve Their Methodological Research Skills," is notable for being among the first to examine gains in the actual research skills of graduate students rather than what they report about themselves."
    -- Do you miss me? The Biology Library has been closed for 2 years now and I do miss seeing many of you in the library, hallways, etc. I have a new introduction video you may want to view, just to remember what I look like! Keep in touch.
    -- How many research papers are freely available? A new chart from David Lipman, director of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows that about one-third of new biomedical papers indexed in PubMed are OA. "The chart shows the proportion of papers indexed on the (largely biomedical) PubMed repository each year that are now freely accessible: in 2009, it's above 28%....Those numbers are even more impressive than a study last year which found that around 20% of research papers published in 2008 were freely available on the internet. The growth is due to various public access mandates by federal government and by funding agencies - as well as the success of open access publishers like the Public Library of Science. "What's interesting is the relatively stable linear slope here for more than 10 years," says David Lipman...."
    -- Mendeley 1.0 is here Mendeley, a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research, is no longer Beta. More information about Mendeley.
    -- The Method D list of publishers that submit to PubMed Central for NIH-funded authors continues to grow. Authors still need to monitor to ensure that deposit occurs at publication and that publishers know their work in NIH-funded.