Physics Library News

NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Public Access Policy Information from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

Elsevier has recently acquired Mendeley

• Sale to Elsevier Casts Doubt on Mendeley's Openness, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 9, 2013
• When the Rebel Alliance Sells Out, New Yorker, April 12, 2013
• Elsevier Acquires Mendeley, Information Today, April 15, 2013

Syllabi Central

Syllabi Central is an SIS application for the storage and display of class syllabi. It features an intuitive web site that makes it easy for faculty or administrators to upload a syllabus. Links to these syllabi are included in University applications such as Course Listings to make it easy for students to see a syllabus when they are searching for courses. Students want to be able to review a syllabus for courses they are considering taking. Syllabi are rarely available three to four months in advance when students are preparing for registration, but by accessing an archive of past syllabi, students can make better informed decisions about courses in which they are interested.

Other benefits of a central syllabi archive are:

• A resource for departments/schools during accreditation and curriculum planning.
• A resource for subject librarians and other course staff in helping faculty with course materials and planning.
• A resource for University archivists.
• A resource for new faculty.
• An easy way for faculty to distribute the syllabus to a class (every syllabus has a unique URL).

Syllabi Central can be used by faculty, TAs, course staff, and WUCRSL administrators. They are automatically linked to the courses for which they are responsible.  I would be happy to upload your syllabus for you if you send it to me.

Federal Open Access Policy

White House Delivers New Open-Access Policy That Has Activists Cheering - The Obama administration says federally financed research should be made freely available within 12 months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. From John P. Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy: "I have issued a memorandum today to Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publicly available free of charge within 12 months after original publication."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf

Zotero, Mendeley, and Evernote Workshops

Workshops on Zotero, Mendeley, and Evernote resume in February and March.

Register: http://wulibraries.doattend.com

• Zotero - a simple tool that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share research sources.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM 

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

• Mendeley - a citation manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Thursday, March 21, 2013 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM 

• Evernote - assists in organizing your research (and your life). Lecture notes, clips of websites, to-do lists—even recipes—can be saved, shared, and synchronized.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

 

Download the free Blackboard Mobile Learn app today!

Get instant access to your courses using the free Blackboard Mobile Learn app, available on all Apple, Android, Blackberry, and HP webOS devices. Find out more at http://sts.wustl.edu/blackboard.

Search and download "Blackboard Mobile Learn"

BrowZine

BrowZine Trial - BrowZine is an iPad app with the look and feel of the iTunes bookstore, except it is for library journals. As you can see in the screenshot below, each journal title appears on the “bookshelf”.



Users can click to open the journal and browse the articles. The trial, which runs through October 15, is for a limited set of content and does not represent all of our journal holdings, but hopefully it will give you a sense of how the app would work, were the library to purchase it. With BrowZine you can:

• Browse titles by subject to easily find journals of interest
• Easily view table of contents of current past journals
• Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals (when users add a journal title to their personal bookshelves, they are subsequently alerted when new articles appear in that journal – similar to an RSS feed).
• Save articles to Zotero, Dropbox, and other services
• Share with other researchers by posting to Facebook, Twitter and more

To download the app, you can search for and download BrowZine in the App Store or click the link here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/browzine-open-access-edition/id463787411?mt=8 There is a video demo of the product here: http://thirdiron.com/browzine-ipad-app/video/ Please send me your questions and feedback before October 15th.

Inspec Training Videos

The IET, creaters of INSPEC, has just released new videos about Inspec. Here are the links for the Thomson Web of Knowledge platform.

• An introduction to Inspec
• Inspec content and coverage
• Inspec subject indexing
• Inspec on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge platform: subject search examples
• Inspec bibliographic fields: finding authors, companies and much more
• Inspec on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge platform: author, affiliation and other special searches
• Inspec Archive

SCOAP3 Announcement

After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³) is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles — about 7,000 publications last year — are made immediately free on journal websites. There is also a good article in Nature.

KnowItAll U

KnowItAll U  provides an online spectral search/retrieval system of over 1.3 million spectra (IR, NMR, MS, Raman, UV-Vis) including chemical structures and properties. Users can access spectral data from virtually any hardware platform or operating system.