Introducing a hybrid peer-reviewed textbook/journal, ChemTexts. It was conceived in response to the long publishing time current academic textbooks take to get to market, as well as the inability to add new and updated information to them quickly. ChemTexts will be free for 2015-2016.
January 30, 2015
January 1, 2015
Library catalog down, Jan.2-3
Our library catalog (http://scripps-libraries.worldcat.org/) will be unavailable from 9:00 pm (EST) Friday, January 2nd, until noon Saturday, January 3rd. This is due to our vendor, OCLC, performing hardware maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
December 16, 2014
Altmetric's Top 100 for 2014
Altmetric has analyzed which academic papers have received the most "attention" online in 2014, as mentioned in news stories, tweets, blog posts and the like.
Check out Altmetric's Top 100 for 2014.
Check out Altmetric's Top 100 for 2014.
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| This paper in PNAS received the most attention in 2014, according to Altmetric. |
December 8, 2014
GrantScoop trial
The Kresge
Library has arranged a free trial for GrantScoop, a web-based resource for
scientists who are seeking grant money.
If you wish to
try GrantScoop, instructions for creating your account are provided below. Once
you are signed up, you may use a standard keyword search, a guided search, or
you may enter selection criteria using 19 different parameters to identify
funding opportunities the best meet your needs.
If you are
currently a user of Grant Forward (the grant database that the Library
currently subscribes to on your behalf)
we would be most interested to learn which product you find of greatest
value. The good news is that if the Library budget cannot support
institutional subscriptions to both products, GrantScoop offers reasonably
priced options for individuals (e.g., $25 gives you unlimited use for one week;
$75 gets you unlimited use for one month; $400 gives you unlimited
use for one year). For more information, see the FAQ.
To Access the Trial:
- Go to http://grantscoop.com
- Click on Create a User Account
- For Email, use your @scripps.edu email address
- For Plan (at the bottom of the page), select INSTITUTIONAL ACCESS
- The trial runs from December 8 – December 25. We hope you find this useful in your work.
Please feel free to share any comments about
this product with the Kresge Library, including suggestions on how to make it more
useful.
December 4, 2014
New Books -Fall
Check out these new books added to the Library's collection in the Fall:
Bacterial membranes : structural and molecular biology
Bacterial membranes : structural and molecular biology
Computational methods for three-dimensional microscopy reconstruction
Effective academic writing
Experimental design for biologists
Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its foundersLithium Compounds in Organic Synthesis (ebook)
Molecular biology of the cell, 6th ed.
Make it stick : the science of successful learning
Navigating metabolism
Nonuniform sampling : theory and practice
The organic chemistry of drug design and drug action, 3rd ed.
The polyvagal theory : neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communication, and self-regulation
Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology
Student solutions manual to An introduction to mathematical statistics and its applications
Windows 8.1 for dummies
October 28, 2014
Celebrating Jonas Salk
With Dr. Salk's breakthrough on the polio vaccine the number of new polio cases in the U.S. and the world dropped dramatically. He even refused to patent it.
Read more about this historic moment in time from a UCSD alumni who got the chance to meet Dr. Salk.
Other articles:
Celebrating Jonas Salk's 'big life'
Jonas Salk: The man behind the science
October 20, 2014
Open Access Week

It's Open Access Week! A week to think about the future of scholarly publishing.
Here are some recent articles:
- From the co-founder of PLOS, an interesting read called The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing.
- Nature has a special issue called, The Future of Publishing, with many articles on the open access movement.
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