The American Society of Microbiology has launched its first fully open access journal online, mBio. It's peer-reviewed and covers a broad range of research incorporating microbiology and its allied disciplines. The full-text and supplementary materials of an article are available online immediately upon publication.
mBio is trying a few new things in the world of scientific publishing. First, it is asking authors to write a brief description in plain, non-scientific English, to explain why their work is important. They hope to reach nonspecialist scientists and critical nonscientific audiences such as policy makers. The second new departure is a "rapid and clear decision on the disposition of the paper. Papers will either be accepted with minimal revisions or rejected." They believe this will make for a clearer and more effecient review process.
May 24, 2010
April 19, 2010
Nature Communications launched
Nature Publishing has launched the peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal, Nature Communications.
"Nature Communications will not be competing with Nature Publishing Group's existing journals. Nature Communications instead provides a venue for the many comprehensive, rigorous and often elegant studies that do not have such broad appeal – the so-called 'specialist interest' papers."
Its focus will be on primary research with no plans to publish news or opinion pieces and authors have the choice to pay for an open access option that allows the article to be viewed by anyone with or without a subscription.
"Nature Communications will not be competing with Nature Publishing Group's existing journals. Nature Communications instead provides a venue for the many comprehensive, rigorous and often elegant studies that do not have such broad appeal – the so-called 'specialist interest' papers."
Its focus will be on primary research with no plans to publish news or opinion pieces and authors have the choice to pay for an open access option that allows the article to be viewed by anyone with or without a subscription.
April 8, 2010
Online Computer Books Added
The following titles have been added to the Library's online computer book collection:
- AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications
- F# for Scientists
- Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve
- Head First Excel
- JavaScript® and AJAX for Dummies
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard :The Missing Manual
- Programming Visual Basic 2008
- Windows 7 for Dummies
March 17, 2010
Free Trial to Cambridge University Press Online Books
Free trial to Cambridge University Press Books Online, through May 30, 2010. Gain access to titles in a number of subjects including Cell Biology, Microbiology, Genomics, Chemistry and Physics.
February 10, 2010
Cell Death & Disease - new open access Nature journal
Nature Publishing Group announced a new open access journal, Cell Death & Disease. All articles are available free online and are peer-reviewed. Open access for this journal is funded by an article processing charge of $3000 per article. "Cell Death & Disease is devoted to the biology of cell death in the pathogenesis of human diseases or relevant animal models."
February 2, 2010
Nature journals - access problems Feb. 2
The Nature journals web platform is experiencing problems today. The publisher has this notice on their site: "Feb 2 -- Site license access is experiencing intermittent issues with account authentication. We estimate a fix will be in place by
1600 EST. "
Basically this means when you try to access any Nature journal, it is not recognizing our IP ranges (or anyone else's for that matter) and will either give you an error message or prompt you to purchase the article.
Nature hopes to have this problem corrected by 1:00pm Pacific time.
1600 EST. "
Basically this means when you try to access any Nature journal, it is not recognizing our IP ranges (or anyone else's for that matter) and will either give you an error message or prompt you to purchase the article.
Nature hopes to have this problem corrected by 1:00pm Pacific time.
January 27, 2010
Reaxys (replacement for CrossFire Beilstein)
The Kresge Library is pleased to announce the availability of Reaxys. Reaxys is a web-based system for searching the Beilstein (organic chemistry), Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic chemistry), and Patent Chemistry (1976-present) databases. Access is restricted to TSRI IP addresses (including VPN from off-campus). To try Reaxys, go to: http://www.reaxys.com
For more information on Reaxys, please see the Kresge Library webpage at:
http://www.scripps.edu/library/reaxys.html
***Please note that the CrossFire Commander client (used to access Beilstein) will be discontinued by Elsevier on December 31, 2010. We will have concurrent access to both Reaxys and the CrossFire client in 2010, but after that time, access with the CrossFire client will cease.
The project manager for Reaxys, Dr. Juergen Swienty-Busch, will be offering a demonstration and Question & Answer session for Reaxys on Friday, January 29, 2010, at 10am PT in the Keck Amphitheater. It will also be broadcast in Florida at 1pm ET in A116. We encourage you to attend if you use Beilstein in your current chemistry workflow, or if you are interested in learning more about this product.
If you have questions or comments about Reaxys or any of our other chemistry databases, please feel free to contact Aileen Chang of the Kresge Library at helplib@scripps.edu, (858)784-8705.
For more information on Reaxys, please see the Kresge Library webpage at:
http://www.scripps.edu/library/reaxys.html
***Please note that the CrossFire Commander client (used to access Beilstein) will be discontinued by Elsevier on December 31, 2010. We will have concurrent access to both Reaxys and the CrossFire client in 2010, but after that time, access with the CrossFire client will cease.
The project manager for Reaxys, Dr. Juergen Swienty-Busch, will be offering a demonstration and Question & Answer session for Reaxys on Friday, January 29, 2010, at 10am PT in the Keck Amphitheater. It will also be broadcast in Florida at 1pm ET in A116. We encourage you to attend if you use Beilstein in your current chemistry workflow, or if you are interested in learning more about this product.
If you have questions or comments about Reaxys or any of our other chemistry databases, please feel free to contact Aileen Chang of the Kresge Library at helplib@scripps.edu, (858)784-8705.
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