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The 2008 edition of Journal Citation Reports has just been released today, June 19, 2009. The 2008 edition includes:
You can browse by subject category or search by journal title.
Note: Nature, Science, PNAS, etc. are in the category of Multidisciplinary Sciences.
We’ve just purchased the online backfiles of Journal of neurophysiology (1938-).
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) announced today that it has acquired ChemSpider, heralding a breakthrough investment for the organisation and for the Chemistry Community.
ChemSpider is a free online service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to almost 21.5 million unique chemical entities sourced from over 200 different data sources and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information. Click HERE
The NCBI BioSystems, a new biological pathways database is now public. The BioSystems Database currently contains biological pathways from two source databases, KEGG and the EcoCyc subset of BioCyc. BioSystems can be searched directly or accessed via links from other NCBI databases such as Entrez Gene, Protein, PubChem Compound, and more.
The CABI Swine flu dashboard puts together swine flu information from CABI, Global Health database, Center for Disease Control, World Health Organisation, Wikipedia, and Google. It also has maps showing information about swine flu.
On Friday, April 10, 2009, at 2 p.m. in the Exchange (Library South, room 106), Cynthia Hall from Georgia State University’s Office of Legal Affairs will discuss the new Board of Regents’ Copyright Policy. The primary focus of this presentation is the use of copyright materials by an instructor and fair use guidelines. The presentation will cover copyright issues, fair use determinations, and the TEACH Act.
Please register for the event at http://webdb.gsu.edu/training_reg/admin?system=1.
Thomson Reuters is coming to the University Library on April 14 to provide a one hour training session on Journal Citation Reports including JCR new features: Five-Year Impact Factor, Eigenfactor™, Journal “Self Citations”, etc.
When:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, Noon–1:00 p.m.
Where:
Library North 2nd Floor Classroom
**Lunch provided. Space is limited to 20 people. **
To reserve your space, RSVP by April 10 to: libtss@langate.gsu.edu
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/challenge.html
The application due date is April 27, 2009.
“A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even Wall Street quants—have received the Nobel in economics before, and Li’s work on measuring risk has had more impact, more quickly, than previous Nobel Prize-winning contributions to the field. Today, though, as dazed bankers, politicians, regulators, and investors survey the wreckage of the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, Li is probably thankful he still has a job in finance at all…………..”
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=1
