Friday, December 17, 2010

Tool: Data analysis:'R'





R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.


The R Project for Statistical Computing (or just R for short) is a powerful data analysis tool. It
is both a programming language and a computational and graphical environment.
R is free, open source software made available under the GNU General Public License. It runs
on Mac, Windows, and Unix operating systems.


R website is : http://www.r-project.org

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Globethics : Ethics library:Global Digital Library on ethics with 5,00000 full text articles and books

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Luwak

Luwak is an XML-based J2EE web application written by Rensselaer's Communication and Collaboration Technologies. Designed originally in 2001 for the management and delivery of news content, it is evolving into a full-fledged content management system. It allows for centralized management of information through a web interface and provides a means to deliver this information to any platform, device, or media in any XML or text format.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

google -graphic

How Google Works.

Infographic by the Pay Per Click Blog

Saturday, November 13, 2010

More Demand for Old Books:Bangalore Book Festival 2010: 12th Nov -21 Nov


More demand for old books

Friday, November 12, 2010

AET Satellite Library UTSA

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Digital Dissertations

Proquest Dissertation
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations
Theses Canada Portal
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
http://www.tren.com/
Diplomarbeiten Agentur diplom.de
http://www.diplomica.com/welcome.html
Dissertations & Abstract Database
http://www.dissertation.com/
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/
Database of African Theses and Dissertations
http://www.aau.org/datad/
American Political Science Association Graduate Student Connection
http://www.apsanet.org/opps/grad/
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Portal
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ilas/handbook/search_index.asp
Action Research Resources
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
Guide To Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://etdguide.org/default.htm
American Historical Association Directory of Dissertations in Progress
http://www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations/
Digital Library of ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://www.theses.org/
BASES DE DATOS DE TESIS DOCTORALES (TESEO)
http://www.mcu.es/TESEO/index.html
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/etd/
Concordia University Theses
http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/theses.php#theses

Australian Digital Theses Program
http://adt.caul.edu.au/
UNT Electronic Theses & Dissertations
http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/

Safari To Go

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today announced that it is offering a free app for Apple's iPad which allows subscribers of Safari Books Online to view book content in their library. Subscribers will also be able to view content offline. The free app, called Safari To Go, is available for download now at Apple's iTunes App Store [itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/safari-to-go/id385824712?mt=8].

Sunday, October 31, 2010

The new "Don't Be Evil" google video - Final Version.mp4




"Do you want Google or any other online company looking over your shoulder and tracking your every move online just so it can increase its profits? Consumers have a right to privacy. They should control how their information is gathered and what it is used for.

This avatar-style animation video was created to draw attention to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's lack of regard for our online privacy. Consumer Watchdog is promoting the video right now, 36 times per day, on a jumbotron in Times Square — the most highly-trafficked public square in the nation.

It's time to create a 'Do Not Track Me' list to prevent online companies from gathering our personal information, just as Congress had the Federal Trade Commission create a Do Not Call list to prevent intrusive telemarketers from invading consumers' privacy."

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Name Your Favorite New Librarian Blogs - 10 Blogs To Read in 2011

http://goo.gl/Xo9D

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone:LC

Check it out
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/personal_archiving/index.html
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/

PREMIS(Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies)

"Behind every digital object, there is usually metadata with descriptive information about the object.  But the library world is all too aware that metadata for access and discovery is no longer enough.  Now, digital library professionals are looking to the future with an eye towards preservation, not only needing to preserve the digital objects themselves but also the valuable metadata that goes along with it.
Enter PREMIS, which stands for Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies. According to the publication Understanding PREMIS [pdf, 543 kb],written by Priscilla Caplan and issued by the Library of Congress, preservation metadata "supports activities intended to ensure the long-term usability of a digital resource." 





http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

Sunday, October 24, 2010

plagiarism detect tools

1. iThenticate online plagiarism software


2.Copyscape tools:check your web or blog here: http://copyscape.com/


PaperRater
http://www.paperrater.com/



WriteCheck Powered by TurnItIn
http://www.writecheck.com/static/demo.html



FairShare
https://fairshare.attributor.com/fairshare/
FairShare



4 Easy Ways to Avoid Plagiarism on Your Blog
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-easy-ways-avoid-plagiarism-blog/


Online Plagiarism Checker
http://www.academicplagiarism.com


WriteCheck (powered by Turnitin)
http://www.writecheck.com/


DOC Cop
http://www.doccop.com
.


Instant Free Article Checker / Plagiarism Checker
http://searchenginereports.net/articlecheck.aspx



Duplichecker ... Free plagiarism checker
http://www.duplichecker.com



Viper - easy, accurate, free - plagiarism checker
http://www.scanmyessay.com



Teacher and Student Plagiarism Checking
http://www.assignmentproof.com



Chimpsky
http://chimpsky.uwaterloo.ca



Plagiarism Checking
http://www.checkforplagiarism.net
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Plagiarism Detection : List at PlagiarismAdvice (UK)
http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/plagiarismdetection.php



ImageStamper (really a citation tool)
http://s1.imagestamper.com/



Plagium
http://www.plagium.com



Plagiarism Detection Tool : iScan
http://www.plagiarism.uk.com



The Plagiarism Checker
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/



Plagiarism Detector
http://www.plagiarism-detector.com



Copyscape
http://www.copyscape.com/



Free online plagiarism detection tool
http://www.plagiarismdetect.com
Free online plagiarism detection tool. Upload text file future. Live ajaxified search.


DOC Cop
http://www.doccop.com/



Free Plagiarism Detection Tool
http://www.englishessays.org.uk/free-plagiarism-scanner-scan.php



My Drop Box
http://www.mydropbox.com



Plagiarism and Copyright: Videos and PowerPoints
http://plagiarismvideos.blogspot.com/
http://www.shambles.net/blogforest


Article Checker
http://www.articlechecker.com



Project Analyzer (for Visual Basic)
http://www.aivosto.com/project/project.html



CodeMatch (for computer software)
http://www.ZeidmanConsulting.com/CodeSuite.htm



EssayFraud
http://www.essayfraud.org/



Numly
http://numly.com/numly/default.asp



Issues Raised by the Use of Turnitin
http://cyberdash.com/plagiarism-detection-software-issues-gvsu



Moss : A System for Detecting Software Plagiarism
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html



Pl@giarism : a plagiarism detection tool
http://www.plagiarism.tk/



Plagiarism Checker
http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/



iThenticate
http://www.ithenticate.com/static/home.html



Firefox (Web browser) : Plagiarism Plugin
http://www.1hs.org/blog/?p=23
Firefox (Web browser) : Plagiarism Plugin


Google as a Plagiarism Tool
http://www.google.com



Software for Detecting Plagiarism (Free)
http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/



LexisNexis CopyGuard
http://www.lexisnexis.com/copyguard/



Glatt Plagiarism Self-Detection Program (GPSD)
http://www.plagiarism.com/self.detect.htm



Glatt Plagiarism Screening Program (GPSP)
http://www.plagiarism.com/screening.htm



Turnitin : Anti-Plagiarism Service
http://www.turnitin.com/



My DropBox : Anti-Plagiarism Service
http://www.mydropbox.com/



Scriptum : Anti-Plagiarism Service
http://www.scriptum.ca/



EVE : Anti-Plagiarism Software
http://www.canexus.com/eve/



WCopyfind 2.5 : Anti-Plagiarism Software
http://www.plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/Wsoftware.html



Anti-Plagiarism Tools
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~eplagio/Anti_plag.htm



Copyscape
http://www.copyscape.com

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Biomedical:Free Access: PubMed Central: Nine Titles Added

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/


and


SCANNED ARCHIVE COMPLETE: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology


The scanned archive is complete for the following journal:
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
ISSN: 0306-5251; EISSN: 1365-2125

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/279 The archive includes volumes 1 to 68 (1974-2009)


Note: There is a 12-month embargo delay for this journal and current content is forthcoming.


new titles are:


1. Critical Care Research and Practice
ISSN: 2090-1305 (print)
ISSN: 2090-1313 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1315/
Archive includes: v. 2010(2010)
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

2. International Journal of Hypertension
ISSN: 2090-0392 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1316/
Archive includes: v. 2010(2010)
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

3. F1000 Biology Reports
ISSN: 1757-594X (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1242/
Archive includes volume 1 (2009) to the present.
Note: There is no embargo delay for this journal

4. F1000 Medicine Reports
ISSN: 1757-594X (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1241/
Archive includes volume 1 (2009) to the present.
Note: There is no embargo delay for this journal

5. Parkinson's Disease
ISSN: 2042-0080 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1319/
Archive includes: v. 2010(2010)
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

6. Human Genomics and Proteomics: HGP ISSN:
1757-4242 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1314/
Archive includes: v. 2009(2009)
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

7. Journal of Dental Biomechanics
ISSN: 1758-7360 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1317/
Archive includes: v. 2010(2010)
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

8. Journal of Osteoporosis
ISSN: 2042-0064 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1318/
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

9. Journal of Allergy
ISSN: 1687-9783 (print) 1687-9791 (electronic)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1313/
Archive includes: v. 2010(2010)
Note: There is no embargo delay for this title.

Source: PubMed Central

Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983

Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983

The oldest and most reliable database on librarianship

Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective boasts
unrivaled content in a single database:
• Indexing of over 1,200 periodicals, with citations to
more than 500,000 articles, including book reviews
• Indexing from Library Work (1905-1911), Library
Literature (1921-1983) and Library Journal
(1912-1920)
• The full text of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1914-1983,
including PDF page images
• Extensive annotations, up to several hundred words,
containing detailed information about the contents of
the articles
• Multilingual coverage, with translated titles and
English language summaries of journals from a
number of countries
• Thousands of monograph and book review records,
conference proceedings, and essay collections on a
range of subjects

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Mobile Library:Books for Poor Children: Social Entrepreneur: Verónica Abud :Chile

A library in a super market and mobile libraries for children living in the rural areas -- these are the two initiatives started by the La Fuente foundation, established by Verónica Abud. She's fighting against illiteracy in her country, Chile.Illiteracy is still a problem in the rural and poor regions of Chile. Abud's aim is to make reading possible for all.





LibX

LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to your library's resources. 
LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. 
Currently, 829 academic and public libraries have created public LibX editions

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

ISME International Conference: 11th December 2010: Conference Committee

ISME International Conference: 11th December 2010: Conference Committee: "Dr. Swaroop D. Reddy; academics@isme.in Prof. B. Raghuraman; campus@isme.in"

ARL launched its scenario planning project

ARL launched its scenario planning project, “Envisioning Research Library Futures: A Scenario Thinking Project,” in the early spring of 2010 


ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User’s Guide for Research Libraries (Oct. 19, '10) [PDF]

online Thesis builder

        online tools for thesis statements   and outlines                 here

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Tool:DansGuardian:'Content Filtering'









DansGuardian is  an Open Source web content filter software. currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.




Content Filtering:


Your normal web filter such as Cyber Patrol, squidGuard, Net Nanny, etc, has a very large list of bad sites. If you try to go to these sites you will get blocked. I.e. your web access is filtered by web address.
The web is a fast changing place and even large web search engines such as Google or Altavista or Yahoo don't even know of half of it. This makes filtering by web address (URL) difficult as sites change and new ones come up all the time. It is impossible to have comprehensive filtering using just URLs. What is needed is something to check every page you (or your children) ever access for 'bad' subjects such as drugs, profanities, hate, pornography, etc, and disallow it if it's not suitable. This is called 'Content Filtering'.
This is why you need DansGuardian as it makes the web a cleaner, safer, place for you and your children.
As a side effect, DansGuardian also helps maintain freedom of speech by moving the censoring to the choice of the individual rather than imposing a specific ideal on the whole world.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Explore knowledge : Dewey Decimal Classification

http://www.deweydigger.com/

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html

The New Librarianship in the Age of the Ebook

http://vimeo.com/15417505

Open or Linked Library Data

Open or Linked Library Data
2. Cambridge University Library Releases Some Data
This dataset consists of MARC 21 output in a single file, comprising around 180000 records. There is some work to be done to tidy up the data – details of this are available at:http://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/trac/wiki/datatriage. New datasets will be shared as they become available.
More info about both sources in this blog post from the Open Knowledge Foundation.

The German National Library (DNB) has published the German library authority files as linked data. The dataset consists of 1.8 Mill differentiated persons from the PND (Personennamendatei, Name authority file), 187.000 subject headings from the SWD (Schlagwortnormdatei, Subject headings authority file), 1.3 Mill corporate bodies from the GKD (emeinsame Krperschaftsdatei, Corporate Body Authority file), and 51,000 classes from the German translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

NLM:API

The National Library of Medicine, released a new API Web page. An API(Application Programming Interface) is a set of routines that an application uses to request and carry out lower-level services performed by a computer's operating system.



For more details see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/


.......

About API:

Some of your doubts.............WHO? WHAT? WHY? HOW?

see this post:

http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/apis-who-what-why-how/

Saturday, August 28, 2010

BioOne

eBioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.


New titles includes Four titles from the prestigious National Museum of Natural  History, Paris, France will join the BioOne.2 collection:  Adansonia, Anthropozoologica, Geodiversitas, and Zoosystema. The
American Bryological and Lichenological Society, publisher of The  Bryologist, will add their second publication to BioOne.1 in  Evansia. Ardea, flagship journal of the Netherlands  Ornithologists? Union, will also join the BioOne.1 collection.BioOne will  be home to 166 total publications

Source BioOne

Friday, June 18, 2010

Tool:CORAL:electronic resources management system

CORAL(stands for Centralized Online Resources Acquisitions and Licensing )is an electronic resources management system built by the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame. It consists of a suite of interoperable modules designed around the core components of managing electronic resources. Currently made up of a Licensing, Organizations (Contacts), Cancellation Workflow, and Usage Statistics [Journal statistics tracking] module - we are now in the process of developing the final component, a Resources (Acquisitions) module, expected to be completed by fall. Each module may be used as part of the whole suite or as an independent system. For example, a library interested only in managing license agreements may install and
use the CORAL Licensing module without the need to install the rest of the suite.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tool:iSpeech: Text to Speech: Free to personal use

iSpeech has revolutionized text to speech with our free service. Now anyone can listen to any text content with minimal effort, no software installation and no technical expertise

For more detail see : http://www.ispeech.org/free.text.to.speech.tts.software

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Library of the Future in Plain English

educationeye

 The Education Eye provides a way to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of the top educational websites, blogs, forums and practitioner case studies. With additional features like saving your own favourite innovations, Futurelab's favourites, customisable email digests, and a widget version, it is invaluable.

Education Eye is a free, engaging and easy-to-use online space that gives access to a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily.

    The Eye provides a way to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of the top educational websites, forums and practitioner case studies. With additional features like saving your own favourite innovations, Futurelab’s favourites, customisable email digests and a widget version, it’s invaluable for exploring educational innovations.

Monday, June 7, 2010

World top book stores

This list was published in the People’s Daily Online (China).
1. Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen (Dominican church bookstore), Maastricht, Netherlands
2. El Ateneo Bookstore (Athenian bookstore), Buenos Aires, Argentina
3. Livraria Lello (Lello bookstore), Porto, Portugal
4. Secret Headquarters Comic Book Store, Los Angeles, United States
5. Borders Books, Glasgow of Scotland, U.K.
6. Scarthin’s Bookstore, Peak District National Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom
7. Posada Bookstore, Brussels, Belgium
8. El lugar de la Mancha (El Péndulo), Mexico
9. Keibunsya Boookstore, Kyoto, Japan
10. Hatchards Bookstore, London, United Kingdom

Tool:calibre: e-book library management

calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

  calibre works on Windows XP, Vista and 7.If you are upgrading from a version older than 0.6.17, please uninstall calibre first.

Present version-Version: 0.7.1


calibre

Burma's National Library sold to private investors

Burma's National Library and a TV studio complex are among five state-owned buildings sold to private investors, according to informed sources in Rangoon

The National Library went for only about 100 million kyat ($100,000), while the Yadanapon Theater, which belonged to the Myanma Motion Picture Enterprise of the Ministry of Information, fetched more than 920 million kyat (nearly $1 million).

One businessman with close contacts to regime officials suggested that state-run property was being sold off to raise funds for the development of the government quarter in Naypyidaw and help finance the upcoming election.

A retired professor from Rangoon’s University of Economics expressed sorrow at the sale of the National Library, saying it contradicted an official statement assuring support for Burmese literature.


Fore More details: http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18624

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Self-Directed Online Learning Modules: Copyright and Primary Sources:Library of Congress

These new “multimedia rich” online modules (a total of four) have been developed for educators but also useful for librarians also.

Module #1

Introduction to the Library of Congress

Get an overview of the digitized materials and K-12 resources from the Library of Congress. This module will explore:

* What is the Library of Congress?
* How can the Library of Congress help me in the classroom?
* What is a primary source?

Module #2

Copyright and Primary Sources

Learn how to evaluate primary sources from the Library’s collections for the best use within copyright. Listen to several teachers as they evaluate the use of primary sources for use with their students. Topics covered include:

* Rights and responsibilities
* Low-worry uses of primary source
* Checking for Fair Use

Module #3

Analyzing Primary Sources: Photographs and Prints

Learn how photographs and prints from the Library’s collections can increase student engagement in the classroom. Topics covered include:

* The power of images
* How to analyze photographs and prints
* How to find images from the Library of Congress

Module #4

Analyzing Primary Sources: Maps

Learn instructional strategies for using maps in the classroom. Topics covered include:

* The significance of maps
* How to analyze maps
* How to find maps from the Library of Congres

For more details see Library of Congress

OPen-source Automated Library System(OPAL)

The OPALS Open-source Automated Library System. Web-based, open source program providing Internet access to information databases and library collections.



OPAL

Dewey Browse-Gail Shea Grainger

Web Sites Classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification System and connected websites..

More details see here

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

eLearning Repositories

1.Apple Learning Interchange
2.DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education)
3.CLOE (The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange)
4.LRC (The Learning Resource Catalogue/ Community).
5.EdNA (Education Network Australia)
6.MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
7.Canada’s SchoolNet
8.IDEAS (Interactive Dialogue with Educators from Across the State)
9.MIT OpenCourseware
10.CAREO (Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects)
11.Wisconsin Online Resource Center

Friday, May 28, 2010

Mathematics Information sources

Mathematics

ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education
{http://www.ericse.org/mathindex.html}
Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library
http://mathforum.org/
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Database
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
MATHDI, Mathematics Didactics Database
http://www.emis.de/MATH/DI.html
The Prime Mathematics Encyclopedia
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/index.asp
Mathematical Atlas A Gateway to Modern Mathematics
http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
Calculators Online Reference Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators2.html
A Dictionary of Units
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measure
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
MATH2.org
http://www.math2.org/
MacTutor
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/
MacTutor History of Mathematics
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/
MacTutor Index of Biographies
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/BiogIndex.html
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD)
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/
Mathematical Quotations Server
http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
Maser Generation II Project - General Math Sites
{http://www.svsu.edu/mathsci-center/resources_mathsites.cfm}
Ask ERIC Lesson Plans Collection - Mathematics
{http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi/Resources/Subjects/Mathematics/Lesson_Plans.html}
Breaking Away from the Math Book: Creative Projects for K-8
{http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~breakingaway/}
CEC Lesson Plans
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/
ENC Lesson Plans-math topics
http://enc.org/weblinks/lessonplans/math/
Math Forum - Lesson Plans
http://mathforum.org/library/resource_types/lesson_plans/
American Mathematics Competitions
http://www.unl.edu/amc/
Mathematics Contests, Competitions, and Problems Sets (Math Archives)
http://archives.math.utk.edu/contests/
Mathschallenge.net
{http://mathschallenge.net/}
20,000 Problems Under the Sea - Mathematical Treasure on the Web
{http://problems.math.umr.edu/index.htm}
American Mathematical Society: Mathematics Research and Scholarship
http://www.ams.org/
Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM)
http://www.atm.org.uk/
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
http://www.awm-math.org/
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
http://www.maa.org/
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
http://www.maa.org/

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research In Agriculture)

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research In Agriculture) is a collaborative project of FAO, CGIAR, the World Health Organization and Cornell University's TEEAL project, along with major scientific publishers. AGORA is based on TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) and modeled after the World Health Organization's HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative). The ultimate goal of AGORA is to increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural and environmental science research in low-income countries and, in turn, to improve food security. By providing access to the scholarly literature of agriculture and environmental sciences, researchers and decision makers in developing countries will have access to the work of the global scientific community and be better able to incorporate proven scientific knowledge into their research.

Subject: The Safety Reporting Portal:FDA & NIH

The Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health today
launched a new Web site that, when fully developed, will provide a mechanism for
the reporting of pre- and post-market safety data to the federal government.
Currently the Web site can be used to report safety problems related to foods,
including animal feed, and animal drugs, as well as adverse events occurring on
human gene transfer trials. Consumers can also use the site to report problems
with pet foods and pet treats.

The new site, called the Safety Reporting Portal (SRP), provides greater and
easier access to online reporting.

"The portal will be a key detection tool in improving the country's nationwide
surveillance system and will strengthen our ability to protect the nation's
health," said Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret A. Hamburg. "We will now
be able to analyze human and animal safety-related events more quickly and
identify those measures needed to protect the public."

The new Web portal includes different features for different types of reporting:

     *  Reportable Food Registry: Industry will have a more user-friendly
electronic portal for submitting reportable food reports that are required by
law. This electronic portal collects reports from the food industry and public
health officials regarding problems with articles of food, including animal
feed, that present a reasonable probability of causing serious adverse health
consequences or death to humans or animals.

     *  Pets: Pet owners and veterinarians will be able to use the portal to
report product problems with pet foods and pet treats.

     *  Animal drugs: Animal drug manufacturers can report adverse drug events
associated with animal drugs.

     *   Clinical Trials: Biomedical researchers involved in human gene transfer
clinical trials can report an adverse event, indicating whether it might be an
unanticipated consequence of the product being tested. Trial sponsors can use
the portal to prepare a report, print it and send it to the agency to satisfy
reporting requirements for investigational new drugs

For more detail see:

http://tinyurl.com/libtech101

Nearly 1000 Islamic Studies Ph.Ds digitised

Researchers and librarians working in Islamic Studies will now for the first time have online access to nearly 1000 Ph.D theses in the subject, spanning over ten years. JISC, The Academy and The British Library have combined their resources to bring together Islamic Studies theses from universities across the UK and Ireland.

Up until now this wealth of knowledge has been dispersed across 97 universities and has only been accessible through individual academic libraries and archives. The collection represents nearly half of the 2000 Islamic Studies Ph.Ds written between 1997 and 2006.

This diverse collection, which has been put online by the British Library via its EThOS electronic theses service, covers fields such as Islamic law, history, politics, finance, anthropology, sociology and gender studies. There are also theses which examine Muslim communities in the UK.



To find more details :

http://ethos.bl.uk/ProcessSearch.do?query=JISC%20Digital%20Islam

ShaRef

The ShaRef (Shared References) Project is a project funded by and carried out at ETH Zürich, the third-largest Swiss university. ShaRef's goal is to improve the way ETH members (mainly researchers and students) manage their collections of references.While traditional Libraries often concentrate on the repository and retrieval facets of their work, for many scientists it is also very important to be able to manage and maintain references to the information they work with, such as bibliographic information and Web bookmarks. ShaRef aims at providing a solution (usable Web-based as well as offline) for creating, managing, and sharing reference information.

ShaRef

Open Access source

Open Access source

Timeline of the Open Access Movement
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
{http://www.ifla.org/}

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC®)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/

Information Access Alliance (IAA)
http://www.informationaccess.org/

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
http://www.ala.org/ACRLTemplate.cfm

International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP)
http://www.icaap.org/

The Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
http://www.alpsp.org/
World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/en/
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
{http://publicaccess.nih.gov/}

Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
Wellcome Trust issued a position statement
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
http://www.alpsp.org
IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation
{http://archive.ifla.org/V/cdoc/open-access04.html}
Manifesto for Responsible Scholarly Publishers
http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/schol_pub_crisis.html#manifesto
BioMed Central announcement
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=19990426
E-Biomed proposed
http://www.nih.gov/about/director/pubmedcentral/ebiomedarch.htm
ACRL launched its scholarly communication initiative
{http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholcomminitiative.htm}
Creative Commons Launched
http://creativecommons.org/
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
{http://www.plos.org/news/announce_moore.html}
ACRL released Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication Endorsing Open Access
{http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies.cfm}
Washington, DC Principles
http://www.dcprinciples.org/statement.htm
U.S. National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html
NIH Decision
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
Eldred v. Ashcroft
{http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-618.ZS.html}
Public Access to Science Act (HR 2613)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.2613:
Information Access Alliance
http://www.informationaccess.org/

BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/
PLoS
http://www.plos.org/about/index.htmlPubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&itool=toolbar
PubMed Central (PMC)
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org/


The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://www.doi.org/

Eprints
http://www.eprints.org/

Open Journal System (OJS)
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture)
http://www.fedora.info/
HighWire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Open Archives Initiative
{http://www.openarchives.org/}

LOCKSS
{http://lockss.stanford.edu/lockss/Home}

DSpace
http://www.dspace.org/
Open Repository
http://www.openrepository.com/

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Information resource :Rare Diseases by Julie Quetel

ClinicalTrials.gov
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
Department of Health and Human Services Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
http://www.fda.gov/cder/
Food and Drug Administration Office of Orphan Products Development
http://www.fda.gov/orphan/
National Center for Biotechnology Information: Introduction to Genes and Disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=gnd
Genetics Home Reference
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
http://www.genome.gov/10000409
Medline Plus: Rare Diseases Pathfinder
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/rarediseases.html
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Patient Research Registries
http://www.niams.nih.gov/Funding/Funded_Research/registries.asp
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Coalition Members
http://www.niams.nih.gov/About_Us/Mission_and_Purpose/outside_org.asp
{National Institutes of Health Clinical Center}
http://www.cc.nih.gov/
National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/
National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases
http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/
National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases
http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/
Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network
http://rarediseasesnetwork.epi.usf.edu/
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
Canadian Directory of Genetic Support Groups
http://www.lhsc.on.ca/programs/medgenet/
Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders
http://www.cord.ca/
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
http://www.centerwatch.com/
National Organization for Rare Disorders
http://www.rarediseases.org/
University of Kansas Medical Center: Genetic and Rare Conditions Site
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/support/
University of Kansas Medical Center: Genetics Education Center
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
British Paediatric Surveillance Unit
http://bpsu.inopsu.com/
Contact a Family
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/
European Organisation for Rare Diseases
http://www.eurordis.org/
Genetic Alliance
http://www.geneticalliance.org/
Instituto de Investigatión de Enfermedades Raras
http://iier.isciii.es/er/
International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
http://www.patientsorganizations.org/
ORPHANET
http://www.orpha.net/
Socialstyrelsen
http://www.sos.se/smkh/indexe.htm
The European Rare Diseases Therapeutic Initiative
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1188253
NIH Launches Clinical Studies Nationwide to Investigate Rare Diseases
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/may2006/ncrr-05.htm
Orphan Products: Hope for People With Rare Diseases
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2003/603_orphan.html
President Bush Signs Rare Diseases Legislation
http://www.rarediseases.org/washington/bush_signs
{Prevalence of rare diseases: A bibliographic survey}
http://www.orpha.net/orphacom/cahiers/docs/GB/Prevalence_of_rare_diseases.pdf

Scitopia

Scitopia was collaboratively developed by a group of science and engineering societies as a federated search tool for their journal literature, as well as some patent resources.

HistCite is a new software package designed to help science professional

HistCite is a new software package designed to help science professionals make better use of the results of their searches of the Web of Science.

HistCite Features

HistCite has a wide array of features to help you analyze and visualize your bibliography.
Analytical Features
  • Complete author list with papers published and citation ranks.
  • Complete journal list with papers published and citation ranks.
  • Complete list of countries of origin of papers published and citation ranks
  • Complete list of institutions of origin of papers published and citation ranks
  • Complete list of departments within institutions of origin of papers published and citation ranks.
  • Compiled list of title words
  • Compiled list of all cited references. This can be used to identify article important to the topic of your collection that were not picked up by your search.
  • Analysis by year of publication
  • Analysis by language of publication
  • Analysis by document type (research article, review, letter, etc.)
Search, Filter, Tag and Export
  • HistCite contains a search engine that allows you to search for records that meet your criteria.
  • HistCite allows you to click on any title word, author or journal name to see a filtered list of records that contain that search term.
  • You can save your subsets of records by adding custom-named tags to the records.
  • Subsets of records can be exported from collections for further analysis.
Graphical
  • The HistCite Graph Maker allows you to create historiographs  — graphical representations of  the historical development of a research field — of selected articles within your collection.
Editing
HistCite has several built in features to make editing your data collection easy.
  • Edit multiple records simultaneously to unify spelling variations in authors, addresses, or cited records.
  • Add records manually into your collection. This is useful if you want to add books or other document types that are not indexed in the Web of Science.
  • Automatically search and download records from the Web of Science to add to the collection.
Output
HistCite outputs subsets of data in many different formats for analysis in other programs, for incorporation into publications and presentations, and for presentation on web sites.
  • Excel-compatible comma-separated value files from all analytical tables.
  • High-quality graphics from Graph Maker.
  • Subsets of network data compatible with widely used network analysis programs such as Pajek or NetDraw.
  • Complete or selected HTML presentations of your analysis suitable for presentation on a web site.
 http://www.histcite.com/

LingPipe 3.9.2

LingPipe is a suite of Java libraries

Feature Overview

LingPipe's information extraction and data mining tools:
  • track mentions of entities (e.g. people or proteins);
  • link entity mentions to database entries;
  • uncover relations between entities and actions;
  • classify text passages by language, character encoding, genre, topic, or sentiment;
  • correct spelling with respect to a text collection;
  • cluster documents by implicit topic and discover significant trends over time; and
  • provide part-of-speech tagging and phrase chunking.

Architecture

LingPipe's architecture is designed to be efficient, scalable, reusable, and robust. Highlights include:
  • Java API with source code and unit tests;
  • multi-lingual, multi-domain, multi-genre models;
  • training with new data for new tasks;
  • n-best output with statistical confidence estimates;
  • online training (learn-a-little, tag-a-little);
  • thread-safe models and decoders for concurrent-read exclusive-write (CREW) synchronization; and
  • character encoding-sensitive I/O.


Science Technology Internet resources:Patents

Patents:

The USPTO's PATFT searches and serves over 7,000,000 patents

http://patft.uspto.gov

Esp@cenet
http://ep.espacenet.com
The European Patent Office's (EPO) patent search engine
http://patft.uspto.gov/ 
SurfIP
http://www.surfip.gov.sg/
 
CIPO
http://patents.ic.gc.ca/
 
Patent Analysis
http://www.patentanalysis.com/
 
Google Patents
http://www.google.com/patents
 
Freepatentsonline
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/search.html
 
Patent Lens
http://www.patentlens.net/
 
WIPO Reformed IPC
http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/ipc8/?lang=en
      

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

iPhone App:PLoS Medicine application for the iPhon

  Some smart folks at the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI*, a research center within the Harvard Medical School) have created a PLoS Medicine application for the iPhone.

    To give it a test drive, simply visit the iTunes Application store and download it to your iPhone. To launch the application, simply touch the PLoS icon and you are immediately taken to a screen that contains the most recent and viewed articles, with an option to search for anything else from the current or archive issues using your touch keypad.

     features include:

    + Clear article layout – with options to view the PDF or view online
    + Favorite and share – straight from your phone
    + Access the full archive – never be without the content you need again
    + Get further information – about PLoS in general and PLoS Medicine specifically

The app is free to download and use.

Source: PLoS Blog

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plos-medicine/id362137769?mt=8#

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

“Why do you continue to work in libraries?"-Sarah Houghton-Jan (survey results)

 "Sarah Houghton-Jan (survey results)
  • 67% – Belief in the library’s mission in society
  • 64% – Love the work itself
  • 32% – Good work environment
  • 26% – Love the customers
  • 23% – Love my co-workers
  • 15% – Good pay/benefits
  • 9% – Fear that I’m not qualified for anything else
  • 9% – Other
  • 7% – Convenience (e.g. job close to home)
  • 4% – Laziness (changing jobs is too hard)
  • 3% – Holding on a little longer to get vested/get better retirement benefits

I sincerely hope that most of us will stay.  But realistically, I think that libraries will be losing many quality library employees to other industries better positioned to reward them.  If we do have a comeback as a field, we’re going to have to figure out what we can offer these ex-patriots to motivate them to come back when we need them."
 

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