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.

AGORA

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/

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

      

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#

“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."