You may experience problems accessing Web of Science tonight, Jan. 19, 2012. If so, use this link if on campus. If off campus, you can connect to Zoological Record and click on the “Select a database” tab to switch to Web of Science.
Regular access should resume by the morning.
Did you notice today’s Google logo? It celebrates the 374th birthday of geologist Nicolas Steno, and illustrates his most famous contributions, the Law of Superposition and the Principle of Original Horizontality. The Law of Superposition states that the oldest rock layers are deposited sequentially, and the Principle of Original Horizontality states that rock layers form horizontally. See the doodle and read more about Nicolas Steno in this Huffington Post article.
From their website:
“The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).”
BHL publishes a blog and one of the regular features is “Book of the Week”, which exhibits books from their collection. Last week’s book, Field Book of Giant Fishes, features this amazing photo of a Giant Oar-Fish that was caught off the coast of California in 1996:
Be sure to check out this great resource!
Don’t miss the UNC Department of Marine Sciences’ Sankey L. Blanton Jr. Lecture Event this Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011. Guest speaker Dr. Jeremy Jackson, former director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and Professor of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will lead a seminar entitled “Brave New Ocean”. Later that evening, Dr. Jackson and other Marine Sciences experts will discuss the current states of marine ecosystems and their susceptibility to future changes.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Don’t miss the 6th Annual Carolina Climate Change Seminar on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Dr. Benjamin Santer, renowned climate scientist specializing in “climate fingerprint” studies at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will present a one-hour talk, “The scientific evidence for a ‘discernible human influence’ on global climate.” A reception in the lobby will follow the seminar.
Dr. Santer will also present a one-hour technical talk entitled “Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale” on Friday, October 28th at 1:00 p.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium, UNC-Chapel Hill.
RSC Publications recently announced the release of its free mobile application for iOS. You can search RSC publications that your institution subscribes to, save articles to read offline, and share via email, Facebook, and Twitter. RSC also offers a ChemSpider mobile app that allows you to search the free chemical structure database.
Other publishers that offer mobile apps include ACS, Elsevier’s SciVerse ScienceDirect, and Nature. Some journals also have mobile apps including Science and PNAS.
Some apps can help you learn named reactions, such as ReactionFlash from Reaxys, Organic Named Reactions from Indiana University, and Named Reactions.
Scilligence has developed a couple of chemistry tools, OLN (Open Lab Notebook) and JSDraw. OLN is a web-based Electronic Lab Notebook that is compatible with the iPad. The Cloud edition is free for educational use. JSDraw is a chemical structure drawing tool that works across platforms, including iPhone/iPad.
Even more chemistry mobile apps can be found on these chemistry guides by University of Chicago Library and Stony Brook University Libraries and at The Mobile Chemist & Chemical Engineer from Stanford University’s Swain Library. Science-related mobile apps can be found at Macs in Chemistry and the SciMobileApps wiki.
For more information on mobile chemistry, read the Chemistry World article Mobile chemistry-chemistry in your hands and in your face by Antony Williams.
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Pictures, Books, and Science: From Description to Diagram in the Circle of Galileo Fourteenth Hanes Lecture on the History of the Book Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 5 p.m. Reception and exhibit viewing 5:45 p.m. Program Wilson Special Collections Library University … Continue reading
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Details from the US Geological Survey. Let them know if you felt it!
| Magnitude | 5.8 |
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| Location | 37.936°N, 77.933°W |
| Depth | 6 km (3.7 miles) |
| Region | VIRGINIA |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 2.3 km (1.4 miles); depth +/- 3.1 km (1.9 miles) |
| Parameters | NST= 22, Nph= 23, Dmin=50 km, Rmss=0.44 sec, Gp= 79°, M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=B |
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| Event ID | se082311a |
The re-opening of the Science Library Annex has been delayed until Wednesday, July 27. If you need library materials before then, please contact us first at 962-2264 or kenan-library@listserv.unc.edu and we’ll do our very best to accommodate you.
