In This Issue

• Library news
• Evolution of Science
• Index Translationum
• World Intellectual Property Day
• Invasive Plant Atlas
• New Books/DVDs

Library News

Scholars GeoPortal -
New Database

Scholars GeoPortal is a search and discovery mapping site that offers access to detailed geospatial data layers for the Province of Ontario. The portal offers search, preview, query, download and sharing functionality for datasets licensed by Ontario university libraries, covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, geology, soils, points of interest (such as healthcare facilities, schools, and airports), air photos, and more.

SciFinder Enhancements

SciFinder now includes one-click access to commercial chemical source pricing and availability information. Experimental procedure information has also been expanded with data from German and Japanese patents from 2008 forward and Taylor & Francis journals from 1998 forward.

Cambridge Structural Database, 2012 Release

Chemical Engineering Education Journal Archive

Back issues of the journal Chemical Engineering Education from 1962-2010 are now freely available from the University of Florida Libraries. Future issues will be added after a one-year rolling embargo period.

The Evolution of Science:
Open publishing

(video of public debate)

A distinguished group comes together in Oxford's Rhodes House to publicly debate 'The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and the Future of Publishing'.

The diverse panel included publishers, funders, academics and entrepreneurs: Tim Gowers the Fields Medal winning mathematician, Victor Henning the co-founder and CEO of Mendeley, Robert Kiley from The Welcome Trust, Alison Mitchell from Nature Publishing Group, Cameron Neylon the open science activist and blogger, Lord Robert Winston the advocate of public engagement, and Alicia Wise from the publisher Elsevier. The event was organised by Victoria Watson and Simon Benjamin, and Simon also chaired it.

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World Intellectual Property Day,
April 26th, 2012

The theme of this year's World Intellectual Property Day is Visionary Innovators. The World Intellectual Property Organization has published a series of YouTube interviews with inventors, scientists, artists, performers and entrepreneurs from around the world. Many organizations and foundations celebrate visionary innovators on a regular basis. For example, the Manning Innovation Awards recognize Canadians who have "demonstrated recent innovative talent and successfully marketing a new concept, process or procedure".

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Index Translationum's
80th Anniversary
(World Bibliography of Translation)

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Invasive Plant Atlas of the
United States

(Image: Yello Rocket, Barbarea vulgaris
Photo credit: Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte, Bugwood.org)

The Invasive Plant Atlas provides information about non-native plant species that invade natural areas, excluding agricultural and other developed lands. Non-native invasive plants compete with native plant species for light, nutrients, water, and soil ... read more

New Books/DVDs

Bag it / Reel Thing Films ; a film by Suzan Beraza
TP1120 .B324 2010 DVD

Transforming food waste into a resource / Andrea Segrè and Silvia Gaiani
HD9000.5 .S44 2012

Fuel taxes and the poor : the distributional effects of gasoline taxation and their implications for climate policy / Thomas Sterner.
HD9579.G5 U5783 2012

The eureka method : how to think like an inventor / John Hershey.
T47 .H47 2012