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Redesign of Library Website
We are pleased to announce that ecentricarts, a Toronto firm, has been chosen to redesign the QUL webpage. We hope to have a new homepage by mid-August. Secondary pages will follow.
ecentricarts has won or been nominated for many design awards for its work for such clients as the Toronto Public Library, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and the Dominion Institute's The Memory Project .
Update on Databases
Beilstein Crossfire (also called MDSL Crossfire)
contains 30 million reports on properties of over 8 million organic compounds.
In addition to pure substances with a structural formula biomolecules, mixtures, and polymers are included.
Over 8 million searchable reactions. Coverage 1779- .
More information available on the
Eng/Sci Databases page .
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
On May 12 Lund University , supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute, and The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, launched the DOAJ .
The directory contains information about 350 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified.
The goal is to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
Public Library of Science
Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians, is launching a public campaign aimed at making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
(June 26th, 2003 press release)
BioOne's First E-book
BioOne is pleased to announce that our first e-book, The Arabidopsis Book (TAB), which is open access, has been added to the site.
Also the content for three more journals -
Avian Diseases,
Economic Botany , and
Waterbirds
is now available.
New Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Ref TA418.9.S62 E63 2002).
The extensive preface introduces the multi- and interdisciplinary scope and broad context of the encyclopedia's stand-alone articles that cover a wide variety of smart topics. In 1,200 pages the international contributors (from industry, government, and universities) address the key features of the field.
Individual articles cover key areas: materials (ceramic, metallic, polymeric, biologic, and composite), phenomena, characterization, uses, and controls. Many articles could serve as journal review papers and include extensive bibliographies, diagrams, graphs, and
background context.
Useful / Interesting Web Sites
Scientific American Web Awards - 2003
It's a jungle out there. With more than three billion Web pages to sift through, finding great science sites is harder than ever. The good news is the
editors at Scientific American have once again trawled the Internet for the best the Web has to offer. Divided into ten categories, there is something for everyone.
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Will a smiling person accused of a crime be treated more leniently than one who is not smiling? If so, does the type of smile make a difference? More information about this and other studies on the
case studies page. Also lots of information on this site beginning with the basics. Check out the Java applets in the simulations section that let you read about a concept and see it visually at the same time.
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