How to keep up to date with scholarly journal output

It can be hard keeping up to date with all the research output being published every month. UCD library has information on the library website to help you keep track. I also found this information on another blog that has a list of 10 resources that can help you to keep on top of the journal literature.
Between the two webpages hopefully you'll have it all covered.
Diarmuid

Nature reaches 140!

This week Nature is 140 years old. To celebrate Nature has published a two page miscellany with information from that issue and from others issues in 1889, 1909, 1929, 1949, 1969 and 1989.
You can also check out the history of nature in words and video.
Diarmuid

New PubMed Interface launched

The National Library of Medicine has just lauched a new interface for PubMed which has given the database a new sleeker look. Some of the changes un the new look PubMed include:

• A more streamline homepage
• The tabs giving access Limits, Preview/Index, History, and Details have been removed and are now available through the Advanced Search option
• The drop down Send to menu has been reorganised and moved on the screen.
• How you export to Endnote has slightly changed. You can find the exact changes here.
  

You can get more information about the changes here.
Diarmuid

Open Access Week

This week is Open Access Week (Oct 19-24). Open Access is a movement within the global research community to make the published results of scholarly research freely available on the Web. Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the services, technology and expertise available to you.
Your research results can be made freely available in a variety of ways:

1. Archive your research in a local Institutional Repository ('Green' Open Access)
   
   Offering copyright clearance, professional cataloguing and detailed usage statistics, Research_online@UCD, currently being piloted by the UCD Library, will allow you to do just this from 2010.


2. Pay your publisher a fee to make publications open (Gold Open Access)
   
   Click here for a list of publishers
   
   
3. Submit your research or have your research sent to a subject repository. Examples include:
   
   PubMed Central (required by many Life Sciences publications)
   
   ArXiv.org -- Physics repository, author submits
   
   Economists Online -- aggregated from local repositories including Research_online@UCD

Please note: if you are publishing research as a result of SFI, HEA and/or IRCSET funding since May-June 2008, (SFI since Feb 2009), you may be required by your funder to store a copy in your local institutional repository. Research_online@UCD can accept the post-peer-review final draft of your paper (post-print) now. Submission instructions are available here

Please do not send publishers' final edited version unless your publisher appears in this list

With your help, Research_online@UCD will ensure that each item archived is copyright cleared.
For more information on Open Access or archiving your research, please contact the Library or research.online@ucd.ie.
Diarmuid

Ig Nobel Prizes 2009 awarded

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes 'for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK' were awarded on 1st October in Boston.
Favourites this year are the Veterinary Medicine Prize for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless (Anthrozoos, vol. 22, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 59-69) and the prize for Physics for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over (Nature, vol. 450, 1075-1078, December 13, 2007)

--- Michael ---

New H1N1 Information Portal now available

Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, the EBSCO Publishing Medical and Nursing editors of DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC) and Patient Education Reference Center™ (PERC) have made key influenza information from these resources freely available to health care providers worldwide.

The editorial teams will monitor the research and update these resources continuously throughout the upcoming flu season.

Diarmuid

EndNote Lunchtime Sessions are back!

UCD Library is offering introduction sessions to EndNote for students and staff. These sessions are designed for beginners and will cover the creation of EndNote libraries and references, the download of references from online resources and the use of Cite While You Write to add references to a Word document.

Each session will be held in the Information Skills Room of the Health Science Library, always from 1pm-2pm.

The dates for this semester are:

Advance booking for any of these sessions is possible.

--Josh

Reaxys Trial

UCD has full access to Reaxys for a trial period until 31st October 2009.
Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.
It is a new Elsevier product, built on Beilstein and Gmelin, and will eventually replace those databases.

--- Michael ---

The Article of the Future

"Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project's goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques." (Cell Press)

More information and two prototype articles could be found here: http://beta.cell.com/

--- Michael ---

Lunar landing - 40 years