Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives

Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Transcripts and voice clips are available online. Interesting for anyone studying the history of science and scientists.

Archival Collections of Scripps

Archival Collections at Scripps
Search the finding aids and online collections of photographs, movies and other documents at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. This is an interesting site for anyone interested in Scripps’ history and history of oceanography in general.

Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar

Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar
An interesting paper looking at the strengths and weaknesses of these four journal article databases. This might be interesting for students to read, especially if they are prone to searching Google Scholar at the expense of these other subject specific databases.

Standards for Online Datasets

“We Need Standards for Online Datasets (PDF)”
White paper about the need to publish standardized datasets online along with proposed guidelines and standards. An interesting idea that would definitely make it easier to use datasets and to preserve them in the online environment.

TED talks and Data

TED: Ideas worth Spreading
If you’ve never listened to or watched a TED talk, go to the site and watch one now. These are wonderful, 18-minute, talks from some of the brightest, most creative people around. There are talks on many different subjects and themes that you can use in your classes. So go get an idea worth sharing.

TED Talks Spreadsheet
This is a great, up-to-date spreadsheet of all the TED Talks. It gives the URL to the talk, the speaker’s name, title of the talk and a short summary. This is a great way of finding a talk if you don’t want to use the searching feature on the TED site or just want to scan quickly through the talks.

NSF Report on Strategy for Digital Scientific Data
A summary of the report and link to the full report about preserving digital scientific data. Very timely and talks about one of the greatest issues in ensuring longterm access to digital data–preservation.

Mendeley

Mendeley
Here is another resource to check out for managing your research papers and citations. Mendeley also incorporates some social networking features by allowing you share your library with others. To me, the layout looks very similar to Zotero. So if you use Zotero, getting used to Mendeley shouldn’t be a problem. If you do use this, let me know if you find it helpful.

Cult of Done Manifesto
This is not related directly to science, but helpful for everyone. This is a great manifesto by Joshua Rothhass on how to get more done and stop procrasinating.

ScienceWatch

ScienceWatch
A nice service from Thomson Reuters. Updated weekly with information about trends and new research published. Has an RSS feed.

Impact, Community & Fun

Happy Friday! Today’s selection of resources includes an article on measuring the impact of science journals, an online community of scientists and a column about the new California Academy of Sciences.

How Do We Measure Use of Scientific Journals: A Note on Research Methodologies
This is an interesting look at the intersection between how libraries measure usage of scientific journals and how others measure the impact of journals. Although you might know most of this information, your students may not and this might be a good way to start a discussion about the impact of different journals and their usage.

SciLink
So, are you scared of Facebook? Don’t know a MySpace from a LinkedIn account? Do you ever wish you could just connect with other scientists? Well, SciLink is for you. It is a place to connect with other scientists, share news and gather information. Sound great? It is free to sign up for an account. So get connected and join the social network.

Pay Attention to the Noodles
For those of you who read the San Francisco Chronicle daily, you probably have read Jon Carroll’s column at least occassionally. If not, you are in for a treat. Slightly of topic, but he writes about the new California Academy of Sciences. If you want to know where noodles come in, you’re just going to have to read the column.

Have a great Friday!