IScienceSearch: The Internet Search Engine For Chemists & Biologists

iScienceSearch is a completely new further development of CWM Global Search

iScienceSearch is an innovative Internet search tool for scientists that want to search for chemical data on the Internet - it makes a federated search over many scientific databases on the Internet.

• Search the Internet by structure!
• Find structures for synonyms!
• Submit several compound in one search - use SDFiles.
• Find biological effects of a compound.
• Get access to information that was until recently a very costly service.

 iScienceSearch allows searching the Internet by structure, synonym, CAS Registry Number and free text. In the background, we return structure, names and CAS Registry Numbers* within seconds.  A search by name can automatically invoke another search by structure and/or CAS Registry, or any combination of these. iScienceSearch presently searches more than 60 free chemical and pharma relevant databases  -- containing more than 100 million pages which associate chemical structures with data.

Source and Link Available At

[http://www.isciencesearch.com/]

DART-Europe: E-theses Portal

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments. DART-Europe offers partners a European networking forum on ETD issues, and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative funding applications to achieve DART-Europe's vision for ETDs.

Source and  Link Available At

[http://www.dart-europe.eu/]

Open Access : Copyright for Librarians: The Essential Handbook

"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Re-designed as a brand new textbook, "Copyright for Librarians: the essential handbook" can be used as a stand-alone resource or as an adjunct to the online version which contains additional links and references for students who wish to pursue any topic in greater depth.

Delve into copyright theory or explore enforcement. With a new index and a handy Glossary, the Handbook is essential reading for librarians who want to hone their skills in 2013, and for anyone learning about or teaching copyright law in the information field.

Source and Links To Open Access Copy, Format, Language, and Platform Options, and Purchase Link Available At 

[http://www.eifl.net/news/cfl-essential-handbook-launches]

Inside Higher Ed > AAUP Publishes New Guidelines on Librarians

January 14, 2013 - 3:00am

The American Association of University Professors [AAUP] has updated guidelines for librarians to reflect their changing roles as teachers and researchers. The joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians now includes language on technology in the library and recommends that institutions adequately compensate librarians for the 12-month cycles in which they typically work.

It also recommends that colleges and universities involve librarians in governance issues, such as curriculum development, said Deanna Wood, a reference librarian and associate professor of reference at the University of New Hampshire who helped draft the updated guidelines. That way, students won’t enter the library to do research and find “there’s nothing there to support it.”

The revised statement also reaffirms an earlier version’s call to consider librarians involved in teaching and research as faculty members and lauds their role as independent guardians of intellectual and academic freedom. Wood said while she and many fellow librarians at public land-grant universities are tenured faculty, the practice is rarer at private universities. It’s unclear what percentage of librarians are tenure-track faculty nationwide, she added.

A joint committee of AAUP and Association of College and Research Libraries [ACRL] members drafted the updates to the original, 1973 guidelines, which were approved by both groups last year.

Source and Link Available At 

[http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/01/14/aaup-publishes-new-guidelines-librarians]

UNESCO > Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215863e.pdf]

Academic Libraries and Research Data Services: Current Practices and Plans for the Future

November 26th, 2012 / Mary Jane Petrowski

ACRL has released a new research report, Academic Libraries and Research Data Services: Current Practices and Plans for the Future to provide a baseline assessment of the current state of and future plans for research data services in academic libraries.

Authored by Carol Tenopir, Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences, Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies, and Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ben Birch, doctoral student and Graduate Research Associate on the NSF-sponsored DataONE project in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Suzie Allard, associate professor and Associate Director for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, the report highlights the need and imperative for research data services in colleges and universities.

Academic libraries may be ideal centers for research data service activities on campuses, providing unique opportunities for academic libraries to become even more active participants in the knowledge creation cycle in their institution.

Source and Link to Report Available At 

[http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/6297]

Environmental Sciences: In-Depth Resources LibGuide with Social Media Links

[http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/envid]