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Thursday, September 09, 2010
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Free Collaborative Learning Tools for Science—Spotlight on Scitable
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by Paula J. Hane
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As Scott Merrill wrote on CrunchGear, "Social networks are a dime a dozen." He pointed out that many fail and many are just for specific niche audiences (though I don't think niches are a bad thing). So, he was as skeptical as I was about Scitable, a social network for science research and education from Nature Publishing Group, publishers of Nature and Scientific American. I was especially leery given the recent turmoil over licensing discussions between NPG and the University of California. (They recently issued a joint statement agreeing to work together to address the "mutual short- and long-term challenges.") Scitable is an educational website offered by Nature Education (a division of NPG) for biology and genetics educators and undergraduate students, and it provides a free library of high-quality, vetted content and tools. The company just announced the launch of the mobile version of Scitable.
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Library of Congress Implements Third Major 2010 Enhancement for THOMAS
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THOMAS has undergone its third major enhancement of 2010. Building upon the enhancements made in January and June, the latest enhancements add a mobile-friendly homepage, integrate features from the Library of Congress and Law Library of Congress websites into THOMAS, and add a new portal to state legislature websites.
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Introducing the New Look ingentaconnect
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Publishing Technology plc announced that its flagship collection of e-publications, ingentaconnect, now has a re-energized look and feel. The new ingentaconnect has been designed to optimize the end user experience through improved navigation and content discovery.
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Challenge.gov Prize Platform Invites Citizens to Solve Nation’s Challenges
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U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled Challenge.gov, a new online site and digital platform to help mobilize American ingenuity to solve some of our nation's most pressing challenges. Challenge.gov is an online site where entrepreneurs, innovators, and citizen solvers can compete for prestige and prizes by providing novel solutions to tough national problems, large and small.
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Elsevier’s SciVerse Hub—Transforming Scientific Research
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by Sue Polanka
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Accelerating science—that's the goal of Elsevier's new integrated search and discovery tool, SciVerse. Launched in beta to current subscribers on Aug. 28, SciVerse features a fully searchable unified index of scientific content from Science Direct, Scopus, and Scirus and adopts a culture of collaboration by opening SciVerse to developers with an interest in designing and sharing applications in the scientific research ecosystem. SciVerse Hub, the platform for the unified search, includes metadata for 10 million full-text articles and 15,000 ebooks from Science Direct, 41 million abstracts from Scopus, and 23 million patent documents,13 society sources, and 18 institutional repositories from third party sources via Scirus.
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