Neuroscience
From India comes Open J-Gate, a great open access journal database, in which all articles are freely accessible. It appears to cover many disciplines, and they say that content goes back to 2001 and indexes 3,000 journals.
What’s cool about this from an LIS perspective is the indexing. One might almost say “cataloging” — articles are given subject headings, which are searchable.
On the downside, there isn’t much in the way of metadata (no abstract; it just links to the full-text), and although the subjects look like they’re hyperlinked, they’re actually not. Worse, in the advanced search, Boolean searching isn’t possible; a search for “cats and diabetes” in the veterinary science section is not fruitful, because “[m]ore than one word will be treated as phrase“
Still, this one is definitely worth a look!
- This Message Has Been Sent To You Because Of Your Eminence In The Field.
More Obsequious Science Spam... This one's from Bentham Open. Maybe you or one of your friends have gotten a similar pitch. First, the story circa early 2007. The Open Neuroscience Journal Dear Scientist. Bentham Science Publishers have gained...
- A Bit Of Unscientific (library) Research
I'm taking a very informal, unscientific poll for the Simmons Continuing Ed. class I'm teaching next week: Is your library making "open access" journals available to your patrons? These are things like articles in the Directory of Open Access...
- Events I Will Be Leading
I thought some of you might be interested in this Continuing Ed class I'm co-teaching with Terry Plum in November about open access journals: "Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources: What Are They and How Can You Find Them?" Terry will answer these...
- New Features In Ebsco
Hopefully you have access to EBSCO, as they're doing some cool new stuff. If not, head over to the nearest library that does! ** Clustering ** Clustering displays the most common subjects, authors, and journals available for a specific query, eliminating...
- Hampshire "trials" Openurl With Google Scholar
Google Scholar now includes HC Links! Search in Google Scholar and click on "Hampshire Access" in results. You'll see if Hampshire has access to the journal online, or if it's available in the library. It only works from http://scholar.google.com/schhp?inst=hampshire.edu...
Neuroscience
Open J-Gate — Open Access Journal Database
From India comes Open J-Gate, a great open access journal database, in which all articles are freely accessible. It appears to cover many disciplines, and they say that content goes back to 2001 and indexes 3,000 journals.
What’s cool about this from an LIS perspective is the indexing. One might almost say “cataloging” — articles are given subject headings, which are searchable.
On the downside, there isn’t much in the way of metadata (no abstract; it just links to the full-text), and although the subjects look like they’re hyperlinked, they’re actually not. Worse, in the advanced search, Boolean searching isn’t possible; a search for “cats and diabetes” in the veterinary science section is not fruitful, because “[m]ore than one word will be treated as phrase“
Still, this one is definitely worth a look!
- This Message Has Been Sent To You Because Of Your Eminence In The Field.
More Obsequious Science Spam... This one's from Bentham Open. Maybe you or one of your friends have gotten a similar pitch. First, the story circa early 2007. The Open Neuroscience Journal Dear Scientist. Bentham Science Publishers have gained...
- A Bit Of Unscientific (library) Research
I'm taking a very informal, unscientific poll for the Simmons Continuing Ed. class I'm teaching next week: Is your library making "open access" journals available to your patrons? These are things like articles in the Directory of Open Access...
- Events I Will Be Leading
I thought some of you might be interested in this Continuing Ed class I'm co-teaching with Terry Plum in November about open access journals: "Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources: What Are They and How Can You Find Them?" Terry will answer these...
- New Features In Ebsco
Hopefully you have access to EBSCO, as they're doing some cool new stuff. If not, head over to the nearest library that does! ** Clustering ** Clustering displays the most common subjects, authors, and journals available for a specific query, eliminating...
- Hampshire "trials" Openurl With Google Scholar
Google Scholar now includes HC Links! Search in Google Scholar and click on "Hampshire Access" in results. You'll see if Hampshire has access to the journal online, or if it's available in the library. It only works from http://scholar.google.com/schhp?inst=hampshire.edu...