http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-21-life-span-study_N.htm

Side Note:
Life-expectancy calculator:
http://www.fis.org/public/obiterdicta/lecalc.html

"British physicist Peter Higgs, who more than 40 years ago postulated the existence of the particle in the makeup of the atom, said is visit to a new accelerator in Geneva last weekend encouraged him that the Higgs boson will soon be seen."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4609570

Also, checkout from the National Geographic:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/god-particle/achenbach-text

"Cited by" feature (i.e., Articles Citing This Article) for PubMed can be downloaded onto the FireFox browser.

"This script takes each result in a PubMed search and then queries Google Scholar to get the number of times it has been cited. Then it places a link with this info next to each search result, linking to the citations in Google Scholar."

http://www.plutosforge.com/blog/projects/ncbi-scholar

Backfiles for Acta Chemica Scandanavica, 1947-1999 are available in PDF or DjVu formats, free of charge!

http://actachemscand.dk/

Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market is mentioned in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080102/full/451006a.html

The journal-ranking tool itself is open-access:
http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php

SureChem-Chemical patent searching database

http://www.surechem.org/

Search more than 7 million unique chemical structures

Complete full text collections of US, European and WO/PCT patents

Structures updated within days of new patent issuance

Advanced chemical structure and patent search tools

Export structure and text search results

Powerful result filtering and query navigation tools

Bentham Publishers recently launched over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals (i.e., mainly in the Sciences).

Bentham Open Access:
http://www.bentham.org/open/

Millions of toys recalled; contain 'date rape' drug

In 2007, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) celebrates its 100th year of serving all scientists around the world.   For CAS History: Milestones, click on:

http://info.cas.org/aboutcas/cas100/annivhistory.html

FYI: "CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, provides the world's largest and most current collection of chemical and related scientific information, including the most authoritative database of chemical substances, the CAS Registry^SM. CAS combines these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies to deliver the most complete, crosslinked, and effective digital information environment for scientific research and discovery, including such products as SciFinder^®, SciFinder Scholar^TM, STN^®, STN Express^®, and STN AnaVist^TM, among others."

From Information Today, Inc:

Sci-Tech Societies Unite to Create Scitopia.org Search Portal by Barbara Quint

A major new sci-tech search portal called Scitopia.org (www.scitopia.org) is scheduled to launch at the SLA annual meeting in the first week of June. A test version may actually launch a few weeks  earlier. Thirteen scholarly society publishers are working together to create a free federated, vertical search portal capable of accessing  some 3 million articles spanning as far back as 150 years, as well as  some patents.

A search on Scitopia.org will initiate simultaneous searches on all participating publishers' Web sites, will retrieve and merge results,  and will present users with a relevant ranked list of bibliographic citations and abstracts from which they can choose the full-text articles they need. Acquiring the full-text articles will involve authentication to licensed subscriptions or pay-per-view payments. Deep Web Technologies (www.deepwebtech.com) is  supplying the technical expertise needed for building Scitopia.org. The service's leaders hope more societies will join them soon in this effort  to bring a top-quality, finished scientific product to the fore in a  world coming to be dominated by Google Scholar.... Scitopia.org currently accesses the electronic libraries of these  thirteen participating sci-tech societies: 

 * American Geophysical Union (AGU; www.agu.org) 

 * American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA; www.aiaa.org)

 * American Institute of Physics (AIP; www.aip.org) 

 * American Physical Society (APS; www.aps.org)

 * American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE; www.asce.org)

* American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME; www.asme.org)

* The Electrochemical Society (ECS; www.electrochem.org)

* IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.; www.ieee.org)

* Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP; www.iop.org)

* Optical Society of America (OSA; www.osa.org)

* SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering; http://www.spie.org)

* SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers; www.sae.org)

 * Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM; www.siam.org)

See the full article for more information.

http://books.google.com/

Full view: If we've determined that a book is out of copyright, or the publisher or rightsholder has given us permission, you'll be able to page through the entire book from start to finish, as many times as you like. If the book is in the public domain, you'll also be able download, save and print a PDF version to read at your own pace.

Limited preview: If a publisher or author has joined our Partner Program, you'll be able to see a few full pages from the book as a preview. You can conduct multiple searches within the book, or browse through the available pages (there's a limit to the amount of the book you can view online).

Snippet view: Clicking on the book result, you'll be taken to the 'About this book' page. If you choose to search within the book, for each search term we'll display up to three snippets of text from the book, showing your search term in context. You can enter additional searches to help you decide whether you've found the right book. As always in Book Search, you'll see links to places where you can buy or borrow the book.

No preview available: For books where we're unable to show you snippets, you'll see an 'About this book' page displaying bibliographic information about the book, plus links to help you find it in a bookstore or library.

Here are the "New Books" lists for March. The lists are updated weekly; the books are located in the "New Books" area on the first floor of Library North. They stay there until the end of the month when they are relocated to the General Collection.

• Biology
• Geography
• Geology
• Physics & Astronomy

Apparently they didn't get it right the first time.

"ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, March 3, 2007 for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:30 AM EST (11:30 GMT). During this time we will be carrying through a large-scale rebuilding exercise on some of core aspects of the underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users."

Today is the birthday of chemist Linus Pauling (1901-1994) and the day that Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.

• Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA, Oregon State University Library, Special Collections
  http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/index.html
  This "documentary history" of Linus Pauling's role in discovering DNA has tons of primary documents, including correspondence with Crick and Watson. Most interesting, to me anyway, is the "Linus Pauling Day-by-Day" - a calendar of Linus Pauling's activities, including letters and other documents, from 1952 and 1953. Also available from Oregon State are Linus Pauling's biography and a similar documentary history "Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond".
  
  
• Linus Pauling Papers - National Library of Medicine
  A selection of Linus Pauling's papers, from Oregon State University Library, available through NLM's Profiles in Science.
  
  
• Crick: "The Double Helix"
  From the Francis Crick papers at the Wellcome Library. Also Crick's "Draft of 'The structure of DNA'.
  
  
• Francis Crick Papers - National Library of Medicine
  Also from Profiles in Science.
  
• Rosalind Franklin Papers- National Library of Medicine
  "It was her x-ray diffraction photos of DNA and her analysis of that data--provided to Francis Crick and James Watson without her knowledge--that gave them clues crucial to building their correct theoretical model of the molecule in 1953" from Rosalind Franklin Papers.

More info:

 Crick, Francis. What mad pursuit : a personal view of scientific discovery.  New York : Basic Books, c1988

 Watson, James D. The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA.  New York, Atheneum, 1968

 Maddox, Brenda. Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA. New York : HarperCollins, c2002.

Hager, Thomas.  Force of nature : the life of Linus Pauling.  New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995.

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