Year: 2023

Open Access, Tools & Resources

TeachEngineering

TeachEngineering is a large curated collection of high-quality open-access instructional materials supporting K-12 about engineering. It has great value for K-12 STEM educators – and the students training to become one. The collection contains 100s of lesson plans and 1000s of learning activities, as well as curricular units, maker challenges and other instructional resources. Each one is reviewed before being included. All materials are freely … Continue reading TeachEngineering

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ADS Astrophysics Data System

Astrophysical Data Systems (ADS) is a freely accessible bibliographic database and full-text archive for publications in the fields of astronomy, physics, and geophysics.  Funded by NASA, it contains over 13 million documents, including journal articles, preprints, books, conference proceedings, and reports.  Its unique search features and depth make it the primary search tool for astronomers and astrophysicists.  It is also an alternative, user-friendly, interface to … Continue reading ADS Astrophysics Data System

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ZoteroBib: A New Citation Generator from Zotero

[All images from zbib.org] The makers of Zotero have created a citation generator, ZoteroBib or ZBib, which produces quality citations and bibliographies online without needing a Zotero account. ZoteroBib relies on the same Zotero technology that extracts bibliographic data and creates (mostly) accurate citations, including the over 9,000 citations styles in the Zotero style library. ZoteroBib is a handy little tool that has a few … Continue reading ZoteroBib: A New Citation Generator from Zotero

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GEN: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

GEN: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News  is a trade publication that has been published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.  since 1980. It can be received for free, in print or online once you complete an online form.  Also libraries may have access via free eJournals or Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek. Within the journal you will find some corporate news features such as “What the top 10 Biopharma CEO’s are making.” But … Continue reading GEN: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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TRAIL: the Technical Report Archive and Image Library

Did you ever wonder what would happen if a bunch of librarians got exasperated enough about the underutilization of a huge corpus of material in their libraries’ collections (largely because of a lack of access points) to actually DO something about it? OK, probably not. But if you ever did, in the case of U.S. government technical reports, TRAIL is what happened. A grassroots effort … Continue reading TRAIL: the Technical Report Archive and Image Library

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NYPL Digital Collections: Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works 1550-1900

Science librarians are familiar with digital collections and digitized books, but NYPL’s Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works 1550-1900, and Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants and Trees, 1550-1900 are very nice collections that that fall under those categories, but may be unfamiliar to some. These collections have multiple levels of appeal.  They are works of art, with some well known names like John James Audubon and … Continue reading NYPL Digital Collections: Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works 1550-1900

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Data Science, Open Access, Tools & Resources

Protocols.io

Ever wonder about the specific protocols used to conduct a research experiment? The platform protocols.io seeks to address this by providing an open access repository for research methods. The platform allows researchers to share vital details of procedures used in their experiments and provides persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory protocols. The site allows free access to their repository of public protocols and users can create … Continue reading Protocols.io

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MatWeb: a free online resource for material properties

Engineers and material scientists, and the students preparing to enter these professions, need accurate and reliable data on the properties of materials. This might be the tensile strength of high-carbon steel, the conductivity of cobalt, or the melting point of lithium. What’s your go-to resource for the Poisson’s Ratio of annealed magnesium? One recommended resource for questions about material properties is MatWeb. In its own … Continue reading MatWeb: a free online resource for material properties

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NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection

I have been thinking a lot lately about how science librarians can partner with Special Collections and Archives Librarians to teach students about scientific sources and data that are in special collections and archival collections. A cool digital archive is the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) Glacier Photograph Collection. This database contains over 16,600 digital (or digitized) photographs of glaciers from around the … Continue reading NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection

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ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov is a Web based resource maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The site contains information from almost 300,000 privately and publicly funded clinical studies from across the U.S. as well as 208 countries and is updated daily. The site defines a clinical study as “research using human volunteers that is intended to add to … Continue reading ClinicalTrials.gov

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