Tag: Open Access

Earth Sciences, Open Access, Reader's Advisory

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert reviews the five previous mass extinction events on Earth and warns that we are currently faced with another, this time driven largely by man-made causes. Providing members of the public, conservation organizations, and government officials with reliable information and generating awareness about those species in danger of potential extinction is one step in countering … Continue reading IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Open Access, STEMM

ZbMATH Open: An Open Access Mathematical Literature Database

ZbMATH Open is an open access database that indexes journals, monographs, proceedings, dissertations, conference proceedings, and collected volumes in pure and applied mathematics with database coverage from 1826 to the present. zbMATH Open includes the content from Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete (1932 – present), Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (1868-1944), and additional retrospective journal information back to 1826. The database has been … Continue reading ZbMATH Open: An Open Access Mathematical Literature Database

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Data Science, Information Literacy, Open Access, Publishing, Tools & Resources

FAIRsharing.org

FAIRsharing.org is a curated, searchable registry of metadata standards; databases and repositories; and funder and journal policies that are relevant to specific domains or types of data. Figure 1. FAIRsharing.org home page. Accessed 28 November 2022 at https://fairsharing.org/ Background: The benefits of data sharing have been powerfully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic: shared data made possible the rapid development of public health policies, treatment guidelines, … Continue reading FAIRsharing.org

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Information Literacy, Open Access

Libraries and Undergraduate Research Training

University Libraries at Virginia Tech (UL at VT) has long supported students and faculty with a variety of formal, informal, or co-curricular undergraduate research (UR) training. Virginia Tech (VT) is a research-intensive (R1), land-grant institution with students participating in research projects across the university and beyond. Librarians at VT began to notice that multiple librarians were receiving similar instruction requests for sessions in support of … Continue reading Libraries and Undergraduate Research Training

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Open Access, Publishing

ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID

“ORCID is a non-profit organization supported by a global community of member organizations, including research institutions, publishers, funders, professional associations, service providers, and other stakeholders in the research ecosystem.” In the scholarly communication landscape, creating your unique profile has an advantage of establishing your identity in terms of your research outputs and interests. Tools for building profiles can be grouped in three broad categories: researcher … Continue reading ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID

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Data Science, Open Access, Tools & Resources

Helioviewer

Are you curious to see what an active solar storm or sunspots look like?  Helioviewer is an open-source visualization tool that makes it possible for everyone to explore images of the Sun and related solar features and events, over time.  This project, funded by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), enables searching and viewing images within the massive datasets obtained from 9 solar observatories.  … Continue reading Helioviewer

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Tools & Resources, Publishing, Open Access

Retraction Watch

“Try not to panic, but science can sometimes go wide of the target: in 2011, there were 38 retractions for every 100,000 papers published.  Retraction Watch, a blog founded by Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, and Adam Marcus, managing editor of Anesthesiology News, highlights such errors.” (What People are Saying About Retraction Watch) Since August 2010, Retraction Watch has exposed scientific mistakes and … Continue reading Retraction Watch

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Open Access, Tools & Resources

Free Resources for Teaching Science Online

Because of the recent abrupt shift of students and faculty away from campus, this post is about available free resources for teaching science online in higher education, which I hope you will share with your faculty. This list is in no way exhaustive, so please feel free to add any resources in the comments section. Please take care and stay well. Video Demonstrations for Science … Continue reading Free Resources for Teaching Science Online

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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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Open Access, Tools & Resources

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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