Tag: Open Access

Open Access, Tools & Resources

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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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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Open Access, Tools & Resources

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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Open Access, Tools & Resources

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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