Vetpulse

http://www.vetpulse.tv/

VetPulse is a website designed for veterinary professionals to share original video content, and visitors will find everything from surgery videos to news articles.  The site has content and subscribers from over 80 countries, and allows veterinarians and others to peer into the wider world of veterinary medicine.  Visitors should click on “Video” in the green tab at the top of the page to see the menu of subchannels from which to choose.
Some of the subchannels include “On Location”, where speakers and exhibitors are given the opportunity to discuss how technological innovations are impacting their veterinary careers.  “University Insight” provides video interviews of veterinary professionals at vet schools, and their research and areas of interest.  One such interview is with Dorothy McKeegan describing the teaching of animal welfare.  Another interview of note is with Stephen May, who discusses the evolution of teaching vet students.  The “In Practice” tab, visible once the “Video” tab has been selected, features videos from particular practices or organizations. The videos include surgeries, informal lectures on various ailments, and videos of health checks on zoo animals.

source: Scout report

ChemSpider SyntheticPages

http://cssp.chemspider.com/

ChemSpider SyntheticPages is a freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry. We publish practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures deposited by synthetic chemists. Synthetic methods on the site are updated continuously by chemists working in academic and industrial research laboratories.

ChemSpider SyntheticPages encourages submissions from graduate students, postdocs, industrialists and academics.


Beyond Scientific Publication

http://www.researchtoolkit.org/primer/docs/CARE%20Research%20Dissemination%20Guide.pdf

Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings

Report on The Future of Research and the Research Library

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=62&M=News&PID=10&NewsID=78

The research sector is changing these years. This puts new challenges on the libraries for supporting research processes and communication of research

These are the conclusions of a new report conducted by DEFF. The study was carried out by Professor Mr Hans Siggaard Jensen and his team of fellow researchers organized in the company The Lime Guild. Mr Siggaard is the vice dean of the Danish School of Education.

The report sets up a number of challenges and scenarios for the future of the research library. The libraries must take some strategic future choices. Should the library maintain its traditional role or should it become a knowledge center for research and learning?

For a long time Denmark’s Electronic Research Library, DEFF, has wished to make a study of the future library service of researchers and scientists. By engaging The Lime Guild this job was done throughout 2009. The Lime Guild has done several analyses, which have had the purpose to predict future scenarios for the research libraries in relation to the development within the research system and to the future demands of the researchers.

An essential part of conducting this study was to do interviews with interested parties and the main stakeholders in DEFF. This group of people includes both vice-chancellors and deans at universities, library directors of development and also representatives from DEFF’s steering committee and liaison group. Also key international experts have contributed generously to the study.

Educause Review, vo. 45 no 1; Jan/Feb 2010

http://www.educause.edu/er

contents on the topic of rethinking the future of higher education

Facebook as a Library Tool: Perceived v. Actual Use

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/preprints/crl-088.pdf

Libraries, in the past few years, have begun to examine the possibilities available to them through social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook as a tool for library awareness and marketing. As Facebook has come to dominate the social networking site arena, more libraries have created their own library pages on Facebook to create library awareness and to function as a marketing tool. This has spurred a large amount of how-to articles about the uses for Facebook in libraries as well as research about how librarians and libraries use Facebook. This paper examines reported versus actual use of Facebook in libraries to identify discrepancies between intended goals and actual use. The results of the 2009 study by Hendrix, Chiarella, Hasman, Murphy and Zafron, about the use of Facebook in libraries, is used as a guide to gauge the perceived and actual uses for Facebook in this study

OJS Map Updated for 2010

http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/2743

“We have updated the “Journals Using Open Journal Systems by Continent” map for January 2010, with over 5000 known journals included.

It provides an interesting look at where the software is being used. The work of African Journals Online has had a strong influence in Africa, and we’re looking forward to continued growth through our ongoing partnerships in Asia, Latin America, and the rest of the world.”

EPJ Web of Conferences

http://www.epj-conferences.org/

Publisher: EDP Sciences

EPJ Web of Conferences is an open-access publishing service dedicated to archiving conference proceedings in physics and related sciences. The fields of publication are those covered by the aims and scope of the EPJ journals (the publishers reserve the right to reject proposals that they consider not fitting on these grounds).

Proceedings are published under the scientific responsibility of the conference organisers.

EPJ Web of Conferences aims to make conference proceedings citable and widely usable by the scientific community. It offers versatile and highly flexible publishing solutions suited to any conference, whatever the number and the type of documents supplied.

Medical Equipment Insights

http://www.la-press.com/journal.php?journal_id=98

Publisher: Libertas Academica

Medical Equipment Insights aims to keep its readers at the forefront of developments in medical technology. This includes work on the use, development and evaluation of technologies, techniques and resources for diagnosis and care of patients, as well as for medical research purposes.

Articles on telemedicine equipment and issues relating to development, funding and supply are also welcome. Technological innovation and change occur quickly today, and rapid publishing means readers can learn of breakthroughs and developments that much sooner.

ISSN: 1178-637X

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr Irfan Ahmed
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
University of Aberdeen

Medical Equipment Insights is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.

New open-access journal SPIE Reviews begins publication

http://spie.org/x38996.xml

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — SPIE Reviews, a new open-access journal published by SPIE, has launched on the SPIE Digital Library. The journal is edited by William T. Rhodes, professor of electrical engineering and associate director of the Imaging Technology Center at Florida Atlantic University, and emeritus professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The new journal publishes original, in-depth review articles on emerging and evolving fields in applied optics and photonics of use to researchers as well as industry innovators.


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