Science
Posted March 16th, 2010 by mit-admin
The MIT Libraries have purchased over 19,000 Springer eBooks published from 2005 through 2010 with coverage of every scientific discipline, as well as some coverage of architecture, humanities and many of the social sciences. Several heavily-used book series and reference works are included; among them are: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Physics, NATO Science for Peace and Security, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Topics of Current Chemistry, Springer Handbook of Robotics, Handbook of Materials Modeling, and Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology.
The Libraries selected Springer eBooks for its first major system-wide electronic book service because of Springer’s favorable licensing and business terms that will directly benefit MIT users, including broad academic use rights, perpetual ownership, unlimited concurrent users, and participation in Portico, a third party archive. In addition, each book chapter is available as a PDF file without digital rights management (DRM). This means they can be downloaded, printed, and transferred to a PDA or Kindle.
Springer also offers “MyCopy”, a service where the members of the MIT community can order their own personal copy of many of these books by using the print-on-demand option at a significantly discounted price of $24.95 for books up to 800 pages.
Links to these ebooks are beginning to appear in Barton, our library catalog. You can also search or browse them directly or from off-campus.
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Posted March 3rd, 2010 by Remlee Green
STAT!Ref includes online medical books that contain everything from consumer health and trauma surgery to cardiovascular diseases and neuroanatomy. Find answers about diagnosis, treatments, and drug interactions – STAT!
MIT has access to the following STAT!Ref e-books:
STAT!Ref allows only one MIT user at a time, so if you can’t get in, try again in a few minutes.
Interested in e-books in other fields? Try our E-books guide.
For more information, contact Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian.
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Posted February 5th, 2010 by mit-admin
Have a favorite database and want to avoid searching Vera for it every time? Use the Get URL! Do a search in Vera by title and then just right click to add the link to your bookmarks. Now Proquest, Avery, PubMed and others are just a click away, whether you’re on campus or off!
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Posted February 2nd, 2010 by Ellen Duranceau
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has confirmed that their recently adopted policy on open access repositories is fully consistent with the new MIT Faculty Open Access Policy.
The AMS, which publishes 13 journals, including the Journal of Climate and Monthly Weather Review, has just established a new policy to support the “increasing demand for institutions to provide open access to the published research being produced at that institution.” Their policy allows for the posting of the published articles into a repository like MIT’s DSpace@MIT.
Because the AMS is allowing MIT to obtain copies of their final published articles from their website, authors do not need to submit their manuscripts in order for them to appear in DSpace@MIT. This will happen automatically.
To review other confirmed publisher responses to the policy, please see: Publishers and the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Publishers are being added to this web page as information becomes available. Please send any questions about publishers not yet on the page to Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant.
For more information:
MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Details on working with the policy
Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant, x 38483.
Posted in All news, Scholarly Communication, Science
Posted January 26th, 2010 by Ellen Duranceau
The American Physical Society (APS) has confirmed that they are fully cooperating with the new MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. 
Joe Serene, APS Treasurer and Publisher, comments that “APS was among the earliest publishers to support Green Open Access, and has long allowed authors to post our published version of their papers on an institutional repository, immediately after publication. Our goals and our copyright agreement align well with the goals of the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, and we are delighted to have reached an agreement with MIT that allows authors to publish in APS journals without waivers of the MIT policy or addenda to our copyright agreement.”
Because the APS is allowing MIT to obtain copies of their final published articles from their website, authors do not need to submit their manuscripts in order for them to appear in DSpace@MIT. This will happen automatically.
To review other confirmed publisher responses to the policy, please see: Publishers and the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Publishers are being added to this web page as information becomes available. Please send any questions about publishers not yet on the page to Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant.
For more information:
MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Details on working with the policy
Ellen Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant, x 38483
Posted in All news, Scholarly Communication, Science
Posted January 20th, 2010 by mit-admin
Looking for the scientific background on the Haiti M7.0 earthquake? The US Geological Survey (USGS) has posted a colorful earthquake summary poster that shows Haiti’s tectonic setting, earthquake epicenters, historical earthquakes, and ground shaking. Different sizes and formats of the poster can be downloaded.
Additional details on seismicity, seismic hazards, population exposure, and scientific and technical information on the earthquake are available at the Earthquake Hazards Program’s site.
Contact Michael Noga with any questions.
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Posted January 19th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Posted in All news, Art + Architecture + Planning, Bioinformatics, Business + Management, Classes, Engineering, Events, GIS, Humanities, Music, Science, Social Sciences, Videos
Posted January 13th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
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Posted January 8th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
The purpose of this session is to provide an understanding of how Wikipedia can be used to create meaningful learning experiences.
As a result of participating in this activity, participants will understand why it is important for academia to contribute to this body of literature, and how to add a reference to a Wikipedia article.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 13, 10 – 11:15am
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Barbara Williams with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
With so many tools on the web, how do you find the really good ones to help with your work?
In this session, we’ll show a variety of online and mobile tools to help you keep current on the latest research in your field, manage your references, and share information easily with colleagues at MIT and around the world. Tools highlighted will include RSS feeds, Mendeley, WebNotes, Scivee, PubGet, and QUOSA.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 27, 4 – 5pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Remlee Green with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
LabLife provides free lab management software to biologists.
Learn how LabLife can help you organize your lab materials, coordinate lab ordering, analyze DNA sequences, and more! Also, meet the MIT alums behind the software.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 26, 12:30 – 1:30pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 20 participants.
Contact Amy Stout with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Genomics, microarrays, and massively parallel applications such as next generation sequencing have made biology research a highly quantitative field. As a result, many biologists face the challenge of mastering computers and computational methods. Our sessions are designed to begin the process
.
We will provide an overview of some of the bioinformatics tools and methods mandated by modern biological research. Practical examples will be used to introduce powerful aspects of the Unix operating system, Perl, R, Excel and MySQL. We will also instruct attendees on the usage of bioinformatics tools for genomics, phylogenetics and microarray data analysis. Topics to be covered include the UCSC genome browser, GALAXY, Argo, GenePattern, Bioconductor, ClustalX, and a variety of functional annotation methods.
NOTE: Enrollment is limited to 20 participants, on a first-come, first-served basis. Participants are requested to attend all sessions. Please see this page to prepare for the sessions (links, presentations, data, downloads, etc.).
WHEN: Monday, January 25, Wednesday, January 27, and Friday, January 29, 11am – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Charlie Whittaker or Courtney Crummett with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
Posted in All news, Bioinformatics, Classes, Engineering, Events, Science
Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
You may be a skilled investigator on the topic of science or engineering, but what do you know about business research? This session will introduce you to library-supported databases that cover company and industry information. We will use hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategies for researching two key components of a business plan: competitors and industry trends.
WHEN: Friday, January 22, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Stephanie Hartman with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Learn about new tools to support your research, collaboration, and personal knowledge management. Three developers will demonstrate their applications.
QUOSA Information Manager can help streamline your literature management. Search for articles and retrieve one or many PDFs in a single step from PubMed, Web-of-Knowledge, and other databases. Organize and manage your existing article PDF collections, and share them with your group in real time.
WebNotes Academic is the world’s first research tool that allows you to annotate PDF documents and web pages, all seamlessly while online.
ResearchGATE is a scientific network that connects researchers. Find research partners, collaborate with scientists and explore journal articles.
WHEN: Thursday, January 21, 4 – 5pm
WHERE: 2-105
Contact Howard Silver with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams.
The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents through free resources available on the web.
No pre-registration, but space is limited so come early!
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20, 5 – 6pm & Thursday, January 21, 12 – 1pm (duplicate session)
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Darcy Duke with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
The Web of Science has changed its search interface substantially in 2008. Learn about the new citation analysis and report features which enable you to quickly find relevant articles. Also learn about other Web sites that provide citation searching, a powerful tool in finding information for research.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 19, 12:30 – 1:30pm & Wednesday, January 27, 5 – 6pm (duplicate session)
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Michael Noga with questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
Posted in All news, Classes, Events, Science
Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Want to know more about how BLAST works and how to use it more effectively in your research? Then this class is for you! This class will follow up on Bioinformatics for Beginners and lead into Advanced Bioinformatics, although attendance at the other sessions is not necessary.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 19, 11 – 12am
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 20 participants.
Contact Courtney Crummett with questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
What’s an RSS feed? How can I use it to keep up with new information in my field? We’ll show you how RSS and other current awareness tools can help you stay up to date!
This will be a hands-on session on Windows PCs. You are also welcome to bring your own laptop.
WHEN: Friday, January 16, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 25 participants.
Contact Darcy Duke with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
Posted in All news, Classes, Engineering, Events, Science
Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Are you new to teaching or TAing at MIT, or are you an Admin Assistant who supports teaching faculty? Or do you just want to learn more about course reserves and copyright?
The MIT Libraries can help! We’ll help you navigate through the ins and outs of print and electronic courses reserves, and provide an overview of “fair use” and other copyright restrictions for course materials. We’ll also cover details about submitting required textbook information so that it can be displayed for students in Stellar.
Reserves staff from around the MIT Libraries will be available to answer questions.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 11am – 12pm
WHERE: Rotch Library, 7-134A
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please sign-up to help us gauge attendance.
Contact Roshni Gohil with any questions.
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