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...f interest before locating the full-text or review journals that otherwise would be out of reach. At the time ...line system is so easy to use, clients may uncover journals they didn't even know existed," said Kevin Bouley, Nerac President. With coverage provided by the Br...National Foundation For Cancer Research names UCSD's Webster Cavenee NFCR Fellow
...t Cancer. He is on the editorial boards of several journals and has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. His work on the genetic basis of cancer predisposition and progression has been recognized with many ho...NJIT chemists pave way for cheap, usable field test for polluted, toxic, water, air, food
...FTIR and total organic carbon analyzers. Scholarly journals and book publishers have published more than 50 of his peer-reviewed academic papers and two recent books: Environmental Chemical Analysis (CRC Press, New York, 1998) and Sample Preparation Techniques in Analytical Chemistry (John Wiley, New York, 2...American Society of Plant Biologists offers developing nations free access to science journals
...ee or low-cost access to over 400 major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environment...s in developing countries had not received science journals for a number of years. By providing scientists in poor nations access to current scientific informa......d and Lafferty conducted an online search of 5,900 journals published from 1970 to 2001 to measure the proportion of reports of disease in nine groups or marine organisms: turtles, corals, mammals, urchins, mollusks, seagrasses, decapods (crustaceans), sharks/rays, and fishes. Their approach also takes into a...UGA professor Jeffrey Bennetzen named to National Academy of Sciences
...erved on the editorial boards of more than a dozen journals during his academic career. Bennetzen is a highly sought-after lecturer and teacher, and he delivers about 15 presentations a year at venues around the world. Among his numerous research interests are: plant genome structure and evolution; the relat...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...that having faculty increasingly publish papers in journals like Science, Nature and Cell also makes a difference. While interdisciplinary programs play a large role in UH's general research success, the citation power coming out of biology and biochemistry is almost entirely internal to the department. Op...Teachers turn to Tolkein to explain physics
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...activities, Internet-based campfire chats, on-line journals and photo albums, message boards, and live real-time "webinars." Holmes, a Principal Investigator on The Ecosystems Center's Pan-Artic River Transport of Nutrients, Organic Matter, and Suspended Sediments (PARTNERS) project, discovered TREC at a scie...Published research contains 'high level of statistical errors'
... proportion of articles in top science and medical journals contain statistical errors, 4% of which may have c...1% of the statistical results published in the two journals during 2001 were incongruent. "Our findings confirm that the quality of research and scientific pape...Nerac delivers journal tracking solution through TOC Journal Watch
...s provides a single point of discovery for 21,000+ journals worldwide. For the librarian, TOC Journal Watch Plus provides a seamless Web portal that promotes the library's brand and keeps Nerac behind the curtain. Nerac also provides ongoing reports that track company usage and ordering patterns to help libra...OUP launch a new Open Access Journal on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...erence books, and journals. OUP publishes over 180 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organisations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Res......and research programs in biogeoscience, applicable journals and other publications, and a complete database of relevant conferences and meetings. Special sections, symposia, or field trips concerning biogeoscience are also featured. One of the exciting, interactive features of biogeosciences.org is a discuss...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
... they could use." Stepp combed through scientific journals and studies to determine which drugs on pharmacy shelves come from plants as opposed to those synthesized in a laboratory. In a classic case of looking afar rather than at your feet, he found that although only about 3 percent of the world's quarte...APS Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Translational Research Conference, Sept. 8-11
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LONDON and PHILADELPHIA: Open Access journals published by BioMed Central have received impact f... announced today. The high impact factors, all for journals that are just a few years old, prove that Open Access to research literature achieves impact fast an...Oxford Journals takes bold step towards free access to research
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