Open Access Week

This week is Open Access Week - promoting open access to publicly-funded research.

Want to know more?

It's all at http://www.openaccessweek.org/ where you can find out more about open access, watch videos, find out about events that are taking place as part of Open Access Week and even buy the tee-shirt!

American Chemical Society event for researchers





There is an ACS on Campus event at UCL next week (October 24th) and students from all colleges are welcome. There will be presentations on topics such as careers in Chemistry, how to publish your research and copyright and ethics in scholarly communication, as well as refreshments at the Science Cafe networking event.

More details here http://acsoncampus.acs.org/events/university-college-london-london-uk/



Wallace Online

Following on from the Darwin Online project http://darwin-online.org.uk/ which saw Darwin's works and letters made available online, a new project has made available the writings of Alfred Russell Wallace, who independently formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection, and announced it in tandem with Darwin in July 1858. The archive is at http://wallace-online.org/ and there is an article about both archives on the BBC web site here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19744135

Welcome to new Science students

Welcome to all new Birkbeck Science students. If you'd like to learn more about the Library and its resources, come along to a Library tour and/or a Saturday workshop this term.

The Library tours are at 5.30pm every day Monday-Friday and last about 20 minutes. There's no need to book, just come to the Library entrance on the ground floor.

The Saturday workshops cover using the Library catalogue and ejournals - details are here
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/infoskills

To familiarise yourself with the resources that are most useful for you, take a look at the Library subject guide for your subject - there are guide for Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Earth & Planetary Sciences