Nature Milestones Crystallography - free access

We have free access to this Nature supplement for 6 months. It includes a series of short articles, called Milestones, presenting key developments in the field, written by editors from Nature Publishing Group (NPG).

In addition to the Milestone articles, the supplement includes a Timeline - a chronology of events connected with each Milestone - and a reprinted Collection of landmark papers from Nature and other Nature titles. The Milestones website includes an extensive Library of related material from across NPG.

http://www.nature.com/milestones/milecrystal/index.html?WT.mc_id=BAN_NAT_1407_CRYSLAUNCH

Publishing better science through better data - free event

 

Publishing better science through better data 

Friday, 14 November 2014 from 13:00 to 17:30

A free event in London aimed at doctoral students, organised by the Open Research team within Nature Publishing Group. More details:

http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2014/09/24/registration-open-for-publishing-better-science-through-better-data/

Book your place here:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing-better-science-through-better-data-tickets-13005362389

Latest Nature Insight articles - Exoplanets

The latest Nature Insight is on Exoplanets

Almost 20 years after the discovery of the first exoplanet this Insight brings together a selection of reviews discussing our current theoretical understanding of exoplanets and their atmospheres, the missions that led to exoplanet discovery and the instruments, both present and future, that characterize planetary atmospheres.

Access the Insight online:

http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=5&ms=NDcwMDMyNzIS1&r=MTc3MTMxNzQxMwS2&b=2&j=NTIyMjQ4NjU1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Nature PastCasts

The Nature PastCast is a podcast series telling the stories behind some of the biggest papers in Nature's archive. Each month for a year, the PastCast will explore Nature's back catalogue, setting in context key moments in the history of science – and rooting out some of the quirkier reports from the journal – with the help of scientists and historians.

Click on the links below to access each episode:

October 1993: Could there be life on other planets?
September 1963: Plate Tectonics
August 1975: Monoclonal antibodies: from basic science to blockbuster medicine
July 1942: WW2 Radar Design
June 1876: The arrival of the first Gorilla in Europe
May 1985: The discovery of a hole in the ozone layer
April 1953: The structure of DNA

 

Scitable – Online Scientific portal

Scitable is an online scientific website, offered by the editorial teams of Nature Publishing Group, currently focusing on Genetics and Cell Biology, with plans to expand into other areas of life sciences.

Content in Scitable is free to access and use, and all the articles are peer-reviewed by scientists and educators prior to being published.

You can start exploring Scitable by visiting the Topics area, or by choosing a guided path through the Learning Paths for more complex topics, such as Genetic variation and evolution, cancer, etc.

You can also register on the website to connect with other science students or experts in the field, save your favourite articles and join a group.

Do you want to go beyond Scitable? The Birkbeck Library subscribes to the Nature Journal published by the same publishers. To access it outside the college, just search for “Nature” in the ejournals search box, follow the link provided and enter your ITS username and password.

Online access to Nature

Something I know a lot of you have been waiting for - online access to the journal Nature. Our new subscription allows access to the current year plus four previous years. For access from outside College click on Login and then on Athens Login and enter your ITS username and password. I expect to see high usage stats for this one!