Top Science Blogs of 2008

Can't get enough of blogs? Here's some more to whet your appetite:

• Nature journal has listed its top 50 popular science Blogs
• The 2008 Weblog awards - Science category
• Science blogs chosen for inclusion by Intute
• Scienceblogs.com A community of science bloggers - 76 blogs and counting.

National eBooks Survey

Have you used eBooks? Researchers at UCL would like to hear from you. Click here to take part in the survey and, if you leave your Birkbeck email address, you will be entered into a prize draw for £200 Amazon vouchers.

Saturday eLibrary workshops - Spring term

There will be a series of Saturday workshops in the Library this term. Of interest to Science students will be the sessions on Using the Citation Indexes on Saturday 14th Feb. The 12 noon session is introductory and the 2pm session is more advanced. Other sessions you may be interested in are eBooks (17th Jan) and Finding newspaper articles (7th Feb) For more details on the program and to book see the Library web site

Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/darwin/
"Darwin is the biggest ever exhibition about Charles Darwin. It celebrates Darwin's ideas and their impact for his 200th birthday in 2009. Discover the man and the revolutionary theory that changed our understanding of the world. See incredible, revealing and rare exhibits, some on display for the first time"

There is a slideshow of some of the exhibits here http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/darwin/slideshow.html and also links to an interactive Beagle voyage and a video of Darwin's mocking birds.
Natural History Museum 14th November 2008 - 19th April 2009
The Natural History Museum also has a web site for Darwin's 200th birthday detailing national events http://www.darwin200.org/

While you're at the Natural History Museum you might also want to catch the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/ 31st October 2008 - 26th April 2009

New Internet resources from Intute

Analytical Chemistry

Analytical chemistry insights
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-1108256
Eurasian journal of analytical chemistry
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-11243034
Open analytical chemistry journal
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-11381863

Anatomy / Physiology / Morphology

Special issue : major themes in flowering research
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080707-11484587

Open plant science journal
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080807-11444922

Astronomy

Astronomy education review
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-09330310
Communicating astronomy with the public journal
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-10102647

Astrophysics

Dark Energy Survey
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20081007-11562821
Report of the Dark Energy Task Force
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20081007-11325729
Astrophysics and space sciences transactions
ttp://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-0946458
Living reviews in Solar physics
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-10234341

Bioinformatics

NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre :NEBC
ttp://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080804-10592791

Cosmology

Dark energy, dark matter
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20081007-11224394

Crystallography

Open crystallography journal
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-1138186391

Earthquakes and Seismology

Locating an epicenter
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20081003-09512426

General topics

OVERVIEW : State of the world's birds
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080922-08562971

Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas: targets for comprehensive protected area systems
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080720-23262735

Searchable list of names in the Cladoniaceae (Lichens)
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080807-20554162

Open conservation biology journal
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080807-09465691

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic crystal structure database (ICSD)
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20071114-142811

Marine biology

Open marine biology journal
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080807-1130027

Physical Chemistry

Diffusion fundamentals
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080806-13562983

American Chemical Society Journals Online

The ACS online journals are now available from outside College. Previously these could only be accessed from College PCs or via the VPN, but now you can access them using your IT Services username and password. The service gives access to the full text of 25 ACS journals. More information here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/databases/science/acs

New Internet resources

Immunobiology
http://www.blink.biz/immunoanimations/

PMC physics A
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080829-13554289

Marine and Freshwater Biodiversity
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080904-11241128

Ethics in science and environmental policies
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080903-08314926

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
http://www.feow.org/