Thursday, 10 November 2011

My Favourite Scientist

Who is your favourite scientist?  Great Birkbeckian Rosalind Franklin is nominated as one blogger's favourite scientist:  A scientist talks about Rosalind Franklin and her ground-breaking work in the Guardian : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/nov/09/1

Read more about Rosalind Franklin:
 
Book:
Rosalind Franklin - dark lady of DNA
Web:
Scitable
Wikipedia

Friday, 4 November 2011

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.

Friday, 14 October 2011

Science resources on your mobile

Would you like to be able to use ScienceDirect and Web of Knowledge on your mobile or iPad?

ScienceDirect now has mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry or Android phone. You can download them at http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciverse-mobile-applications/overview and see details of how to register your device at http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciverse-mobile-applications/sciverse-sciencedirect-mobile

Web of Science is also available for mobiles - more details here http://wokinfo.com/about/mobile/ and FAQs about the service here http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/wok-mobile-faqs.pdf

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Welcome to new Science students

Welcome to all new science students at Birkbeck - here are a few links that will tell you a bit more about the Library and the science resources you can make use of during your course.

Information for New Students

Online Library induction tutorial

Biological Sciences resources guide

Chemical Sciences resources guide

Earth & Planetary Sciences resources guide

Friday, 26 August 2011

ScienceDirectTV

Do you prefer learning by watching videos? ScienceDirect has its own YouTube channel with videos showing you how to make the most of this essential science resource http://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceDirectTV

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

New Ebooks for Earth & Planetary Sciences

Latest ebooks for Earth & Planetary Sciences:

Fossen, H. Structural Geology CUP 2010
http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?451054

Ragan, D Structural Geology CUP 2009
http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?451055

Davidson-Arnott, R Introduction to coastal processes and geomorphology CUP 2010
http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?451057

McSween, H. Cosmochemistry CUP 2010
http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?451053

Taylor, S. Planetary Crusts: their composition, origin and evolution CUP 2009
http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?418426

McKillup, S. Geostatistics Explained CUP 2010
http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?451050

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Library Saturday workshops this term

The Library is running workshops during the Summer term on Saturdays at 11am in the Seminar Room on Level 1 of the Library. Those of interest to science students are

May 28th: Keeping up-to-date with current awareness services. 1hr
June 18th: Managing your references with EndNote and EndNote Web 1hr 30 mins
July 9th: Using the Citation Indexes 1hr 30 mins

To see more details, the full programme and to book see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/infoskills