Science Librarian's Blog

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science

With more and more information out there, sometimes bad science slips through the net. Here's a handy infographic guide to spotting it. See the full article at http://www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/02/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science/

Friday, 19 December 2014

Making waves with the Qatar Digital Library - British Library Science blog

The British Library's Science team has posted an interesting article on how the Qatar Digital Library has helped to unearth valuable information about past tsunamis:

Making waves with the Qatar Digital Library - Science blog

Friday, 12 December 2014

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

Friday, 14 November 2014

Comets!

In celebration of ESA's success with Rosetta and Philae, here's a list of the books, ebooks, DVD and streaming video we have available via the Library. Read on and impress your friends with your knowledge of comets!

Ebooks
Blazing a ghostly trail: ISON and great comets of the past and future. Grego, Peter. Published 2014
Click here to access ebook http://ezproxy.lib.bbk.ac.uk/login?url=http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=551206

Treatise on Geochemistry 2007 Section on Comets.
Click here to access ebook
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.lib.bbk.ac.uk/science/article/pii/B0080437516011725

Online video
The solar system: planets, asteroids and comets. Published 2010
Click here to access online video http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?EDIV;174325 0

Books in the Library
Introduction to comets. Brandt, John C. Published 2004 http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/449011
Shelfmark: 523.6 BRA

The comet sweeper: Caroline Herschel's astronomical ambition. Brock, Claire, 1977
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/387154
Shelfmark: 520.92 HER/B

The cosmic serpent : a catastrophist view of earth history. Clube, Victor. Published 1982
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/320035
Shelfmark: 523.6 CLU

Comets!: visitors from deep space. Eicher, David J., 1961-. Published 2013
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/486455
Shelfmark: 523.6 EIC

The comets and their origin. Lyttleton, Raymond Arthur. Published 1953 http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/172627
Shelfmark: 523.6 LYT

A field guide to the stars and planets, including the moon, satellites, comets, and other features of the universe. Menzel, Donald Howard, 1901-. Published 1966
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/155092
Shelfmark: 520 MEN

Comets and meteor streams. Porter, John Guy. Published 1952
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/159235
Shelfmark: 523.5 POR

Comet. Sagan, Carl, 1934-. Published 1985 http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/150826
Shelfmark: 523.6 SAG

Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology. Schechner Genuth, Sara, 1957-. Published 1997
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/216964
Shelfmark: 523.6 SCH

Comets and the origin of life. Wickramasinghe, Janaki. Published 2010
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/444862
Shelfmark: 576.839 WIC

Meteor showers and their parent comets. Jenniskens, Petrus Matheus Marie. Published 2006
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/459934
Shelfmark: 523.53 JEN

DVD
The comet's tale. Lachmann, M. Published 201
http://vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk/vufind/Record/462707

Picture by European Space Agency (Rosetta mission poster) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Science writing competition - now open for entries!

The British Library have now launched their science writing competition for this year - if you're a PhD student or post-doc, why not have a go? See the extract from their blog post below.

Science writing competition - now open for entries!

We are excited to announce the launch of 2015's Access to Understanding science writing competition - a prestigious, international competition aimed at PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers where the challenge is to summarise a cutting-edge research article for a non-specialist audience.

The winner will receive an iPad and have their entry published in eLife.

See more here

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Access to Understanding - British Library Science blog

Access to Understanding is a science writing competition that challenges early career researchers to summarize a recent biomedical research article for a public audience.

The competition is delivered by the British Library in partnership with Europe PMC – the free life sciences information resource.

This blog post from the BL (link below)
gives you this year's winners and advance notice of next year's competition.
Access to Understanding - Science blog