How might Plan S affect chemistry research?

Plan S aims to make publicly funded research openly available after 1st January 2020. 

With this in mind the Royal Society of Chemistry has prepared a five-minute video that discusses Plan S, and the wider implications of the move to open access for the chemistry community.

Plan S, and how it could shape open access as a whole, is a developing topic, and it is one that the Royal Society of Chemistry aims to help you navigate. 

Watch the Royal Society of Chemistry's video about Plan S and chemistry research.

WomeninSTM Reading List from Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press have put together some reading about women that have contributed a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Science, Technology, and Medicine fields (STM), to help the progression of society.

Explore a collection of chapters online featuring just a few of these women in medicine, such as Marie Curie, Florence Stoney, Cicely Saunders, Rosalyn Yalow, and Mary Broadfoot Walker.

http://oxfordmedicine.com/newsitem/477/womeninstm-reading-list

Managing your references with EndNote - Webinar 28/02/2019

This webinar is organised and delivered by staff at Web of Science. lt will include:

• a typical workflows researchers follow to manage relevant publications they have discovered and correctly cite them in a publication of their own. 
• The use of Kopernio to help pull together full text and metadata 
• Use of the online and desktop versions of EndNote. Please be aware that Birkbeck only has access to the online version. 

•             Date Thursday 28th February at 10am London (45 mins).

•             Registration link: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/k2/j.php?MTID=t19ed53e2defff8c810b7f5de24d649a1  

Celebrate Chinese New Year with Springer - free access to papers and books chapters for a limited time...

Read influential publications by Chinese authors for free! 

Get 100 papers & 88 book chapters in all subject areas.100 papers & 88 book chapters in all subject areas.

This access runs up until 20th February 2019.

Lab notebooks - handwriting at the core of science - British Library blog post

23rd January was world handwriting day, the British Library took this as an opportunity to look at examples of lab note book past and present. How does yours compare? Do you still hand write your lab book or make use of online tools like Benchling?

https://blogs.bl.uk/science/2019/01/lab-notebooks-handwriting-at-the-core-of-science.html  

Science Week 2018

Science Week 2018 has arrived!

Birkbeck Science Week is coming up so we've put on a new Book Display around it. Find out more about what Science Week (18-22 June) is and about the lectures and events being put on: https://t.co/GsE5bJnMUe. Why not get yourself along to some of them? pic.twitter.com/BYL0uJhLvl

— Birkbeck Library (@BirkbeckLibrary) June 15, 2018

It's free to book a place at any of the lectures happening during the week, so make the most of learning from experts in their field of study. You can also come and take a look at the book display in the library, which reflects the subjects of the talks. 

Science Week 2018

Science week will be from the 18th-21st June 2018.  

The Rosalind Franklin lecture is by Prof Eva Nogales from UC Berkeley on on her work in cryo-electron microscopy. 2018 is the 60th anniversary of the death of Rosalind Franklin.

Earth and Planetary sciences will be presenting talks on Shark's teeth and the Paektu/Changbaishan volcano that spans the North Korea/China border.  

Psychological Sciences will present talks on self-representation of body and mind and building resilience in breast cancer.

Take a look at the full programme and book.