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

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

Birkbeck Science Week

Birkbeck Science Week events include lectures by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Gabriel Waksman, Professor Helen Saibil, Dr Philip Hopley, Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards, Professor Jacqueline Barnes and Professor Denis Mareschal. Sign up here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/science/news/Science%20Week%202011

Some new ebooks

Some new ebooks for Biological Sciences and Earth & Planetary Sciences available now via the Library catalogue:

Carter, John. B. Virology http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?446253
Dunai, T. J. Cosmogenic Nuclides http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?445682 Franklin, T.J and Snow, G.A. Biochemistry and molecular biology of antimicrobial drug action http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?445684 Lackie, J.M. Dictionary of cell and molecular biology http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?446373 McSween, H.Y. and Huss, G.R. Cosmochemistry http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?445683 Ruffell, A. and McKinley, J. Geoforensics http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?447143 Wacey, D Early life on Earth http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?442878 Walford, N. Practical statistics for geographers and earth scientists http://ipac.lib.bbk.ac.uk/hipres/info/permalink.html?447144

Sixty Symbols

Sixty Symbols is a collection of fun, easily understandable videos about the symbols used in physics and astronomy and much more, presented by scientists from The University of Nottingham.

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/index.html

Wiley-Blackwell blogs in Earth and Life Sciences

Two blogs I have recently come across from Wiley-Blackwell, the journal publishers, which could help you keep up to date with developments in these two areas:

Earth Sciences http://earth-pages.co.uk/
Life Sciences http://wisciblog.com/

Every couple of weeks a new journal article or book is highlighted and the science around it discussed and, as they are blogs, you can contribute to the discussion too.

International Year of Chemistry

2011 is the International Year of Chemistry http://www.chemistry2011.org/ with activities planned all over the world to promote the public understanding of chemistry.

Here are some of the activities planned in the UK http://www.chemistry2011.org/participate/activities?by_country=1&country=United+Kingdom