New Library workshops for Science students

Our new Saturday workshop programme is now out. There are several that are useful for Science students:

*Introduction to the Web of Knowledge Sat 09 Feb 11.30am-1pm
An introduction to searching the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes with time for some hands-on practice.

*Introduction to EndNote Web (reference management software) Sat 09 Mar 11.30am-1pm
EndNote Web helps you store, manage and cite your references correctly.

*Keep up to date using current awareness services Sat 16 Mar 11.30am-1pm
Keep up to date with the latest journal articles in your field by using current awareness services such as   ZETOC.

To find out more and to book a place for any of these workshops, go to
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB

I hope to see you at a workshop. If you can't make the workshops but would like some help with these topics, or any other help with finding information and using Library resources, please contact me on s.godsell@bbk.ac.uk

Science Magazine online

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our online subscription to Science magazine, as the cost of renewing for 2013 has doubled from $3,000 to over $6,000. We have access to back volumes up to 2006 via our subscrition to JSTOR and we still have a print subscription - copies can be found up on Level 4 of the Library. Academic staff can request for articles to be scanned by the Library in order to make them available via Moodle.

We hope that we may be able to resume our subscription in 2014.

Open Access Week

This week is Open Access Week - promoting open access to publicly-funded research.

Want to know more?

It's all at http://www.openaccessweek.org/ where you can find out more about open access, watch videos, find out about events that are taking place as part of Open Access Week and even buy the tee-shirt!

American Chemical Society event for researchers





There is an ACS on Campus event at UCL next week (October 24th) and students from all colleges are welcome. There will be presentations on topics such as careers in Chemistry, how to publish your research and copyright and ethics in scholarly communication, as well as refreshments at the Science Cafe networking event.

More details here http://acsoncampus.acs.org/events/university-college-london-london-uk/



Wallace Online

Following on from the Darwin Online project http://darwin-online.org.uk/ which saw Darwin's works and letters made available online, a new project has made available the writings of Alfred Russell Wallace, who independently formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection, and announced it in tandem with Darwin in July 1858. The archive is at http://wallace-online.org/ and there is an article about both archives on the BBC web site here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19744135

Welcome to new Science students

Welcome to all new Birkbeck Science students. If you'd like to learn more about the Library and its resources, come along to a Library tour and/or a Saturday workshop this term.

The Library tours are at 5.30pm every day Monday-Friday and last about 20 minutes. There's no need to book, just come to the Library entrance on the ground floor.

The Saturday workshops cover using the Library catalogue and ejournals - details are here
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/infoskills

To familiarise yourself with the resources that are most useful for you, take a look at the Library subject guide for your subject - there are guide for Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Earth & Planetary Sciences

A great example of how Open Access can change the world

A teenager has discovered a new test for pancreatic cancer by using journal articles that were available on open access http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19291258


Just one great reason to publish your research in open access journals.

Another good reason is that many funding bodies and research councils now require that research funded by them is put on open access.

Read the new policy from Research Councils UK here http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx
and from the Medical Research Council here http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/Ethicsresearchguidance/Openaccesspublishing/index.htm
The Wellcome Trust have a video here http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/index.htm

More information on open access is here:
http://open-access.org.uk/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html