Science Librarian's Blog

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Use of bioscience PhD theses in research - survey

The British Library and the Society Of Biology are running a survey on the use of bioscience PhD theses. Whether you have never used a bioscience PhD thesis, or if you use them every day, they would love to hear your views. You could win a £50 BL shop voucher!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MGR6VSZ

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Did you miss our Saturday workshop on Web Of Science?

Did you miss our Saturday workshop on Web Of Science?

Here are some resources to help you make the most of this powerful journal article database:

Birkbeck Library guide to Web Of Science
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/DWOK2012.pdf/at_download/file

Web Of Science Quick Reference Card
http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/qrc/wos-corecoll_qrc_en.pdf

Online tutorials
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-knowledge/

YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining

Friday, 14 February 2014

TalkScience at the British Library

Discuss scientific topics with like-minded people at the British Library's TalkScience evenings.
TalkScience@BL are café scientifique style events where an expert provides a short yet provocative introduction, followed by a discussion amongst the audience.

The next event is Patently Obvious? on 4th March
Scientists have long used patents to protect their inventions and allow them opportunities to commercialise their work. However, recent attempts to patent human gene sequences have raised questions over whether a sequence of DNA is an invention or a discovery and highlighted some of the challenges in assessing the patentability of biomedical developments.

More details and booking:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/experthelp/science/talkscience/talkscience.html

Friday, 31 January 2014

Filling up fast!

There are only 10 places left on our Web Of Knowledge workshop on 15th Feb, don't miss out on learning to use this powerful search tool - book your place here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB

See what previous participants have said about our workshops:

"This was a really very well delivered clear workshop "

"Very very good session - will be really useful"

"Very well-structured, thought through and practical workshop "

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Workshop on Web Of Knowledge

Our Saturday workshop programme for this term is now available.
A useful one for Science students is the Introduction to the Web Of Knowledge (now called Web Of Science) workshop on Feb 15th. This database enable you to search the contents of over 6,000 science journals and 5,000 biomedical journals by topic or author and also allows you to find articles that have cited useful articles that you have found.
There is also a workshop on how to keep up to date in your subject area (useful if you are doing a long project or dissertation).
There are two workshops on protecting and promoting yourself on the internet and social media - Who Am I? My Digital Footprint and Manage Your Online Reputation.
Book your place at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck/global/workshop_timetable?orgunit=LIB
All sessions will take place in the Library seminar room on Level 1 of the Library. We look forward to seeing you at a workshop.

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Web Of Science - downtime and redesign

The Web Of Science databases will be intermittently unavailable from Sunday January 12, 2014, 2pm and ending by Monday, January 13, 2014 at 2am.
This downtime is to allow for a major upgrade to the interface, which will be completely redesigned.

More details on the changes to follow next week, but here's a sneak preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulfu0njSZN0