verifying reference lists

Getting a publication ready? Maybe you need to verify your bibliography, or want assistance securing copyright permission for your figures. Look no further than your friendly, neighborhood librarian for all your pre-pub needs. We'll be happy to review your reference list and error check it for you. We can help you organize copyright permissions for your paper, just ask. We will identify the copyright owner and even locate and complete the permission forms for you. (They get submitted by the author, however, so the permission is sure to be in your name!).
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DeepDyve - a developing model for sci-tech information access?

DeepDyve is a site that allows you to search, browse, preview, and read approximately 32 million scientific, technical, and medical articles from publishers such as Springer, Taylor and Francis, and Elsevier.


Many of the journals included in DeepDyve are open access, meaning anyone can read them at no charge. However, DeepDyve also includes many journals that are typically accessed full text via subscription only. Users can preview those articles at no charge, but - much like Google's Book Search or Amazon's Look Inside the Book feature - cannot those previews can't be printed or saved. What makes DeepDyve different from other deep web search engines is the option to 'rent' the full text of an article normally available via subscription only for 99 cents. This 'rental' allows the user to view the full text of the article for an unlimited number of times for 24 hours.

DeepDyve also offers two different 'rental plans', each at different price points, allowed viewing periods, and number of downloads permitted per month. DeepDyve currently only accepts PayPal for payment, but is investigating other payment options.

Use the basic search:

or click on the 'Refine' button to the left of the Search button to refine your search using DeepDyve's advanced filters.

DeepDyve allows users to enter full sentences, or even full paragraphs, as search terms. You'll typically get a large number of results, but those can be easily narrowed using those advanced filters.

Having electronic access to scholarly information is vital to researchers and continuing research, and is important to everyone for educational and information discovery purposes. This might be an emerging model for electronic access to scientific and technical information, but is certainly still only in its beginning stages. It will be interesting to watch this type of site and see how it develops, and how it affects electronic access and scientific and technical publishing.

Harvard University Library's open-access repository

Harvard University Library has announced the launch of DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard), an open-access repository for papers and scholarly works written by the Harvard University community. DASH currently includes over 1,500 items, with additional items added each week. This repository gives the global research community access to Harvard-based research in topics such as biochemistry, nanotechnology, numerical analysis, thermodynamics, and more.

University departments currently contributing to DASH are the Harvard Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Other departments, such as Engineering and Applied Sciences, will also contribute to DASH as the repository grows. Visitors to DASH can search and browse both of these collections, and view PDFs of each submission:

Sign up for alerts and find out when new material is added to the repository - see the latest in Harvard research, as well as past scholarly works from the Harvard community, now made available through the DASH repository.

Open access, peer-reviewed journals in biology, chemistry, and physics

BioMed Central is an open access, peer-reviewed publisher of 199 journals covering topics medical and biology topics such as biotechnology, biochemistry, plant chemistry, cheminformatics, and more.


Many BioMed Central journals are citation-tracked by Scopus and Google Scholar, and many also have Impact Factors. BioMed Central also offers additional products and services that require a subscription, but the majority of BioMed Central information is open access and freely available to all. Register for free with the site for alerts and updates, as well as additional information.

BioMed Central also supports open access publishing as a sustainable model for scientific publishing, as it allows increased and more timely access to and dissemination of current and developing research:

"Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License. This license allows articles to be freely downloaded from the BioMed Central website, and also allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited..."

Visit the BioMed Central website for more information, or to browse their growing journal collection. You can also visit PhysMath Central and Chemistry Central for open access chemistry, physics, and math journals.

Science knowledge transfer with sciencestage.com

ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library, and meeting venue all in one. ScienceStage.com will enable scientists, lecturers, academics, students and practitioners from all fields to present and share ideas and findings through video streaming, audio streaming and text documents. Users can make use of classical community functions like chat, email, blog etc., and can install virtual rooms, assess contributions, make interesting contacts and more.

ScienceStage.com offers the following primary features:
- Publishing and managing of video and audio clips (e.g. lectures, interviews, documentaries)
- Publishing and managing of text documents (e.g. scientific papers, lecture notes, study documents)
- Commenting, assessing of contributions and embedding of all media
- Creation of playlists and lists of favorites
- Community and networking functions: creating of personal or institutional profiles (e.g. for individuals, universities, institutes, publishers), messaging, contacting, commenting
- Creating of groups (e.g. for virtual classroom, venue, special topics)