Best Science Books 2009

A good selection of 2009 Science Books from The Economist.

Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity. By Mike Hulme.
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species. By Sean B. Carroll.
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom. By Graham Farmelo.
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. By Richard Wrangham.

Enjoy reading!
Jayati

2009 Nobel Prize & Article

Check out the 2009 Nobel Prize winners from http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/2009.html

You can read the article “Telomeres, Telomerase and Cancer,” by Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Nobel Prize winners in Medicine. This article was originally published in Scientific American, February 1996, Vol. 274 Issue 2, p92. Because of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Scientific American has made an html version freely available; the pdf version with illustrations is available to UNC users by searching in the Scientific American online.

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Google Book Settlement Deadline for Authors: Sept. 4

The October 2008 proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the Google Books digitization project has serious implications for every author of a published book before January 5, 2009. Authors must decide whether to participate in the settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuit brought against Google.These decisions are important because they will affect the ability of authors to control future access to their books. Authors can make a choice, and it must be made by Sept. 4, 2009. A handout for authors about how to respond to the settlement is available from the Association of Research Libraries website.

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Farewell to the printed monograph

The University of Michigan Press is announced couple of weeks ago that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital.
Press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year -- currently in book form -- to be released only in digital editions within two years. Readers will still be able to use print-on-demand systems to read a print monograph. However, the digital monograph will be the primary way of publication. While many university presses are experimenting with digital publishing, the Michigan announcement probably the first one by a major university press.

Please click here to read the full article in Inside HigherEd.
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Scitable

Scitable is a collaborative learning space for science undergraduates, a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.

In Scitable, faculty can create a classroom group and student can as ask expert for question or access 200 key concepts.

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Best Science Books 2008

Here are Best Science Books list from 3 renowned publications.

New York Times - The 10 Best Books of 2008
Publishers Weekly - Top 10 Sci-Tech Books
Booklist Online - PW's Best Books of the Year

Enjoy & happy holidays!
Jayati

PubMed Advanced Search Option

PubMed Advanced Search will soon no longer be a beta site. It is now the place to go to use features such as field searching and limits. It looks like many of us are looking forward to use this advance search option in PubMed.

For more information please click here.

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