Coming soon! Scitopia.org

Scitopia.org is a major federated vertical search engine is scheduled to launch at the SLA annual meeting in the first week of June. Here is a list of the world’s leading science and technology societies who are founding partners of this search portal.

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
IEEE Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
SPIESociety of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

"The service's leaders hope more societies will join them soon in this effort to bring a top-quality, finished scientific product to the fore in a world coming to be dominated by Google Scholar." For more information please read the full article here.
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Mathematics Awareness Month

April is the Mathematics Awareness Month. The American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announced that the theme for the month is Mathematics and the Brain. Please visit the following URL to find out more information about Mathematics Awareness Month.
http://www.mathaware.org/index.html

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American Society for Cell Biology & Open Access

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), has announced its “Position on Public Access to Scientific Literature,” calling for free public access to federally funded research within six months of publication. ASCB is a non-profit scientific society with a membership over 1100 and it also publishes high-impact monthly journals like Molecular Biology of the Cell.
ASCB has provided free access after a two-month embargo since 2001 and has experienced no adverse impact on its finances.

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