Sci Vee: web video and science publications

Sci Vee allows scientists to upload an audio or video file and synchronise it to their paper. It can be used by scientists to summarise their research and may turn to a useful way of encouraging discussion about a publication and of raising awareness of its contents. For example, see Jenny Gu explaining her paper on Wiggle—Predicting Functionally Flexible Regions from Primary Sequence.


Sci Vee only allows you to upload synchronise audio and video with papers published in open access journals.

Find out more about Sci Vee at Slashdot.

Advance Notice: RSC Website Downtime

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be unavailable from 08:00 GMT on Saturday 1 September until 16:00 GMT on Sunday 2 September 2007 for an essential upgrade. This will mean that there will be no access to RSC’s online products and services via its website during this period.

The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this downtime may cause.

Wikis in Plain English

A Wiki is a collaborative web site that anyone with access to it can edit but this really doesn't really explain how useful Wiki's are. Common Craft have created a short video to introduce Wikis and what they can do and, in their words, to inspire someone to create the next Wikipedia.

Social bookmarking in plain English

Social bookmarking tools help you to find, organise and share web pages. Common craft have created an introduction to Social Bookmarking in plain English.

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The video focuses on Del.icio.us but other tools you could use include Connotea, 2collab, Furl and Ma.gnolia

Keeping up to date using RSS

RSS in plain English - learn how to keep up to date using RSS feeds.

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Calculate your h-index with Scopus

The h-index is used to quantify scientific productivity of scientists. It is based on the number of papers published by the scientist and on how often these papers are cited in papers written by other scientists.

The h-index is built into Scopus as to facilitate the evaluation of research performance. The information provided includes unique graphs that enable scientists to interpret the value of the h-index by displaying publication and citation trends over time.

To find out how to use the h-index in Scopus watch this video

Over 6,000 E-Books from Taylor & Francis purchased

The Library is delighted to announce that it has purchased over 6,000 e-books in all subject areas from the Taylor and Francis Group.

The majority of titles are from the Routledge and Taylor and Francis imprints, but other imprints include A.A. Balkema, Auerbach Publications, BIOS Scientific Publications, Brunner-Routledge, Chapman and Hall, CRC Press, Europa Publication, Fitzroy Dearborn, Frank Cass, Marcel Dekker, Psychology Press, Routledge-Cavendish and Spon Press.

Each e-book will appear in the Library Catalogue soon, but until then they can be access directly from the Tand F e-books site (on-campus only initially).

Sydney Jones Library Closed Saturday 4th August

The Sydney Jones Library will be closed all day Saturday 4th August to allow essential maintenance to be carried out.

We apologise for any incovenience this may cause.

Sydney Jones Library Short Loan Collection

The Short Loan collection in the Sydney Jones Library is being moved into the new building and will be unavailable between Monday 6th August and Wednesday August 15th.

(Almost) all ScienceDirect e-journal backfiles purchased

The Library is delighted to announce that it has been able to purchase almost all of the remaining Elsevier e-journal backfiles on the ScienceDirect platform. We now have access to the full backfiles of more than 1,400 e-journals on ScienceDirect.

We have purchased the following backfile collections:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Computer Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Energy and Power
Immunology and Microbiology
Medicine and Dentistry
Neuroscience
Nursing and Health Professions
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

The only ScienceDirect backfiles that we do not own are The Lancet and the small Academic Press supplements to the original backfiles that we bought back in 2001 (Physics, Chemistry, etc).

All Blackwell Publishing e-journal backfiles purchased

The Library is delighted to announce that it has been able to purchase all of the remaining Blackwell Publishing e-journal backfiles. We now have access to the full backfiles of more than 200 e-journals on Blackwell Synergy, and we will be granted access to the backfiles of the remaining titles as the digitisation process is completed by the publisher and the titles are released on Synergy.

Catalogue records are in the process of being updated, and SFX (the software underlying 'find it @ liverpool') has been quickly updated and will be updated more carefully later on.