Biological Sciences
Monday 14 March 2026
- Infotrieve to Launch Life Science Research Center - :: Paula Hane reports the following on InfoToday:March 14, 2005 — Infotrieve, Inc. (http://www.infotrieve.com), a company that has specialized in document delivery for information professionals in the STM (scientific, technical, and medical) markets, has announced the upcoming launch of a... (12:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 2 December 2025
- Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, First Series - :: Reading through the December issue of Choice, I stumbled upon a rare gem of early American scientific publishing. Using an IMLS grant, the Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences has digitized the entire first series... (16:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 28 October 2025
- BioMed Central Provides MARC Records - :: George Porter sent an e-mail about the following:BioMed Central provides MARC records to facilitate the cataloging of their large collection of Open Access journals. A delimited spreadsheet containing titles, URLs, ISSNs, journal abbreviation and date of initial publication is... (10:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 20 September 2025
- News Items of Interest from Information Today - Amazon Launches A9.com Search Site A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site builds on a beta test version the company introduced in April 2004 that offered Google... (10:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 19 August 2025
- Cell Press Announces Free Access to Recent Online Archive - :: From the Cell web site:Cell Press is pleased to announce that access to the recent online archive of Cell and the other premier journals of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent... (09:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 6 May 2025
- Annals of Botany Backfiles Now Available - :: George advises that the Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity established to promote plant science worldwide, has opened their fulltext for free access, following a... (08:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Tuesday 27 April 2025
- Arabidopsis Book - George posted the following biology resource to STS-L. Note that the Arabidopsis Book is open access.The Arabidopsis Book is an Open Access project bringing together an encyclopedic description of one of the most heavily studied plant species. Quoting from the... (08:57 | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 April 2025
- New ClusterMed Organizes PubMed Results - New ClusterMed Organizes PubMed ResultsVivísimo, Inc. (http://vivisimo.com), a provider of clustering and meta-search software for organizing search results, has announced the release of ClusterMed, a new research tool that allows biomedical and life sciences researchers to search the MEDLINE database... (14:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 March 2026
- BioMed Central goes RSS friendly - Today's BioMed Central update mentions their new move to RSS! RSS headline feeds You may have noticed that the home pages and most-viewed articles pages of all BioMed Central journals now include a small XML button. This indicates that there... (08:55 | 0 Comments)
Monday 8 March 2026
- European Cells & Materials now available open access - :: George Porter reports the following on STS-L:European Cells & Materials (ECM) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal jointly produced by the Swiss Society for Biomaterials and the Tissue & Cell Engineering Society. ECM is indexed in BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts,... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 23 February 2026
- Genetics Back-file Freely Available - As posted to STS-L by George Porter...Genetics, published by the Genetics Society of America, has finished retrospective conversion of the journal. Distributed via Highwire Press, the entire back-file conversion project has been gifted to the scientific community. Current material becomes... (12:34 | 0 Comments)
Monday 9 February 2026
- News from IOP - The information below regardings developments to the Institute of Physics' (IOP) Electronic Journals service was received in an e-mail from the IoP.*Electronic Journals Quick Guide* A new step-by-step guide to our Electronic Journals service is now available online. A good... (09:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Monday 2 February 2026
- Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 2/4/04 - New issue: SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #70February 2, 2004 is available now. Of note: an interesting report back on PLoS's first month of publication.... (17:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 January 2026
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Further to my last posting, for a listing of open access journals in biological sciences, or for that matter, other subject areas of interest, be sure to visit the Directory of Open Access Journals (under the direction of a new... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 26 January 2026
- Quantitative Biology at arXiv.org - The following email re: open access materials was posted to STS-L on Friday. I just noticed a new eprint archive at arXiv (formerly xxx.LANL.gov) -- Quantitative Biology. Subject groupings include: # BM - Biomolecules # CB - Cell Behavior #... (14:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 16 January 2026
- ISI buys BIOSIS - And the number continues to shrink...Thomson Corp. said yesterday that it had acquired the publishing assets of Philadelphia-based Biological Abstracts Inc. and Biosis, a life-sciences indexing service. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Friday, were not disclosed. The nonprofit... (12:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 December 2025
- OUP and continuous online publication model - :: Back in August we posted about OUP's move towards experimenting with new online publishing model. A few more details have been released. Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is adopting a continuous online... (09:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- PLoS Biology -- December Issue Now Out - :: Vol 1(3) is here! Please let your friends and colleagues know that a new issue of PLoS Biology is up and running, and invite them to read it for free at http://www.plosbiology.org. PLoS has just announced [last week] that... (09:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 December 2025
- Max Planck Research Awards 2003 Presented - :: "As part of the efforts to promote international cooperation in science, the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented the Max Planck Research Award for 2003 on November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM to 12 scientists... (11:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 3 December 2025
- E-Biosci - The latest issue of Open Access Now is now available online. From the very interesting article Fingerprinting the Literature...Grivell likes to think of E-BioSci as a discovery tool, and he emphasizes the differences between E-BioSci and more conventional bibliographic service... (12:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 21 October 2025
- U Alberta Mech Engineers Make Important Energy Breakthrough, More on PLoS Biology - :: University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Dr Daniel Kwok and Dr Larry Kostiuk (additional information here), working with two graduate students, Fuzhi Lu (L) and Jun Wang (R), have discovered a new way to produce electricity, the first such... (05:14 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Interview with Tim Berners-Lee - :: Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the world wide web in 1989. He shares his ideas of a more "intelligent" web in this interview from the BBC. :: Today's website is from the Life Sciences Libraries at the University... (20:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 15 August 2025
- in-Cites, Project Links - :: From in-Cites: The 20 Most-Cited Countries in Geosciences, January 1993-April 2003, and Microbiology journals ranked by impact. :: Project Links: Mathematics and It's Applications in Engineering & Science http://links.math.rpi.edu/ "Integrating the concepts of higher math with their applications in... (13:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 10 July 2025
- Internet Bird Collection (IBC) - The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna. It is an on-line audiovisual library of footage of the world's birds that is available to the general public free... (11:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)