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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Web of Science Journal Selection Process

By Kevin Lindstrom on September 24, 2010

Wondering why some journals are in the Web of Science database and others are not? Read the full article here The Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process Why be selective Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers’ current awareness and retrospective information retrieval [...]

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B-mesons making their mind in Fermi Lab

B-mesons making their mind in Fermi Lab

By Eugene Barsky on May 19, 2010

As recent article in NYT discusses new findings in the FermiLab – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/space/18cosmos.html?src=me&ref=general The new effect hinges on the behavior of particularly strange particles called neutral B-mesons, which are famous for not being able to make up their minds. They oscillate back and forth trillions of times a second between their regular state and their [...]

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Why is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence any different from the search for goblins or unicorns?

By Kevin Lindstrom on April 22, 2010

Newsmaker Interview: Imponderables Complicate Hunt For Intelligent Life Beyond Earth Dr. Paul Davies a professor at Arizona State University, Tempe discusses his role in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Read the full interview here. Other articles published by Dr. Davies include Are ALIENS among Us? Davies, Paul, Scientific American, Dec2007, Vol. 297, Issue [...]

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts smashing

By Eugene Barsky on March 30, 2010

According to its press release, the LHC started smashing particles today. See also the story in NYT – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/31collider.html?bl

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2008 Impact Factors for Elsevier Earth and Planetary Sciences Journals

By Kevin Lindstrom on March 22, 2010

For a complete list of impact factors, go to the Elsevier Earth Science link. Earth-Science Reviews 2008 Impact Factor 6.558 2007 Impact Factor 4.310 Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 2008 Impact Factor 4.235 2007 Impact Factor 3.665 Earth And Planetary Science Letters 2008 Impact Factor 3.955 2007 Impact Factor 3.873 Precambrian Research 2008 Impact Factor 3.736 [...]

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SCImago Journal Ranking – Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – Eigenfactor

By Kevin Lindstrom on December 18, 2009

There are currently two very useful journal rankings SCImago and JCR. These rankings allow you to display amongst other things the h-index for a specific journal or a grouping of journals based on subject “The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information [...]

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“It’s the data, stupid.”

“It’s the data, stupid.”

By Eugene Barsky on December 15, 2009

NYT today has an article on an issue of great importance to all science disciplines – data management. The article – “A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing” overviews the new book published by Microsoft researchers – “The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery.” The book is available in full text from Microsoft [...]

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The 2010 Patex Bizarre Patents Calendar is Now Available

By Kevin Lindstrom on December 11, 2009

Ron Simmer Patent and IP Expert has once agained issued his Patex Bizarre Patents Calendar. This calendar documents the creative spirt of the human race reflected in patents. Check out Ron’s excellent site of patent and intellectual property links at the Patex website. Submitted by Kevin Lindstrom Science and Engineering Liaison Librarian

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How Institutitions Shape Careers

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 13, 2009

Sociologist Joseph Hermanowicz’ new book Lives in Science How Institutions Affect Academic Careers describes how the prestige of academic institutions often shapes the career of the individual. “For all but a handful of the scientists he studies, the prestige of their institution pretty much determines their professional–and even their personal–destiny. Of the more than 4000 [...]

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