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Encyclopedia of Environmentrics
Wiley offers us a complimentary 6 month subscription to the Encyclopedia of Environmetrics where you will be able to download a PDF of any article in the encyclopedia. The subscriptions runs until 8 September 2013.
The Encyclopedia of Environmetrics covers the development and application of quantitative methods in the environmental sciences. It provides essential tools for understanding, predicting, and controlling the impacts of agents, both man-made and natural, which affect the environment. Basic and applied research in this area covers a broad range of topics. Primary among these are the quantitative sciences, such as statistics, probability and applied mathematics, chemometrics, and econometrics. Applications are also important in, for example in, ecology and environmental biology, public health, atmospheric science, geology, engineering, risk management, and regulatory/governmental policy amongst others.
Presenting state of the art information in a readable, highly accessible style, the scope and coverage provided by the Encyclopedia of Environmetrics will ensure its place as the landmark reference for the many scientists, educators, and decision-makers working across this multidisciplinary field.
Enter the encyclopedia here. for login please consult the electronic journals list
For questions please contact the library.
Drs M. Th. Koelen
Head Library ITC
Tel. (31) 53 4874 202
E-mail: m.t.koelen@utwente.nl
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Elsevier full text articles and Adobe reader – grey buttons
Users of Adobe Reader X may have noticed the disk icon in the Reader toolbar is disabled when opening PDF files within a web browser. This is new behaviour Adobe introduced in the latest version of their free Reader software, and is not caused by any changes to ScienceDirect. As always, ScienceDirect Users are able to download, save, and print any subscribed article or book chapter.
As a convenience to our ScienceDirect users who want to easily save ScienceDirect articles and book chapters to your desktop, we are providing these instructions to help you work around this limitation in Adobe Reader X. The two work-around options are: (1) Download a PDF file to your hard disk; (2) Configure the browser to open PDF files in an Acrobat window.
The WebGL Globe : http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe
The WebGL Globe is an open platform for geographic data visualization. We encourage you to copy the code, add your own data, and create your own.
If you do create your own globe, please share it with us.
Features:
- Latitude / longitude data spikes
- Color gradients, based on data value or type
- Mouse wheel to zoom
- More features are under development...
Visualizing Facebook
Placebook is the geographic representation of facebook use.
You can see where, how many, or what percentage of people in a specific country use facebook.
You can also allow Placebook to use your friends data and construct your own worldmap of friends!
Pop quiz: please answer before accessing this site!
Which country in the world has the Highes percentage of facebook users?
Have a look at: http://geographics.cz/socialMap/
Free Trial Cambridge Books Online
The University Library offers a trial subscription to Cambridge Books Online containing so called E-books until the 1st of November 2011.
Cambridge Books Online offers content in many fields of contemporary scholarship, including world-renowned books in science, technology and medicine, as well as the humanities and social sciences.
Key Features
- Around 13,000 frontlist & backlist titles
- Dynamic content and feature set, with frequent addition of new titles and regular functionality enhancements
- Titles from over 30 Cambridge world renowned subject areas
- Powerful quick search, advanced search and browse capabilities
Click here in order to reach the Cambridge Books Online.
Please feel free to give your comment about Cambridge Books Online and let us know if you think a subscription will be useful. (Click here to mail to Marga Koelen.)
News on the ITC Donation Program
The ITC Library book and journal donations have been well received in Nigeria.
Read the interview of Dr. Babatunde Nuga, who is an ITC Alumnus and now Head of the Faculty of Crop Protection and Soil Science at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, by Humphrey Ugo in the UNIPORT Weekly of August 29, 2011, page 3.
New opening hours ITC Library as of 1 September 2011
| Monday | 8.30 – 18.00 |
| Tuesday | 8.30 – 18.00 |
| Wednesday | 8.30 – 18.00 |
| Thursday | 8.30 – 18.00 |
| Friday | 8.30 – 18.00 |
Project Gutenberg
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“Plato goes mobile” Read hundreds of classics as e-books on your mobile, pad, or laptop. Sherlock Holmes, Nietsche, Jules Verne, Kafka or Beatrice Potter. www.gutenberg.org (regular) / m.gutenberg.org (mobile) |
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Access to the SPIE Digital Library
The University Library offers you a subscription to the SPIE Digital Library, an extensive database on optics and photonics research.
The SPIE Digital Library includes conference proceedings, peer-reviewed journal articles and eBooks from the areas of astronomy, biophotonics, nanotechnology, sensors, lasers, electro-optics, communications, imaging, and more.
A ‘Quick Start Guide’ provides an overview of the platform, and shows you how to set-up RSS feeds and utilize bibliographic, bookmarking, and research tools.
On spie.org/x34650.xml you can subscribe for monthly updates of the SPIE Digital Library Top 10.
State of the internet 2011
The Internet is a strange, huge beast. It is getting bigger, faster and more mobile each day. Ferocious social networks fight each other to be on top and gain more of our attention and personal information. An entire economy is generated from our browsing habits.
Click here to launch an infographic on internet and its impact:
www.onlineschools.org/state-of-the-internet/soti.html
While the Internet has an amazing reach, it still has room to grow. While 71% of the people in developed countries are online, only 21% of those in developing countries have access so far. In spite of such regional disparities, the Internet continues to become faster and more affordable overall. As the number of users increases, so does the sheer amount of money, information and opinions exchanged online. When it comes to the Internet's future, most specialists are optimistic: 64% of them believe the flow of information online will remain mostly free rather than falling under the control of powerful institutions and 81% believe the Internet will enhance human intelligence.
Source: www.onlineschools.org/state-of-the-internet
Problem Web of Science and Internet Explorer 9.0 (compatibility issue)
The search results might not load completely when you access Web of Knowledge in Internet Explorer 9. Please note that the databases on Web of Knowledge platform do not support Internet Explorer 9.
So please try to access the platform using a browser that is compatible. The below link will provide you the list of browsers that are supported:
http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOKRS410B4/help/WOS/whatsnew_wos.html#system_requirements
The product development team of Thomson is working on it with high priority; however they are unable to give a timeframe on when this would be fixed.
Microsoft itself gives the following solution on their website: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197
Enable Compatibility View for specific websites in Internet Explorer
To enable Compatibility View for specific websites that are not displayed correctly or that are not working correctly, follow these steps:
- Open the website that is not displayed correctly or that does not work correctly in Internet Explorer 8 or in Internet Explorer 9.
- Click the Compatibility View button that is located directly to the right side of the address bar next to the Refresh button.
Or, on the Tools menu, click to select the option Compatibility View. If the Tools menu is not displayed, press ALT to display the Tools menu.
Notes
- If the Compatibility View button does not appear on the right side of the address bar, or if the command is not available under the Tools menu, you cannot use this method. You may be experiencing a different problem, or the network administrator may have used a Group Policy setting to configure the Compatibility View settings on your computer.
- If you are using a home computer, see the "Similar problems and solutions and support information" section for alternative steps.
- If you are using a computer in an enterprise environment, contact your administrator or the help desk.
- If this method worked, you may have to repeat this method for each website that experiences these problems.
Note When you use this method to fix a website, Internet Explorer saves your Compatibility View setting for that website. Every time that you visit that site, Compatibility View will be used.
To stop a website from running in Compatibility View, follow these steps:
- Click Tools, and then click to select option Compatibility View.
- You can also add or remove specific websites from Compatibility View without actually visiting each website.
Biodiversity Heritage Library BHL
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
BHL content may be freely viewed through the online reader or downloaded in part or as a complete work in PDF, OCR text, or JPG2000 file formats.
Africa
Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Africa aims to give increased attention to African production of knowledge, highlighting the work of local African thinkers and writers, emerging social and cultural trends 'on the ground', and links between local and national levels of society. At the same time, it maintains its commitment to the theoretically informed analysis of the realities of Africa's own cultural categories. Each issue contains six or seven major articles, arranged thematically, extensive review essays and substantial book reviews. Special issues are published annually.
New Journal Backfiles from Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell has recently added over half million pages to the Backfile Collection on Wiley Online Library. Here's is a small example of the newly digitised titles, that can be of interest for ITC:
- Acta Zoologica
- Island Arc
- Oikos : synthesising ecology
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
See also: Wiley's Open Access Backfiles
Server maintenance
March 17th - March 24th
The following services may be off-line for some time: 
- Adlib library catalogue,
- Academic output pages,
- Staff resumes,
- Departmental publication pages and
- Research theme output pages.
Our apologies for this inconvenience.
Library staff.
SciVerse scheduled outage
Dear ITC library users,
Please note that SciVerse has scheduled outages in the coming weekend of February 26th - 27th, 2011.
The following SciVerse products are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 12 hours on Saturday, February 26th due to scheduled upgrades:
- ScienceDirect
- Scopus
- Hub
- Journals Consult
- Applications (for beta participants)
Down time by region is expected to be as follows:
- U.S. Eastern Standard Time (EST): 8:00AM EST - 8:00PM EST, Saturday, February 26th
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 1:00PM GMT, Saturday, February 26th - 1:00AM GMT, Sunday, February 27th
- Singapore Time (SGT): 9:00PM SGT, Saturday, February 26th - 9:00AM SGT, Sunday, February 27th
E · B · L e-Books
EBL online book host provides great 'Read Online' options, but of course also a 'Download entire book' function.
You can borrow eBooks for 2 or 3 days, again and again.
Please install Adobe digital reader before you download complete EBL eBooks.
Have a look at for example these eBooks:
Principles of Modeling Uncertainties in Spatial Data and Spatial Analyses / Shi, Wenzhong
Dimensions of the Sustainable City, 2 / Jenks, Michael
Basic Statistics : Understanding Conventional Methods and Modern Insights / Wilcox, Rand R.
Use the Help/Feedback tab to guide you through the process of making optimal use of the E.B.L library.
Can I read EBL eBooks on portable devices?
Patrons using iPods or iPhones can download EBL content to their Apple device and read via the free Bluefire Reader app.
Downloaded EBL eBooks can also be transferred to any portable eBook reader that supports Adobe Digital Editions (ADE). There's a list of these compatible devices on Adobe's supported devices page.
In addition to these options, all portable devices with browser support can access EBL and Read Online via the web.
Web of Science, Conference Proceedings
As of January 2011, the library has access to the Conference Proceedings Citation Index of WoS: the Conference Proceedings Citation Index is an integrated index within Web of Science®.
The Conference Proceedings Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide.
This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.
Two editions cover the sciences and social sciences.
On the website of Thomson you can find a list with all Conference Proceedings:
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/conf_proceedings_citation_index/
Full text access to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) digital library
JGR : 1949 - 1977
JGR: A: SPACE PHYSICS 1978 - ...
JGR: B: SOLID EARTH 1978 - ...
JGR: C: OCEANS 1978 - ...
JGR: D: ATMOSPHERES 1984 - ...
JGR: E: PLANETS 1991 - ...
JGR: F: EARTH SURFACES 2003 - ...
JGR: G: BIOGEOSCIENCES 2005 - ...
and others.
Top tips from the ITC Library collection:
Life : the challenges of life, reptiles and amphibians, mamals, fish, birds, insects, hunters and hunted, creatures of the deep, plants, primates : 5 DVD, BBC. 2010.
Encounters at the end of the World. Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film.
Stayin' alive in Jo'burg / I am Gurgaon : the new urban India / Coming to the city / Grand Paris VPRO, 2009. - DVD (Documentary : 105 min.) 4 parts.
Understanding calculus : problems, solutions and tips. 6 DVD's with video lessons and 1 study workbook 2010. - 30 min per lesson
Population of African Cities To Triple
African city populations will more than triple over the next 40 years, warns UN-HABITAT’s new report. (24 November 2010)
http://www.unhabitat.org/documents/SACR-ALL-10-FINAL.pdf
ASPRS Journal Seeks Applications Articles and Proposal for Special Issues
Letter from PE&RS Editor-in-Chief Russ Congalton
Dear ASPRS Members and Readers of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing,
The Editorial Team of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS) has been working hard to better meet the needs of our readers. One of my major goals when I became Editor-in-Chief in January, 2008 was to reduce the time between final acceptance of a paper and it appearing in the journal. We have accomplished this goal by putting electronic pre-print versions of papers on the ASPRS website as soon as they are available and we have reduced the actual time of publication. Currently, the queue is at 6-7 months.
In addition, in response to member feedback, we want to have an "Applications" article published in every issue. "Applications" papers will emphasize a specific application or practical aspect of our profession and will be reviewed using slightly different criteria than the other peer-reviewed papers. The review of our other papers includes evaluating if the method or technique presented is new or innovative. "Applications" papers will not need to meet that requirement. However, "Applications" papers must be timely and relevant and can not simply be the presentation of a well-established technique or method. This article will be peer-reviewed and will be the last article in the peer-reviewed section of the journal. The goal of this paper will be to provide a focus for practical and applied research results to our readers. Many of our peer-reviewed papers already have a practical and/or applied focus while many also have a theoretical nature. The monthly "Applications" paper will provide an easily indentified paper that anyone interested in the applied or practical aspects of our profession should read. To submit an "Applications" paper, the complete instructions for peer-reviewed papers is online at http://www.asprs.org/society/committees/jpc/jpc_instr.html.
Finally, we are happy to invite those of you who are interested to become the guest editor of a Special Issue. Special Issues are an important component of PE&RS so if there is a topic or theme that you think would make a great Special Issue we encourage you to submit a proposal. To propose a theme for a Special Issue, and/or to serve as Guest Editor for such Special Issues, please submit a short written proposal to me at russ.congalton@unh.edu for approval before proceeding. This proposal must include your contact information, the specific subject of the Special Issue, a short justification of why this should be a Special Issue, and any other pertinent information.
We are excited about continuing to meet all of our members needs with a variety of information contained within PE&RS every month. Thanks to all of you who contribute articles, review articles, or serve in other ways to make our journal effective.
Russell G. Congalton
Editor-in-Chief, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
New SpringerLink platform has launched!
Recently the new SpringerLink platform was successfully launched.
New features are:
- Related documents for every article & chapter
- Pdf preview for eBook chapter
- Enhanced browising features
- and many more ...
For explanation of the new features see: http://www.springerlink.com/help/about.mpx
Visit SpringerLink through the library website, for full text access to all articles and chapters http://www.itc.nl/Pub/Home/library
The Open Access Week Challenge
11-15 October 2010
Open Access Week 2010 is entering its fourth year, and is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
This year the Open Access Week will be held from 11 to 15 October in the Netherlands.
ITC Faculty wants to pay attention to Open Access Week 2010 on October 11 in the auditorium with two lectures staring 11:00 hrs. Information stands will be situated close to the auditorium and the rest of the week in the library.
You can see both lectures and discussion here:
The Open Access Week Challenge from the Library of ITC-Utwente on Vimeo.
Programme
At 11.00 Prof. Dr. John Mackenzie Owen, professor of information science from the University of Amsterdam will give a lecture with the title: Open Access - promises and pitfalls.
Open Access is a way to eliminate the cost of scientific publications for end-users and their institutions. Open Access could therefore lead to free access to information for all. However, there are many obstacles to achieving this goal, and the road to full open access is not free from pitfalls. In this presentation I shall briefly introduce the concept and background of Open Access, provide an overview of current developments, and discuss some of the major issues, both positive and negative. I shall put special emphasis on aspects that are relevant to developing countries as the possibly chief beneficiaries of Open Access in the long run.
After this lecture, approx.11:45, Wim van de Stelt, Executive Vice President Business Development Springer, will present a lecture with the promising title: Every Dutch corresponding author can publish Open Access in a Springer journal, the libraries pay the fee!
Springer is the second largest scientific Publisher in the world with 2200 journals and 6500 books published annually. Springer has a pragmatic approach to Open Access, if Open Access is a model that our customers (scientists, libraries, universities, funders) want or need. We are happy to provide it, as long as it is sustainable. As a result Springer has a suite of Open Access opportunities for scientists: liberal green policies, Springer Open Choice and Springer Open. Wim van der Stelt will discuss these different models and explain how authors from Dutch universities can take advantage of them. He will also reveal some background on Open Access policies and strategies of a large commercial publisher, and is looking forward to an open discussion about all aspects of the future of scholarly communication.
For this programme all UT researchers are also invited.
| Timesheet | |
|---|---|
| Event starts: | Monday 11 October 2010 at 11:00 |
| Event ends: | Monday 11 October 2010 at 12:30 |
| Venue: | Auditorium ITC |
| Organized by: | ITC Library |
| City where event takes place: | Enschede |
| Country where event takes place: | Netherlands |
| E-mail address: | library@itc.nl |
SciVerse ScienceDirect released
Elsevier’s new SciVerse platform has been launched on August 28, 2010.
New features ScienceDirect/Elsevier:
- SciVerse ScienceDirect offers a dedicated image search with e.g., links to its location within the source article to easily understand the context. Users save time by not having to scan complete articles to find relevant images (e.g. figures, photos, tables, and videos)
- Related articles from Reference Works are offered on the right hand side of an article in order to connect essential and fundamental information from reference works on SciVerse ScienceDirect. In that way users can easily access related basic knowledge for broadening their perspective or better understanding a new and unfamiliar topic.
- Additional information is provided on the article types to quickly check whether the article is of interest. The user will be able to distinguish between original research articles and review articles.
- Launched already in 2008 the Document Download Manager allows users to easily download multiple PDFs, automatically name and save them simultaneously. Now the list of compatible browsers has expanded to include Mozilla Firefox® 2.0, and 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, Chrome 4.0. and Safari 3.0. In addition, MAC Snow leopard and Windows 7 operating systems are also now supported.
For more information see: www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/releases
If you face problems accessing Science Direct please contact ITC Library
For tutorials etc. see: www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/using/quickstarttools
Elsevier Science Direct - Enhanced browser support for easy downloading multiple PDFs
Users spend a lot of time following article links to download PDFs and then finally saving and renaming them individually. With the PDF Download Manager on Science Direct it can be done in a couple of seconds. Initially the service was only supported by a limited number of browsers. Now the list of compatible browsers has expanded.
Please be aware of the Conditions of use of the electronic journals and databases
The use of electronic journals and databases is subject to the following agreements between ITC and publishers:
- The use is limited to staff and students of the ITC and visitors to the ITC Library.
- Only personal use for study, research and education is allowed; commercial use is strictly prohibited.
- Downloading is restricted to reasonable amounts for your personal use.
- Downloaded materials cannot be distributed to third parties.
Once you are logged on, you are personally responsible for all on-line activities in that session, including library access. If you have any questions about the license agreement, or if you need services that appear to fall outside the agreement, please contact the librarian, m.t.koelen@utwente.nl, ext. 202.
Ephorus version 4
The new version of Ephorus has been released on August 5th 2010.
Ephorus version 4 has new design and many new features for instructors and key users. Many improvements will be introduced that will make Ephorus even easier to use!
A number of updates and expansions will improve the results of the plagiarism scan for all Ephorus users, including instructors that use Ephorus via a digital learning environment.
The most important new features are:
General
New design Ephorus will get a new, fresh design.
Better results Ephorus will use more sources in the report. Furthermore, a number of updates in the backend of the application will make the plagiarism scan more effective.
Online help All manuals, tutorials and FAQs will be available in the web application (from August).
My Documents
Document management Instructors can rename, move and mark documents. It will also be possible to perform actions on multiple document, for example archiving an entire folder.
Folder management It will be possible to add and manage folders, and to link a hand-in code to a folder. This way, the instructor can select in which folder submitted documents are stored. This will also remove the need to request new hand-in codes for new courses, since existing hand-in codes can be linked to a new folder!
More documents per page 25, 50 or 100 documents can be shown per page.
New documents are marked as "unread" Instructors can mark documents as "read" or "unread".
Download documents and/or reports Documents and reports can be downloaded easily as a ZIP file.
Upload
Multiple document upload Instructors can select as many documents and ZIP files to upload as they want.
Entering title no longer required If no title is entered, the document’s filename will be used as title. It will still be possible to enter another title for the document.
Reports
Exclude quotes Possible quotes are marked in the report. Instructors can "accept" quotes to exclude them from the report and the scores.
Better display of similarities The use of a new colour scheme makes the report easier to read when printed in black and white, and easier to read for people with colour blindness.
Overlapping sources are grouped Sources reporting the same section of text will be grouped.
Wiley Online library, coming soon...
Over the weekend of 7-8 August 2010, Wiley will launch their new online library.
Therefore, Wiley Interscience will be offline from Saturday, 7 August: 09:00 am London BST (08:00 GMT) till Sunday 8 August: 17:00 pm London (16:00 GMT).
This transition will interrupt service and access to the online resources we have from Wiley.
All hands are on deck to keep the information flowing, our access will have to be aligned to the new service.
Please let us know if you have problems accessing Wiley resources after August 8th.
Librarians Do Gaga
Students and faculty staff of the University of Washington's Information School get their groove on.
Donation Program
The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of Twente University, is one of the world's foremost international professional education establishments in the field of geo-information science and earth observation. At this moment joint educational courses are offered in many countries and ITC Faculty Library is involved in most of these joint courses.
As part of the cooperation programmes ITC library has set up a book and journal donation program for all its partners. ITC Library offers books and journals to these partners; they can choose which publications they are interested in, and the materials will only be sent upon request.
You can access the database at http://www.donationprogram.nl
If you have publications that might be of value to our partners, or any questions or remarks, please contact the library at librarydonationandexchange-itc@utwente.nl
700 eBooks, free online - 40 Years IDRC
IDRC Books publishes - both online and in print - the results of IDRC-supported research on global and regional issues related to sustainable and equitable development.
As a specialist in development literature, IDRC Books contributes to the body of knowledge on these issues to further the causes of global understanding, equity, and well-being.
IDRC Celebrates 40 Years of Innovating for Development
Since its creation in 1970, IDRC has helped researchers in developing countries find new ways to improve health, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and promote democracy. Forty years later, IDRC continues to fund innovative research and knowledge that works.
Throughout the year, IDRC will mark this milestone by highlighting the contributions that our staff and research partners have made over the past four decades.
- As part of the year-long Speakers of Renown series, we welcome internationally respected speakers such as South African politician Trevor Manuel; writer Ramachandra Guha, historian Margaret MacMillan, and geneticist Gebisa Ejeta.
- Every month, a Lasting Impacts minisite will present IDRC-funded research projects that continue to make a difference long after their end dates.
- In a special effort at outreach, IDRC staff members will be visiting Canadian universities from coast to coast as part of CIDA's International Development Week activities.
- In October, we will launch the long-awaited book THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE: 40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact which chronicles the history of IDRC.
To find out about upcoming events and announcements sign up for the IDRC Bulletin.
We look forward to celebrating with all Canadians and the international development community.
World Bank's Open Data Initiative: Their Data is Now Free
April 23, 2010 The World Bank recently announced that they will offer free access to over 2,000 indicators (including many that go back 50 years) through the new online data portal they launched on April 20th at http://data.worldbank.org.
This new site contains the full World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), and Africa Development Indicators (ADI), along with other World Bank databases, including Global Economic Monitor (GEM) (up till now these databases were only availabale via subscription). The new site is designed for both novice and advanced users: you can access basic data by country, topic, and region, as well as download datasets in Excel, CSD, XML, and other formats. Users can also access and retrieve data through the DataBank (a platform similar to that of the previous WDI, GDF and ADI platforms). The site links to the World Bank Data API (encouraging developers to create new applications using the data), DataFinder, and World Bank's new iPhone application.
For a full list of available data sets available go to http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog. Most data is available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
The future of publishing
PenguinGroupUSA: This video was prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books meant solely for a DK sales conference, the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally. We hope you enjoy it, and make sure you watch it up to at least the halfway point, there's a surprise!
Science to be: arXiv http://arxiv.org/
arXiv is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered subject areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Advisory Board and the help of numerous subject moderators.
Goals and Mission
arXiv is an openly accessible, moderated repository for scholarly articles in specific scientific disciplines. Material submitted to arXiv is expected to be of interest, relevance, and value to those disciplines. arXiv reserves the right to reject or reclassify any submission. Submissions are reviewed by expert moderators to verify that they are topical and refereeable scientific contributions that follow accepted standards of scholarly communication (as exemplified by conventional journal articles).
As an electronic archive, arXiv makes a commitment to provide persistent access to all announced submissions. arXiv is thus maintained with a focus on the perpetual availability of submissions. This is accomplished in part by controlling the types of files that can be uploaded to arXiv, as well as restricting changes that can be made after submissions are announced. In order to preserve the scholarly record, submissions are not removed from arXiv after they have been announced.
arXiv is proud to be able to offer such a large collection of scholarly work in a single location, without any fees and with support for users around the world. arXiv supplements the traditional publication system by providing immediate dissemination and open access to scholarly articles (which often later appear in conventional journals). It is important to note, however, that arXiv is not a repository for otherwise unpublishable material, nor is it a refereed publication venue. The moderation process is essential to ensuring that submissions are of value to the arXiv communities, but there is also a limit to the ability of administrators and moderators to provide feedback on submissions that are determined to be inappropriate for arXiv.
As a user, your primary interactions with arXiv will likely be to browse and view articles, and perhaps also to submit articles. Submitting articles requires registration as a user, whereas browsing can be done without registration, on either the main arXiv.org site (http://arxiv.org/) or on any of arXiv's mirror sites around the world (http://arxiv.org/servers.html).
Goodbye Msc students
We were very happy to meet you in the library and online these past 18 months.
For information on support from the ITC library after fininshing your studies at ITC we refer you to the library alumni webpage http://www.itc.nl/Pub/Home/library/Library-general-information/library-alumni.html
Below you can see a small graph on how many books, theses, DVD's, reprints etc. have been borrowed and also were returned safely to the library.
Keep in touch!
The library staff.
Research Seminar 25 January
Powerpoint presentation Bibliometrics for Research Assessment by Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library.
You can only access this document when you can enter ITC's intranet.
"Less pretension, more ambition. Development aid that makes a difference"
Last Monday the WRR report "Minder pretentie, meer ambitie. Ontwikkelingshulp die verschil maakt" was presented to the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation, Bert Koenders, at the international press centre Nieuwspoort in The Hague.
Opinion research shows that development aid still enjoys great support among the Dutch population. Why do we give development aid, and does it actually help? What do we know about development programmes and the ability to contribute to them as outsiders? How relevant is aid today, now that other financial flows such as remittances and foreign direct investment (FDI) have increased as a result of globalisation? And how much influence does policy focused on other themes such as climate, migration, trade, security and knowledge, have on poor countries?
In 'Less pretension, more ambition', which is based on almost five hundred interviews in the field together with an extensive literature study, the WRR formulates recommendations for changes in the organisation of development aid and in the way in which public goods are cared for, and argues for structural attention for areas that are relevant for development aid.
WRR report no. 84 (only in Dutch) on development cooperation is digitally available from: http://www.wrr.nl/content.jsp?objectid=5213
Ephorus: Release new version and maintenance on December 22nd 2009
On Tuesday, December 22nd, Ephorus will install a number of updates on our servers to ensure that our services will continue to be fast, reliable and effective in 2010.
At the same time, the new version of Ephorus (version 3.6) will be released!
In this release, a number of improvements will be installed in our web application. These improvements will not automatically be installed for Ephorus in digital learning environments.
For this release, there will be no downtime; Ephorus will be available all day.
Below is a list of the main improvements:
Reports
- Reports can be printed with the recalculated score;
- In the summary report sent via e-mail, the found sources are listed;
- The term “original” in the reports is replaced with “submitted” to clarify the difference between the submitted text and the found source.
Find Documents
- In "Find Document" it is possible to search for documents in "Removed items".
- Documents found via “Find document” can be removed here;
- Folders that contain no documents are no longer listed in the “Select folder” menu in “Find documents”.
My account/Administration
- Confirmations for changing account information are displayed in the language selected by the user, instead of English;
- Languages are sorted alphabetically.
Other improvements
- Bug in "My Documents" that sometimes caused the wrong pop-up to appear for removing a document has been fixed;
- Confirmation added for students when e-mailing their confirmation is successful;
- Inactive users can no longer request their password.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us, your feedback is always welcome!
Server maintenance
March 17th from 13.00 – 18.00
the following services will be off-line for some time:
- Adlib library catalogue,
- Academic output pages,
- Staff resumes,
- Departmental publication pages and
- Research theme output pages.
Our apologies for this inconvenience.
Library staff.
New SpringerLink platform has launched!
Recently the new SpringerLink platform was successfully launched.
New features are:
- Related documents for every article & chapter
- Pdf preview for eBook chapter
- Enhanced browising features
- and many more ...
For explanation of the new features see: http://www.springerlink.com/help/about.mpx
Visit SpringerLink through the library website, for full text access to all articles and chapters http://www.itc.nl/Pub/Home/library
Dutch national website providing information for academic about the advantages of Open Access to publicly financed research
Open Access to Scholarly Information; greater reach for Research
Dutch higher education institutions believe that radical improvements need to be made in Open Access to knowledge, information, and data. Online research and scholarly communication opens up opportunities that are still underutilised. Improved access creates a solid basis for the transfer of knowledge in education, knowledge generation for research, and knowledge valorisation for society. The central idea is that the results of publicly financed research should be available to the public.
This website showcases new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.
Read morePrijsvraag ontwikkelingssamenwerking
(16/11/2009)
Naar aanleiding van het thema Heilige huisjes en de afgelopen globaliseringslezing over de impact van ontwikkelingshulp geeft Tegenlicht, in samenwerking met uitgeverij Contact, een aantal exemplaren weg van Dambisa Moyo's controversiële boek Doodlopende hulp: Waarom ontwikkelingshulp niet werkt, en wat er wel moet gebeuren.
Heeft Moyo gelijk en werkt ontwikkelingshulp alleen maar averechts? Of weet u juist een voorbeeld van hulp die zeker niet gestopt moet worden?
Overtuig Tegenlicht met uw argumenten en voorbeelden in een tekst van maximaal 400 woorden (korter mag natuurlijk ook) en win het boek van Dambisa Moyo.
Post vóór 23 november uw inzending op het weblog van Tegenlicht of stuur een mail naar de redactie: tegenlicht@vpro.nl
De redactie van Tegenlicht kiest de boekwinnaars en publiceert de winnende artikelen op het Tegenlicht weblog. Over de uitslag kan niet worden gecorrespondeerd.
Post nu uw inzending op het weblog van Tegenlicht
Read Me, Cite Me, Count Me! Publication strategy and research marketing for academics.
(13/11/2009)
Symposium held at Utrecht University Library was sponsored by the Utrecht University Library as part of the 425th Anniversary celebrations and was also part of International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23).
Springer Usage Growth in Developing Countries Initiatives.
(21/10/2009)
Research4Life is the collective name for three partnerships (HINARI, AGORA and OARE) which seek to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific and social science research.
This project is “Perhaps the biggest step ever taken towards reducing the health information gap between rich and poor countries”, according to former WHO Director-General Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland. According to a survey in 2000, one of the key problems for health researchers in developing countries was access to subscription journal literature. The World Health Organization approached Yale University about this problem, and in cooperation with publishers like Springer, HINARI was launched in 2002. Nowadays the Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides access to over 5,500 peerreviewed journals, of which 568 are published by Springer related to Medicine and Allied Health Sciences.