• John's Retirement Photos!
• AIRNow
• Eigenfactor - New Journal Ranking Site
• ChemXSeer - New Chemistry Database

John's Retirement Photos!

John Welsh checked-out of the Library on June 1. After 30 years (and two weeks!) of exemplary and dedicated service at the Boulder Labs Library, John traded in his book bag for a golf bag. A reception was held on May 23rd to celebrate the end of his distinguished career.

Thank you John for everything you've done. We will truly miss you.

View the Photos from the Retirement Party

Added 7/12/07

AIRNow

AIRNow (airnow.gov) provides air quality conditions, forecasts, and resources from hundreds of national data sources.

AIRNow is partnered with many state, local, federal and international organizations including: ESRL's Global Systems Division (GSD), NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS), and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. (See: Full List)

• Air Quality Forecasts
  Provided by State and local Air Agencies for over 300 major U.S. cities

• Air Quality Conditions
  Real-time ozone air quality maps covering 46 U.S. States and parts of Canada. Updated hourly.

• Air Quality Index (AQI)
  A Guide to Air Quality and Your Health

• Publications

• Denver Conditions & Forecasts

See also: Weather for Boulder/Denver and Atmospheric Science Subject Guide

Added 7/18/07

Eigenfactor - New Journal Ranking Site

Eigenfactor (eigenfactor.org) is a free non-commercial academic research project that ranks journals (compared to the ISI Journal Citation Report impact factor) for the natural and social sciences. "The Eigenfactor score of a journal is an estimate of the percentage of time that library users spend with that journal. The Eigenfactor algorithm corresponds to a simple model of research in which readers follow chains of citations as they move from journal to journal." (More)

Eigenfactor benefits:

• Provides journal price, publisher information and value
• Covers all 7000+ journals in the 2004 Science and Social Science JCR (Journal Citation Report), and covers 110,000+ reference items cited by these journals but not listed in the JCR
• Includes newsprint, theses, popular magazines and other sources
• Calibrates for citation differences (time scales and standards) across subject areas
• Analyses 5-year citation data (compared to JCR's 2-years)
• Details Behind Ranking Journals

Search by Journal name or Field. Results are ranked by Article Influence (AI): a measure of a journal's prestige based on per article citations and comparable to Impact Factor, or Eigenfactor (EF): A measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year.

See also: Impact Factor Debate · Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals

Added 7/24/07

ChemxSeer - New Chemistry Database

ChemxSeer is an integrated digital library and database for documents in chemistry and data obtained from chemical kinetics. ChemxSeer is "the first publicly available search engine designed specifically for chemical formulae, can sort out when 'He' refers to helium and not a person more than nine times out of 10" ... "some chemical molecules can have more than one formula representation. As a result, if a person is searching for CH4 using a popular search engine and the article identifies the molecule as H4C, the article won't be included in the search results" (see news release)

• Chemical Entity Search
  Chemical formulae and chemical names (details)

• TableSeer
  Locates tables in digital documents and extracts the contents

• Databases
  Data repository contains experimental data obtained from various sources; process, store and link data in multiple formats, e.g., Excel, XML, Gaussian, and Charmm. Metadata ad-on annotates data and links datasets.

See also: Chemistry Subject Guide

Added 7/30/07

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