CAB Reviews is a full-text electronic resource that contains analyses and and information on the current research in the fields of animal science, veterinary medicine, applied plant sciences, agriculture, nutrition and food science, natural resources and environmental sciences. Here are some recent reviews:
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Boosting beneficial phytochemicals in vegetable crop plants.
Schijlen, E. G. W. M., Beekwilder, J., Hall, R. D., Meer, I. M. van der
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, 025, 21 pp.
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The role of landscape in insect ecology and its implications for agriculture.
Hunter, M. D.
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, 029, 12 pp.
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Carbon sequestration in soil
R.Lal
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, No. 030, 20 pp.
View the table of contents for other 2008 reviews.
July 1st, 2008
News from OhioLINK…
Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.
LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.
To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.
LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.
June 27th, 2008
An excerpt from examiner.com (Cleveland Edition):
Jun 3, 2008 6:22 PM By STEPHEN MAJORS, AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Map, News) - A potential casualty of the skyrocketing price of oil is something that doesn’t first come to mind: polymers, the materials that go into making everyday items like grocery bags, yogurt containers and baby bottles.
Ohio, the leading polymer producer in the country, is trying to maintain its dominance in the field by thinking ahead to an economy less dependent on oil - the predominant source of the polymers that make up countless products.
Read the rest of the story.
June 5th, 2008
A recent article in the Washington Post highlights the budget constraints affecting the National Agricultural Library. Essential services and collections are threatened by proposed cuts to the NAL budget; these cuts would also affect agricultural libraries at the state level which depend on this national library.
May 5th, 2008
The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and OSU Libraries are honored to host the 11th Biennial meeting of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN). The meeting, which will be held at the Shisler Conference Center in Wooster beginning Sunday, April 27 through Wednesday, April 30, carries the theme “Tradition in Transition: Information Fueling the Future of Agbiosciences.” Speakers include Dennis Keeney, senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Bruce Dale, editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining and head of the Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory at Michigan State University; Stephen Myers, Director of the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center; Ann Christy, professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU); Clive Edwards, OSU Professor of Entomology and director of the soil ecology program; Deborah Stinner, coordinator of OSU’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program; Randy James, Geauga County Extension Educator and author of Why Cows Learn Dutch; and David Kline, Amish farmer, author of several books, and editor of Farming Magazine. The closing speaker will be Tomas Lipinski, Co-Director and Associate Professor, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee. Complementing the plenary sessions will be contributed papers, panels and posters selected from proposals submitted by attendees. Numerous vendors will be exhibiting at the conference and providing generous support.
Following the conclusion of the USAIN meeting, partners participating in AgNIC will hold their annual meeting. AgNIC is a voluntary alliance and partnership of nearly 60 member institutions and organizations working to offer quick and reliable access to quality agricultural information and sources.
April 25th, 2008
The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., (OCLC) is looking for people willing to demonstrate and discuss how they conduct research for a paper, project or publication.
The one to two-hour in-person interviews will be held in Room 244A of the Sullivant Library, at the corner of North High Street and 15th Avenue, or the Prior Health Sciences Library at 376 W. 10th Ave. Interviews will be scheduled the weeks of April 7 and April 14.
Each session will take 1 to 2 hours.
Participants should be:
•Undergraduate or graduate students, or instructors
•Non-professionals in the library or database searching
Library employees, including student employees, are not eligible to participate.
Participants will be asked to comment while doing their own research at the library or their office. Participants will also need to bring a laptop capable of a wireless connection to the Internet. Comments will be recorded with the participant’s consent.
If you’re interested, please contact Mike Prasse, OCLC, at ulab@oclc.org.
April 2nd, 2008
Speaker: Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President, The Ohio State University
“Securing the Future: Envisioning the Role of Land-Grant Universities”
Date: April 15, 2008
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Blackwell Inn & Conference Center, The Ohio State University
We are pleased to announce that President E. Gordon Gee will give the 5th Annual Patterson Lecture. President Gee was instrumental in the establishment of Ohio State’s outreach and engagement efforts during his first term in office. He will share his insights on the current and future state of the 21st century engaged land-grant university.
Register online. Deadline: April 8. For information, call 614/688-3041, e-mail outreach@osu.edu, or visit the Office of Outreach and Engagement web site.
The James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture honors former Board of Trustee member Jim Patterson and the cause to which he is most committed, a vibrant University fulfilling its land-grant mission in an ever-changing world. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions in the 21st century and beyond. Mr. Patterson served on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and served as Chair of the Board 2002-2003.
March 12th, 2008
Staying up with your own field, much less with the other disciplines in agricultural and related sciences, is a challenging task. Subscribing to alert services, journal tables of contents and other automated information services are useful tools. The content specialists at CABI, the organization that produces the abstracting and indexing service CAB Direct, offer a new current awareness tool called “Hand picked…and carefully sorted.” This blog is written by specialists and highlights new research areas, interesting publications and what they call “signposts”– new information that we need to pay attention to. Recent topics include “nanotechnology in food” and “organic biofuels”. You can subscribe to this blog as an RSS feed.
March 6th, 2008
The 2008 OARDC Annual Research Conference will be held in Wooster on Thursday, April 17, 2008. The theme of the conference is “Recasting Our Agbioscience Research Agenda: Integrated Projects.”
A graduate student poster competition is being held in conjunction with the conference. Interested students should see the guidelines and deadlines for participation. Cash prizes will be awarded and the winners will be announced at the conference.
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to register for the conference by April 7.
February 14th, 2008
The OSU Libraries are pleased to offer “WorldCat Local,” Web access to the world’s richest database, listing over one billion items.
Basic features associated with WorldCat include:
- A simple search box
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Friendly, easy-to-use results display, including “faceted browsing”
- Searches for materials at OSU, OhioLINK (Ohio libraries shared catalog; includes 86 academic libraries not including OSU), and libraries worldwide
- Displays the availability of materials
- Allows requesting of materials
- Finds articles and provides links to full-text articles online
- Result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record
- Citation formatting options
See the “What’s this” link for more details about the features.
The main change you’ll see is the new search box on the library home page, now displaying search results from WorldCat Local. You can still search the OSU catalog via the OSCAR interface by clicking the link just below the box, named “Search OSU Catalog”.
Let us know what you think about WorldCat Local. Please complete the survey linked in the “what’s this” link near the search box and at the upper right hand corner of the pilot pages, called “Survey – Your voice counts!”
February 4th, 2008
The Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers to beware of several current e-mail and telephone scams that use the IRS name as a lure. The IRS expects such scams to continue through the end of tax return filing season and beyond.
The IRS cautioned taxpayers to be on the lookout for scams involving proposed advance payment checks. Although the government has not yet enacted an economic stimulus package in which the IRS would provide advance payments, known informally as rebates to many Americans, a scam which uses the proposed rebates as bait has already cropped up. read more…
January 31st, 2008
Plant Management Network announces the launch of its next-generation resource for those involved in soybean production and management. Focus on Soybean is an online-only web portal for growers, crop consultants, and researchers seeking information on producing healthy, high-yielding soybean crops. The central feature of the site is its educational webcasts. These currently include 15 narrated presentations totaling more than five hours of talks targeted toward consultants and producers. All are authored by university extension specialists recognized for their expertise and research related to soybean management practices.
January 11th, 2008
From The Columbus Dispatch (Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007):
Bird flu resurfaces in parts of Asia
Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:55 AM
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter when the virus typically flares.
Indonesia, the nation hardest hit by the H5N1 virus, announced its 93rd death yesterday. A 47-year-old man died a day earlier in a Jakarta hospital, said Health Ministry spokesman Joko Suyono. The man fell ill on Dec. 2 and was admitted with flu-like symptoms, becoming Indonesia’s 115th person infected with the disease.
In China, the military in eastern Nanjing banned the sale of poultry this week after a father and son came down with the disease earlier this month. Health officials confirmed the 24-year-old man died from the virus a day before his father, 52, became sick. It was the country’s 17th bird-flu death.
Most human cases have been linked to contact with sick birds.
December 20th, 2007
The science gateway that makes science information more accessible and useful to researchers, teachers, and learners wherever they are located commemorated its 5th Anniversary today.
Founded December 5, 2002, in response to the profound effect of the World Wide Web on science communications, Science.gov (www.science.gov) connected citizens to science as never before. Today, Science.gov Version 4.0 is available and searches more than 50 million pages of science information from thousands of Web sites as well as from deep Web databases inaccessible by Google and other popular search engines.
December 5th, 2007
This year OhioLINK celebrates 15 years of service to the research and learning communities at Ohio’s institutions of higher education. Read in the latest OhioLINK Update about how access to information has changed during these years and how OhioLINK has been a driving force in providing information to the academic community.
December 3rd, 2007
From OhioLINK: No one explains the importance and value of OhioLINK to education, teaching and research better than the students, faculty and staff who depend on it and the librarians who help make it great. We’re currently searching for a few more good stories from OhioLINK users. So tell us, how has OhioLINK helped you? Were you able to finish a research project that would not have been possible otherwise? Did you get an A on a class assignment? Did you teach your students something new? Perhaps you found that rare resource you had been searching for?
If you have a story or testimonial that provides a clear picture of the value of the OhioLINK program, please share it with us. Your story might be featured on the OhioLINK Web site and/or in future publications.
November 27th, 2007
The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center offers thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. These books are used via your regular Web browser. To find information in these e-books, you can:
- search for all occurrences of a word or phrase in all the e-books
- look for a specific book by author or title
- search for all occurrences of a word or phrase within one book
- search or browse among the books in a subject area
The E-Book Center contains electronic books purchased by Ohio academic libraries from these publishers:
ABC-CLIO: educational reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – on many specialized topics, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford University Press: important scholarly books, both classic and newly-published works, in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford imprints include OUP Oxford, OUP USA, and Clarendon Press.
Springer: high-quality scientific, technological and medical books. Springer imprints include Apress, Birkhäuser, Physica-Verlag, Steinkopff, and others.
November 27th, 2007
“If you’re concerned with how far food travels before it gets to your plate, you just may be a ‘locavore,’ the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2007 Word of the Year… The ‘locavore’ movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.” Read the rest of the press release.
The New Oxford American Dictionary is available as a part of the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center.
November 14th, 2007
The Plant Management Network is a unique cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences. Designed to provide plant science practitioners fast electronic access to proven solutions, the Plant Management Network offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource pages from the network’s partner universities, companies, and associations. In addition, the network’s four peer-reviewed citable journals, Applied Turfgrass Science, Crop Management, Forage and Grazinglands, and Plant Health Progress, provide credible current information in areas important to practitioners, policy makers, and the public.
October 30th, 2007
From InfoFarm: the NAL Blog: I’ve been watching a lot of baseball lately (Go Tribe!), and in between pitches last night, I found myself thinking again about how the grounds crew cuts those designs into the stadium grass. Cleveland’s Jacobs Field showed only a simple checkerboard pattern, but earlier in the week, Fenway Park was sporting two perfect “sox,” looking as if they’d been hand-stitched into the infield. –more–
October 19th, 2007
Peter Young, Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) announces InfoFarm: The NAL Blog a new blog and invites partners and customers worldwide to join in a conversation with NAL staff on a wide range of topics. “We want to have a conversation, one that’s more like a chat on the front porch and less like a meeting in the boardroom. From the library side, we’ll share a bit about what we do, how our day went (professionally speaking, of course), some nifty thing we learned, or a compelling story in the news. In return, we hope to hear from you. Share your experiences with us as an institution, with your efforts to find information, or with your life and work in the world of agriculture, food, nutrition, animal care, the environment, whatever. The result, we believe, will be a mutually beneficial dialogue, a compelling exchange of ideas and maybe even an entertaining break in your day.”
October 19th, 2007
Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.
LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.
To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.
LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.
October 15th, 2007
University Libraries, Academic Affairs and the Faculty Club will host the fifth annual Faculty Recognition Program reception from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday (10/18) at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge to honor all Ohio State faculty granted tenure or promotion in 2007/08. The reception is open to the university community and guests. Faculty honorees have the opportunity to select a book or a bound journal volume from the University Libraries’ collection to be book-plated in their name in recognition of their accomplishments. Honorees from CFAES, OAES and OSUE include Michael Boehm, Joshua Bomser, John Cardina, Gregory Davis, Charles Goebel, Gary Graham, Gregory La Barge, Jeffrey LeJeune, Lydia Medeiros, Richard Moore, Matthew Robers, Brian Roe, Hua Wang, and Steven Wu.
October 4th, 2007
From Wisconsin State Journal:
It was back in 1995 that a group of Minnesota middle schoolers shocked the scientific community when they returned from a field trip to report that more than half the frogs they’d captured had major deformities.
Some had five or more hind legs or even no legs at all.
But in the investigations that followed, it quickly became clear that cases of deformed amphibians went far beyond that Minnesota pond and were actually fairly widespread across the U.S.
The big question was, why?
To learn more read the rest of the Wisconsin State Journal news article and the research study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
ALSO:
Similar articles in PNAS
Similar articles in PubMed
September 28th, 2007
The OSU Libraries has added new access to the backfiles of the ISI databases: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). For SCI and SSCI, database coverage now extends back to 1965; AHCI begins with 1975.
September 24th, 2007
Starting September 19, the Ohio State University Libraries are offering research assistance through Instant Messaging! Just add our screen name “ohiostaterefdesk” to your buddy list in AIM, Google Talk, MSN, or Yahoo. You can IM a Librarian Monday-Thursday from noon to midnight, Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. The FAES Librarians are also available via IM. See the blog to find out who’s online. For more information, see http://library.osu.edu/help/im.php
September 19th, 2007
FROM NPR.ORG:
All Things Considered, September 4, 2007 - As the Senate reconvenes this week, one agenda item will be the regular five-year update of federal farm programs. The House passed its version - all 742 pages of it - just before the August recess. One contentious issue is always sugar, and this year is no different.
So far, the sugar producers are winning. Their lobbyists have not only fended off attacks on sugar-price supports, but they’ve also persuaded the House to give sugar a new break - its own piece of federal ethanol policy.
LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE STORY!
September 5th, 2007
FROM CABI:
Hand Picked and Carefully Sorted is the place where the content specialists who put together CAB Abstracts, (and many other wonderful research tools from CABI) try to highlight just some of the vast amount of research information that goes into the products that we make.
We are doing this because, to quote Bruce Sterling:
What’s important — increasingly important — is the process by which you figure out what to look at. This is the beginning of the real and true economics of information. Not who owns the books, who prints the books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts that tell you what to access — what to pay attention to. In the Information Economy everything is plentiful — except attention.
Hand picked… and carefully sorted is intended to be a signpost. We are using it for ourselves..and we hope that it will be useful to you as well.
August 23rd, 2007
OSU gets total access to The Chronicle of Higher Education: Thanks to a new agreement between OhioNet and The Chronicle of Higher Education, OSU faculty, staff and students now have access to news updates and searches of back issues of the Chronicle without a user name or password, and at a reduced cost to the Libraries.
June 21st, 2007
Interlibrary Services is pleased to announce expansion of our FREE Article Express service; no more fees for articles that we scan from our own library collections (with the exception of HEA items). If it’s not already online, we’ll scan it for you!
Visit our new web pages to see details/limits and make requests!!
June 20th, 2007
NASA’s Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its “hidden kitchen.” On the eve of NASA’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.
Read or listen to the rest of the story from NPR.
June 7th, 2007
Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell. As a benefit of the site license to Cell Online managed by the OSU Libraries, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with Ohio State is entitled to receive a print subscription - normally a $179 value - absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub
May 29th, 2007
Biotechnology for Biofuels will publish research on ways to improve plant and biological conversion systems for biomass fuel production.
BioMed Central, the world’s largest publisher of open access, peer-reviewed journals, is pleased to announce the impending launch of Biotechnology for Biofuels. The new journal is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology to improve plant and biological conversion systems for production of fuels from biomass. A peer-reviewed, open access journal, Biotechnology for Biofuels will begin accepting article submissions this summer. (more…)
May 23rd, 2007
Ah summer, time to hit the beach, travel to parts unknown, and grab every possible minute of sunshine. But if your summer plans also include doing research, please remember that you can have your OhioLINK books and other library materials delivered to any participating library, including two public libraries, Cuyahoga County Public Library and Westerville Public Library.
May 23rd, 2007
The power to transform research communication may be at each scientist’s fingertips, says Alma Swan in a recent article published in American Scientist Online . The author suggests that “open access can advance science and will do so more and more effectively as more scientists make their work freely available.”
May 14th, 2007
Wouldn’t it be nice to know who is citing your work, or other important work in your field of research? Finding and tracking the seminal highly cited work in your field is easy if you use the citation indexes in the Web of Science!
Don Sechler, a member of the Thomson Scientific/ISI customer education department, will be at the Prior Health Sciences Library to provide instruction on the navigation and uses of the Web of Science.
In the short training session you will learn how to search for your topic, papers that you have written, papers published by a company or university, and papers that have cited your work. You will learn how to search and navigate, how to do a cited reference search to find the number of papers that cited your work, and how to find journal impact factors. You will also learn to save search strategies, create citation alerts and to print, save, and export your results. How the databases are created, how the journals are selected, and ISI’s editorial policies will also be covered.
Sessions will be held on:
April 24, 2007
Session (1) 9-10:30am
Session (2) 1-2:30pm
Room 200 Prior Health Sciences Library
Register for ONE of the above sessions online at: http://library.med.ohio-state.edu or call 2-4796 or e-mail Rebecca.Ayers@osumc.edu
Brought to you by the Health Sciences Library & CKM
April 19th, 2007
4th Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture
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Speaker: Martin C. Jischke, Purdue University
“Adapting Justin Morrill’s Vision to a New Century: The Imperative of Change for Land-Grant Universities”
May 7, 2007, 3-5pm, Huntington Club, Ohio Stadium
Register online. Deadline: May 1. For information, call 614/688-3041, e-mail outreach@osu.edu, or visit the Office of Outreach and Engagement web site.
The James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture honors former Board of Trustee member Jim Patterson and the cause to which he is most committed, a vibrant University fulfilling its land-grant mission in an ever-changing world. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions in the 21st century and beyond. Mr. Patterson served on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and served as Chair of the Board 2002-2003.
April 6th, 2007
The new version has JUST been released in beta!
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types such as books chapters and government documents are included. AgEcon Search will serve as the permanent archive for this literature and encourages authors and organizations to use this electronic library as the storehouse for additional appropriate scholarly electronic works.
AgEcon Search is co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Economics and the University Libraries at University of Minnesota and the American Agricultural Economics Association.
April 5th, 2007
Please note the upcoming presentation!!
Date: March 27th at 7 PM: Be Careful What You Wish For: The Mainstreaming of Organic Food
Location: Room 103 Kottman Hall and by video conference: Thorne Hall on the OSU Wooster Campus (2nd floor Conference Room).
Abstract: Organic food has grown into a $15 billion-a-year industry since the USDA established certification standards just over four years ago. What was once a “tiny movement to create a more ecologically sustainable, socially just and humane food system,” as Dr. Howard put it in a recent article, has become a sector of the food market occupied by the traditional multinational corporations that previously dominated the rest of the industry, either as a result of acquisition of organic pioneers or the creation of new product lines in compliance with the letter of the USDA Organic standards. On March 27, Dr. Howard will discus the impact this mainstreaming of the organic label has had on the vision of the original organic movement and the power of the consumer to further advance the organic ideal.
March 23rd, 2007
The eight millionth scholarly research article was recently added to OhioLINKs award-winning Electronic Journal Center. The EJC provides students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions with instantaneous online access to more than 7,100 journals from 101 publishers.
OhioLINK users downloaded 4.9 million articles from the EJC in 2006. A total of 25 million articles have been downloaded from the EJC since its inception in April 1998.
New journal issues are added to the EJC daily. To stay current, OhioLINK users have the option of receiving updates of new issues via e-mail alerts or RSS feeds. You can also save searches and have the results sent to you. Find instructions for these features here.
Want to find out if OhioLINK has a particular journal? Try the E-Journal Finder. The E-Journal Finder searches the EJC and several other databases to help find desired journals. If you dont find the journal in question using the E-Journal Finder, check with your librarian as your library may provide other means of accessing the journal online.
March 13th, 2007
Ohio State Universitys Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) has received a $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help boost science education in Ohio schools and prepare the future generation of U.S. scientists.
Part of NSFs Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program, the grant will team up OARDC researchers, OSU Extension specialists and graduate students in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) with elementary and secondary school teachers and students in northeast Ohio.
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March 7th, 2007
The 2007 OARDC Annual Research Conference will be held at The Blackwell, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, OH 43210, on Thursday, April 19, 2007. The theme of the conference is Ohios Future in Renewable Energy and the Bioeconomy.
The annual Graduate Student Research Project Poster Competition will be held in conjunction with the conference.
Go to the conference webpage for more information and to register for the conference and the poster competition
March 5th, 2007
TOKYO, March 2 (Reuters Life!) - A Japanese dolphin is squealing with delight after receiving a prosthetic tail to replace one amputated due to a skin disease.
Fuji’s handlers at the Churaumi Aquarium in Japan’s southern most island of Okinawa say the fake tail may have saved her life as she had put on dangerous amounts of weight from being inactive after she lost her tail.
[Read the rest of the article @ Scientific American.com]
A keeper holds an artificial tail fluke attached to female bottlenose dolphin “Fuji”, estimated to be 37-years-old, at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu town on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa February 14, 2007. Fuji’s handlers say the fake tail may have saved her life as she had put on dangerous amounts of weight from being inactive after she lost her tail. REUTERS/Issei Kato
March 2nd, 2007
Rachel Carson is considered by many to be the mother of modern-day ecology. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birth, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with the Friends of the National Conservation Training Center, will celebrate the achievements of its most notable employee by launching the Rachel Carson Online Book Club.
Beginning in March and continuing through November 2007, the online book club will focus on the life and work of Rachel Carson including her role as a female leader in science and government. Through the study of her writing, the Book Club will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion of current environmental issues in light of Carson’s legacy.
For more information on how to participate, view the book club Web site at: http://rcbookclub.blogspot.com
For more information on how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, please visit our website at http://www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/
February 27th, 2007
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