Knovel provides electronic access to leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. To help introduce the power of Knovel to users, Knovel has developed 3 short instructional web videos. Each provides a quick guided overview of the product to help users get up to speed on how to make the most of Knovel. - Jay Bhatt
Raj Mutharasan, Drexel’s Frank A. Fletcher professor of chemical engineering, has spent the past five years developing rugged, millimeter-sized sensors capable of detecting materials in water at a level of one part per quintillion. Tests using the sensors can be completed in 15 minutes. - Jay Bhatt
I've been experimenting with using a wiki as a lab book after seeing your talks at Manchester and SciBlog08. - Michael Barton
Michael it was really nice to meet you in person in Manchester! Having discussions on FriendFeed is convenient but nothing can replace a conversation in a pub and over dinner... I look forward to hearing about your wiki experiments - Jean-Claude Bradley
"Science.gov 5.0 improves upon the previous version, Science.gov 4.0, by offering seven new databases and portals which allow researchers access to over 200 million pages of scientific information. New information available includes thousands of patents resulting from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research and development; documents and bibliographic citations of DOE accomplishments; millions of electronic scientific documents from around the world known as e-prints; and comprehensive and peer-reviewed toxicology data for thousands of chemicals as well as more than 3 million references to worldwide literature on the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms." See more details at the site above. do not forget to try out its new feature on clustering. - Jay Bhatt
some good points in there - getting used to a lot of these features in smaller free online friendly conferences makes it harder when attending old school conferences like ACS - Jean-Claude Bradley
The easiest part to change in a traditional science conference is probably the blogging part. Some of the conferences I attend have policies that make me avoid liveblogging or blogging in too much detail. - Martin Fenner
a big problem with ACS is no wireless access, which tends to discourage liveblogging :) - Jean-Claude Bradley
To be entirely fair, its not the fault of the meeting organizers. The largest convention centers are not built to accommodate wireless easily. The administrators of those facilities farm it out to third party providers who are charging exorbitant prices.(Unions also drive up costs here) Even a small conference such as the one my organization runs (250 people) could be charged thousands of dollars to provide the wireless to attendees. The economics are just this side of prohibitive. - Jill O'Neill
some great ideas, including clarity about what is and is not bloggable. Also, the comment about speed dating is a good one - I went to a "speed dating" type activity at ASIS&T last year & met someone whom I now consider a trusted friend -- and co-presenter at a recent conference. - Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian
"Scientific conferences are essential both for the exchange of ideas and for networking. But they don’t have to be organized the same way as 10-20 years ago." Web 2.0 tools are now allowing us to share, communicate and develop new ideas in ways that makes learning, collaborating and researching so much fun! Use of 'Open Conference System' http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs is an excellent thought. Just wondering if there have any conferences conducted using this system. - Jay Bhatt
A list of conferences using "Open Conference Systems": http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs-conferen.... Speed geeking is apparently related to speed dating: a rapid succession of 5 min presentations. - Martin Fenner
"Scientific conferences are essential both for the exchange of ideas and for networking. But they don’t have to be organized the same way as 10-20 years ago." Web 2.0 tools are now allowing us to share, communicate and develop new ideas in ways that makes learning, collaborating and researching so much fun! Use of 'Open Conference System' http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs is an excellent thought. Just wondering if there have any conferences conducted using this system. - Jay Bhatt
The Pennsylvania Digital Library is a state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. The University of Pittsburgh's Library System (ULS) has agreed to harvest, index, and provide a search interface for metadata created for Pennsylvania-created digital collections. This effort will be based on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). - Jay Bhatt
The Pennsylvania Digital Library is a state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. The University of Pittsburgh's Library System (ULS) has agreed to harvest, index, and provide a search interface for metadata created for Pennsylvania-created digital collections. This effort will be based on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). It is a state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations. - Jay Bhatt
Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online. Sites are hosted at the Natural History Museum London, and offered free to any scientist that completes an online registration form. - Jay Bhatt
Pullquote: "CollabRx builds and operates Virtual Biotechs for foundations and patients who urgently seek cures for their diseases. Working with these foundations and research institutions, CollabRx
* builds teams of top researchers
* facilitates planning of a strategic road map
* brings best practices to therapy development
* manages the execution of the plan
The CollabRx research platform connects researchers to one another and to a network of scientific services, providing unprecedented opportunities for knowledge sharing and economies of scale." - Bill Hooker
Need to look into this again. It's been on my to do list for far too long - Deepak
I tried to request sponsorship from them for the PSB open science workshop but no response after one reminder. I may try one more time I guess - Shirley Wu
CollabRx builds and operates Virtual Biotechs for foundations and patients who urgently seek cures for their diseases.The CollabRx research platform connects researchers to one another and to a network of scientific services, providing unprecedented opportunities for knowledge sharing and economies of scale. - Jay Bhatt
"Secrecy and competition to achieve breakthroughs have been part of scientific culture for centuries, but the latest Internet advances are forcing a tortured openness throughout the halls of science and raising questions about how research will be done in the future.
The openness at the technological and cultural heart of the Internet is fast becoming an irreplaceable tool for many scientists, especially biologists, chemists and physicists — allowing them to forgo the long wait to publish in a print journal and instead to blog about early findings and even post their data and lab notes online. The result: Science is moving way faster and more people are part of the dialogue." - Jay Bhatt
Mr. Bhatt I want to talk to you about an idea that I have for a social network for research. - Jameson Detweiler
via twhirl
Sure, Jameson.. would love to talk to you...Jay - Jay Bhatt
"New research coming out of Drexel University has now shown that light emitted from a new form of cold plasma in liquid – field emission generated, highly non-equilibrium and high energy density – permits Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) analysis of the elemental composition of solutions within nanoseconds from femtoliter volumes." - Jay Bhatt
Drexel Engineering Cities Initiative (DECI) is the foundation of a new approach to studying urban systems. DECI focuses on the engineering of cities, policy development, and the creation of environmentally sustainable urban habitats that function for people and society. DECI departs from traditional approaches to managing regional and urban growth to research and develop new and innovative methods to design and manage safety, sustainability, and quality of life for urban dwellers. See http://www.drexel.edu/cities/P... for more information. - Jay Bhatt
What: Drexel student engineers have been busy building the team’s soap box vehicle to compete in the Red Bull Soap Box Derby in Manayunk this Saturday. Drexel’s team and 40 others will each line up their hand-crafted creative human-powered driving machines to race against the clock in a downhill dash to the finish line. See also: This course will test not only these teams’ engineering skills, but their creative prowess as well. From: http://www.redbullsoapboxusa.c... . - Jay Bhatt
The exciting news to me is that the "public" is interested in this. The article is being, clipped, dug, etc. - Nice Fish Films
Most excellent -- one quibble, I'd like to see "no insider information" credited to Jean-Claude. - Bill Hooker
well thanks Bill - the author removed it after some reformatting of the original paragraph :) I didn't ask for it to be removed - I have no problem with that paragraph - Jean-Claude Bradley
so you think that private company will always permits to their scientist to share data with the rest of the world? - Piero Giacomelli
@Piero: some will, some won't. The hypothesis is that the sharing model will prove more efficient, so early adopters will realize an advantage and eventually the mainstream will adopt their methods. There are no guarantees but I think it's worth testing the hypothesis. - Bill Hooker
Depends on the information. Pharma companies are already sharing pre-competitive information. Stuff that they would need to repeat in the absence of any data availability. With things like GWAS, it might be impossible to do for a company, so they will collaborate with universities and make the raw data public (e.g. Novartis) - Deepak
Expression data (eQTL) too. See Rosetta/Merck. - Chris Cotsapas
@Chris, oops. Should have included that one esp cause I have used that in talks :) (I was at Rosetta Biosoftware) - Deepak
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media May 2009, San Francisco Bay Area "This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers and industry leaders interested in creating and analyzing social media." - Richard Akerman
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. It creates a version 5 PDF document. Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript - jokrausdu
"Do you like to read about new developments in science and other fields? Are you tired of "science by press release"? ResearchBlogging.org is your place. Research Blogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases." - Jay Bhatt
How should we be rethinking the research library in a swiftly changing information landscape? In February 2008, CLIR convened 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists to consider this question. Participants discussed the challenges and opportunities that libraries are likely to face in the next five to ten years, and how changes in scholarly communication will affect the future library. Essays by eight of the participants—Paul Courant, Andrew Dillon, Rick Luce, Stephen Nichols, Daphnée Rentfrow, Abby Smith, Kate Wittenberg, and Lee Zia—were circulated to participants in advance and provided background for the conversation. This report contains these background essays as well as a summary of the meeting. - Jay Bhatt
Healthcare is a highly complex, information-driven industry, and effective knowledge management is at the heart of the drug discovery and development process. Translational medicine is becoming increasingly important within the pharmaceutical industry where it is defined by a variety of initiatives designed to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from the bench to the bedside and back. In this session we have brought together a diverse set of speakers representing a broad spectrum of activities across the pharmaceutical workflow – from target identification to clinical trials. Each talk will describe specific examples of advances in translational medicine brought about by practical approaches to improved knowledge management. Sometimes these advances will be technology-based, sometimes they will have resulted from innovative forms of collaboration and the use of Web 2.0 tools. - Jay Bhatt
