Monthly Archives: February 2012

Research Works Act (HR 3699) Dies in the House

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Susan Braxton

The sponsors of HR 3699, the Research Works Act, announced on February 27 they will not take legislative action on the bill.   The bill would have repealed the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, with far-reaching implications for all … Continue reading →

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It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Susan Braxton

February 26 to March 3, 2012 is National Invasive Species Awareness Week.   Here are some resources to help you mark the week in style: Borrow the Illinois Invasive Species Resource Trunk for educators, which is available for loan from the … Continue reading →

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Can a Prairie Teach Us About Agricultural Water Quality?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Agricultural Research. One place to figure out how agricultural practices affect water quality is in a crop field that is being converted to native prairie vegetation. In Iowa, natural resource managers are conducting this type … Continue reading →

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“Predatory” Open Access Publishers List

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Susan Braxton

Jeffrey Beall, Metadata Librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, has posted his 2012 List of Predatory, Open Access (OA) Publishers.   Beall asserts that the 24 publishers on his list, in addition to charging authors fees for publication–a practice shared … Continue reading →

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How to Get Started with PaperCritic (and Why You’d Want To)

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Laura B.

Read the full post at Profhacker. There has been quite a bit of press lately about the peer review process and access to journal articles, namely, how these are controlled by some of the bigger-name journals (at great expense to … Continue reading →

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Provosts Speak Out in Favor of Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Susan Braxton

Today’s Inside Higher Ed features an editorial from 11 CIC Provosts, including our own Richard Wheeler, in support of public access to publicly funded research.  They expressed their concern about recently introduced H.R. 3699, The Research Works Act, which would … Continue reading →

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ProQuest Statistical Datasets

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Laura B.

The University Library is happy to announce that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has access to an important resource for finding statistics and using them to create tables, maps and reports. ProQuest Statistical Datasets SFX: http://openurl.library.uiuc.edu/sfxlcl3?rft.object_id=17160000000000501&svc.fulltext=yes. Voyager: https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6782408 ProQuest … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Academic Search

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Susan Braxton

Microsoft offers a free academic search engine, Microsoft Academic Search, for journal literature in a broad range of disciplines.  Users can browse within results by author, journal, keywords, or date. Unlike competitor Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search results sets provide … Continue reading →

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USDA Announces New Funding for Conservation Partners

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Laura B.

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Dave White today announced a partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to improve water quality, wildlife habitat and soil productivity. The partnership brings together $10 million of NRCS funding with … Continue reading →

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Case studies of species re-introductions

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Susan Braxton

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released Global Re-introduction Perspectives 2011, which features new case studies of species re-introductions worldwide of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, and plants.  Provides an overall assessment of re-introduction success, and detailed … Continue reading →

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