Advanced Materials is Now Available

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Advanced Materials is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering materials science. It includes Communications, Reviews, Progress Reports, and Feature Articles on topics in chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials. It is one of the leading journals in materials science with an an Impact Factor of 13.877 in 2011. Frequent topics covered by the journal also include liquid crystals, semiconductors, superconductors, optics, lasers, sensors, mesoporous materials, shape memory alloys, light-emitting materials, magnetic materials, thin films, and colloids.

You can access this resource from here or through the MSKsearch search box from the Library’s Website.

Resource Highlights: FindZebra

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What do black and white striped equines and tricky medical cases with surprising diagnoses have in common? They are both referred to as zebras.

In medicine, students are taught  a rule of thumb coined by Dr. Theodore Woodward in the 1940’s: “When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don’t expect to see a zebra”. In other words, if a patient is exhibiting symptoms of a common cold, don’t expect they have whooping cough, for example. However, there are rare occasions when a case is difficult to diagnose and lacking common or familiar symptoms to assess. For these cases there is FindZebra.

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Blog Buzz: April 20 – May 3

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The KevinMD blog this week included content about continuing problems related to scientific publication that are of  interest to our readers:

The first is Your Librarian Can Protect You Against Predatory Publishers, from fellow librarian Dina McKelvy, who discusses the problem of unscrupulous publishers and open access publishing scams. This issue was covered on our blog last year in Authors Beware…, but it remains a concern and is something authors should be aware of. If you have any questions about a particular journal or regarding open access, don’t hesitate to ask us, we are here to help!

A second problem topic from KevinMD is Planting Drug Industry-Funded Papers in Medical Journals, by Martha Rosenberg, regarding research published in medical journals that has been written by drug companies or authors receiving funding from them.

Finally, for those following reports about the forthcoming DSM-5 diagnostic manual of mental disorders or interested in mental health research funding, Vaughan Bell writes that the National Institute of Mental Health is moving away from DSM categories.