Posted on August 25th, 2008 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 25, 2008
News Item: Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005 and caused severe destruction in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama as a Category 5 storm. Thousands perished, and homes and businesses were destroyed in what would become the costliest U.S. Atlantic hurricane. Three years later, the city of New Orleans is slowly recovering [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2008 by janestrudwick
Refworks has added some new features to help organize and retrieve your citations. Especially useful is the Global Edit, a new feature that allows you to add, move, or delete information from the entire database or a selected list. (What is Refworks?)
Detailed information about the new features and enhancements for the August release is available [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 11, 2008
News Item: Last week marked the 63rd anniversaries of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to Democracy Now!, approximately 14,000 people were instantly killed or died within a few months of the bombings after the Hiroshima attack, and about 80,000 were killed after the attack on Nagasaki.
The Atomic Bomb: Voices [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 by janestrudwick
ISI Web of KnowledgeSM has been enhanced
Citation Mapping. View the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science® visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more. ONLINE TUTORIAL
Additional All-Database search options • Now you can sort by Times [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by MarisHayashi
Week of August 4, 2008
News Item: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin this week in Beijing and will run through August 24th. A few of the recent problems associated with the event include the following: at least 20,000 people have cleaned up algal blooms along the coastlines of Qingdao where sailing events will be [...]
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