Shiny Things

[coalescent]

Shiny thing #1: Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Shiny thing #2: Angel soundtrack music.

Fox Music have released an Angel Digital EP with music composed by Robert Kral for download from their official site for $9.99 (Fox Dollars)

The tracks include:

- Start The Apocalypse
- The End Of The World
- Hero
- The Birth Of Angelus
- Rebellion
- Castle Attack
- Welcome to Pylea
- Angel Main Title Theme (Sanctuary Extended Version)
- LA Song
- A Place Called Home

No, I don't know what 'Fox Dollars' are, either. And since I can't load the Fox website in this browser, it looks like I'm unlikely to find out for a while.

Comments

[kittynic]

Thanks for the credit :-)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

"The description of my article is wrong and I am appropriately outraged. How do I have it corrected? "

Hee.

If Google Scholar works half as well as normal Google does then I shall be having little geek squeals of joy shortly.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

"My university subscribes to the Journal of Prosimian Dialectical Reasoning. How do I read the full text of their articles? "

This week's guest publication on Have I Got News For You? :)

[fba.livejournal.com]

That'll be Google's response to http://www.scirus.com then.....

[huskyscotsman.livejournal.com]

Huh, I was going to say the same thing, except with CiteSeer. I guess I'm out of the loop, because I can't even get CiteSeer to load, but this Scirus thing looks pretty nifty.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say it about PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi). It wins over PubMed in that it appears to have citation data (like CiteSeer), but probably doesn't have the depth of metadata (like MeSH headings) that PubMed does. Still, it's good enough that i have just peed not only on myself but several other people in my lab. If they can really make it work, it could not only replace PubMed, but it might even replace Web of Science, which is incredibly powerful, but hard to use and expensive.

Oh, and Scirus, last time i checked, is rubbish.

-- tom