Author: Brian Quigley

Have you ever needed a chart or graph for your project to give it a little pizazz? Then, take a look at Statista!

Statista, a newly licensed statistical database, has a wealth of statistics on a variety of topics from the sciences to business, and more. For example, you can find charts on:

• The global consumption of biofuels
• Global agricultural greenhouse emissions
• A ranking of the countries with the most Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry

Statista is easy to search. It provides charts, graphs, tables, and infographics that you can download and use in your projects.

Take a look today!

We are happy to announce that GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) has been licensed for UCB use!

GIDEON’s Infectious diseases module facilitates diagnoses, and tracks information on Infectious Diseases from around the globe.

• Include tabs on Diagnosis, Diseases, Travel, Drugs and Vaccines.
• The Microbiology module, allows you to identify a taxon based on its phenotypic characteristics and view a list of the typical positive and negative reactions for a specified organism and compare the reactions of two or more species.

Check out the Video Tutorials, Tutorial, and GIDEON Cases, which provide examples of how you can use GIDEON.

UC campuses now have access to the Scientific American Archive as well as the Supplement issues and Builders Edition issues on the Scientific American platform. This valuable resource consists of high-quality scans of more than 133,000 articles published in Scientific American from 1845-2005. You can browse the issues, read entire issues as PDF files, and search across the full archive. As noted by the publisher, these archive collections “provide unique insight into historic breakthroughs in science, technology, medicine and architecture.”

Announced in February 2015, PeerJ Computer Sciences is a new, cross-disciplinary, open-access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. This new journal is an offshoot of already established, PeerJ, an open-access, peer reviewed online journal that publishes original research in the biological, medical and health sciences. Both journals maintain rigorous peer-review standards while committed to rapid review and fast publication of research results.

Under the terms of a UC Berkeley partnership with PeerJ, when a paper by a Berkeley author is accepted for publication in PeerJ or PeerJ Computer Science, the Berkeley Library will automatically pay the cost of a Basic Membership for each Berkeley author. That membership will allow authors to publish one PeerJ article every year, for life, for free.

Listed below are some of the Berkeley-authored PeerJ articles published through the UC Berkeley Library partnership.

• Beissinger, Steven R. Digging the Pupfish out of Its Hole: Risk Analyses to Guide Harvest of Devils Hole Pupfish for Captive Breeding.

• Madeline Girard, Prior Mating Success Can Affect Allocation towards Future Sexual Signaling in Crickets.

• Robert Dudley. Shifts in Stability and Control Effectiveness during Evolution of Paraves Support Aerial Maneuvering Hypotheses for Flight Origins.

• Li, Jingyi Jessica, Peter J. Bickel, System Wide Analyses Have Underestimated Protein Abundances and the Importance of Transcription in Mammals

• Looy, Cindy V., Robert A. Stevenson, Evidence for Coal Forest Refugia in the Seasonally Dry Pennsylvanian Tropical Lowlands of the Illinois Basin, USA.

Questions? For questions about the PeerJ partnership or any other issues related to open-access publishing, contact Scholarly Communications Officer, Margaret Phillips mphillip[at sign]library.berkeley.edu

Originally posted on What’s New in the Library.