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GENERAL RESOURCES
Periodicals This page contains information about and links to web resources of general scientific, philosophical, historical, or societal interest. More specific, area-related information is provided on the 18 area introductory pages. Periodicals
[Archives (November 1995— )] Serves as The Atlantic Monthly's home on the Internet, presenting the magazine's digital edition and continually building a useful online archive; and serves as the home of Atlantic Unbound, an online journal that extends the magazine's coverage of books, literature, and culture. Offers the contents of The Atlantic's print edition — augmented with links to related articles, other Web sites, and/or special online sidebars — alongside a weekly update of original Web-only features in Atlantic Unbound. The site offers access to back issues of The Atlantic (1857— ) from November 1995 (when the magazine first appeared on the Web) to the present, as well as hundreds of articles selected from the magazine's archive. Also includes an interactive forum, Post & Riposte. • Discover Magazine (1980— ) (Monthly.) The Discover homepage includes the following features: current and recent issues, archive, science news, web picks, and gallery. • Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) (1995— ) (Quarterly; online journal; University of Michigan Press.) Publisher's Note: "Electronic publishing is changing the world we live in. It is changing what publishers do. It is changing the way scientists, business people, and students — all of us — work. In this environment of change and uncertainty, the publisher faces many challenges: details such as Web design, server management, pricing (and collecting the revenue!) as well as the big policy questions. The Journal of Electronic Publishing is for the thoughtful forward-thinking publisher, librarian, scholar, or author — in fact, anyone in this new business — facing those challenges. We aim to range widely in our coverage, but the emphasis will be on the broader issues that should shape policy, and on professional, scientific or academic publishing, both books and journals. JEP faces the same problems as any electronic publication, and we intend to make a virtue of that by using the Journal as a tested to try ideas and to show to you, our readers, what happens when we do. We hope for successes, of course, but we will report on our failures, too. One experiment is that we are neither quite a magazine nor a journal. We are both. The core of each issue is a set of short invited contributions from expert and experienced practitioners on a particular theme. That is more like a magazine. We also seek out and encourage longer pieces from publishers and from scholars and others who are thinking interestingly about electronic publishing. That is the journal. And from time to time we are adding regular columns. So join us, read JEP and let us know what you think — and above all, share your ideas with us. We want JEP to be truly useful for the publishing community." • Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) (Quarterly; Rutgers University; Johns Hopkins University.) Examines the evolution of ideas and their influence on historical developments. An interdisciplinary publication, JHI covers several fields of historical study including the history of philosophy, literature, the natural and social sciences, religion, the arts, and culture in general. As the official publication of the Society for the History of Ideas, JHI promotes greater collaboration among scholars in all provinces of cultural and intellectual history. (Monthly as of 1977; Lancaster Press.) Publishes philosophical articles of current interest and encourages the interchange of ideas, especially the exploration of the borderline between philosophy and other disciplines. • Lingua Franca
• Nature [TOCs (June 1997—)] (Weekly.) • Naturwissenschaften (1913— ) (Springer.) Organ of Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, and Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren. In 1913 Arnold Berliner, the founder of Naturwissenschaften, formulated the following goal for the journal: "…it should inform all those working in scientific fields (either as researchers or teachers) about what interests them outside their own fields." Authors such as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Max von der Laue, Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Manfred Eigen, etc. have, in the past, worked to bring this about. In the future, too, top researchers worldwide will continue to report on the status of their subject areas in review articles, in 'Short original articles' they will introduce new results, and in 'Book reviews' they will give critical evaluations of important new literature. • The New York Review of Books (NYRB) Archives: A complete searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to the present. The site currently contains the full text of all pieces published in the Review since November 1996. "The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language." (Esquire) • The Philosopher's Index (1940— ) The premier international resource in philosophy. A bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals (80%) and books as well as contributions to anthologies (20%). The electronic version of The Philosopher's Index is available exclusively on SilverPlatter. 80% of the records are taken from journal articles, with the remaining 20% taken from books and contributions to anthologies. Over 480 journals are covered, from 38 countries, making The Philosopher's Index a truly international research tool. The database cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. It also includes complete coverage of international articles from anthologies and books written in English and other languages. [Current contents (in English)] • Science [TOCs (1995— )] (Weekly.) • Essays on Science and Society In monthly essays on Science and Society, Science features the views of individuals from inside or outside the scientific community as they explore the interface between science and the wider society. • Science
News (1922— ) [TOCs (January 27, 1996—)] [Guide to the site (freely available articles)] [Site Sampler page (more freely available articles)] Covers the most important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages are packed with short, accurate articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Reaches about 200,000 subscribers and 1.2 million readers. Includes sections on information technology, distance education, teaching, and publishing. Access to articles in a number of sections is free. [TOCs (1996— )] (Monthly.) • The
Scientist (1986— ) [TOCs (October 20, 1986— )] (24 issues annually.) Provides research scientists with relevant and timely information and analysis to assist them in making decisions that affect their working lives. Provides an open forum for examination and discussion of issues in research, technology, employment, funding, policy and other subjects important to the life scientist. • SIC
ET NON Institutions • La Cité des Sciences (Paris) • Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna) • Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (1995— ) (University of Virginia) A non-profit, interdisciplinary research center at the University of Virginia. Investigates contemporary cultural change and its implications for individuals and society. • International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) (1994— ) Fosters communication and interaction among the international community of intellectual historians and scholars working in related fields. As agreed upon at its founding, the Society will make no attempt to define intellectual history as having only one approach. The Society therefore invites membership from scholars working in such diverse fields as art and music, religion and literature, philosophy, politics, and the sciences. The goal of the Society is two-fold: to bring together scholars working in the field of intellectual history and in related fields; and to provide this international community of scholars with a forum for debating and discussing various approachs to the study of intellectual history. • Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1930— ) • Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) (1968— ) Eine Einrichtung der Universität Bielefeld, in der Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen zu längerfristigen oder kürzeren Forschungsaufenthalten zusammenkommen. Im Gegensatz zu anderen "Institutes for advanced study" erfolgt die Einladung der in- und ausländischen Forscher themenbezogen zum Zweck der gemeinsamen Arbeit in Forschungsgruppen von einjähriger Dauer oder in Arbeitsgemeinschafts-Tagungen (oder -Tagungssequenzen). Die Themen enthalten eine interdisziplinäre Problemstellung und entstammen allen Wissenschaftsbereichen. Die Forschungsgruppen und Arbeitsgemeinschaften kommen auf Initiative des Direktoriums, des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats oder auf Vorschläge von außen zustande. Other resources BioMedNet provides full text access to all articles in many journals; powerful searching; high quality PDFs of the full text; as well as links from article references to the original research in BioMedNet's MEDLINE. Membership is free. • Cogprints An electronic archive for papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), medicine (e.g., psychiatry, neurology, human genetics, imaging), anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. • Loka
Institute (1987— ) (USA) "Loka" is derived from the ancient Sanskrit word, lokasamgraha, which means: unity of the world, interconnectedness of society, and the duty to perform action for the benefit of the world. A non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology. Loka works to make science and technology more responsive to social and environmental concerns by expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision making. Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation. Included is a database of prizes and their winners. Searchable fields include: prize category, year, name of laureate, birth or death of laureate, laureate affiliation or location, and English-language keyword. According to the author’s self-description, the "ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist." A collection of more than five hundred book reviews, covering all kinds of books — fiction and non-fiction, with a broad range of genre and subject. Debate
The topic of this Nature forum — the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research — has, since the emergence of the Internet, filled volumes in the reports of conference proceedings and reams of individual articles. Many of the often arcane and complex socio-economic and technical issues involved are well-trodden paths for a narrow circle of specialists, and excellent in-depth coverage of the issue is regularly provided by specialist outlets such as the D-Lib Forum and the Journal of Electronic Publishing. The main aim of this forum is to bring some of the substance of this Brownian motion of Internet issues to a broader grassroots audience and debate the implications for the future dissemination of scientific information. • Public Library of Science initiative Should the record of scientific research be privately owned and controlled? "We believe that the permanent, archival record of scientific researchand ideas should neither be owned nor controlled by publishers, but should belong to the public, and should be made freely available. We support the establishment of international online public libraries of science that contain the complete text of all published scientific articles in searchable and interlinked formats. If you agree, we ask you to ... [sign] an open letter that urges publishers to allow the research reports that have appeared in their journals to be included in electronic archives and to be read and used without obstruction." • Information Access: Building a "GenBank"
of the Published Literature [Full text, published debates, and other links] To encourage community dialog about proposals that affect the scientific community, two viewpoints are presented regarding a controversial development in scientific publishing, the formation of a central archive of scientific literature. Roberts et al. believe that if journals make their scientific content freely available at PubMedCentral 6 months after publication researchers will be able to make the most effective use of the literature. The Editors of Science believe that there are other alternatives that may serve the scientific community as well or better without endangering scientific journals. |
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