MathSciNet Gets a Facelift

MathSciNet's interface has recently gotten an overhaul. The functionality has not changed much, but the different functions are easier to access. Check it out:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/

This was new to me, so I thought I would point it out: under the "Other Tools" tab, there's a "Collaboration Distance" tab. Enter two authors and see the "shortest publications path" between the two.

Historical Royal Society Journals Available Free till December

Full Royal Society journals archives back to 1665 are free until December:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
Access individual journals along the left-hand side.

You can read The Register's news story here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/
royalsoc_archive_open/

Historically interesting papers include:

Benjamin Franklin's legendary kite experiment, drawing down lightning and showing its electrical nature (1752)
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=47&spage=202

The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid F.H.C Crick and J.D Watson - 1954
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0080-4630&volume=223&issue=1152&spage=80

On the Hoyle-Narlikar Theory of Gravitation, S. W. Hawking - 1965
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0080-4630&volume=286&issue=1406&spage=313

Arthur Eddington's solar eclipse observations, confirming Einstein's
general theory of relativity (Phil Trans 1919)
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0264-3952&volume=220&spage=291

Blog of Blogs

The latest PAM (Special Libraries Association Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics division) newsletter (vol. 34:1)lists a few math blogs and bloggers. Some have more math content than others; others are more "rambly". I've listed them below:

Ars Mathematica: http://www.arsmathematica.net/
NeverEnding Books: http://www.neverendingbooks.org/
Diary of a Black Mathematician: http://homepage.mac.com/ehgoins/iblog/B335600579/
Gooseania: http://www.gooseania.blogspot.com/
ChapterZero: http://www.tangentspace.net/cz/
eon: ecstatic over numbers: http://www.unimodular.net/blog/
Not Even Wrong: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
n-Category Cafe: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/
"A group blog on math, physics and philosophy"

Eprintweb.org: A new, free e-print service

Eprintweb.org is a way of accessing arXiv, with enhanced navigation, searching and personalization features.

This is from the Special Libraries Association's Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics mailing list:

IOP Publishing invites you and your faculty members to explore Eprintweb.org, a new, free e-print service. Eprintweb.org was developed in cooperation with, and with the full support of, the arXiv.org advisory committee and Cornell University Library.

Our hope is that Eprintweb.org will offer an additional choice to arXiv users and will help to simplify the process of retrieving scientific information. Eprintweb.org is dedicated to providing users with access to the foremost scientific research available. Similar to arXiv, Eprintweb.org will be updated daily and will always be completely free for users worldwide.

Though Eprintweb.org uses content from arXiv, your faculty will find that it’s different because it focuses on improving the users’ experience by addressing navigation, searching, personalization and presentation. We have also introduced reference linking across all content, and enhanced searching on all key fields including institutional address.

We hope that your patrons will take full advantage of this new service at http://eprintweb.org. We recommend that you encourage your faculty to register so they can utilize the personalization options such as e-mail alerts and "My eprints", a useful way to flag articles of interest.

If you have any questions about Eprintweb.org, please contact John Haynes, Assistant Director, Journals, by email at john.haynes@iop.org.