Google Cheat Sheet
From Traci Avet's column, "Who's Afraid of Google?" (
LJ, June 1, 2006), comes a list of handy shortcuts for searching Google. For a complete list that's updated frequently, go to
http://www.googleguide.com (this is not a Google web site, but that of Nancy Blachman and Jerry Peek).
Among other things, the shortcuts provide a way to:
- find a definition -- define exigency
- calculate -- 15.99 + 32.50 + 13.25
- convert -- 38 Celcius in Fahrenheit; 35 dollars in euros
- search just one site -- site:http://bloomu.edu "institutional review board"
- search within a date range -- leaf-cutting bees 1880..1978
- search for synonyms -- ~food ~facts
- get local weather info -- weather 17815
- get a stock quote -- stocks:goog
- find a book -- book northanger abbey
- find a book in a libray -- find in a library: moby dick
This is by no means a comprehensive list.
37 BioMed Central journals receiving ISI's impact factor tracking
PRESS RELEASE: 12 June 2006
FOUR MORE JOURNALS FROM BIOMED CENTRAL ACCEPTED FOR IMPACT FACTOR TRACKING
BioMed Central is pleased to announce that four more of its open access journals are now on track to receive an official Impact Factor. Thomson Scientific (ISI) has just accepted BMC Biology, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Molecular Cancer and Nutrition and Metabolism for citation tracking and inclusion in Web of Science. 37 journals in BioMed Central's portfolio now have an official Impact Factor, or will receive one within the next three years.
In the last six months, Thomson Scientific has accepted a total of eleven journals published by BioMed Central for citation tracking and inclusion in Web of Science. In addition to the four
journals listed above, BMC Developmental Biology, BMC Immunology, BMC Plant Biology, BMC Neurology, BMC Structural Biology, Microbial Cell Factories and Retrovirology have also recently been accepted.
Natasha Robshaw, Director of Sales and Marketing for BioMed Central, welcomes Thomson Scientific's inclusion of the additional journals: "We are very pleased that Thomson Scientific is recognizing the success of our journals by accepting them for citation tracking. There is increasing evidence that open access articles are read and cited more than articles made available only to subscribers. The inclusion of BioMed Central journals in Web of Science makes
it easier for researchers to identify those citations."
Further Information
Press contact: Grace Baynes (press@biomedcentral.com or +44 20 7631 9988)
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