Chemistry World Podcast
Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, has just started a new podcast this October, featuring highlights from the print/online version...
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Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, has just started a new podcast this October, featuring highlights from the print/online version...
VCU Libraries is a Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL). This screencast tutorial provides a brief introduction (3 minutes 21 seconds, with audio) to some methods for beginning a search for U.S. patents. Topics covered include:
- Navigating to online patent resources
- Searching using a patent number
- Searching using an inventor name
- Searching using class/subclass numbers and the manual of patent classification
- Finding patent search templates
NIH Radio presents recent research findings in a journalistic-news, podcast-ready format. The podcast archive started this past March, and there are currently two episodes a month. The online NIH Radio archive (downloadable mp3 files) began in May 2005.
(for NIH podcasts)
Librarycasting SE is beginning to also provide some iPod-ready video tutorials. These have been specially adapted to fit the small video iPod screen. The first one is entitled "Finding New / Recently Purchased Books."
Download Links (right-click on link for pc, shift-click for mac):
(2.7 MB, 1 minute 1 second).
(1.7 MB, 1 minute).
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has periodic podcasts of its research. Examples of recent titles include "2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season and Global Earth Observing System of Systems, or GEOSS" and "Galapagos Spreading Center: Exploring Undersea Volcanoes." NOAA also provides RSS feeds for National Weather Service Advisories (by state/county/zone), National Hurricane Center advisories (by storm name or Atlantic / Pacific basin), and news releases.
for NOAA News Releases
Nova (PBS) currently produces a podcast, a vodcast (video podcast), and an RSS feed. The podcast, currently produced about once a month, is science-story and interview focused. The video podcasts (currently twice a month) are excerpts from the TV program, and require Apple Quicktime 7 to run. The RSS feed links to Nova webpages that feature TV program clips, transcripts, answers from subject experts, discussion forums, etc.
This weekly podcast includes research news and highlights, including interviews. Nature podcasts were started very recently (the first podcast in the online archive is dated 10/5/05).
New RSS feeds for tutorials (covering library tools and services, life sciences, and physical sciences) have just been added to the site. These feeds are active, and link to tutorials created here at VCU Libraries, and elsewhere. They will be periodically updated. A feed for engineering tutorials will also be activated soon.
Librarycasting SE is a compilation of selected educational and information resources for the sciences and engineering, with a strong emphasis on new media and communication formats such as screencasts (pc screen video), video, and podcasts (audio). Resources covered include those produced at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, the VCU campus community, and the extended sciences and engineering world community beyond.
A major goal of Librarycasting SE is to make available a range of brief screencast and podcast tutorials answering specific questions, and demonstrating specific techniques, relevant to the sciences and engineering. Conveniently access these resources at any time from your Firefox browser bookmarks or RSS aggregator, through the subject-specific automatically updated RSS feeds provided at this site. These tutorials are in constant production at VCU Libraries, and your suggestions for new tutorials in this format are always welcomed!
Pete Kirlew, Ph.D., MLIS
Reference Librarian for the Sciences and Engineering
VCU Libraries