The year 2006 was declared the International Year of Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations General Assembly . ref name UN ARES58211 page2 UN document docid A RES 58 211 type Resolution body General Assembly session 58 resolution number 211 highlight rect 187,117 812,174 page 2 accessdate 2007 11 19 date 23 December 2003 title International Year of Deserts and Desertification, 2006 ref The Year aims to raise 20 million from industry and governments and will spend half on co funding research, and half on outreach activities. It will be the biggest ever international effort to promote the Earth sciences. Apart from researchers, who are expected to benefit under the Year s Science Programme, the principal target groups for the Year s broader messages are Decision makers and politicians who need to be better informed about the how Earth scientific knowledge can be used for sustainable development The voting public , which needs to know how Earth scientific knowledge can contribute to a better society Geoscientists , who are very knowledgeable about various aspects of the Earth but who need help in using their knowledge for the benefit of the world s population. The research themes of the year, set out in 10 science prospectuses were chosen for their societal relevance, multidisciplinarity and outreach potential. The Year has 12 Founding Partners 23 Associate Partners and is backed politically by 97 countries representing 87 of the world s population. The Year was promoted politically at UNESCO and at the United Nations in New York by the People s Republic of Tanzania . The Year is open to Expressions of Interest from researchers within each of its 10 themes. The Outreach programme of the year is also now open to expressions of interest, and will work in a similar way by receiving and responding to bids for support from individuals and organisations worldwide. The Year s Project Leader is former IUGS President Professor Eduardo F J de Mulder. The Year s Scienc ... more details
dablink Science Journal was also the name of a British science magazine published 1965 71, later merged into New Scientist refimprove date July 2011 Infobox journal title Science cover File Science cover.gif editor Bruce Alberts discipline Multidisciplinarity Multidisciplinary abbreviation Science publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science country United States frequency Weekly history 1880 present 3 series of volumes openaccess license impact 31.364 impact year 2010 website http www.sciencemag.org link1 http www.sciencemag.org content current link1 name Online access link2 http www.sciencemag.org content by year link2 name Online archives JSTOR 00368075 OCLC 1644869 LCCN 17024346 CODEN SCIEAS ISSN 0036 8075 eISSN 1095 9203 boxwidth Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ref cite web url http www.aaas.org news releases 2007 0705spain award.shtml title AAAS AAAS News Release publisher Aaas.org date accessdate 2010 05 15 ref ref cite web url http www.aaas.org publications annual report 2000 science.html title AAAS Annual Report Science publisher Aaas.org date accessdate 2010 05 15 ref and is one of the world s top scientific journals. ref name Lemonick Cite web last Lemonick first Michael D. quote The paper, meanwhile, had been published in Science, one of the world s top scientific journals, which gave it even more apparent gravitas. title Alien Life Discovered in a Meteorite Or Maybe No publisher Time magazine online date March 07, 2011 url http www.time.com time health article 0,8599,2057461,00.html ixzz1ZhW1Cy1p format online web page doi accessdate 2011 10 03 ref The peer review peer reviewed journal, first published in 1880, is circulated weekly and has a print subscriber base of around 130,000. Because institutional subscriptions and online access serve a larger audience, its estimated readership is one million people. ref AAAS, http www.aaas.org aboutaaas What is AAAS? ref The major focus o ... more details
Infobox journal title Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences cover File PNAS cover.gif 200px editor Inder M. Verma discipline Multidisciplinarity Multidisciplinary abbreviation Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA publisher United States National Academy of Sciences country United States frequency Weekly history 1914 present openaccess Delayed open access journal Delayed license impact 9.771 impact year 2010 website http www.pnas.org link1 http www.pnas.org content current link1 name Online access link2 http www.pnas.org content by year link2 name Online archive JSTOR 00278424 OCLC 43473694 LCCN 16010069 CODEN PNASA6 ISSN 0027 8424 eISSN 1091 6490 Italic title force yes The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , usually referred to as PNAS , is the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences NAS . PNAS is an important scientific journal that printed its first issue in 1915 and continues to publish highly cited research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, feature articles, profiles, letters to the editor, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. Although most of the papers published in the journal are in the biomedical sciences, PNAS recruits papers and publishes special features in the physical and social sciences and in mathematics. PNAS is published weekly in print, and daily online in PNAS Early Edition . History PNAS was established by NAS in 1914, with its first issue published in 1915. The NAS itself had been founded in 1863 as a private institution, but chartered by the United States Congress US Congress , with the goal to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art. By 1914, the Academy was well established. Prior to the start of the journal, NAS published three volumes of organizational transactions, consisting mostly of minutes of meetings and annual reports. In accordance with the g ... more details
Multiple issues primary sources November 2011 cleanup January 2008 update November 2011 The United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Planet Earth to increase awareness of the importance of Earth sciences for the achievement of sustainable development. ref name UN ARES60192 UN document docid A RES 60 192 type Resolution body General Assembly session 60 resolution number 192 accessdate 2008 09 17 date 22 December 2005 ref UNESCO was designated as the lead agency. The Year s activities spanned the three years 2007 2009. ref http www.yearofplanetearth.org content downloads FAQs25May.pdf International Year of Planet Earth FAQ ref Goals The Year aims to raise 20 million from industry and governments and will spend half on co funding research, and half on outreach activities. It will be the biggest ever international effort to promote the Earth sciences. Apart from researchers, who are expected to benefit under the Year s Science Programme, the principal target groups for the Year s broader messages are Decision makers and politicians who need to be better informed about the how Earth scientific knowledge can be used for sustainable development The voting public, which needs to know how Earth scientific knowledge can contribute to a better society Geoscientists, who are very knowledgeable about various aspects of the Earth but who need help in using their knowledge for the benefit of the world s population. The research themes of the year, set out in 10 science prospectuses were chosen for their societal relevance, multidisciplinarity and outreach potential. The Year has 12 Founding Partners 23 Associate Partners and is backed politically by 97 countries representing 87 of the world s population. The Year was promoted politically at UNESCO and at the United Nations in New York by the People s Republic of Tanzania . The Year is open to Expressions of Interest from researchers within each of its 10 themes. The Outreach programme of the year ... more details
Infobox journal title PLoS ONE cover File PLoS ONE logo.png editor Peter Binfield discipline Multidisciplinarity Multidisciplinary abbreviation PLoS ONE publisher Public Library of Science country frequency Articles published upon acceptance history 2006 present openaccess Yes license Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic impact 4.411 impact year 2010 website http www.plosone.org link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR OCLC 228234657 LCCN 2006214532 CODEN ISSN 1932 6203 eISSN PLoS ONE is an open access journal open access Peer review peer reviewed scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science PLoS since 2006. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine . All submissions go through an internal and external pre publication peer review but are not excluded on the basis of lack of perceived importance or adherence to a scientific field. The PLoS ONE online platform has post publication user discussion and rating features. History Development PLoS ONE was launched in December 2006 as a software release life cycle beta version . It launched with Commenting and Note making functionality, and added the ability to rate articles in July 2007. In September 2007 the ability to leave trackbacks ref cite web url http blogs.plos.org plos 2007 09 trackbacks are here author Zivkovic, Bora title Trackbacks are here ref on articles was added. In August 2008 it moved from a weekly publication schedule to a daily one, publishing articles as soon as they became ready. ref http www.dipity.com plosone PLoS ONE Milestones PLoS ONE Milestones , a timeline on Dipity ref In October 2008 PLoS ONE came out of beta . Also in September 2009, as part of its Article Level Metrics program, PLoS ONE made the full online usage data for every published article HTML page views, PDF, and XML downloads publicly available. Output In 2006, the journal published 138 articles in 2007, it published just over 1,200 articles and in 2008, it published almost 2,800 articles ... more details
Library science often termed library studies or now dominating Library and information sciences ref Dewey Decimal Classification DDC used the term Library economy for class 19 in its first edition from 1876. In the second edition and all subsequent editions it was moved to class 20. The term Library economy was used until and including 14. edition 1942 . From the 15. edition 1951 class 20 was termed Library Science, which was used until and including 17th edition 1965 when it was replaced by Library and Information Science s LIS from 18th ed. 1971 and forward. ref is an interdisciplinary or Multidisciplinarity multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management , information technology , education , and other areas to library libraries the collection, organization, Preservation Library and Archival Science preservation , and dissemination of information resources and the political economy of information. The first American school for library science was founded by Melvil Dewey at Columbia University in 1887. ref http www.oclc.org dewey resources biography OCLC org ref The first textbook on the subject was German Martin Schrettinger Schrettinger , 1808 1829 . ref Martin Schrettinger Schrettinger, Martin 1808 1829 . Versuch eines vollst ndigen Lehrbuchs der Bibliothek Wissenschaft. Oder, Anleitung zur vollkommenen Gesch ftsf hrung eines Bibliothekars. In wissenschaftlicher Form abgefasst. M nchen. 2 bind .Google books Bd 1 http babel.hathitrust.org cgi pt?id nnc1.cu08321752 Bd 2 http babel.hathitrust.org cgi pt?id nnc1.cu08321760 ref Historically, library science has also included archival science . ref Harris, Michael H. History of Libraries in the Western World . 4th ed. Lanham, Maryland Scarecrow, 1995. 3 The distinction between a library and an archive is relatively modern ref This includes how information resources are organized to serve the needs of select user groups, how people interact with classification systems and tech ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
