Living Downstream Documentary Showing October 16
The documentary Living Downstream will be shown Saturday, October 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Art Theater. The film includes several scenes from Central Illinois. "Living Downstream is an eloquent and...
View ArticleAnnouncing PLoS Hubs: Biodiversity
Read the full post from the Public Library of Science. Today we are pleased to officially announce the launch of PLoS Hubs: Biodiversity, a new pilot Web site to connect the biodiversity community with...
View ArticleNSF funding opportunities
Three NSF programs relevant to INHS researchers are accepting proposals in January: Population and Community Ecology Proposals due January 9, 2011 Evolutionary Processes Proposals due January 9, 2011...
View ArticleWind turbines wrong colour for wildlife
Read the full story from the BBC. A study has revealed that a wind turbine's colour affects how many insects it attracts, shedding more light on why the turbines occasionally kill bats and birds....
View ArticleU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Releases Annual List of Candidates for...
Read the full news release. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today releases its Candidate Notice of Review, a yearly appraisal of the current status of plants and animals considered...
View ArticleMercury causes homosexuality in male ibises
Read the full story in Nature. Exposure to mercury pollution could be hitting some wild birds' reproductive prospects hard by causing males to pair with other males.Citation for the study referenced in...
View ArticleBHL Adds 14,000 Records to WorldCat
The Biodiversity Heritage Library, the world's largest repository of full-text digitized legacy biodiversity literature, has added more than 14,000 records of digitized materials brought together from...
View ArticleNBII Access Fall 2010
The Fall 2010 issue of Access, newsletter of the National Biological Information Infrastructure, is now available. In this issue: Renewable Energy Project (RENEW) Now Available OnlineRaptor Gains...
View ArticleStudy on Blackawton bees in Biology Letters written by British Schoolchildren
The article is written in the children's words, including the use of sound effects and hand-drawn illustrations in colored pencil. The full citation is: Lotto, R.B., et al. (2010). "Blackawton bees."...
View ArticleEcosphere: New Ecological Society of America Journal
The Ecological Society of America has recently released a new open access on-line journal called Ecosphere. The journal publishes submissions from all subdisciplines of ecological science, including...
View ArticleJournal of Integrated Pest Management : New Entomological Society of America...
The Entomological Society of America has recently released the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, a new open access, peer reviewed, extension journal covering the field of integrated pest...
View ArticleUpdate of Draft National Wetland Plant List Available for Review and Comment
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is soliciting public comments on the updated draft National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) developed as part of an ongoing interagency effort to identify and assign wetland...
View ArticleMassive Online Plant Database Unveiled
Read the full story at Red Orbit. Researchers from the US and UK unveiled a new online database of plant names on Wednesday in what they are calling an attempt to help global conservation, medicinal,...
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Use My Netid Password Anymore to Login to Library Resources?
As of January 16th, 2011 Library patrons using on-line library resources from off-campus will be greeted with a different screen when trying to access electronic resources. Users will be required to...
View ArticleJournals implement data archiving policy
Via Dryad News & Views. It's January 2011– do you know where your data are? It would be a good idea to know and be ready to deposit your files in a data repository, because this month marks the...
View ArticleLibrary closed Feb 2
University Library units, including the INHS Library, will be closed on Wednesday, February 2 due to weather.
View ArticleFederal Depository Library Survey
A short, 16-question survey is open through the end of February. Your answers, which will focus on depository access to, services for, and collections of federal government information, will help the...
View ArticleSpring schedule: The Savvy Researcher
The Savvy Researcherhttp://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/basics/workshops.htmlsmall class size * hands-on * one-hour sessions The Savvy Researcher workshop series is designed to address the advanced...
View ArticleRed List species spatial data
The 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species contains assessments for almost 56,000 species, of which about 28,000 have spatial data. There are several new and updated species distribution datasets...
View ArticlePresident Obama requests $242,605,000 for Institute of Museum and Library...
The current Newsletter for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections reports that President Obama has requested $242,605,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services...
View ArticleQuick links to INHS Bulletins
Volumes 1-36 of the INHS Bulletin were digitized through the University Libraries participation in the Open Content Alliance, and they are now available via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The...
View ArticleEndangered Species Day
Celebrate Endangered Species Day on May 20, 2011!Endangered Species Day is an opportunity for people young and old to learn about the importance of protecting endangered species and everyday actions...
View ArticleZooKeys in PubMed Central
ZooKeys has been accepted for archival and display in PubMed Central, the world's leading archive for biomedical literature, based at the National Library of Medicine. ZooKeys articles in PubMed...
View ArticleIntroducing the Prairie Research Institute Library
On June 13, 2011, the libraries of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois State Geological Survey, Illinois State Water Survey, and Illinois Sustainable Technology Center merged to form the...
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