SpringerPlus is a peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all areas of science. Launched in 2012, the journal has already published over 200 articles and was recently accepted for indexing in Scopus and PubMed Central.

The following are highlighted articles published in the Social Sciences:

• Neuro-fuzzy controller to navigate an unmanned vehicle - Boumediene Selma and Samira Chouraqui
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: the dangers of getting “dinged” - Shaheen E Lakhan and Annette Kirchgessner
• Production and partial characterization of extracellular amylase enzyme from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens P-001 - Promita Deb et al.

SpringerPlus is covered by Springer’s and BioMed Central’s Open Access Membership Program. As HKU is a supporter member, HKU authors will get a 15% discount on the article-processing charges of all research articles accepted for publication in journals published by SpringerOpen. Find out more at http://www.springeropen.com/inst/39413

Safari Books Online will be down for maintenance for approximately two to three hours on Saturday April 6th and Saturday April 13th at the time below:

Saturday, April 6th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

Saturday, April 13th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

Wetlands is an international journal concerned with all aspects of wetlands biology, ecology, hydrology, water chemistry, soil and sediment characteristics, management, and laws and regulations. The journal is published 6 times per year, with the goal of centralizing the publication of pioneering wetlands work that has otherwise been spread among a myriad of journals.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.338

Top cited papers from Wetlands:

• Salinity Influence on Methane Emissions from Tidal Marshes - Poffenbarger, Hanna J.; Needelman, Brian A.; Megonigal, J. Patrick
• Ecosystem Carbon Stocks of Micronesian Mangrove Forests - Kauffman, J. Boone et al.
• A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands - Junk, Wolfgang J. et al.
• Salt Marsh Carbon Pool Distribution in a Mid-Atlantic Lagoon, USA: Sea Level Rise Implications - Elsey-Quirk, Tracy et al.
• Estimating the Provision of Ecosystem Services by Gulf of Mexico Coastal Wetlands - Engle, Virginia D.

You may click here to view the most downloaded articles which are downloaded live and in real-time Westlands.

HKUL users can continue to access the journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b2333893

[Source: SpringerLink]

Food Security contains a mixture of original refereed papers taking a synthetic view of the science, sociology and economics of food production, agricultural development, access to food, and nutrition, together with review articles, case studies and letters to the editor. The journal covers the principles and practice of food security per se, taking an overview of the subject or analysing it with a broad perspective over its many component disciplines. The journal does not seek to duplicate the coverage of the many publications that focus specifically on those component disciplines.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.970

Top cited papers from Food Security:

• Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security - Shiferaw, Bekele et al.
• A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change - Ingram, John
• Crops that feed the World 2. Soybean-worldwide production, use, and constraints caused by pathogens and pests -Hartman, Glen L.; West, Ellen D.; Herman, Theresa K.
• Agricultural investment and international land deals: evidence from a multi-country study in Africa - Cotula, Lorenzo et al.
• Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China - Simelton, Elisabeth

You may click here to view the most downloaded articles which are downloaded live and in real-time Food Security.

HKUL users can continue to access the journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b4288426

[Source: SpringerLink]

Demography presents the highest quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population research. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. Its temporal scope is broad, as represented by research that explores demographic phenomena spanning the ages from the past to the present, and reaching toward the future.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.931

Top cited papers from Demography:

• Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families - Geller, Amanda; Garfinkel, Irwin; Western, Bruce
• The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update - Rendall, Michael S.; Weden, Margaret M.; Favreault, Melissa M.; et al.
• Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development - Geller, Amanda; Cooper, Carey E.; Garfinkel, Irwin; et al.
• Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China - Goodkind, Daniel
• The Evolution of Family Complexity from the Perspective of Nonmarital Children - Cancian, Maria; Meyer, Daniel R.; Cook, Steven T.

You may click here to view the most downloaded articles which are downloaded live and in real-time Demography.

HKUL users can continue to access the journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b1391568

[Source: SpringerLink]

There will be scheduled maintenance at the vendor’s data center for March 31, 2013, 11:00 pm to April 1, 2013, 1:00 am

There will be an estimated downtime of two hours for all Alexander Street products.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Reuters 3000Xtra is an economic and finance database to provide global coverage of current and historical data on stocks, warrants, options, futures, indices, bonds, and economic indicators.

Thomson Reuters has announced that 3000Xtra will no longer be available on 22 March 2013 (Friday). Our subscription will be upgraded to Eikon accordingly:

Thomson Reuters Eikon [electronic resource]

http://library.hku.hk/record=b4191007

HKU current staff and students who wish to access Eikon may need to download and install the new application from the above Dragon Record.

More information about Eikon can be found at www.thomsonreuters.com/eikon

You are also cordially invited to attend the following Eikon training:

Date:       25 March 2013 (Monday)

Time:       4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Venue:     e-Learning Lab, Room G-02, G/F., Main Library

Interested users should register online at

http://obelix.lib.hku.hk/cgi-bin/course/list_gp_m.cgi?category=8

It’s hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. In all these approaches, there is an almost universal fascination with how the mind works and how it affects our lives and our behavior. Studies of the mind and brain have crossed many exciting thresholds in recent years, and the study of mind now represents a thoroughly cross-disciplinary effort. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines seek answers to such questions as: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness?The Encyclopedia of the Mind brings together scholars from the entire range of mind-related academic disciplines from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and computer science and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind.

Click here to access the free trial to the online version which expires on April 30, 2013.

A six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install enhancements to the ProQuest and ProQuest Dialog platforms. The window will take place from Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 11:00. During this time all databases on the two platforms will not be available.

Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) is a multidisciplinary journal serving researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. It is the main venue for a wide range of researchers and readers from computer science, network science, social sciences, mathematical sciences, medical and biological sciences, financial, management and political sciences. We solicit experimental and theoretical work on social network analysis and mining using a wide range of techniques from social sciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, network science and computer science.

Read, download and save these articles online. They are available online for free until April 15, 2013:

• Social networks and online environments: when science and practice co-evolve - Devan Rosen, George A. Barnett, Jang Hyun Kim
• Social network analysis: developments, advances, and prospects - John Scott
• Supervised methods for multi-relational link prediction - Darcy Davis, Ryan Lichtenwalter, Nitesh V. Chawla
• Trends in science networks: understanding structures and statistics of scientific networks - Miray Kas, Kathleen M. Carley, L. Richard Carley
• Modeling blogger influence in a community - Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Lei Tang, Philip S. Yu