For those of you who haven't yet read this article, it does provide food for thought.
Science in retreat
Canada has been scientifically healthy.
Not so its government.
Comparisons of nations’ scientific outputs over the years have shown that Canada’s researchers have plenty to be proud of, consistently maintaining their country’s position among the world’s top ten (see, for example, Nature 430, 311–316; 2004). Alas, their government’s track record is dismal by comparison. When the Canadian government announced earlier this year that it was closing the office of the national science adviser, few in the country’s science community were surprised. Science has long faced an uphill battle for recognition in Canada, but the slope became steeper when the Conservative government was elected in 2006...
Monday, February 25, 2008
Science in Retreat - Nature Editorial on the State of Science in Canada
For those of you who haven't yet read this article, it does provide food for thought.
Science in retreat
Canada has been scientifically healthy.
Not so its government.
Comparisons of nations’ scientific outputs over the years have
shown that Canada’s researchers have plenty to be proud of,
consistently maintaining their country’s position among the
world’s top ten (see, for example, Nature 430, 311–316; 2004). Alas,
their government’s track record is dismal by comparison.
When the Canadian government announced earlier this year that it
was closing the office of the national science adviser, few in the country’s
science community were surprised. Science has long faced an
uphill battle for recognition in Canada, but the slope became steeper
when the Conservative government was elected in 2006...
Science in retreat
Canada has been scientifically healthy.
Not so its government.
Comparisons of nations’ scientific outputs over the years have
shown that Canada’s researchers have plenty to be proud of,
consistently maintaining their country’s position among the
world’s top ten (see, for example, Nature 430, 311–316; 2004). Alas,
their government’s track record is dismal by comparison.
When the Canadian government announced earlier this year that it
was closing the office of the national science adviser, few in the country’s
science community were surprised. Science has long faced an
uphill battle for recognition in Canada, but the slope became steeper
when the Conservative government was elected in 2006...
Science in Retreat - Nature Editorial on the State of Science in Canada
For those of you who haven't yet read this article, it does provide food for thought.
Science in retreat
Canada has been scientifically healthy.
Not so its government.
Comparisons of nations’ scientific outputs over the years have
shown that Canada’s researchers have plenty to be proud of,
consistently maintaining their country’s position among the
world’s top ten (see, for example, Nature 430, 311–316; 2004). Alas,
their government’s track record is dismal by comparison.
When the Canadian government announced earlier this year that it
was closing the office of the national science adviser, few in the country’s
science community were surprised. Science has long faced an
uphill battle for recognition in Canada, but the slope became steeper
when the Conservative government was elected in 2006...
Science in retreat
Canada has been scientifically healthy.
Not so its government.
Comparisons of nations’ scientific outputs over the years have
shown that Canada’s researchers have plenty to be proud of,
consistently maintaining their country’s position among the
world’s top ten (see, for example, Nature 430, 311–316; 2004). Alas,
their government’s track record is dismal by comparison.
When the Canadian government announced earlier this year that it
was closing the office of the national science adviser, few in the country’s
science community were surprised. Science has long faced an
uphill battle for recognition in Canada, but the slope became steeper
when the Conservative government was elected in 2006...
SciFinder Scholar Problems
Apologies to one and all. You will have noted by now that the University of Calgary's access to SciFinder Scholar has been greatly curtailed, only one simultaneous login at this time is permitted instead of the usual 5 simltaneous logins. The SciFinder Scholar download for PC users has also been removed.
Our difficulties began when we requested a training licence for SciFinder Scholar earlier this term. While the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) was able to extend a training licence to us, the process unfortunately interfered with our normal licence.
Librarians and library staff are working with CAS to restore our simultaneous access to SciFinder Scholar as well as our download access. In the meantime, if you get a message stating that there are "Too many concurrent sessions for this login ID", please try again later. If you need to download a copy of SciFinder to your desktop, please contact Claudette Cloutier (ccloutie@ucalgary.ca).
Thank you for your patience. I hope that everything will return to normal shortly.
Claudette Cloutier
Interim Liaison Librarian for Chemistry
Our difficulties began when we requested a training licence for SciFinder Scholar earlier this term. While the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) was able to extend a training licence to us, the process unfortunately interfered with our normal licence.
Librarians and library staff are working with CAS to restore our simultaneous access to SciFinder Scholar as well as our download access. In the meantime, if you get a message stating that there are "Too many concurrent sessions for this login ID", please try again later. If you need to download a copy of SciFinder to your desktop, please contact Claudette Cloutier (ccloutie@ucalgary.ca).
Thank you for your patience. I hope that everything will return to normal shortly.
Claudette Cloutier
Interim Liaison Librarian for Chemistry
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