Until the Evening Circulation Supervisor position is filled, the Engineering Library will NOT be able to accept fines and clear blocked records for users after 5PM, Monday–Friday. Instead, go to the Circulation Desk at the Green Library to resolve problems.
The Research Libraries Cooperative Program (RLCP) agreement allows eligible users at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and UT Austin to obtain materials that are needed to support teaching, learning, research, and other University-related work that are not available at their home institution.
Eligible Users: Faculty (current and emeritus), academic or professional staff, and currently registered graduate students. Undergraduate students and visiting scholars are not eligible for RLCP privileges. Most postdoctoral students are also eligible for RLCP privileges.
To help clarify if materials in storage are on-campus or off-campus, the names of the Stanford Auxiliary Libraries have been modified. These naming changes are:
SAL = Stanford Auxiliary Library [SAL1&2]
SAL-NEWARK = Off-campus [Newark]
SAL3 = Off-campus [SAL3]
Most publishers now offer full-text searching for their journals. Deciding where to search — a publisher site or an index is a key decision that impacts what is retrieved. Article level information on publisher sites may be “invisible” to web search engines such as Google. Because web search engines crawl publishers’ sites periodically, you are only searching “snapshots” rather than retrieving the latest information available.
Below are some advantages and disadvantages of doing a full-text search of journal articles on a publisher’s web site.
Founded in 1916, the mission of the Optical Society of America (OSA) is to promote the generation, application and archiving of knowledge in optics and photonics and to disseminate this knowledge worldwide. The purposes of the Society are scientific, technical and educational.
Recently site-licensed by the Physics Library, Optics InfoBase is OSA’s online repository of both current and past volumes of all its journals. It also contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences. The InfoBase search engine — displayed on the main InfoBase web page — allows users to find articles with simple search, advanced search, and lookup/browse features.
Materials Research Society publications provide an important record of current developments in the most technologically valuable areas of materials research. The MRS Proceedings series provides a “snapshot in time” of fundamental and emerging research areas reported at MRS Spring and Fall Meetings. This series currently features over 925 print volumes, each peer-reviewed, containing subject and author indexes.
One new position and replacements for two vacant positions (Karen Grieg and Susan Payne) were filled recently at the Engineering Library. Please join me in welcoming Sarah Lester, Kathleen Gust, and Pam Gore.
Ever wondered about what’s really in hair coloring, Silly Putty, Cheese Wiz, artificial snow, or self-tanners? Engineering News presents What’s That Stuff?, a collection of articles that gives you a look at the chemistry behind a wide variety of everyday products.
The National Library of Medicine has released the NLM Drug Information Portal. This resource provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and to other key government agencies.
The Drug Information Portal offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information, with links to individual resources with drug information and summaries tailored to various audiences. General drug categories from MeSH are also included in the Drug Portal records.
Chemical Reviews is one of the most highly regarded and highest-ranked journals covering the general topic of chemistry. The mission of Chemical Reviews is to provide comprehensive, authoritative, critical, and readable reviews of important recent research in organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, theoretical, and biological chemistry. Periodic thematic issues focusing on a single theme or direction of emerging research have been published since 1985 (2000–2007 is below). Editor: Josef Michl.
