News blog for the UT Arlington Science & Engineering Library
The staff of the Science & Engineering Library would like to extend our applause to the science and engineering faculty members who recently received promotions.
Well done, everyone!
Blackwell Publishing and John Wiley and Sons have merged and will produce a single online platform. Blackwell Synergy will cease to be available as its own platform as of June 30, 2008.
To read more about the upcoming changes, see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition.html.
The Science & Engineering Library has launched a new exhibit, curated by Mariann Medina, highlighting SEL’s most recommended databases. The intention is to inform science and engineering students and faculty of the online research resources that are available to them.
The BioMed Central’s Biology Image Library is now available on our A-Z database list.
The Biology Image Library is an online collection of images, movies, illustrations and animations across biology and biomedicine, for use in education and research. The subjects covered are:
Contributors retain image rights and Biology Image Library also offers them the option of selling commercial use rights on their behalf.
A new exhibit begins today in the Science & Engineering Library, curated by Mariann Medina.
Here is a description from the curator: “The May SEL exhibit showcases our resources related to a current event – the move from analog TV to digital TV. Thanks to the engineering work done in the area of television by students and faculty just like you, the march of technological progress continues. The resources displayed in the exhibit show not only items to support digital TV and its use via HDTV, but it also showcases items that show the history of television and the things that came before. While some of you may not remember watching the original broadcasts of “I Love Lucy” on one of the first commercially available televisions, we can probably all agree that television has come a long way. The question is, what comes next?”
Comments are on. Please share your ideas about where television technology is taking us.
Today, Wednesday, April 30, will be the last Resume Critique session for the Spring Semester.
Career Services will suspend the on-site resume critique for the summer (in both Central Library & SEL). The service will resume sometime after the Fall semester begins.
During the summer, if you’re interested in receiving a resume critique during the summer, you can make an appointment with UT Arlington Career Services. Visit http://careers.uta.edu/pages/career.htm for contact information.
Here is a list of all the reference books we’ve received in the Science & Engineering Library during the month of April 2008:
We now have access to Standards Infobase via SAI Global. For those of you who use standards frequently, we hope that having access to standards via this online resource will ease the process of finding standards.Through the Standards Infobase search, you now can search for standards across publishing organizations using keywords, standard number, title, etc. This makes it much easier to find multiple standards that apply to topics related specifically to your work.
Once you have identified the standard that you want, click the basket icon to add the standard to the list of items you want to acquire. When you have a list compiled of the items you need, click the green box in the right hand menu labeled “View Basket Checkout”. You will receive a pop-up box that requests your name and email address. Scroll down to the bottom of this pop-up box and click on “place order”. This will send the request to be processed.
Standards available in digital format will be provided via email. Some standards are available only in hard copy; in such cases you will be notified by email when it’s available for pick up.
IEEE standards are still accessed via IEEE Xplore. More information about Standards Infobase.
We welcome your comments on this issue.
The staff of the Science & Engineering Library would like to extend our congratulations to the following science or engineering faculty members, who received awards at the Spring Faculty Meeting on April 24, 2008:
Christopher Kribs Zaleta (MATH) - Chancellor’s Council Award for Innovation in Teaching
Bonnie Boardman (IMSE) - Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Chaoqun Liu (MATH) - Distinguished Record of Research or Creative Activity
Ping Liu (PHYS) - Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment Award
K.R. Rao (EE) - Academy of Distinguished Scholars
Anand J. Puppala (CE) - Outstanding Academic Advisor - Graduate
We are proud of your accomplishments and happy to support your instructional and research needs.
Need to stay awake to study for finals? The Science & Engineering Library will serve free coffee during Finals Week.
Sunday, May 4th – Thursday, May 8th
6-11pm (or until the coffee pot runs out)
Good luck on finals and congratulations to Spring ’08 graduates!
Texans worth their salt, know the bluebonnet is our state flower. The blooms turn to seed resulting in new blooms next season for later generations to see and admire.
The Science & Engineering Library has mounted an exhibit in conjunction with Central Library and the Architecture & Fine Arts Library to promote awareness of the University of Texas at Arlington involvement in sustainability in all areas of the university community.
Just like bluebonnets which when left alone, turn to seed pods to form a fresh crop the following spring, we, as citizen of the earth must be good stewards of what has been given us. Across disciplines, sustainability is a prime research area. The University has been recognized as a leader in sustainability research and sustaining the environment of the campus and community.
Hours of operation during Spring Break will differ from normal hours.
Sunday, March 16 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Monday-Friday, March 17-21 10:00-6:00pm
Saturday, March 22 Back to regular hours
We are pleased to announce that beginning January 14, 2008, UT Arlington Library began providing online subject guides. These are easy-to-use guides that put all our resources in your subject area at your fingertips.
Science and engineering guides can be found:
Visit other UT Arlington Library subject guides.
The tool up for discussion today is RefWorks and how it can make writing your next paper easier.
Writing a paper is hard work. Bringing together complex ideas, finding the right words, and just sounding brilliant are nothing if you fail to properly cite the works you used in constructing your paper. However, tracking all of the articles that you cite and gathering all of the appropriate information so that you can document these works in your references section can be a pain. That’s where RefWorks comes in.
RefWorks is essentially a database created to manage the information about the works that you reference and generate an appropriately formated bibliography for your use. While RefWorks can’t write your paper for you, it can make the process that little bit easier.
Sold? Great! Now, how do you get started? We have a great librarian that knows all the secrets of RefWorks and is holding a workshop on February 12th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and a second workshop on February 16th from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., both in Ransom Hall, room 211A. If you can’t make it to one of these sessions, RefWorks also has a very good set of demos to show you how to get started and make the most of the tool. Need more help than the demos? Stop by the library, call me, or drop me an email.
Written by Mariann Medina.
The Spring 2008 science and engineering graduate research seminars will be held:
| Science: | Engineering: | |
| Fri, Feb. 8, 2008 | Fri, Feb. 8, 2008 | |
| 8:30-10:30 a.m. | 3:00-5:00 p.m. | |
| Central Library B20 | Ransom Hall 211 A/B |
Graduate research seminars assist graduate students in making the best use of library resources to find information needed to conduct research. The seminar is free of charge, but please register so that enough materials will be provided.
SEL’s new exhibit celebrates diversity in the fields of science and engineering. Curated by Antoinette Nelson, the exhibit highlights our collection’s biographical resources focusing on a wide range of scientists and engineers who have broken through barriers and impacted society with lasting contributions. More info
Due to a planned electrical outage, Nedderman Hall will be closed beginning December 24, 2007 and ending January 1, 2008. The building and the library will re-open January 2.
Please return all books and materials to the Central Library during this closure.
See SEL Wintersession Hours for all SEL’s hours and closings during December 2007 and January 2008.
Beginning December 17, 2007, the Science & Engineering Library is providing science- and engineering-related reference services using meebo, AIM, Google Talk, MSN, or Yahoo Messenger.
To chat using meebo, just use the ”meebo me” widget in the right sidebar. You don’t need to install software or set up an account; just start typing. (Note: Navigating away from the page will end your chat session. Use a different browser window if you wish to browse while chatting.)
If you’d prefer to chat using any one of the IM clients listed above, you can make “utaselref” a buddy on any of them.
Chat reference will be available during our regular reference hours. See hours for dates and times that SEL is open and the About tab in this blog for reference hours.
Join us in congratulating the 2007 Nobel Prize Laureates in Science. The exhibit is curated by our newest librarian, Mariann Medina.
And hats off to our faculty and students here at UTA whose research may one day earn them a trip to Sweden to receive their own Nobel Prize…
We now have full-text access to seven Nature Review titles (Volume I – to current issue for all titles):
Nature Reviews Cancer
http://www.nature.com/nrc/index.html
Nature Reviews Genetics
http://www.nature.com/nrg/index.html
Nature Reviews Microbiology
http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/index.html
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
http://www.nature.com/nrn/index.html
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
http://www.nature.com/nrd/index.html
Nature Reviews Immunology
http://www.nature.com/nri/index.html
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
http://www.nature.com/nrm/index.html
