News blog for the UT Arlington Science & Engineering Library
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.
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.
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
SEL invites you to visit a new exhibit, curated by Barbara Howser.
Whether you are biology major with a career goal of becoming an environmental scientist, civil engineering major focusing on transportation research, or environmental engineering graduate student focusing on water and wastewater treatment and modeling, the technology of GIS can bring geography to life for you and show others why geography IS important to them.
See http://libraries.uta.edu/sel/exhibits/ for more information.
The second UT Arlington Library: GIS workshop will take place next Thursday, October 25. GIS Librarian Josh Been will be joined by Dr. Melanie Sattler, whose research interests include emissions measurement, air quality modeling, and air pollution control technologies. Using measurements taken from the TCEQ air monitoring stations in North Texas, we will interpolate an estimation layer for the entire region and then analyze road segments using files from the NCTCOG.Everyone is invited to this hands-on workshop!Title: Stuck in Traffic: Find the Road Segments With the Highest Pollution Levels
Date/Time: October 25, 2 - 4pm
Place: Central Library, B20 (basement)
Presenters: Dr. Melanie Sattler (Civil & Environmental Engineering) & Joshua Been (GIS Librarian)
Description: Learn how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to statistically estimate pollution levels within the DFW metroplex and to then identify the street segments that traverse through the regions with the highest levels. Data sources include pollution measurements from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
This hands-on workshop requires no GIS or scientific experience. Open to everyone.
ISI is transitioning to a new interface with enhanced features.
From ISI:
Currently, you have dual access to the new and previous versions of ISI Web of Knowledge. As you become more familiar with the new features and functionality, feel free to make the new ISI Web of Knowledge your primary portal by simply bookmarking http://newisiknowledge.com , or any homepage in the new interface.
For important information on proxy server access and other technical issues in the new version of ISI Web of Knowledge, go to: http://www.thomsonscientific.com/support/faq/
You also have free access to EndNote Web, which is fully integrated into ISI Web of Knowledge. Organize, store and share your references online, speeding the research, writing and publishing process. EndNote Web helps users easily access and organize references online, search ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed® and hundreds of library OPACs directly, share EndNote Web folders with colleagues, and easily transfer files to EndNote on the desktop for further management.
This month’s Focus on Faculty features Dr. Paul B. Baulus, Dean of Science and Professor of Psychology. He was awarded the UT Arlington Distinguished Record of Research Achievement in 2007. He has published 8 books and more than 100 refereed papers and chapters. His latest book, Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration, was published by Oxford University Press in 2003.
It is presumed that when individuals work together this will enhance innovation, productivity and learning. However, research has shown that these presumptions are often an illusion not supported by objective data. We have conducted research on group activities in laboratory settings to determine the factors that hinder and enhance this process. Recent directions in research have included an examination of the role of diversity in the group creative processs and the use of virtual immersive reality techniques for the study of group dynamics.
