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 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.
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.
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.
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
We now have full-text, IP restricted access to the following electronic resource:
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080450476
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.
