Electronic Journal of Probability

This open-access journal along with its sister journal, Electronic Communications in Probability, are now indexed and searchable in Web of Science, available to you through your CSULB Library!

Electronic Journal of Probability

New Open-Access Journal for the Pathogen Research Community

Public Library of Science (PLoS) is an example of the new open-access model of journal publishing. See below for their press release on one of their latest journals.

Public Library of Science Launches New Open-Access Journal for the Pathogen Research Community; PLoS Pathogens Accepting Submissions at www.plospathogens.org

Visit the journal at www.plospathogens.org

IEEE Xplore 2.0 released

IEEE Xplore, the electrical and computer engineering database, has released a new interface. Read the FAQ's and explore the Tutorial (pdf).

Go to our Engineering Databases to explore.

Please contact Kate Peterson if you have questions.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

"A landmark study released today reveals that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services the support life on Earth-such as fresh water... air and water regulation, and the regulation of regional climate, natural hazards and pests- are being degraded or used unsustainable."

http://www.millenniumassessment.org/

New ACS Chemistry Journal!

The new journal: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation is now available and provided to you Full-Text by your CSULB library. Just go to the Chemistry/Biochemistry Database list and click on ACS Web Editions.

“The Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC) published animpressive first issue in January 2005, with over 180 pages and 18articles. … Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, edited by William L.Jorgensen, Whitehead Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, publishespapers reporting new theories, methodology and/or important applicationsin quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and statistical mechanics.Topics in this bi-monthly journal include: advances in ab initio quantum mechanics; molecular design; solvation models; molecular dynamics in the broadest sense including gas-phase dynamics, ab initio dynamics, biomolecular dynamics, and protein folding; surface science; density functional theory; properties of new materials; Monte Carlo simulations; QM/MM calculations; and biomolecular structure prediction.
As the publisher of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A&B - the leadingjournal in physical chemistry - and the Journal of Chemical Information andModeling, ACS Publications invites you to enjoy … the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.” - Florence Sumaray, Marketing Manager ACS

Darwin Hall to Speak at Faculty Supper

Darwin Hall, Director of the Environmental Science and Policy degree program on campus will be speaking at the next Faculty Supper Club, April 7.
See announcement from Inside CSULB:
Hall to Speak at Faculty Supper

Hot Topics in Science and Technology

CSA, one of our vendors, selects a new topic each month and gives an overview, the key journal articles, and links to web sites. Topics range from stem cells to brownfields to the Cassini-Huygens mission. The site is helpful for students trying to pick a topic for a paper or project.

http://www.csa.com/news/hottopics-main.php

Library Instruction: Did your students get what they need?

Kate and Cathy have finished all of the requested course-integrated library instruction sessions for this semester. Classes came to the library, the librarians went to the classrooms, and students learned everything from what a citation is to using STN to search Chem Abstracts online. Did your students get a lecture? Could they benefit from one? Check out our Information Literacy Standards to see what your students need to know about the world of information. Its not too late to request a session, or start thinking about next semester. Sessions can be tailored to a specific class and even a specific assignment!

CSULB Library Instruction

Nobel Laureate Lecture a Success!

Kate and I had a good time seeing many students and faculty attending the 28th annual Nobal Laureate Lecture. We had a table set up outside the hall with books from the library pertaining to the lecture. We gave away bookmarks, sticky notepads, and magnets, as well as a flyer on library resources.

Frog Dissection web site

Ever wanted to disect a frog without the ickiness? Try this for a "virtual dissection":

http://froggy.lbl.gov/

ScienceMatters @ Berkeley.

ScienceMatters @ Berkeley.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq & Afghanistan

http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/iraq/iraq.htmLearn about the Corps activities including photos, stories and factsheets. Projects include sewage system reconstruction and bridge building. Also find information about the repair of Iraqi oil infrastructure.

Chemistry Nobel Laureate to speak at CSULB

"Dr. Alan J. Heeger, one of three co-winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in conductive polymers, will speak on Wednesday, March 16, during the 28 th annual Nobel Laureate Lecture at CSULB. Admission is free."

Heeger to Speak at 28th Annual Nobel Laureate Lecture

Your Science Librarians will have a table set up!

Please stop by and say Hi to Cathy and Kate!

ConnectSciences

http://connectsciences.inist.fr

Search the free Article Catalog (with access to 9.8 million citations since 1990) from the French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST). Also search 3600 scientific web sites, and find multilingual terminology resources (English, French, and Spanish).

Use Locate Journals to check if CSULB has a specific journal (print or electronically) and use Illiad to get any articles we don't have in 5-7 days.

New at IEEE (Electrical Engineering)

Read What's New @ IEEE and learn about IEEE Xplore 2.0, web metadata standards, awards honoring great engineering educators, engineering dream jobs and more.

Brand New nanotechnology journal "Small"

There is a brand new nanotechnology journal available from Wiley Interscience.

CSULB faculty and students have access to fulltext at Wiley InterScience: Journal Issues - Small

"Small""Wiley-VCH is proud to introduce Small, the new interdisciplinary journal for Nano and Micro Science and Technology—to be published from January 2005."

Library has wireless access to the internet!

Wireless access to the internet is now available on the first floor of the library. By logging in with your CSULB webmail login and password or your Beachboard ID and password you can access the internet, and even print to our Self-Serve printers! See Library Wireless User Guide for more details.

NeuroRx

NeuroRx
NeuroRX was introduced in 2004 by the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics is now available through PubMed Central full-text through six months ago for faculty and students.
PubMed Central

American Physical Society provides RSS feeds!

"The American Physical Society (APS) is now providing content awareness using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds as a convenience to our readers.

Journal feeds contain recently published articles in each journal and are updated as new articles are published.

A list of all available feeds along with a FAQ can be found at http://feeds.aps.org/ or by following the RSS link on journal home and Scitation pages"

-Robert Kelly - Director - Journal Information Systems - The American Physical Society

New Journals coming to Biomed Central

BioMed Central <http://biomedcentral.com/> has added three new titles to their roster of independent Open Access journals under active development. <http://www.biomedcentral.com/independent/forthcoming>.

The queue of announced independent OA journals is currently 10 titles deep.

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine http://www.ethnobiomed.com/ ISSN: 1746-4269

Plant Methods http://www.plantmethods.com/ ISSN: 1746-

Systems http://www.salinesystems.org/ ISSN: 1746-1448

ACM Digital Library Added

We are pleased to announce access to the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library.

ACM is "the world's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society."

Use the ACM Digital Library to search the ACM publications back to 1950. We have full text access to most of the ACM journals, magazines, and transactions.

Use the ACM Guide to Computing Literature to search over 750,000 citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, thesis and dissertations from over 3,000 publishers.

Contact Kate for more information or to set up a training session.

Library Instruction

Did you know you can request you very own library instruction sessions? Sessions can happen in the library, or in your classroom.

Sessions can cover any library topic that is relevant to your students. The most common session includes an introduction to the research tools and sources available at the library. Sessions can be tailored to a specific subject area, or a specific assignment.

Special sections can be taught on citing sources, avoiding plagiarism and the research process.

Contact Cathy or Kate for more info.

The Scientist :: UN bans reproductive cloning

The Scientist :: UN bans reproductive cloning

Free Patents Online Database

Free Patents Online Database
A great site for looking up patents!