The most current Science issues are now available online

As of January 1, CSULB is subscribed to Science online. You can now access online the most recently published articles in Science.

Accessing Science:

If you are on the campus network, you can simply go to the Science website and access the content: http://www.sciencemag.org/magazine

If you are off-campus, you will need to:
Go to the library’s homepage
Click “Find Specific Journals by Title”
Type in “Science”
Click on “Science”
Click on the fourth title in that list
(A shortcut to this point would be to bookmark this page: http://coast.library.csulb.edu/record=b2165015~S1)
Click “View Availability and Full-text Electronic Issues”
Click “from 01/01/1997 to present in Science Magazine”
You will be required to type in your campus ID number and library password.


The most current Science print copies are still available on the ground floor in the periodicals section.

By the way, we also have the most current Nature issues in print in the periodicals area. For electronic access, you can only get Nature full-text up to 12 months from the current date.

E-Readers?

Do you play with your i-Pads, i-Phones, and the like? The following article provides assessment of various e-reader devices that four librarians at Oregon State University tried out.

http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2011/10/11/four-librarians-four-ereaders-one-month/

What's your take on e-readers? We are curious ...

We now have Reaxys database!

Starting from February 2011, the University Library subscribes to Elsevier Reaxys database. Remember those Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry? They are now online within a mouse click or two.

Straight from the source: "Reaxys contains an extensive repository of experimentally validated data that chemists need including structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties." I am very impressed with its user interface, the wealth of information it contains as well as the data visualization aspect.

Upcoming workshops will be scheduled in the near future.

For an overview:

http://www.reaxys.com/info/about_overview

Check it out!

IOP Science Physics World Archive

An announcement from IOP: As an IOPScience "extra" subscriber, we now have access to the entire archive of articles published in Physics World, the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics.

Try any search term today at iopscience.org and see the new Physics World Archive tab at the top of your results. All articles are fully searchable and can be downloaded in full as PDFs.

E-books: CSU system 'Digital Marketplace' trial

Not sure how this will affect most students at CSULB. The CSU system has agreed to participate in a pilot project to license digital course content through an initiative called the Digital Marketplace.

From the article link here:

"Starting this fall, Bedford/Freeman/Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and John Wiley & Sons, will offer content through pilot courses at five CSU campuses: Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, San Bernardino and San Francisco State."