CSU adopts Green Energy Policy

http://www.calstate.edu/pa/news/2005/green.shtml

Writing, Research and RefWorks Workshops at the Library

Students who need help with research, writing and citing? Students or Faculty interested in learning more about RefWorks? Graduate students needing help with research and writing for a thesis?
Try a Library Workshop!

Library Instruction: Research & Writing Workshops

(http://www.csulb.edu/library/instruction/workshops.html)

News about Computer Engineering Chair Wayne Dick

Chair Shines in World Wide Web Consortium

Murray Juggles Math Equations

Math and Statistics professor Will Murray discusses math and juggling...

http://www.csulb.edu/misc/inside/archives/vol_57_no_16/f3.htm

Chemistry Education in 2015

In the Chronicle of Higher Education on August 31, there was an article about the future of chemistry education. Access the article here for five days:

http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=8eicdro2lp34qv5j44qak0bg9fx4gb6d

Thereafter you will need to be a subscriber to CoHE, CSULB Students Staff and Faculty have access through the library website.

Inside Higher Ed :: Graduate Science Enrollments Grow

Inside Higher Ed :: Graduate Science Enrollments Grow

Inside Higher Education, the open access answer to the Chronicle of Higher Education:

"Welcome to Inside Higher Ed, the online source for news, opinion and career advice and services for all of higher education. Whether you’re an adjunct or a vice president, a grad student or an eminence grise, we’ve got what you need to thrive in your job or find a better one: breaking news, provocative daily commentary, blogs, discussion areas, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees."

New Open Access Journals, Free on the Web

http://libpubmedia.co.uk/RNAiJ/RNAiJHome.htm

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sap/

Cancer Informatics

http://www.la-press.com/ci.htm

Not yet published: Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online:

http://www.la-press.com/evolbio.htm

ACM Launches Two New Journals

CSULB Faculty, Students and Staff will have full-text access to these new journals.

scitech library question - George Porter: ACM Launches Two New Journals

IEEE Xplore: Full-text Journals Added

As CSULB students faculty or staff you have access to these items.

"IEEE Adds 15,000 Historic Electron Devices Articles to Archive

Continuing its plan to digitize its entire journal backfile, IEEE this
month made available online versions of more than 15,000 articles from IEEE
Electron Devices Society publications dating as far back as 1954.
The archive now includes articles from three of the Society's most
influential publications: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (papers
from 1954 to 1987); IEEE Electron Device Letters (papers from 1980 to
1987); and the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (papers from
1955 to 1987).
Papers from 1988-forward were already available electronically. The IEEE
online collection now contains nearly 1.2 million documents.
To view abstracts of the papers in these publications, visit:

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000245

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=16

IEEE Electron Device Letters
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=55

Independently, Two Frogs Blaze the Same Venomous Path - New York Times

"Among frogs and New Yorkers alike, those wearing loud colors are assumed to have very poor taste. As researchers have long observed, the brightest frog species in nature are often the most poisonous, and for good reason."

Read more at:
Independently, Two Frogs Blaze the Same Venomous Path - New York Times

California Air Is Cleaner, but Troubles Remain - New York Times

"A major study sponsored by the South Coast district in 1998 showed that the cancer risk for residents of Long Beach, to the immediate northeast of the ports, was twice as great as the risk for people in west-central Los Angeles and four times as high as the risk for those near Topanga Canyon. Diesel particulates from trucks, ships and locomotives, the study said, accounted for 70 percent of the risk.

Read more at:
California Air Is Cleaner, but Troubles Remain - New York Times

Inside Higher Ed :: Lost Dominance in Ph.D. Production

Inside Higher Ed :: Lost Dominance in Ph.D. Production

Our Faculty lead students to success!

Two CSULB faculty: Darwin Hall, director of the Environmental Science and Policy program, and Antonella Sciortino, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, led student teamsthat were awarded grants of $10,000 and $9,000 from the Metropolitan Water District to further research into water conservation. See the article at:

Inside CSULB

Public Library of Science enters the mainstream

Been hesitant to publish your articles in open-access journals? Well, consider the Public Library of Science. PLOS Biology has a journal impact factor of 13.868 for 2004. That compares with Current Biology at 11.901, and is twice as high as the next journal listed in the biology category, FASEB Journal with 6.820.

You can check the impact factors of your favorite journals at Web of Science (access restricted to CSULB staff, faculty, and students). Use the pull-down menu at the top of the page to select Journal Citation Reports.

Other PLOS journals are also moving into the mainstream. You may have heard a story in the news on Monday about how cats can't taste sweetness? (It was featured on NPR Monday morning.) That article is published in the very first issue of PLOS Genetics.

Why are open access journals important? Why should you publish in open access journals?

Still don't have RSS?

Read these articles on the future of RSS:
Woot blog on RSS

Will RSS replace e-mail? :: AO

My current favorite feeds include Woot and New York Times Science. (And of course this blog, which you can add to your RSS reader with this URL: http://www.csulb.edu/~coutten/scifeed.xml )

Need more information about setting up your own RSS reader? Try Yahoo or XML.com or Feedster

E-STREAMS needs book reviewers!

E-STREAMS "E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science. E-STREAMS is a collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services. E-STREAMS is free of charge and is available only in electronic form. Current issues and a full archive of E-STREAMS are maintained on the e-streams.com web site."

E-STREAMS is currently looking for professors who would like to review books in their area. Click on "Reviewers" on the left side of the screen. You get to keep the books! (Search Outten to see the reviews I have written!)

NPR : House Fight Heats Up over Global Warming

A chilling effect? Listen to the following NPR story.

"Morning Edition, July 20, 2005 · The head of the House Energy and Science Committee is engaged in a nasty public fight over global warming. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has called for an investigation into three climate scientists and their work on global warming. Science Committee chair Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) called the investigation "misguided and illegitimate" and has demanded that Barton call off the probe."

NPR : House Fight Heats Up over Global Warming

Open-Access!! Read the new PLoS Biology

What do you know about the journal pricing crisis? Do you know why open-access journals are important? Check out SPARC.

What can you do?

Read the latest issue of PLoS Biology one of the leaders in the open-access movement:

"PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource."

Search for Chemistry Experiments!

The Journal of Chemical Education has an interesting tool on their website. The JCE Online: Project Chemlab allows you to search for lab experiments by level (H.S., college etc.) and various categories. This leads you to a list of articles from the journal. CSULB people have free online access to the journal, just go to Locate Journals, click on "title", and type in "Journal of chemical education".

Ever hear that song in your head over and over again?

Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod - New York Times