UPDATE: The new maintenance work has been reported to FRIDAY, MAY 2nd.
Additional work needs to be done with the library servers after the other morning’s brief maintenance-related outage. There will be a new outage on Friday May 2nd , between 5:00am and 5:30am (everything should be back up at 6:30am at the latest).
The following services will be impacted:
the main library website, which will affect some links from the Lakeland Library website
EZProxy (one of the ways to connect to the electronic resources from home
There will be a brief outage for the library servers on April 30th, between 5:00am and 5:30am (everything should be back up no later than 6:00am). A new power system will be installed.
The following services will be impacted:
the main library website, which will affect some links from the Lakeland Library website
EZProxy (one of the ways to connect to the electronic resources from home
Elsevier, the publisher of the multidisciplinary database ScienceDirect, has announced new features:
New to ScienceDirect are features that make the platform more user friendly and deliver better, clearer results in fewer clicks.
Researchers like to quickly evaluate articles before reading them
Researchers will find preview tabs that provide quick access to the important article assessment components: the abstract, figures/tables and references. These tabs are on the results page, the table of contents page and the article page.
Researchers have to scroll to the foot of articles to view reference information, which hinders reading
We have made it possible for researchers to view reference information within the body of a paper when their cursor moves over a reference marker.
Once a researcher has evaluated and read an article, they often want to email it to their peers
A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including “Cited By”, “E-mail Article” and more, into one easy-to-find location. Researchers can now take further action quickly and easily with little extra effort.
Researchers are interested to know how other experts rate articles they read
Due to be launched in phases over the coming months, the integration of article comments and ratings from Elsevier’s social collaboration site, 2collab enables researchers to evaluate papers according to colleague-driven comments and ratings of articles right on the article page.
We are announcing trial access to Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies. This trial ends May 15, 2008.
Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies covers domestic private and public companies. Up to twenty items of information are provided for each company listed. Includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails, and URLs, total assets, operating revenue, employee figures, hard-to-find data such as sales, metropolitan statistical area, exchange, and up to five names and titles of executive officers. Four-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes and the newer five- and six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes are given. Up to 200 records can be exported. To search the Ward’s Business Directory exclusively, click on the Advanced Search tab and select Ward’s from the drop down box.
For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library/ . Click on “Search the databases” to begin. You may also find these databases listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.
If you used the USF Libraries catalog today, you may have noticed some enhancements:
the cover of the book is presented when available, on the right hand side
on the right hand side as well, you will find a link to Google Books giving you more information on the title. In some cases, you will be able to preview at least part of the content of the book, like the table of the contents. The link for the preview will be underneath the cover image.
back in the catalog, under each title, you will find different icons:
“Add” will add the title to a temporary list. At the end of your catalog search, even if you have done multiple queries, you will be able to find all the records in your list by clicking the “My folder has items” at the top of the page.
“Print” will print one record at a time.
“Email” will permit you to email the record to yourself or someone else.
“Save” will permit you to save the record onto the drive of your choice as a .txt file
finally, a “RefWorks” button will let you export the record to your RefWorks database
the “Print”, “Email”, “Save” and “RefWorks” are also available for your list.
April 13 to the 19 is National Library Week. Actress and author Julie Andrews is the Honorary Chair this year.
Tuesday the 15th is National Library Workers Day, a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers.
The USF Lakeland Library and its staff are wishing you a great week. Do drop by and say Hi!
The Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) databases are being very slow these past few days. The slowdown is due “enhancements” that they rolled out on Monday (4/7) that are having a negative impact on their servers. This is affecting all U.S. customers. The problem is being worked on.
Some databases affected include Sociological Abstracts, Health and Safety Science Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts and versions of ERIC and MEDLINE.
For fun and a good cause:
First Book is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. They partenered with cereal-brand Cheerios and actor/author John Lithgow in a book donation challenge. Cheerios will be distributing 100,000 children’s books by John Lithgow to programs serving children in need across the country.
Visitors can “help decide where the books will be donated by answering trivia questions […] from now through Sunday, June 15, 2008. Every correct answer counts as one vote […] Cheerios will donate 20,000 children’s books to programs in each of the 5 states that receive the most votes. Cheerios’ nonprofit partner First Book will be identifying programs that will receive the books in each state where the books will be donated.”
The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science captures contemporary thinking about the workings of the mind and brain with approaches and techniques that have emerged since the 1980’s. This reference work covers the cognitive sciences in the broadest sense. It reviews the common themes of information and information processing, representation, and computation, with in depth coverage of the core areas of psychology, philosophy, linguistics and neuroscience. Includes over 16,500 references and 1,500 illustrations.
Based on the six-volume Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering, the online version of this resource represents the most comprehensive single source of information on RF and Microwaves. It serves as a compendium of theory, design methods, and applications as well as an examination of technologies and future trends. Each article includes an overview of each subject, followed by in-depth descriptions of important theory, technology developments, and applications. Features such key topics as Electromagnetics, Wave Propagation, RF Circuits, RF Receivers, Microwave Antennas, RF and Microwave Photonics, CAD Techniques and Modeling, Noise, Communications Systems, Radio Technologies, and Remote Sensing. It is well illustrated with over 5000 figures and photos.
The Encyclopedia of Environmetrics covers the development and application of quantitative methods in the environmental sciences. It provides essential tools for understanding, predicting, and controlling the impacts of agents, both man-made and natural, which affect the environment. Basic and applied research in this area covers a broad range of topics. Primary among these are the quantitative sciences, such as statistics, probability and applied mathematics, chemometrics, and econometrics. Other applications included are important in ecology and environmental biology, public health, atmospheric science, geology, engineering, risk management, and regulatory/governmental policy.
