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REPORT ON PROGRESS TO THE NEW ENGINEERING LIBRARY IN BALDWIN!
Progress is being made on the renovated Engineering Library in Baldwin
Hall. The cleaning of the mural (which was separately funded) is
about half finished, and most of the studs are in place for the new circulation
desk and library offices. We are still hoping to be BACK IN BALDWIN
sometime in 2001. You can keep up-to-date with the progress on our
update page
MORE FULLTEXT TITLES?
The University of Cincinnati is considering adding access to this
list of ecology and botany titles. Please let us know what you
think? (mailto:lucy.wilson@uc.edu
or mailto:jim.clasper@uc.edu )
ENGINEERING LIBRARY NEWS (See also Library
Moving Update )
NEW!!! Bound journals from 1990-present have been moved to the
Geology/Physics (G/P) Library in Braunstein Hall. We have stopped
copying articles from this collection. However, the portion of the
library where our stacks are located won't be open to the public until
December 13. Therefore you should continue to make requests via our
request form. We will pull the volumes you need and place them on
a designated truck by the photocopiers. You will be notified by email
when the volume is ready for you to look at. You can use the Equitrac
or coin/card copiers to make copies if needed. The journal volumes
will not circulate from G/P Library. Remember to check UCLID first
for online full-text availability.
The 1980-1989 journals are now housed in the Brodie Garage. You may continue to request articles from those journals using our request form. We are copying needed articles and placing them on the hold shelf at Langsam Circulation.
The books have been moved to a storage space in Langsam 210. You may continue to request these books via UCLID. They will be available at the Langsam circulation desk. At present retrieval is taking place once a day in the late afternoon. This may change with the new student schedules Winter quarter.
MULTIPLE DATABASE SEARCHING
OhioLINK has added a *very primitive* multiple database search engine
to their homepage. See "If you
don't know where to start, start here". If you choose Engineering,
for example, it will allow you to search a *single term* in Compendex,
INSPEC and Applied Science and Technology Index, simultaneously.
I would suggest that you ALWAYS tick the box marked: "Also include
research journal articles from the Electronic Journal Center." These
hits will be considerably more relevant than those from Periodical Abstracts,
a database that is included in every search. And they will all be
available fulltext online! We are promised a better search engine within
a year.
RENOVATION UPDATE
The Engineering bound journals and the circulating books are being
moved out of Baldwin Hall. Bound journals, for the years after 1989,
will be AVAILABLE TO YOU TO BROWSE in the Geology/Physics Library, by November
10. You will need to continue to request the books online, and any
articles from the older journals, but we should be able to get them to
you faster!
JOURNALS CITATION REPORTS
At long last we have online access to Journal
Citation Reports, including the 1999 Science Edition and the Social
Sciences Edition, for five simultaneous users, from a UC.EDU workstation,
i.e. IP address. Let me know if you want help with this, or
with the Web of Science Citation
Indexes.
NEW COMPUTER DATABASE
The Computer
Database, aka Computer Select, is available. You will need to
clink through to get to it. Use this database to find computer-related
product introductions, news, and reviews on hardware, software, electronics,
engineering, communications and the application of technology. The articles,
many of which are fulltext, include product announcements, hands-on product
reviews, technical advice, tutorials, buyers guides, and company profiles
for 1997 - date.
PATENTS
As of October 1, all U.S.
patents from 1790 to the present are searchable by patent number or
current US patent classification number. The images and drawings for the
patents can be viewed and printed using a special
TIFF plugin . Jim Clasper is giving a Patent Workshop THIS AFTERNOON,
November 1, 2000, Room 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Room 462, Langsam Library.
If you have already missed it you can contact him at mailto:jim.clasper@uc.edu
ENGINEERING LIBRARY UPDATE
As I trust you know the Engineering Library had to move out of Baldwin
Hall in September. Details
The most troublesome problem seems to be getting to journal articles. Here are the current procedures for requesting articles from bound volumes in the Engineering collection. Current unbound issues are located near the Periodical Department in Langsam. Recall that about 50% (see below) of the current Engineering subscriptions are available fulltext/fullimage online. You will find the link when you search for the journal by title in UCLID.
ADDITIONAL JOURNALS ONLINE
Online access, starting with 1998, of 104 IEEE journals, for five simultaneous
users, is available now
Click on Tables-of-Contents/Journals & Magazines and you can pull
up the fulltext in PDF. Links to these titles will be added to UCLID.
Access is by IP address, so you need to be at a UC.EDU workstation.
Remote access is by username and password. (Email me for the username and
password.)
This list does not include: IEEE Spectrum, Proceedings of the IEEE, Potentials, Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Journal of Electronic Materials, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, Today's Engineer, The Institute Newspaper, Engineering Management Review, and the Membership Directory. We will work on adding these.
We do not have online access to the IEEE Conferences or Standards, or to 1988-1997 of the journals, although these resources are included in searches done at the IEEE site. Any ideas about how we might fund these additional resources??
OhioLINK has added 31 AIP journals to the Electronic Journal Center. Remote access for these titles may not be available yet. I think all of these journals are already linked by title in UCLID.
REMINDERS
Remember that you can set up a profile in UnCover
which will provide you with table-of-contents information for the journals
you select. Let me know if you want help with this. Also, you
can stop by the Langsam circulation desk and request to have your library
notices sent to your email.
THE ENGINEERING LIBRARY IS MOVING AGAIN! We will be closed September 5 to 8.
*STARTING TODAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH*
I expect that by the time school starts in September we will also have online access to an additional twelve American Institute of Physics titles through UCLID.
Soon we will have access through UCLID to three new Royal Society of Chemistry journals: CrytEngComm, Geochemical Transactions, and PhysChemComm. These journals are available in electronic format only and are planned to have multi-media components.
The RSC will also be adding both Green Chemistry and Journal of Environmental Monitoring sometime in September.
We now have full text access to the Journal of Materials Research.
NEW DATABASE
The GrayLIT Network of
fulltext technical reports generated through federally funded research
and development projects is available. It covers reports from
the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA). Collections in the GrayLIT collaboration
include the DOE Information Bridge; the Defense Technical Information Center
(DTIC) Report Collection; the EPA National Environmental Publications Internet
Site (NEPIS); the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Reports; and the
NASA Langley Technical Reports. It will be linked through
UCLID, shortly.
SEARCH ENGINE CHANGES
The search engine used by BIOSIS, Compendex, INSPEC, and others
has been enhanced. Also keyword searching in UCLID has
been expanded. Please let us know if you have problems or would
like training using these protocols
GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION
LandSat 7 images are available via the OhioLINK Digital Media Center
(DMC) . They include 9 scenes
of Ohio taken every 16 days, and will be useful for tracking, land use,
vegetation surveys, hydrology projects, and related subjects
MORE JOURNALS AVAILABLE FULL-IMAGE ON YOUR DESKTOP
The 28 journals from the American Chemical Society have been added
to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. They will be added to
UCLID shortly. Remote authentication will not be available for these
titles.
NEW DATABASES AVAILABLE
The NIOSHTIC Database, compiled by the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (1975 - October 1998) is now available through UCLID.
NIOSHTIC is a broad bibliographic database of literature in the field.
Because NIOSH examines all aspects of adverse effects experienced by workers,
much of the information has been selected from sources that do not
have a primary occupational safety and health orientation..
AccessScience is now also available through UCLID. This is the online version of 8th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It includes recent research developments, biographies of scientists, late-breaking science and technology news, new references, links to related web sites, learning resources and study guides, added illustrations, and much more.
TABLE-OF-CONTENTS INFORMATION IN UCLID
You should begin to see table-of-contents information for conference
proceedings and other non-fiction books in UCLID, as well as in the OhioLINK
Central Database. This means that when you search by TITLE or WORD
in you will be searching by the words in the title of the paper or the
book chapter, as well as in the title of the book itself. It also
means that when you search by AUTHOR you will pull up authors of papers
and chapters, as well as editors and authors of books. It DOES NOT
mean you can search for titles and authors of journal articles in UCLID.
For this you will continue to need a special index, such as COMPENDEX,
INSPEC or BIOSIS..
As I think you know the Engineering Library has moved into temporary quarters on the SOUTH side of the eighth floor of Baldwin Hall, the side toward the stadium. You will have to come up the south stairs in Rhodes or take the elevator and walk around three sides in Rhodes to get to our door. Here is the library layout during this first phase of the renovation. We will try to keep you updated about changes, on our homepage.
OhioLINK will be adding an Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations over the summer. Currently a few samples are available. Let me know what you think. When it is complete it will be a set of 650 physics demonstrations designed to show basic principles. You will need the free QuickTime viewer to see these experiments.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS ONLINE
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, which is
called AccessScience when it
is online, is available at as a trial. It will be available
permanently starting July 1, 2000.
BACKFILES
You have another decade of Biological
Abstracts & Previews on your desktop. Coverage is now
1980 to the present!
UPDATED JOURNALS
ONLINE PAGE
I have revised this page to include a link to "Electronic
Publishers, Journal Lists and Websites" which includes a lot
of updated information. I have also included a link to JAKE
- a compilation of 193 journal indexes and databases fromYale University
Libraries. JAKE can help you find articles in thousands of journals
by showing you which indexes provide fulltext access to the title and date
you are looking for. (Run your search and then click on complete details.)
ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC RESERVES
Access to electronic reserves from outside the UC.EDU domain is now
available with a password. Faculty should contact Dorothy
Byers for the password, if they wish to give it out to their classes.
RENOVATION
Circulation, paper reserves, reference and the library staff offices
will move to the south side of Baldwin Hall during the week of June 12.
We will be there during Phase 1 of the renovation, probably for at least
six months.
BOOKS ARE DUE JUNE 12
You can renew them yourself, online, three times, before you have to
bring them in. If you are returning them, it would help us if you
could bring them in early so that we can shelve them before we have to
move.
PERL PROGRAMMER!
We are STILL looking for someone with a good practical knowledge of
Perl programming to help us with a couple of library projects.
If you are interested, especially if you can work this summer, please contact
Dorothy Byers
BOOK SALE TODAY
Don't forget the Book Sale in the Moon Room (654 Baldwin Hall)
May 1, 2000 from 9:00 to 4:00!!
INSPEC ON YOUR DESKTOP
The INSPEC
Database, 1969 to the present, is now available on your UC.EDU workstation.
INSPEC contains 6.7 million records in computing, physics, and engineering.
It is about twice a large as COMPENDEX; only MEDLINE and BIOLOGY ABSTRACTS
are larger. Let us know if you want training for you or for your
class.
MORE ONLINE JOURNALS
The Japanese Journal
of Applied Physics and the Journal
of the Physical Society of Japan are now available fulltext online
through UCLID, as are the following SPARC titles.
SPARC , the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, is an alliance of libraries, including the University of Cincinnati, that fosters expanded competition in scholarly communication. SPARC creates "partnerships" with publishers who are developing high quality, economical alternatives to existing high-priced publications.
Here are the results so far:
Organic Letters
published by the American Chemical Society as an alternative to Tetrahedron
Letters published by Elsevier.
PhysChemComm published by the Royal Society of Chemistry as an alternative to Chemical Physics Letters published by Elsevier.
Geometry & Topology as an alternative to Topology published by Elsevier.
Evolutionary Ecology Research as an alternative to Evolutionary Ecology published by Kluwer
New Journal of Physics published by the Institute of Physics & German Physical Society
And coming in January 2001:
Crystal
Growth & Design published by the American Chemical Society
as an alternative both to the Journal
of Crystal Growth and to Crystal
Engineering published by Elsevier
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) published by the Association for Logic Programming as an alternative to the Journal of Logic Programming published by Elsevier.
SPARC also supports the development of :
BioOne - online access to bioscience research journals
Columbia
Earthscape - online resources on the global environment
MIT
CogNet - an electronic community for the cognitive and brain
sciences
eScholarship
- under the auspices of the California Digital Library
Let us know what you think.
LIBRARY RENOVATION
Bids are due tomorrow for the whole Baldwin project. Our expectation
is that the library renovation will start in June.
SEARCHING ELECTRONIC RESERVES
We have added a course-name/course-number/professor's-name search
engine to the Engineering Library electronic reserves subdirectory.
You might want to give it a try.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE
We now have desktop access to Wiley's
Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Let me know what you
think of it.
ADDITIONAL ONLINE ACCESS
OhioLINK has extended its online citation
indexing. Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index,
and Arts and Humanities Citation Index now include online coverage of 1980
to the present.
We have temporarily lost online access to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) journals. There is a legal glitch which we expect to be fixed very shortly.
REMOTE AUTHENTICATION
You can now access ALMOST all the OhioLINK resources using any internet
provider by entering your U.C. username and password. We expect,
within the year, to extend this access to the remote resources that are
purchased locally, as well.
COMING SOON
INSPEC on your desktop has been delayed a week. It should be
available by April 10. Check in UCLID for the URL, or email me.
The J-Stor Science Collection has been funded. This includes the complete
run (except for the last five years) of Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London (split into: Series A: Mathematical, Physical and
Engineering Sciences and Series B: Biological Sciences), Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London (split into Series A: Mathematical, Physical
and
Engineering Sciences and Series B: Biological Sciences), Science (absorbed
Scientific Monthly) and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
(PNAS). Desktop access to these titles will be phased in between now and
December 2000.
BOOK SALE
The last Engineering Library Book Sale before the Baldwin renovation
will be May 1 in the Moon Room. Mark your calendars!!
February 2000
MORE ONLINE ACCESS
Chemical Abstracts is available on a public station in the Chemistry/Biology
Library, after 5:00 p.m., in a format called SciFinder Scholar. See
a description of SciFinder
Scholar For more information on how to use it contact John
Tebo or Jim Clasper
We now have online access to the Annual Reviews titles which we subscribe to in print. These links will be added to the UCLID records.
The ITKnowledge titles are being added to UCLID. In the meantime
you can get to the site by searching
for ITKnowledge
in UCLID as a TITLE or as a WORD. ITKnowledge is billed as "The
largest on-line collection of best-selling technical books, source code
and examples from the leading publishers." I think a number of you are
already using it!
We are PROMISED that INSPEC will be available on UC.EDU workstations by April 1. I know that is April Fool's Day and also Census day; I WILL keep you posted.
BETTER KEYWORD SEARCHING
An expanded form of keyword searching is available in OhioLINK and
soon will be in UCLID. You can try out a preview
REMINDERS
Remember to renew your books at the end of Winter Quarter. You
can do this online through VIEW
YOUR OWN LIBRARY RECORD
How about reserve materials for Spring Quarter?? Please bring them to your departmental library. For the Engineering Library you can also contact us online
ENGINEERING LIBRARY RENOVATION
We have finalized plans for phase one of the renovation, which starts
the middle of June. The north entrance to the library will be closed
temporarily; and the entrance, along with circulation and reference, will
move to the south wing of Baldwin eighth floor.
January 2000
RENOVATION
Plans for the renovated Engineering Library and Information Commons
were submitted, with comments, to the University Architect on January 3.
We are asking that any faculty who are planning to donate books to the
library this spring do so by the end of February, so that we can have our
book sale before the renovation begins.
ONLINE ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA
We are beginning to see multimedia in the online journals that you
can get to through UCLID; for example, there are MPEG
files in an article on the "Development of biofactory-on-a-chip technology
using excimer laser micromachining" from the Journal of Micromechanics
and Microengineering.
LIBRARY NOTICES BY EMAIL
You can now elect to receive library notices by email. Stop in
at the Engineering Library Circulation Desk to make this request.
I don't usually email you all more than once a month, but THIS CAN'T WAIT.
As of this morning we have fulltext access to something called ITKnowledge
which is billed as:
"The largest on-line collection of best-selling technical books,
source code and examples from the leading publishers."
Approximately 1000 high-demand computer manuals are available FULLTEXT ONLINE from UC.EDU workstations at These titles will also be linked through UCLID in the next few weeks.
