December 1998:

• More databases are coming Winter Quarter. Of particular interest is GeoRef which should be available on your workstation in January. Compendex and some others will have a new look. Citations in Science Citation Index now link to the full text of the articles when they are available in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. This feature is also available in MathSciNet, and, in time, it will be expanded to other databases. Remember to check by title in UCLID for online access to journals and databases!

• Please get your reserve requests to us as soon as possible. For Engineering, you can use the online form, for requests for both paper and electronic reserves.

• And let us know if you want individual instruction about any of the library services and collections, personally or for your students.

November 1998:

• This month we have added access to a number of Cambridge Scientific Databases. In addition to the Environmental Sciences database subfiles, you can now access eight additional databases, including METADEX, Ceramic Abstracts and Mechanical Engineering Abstracts.

• Remember to look for both databases and journals BY TITLE in UCLID. You should see hypertext links to these online resources. They are also linked from the Engineering Library Homepage.

• I thought you might be interested in a few statistics. These are for Jan-Oct 1998:
  • Total downloads for online journals (top three institutions)
    • 21,723 Ohio State
    • 7,613 Case Western
    • 5,928 Univ of Cincinnati
  • Titles most often downloaded statewide
    • 655 Tetrahedron Letters
    • 618 Polymer
    • 516 Social Science and Medicine
  • Titles most often downloaded at U.C.
    • 308 Biomaterials
    • 128 Solid State Electronics
    • 111 Journal of Catalysis
  • There is now a new alerting service available to you which allows you to track the journals in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. You can set up an account (from the bottom of the page) which will search the FULL TEXT of the new issues added to this database each week, and email you the citations which fit your search. The Electronic Journal Center now contains journals from Academic Press, Elsevier and MUSE which was added this week and includes the American Journal of Mathematics.
  • REMEMBER: The quickest way to tell if a journal if available fulltext is to check the TITLE in UCLID.
  • At long last the ACM Digital Library is available and stable.
    The Digital Library now offers about 95% of all ACM articles and proceedings from 1991 on, including:
    • Nearly 9,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, from 1991 forward
    • Tables of Contents with nearly 5,000 citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward
    • Tables of contents with nearly 15,000 citations from articles published in over 400 volumes of conference proceedings from 1985 to 1996
  • Links to these fulltext titles are being added to UCLID. Beginning in January 1999 the Engineering Library will also get these documents in paper format.

  September 1998:

  • PLEASE NOTE: From now until the end of October Lecture Notes in Computer Science will be available full text online from Springer-Verlag.
  • The list of workshops offered by the Engineering Library and by other University libraries is available. Let me know if there is a workshop you want that you don't see, or if you would like one at a different time!
  • We are getting electronic access to more and more journals and databases. Most of them are linked in UCLID. If you search by title you should come to a hypertext link. However, because we can get them up faster on the website that we can get them into UCLID, you should also check the Engineeering Library webpages (e.g. Search this Site or ask your friendly librarian :-).

  August 1998:

  • Between now and September 15 we have trial access to the TRANSPORT database of transportation research and economic information. It is linked from the What's New page. Please let Jim Clasper know what you think!
  • I remind you all that there now more that 1200 journals, mostly in science and engineering, available FULL TEXT through UCLID. Search for the TITLE of the journal and then click on the online option. For most of these titles only CURRENT issues are available. There are additional titles listed on the JOURNALS ONLINE page. This is a growing resource, the Springer-Verlag journals will be added this Fall. I know it will never be THE UNIVERSAL DATABASE but it is increasingly convenient!
  • I also point out that when you search in OhioLINK , in addition to searching for books and journals, you are also searching the tables-of-contents of recent BOOKS and CONFERENCES. This is another major access enhancement over the traditional library catalog.
  • The Engineering Library staff will be offering a series of library workshops in the Fall covering these and other changes in library resources and services. We would be happy to set one up especially for YOUR class. Let us know what you would like us to cover! You can contact me, or Dorothy Byers or Jim Clasper in Engineering, John Tebo in Chem/Bio or Rich Spohn in Geo/Phys.

  June-July 1998:

  • As some of you have noticed, you can now access SIAM journals online without entering your username and password. This is because the library has set up agreements with about 12 different publishers, including SIAM, who allow online access by IP address, at no additional charge, to their titles which we subscribe to in paper. There is a complete list of these publishers and titles on the Journals online page.

  • I have been talking with some of your individually, but I want to urge you all to take advantage of these titles and also the titles in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. These resources link to the fulltext of (mostly) current journal articles. We have access, now, to more that 2000 journals; and more, the Springer-Verlag titles, will be added in the fall. The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center has a search engine on it so you can search by key word or author for just the articles you have access to in fulltext. Those of you who have homepages for your classes can include the URLs for the articles you find on your class homepages. Otherwise, you can print out a copy of the article and put it on reserve for your class, or whatever. The library has obtained full copyright permissions for these articles. You can do anything you want to with them (except sell them). The Engineering Library would like to help you and your students take full advantage of these resources. Please let me know if I can help!

  • We have added a Database Advisor to the Electronic databases page. You enter a keyword(s) and it runs the search in 25 science databases to see where you get the most hits. You can choose if you want to wait 30 seconds up to 5 minutes for the results. It is still being tested; eventually you will be able to connect directly to the database you choose (in most cases); let me know what you think.

  • We have added resources to our list of Alerting Services. I want to particularly remind you about REVEAL, the table-of-contents service, the FUNDING ALERTS provided by the Community of Science. These services are paid for by the library or the university.

  • Also, we have added a list of web based "phone" books to the Library Resources Online page.

  May 1998:

  • This month we set up a new page on Alerting Services. These are push services that you can customize to fit your interests, for example, in funding opportunities using the Funding Alerts that are part of the Community of Science, or in new journal articles, using REVEAL, etc.
  • We have also updated the OnTheWeb and the Library Resources Online page.

  April 1998:

  • OhioLINK has brought up their Electronic Journal Center. This is a list of approximately 1500 fulltext and image journals from Academic Press and Elsevier, starting with 1995 for most titles. They plan to add Springer-Verlag within a few months.
  • I have also created a U.C. Science and Engineering Electronic Journal Center. This has about 100 journals on it. Most are titles where the publisher has given us online access, at no additional cost, along with our paper subscription.

  March 1998:

  • This month UCLID moved to a new server and got a new look.
  • The links to Elsevier and Springer titles seem to be working although they won't be officially introduced for a few more months.
  • OhioLINK is testing Nextwave, "an electronic network for the next generation of scientists." I put it on the What's NEW page. Let me know what you think.
  • We brought up a page on How to Submit a Paper for Publication, Format a Citation, etc. If you get a chance let me know what you think. Also, do you have other ideas or suggestions for pages that might be of use??

  February 1998:

  • Our homepage has a new look for Spring! Also the OnTheWeb page has been redone. Let us know if you have suggestions for other changes, additions, etc.
  • The Elsevier titles were up, now they are down, but promised again for sometime in March. I hope so! I will post the link again on the What's NEW page, as soon as I can.
  • Titles from AMS, SIAM, American Institute of Physics and others are available on the Journals Online page from your UC.EDU workstation. Also the ACM publications are still available if you register. There is a link on the What's NEW page.
  • We have added a scrolling message and a list of sites to help celebrate National Engineers' Week. We also surveyed library users during the week and will let you know the results as soon as we can.

  January 1998:

  • Several new features are available this month.
    • Current issues of Elsevier Science titles can be accessed at http://journals.ohiolink.edu/etext/. I have added this link to the What's NEW page. If there are any changes to this URL, which came up last Friday, I will post them on the What's New page.
    • Acadmic Press, SIAM and AMS full-text titles are now LINKED through MathSciNet. Heather Maloney and I will be offering a workshop on MathSciNet in the undergraduate computer lab in 825 OldChem from 4-5 PM on Tuesday, February 4.
  • This Wednesday, February 4, at 3:00 in 638 Baldwin I will be giving a Science Citation Index workshop. Next Wednesday, February 11, at 3:00 in 638 Baldwin I will give an UnCover/REVEAL workshop, and on Wednesday, February 18, at 3:00 in 638 Baldwin Jim Clasper and I will give a workshop on "Obtaining Materials not Available at UC," which will review much of the current electronic access.
  • The Engineering Library and the Engineering College Computing Office have started a joint pilot project to provide wireless portable computers for engineering students to check out and use in the Engineering Library. These computers can access, view and print library information from the web or from CD's. Currently two machines are available, plans are under way to provide 10 more. Students who already own portable computers will be invited to participate using wireless network adapters.