ENGINEERING LIBRARY MURALS IN THE RENOVATION
As part of the Baldwin renovation to begin spring quarter, the old original library room in 849 will be restored to its original beauty and function. See an early picture of the space as a reading room.

Part of the restoration will include cleaning the murals.  They were a gift of the Civil Engineering Class of 1916 and were painted by Frances Faig. She also painted murals at Western Hills High School and at Hartwell School.  Mrs. Faig studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck.  She was a patron of the arts and the symphony, and a member of
the Cincinnati McDowell Society.

Her theme in these murals was engineering and major feats such as railroads, suspension bridges, and high-power transmission lines.  She was the wife of John T. Faig, who had been UC professor of mechanical engineering before serving as the president of the Ohio Mechanics Institute from 1900 to 1930.

The murals have collected grime since they were installed in 1917.  On the weekend before Christmas, two conservators began the work of cleaning one panel so that people (and potential donors!) can see the astonishing transformation and envision how magnificent all panels will look once they are cleaned. Come see for yourself!

Anyone interested in this restoration project should contact Dorothy.Byers@UC.EDU (556-3352).

UCLID GIVES THE BEST ACCESS TO FULLTEXT ARTICLES!
The hypertext links to the fulltext of journal articles from the reference databases, such as Compendex and MathSciNet, are not all operational.  The Cambridge databases, such as the  Aerospace Database  and METADEX , are just beginning to add
fulltext links.   Also some publishers' fulltext sites may not be in operation any longer.  If you have any problems, look up your journal titles in UCLID for a link to the fulltext.

WINTER QUARTER RESERVES
Please let us know what to put on reserves for you and if we should link to your class webpage.  You may do this online for the Engineering Library.

JOURNALS
I have edited the JOURNALS ONLINE page so that it no longer includes titles linked in UCLID.  Be sure to look in UCLID for information about accessing all types of library materials.

The American Journal of Mathematics volumes 1-117 (1878-1995) is now available fulltext online and will soon be linked through UCLID.  This is the last of the current phase of J-Stor titles.  Math J-Stor titles are *very heavily* used at U.C. compared with other J-Stor sites.  See 1999 statistics.  (Click on "breakdown by journal title" and submit the request; the comparative chart is at the bottom of the page.)

ASK A LIBRARIAN
Our ASK A LIBRARIAN page is now available from any workstation.  We focus on answering questions from
Engineering College students and faculty, but we get requests from all over the world. You might want to give it a try.

RENEWALS
It is probably time to renew any library material you may have checked out.
Remember that you may do this ONLINE at VIEW YOUR OWN LIBRARY RECORD .

Please note that, through the generosity of the College of Engineering, the Engineering Library website is now running on an Ultra 1, instead of a SPARC 5.  You should notice the difference!!

We have added an online storage request form at the bottom of the Engineering Library homepage.  This allows you to request an article from a bound journal that is in storage.  We email you when the article has been scanned and posted for a week as a URL.  Remember that you can, if you prefer, request the entire bound volume from storage the same way you would request a book from OhioLINK.

We have permanently mounted the CD-ROM version of the ACM Digital Guide to Computing Literature, 1980-1996, on CD-ROM station #2 in the Engineering Library.  This CD-ROM combines the annual volumes of the Guide with Computing Reviews.

Also, you might be interested to know that OhioLINK is beginning to mount FULLTEXT books.  You can search, for example, in UCLID for the KEYWORDs "netlibrary and engineering" to see some examples.  Choose one and click on VIEW.  You should also note that when searching in UCLID you can now limit a search to "internet and e-journals," which includes webpages, books, and journals in electronic formats.

MORE NEW DATABASES
Aerospace Database and NTIS are now available on your UC.EDU workstation!

The TRANSPORT Database is available. Also, we are confident that INSPEC will be available on your desktop SOON.

TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Here is the Library Workshop schedule .  Note especially the workshops on Science Citation Index on October 12 at 3:00, MathSciNet on October 20 at 3:00, and Patents on October 27 at 2:00.

Let me know if you need help setting up your UnCover profile  so you can get the tables-of-contents, from journals you select, emailed to you each week.

ELECTRONIC RESERVES
Engineering faculty may submit reserves requests (both for paper and for electronic reserves) using the online form
If you tell us, we will also link from YOUR page of class material to the library list of electronic reserves

JOURNALS ONLINE

As of September 1999 the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center  includes all journals published electronically by these publishers:

     Academic Press, 1995-
     Elsevier Science, 1995-
     Johns Hopkins University Press (Project MUSE), 1995-
     Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997-
     Springer-Verlag, 1994-

This is about 2300 journals.  OhioLINK is starting to load Wiley and American Physical Society titles.  Remember that you can (or soon will be able to)  link to these titles through UCLID.

At U.C. we also have online access to the 27 American Society of Civil Engineers journals, starting with January 1999.  These links are available in UCLID and from the JOURNALS ONLINE page.
 

The U.C. Science and Engineering  Database Advisor is operational.

This search engine helps you choose an appropriate database based on the number of hits you get with your search.  It  searches multiple (pre-selected) databases in a discipline,  returns the results and lets you reformat the search in whatever database you choose.  Give it a try and let me know what you think!?? (mailto:lucy.wilson@uc.edu)  We are still working
on it and would very much appreciate the feedback!
 

It is time to renew/return your library books.  If you have had them for less than a year you can renew online

It is also time for Fall Quarter Reserves, both paper and electronic. Procedures for submitting electronic reserves are available online or contact June Taylor at mailto:June.Taylor@uc.edu
 

July 1999:

 GEOREF ON YOUR DESKTOP

The American Geological Institute's GeoRef database covers the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. A comprehensive resource with over 1.9 million citations, many with abstracts, GeoRef covers North America publications beginning in 1785 and publications from the rest of the world since 1933. I have added this title to the DATABASES ONLINE page.

The American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) is making all 27 of their journals available online during 1999. Ten are up now and the rest are coming this Fall. I have added them to the JOURNALS ONLINE page.

OhioLINK is formulating plans to create a database of computer science technical reports from Ohio which would then be linked to the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NSCRTL). Interested?

June 1999:

 ONLINE JOURNALS / ARTICLES

Each week the list of fulltext journal issues added to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center is available. For example, 1359 issues were added during the week of June 22. By the end of the summer the number of journal titles covered will expand from about 1500 to about 2300. These journals can also be access by title through UCLID. In addition, the articles in these journals are linked individually through their citations in Compendex, Science Citation Index, and the other bibliographic databases available from OhioLINK.

I remind you about UnCover/REVEAL, an Alerting Service that searches 18,000 journals. It is paid for by the Library for all Faculty and graduate students. Ask for me at the Engineering Library circulation desk if you want help setting up your profile!

May 1999:

 ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC BOOKS

You can now access NetLibrary from a UC.EDU workstation. This access is currently available experimentally; you will be asked to register for certain formats, and not all titles are available all the time. OhioLINK will be expanding access to specific titles in the future. Let me know what you think of this format!

I thought you might also be interested in this VERY extensive list of Full Text Business and Economic Periodicals in the Library and on the Web, complied by the U.C. Business bibliographer, Wahib Nasrallah.

Graduate students (and Faculty Advisors!) please remember that when you start the research part of your graduate work you should make an appointment with Jim Clasper, the Engineering Reference Librarian, or with me, and ask us to show you how to find articles in the library, or how to request materials if you don't find what you need in the collection.

April 1999:

NEW BOOKS

The list of books added to the Engineering Library in April is available. It is once again in CALL NUMBER order. My thanks to all of you who commented on the SUBJECT HEADING arrangement. Most of you said that call numbers were easier and more familiar. There are just too many subject headings used (almost one for each title) to make that a very helpful sort.

 The Engineering/Math Book Sale is TODAY from 9:00 to 4:00 in the Moon Room, 654 Baldwin. Everything is one dollar or less!!

 MANY OhioLINK databases are now available to U.C. students and faculty from non UC.EDU workstations. You can reach the titles with the "telephone" icon from off-campus, by entering your name and social secuity number.

 OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center has been available for a year now. The four top institutional users are Ohio State 74,506 articles downloaded which is 26%, the University of Cincinnati 33,982 articles or 12%, Case Western Reserve 31,288 articles or 11%, and the University of Toledo 12,831 articles or 6%.

As several of you have noted, a number of Kluwer titles are no longer available from the JOURNALS ONLINE page. Kluwer provided access to these titles during 1998 (in fact until April 1999) as a promotion. However, all Kluwer journal titles, as well all the Springer-Verlag and the Wiley titles, will be added to the Electronic Journal Center this summer!

 You can access the text and drawings of U.S. Patents after 1971 on your desktop from the WorldWide Patent Database. This includes a a chart of the years and the countries that are included. You can begin searching in English.

 At the suggestion of the library liason for math, we have set up a Mathematics for Enjoyable Browsing book shelf and webpage. Let me know of titles that you think we ought to add!

March 1999:

NEW BOOKS

 The list of books added to the Engineering Library in March is available. This month the list is arranged by SUBJECT instead of by CALL NUMBER. Which arrangement do you prefer? What else might I do to make the list more useful to you? Please email me.

 You can now access the OhioLINK databases and the fulltext journals in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center from a non UC.EDU workstations by entering your UCLID username and password. Here are the instructions from OhioLINK and from U.C., and here are the details.

 We have access to TRANSPORT, a bibliographic database of transport research information.

 We have added new titles from Wiley Press to the JOURNALS ONLINE page. PLEASE NOTE that I have deleted a number of journals from this page which were also linked by title through UCLID. UCLID remains your single best finding took for library materials!

 There will be a free INSPEC training session on April 6 from 9:00 am - 4:00 in pm Room 461, Langsam Library. You may attend just the review session, from 9:00 - 10:00, if you wish. To register call Diane Blitz at 732-321-5575, or email her at dbitz@inspecinc.com

 The Engineering/Math Library Book Sale will be Monday, May 3, from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm in the Moon Room, Room 654 Baldwin Hall. Mark your calandar!

February 1999:

 
• As of March 1, 1999, SOME links to fulltext articles are operational in Compendex and in Biological Abstra cts. Other databases are also coming up with fulltext links, such as CINAHL (Nurs ing & Allied Health) and Medline.
• OhioLINK announced that some of the journals in the Electronic Journal Center will be updated more quickly , so that they will begin appearing before the paper copies are available. I ha ve added a few more titles handled by the American Institute of Physics to the journals online page. These links are also being added to UCLID.
• Access to the fulltext of all 117 journals published by Emerald is available in March from the What's New Page. Also in March we have trial access to the Electric Library. It is linked on the What's New page. Contact Lucy Wilson for the USERN AME and PASSWORD.
• We have added a Scientists and Engineers of Note page. And, I have updated the Technical Reports Websites page to include Math Sites.
• The latest floorplan for the expanded Engineering Library in the Baldwin ren ovation is available on our Space Pla nning page. We invite your comments!
• Recall that I am happy to come to faculty offices to get you started using the REVEAL table-of-conten ts service.
• I point out that Winter Quarter books are due on March 22, 1999. You may re new your books online through yourpatron record. Also, please let us know about your Spring Quarter reserves as soon as possible. Engineering fac ulty may submit reserve requests electronically.

January 1999:

 
• As some of you may know, desktop access to GeoRef from OhioLINK has been delayed until July 1999. You CAN get desktop access NOW to both GeoRef and GeoBase through the Cincinnati Public Library. Email me if you need instructions.
• We have access to additional Cambridge Scientific Databases (see Databases Online). These include METADEX, Engineered Materials Abstracts and Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts. We have provisional desktop access to NTIS.
• I have added links to the online ACM journals on the Journals Online page, and also to Physical Review D and Reviews of Modern Physics, and to additional titles from the Optical Society of American. Several titles from the American Society for Microbiology are NOT currently available online, as some of you know. We are working to restore online access to these titles.
• This month we set up a Technical Reports Websites page (Let me know if I left off your favorite!) and a Proceedings Online page, which, so far, points to fulltext of the 1997, 1998 and 1999 ACM conferences.
• The Engineering Library staff are offering five workshops in February. Let me know if you don't see what you want!! We will also be offering workshops on the NEW Compendex format from Dataware as soon as we get the training!

Send comments to: Dorothy F. Byers, Head, Engineering and Mathematics Libraries