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S&E Circulation & Reserves Move to Geisel Main Lobby Circulation Desk

Starting Spring Quarter, check out, return and pick up all S&E books, including Reserves and Interlibrary Loans, at the Geisel Main Lobby Circulation Desk. The S&E Reference Desk remains open, with librarians to assist you in person and online. More information.

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New IEEE Xplore Digital Library

IEEE has introduced their new IEEE Xplore Digital Library, with a new interface for improved navigation & functionality, new search engine and better (faceted) results. Personalized options include: search preferences, saved searches, RSS feeds or email alerts. Learn more about the new features, or start searching IEEE Xplore.

Science and Engineering Blogs & Podcasts

More and more scientists or scientific organizations have put up blogs and podcasts on various topics. Here is a collection of noteworthy science and engineering blogs and podcasts.

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Read Engineering Books Online

Read online over 200 McGraw-Hill’s professional engineering books, such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers and Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook. Powered by Access Engineering, this collection offers a broad and deep repository of fully searchable engineering content from industry-leading books.

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Winter Holiday Closure

S&E will be closed from December 19, 2009 through January 3, 2010 as part of the campus-wide Winter Holiday Closure. You can use our online resources and services during this time. But do take note of the adjusted timeline for library services. Read more.

All libraries will reopen January 4.

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How to Prevent Plagiarism

Have you used the ideas or writing of other people without giving credit? Students were expelled from colleges due to plagiarism. Don’t be caught plagiarizing without knowing it. Take this short tutorial to find out more about plagiarism and how to prevent it.

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2008 Impact Factors Now in JCR

The Journal Citation Reports (JCR Online), which provide journal Impact Factors and other data from ISI, now includes the data for 2008. The 2007 data is still accessible if you need that as well.

INSPEC Has a New Look

This key physics & engineering database is now available through the ISI Web of Knowledge platform, the same interface used for Web of Science and Biosis. INSPEC has over 10M records (mostly journal and conference articles) from 1898-present.

To access: http://isiknowledge.com/inspec

More about the UC transition from Ovid to ISI

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Springer E-Book Collections,

20,000+ e-books in math & statistics, chemistry & materials science, physics, astronomy, computer science, engineering, biomedical sciences, and earth & environmental sciences. Search full-text, and save/print chapters as PDFs.

To access: http://www.springerlink.com/

More about this new collection

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NextGen Melvyl

Want to search Melvyl + millions of article citations + books and other materials held elsewhere? Try Next Generation Melvyl.

Let us know what you like and what needs improvement (via the survey or the feedback link in NGM).

(The NextGen Melvyl pilot).

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