Local Patents is a new patent mapping site produced by FreePatentsOnline. It overlays inventor and assignee city information from US patent data onto a Google map. Try it out. Colored circles display the number of patents in a given geographic area – purple circles represent a high number, with red, orange, yellow and green representing smaller numbers. You can zoom in on your city and eventually get to a list of patent titles issued in your area.

New titles from the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science are now available. These 50-100 page lecture-sized books, written by experts in their respective fields, provide more depth and analysis (and even accessibility) than journal articles.

Titles listed by Lecture Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Engineering

• Style and ethics of communication in science and engineering

Synthesis Lectures on Signal Processing

• DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW. Volume I, Fundamentals of discrete signal processing
• DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW. Volume II, Discrete frequency transforms
• DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW. Volume III, Digital filter design
• DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW. Volume IV, LMS adaptive filtering
• Advanced radar detection schemes under mismatched signal models

Synthesis Lectures on Algorithms and Software in Engineering

• Advances in waveform-agile sensing for tracking

Synthesis Lectures on Digital Circuits and Systems

• Asynchronous sequential machine design and analysis
• An introduction to logic circuit testing

Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics — new series

• Common ground in electronically mediated conversation
• Semiotic engineering methods for scientific research in HCI
• Studies of work and the workplace in HCI

Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture

• The datacenter as a computer

Synthesis Lectures in Mathematics and Statistics

• A gyrovector space approach to hyperbolic geometry

Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics

• Integral equation methods for electromagnetic and elastic waves
• Transient signals on transmission lines

Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing

• Multi-pitch estimation

Synthesis Lectures in Computer Graphics and Animation

• Practical global Illumination with irradiance caching

Looking for the official UC payroll data for 2008?  The printed book set from UCOP is in Geisel Library, held at the Social Sciences & Humanities (not S&E) Circulation Desk. The volumes can be checked out for 4 hours. The UCSD data is in volumes 10-11.

Payroll data from 2007 is online at various locations including the SacBee, but we don’t know when/if they will add the 2008 data.

More information about the release of this data is available as a campus flyer.

[h/t: BML]

Copies of the latest issue of The Triple Helix, the journal of the UCSD chapter of The Triple Helix, are currently available at the Science and Engineering Library and the UCSD Biomedical Library.

The Triple Helix is a worldwide, undergraduate, science journal that explores the interdisciplinary nature of science, society, and law. This bi-annual journal is published in 27 chapters all over the world including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Yale, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and many more.

Pick up your copy of The Triple Helix at S&E or Biomed – while they last – or contact The Triple Helix at thetriplehelixucsd@gmail.com for more information.

The 2007 JCR (Journal Citation Reports), Science Edition, is now available at the UCSD Biomedical Library. This is a print copy that is kept on reserve. If you need impact factors for a few journals, just contact the Biomedical Library.

[h/t: BML]

The Biomedical Library has received the 2006 JCR Science Edition, which they’ll keep on reserve. If you need a few impact factors, call the BML Reference Desk at 858/534-1201 or send an email to biomed@ucsd.edu.

[h/t: BML]

The UCSD Science & Engineering Library is a valuable resource for both the amateur and seasoned systems administrator. We have created a page highlighting virtual reference tools from the S&E Library, including e-journals, article databases and dictionaries compiled from Sage, UCSD Libraries’ collection of electronic resources, with a focus on resources relevant to information technology professionals. Check it out:

Information Technology Resource Page

American Chemical Society’s Directory of Graduate Research is now free online, with major enhancements to improve searching. This is an excellent resource for undergrads who want to identify potential graduate programs.

DGRweb is ACS’s searchable database of US/Canada graduate research instututions and faculty in chemistry and chemical engineering. You can search institutions or faculty by name or location. Additional faculty searches include research area, gender, academic rank and keyword searching on specific research and theses.

We now have a print subscription to Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. You can check the Roger record for available issues (Call number: TD1 .J68).

Online access to the most journal articles is still available through Expanded Academic, although they’re about 2 months behind the print. Eligible faculty and students can use our Avanti service to get desktop delivery of articles that we now have in print but not yet online.

Environmental Chemistry is now available. It’s a new journal addressing all aspects of chemistry of the environment: atmospheric chemistry, (bio)geochemistry, marine and freshwater chemistry, polar chemistry, fire chemistry, interstellar chemistry, soil chemistry, climate change, chemical toxicology, and green chemistry.

• Print: S&E Library Current Journals (QD1 E38302)

• Online: remote access for UCSD faculty/staff/students only

An RSS feed is also available if you want to use your reader or aggregator to keep up with the new articles as they’re posted.