Los Lobos not playing at the library!

The January 29th e-mailed edition of This Week @ UCSD listed the location of the upcoming Los Lobos concert as the Biomedical Library. The actual location for
this concert is at the Mandeville Center Auditorium. We are putting the finishing touches on a room at the library where we plan to hold public events such as author readings, film nights, et cetera, but probably not rock concerts!

Scientific Commons: easy access to open access

Scientific Commons.org is a search engine for scientific publications made available via open access repositories. These repositories include institutional repositories such as the California Digital Library’s e-Scholarship, as well as discipline-based repositories such as PubMed Central. At the time of this posting, ScientificCommons.org included over 13 million documents from over 840 different repositories around the world.
Check it out: www.scientificcommons.org

You can search the repository via their simple search box, export results to EndNote or BibTeX, and you can subscribe to an RSS feed from the site to let you keep up with new items. However, the current feed is for every topic, and in future they plan to offer more personalized RSS feeds.

Nature journals - access glitch reported

We’re having an odd glitch with at least some of the Nature journals. When using the Firefox web browser (versions 1 and 2), Nature appears to not recognize us as valid subscribers and asks for a password. When using Internet Explorer, we are recognized properly. If this continues through the afternoon, we will report this problem to the licensing group at the California Digital Library to follow up with the publisher.

ScienceDirect downtime Jan 20

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-journal platform will be unavailable on Saturday,
January 20th for approximately 6 hours, starting at 11:30 AM PST due to a system upgrade. This will affect over 1000 of our electronic journals.

Google Tips and Tricks

Learn a few tips from Nancy Stimson, outreach services librarian, who teaches a course on using Google. See interview and demonstration on last week’s KPBS Full Focus episode.
Continue reading Google Tips and Tricks…

Holiday hours January 15

Hours for Monday, January 15th, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday:
- Biomedical Library: 10am - 6pm
- Medical Center Library: closed
- Social Sciences & Humanities Library: 8am - 2am
- Science & Engineering Library: 8am - 11:45pm
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library: closed
- CLICS: 1pm - 1am

Nature Publishing Group blogs

The Nature Publishing Group has added a few new blogs to their site. Some of these are “companions” to existing journals, others are more oriented towards authors and reviewers. Check them out:
http://www.nature.com/blogs/index.html

Movers and Shakers in the BML Neighborhood

Movers: the Medical Center Shuttles are temporarily relocating to the newly relocated Rupertus way, just around the corner from their previous spot at Gilman at Russell Lane. See the map available of the new Rupertus Way.

Shaker: the coffee cart across the quad from BML is finally open! Fairbanks Coffee now has a new cart along the south wall of the Leichtag research building. As with their other carts, coffee refills in your own mug are just a buck and they will soon be selling the yummy sandwiches available at their other campus locations.

Winter Quarter RefWorks Classes

The schedule and registration for upcoming RefWorks classes is now available online. This quarter the previously 90 minute class has been split into two shorter classes (RefWorks I and II). This means that you can attend one or both sessions, depending on your knowledge of the software.
Continue reading Winter Quarter RefWorks Classes…

Presentation Practice Room Now Open!

The Biomedical Library now has a room equipped for you to practice your oral presentations! The room has a lectern, projector and computer equipped with Microsoft PowerPoint as well as a timer/stopwatch software program to help you with timing. You can also connect your own laptop to the projector if your laptop has a video-out port.

The room may be “signed out” for three hours at a time by any UCSD student, staff or faculty member.