http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml BML Blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:01:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UCSD faculty, staff and students can get a *free* print subscription to the journal, CELL, because UCSD subscribes to the online journal.  Go to this website to sign up. http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/09/05/free-print-subscription-to-cell/ The schedule of fall 2008 instructional workshops for the Biomedical Library is now available on our website.  We're also trying something new this quarter - we've imported our events into a public Google Calendar. If you are a Google Calendar user, you can add our public calendar - just search ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/09/03/fall-2008-class-lineup-now-available/ The first EUREKA awards are announced and UCSD research, David Kleinfeld, has one of the 38 grants awarded.   His project is Neuronal Signaling, Network Topology, and Blood Flow Dynamics in Cortex. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) created the EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration) project in order to address ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/09/03/nih-eureka-awards/ October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day. Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public. Open Access is the principle that publicly funded research should ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/09/01/open-access-day-1014-students-needed/ The Library is closed on Monday for Labor Day. We will return to our regular hours on Tuesday. http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/29/closed-on-monday-for-labor-day/ Q.  When are you going to put MATLAB on the Information Commons computers? A. Done!  This summer, MATLAB, Stata, and Office 2007 were added to the Information Commons and Graduate Study computers. MATLAB is a high-level numerical computing environment and programming language which you can use to solve technical computer ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/28/question-box-real-answers-to-real-questions/ The UCSD Administrative Computing and Telecommunications Department (ACT) recently launched an enhanced Virtual Private Network (VPN) service (http://tinyurl.com/ucsd-vpn). This service allows authorized UCSD users to access campus resources, including the electronic resources paid for by the UCSD Libraries, from anywhere off-campus using a simple web interface. This new service is web-based ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/28/new-vpn-easyconnect-web-interface-2/ Are you looking for ways to help the environment?  If you are, then keep an eye out for the “Go Green and Save Green” campaign, which the Biomedical Library will be launching this fall.  The campaign will highlight easy-to-use, cost-effective library services that save gas, save paper, and/or reduce air ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/28/go-green-save-green/ Cool Tips & Tricks - A Quarterly Series to Enhance Your Research Experience  Citation Sensor Citation Sensor matches search terms with article citations. It recognizes combinations of search terms that are characteristic of citation searching, e.g., volume/issue numbers, author names, journal titles, and publication dates, which it then matches to citations. If ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/28/pubmed-becomes-smarter/ The ILL/PLUS department provides document delivery, scanning, and research services to UCSD affiliates, other universities, private businesses, and individuals. Last year, the department processed about 250 requests each week. Using the latest technology in desktop delivery, all articles are delivered quickly via the web with email notification.  The ILL/PLUS staff ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/28/meet-our-staff-interlibrary-loanplus/