National Book Month:Popular Science Books

May is National Book Month! The Science & Engineering Library is featuring an exhibit of popular science books. Get current with the latest and greatest popular titles! Read up on black holes, quantum computers, mathematical enigmas, chaos theory and buckeyballs. We’ve got the secrets of the universe available for check-out! If you see something of interest, check its availability in Roger. Popular Science Books

New Wiley Backfiles for Chemistry and Biophysics

Wiley has added backfiles, i.e. digitized back issues of Wiley journals, in chemistry and biophysics.

Angewandte Chemie has been one of the top sources for the most important developments in chemistry and related areas (2002 ISI Impact Factor: 7.671). Effective from January 12, 2004, more than 13000 Communications, 1900 Reviews, and 400 Highlights from world-renowned authors, among them numerous Nobel Laureates, are available online.

The Wiley InterScience Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Backfile Collection comprises a complete subject area backfile, i.e., digitized back issues of subject-specific Wiley and Wiley-VCH journals, including full coverage (back to Volume 1, Issue 1) of seminal titles, such as Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Proteins and Biopolymers.

The Wiley InterScience Polymer Backfile Collection is the largest collection of high-quality polymer science backfile articles available from a single publisher. The Polymer Backfile Collection is a complete digital backfile of 636,000 pages from journals covering the subject area of polymer science and engineering, including full coverage (back to Volume 1, Issue 1) of seminal titles such as the Journal of Polymer Science and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.

You can access the above journals via S&E’s E-journal Page or Roger.

IEEE Xplore Enhancements

IEEE has released IEEE Xplore 1.7, which features the following enhancements.

1. Reference sections for articles from the IEEE Computer Society magazines and journals published since 1995 to the present are incorporated into IEEE Xplore and are accessible from Abstract Plus records.
2. IEEE has deployed the first phase of a full-text search prototype. Accessible from the Advanced search link (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/pdfsearch.jsp), users have the option to test the new full-text search capabilities, or continue to use the “traditional search” of abstract records. At launch, approximately ten percent of the documents in the entire IEEE Xplore database will be full-text searchable. As more full-text content is indexed, the dataset of full-text searchable content will grow considerably throughout the year.

You can access IEEE Xplore from the S&E homepage. For questions about this release, please contact Deborah Kegel at 534-1215 or dkegel@ucsd.edu.