AIP Archives Back to 1930

The American Institute of Physics has digitized all years of their journals including Journal of Applied Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Applied Physics Letters, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, Journal of Chemical Physics, and Journal of Mathematical Physics.

UCSD users can access the AIP journal archive and save a trip to the library!

Merck Index (online)

The Merck Index is now available to UCSD users. The print index has long been a core resource for basic chemical, property and use information (with literature references) on significant chemicals, drugs and biological substances. Now online, you have remote access to Merck, plus numerous ways to search the database, including name, registry number, and structure/substructure.

You will need the ChemDraw plugin to use the structure editor, which is available for download on the Merck site. For now, users will need to register to get that download.
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Methods in Enzymology

Methods in Enzymology is now available to UCSD users via Science Direct. You can browse the invidividual volumes going back to 1955, or search across the collection title, author, abstract and keyword.

Materials Science Journals Online (Sage Publications)

UCSD affiliates now have full-text access to 15 materials science journals through CSA Illumina, the same interface used for METADEX and Engineered Materials Abstracts. You can search across the entire collection, or use the ‘Specific Databases’ option to browse the titles and issues of the Materials Science collection.
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AIAA Planes Aloft

Representing the outstanding engineering accomplishments of UCSD aerospace students, and thanks to the generosity of John B. Kosmatka, Professor of Composite and Aerospace Structures and Callaway Golf Chair of Structural Mechanics, six competition airplanes now grace the front and back stairwells of the Science & Engineering Library.
These planes were designed and built by our aerospace engineering students for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics [AIAA] international competition. UCSD students won the world championship in 2002, beating, among others, MIT, UCLA, and Georgia Tech. The award winning craft hangs in the front stairwell.

S&E Web Suggestion Box

S&E is your library. Please use the new Suggestion Box on the S&E website to share your ideas and comments. Suggestions of general interest - and our responses - will be posted to the S&E blog.
Requests that we purchase a particular book or journal should be sent in on the Recommend a Book or Journal form.

Women in Science Exhibit

The Science & Engineering Library is celebrating Women’s History Month with an exhibit titled, Women in Science and Technology. Coinciding with the inauguration of Marye Anne Fox, one part of the exhibit features Chancellor Fox’s life and professional career. Another display, originally developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, honors other notable women in science and engineering including Grace Hopper, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, May Chinn, Rosalind Elsie Franklin and several more. Also on display are books from the Science & Engineering Library’s collection covering the history of women in science, and the role of women in contemporary science education and scholarship. The exhibit will remain up through the end of March.

Hans Bethe (1906-2005)

Hans A. Bethe, who discovered the violent reactions behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.

• New York Times (registration required)
• LA Times
• From Cornell University: Obituary | About Hans Bethe | Lectures | Commemorative Video (Windows Media or QuickTime)
• The Nobel Foundation’s page on Dr. Bethe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 “for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.”

European Journal of Biochemistry (title change)

As of this year, European Journal of Biochemistry is now FEBS Journal [online link to the journal]. This decision was made by the Federation of Biochemical Societies and EJB editorial board to “reflect the new broader aims and scope of the journal, not least in the areas of bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics, molecular cell biology and the molecular biology of disease, systems biology and nanoscience.”

This title should not be confused with FEBS’ other journal, FEBS Letters.

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (new journal)

New in 2005 from the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation publishes papers reporting new theories, methodology, and/or important applications in quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and statistical mechanics.

S&E will also have the journal in print; the first issue will be shelved with the current journals shortly (call number to be determined, but definitely in the QD 1’s).

In other ACS-related news, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences is now Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, to “better reflect the evolving contents of the Journal, while still emphasizing the Journal’s preeminent position in chemical informatics.”