PubMed Search Alerts

You can now set up search alerts in PubMed and get regular e-mail updates as new records are added to the database.

1. In PubMed, set up a My NCBI account (username, password, and e-mail address), and then sign in. The My NCBI box is in the upper-right corner of the page.
2. Run your search. Click the “Save Search” link. You’ll be prompted to sign in if you haven’t already done so.
3. In the Save Search window, select ‘yes’ to receive e-mail updates of new search results. Then customize the alert: how often do you want to receive e-mails, what format (HTML/text) and how much of the record do you want to see in the e-mails, and the maximum number of results in each e-mail.
4. Select OK to save the search. You can always return to My NCBI to modify or delete your alert.

PubMed and UC-eLinks

You can customize PubMed to include the button in your search results.

1. In PubMed, set up a My NCBI account (username, password, and e-mail address), and then sign in. The My NCBI box is in the upper-right corner of the page. You need to create this account if you want to set up e-mail search alerts.
2. In the left column, under My NCBI Resources, select “Outside Tool.”
3. Select “University of California (Faculty, Students, Staff)”

Earthquake Spectra Online

Earthquake Spectra, the professional journal of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, is now available online for UCSD researchers and students from volume 1, 1984 to present.

e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis

UCSD now has access to e-EROS, the online version of the core reference work Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. e-EROS has detailed articles for 3800 of the most frequently consulted reagents, each with a bibliography of key literature references.

You can browse by reagent or search across the database by text, structure/substructure (a structure-drawing tool is included with e-EROS), reaction name and details, and reagent name.

Science.gov alerts

Science.gov, the Web portal for federal science information, has launched a free alert service that delivers information about current science developments weekly. Individuals can set up an account on the Science.gov homepage allowing them to define search terms and topic areas for their alert. Up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources will be sent to the subscriber’s e-mail account each Monday. More than 1,700 government information resources and 30 databases on a wide variety of scientific topics are available through the service.
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News From the Field
C&RL News, April 2005
Vol. 66, No. 4

by Stephanie Orphan

Keeping Current with Science & Engineering Research

April 21, 11:00am-12:30pm, TLC Room in CLICS
To register, send a message to: scilib@ucsd.edu

Learn techniques for keeping up-to-date in your research field by setting up automatic alerts to get notified when new papers are published. Scientific and engineering disciplines are featured, but many of the techniques can be used in other fields. Database search alerts and publisher Table-of-Contents services via E-mail will be covered, as well as RSS feeds (time permitting).

EndNote for Science & Engineering

April 19, 11:00am-12:30pm, TLC Room in CLICS
To register, send a message to: scilib@ucsd.edu

Writing a research paper and need to manage your references? Using EndNote already, but want to find out about its “power” features like “Cite While You Write?” Installed EndNote on your computer, but not sure what to do with it? Take this class to learn to build your own EndNote reference libraries, and then use those libraries with Microsoft Word to seamlessly integrate the references into papers and create bibliographies. Find out how to use EndNote with your favorite science & engineering databases: SciFinder Scholar, Inspec, Web of Science, etc.

Mathematics Awareness Month

April is Math Awareness Month, and the Science & Engineering Library has mounted a display of posters and articles featuring the role math plays in science, technology, and everyday life. Mathematics and the Cosmos is the theme of one display, which shows how math is at the core of our attempts to understand the universe at every level from the most theoretical to the most mundane. Other portions of the display feature posters depicting Mathematical Moments and Math Matters, Apply It! how applied math affects us and the world around us. The display will be up through the end of April. Read more about Math Awareness Month at the official website http://www.mathaware.org/. The MAM Related Resources include Gene Smith’s tutorial on Cosmology from UCSD CASS.

IEEE Explore Release 2.0

More information about the improvements and enhancements in the newest IEEE Explore release.