Sax’s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials (11th ed.)

UCSD now has access to the new 11th ed. of Sax’s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials online. You can browse an A-Z list of substances or do a full-text search across the entire database.

Sax’s contains extensive data on approximately 26,000 substances, including data on toxicological, flammability, reactivity, explosive potential, and regularity information. It also includes Immediately Dangerous Life or Health (IDLH) levels for approximately 1,000 chemicals, and it covers exposure-level classifications for a number of regulatory agencies. Literature references accompany the toxicity data for each record.

New Science E-Books from National Academies Press

Here are some recent titles added to the NAP’s collection of +3,000 e-books. All of them are freely available for browsing, searching and printing (though most of them can only be printed out one page at a time).

Chemistry
+ Understanding Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects

Computer Science
+ Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age
+ Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation

Engineering
+ Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering
+ Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century
+ Midsize Facilities: Infrastructure for Materials Research
+ Implications of Nanotechnology for Environmental Health Research

Mathematics and Statistics
+ Mathematics and 21st Century Biology

Materials
+ High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites

Physical Sciences
+ Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science

Public Policy and Education
+ How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom
+ How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom
+ Science and Technology in the National Interest: Ensuring the Best Presidential and Federal Advisory Committee Science and Technology Appointments
+ Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States
+ Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities

Space Sciences
+ Conflict in the Cosmos: Hoyle Biography
+ Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Final Report

Web of Science Enhancements

In Web of Science, you can now:

• Change the results display to show 10, 25 or 50 citations per page

• Search within your result set
• Sort a complete set of results (up to 100,000 records) by relevance, source title, first author and times cited

MRS Bulletin online

Read the MRS Bulletin from the Materials Research Society. Online issues from v. 25, no. 3, March 2000 to present are available from all UCSD computers.

Coming later this year - MRS Proceedings online - so you won’t have to find the navy blue print conference proceedings volumes in the S&E stacks for the years 1998 onward. If you have recommendations for specific electronic or print books, journals or conference proceedings, please fill out the Purchase Recommendation Form or contact your S&E Subject Specialist.

Quantum Diaries: a particle physics blog

“To celebrate the World Year of Physics, which marks the centennial of Albert Einstein’s miraculous insights of 1905, 33 particle physicists have been blogging since January about their chosen profession. Called Quantum Diaries, the Web site is part PR stunt and part sociological experiment. But whatever its goals, the blogs have provided a unique and voyeuristic window into the most expensive science on the planet.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education July 1, 2005