Factiva (New Database)

UCSD now has access to Factiva. Like Lexis-Nexis, Factiva provides full-text access to local, national and international sources, including newspapers, trade magazines, and journals. There’s some overlap between the two databases, but also an abundance of unique material in each.

You can search across the entire database or limit the search to a single news publication. As a bonus, you can also limit your search to publications within one or more specific industries. Factiva has about 30 industry categories, including Chemicals, Computers & Electronics, Aerospace & Defense, Telecommunications, and Machinery & Industrial Goods (no separate Engineering category, but these titles are spread throughout the other categories). This makes Factiva a good resource for business/industry news as it relates to science and engineering disciplines.

Factiva is optimized for the IE, Firefox and Safari browsers–not Netscape. Science & Engineering Library users who want to learn more about using Factiva should contact Teri Vogel.

New UCSD Articles: SE, ECE, MAE

Recent articles authored or co-authored by at least member of the Departments Structural, Electrical, or Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering as indexed in Web of Science. Includes Materials Science & Engineering.

Stagnation-point flow against a liquid film on a plane wall
Blyth MG, Pozrikidis C
ACTA MECHANICA 180 (1-4): 203-219 2005

Simplified model for droplet combustion in a slow convective flow
Ackerman M, Williams FA
COMBUSTION AND FLAME 143 (4): 599-612 DEC 2005

Durability characterization of wet layup graphite/epoxy composites used in external strengthening
Abanilla MA, Li Y, Karbhari VM
COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING 37 (2-3): 200-212 2006

Coding for the optical channel: The ghost-pulse constraint
Kashyap N, Siegel PH, Vardy A
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY 52 (1): 64-77 JAN 2006

Iron silicide root formation in carbon nanotubes grown by microwave PECVD
AuBuchon JF, Daraio C, Chen LH, Gapin AI, Jin SH
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 109 (51): 24215-24219 DEC 29 2005

Microstructural evolution in copper processed by severe plastic deformation
Mishra A, Richard V, Gregori F, Asaro RJ, Meyers MA
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING 410: 290-298 Sp. Iss. SI, NOV 25 2005

High intensity laser-plasma sources of ions-physics and future applications
Krushelnick K, Clark EL, Beg FN, Dangor AE, Najmudin Z, Norreys PA, Wei M, Zepf M
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION 47: B451-B463 Sp. Iss. SI Suppl. 12B, DEC 2005
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UCSD Chem Professor Honored by NAS

The National Academy of Sciences will honor Dr. Russell F. Doolittle with the John J. Carty Award at their 143rd annual meeting this April. He is one of the 15 men and women who will be honored that the meeting.

From the NAS press release: a medal and prize of $25,000 awarded annually for noteworthy and distinguished accomplishment in any field of science (computational science in 2006) – goes to Russell F. Doolittle, research professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry and division of biology, University of California, San Diego. Doolittle was chosen “for contributing seminal insights and methods for using computers as an aid to characterizing protein function, in comparing amino acid sequences, and for phylogenetic reconstructions.” The award was established by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in honor of John J. Carty and has been awarded since 1932.

GIS Workshops at Geisel

A series of GIS (Geographic Information Services) classes will be taught this quarter in the Geisel Library. Topics will include:

New UCSD Articles: Physics & CASS

Recent articles authored or co-authored by at least member of the Department of Physics and/or Center for Astrophysics & Space Science, indexed in Web of Science:

Chandra and RXTE spectra of the burster GS 1826-238
Thompson TWJ, Rothschild RE, Tomsick JA, Marshall HL
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 634 (2): 1261-1271 Part 1, DEC 1 2005

Scintillation crystal design features for a miniature gamma ray camera
Dhanasopon AP, Levin CS, Foudray AMK, Olcott PD, Habte F
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE 52 (5): 1439-1446 Part 1, OCT 2005

Infrared signatures of hole and spin stripes in La2-xSrxCuO4
Padilla WJ, Dumm M, Komiya S, Ando Y, Basov DN
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 72 (20): Art. No. 205101 NOV 2005

Vortex dissipation in Y1-xPrxBa2Cu3O7-delta superconductors above and below the zero-field critical temperature
Katuwal T, Sandu V, Almasan CC, Taylor BJ, Maple MB
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 72 (17): Art. No. 174501 NOV 2005

Modulational interaction between the short-wavelength lower-hybrid waves and slow, large-scale density fluctuations
Ucer D, Shapiro VD
PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 12 (11): Art. No. 112312 NOV 2005
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Chronicle of Higher Education

UCSD faculty, staff and students now have online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education, one of the premier sources of news and information about the world of higher education. Topics include Money & Management, Students, Athletics, IT, Government & Politics, and Research & Books. CHE also maintains an extensive database of employment opportunities. Users can browse back issues to 1995, or search for articles from 1989 to date.

To keep up with CHE, RSS feeds are also available for their daily news, The Wired Campus (educational-technology headlines), and for their job listings.

Winter 2006 Class Schedule

The Winter 2006 schedule of classes for the S&E Library is now available. To register, send an e-mail to scilib@ucsd.edu or to the contact person listed for that session.

New classes include Beilstein for Beginners and Introduction to Patents. Returning classes include:

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