Encyclopedia of Materials (Restored)

UCSD has restored access to the online Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology.

With 2,200+ articles that can be browsed or searched, the Encyclopedia of Materials is a comprehensive resource covering all aspects of materials science. The bibliographies at the end provide key references to articles and books for more information on that topic.

Laptop printing now available

Academic Computing Services (ACS) has introduced a service to enable UCSD students to print from their laptop computers to any ACS laser printer. This includes laptops using the campus wireless network. For details see ACS’s page on printing from a personal computer.

Encyclopedia of Energy (New)

UCSD now has to the online Encyclopedia of Energy, from Science Direct.

Encyclopedia of Energy is a comprehensive resource covering the science and policy aspects of energy. There are more than 400 articles, each one with a glossary and bibliography of additional readings.

Chapters: Basics of Energy, Coal, Conservation and End Use, Economics of Energy, Electricity, Energy Flows, Environmental Issues, Global Issues, History and Energy, Material Use and Reuse, Measurement and Models, Nuclear Power, Oil and Natural Gas, Policy Issues, Public Issues, Renewable and Alternative Sources, Risks, Society and Energy, Sustainable Development, Systems of Energy

Comprehensive Structural Integrity (New)

UCSD now had access to this online reference work from Science Direct. It includes case studies and extensive bibliographies to relevant literature like standards and journal articles.

Comprehensive Structural Integrity: Fracture of Materials from Nano to Macro is an entry point into the literature of structural integrity, including but not limited to fracture mechanics, fatigue, creep, materials, dynamics, environmental degradation, numerical methods, failure mechanisms and damage mechanics, interfacial fracture and nano-technology, structural analysis, surface behavior and heart valves.

Structures covered in this work include: pressure vessels and piping, off-shore structures, gas installations and pipelines, chemical plants, aircraft, railways, bridges, plates and shells, electronic circuits, interfaces, nanotechnology, artificial organs, biomaterial prostheses, cast structures, and mining.

EndNote Web Express (Web of Science)

If you use Web of Science or Biosis Previews, you can now take advantage of the new EndNote Web Express. To get started, first go to Web of Knowledge and set up your account. In your search results, you’ll now see a Save to My EndNote Web option. You can add up to 1,000 references to your web-based library, organize them into folders that will be retained between your search sessions, and export them into formatted bibliographies.

This is separate from the full-featured version of EndNote that you would purchase and install on your computer.

New UCSD Articles: Chem/Biochem

Recent articles authored or co-authored by at least one member of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, as indexed in Web of Science.

Flavothionato metal complexes: implications for the use of hydroxyflavothiones as green pesticides
Tran BL, Cohen SM
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS (2): 203-205 2006

Rotational diffusion of membrane proteins in aligned phospholipid bilayers by solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Park SH, Mrse AA, Nevzorov AA, De Angelis AA, Opella SJ
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE 178 (1): 162-165 JAN 2006

Electrode independent chemoresistive response for cobalt phthalocyanine in the space charge limited conductivity regime
Miller KA, Yang RD, Hale MJ, Park J, Fruhberger B, Colesniuc CN, Schuller IK, Kummel AC, Trogler WC
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 110 (1): 361-366 JAN 12 2006

A ratiometric fluorescent viscosity sensor
Haidekker MA, Brady TP, Lichlyter D, Theodorakis EA
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 128 (2): 398-399 JAN 18 2006

Changes in coordination of sterically demanding hybrid imidazolylphosphine ligands on Pd(0) and Pd(II)
Grotjahn DB, Gong Y, Zakharov L, Golen JA, Rheingold AL
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 128 (2): 438-453 JAN 18 2006

P versus Q: Structural reaction coordinates capture protein folding on smooth landscapes
Cho SS, Levy Y, Wolynes PG
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 103 (3): 586-591 JAN 17 2006

Dynamic binding of PKA regulatory subunit RI alpha
Gullingsrud J, Kim C, Taylor SS, McCammon JA
STRUCTURE 14 (1): 141-149 JAN 2006
Continue reading New UCSD Articles: Chem/Biochem…

Web of Science - Enhanced Cross-Search

ISI has enhanced their CrossSearch in Web of Science to help you find additional references from the last 5 years.

In your search results, you’ll see a link: View additional results in other databases.

The Web of Knowledge tab will give results in Biosis Previews that weren’t in the Web of Science results (and vice versa if you start with Biosis). The External Collections Results tab will give you the CrossSearch results of your search in another dozen databases, with links out to view those results:

• AIAA Meeting Papers American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• arXiv ePrint Archives (math, computer science, nonlinear science, physics, quantitative biology)
• Civil Engineering Database
• NASA’s Astrophysics Data System
• NTIS Library Documents published since 1990
• PubMed

UCSD “chases nature” on Animal Planet

UCSD engineering students can be seen this week on the reality TV show Chasing Nature from Animal Planet.

Teams featuring UCSD students Chiara Daraio, Albert Lin, Andrew Gapin, Rita Finones, Joseph AuBuchon, and Smita J Pathak from Materials Science & Engineering, and Shay Shmuel Har-Noy from ECE along with 2005 alumnus Scott Anderson used their engineering skills to build human-sized models replicating animal behavior & characteristics. See pictures from the episodes Archerfish, Golden Orb Spider and Big Horn Ram at JSOE’s press release and tune in Feb 1-5 to see UCSD students in action.