Search @ Amazon, Check in Roger

Did you know that you can set up a “bookmarket” on your browser to see if book you found at Amazon.com is held by the UCSD Libraries?

Go to the The LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Generator

1. Enter http://roger.ucsd.edu as the Base URL.

2. Enter UCSD Libraries as the Library Name.
3. Select the first vendor, Innovative.
4. Click Build your own LibraryLookup bookmarklet! On the next page you can test your bookmarklet, and then drag a copy of the link to the bookmark bar to add it to your browser. THIS SHOULD WORK WITH MOST BROWSERS.

When you’re in Amazon.com and on the page for the book you want, just click that bookmarklet. Another browser window will open, and the book will be searched automatically in ROGER. The search is based on ISBN numbers, so choose the Amazon record for the hardback edition (followed by paperback) for the best results.

You can also set up a bookmarklet to locate Amazon titles in Melvyl.

• Base URL = http://melvyl.cdlib.org

• Library Name = Melvyl
• Vendor = Aleph (Older); in the three boxes next to the vendor name, enter 020 in the first box, find-b in the second box, and cdl90 in the third.

S&E Summer Makeover

S&E users will enjoy a distinctive new Service Desk this fall, where both Circulation and Reference needs will be met. S&E’s main floor will be more open and inviting, with a highly visible Service Desk, improved traffic flow, reconfigured user spaces, and easier access to reference materials, current journals, and our new browsing collection.
S&E will remain open throughout our summer makeover.
During construction – mid June through early September –
• The current entrance to S&E will be blocked and The Gate will be raised.
• Circulation and Reference services will be relocated to the area near the temporary entrance.
• Circulation Unit staff will move to Lab B, in the southeast corner of S&E’s main floor.
• Our telephone numbers will remain the same.
We look forward to welcoming everyone to the renovated, reinvigorated S&E Library in the fall.

Fix for OVID INSPEC

For those having sporadic problems accessing OVID INSPEC, we think we have a solution. In your browser’s internet settings, go and delete the cookies. Today this approach worked for S&E computers with Netscape and IE that had Ovid access problems since Thursday.

The older workaround is to use another browser (or a colleague’s computer down the hall). If none of these works, call the S&E Reference Desk at x43258 or email science@library.ucsd.edu so that we can help you find the information you need.

Science Trivia Contest!

Need a break from studying? Come to the S&E Library and answer six science trivia questions — you may win one of these great prizes:

• Baby Einstein poster

• $5 Jambacard
• $15 iPod gift certificate
• IEEE T-shirt
• passes for 2 to the Reuben H. Fleet IMAX Theater and Science Center
• and more!

Three winners every day - June 8, 9, and 12.
Hurry…questions get harder every day!

S&E Finals Hours

Special hours begin Friday, June 9:

• Friday — June 9, 8am - 7:45pm

• Saturday — June 10, 10am - 1:45am
• Sunday — June 11, 10am - 1:45am
• Monday — June 12, 8am - 1:45am
• Tuesday — June 13, 8am - 1:45am
• Wednesday — June 14, 8am - 1:45am
• Thursday — June 15, 8am - 1:45am
• Friday — June 16, 8am - 5:45pm

Need something open later (or earlier)? CLICS will be open 24 hrs. from Saturday until Thursday.

Another Twist on Impact Factors

Science Journals Artfully Try to Boost Their Rankings, in the June 5 Wall Street Journal. This time, it’s the WSJ weighing in on the “cult of the impact factor,” focusing on journal self-citing as a way to boost the ISI numbers. Includes quotes from School of Medicine faculty member John B. West.

Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry

UCSD now has access to the Wiley Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry.

This is the online version of the 10-volume, 2nd edition of the original reference work. From Ab Initio Calculations to Zirconium & Hafnium: Organometallic Chemistry, each article has an bibliography of related journal articles with links to the article and PubMed citation/abstract if available.

Features
• Relevant definitions, listed alongside the articles and hot linked from the articles.
• Searchable by full text, authors, keywords and article titles.
• Browsable by title and subject category: Bioinorganic Chemistry; General Principles; Transition Metals; Main Group Elements; Organometallic Chemistry; Solid State, Materials and Nanomaterials; Catalysis; and Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry.

Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry

UCSD now has access to Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry

The Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry currently consists of over 300 articles covering many aspects of this field (from ab initio to zero-point vibrational energy), with another 50 articles added annually. Each article is accompanied by an extensive bibliography of relevant journal articles, with links to the PubMed citation/abstract and journal article if available.

Features
• An additional glossary of 375 relevant definitions
• Searchable by full text, authors, keywords, article titles, CAS registry numbers and chemical names.
• Browsable by title and subject category: Algorithms and Software, Biological and Biochemical Modeling, Cheminformatics, General Topics, Quantum Mechanics, Semi-Classical Methods, and Chemical Applications.

U-T Interview: Michael Sailor (CHEM)

People to Watch: Michael J. Sailor, from the May 26 Union-Tribune.

We are developing several features of smart dust in collaboration with established or start-up companies for various applications in medicine, the pharmaceutical industry and environmental monitoring. For example, we are developing a homing capability that will allow these particles to target cancerous tumors in the body and then deliver a drug, and we are making microscopic sensors that can identify toxins in the air and in water.

For more information about Dr. Sailor’s research on porous silicon, nanosensors and “smart dust,” check out the Sailor Research Group page.

New UCSD Articles: Bioengineering

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

G protein-coupled receptors serve as mechanosensors for fluid shear stress in neutrophils
Makino A, Prossnitz ER, Bunemann M, Wang JM, Yao WJ, Schmid-Schoenbein GW
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY 290 (6): C1633-C1639 JUN 2006

Molecular basis of rheological modulation of endothelial functions: Importance of stress direction
Chien S
BIORHEOLOGY 43 (2): 95-116 2006

Oxygen release from arterioles with normal flow and no-flow conditions
Cabrales P, Tsai AG, Johnson PC, Intaglietta M
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY 100 (5): 1569-1576 MAY 2006

Identification of signaling components required for the prediction of cytokine release in RAW 264.7 macrophages
Pradervand S, Maurya MR, Subramaniam S
GENOME BIOLOGY 7 (2): Art. No. R11 2006

Efficient algorithms for detecting signaling pathways in protein interaction networks
Scott J, Ideker T, Karp RM, Sharan R
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY 13 (2): 133-144 MAR 2006

Probing the role of multicellular organization in three-dimensional microenvironments
Albrecht DR, Underhill GH, Wassermann TB, Sah RL, Bhatia SN
NATURE METHODS 3 (5): 369-375 MAY 2006
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