RefWorks Classes in October

The UCSD Libraries will be teaching a series of workshops on RefWorks in early-mid October. Unlike EndNote, RefWorks is web-based and free to all UCSD students. With RefWorks, you can MANAGE YOUR RESEARCH by:

• Importing, storing and organizing your references from books, journal articles, the web, etc.

• Formatting bibliographies, endnotes, footnotes and in-text citations in any output style

SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FORM

Please contact Teri Vogel if you have any questions, or want to schedule RefWorks training outside the workshop times listed on the registration form.

Recent UCSD Articles: ECE & CSE

Some recent articles authored or co-authored by faculty from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, as indexed in Web of Science.

Self-aligned spatial filtering using laser optical tweezers
Birkbeck AL, Zlatanovic S, Esener SC
APPLIED OPTICS 45 (25): 6429-6434 SEP 1 2006

Improved performance of amorphous silicon solar cells via scattering from surface plasmon polaritons in nearby metallic nanoparticles
Derkacs D, Lim SH, Matheu P, Mar W, Yu ET
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 89 (9): Art. No. 093103 AUG 28 2006

Slot allocation schemes for delay sensitive traffic support in asynchronous wireless mesh networks
Vidhyashankar V, Manoj BS, Murthy CSR
COMPUTER NETWORKS 50 (15): 2595-2613 OCT 18 2006

VLSI block placement with alignment constraints
Chen S, Dong SQ, Hong XL, Ma YC, Cheng CK
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS 53 (8): 622-626 AUG 2006

Universal compression of Markov and related sources over arbitrary alphabets
Dhulipala AK, Orlitsky A
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY 52 (9): 4182-4190 SEP 2006

Rapid validation of protein identifications with the borderline statistical confidence via de novo sequencing and MS BLAST searches
Wielsch N, Thomas H, Surendranath V, Waridel P, Frank A, Pevzner P, Shevchenko A
JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH 5 (9): 2448-2456 SEP 1 2006

Homeostatic synaptic scaling in self-organizing maps
Sullivan TJ, de Sa VR
NEURAL NETWORKS 19 (6-7): 734-743 JUL-AUG 2006

New S&E Service Desk Opens!!

The new combined Circulation/Reserves and Reference Desk is now open at the S&E Library. We’ve closed up the temporary entrance and reopened our regular entrance. The bookdrop divides the service desk; the Reference and Information will be (your) left of the bookdrop, and Circulation and Reserves will be to the right (where the plant is sitting).

To see more pictures, check out our S&E Remodel pages (phase 1 and 2) and what we’ve been posting on Flickr.

Nat’l Academies Report on Women in Science

A report “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering”, issued by a panel convened by the National Academies concludes that women are underrepresented in academic leadership positions in science and mathematics because of “unintentional biases and outmoded institutional structures that are hindering the access and advancement of women.” The panel’s chairwoman, Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami and a former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, called the situation “troubling and embarrassing” and described the report as “a call to action.”

Wireless Laptop Printing Now Available

The UCSD Libraries now offer wireless printing from your (Windows) laptop to the public networked “Infostation” printers.

Instructions and system requirements are available, and you need to review these before downloading the needed software. Once installed, you’ll see additional printer options for B&W Printers - UCSD Libraries, and Color Printers - UCSD Libraries.

IMPORTANT
1. Windows only.
2. Read the disclaimer carefully before agreeing and continuing on to the next page to download the software to your laptop.
3. Read the instructions and FAQ’s carefully, as they will address bugs and other issues that we observed while downloading and testing out this software.
4. The software is free, but you will need a white Imprints card to release your print jobs. This is not tied to your ACS printing account. Black/white printing is 10 cents/page, and color printing is 50 cents/page. Color printers are available at the Biomedical Library and Social Sciences & Humanities Library.

New E-Books (National Academies Press)

Some new e-books from National Academies Press. 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).

Science Education
• Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce: Interim Report
• To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering

Engineering
• Advanced Research Instrumentation and Facilities
• Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy

Math, Chemistry & Physics
• Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging
• Controlling the Quantum World
• Handbook of Frequency Allocations and Spectrum Protection for Scientific Uses
• Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Arnold Beckman
• Revealing the Hidden Nature of Space and Time: Charting the Course for Elementary Particle Physics

Space Sciences
• Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos
• Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007-2016

Environmental Sciences
• New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
• State and Federal Standards for Mobile Source Emissions
• Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years

Earth Sciences
• Beyond Mapping: Meeting National Needs Through Enhanced Geographic Information Science
• Completing the Forecast: Characterizing and Communicating Uncertainty for Better Decisions Using Weather and Climate Forecasts