Books on Vista and Office 2007

The first Vista/Office 2007 books from O’Reilly’s Safari collection are now online. (Note: Safari titles have limited simultaneous user access; try again later if the book is unavailable). You can also subscribe to their RSS feed to keep up with new titles.

• Windows Vista in a Nutshell
• Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
• Word 2007: The Missing Manual
• Excel 2007: The Missing Manual
• PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual
• Access 2007: The Missing Manual

For more information (including reviews) on Vista and/or Office 2007, check out recent issues of these computer magazines.

Changes to Journal of Physical Chemistry

ACS’s Journal of Physical Chemistry titles have been revamped for 2007, with the launch of a third journal and a reorganization of the journals’ scopes.

• Journal of Physical Chemistry A - Dynamics, Kinetics, Environmental Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Structure, Theory
  • Dynamics, Clusters, Excited States; Kinetics, Spectroscopy; Atmospheric, Environmental and Green Chemistry; Molecular Structure, Quantum Chemistry, General Theory
• Journal of Physical Chemistry B - Condensed Matter and Biophysical Chemistry
  • Macromolecules, Soft Matter; Surfactants, Membranes; Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Medium Effects; Biophysical Chemistry
• Journal of Physical Chemistry C (launched January 2007) - Nanomaterials and Interfaces
  • Nanoparticles and Nanostructures; Surfaces, Interfaces, Catalysis; Electron Transport, Optical and Electronic Devices; Energy Conversion and Storage

More information about these changes can be found at the Journal of Physical Chemistry C site.

Improved Author Searching - Web of Science

This quarter’s Web of Science update includes a new discovery tool for author searching.

Author Sets is a new feature that helps to identify articles you want when multiple authors share the same name and initials. Once you run an Author Search, you’ll see a yellow box above your results: View Author Sets for (author name).

ISI then uses its own algorithms to create clusters of articles by author, using citation data like journal titles to sort the articles by the most likely author. You can then view each author cluster. ISI has also provided a feedback form where you can sign in provide general or detailed information to help them improve the clustering feature. Authors can also use the feedback form to identify citations that are missing or incorrectly included in their author cluster.

This feature should be used as a tool to focus your search rather than as a definitive list of a specific author’s works.

Knovel Workshop - Jan 30

Register here.

Tuesday, January 30, 10:00-10:50, Geisel Library, Room 274 (LEC)

From engineering handbooks to chemical/physical property data, Knovel has it all. Everything in Knovel is full-text, with many of the 1,000+ titles also offering interactive feature that allow you sort data and even plot graphs.

Please join us for this hands-on workshop showcasing the newest gem in the S&E Library’s online collection. We’ll cover searching basics, try out some in-class exercises, and share some tips and tricks to help you get the most out of this crucial science and engineering resource.

Scholarpedia

…And now there’s Scholarpedia , which combines Wikipedia’s open-source principles with a healthy dash of peer review.

Scholarpedia looks almost exactly like the pioneering site that inspired it, but it has a much more rigid hierarchy: All the articles on the site are written by scholars who are either invited by Scholarpedia directors or elected by the public. The articles are anonymously peer reviewed and placed under the charge of “curators” — experts who are often the articles’ authors — who must approve any additions or edits.

For now Scholarpedia is restricting itself to articles on neuroscience and computational intelligence. “The approach of Scholarpedia does not compete with but rather complements that of Wikipedia,” writes Eugene M. Izhikevich, a senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, who is the site’s editor in chief. “Instead of covering a broad range of topics, Scholarpedia covers a few narrow fields, but does that exhaustively.” more

RefWorks Classes - Jan/Feb

The UCSD Libraries will offer hands-on workshops on using RefWorks during weeks 3, 5 & 6 of the quarter. Class size is limited, so please register at http://libraries.ucsd.edu/services/refworks.html.

RefWorks is web-based software you can use to organize your references and instantly format them for bibliographies and research papers. It’s also free to UCSD students. This quarter, we’re offering 2 workshops:

RefWorks I: The Basics of RefWorks
(Jan 22, 2-2:50pm — Feb 5, 10-10:50am — Feb 13, 2-2:50pm)

• Navigating the RefWorks’ interface and help resources

• Creating an account for your RefWorks “library”
• Importing references from databases to build your “library”
• Managing your references and turning them into a bibliography

RefWorks II: Customizing Your RefWorks Library
(Jan 24, 2-2:50pm — Feb 7, 10-10:50am — Feb 15, 2-2:50pm)
Note: Taking RefWorks I or having equivalent experience with RefWorks is needed for this class.

• More about managing references in your “library”

• Editing output styles
• Using Write-N-Cite to insert and format references in your paper

These workshops are not discipline-specific, and we’ll provide in-class exercises for science/engineering, humanities/social sciences, and biomedical sciences.

If you have any questions, or would like to arrange for a RefWorks consultation outside these times, contact the S&E RefWorks Coordinator.

Knovel Workshops - 1/30 & 2/5

Register here.

Tuesday, January 30, 10:00-10:50, Geisel Library, Room 274 (LEC) or
Monday, February 5, 2:00-2:50, Geisel Library, Room 274 (LEC)

From engineering handbooks to chemical/physical property data, Knovel has it all. Everything in Knovel is full-text, with many of the 1,000+ titles also offering interactive feature that allow you sort data and even plot graphs.

Please join us for this hands-on workshop showcasing the newest gem in the S&E Library’s online collection. We’ll cover searching basics, try out some in-class exercises, and share some tips and tricks to help you get the most out of this crucial science and engineering resource.

George Feher wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry

George Feher, UCSD Physics Department, who uncovered the basic mechanisms for how plants and bacteria use photosynthesis to convert light into chemical energy, has been awarded the prestigious 2007 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He will share the $100,000 prize with Ada Yonath of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science ‘for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.’ Dr. Feher is one of the founding faculty members of UCSD and has been here since 1960.

The previous UCSD winner of the Wolf Prize was Roger Y. Tsien (Chemistry & Biochemistry and Pharmacology Depts) who was awarded the 2004 Wolf Prize in Medicine.

Biosis Previews, Back to 1926

UCSD now has access to Biosis Previews going back to 1926. Biosis is the largest collection of references to the biological literature, with more than 18 million references to journal articles, books, conferences and patents.

This is a core resource for biochemistry, natural products research and drug discovery, environmental and marine sciences, and even for engineers looking to the natural world for inspiration (spider webs, etc.).

Biosis Previews is also on the ISI platform, so you can search Biosis and Web of Science (along with some external databases like arXiv, Astrophysics Data System, PubMed, Agricola and the NTIS Library) simultaneously using the Web of Knowledge Cross Search.

Yuan-Cheng ‘Bert’ Fung Awarded NAE Russ Prize

The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Yuan-Cheng “Bert” Fung will receive the 2007 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, a $500,000 award recognizing engineering achievement that significantly improves the human condition. Fung, a professor emeritus of bioengineering at UC San Diego�s Jacobs School of Engineering, was acknowledged “for the characterization and modeling of human tissue mechanics and function leading to prevention and mitigation of trauma.” more