Faculty: Web of Science Focus Group

Thomson Scientific, producers of the Web of Science database, is looking for UCSD faculty/researchers to participate in an online bulletin board focus group. The focus of this discussion will be citation usage in ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science.

They are offering a $150 in American Express Gift Cheques to those who complete all aspects of this project.

A bulletin board focus group is a moderated, on-going Web-based chat, where participants can log on to answer posted questions at their convenience during the 3-day study period. Several questions will be posted each day, and participants will be asked to visit the site at least once each day to submit answers to the questions, skim others’ responses, and answer them if they choose.

The nice part of this process is that participants may visit the site at any time during the 3-day session, day or night, making it convenient to take part in the study. The total time investment is about 3 hours.

The group will begin on Wednesday, February 28th and run through Friday, March 2nd.

Please click on http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/83231/Onlinegrouprecruit-Researchers.htm to answer a few background questions. Once that is done, you will be contacted by someone from Thomson Scientific with details about the online group.

(h/t: UCSD Biomedical Library Blog)

Best Literature Review Winners!

Congratulations to Jonathan H. Tao and Stephanie L. Svetlik, who won the S&E Library’s “Best Literature Review” Awards at yesterday’s Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo. Each one received a $125 bookstore giftcard, and their posters will soon be on display at S&E.

Jonathan H. Tao
Graduate Program in Materials Science (Jan Talbot, Faculty Advisor)
SYNTHESIS AND LIGHT EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS FOR RARE-EARTH DOPED NITRIDE MATERIALS FOR USE IN PHOSPHORLESS SOLID STATE LIGHTING

Stephanie L. Svetlik
Structural Engineering (Vistasp Karbhari, Faculty Advisor)
EXTENDING PREDICTIVE DEGRADATION MODELS TO HOT, HUMID ENVIRONMENTS
Continue reading Best Literature Review Winners!…

Nature Nanotechnology & Nature Photonics

Nature’s newest journals, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Photonics, are now available at UCSD.

The multidisciplinary Nature Nanotechnology (launched Fall 2006) will publish significant and quality papers covering all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including “the design, characterization and production of structures, devices and systems that involve the manipulation and control of materials and phenomena at atomic, molecular and macromolecular scales.” Along with research articles, readers will also get news and views, review articles, letters, commentary, book reviews and research highlights.

Launched this year, Nature Photonics seeks to publish the same high-level quality research as other NPG physical sciences journals, covering everything from “the fundamental properties of light and how it interacts with matter through to the latest designs of optoelectronic device and emerging applications that exploit photons.” Readers can expect to find articles on topics like lasers, sensors, biophotonics, and quantum optics. Along with research and review articles, research highlights, letters and news and views, Nature Photonics will also take a look at the technology/business side with sections like “Out of the Lab” and “Product Focus.”

S&E Librarians @ Research Expo

Where will the S&E Librarians be Thursday morning?
Hanging out at the Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo, of course!!

We’ll be checking out the grad student posters and selecting 2 posters to award Best Use of the Literature. Prize this year: $125 bookstore gift certificate.

And for something new this year, presenters will also be able to display their posters in the library (S&E Library Showcase) for Spring quarter. We’ll be handing out invitations during the poster session.

Springer (Russian) Physics Journals - Unavailable

Currently, access to the following Springer Journals is down. CDL has reported this to Springer, and hopefully it will be resolved quickly. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Technical Physics Letters
JETP Letters
Plasma Physics Reports
Crystallography Reports
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
Acoustical Physics
Astronomy Reports
Doklady. Physics
Semiconductors
Physics of the Solid State
Physics of Atomic Nuclei
Optics and Spectroscopy
Astronomy Letters
Technical Physics

Asbeck Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Last week, ECE Professor Peter Asbeck was one of 64 men and women elected to the National Academy of Engineering for ‘contributions to heterojunction bipolar transistor and integrated circuit technology.’ This brings the current number of NAE members at UCSD to 16.

Peter Asbeck’s technical innovations have made their way into about 95 percent of the approximately one billion cell phones sold in 2006. Without the technology he pioneered – heterojunction bipolar transistor or HBTs – we might be walking around with cell phone batteries the size of bricks. Asbeck’s work is also influencing the field of optical networking, and it will likely turn up in many of the uncharted regions of our wireless, handheld future.

UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering - press release and photos from the Feb 13 ceremony

Dr. Asbeck’s UCSD High Speed Device Group

New UCSD Articles: Chem & Chem Eng

Recent articles authored by UCSD faculty in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry or the Chemical Engineering Program, as indexed in Web of Science:

Total synthesis of abyssomicin C, atrop-abyssomicin C, and abyssomicin D: Implications for natural origins of atrop-abyssomicin C
Nicolaou KC, Harrison ST
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 129 (2): 429-440 JAN 17 2007

A model of electrocodeposition on a rotating cylinder electrode
Lee J, Talbot JB
JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY 154 (2): D70-D77 2007

A systems perspective to digital structures in molecular analysis
Najmabadi P, La Clair JJ, Burkart MD
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY 5 (2): 214-222 2007

Order N algorithm for computation of electrostatic interactions in biomolecular systems
Lu BZ, Cheng XL, Huang JF, McCammon JA
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 103 (51): 19314-19319 DEC 19 2006

Human CYP1A1(GFP) expression in transgenic mice serves as a biomarker for environmental toxicant exposure
Operana TN, Nguyen N, Chen SJ, Beaton D, Tukey RH
TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES 95 (1): 98-107 JAN 2007
Continue reading New UCSD Articles: Chem & Chem Eng…

Power Googling Demo

Come attend a demo on ‘Power Googling‘ and learn 15 Google scholar tips in 15 minutes.

The demos are scheduled once every 15 minutes between 2-4pm on Febraury 7, and will take place behind the S&E Reference Desk.

Nova episode tonight on chemist Percy Julian

Watch NOVA tonight (Tuesday February 6th) at 8 pm for Forgotten Genius, the story of chemist Percy Julian. KPBS airs the 2-hour-long episode, covering the life of this 20th century scientist, who was only the second African-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences (in 1973).

For more information about Percy Julian, including his life and research on soybeans, steroids and plant alkaloids, visit Nova’s companion web site.

If you miss the episode when it airs on Tuesday, you can view it on the web at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/program.html or on KPBS again on Feb 8th at 2:00 am.

Use Knovel - Win Something

Knovel is running another University Challenge starting today. Use Knovel to answer the five questions about these chemical compounds. Students who answer all five correctly will be entered into a drawing for a $1500 scholarship or 1 of 8 iPods!!