NextGen Melvyl Catalog

INTRODUCING NEXT-GENERATION MELVYL (http://ucsd.worldcat.org)

The UC Libraries have launched Next-Generation Melvyl, a potential replacement for the UC-wide Melvyl Catalog.

Through a single interface, NextGen Melvyl searches holdings in:
• UCSD, all UC Libraries, and libraries around the world (with UCSD stuff listed first)
• as well as:
  • UC books digitized by Google
  • citations for articles in MEDLINE (PubMed) and ArticleFirst, which includes some physical science and engineering articles

Other key points:

• Throughout the pilot, the current Melvyl Catalog and all its functionality will be maintained and available as usual.
• Not all current library holdings are represented in the pilot.
• Users can request items held elsewhere, both within the UC system and beyond. However, we recommend using Circuit to request books from our Circuit partners (SDSU, etc.).

NextGen Melvyl will be available for at least 6 months and is very much a work in progress as improvements continue to be made. YOUR FEEDBACK DURING THIS PILOT PHASE IS VITAL. Please test NextGen Melvyl as frequently and as vigorously as possible, and use the “Survey - Your Voice Counts!” link located in upper-right corner to give us that feedback.

Junkyard Derby winner on display in S&E

When you enter the S&E library, be sure to take a look at the winning entry in the 2008 Junkyard Derby. The race was held on 5/23 and put on by the Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC). You can find all the info on the event here: http://tesc.ucsd.edu.

The winning entry, “The Byte,” was built by Programmers Can Build Stuff Too. The team consisted of CSE majors Cameron Esfahani, Bhishan Hermijani, Tamir Husain, Lee Shu, Bryant Chou and Trent Tai. They beat out dozens of other teams, in the rain, to take the grand prize. Congrats, guys.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - May 2008

The Science & Engineering Library celebrates Asian and Pacific Islander cultures and achievements this month with an exhibit featuring prominent scientists, inventions, and achievements of Asian and Pacific Island origins. Come read about the technology of gunpowder, silk, ceramics, the outrigger canoe, Korean metallurgy, and other inventions. Read about prominent Asian-American Nobel Prize winners Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Physics), Tsung-Dao Lee (Physics), Steven Chu (Physics), H. Gobind Khorana (Medicine), and Samuel C.C. Ting (Physics). And find out about the many achievements of UCSD’s own Y.C. Bert Fung, founder of the Department of Bioengineering and recipient of numerous awards. Through the end of Spring quarter.

Fantastic Voyage: Tumor-Targeting Nanoworms

Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoworms for Tumor Targeting and Imaging
Advanced Materials
Volume 20, Issue 9, Date: May 5, 2008, Pages: 1630-1635
Ji-Ho Park, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Lianglin Zhang, Michael P. Schwartz, Erkki Ruoslahti, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Michael J. Sailor

UCSD Press Release:

Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized “nanoworms” that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body’s immune defense system and—like tiny anti-cancer missiles—home in on tumors.

Their discovery, detailed in this week’s issue of the journal Advanced Materials, is reminiscent of the 1966 science fiction movie, the Fantastic Voyage, in which a submarine is shrunken to microscopic dimensions, then injected into the bloodstream to remove a blood clot from a diplomat’s brain.

Using nanoworms, doctors should eventually be able to target and reveal the location of developing tumors that are too small to detect by conventional methods. Carrying payloads targeted to specific features on tumors, these microscopic vehicles could also one day provide the means to more effectively deliver toxic anti-cancer drugs to these tumors in high concentrations without negatively impacting other parts of the body.

Recent UCSD Articles - MAE

New articles from the UCSD Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering faculty.

Gupta, A., and X. Markenscoff. 2008. Configurational forces as dissipative mechanisms: a revisit. Comptes Rendus Mecanique 336 (1-2):126-131.

Li, T. Z., E. Al Olevsky, and M. A. Meyers. 2008. The development of residual stresses in Ti6Al4V-Al3Ti metal-intermetallic laminate (MIL) composites. Materials Science and Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 473 (1-2):49-57.

Nichols, J. A., H. Saito, M. Hoefer, and P. R. Bandaru. 2008. Tailoring the electrochemical behavior of multiwalled carbon nanotubes through argon and hydrogen ion irradiation. Electrochemical and Solid State Letters 11 (4):K35-K39.

Shimada, M., G. R. Tynan, and R. Cattolica. 2008. Neutral depletion in inductively coupled plasmas using hybrid-type direct simulation Monte Carlo. Journal of Applied Physics 103 (3).

Treister, Y., and C. Pozrikidis. 2008. Numerical study of equilibrium shapes and deformation of single-wall carbon nanotubes. Computational Materials Science 41 (3):383-408.

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UCSD Team places 4th in IEEExtreme programming

IEEEXtreme 2008, a programming competition, was held on 8 March with 130 student teams, over 350 participants, from 31 countries. Congratulations to the UC San Diego ‘team bagpipe lubricators’ on a 4th place finish!
Jordan Rhee
Eric Levine
Rene Claus
Jordan Rhee, Proctor

During the 24 hour competition, there were 16 problems for the teams to solve: 10 problems at the start, a second set of problems after 8 hours and then at hour 16, the final set. The UCSD IEEE student chapter will receive an award of $500 for placing in the top 5 schools. Read more

RSS Awareness Day, May 1

RSS is a technology that allows you to keep up-to-date with your favorite websites without visiting those sites to check for the updates or dealing with e-mail alerts. The new stuff gets delivered to your RSS reader (web-based or desktop–your choice), and you scan the headlines at your leisure and decide what you want to read.

• What is RSS?
• Recommended RSS Feeds for Science & Engineering, including e-journals and databases - maintained by the S&E Library
• The RSS Compendium is a comprehensive resource for all things RSS, including a list of readers. Not sure which reader to select? Try Bloglines or Google Reader.

Want to more about using RSS for keeping up with science/engineering news and research? Contact the Chemistry Librarian.