We’ve also added some more books to the Browsing Collection. Click the title to see if the book’s available or place a request for one that’s checked out.

+ Aha! : a two volume collection: Aha! Gotcha, Aha! Insight
+ It’s only rocket science : an introduction in plain English
+ The best American science and nature writing - 2007
+ Enhancing me : the hope and the hype of human enhancement
+ The urban astronomer’s guide : a walking tour of the cosmos for city sky watchers

• Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
• Inspired by Biology: From Molecules to Materials to Machines
• Research on Future Skill Demands: A Workshop Summary
• Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering
• Bioinspired Chemistry for Energy: A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable
• Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2007 Symposium
• Integrated Computational Materials Engineering: A Transformational Discipline for Improved Competitiveness and National Security
• Managing Materials for a Twenty-first Century Military
• Nanophotonics: Accessibility and Applicability
• Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements

Please test NGM vigorously and often, and let us know what you think–what worked and what needs improvement. We already have a list of “known issues.” Your feedback will help shape the future functionality of NGM, and help us when we assess the pilot.

We’ve also added some more books to the Browsing Collection. Click the title to see if the book’s available or place a request for one that’s checked out.

+ Best American science writing: 2007
+ One to nine : the inner life of numbers
+ Titan unveiled : Saturn’s mysterious moon explored
+ Powering up : are computer games changing our lives?
+ How to take a penalty : the hidden mathematics of sport
+ How math explains the world : a guide to the power of numbers, from car repair to modern physics
+ The universe in a mirror : the saga of the Hubble Telescope and the visionaries who built it
+ The coming convergence : surprising ways diverse technologies interact to shape our world and change the future
+ A nuclear family vacation : travels in the world of atomic weaponry
+ Simplexity : why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be simple)
+ What does the moon smell like? : 151 astounding science quizzes
+ Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the spage age

+ The ten most beautiful experiments
+ Nanotechnology 101
+ Nets, puzzles, and postmen
+ Very special relativity : an illustrated guide
+ Crime scene chemistry for the armchair sleuth
+ Symmetry : a journey into the patterns of nature
+ Rocketeers : how a visionary band of business leaders, engineers, and pilots is boldly privatizing space
+ Making mathematics with needlework : ten papers and ten projects
+ Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel
+ You call this the future? : the greatest inventions sci-fi imagined and science promised
+ Archimedes to Hawking : laws of science and the great minds behind them
+ Welcome to BioTech nation : my unexpected odyssey into the land of small molecules, lean genes, and big ideas
+ Earth, the sequel : the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming
+ Stories of modern technology failures and cognitive engineering successes

From the results page, you can now run your search again in

• Circuit (SD Libraries)
• the NextGen Melvyl pilot (UC Libraries and beyond)
• Google Books
• Google Scholar

From the single record view, you can run the search again in Circuit, NextGen Melvyl, Google Books, AND Amazon. Under the list is the “Send by Text Message” feature if you want to send yourself the book’s call number.

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.

• More About this Book, which includes a brief description of the book, reviews, references to the book on other websites, and links to Amazon and other sites to buy or borrow the book.
• Preview This Book Online! With these books, you can search the text of the book and view a limited number of pages.
• Read This Book Online! This is the “full view” of the book, and you can view every page. You may also be able to download a PDF copy of the book. To see an example, go to Melvyl and search for Einstein’s theories of relativity and gravitation.

More information about UC’s mass digitization projects, including the one with Google.

• Engineering
• Math, General and Computer Science
• Physical Sciences
• E-Books, including new titles from Knovel, Safari, Synthesis, the CRC NetBase collections, SPIE and various Springer series