Browsing Books - Recent Additions

Here are the new additions to the S&E Browsing Collection. Follow the link to see if the book’s available, or use the Request feature in Roger and we’ll hold the book for you when it’s returned.

• Chemistry in the garden
• Endless universe : beyond the Big Bang
• The open laboratory: the best science writing on blogs 2007
• Astrophysics is easy! : a introduction for the amateur astronomers
• Why there’s antifreeze in your toothpaste : the chemistry of household ingredients
• Winning our energy independence : an energy insider shows how
• The big switch : rewiring the world, from Edison to Google
• Censoring science : inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the truth of global warming
• Cosmological enigmas : pulsars, quasars, & other deep-space questions
• Blip, ping & buzz : making sense of radar and sonar
• The joy of physics
• The physics of NASCAR : how to make steel + gas + rubber = speed
• Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel
• The mystery of the missing antimatter

Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry

UCSD now has the Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, online.

This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of spectroscopic fundamentals, methods, techniques, instrumentation and applications in the sciences, engineering and medicine. The articles are grouped by subject (Atomic Spectroscopy; Electronic Spectroscopy; Fundamentals of Spectroscopy; High Energy Spectroscopy; Magnetic Resonance; Mass Spectrometry; Spatially Resolved Spectroscopic Analysis; and Vibrational, Rotational and Raman Spectroscopies), and then subdivided by concept (Historical Overview, Theory, Methods and Instrumentation, and Applications). It also a search engine and A-Z title/subject/author indexes.

Sample articles include:
• Forensic Science, Applications of Atomic Spectroscopy
• NMR Spectrometers
• Inorganic Chemistry, Applications of Mass Spectrometry
• IR Spectroscopy Sample Preparation Methods
• Chromatography-MS, Methods
• X-ray Spectroscopy, Theory

Knovel - New Interface, and problems

Last week, Knovel released a new interface (the old www.knovel.com URL now redirects to the new site, as do the links in Roger for all the Knovel titles).

Major Changes:
• The new site defaults to Basic Search, with the actual search box in the upper left. The Fielded Search is the advanced search where you can use the drop-down menus to search by keyword or property. The Browse tab will bring up the familiar list of subject areas that you can click to bring up lists of titles, as well as view new titles, titles with productivity tools, etc. User Preferences is not yet available.
• The “Search Within This Title” feature has disappeared. We have already contacted Knovel about bringing it back.

There have been some performance issues with the new interface, though most of them appear to be resolved as of March 2. However, please contact support@knovel.com if you experience any problems using Knovel, such as:

• The redirect to the new site takes too long.
• You get error messages when you try to access tables and graphs identified in your search results.
• You lose your list of relevant pages, tables and graphs while navigating through the list of titles that came up in your search, and instead get the full table of contents for those titles.

Please contact the S&E Library if you have questions about using Knovel or other science/engineering resources.

New Browsing Books

Here are some of the latest additions to the S&E Browsing Collection. Follow the link to see if the book’s available, or use the Request feature in Roger and we’ll hold the book for you when it’s returned.

• Love + sex with robots : the evolution of human-robot relations / David Levy
• Dark cosmos : in search of our universe’s missing mass and energy / Dan Hooper
• From quanta to quarks : more anecdotal history of physics / Anton Z. Capri
• How to build a robot army : tips on defending the planet Earth against alien invaders, ninjas, and zombies / Daniel H. Wilson
• Where’s my jetpack? : a guide to the amazing science fiction future that never arrived / Daniel H. Wilson

Reserves - Big Change

Starting this quarter, all lower division math and science books that were on reserve at the SSHL desk are now at the S&E Library with the other math, science and engineering reserve books.

The steps for finding your reserve books haven’t changed. Start at the Course Reserves page and use the drop-down menu to select the department and course, then click “Items on Reserve at the Science and Engineering Library”.

IMPORTANT: S&E reserve books are arranged by author (instead of call number like the SSHL reserves), so you’ll need the author’s name when you come to the desk to get your book.

Browsing Collection Update

Here are the latest additions to the S&E popular science reading collection:

• Present at the future : from evolution to nanotechnology, candid and controversial conversations on science and nature / Ira Flatow
  • Science Friday, Flatow’s NPR program
• Dark side of the universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the cosmos / by Iain Nicolson
• 300 astronomical objects : a visual reference to the universe / Jamie Wilkins and Robert Dunn
• The story of science : Einstein adds a new dimension / Joy Hakim
• AC/DC : the savage tale of the first standards war / Tom McNichol
• The pocket paper engineer : how to make pop-ups step-by-step / Carol Barton
• Quirky sides of scientists : true tales of ingenuity and error from physics and astronomy / David R. Topper
• The best of technology writing 2007 / Steven Levy, editor
• Brainteaser physics : challenging physics puzzlers / Göran Grimvall
• The physics of basketball / John J. Fontanella

International Tables for Crystallography - Online

UCSD now has the online International Tables for Crystallography. This eight-volume set contains articles and data tables relevant to crystallographic research and methods. Each article is available in HTML and PDF formats, which can be accessed through browsing or by keyword search.

Volumes: space-group symmetry; symmetry relations between space groups; reciprocal space; mathematical, physical and chemical tables; physical properties of crystals; subperiodic groups; crystallography of biological macromolecules, and definition and exchange of crystallographic data.

Text Messages from Roger

Want to write down a call number from Roger and don’t have anything to write it on? You can now send them to your phone.
Bring up the single record view for an item in Roger. Click , enter your phone and select your phone mobile provider, and click ’send.’ The item’s title, location and call number will be sent to your phone.

Roger Changes

This week, you’ll notice the ALL BUT SLIDES search option in Roger is gone.

In its place is a new search “scope” for BOOKS, and you can still search everything in the catalog (ALL) or search just the JOURNALS & SERIALS.

New Engineering E-Books (Synthesis)

The following new titles were published on the Synthesis Digital Library of Computer Science and Engineering during the month of August:

• Electronically Scanned Arrays by Robert Mailloux, UMass Amherst (Antennas Series)
• Fundamentals of Electromagnetics Vol 1: Internal Behavior of Lumped Elements by David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Computational Eletromagnetics Series)
• Fundamentals of Electromagnetics Vol 2: Quasistatics and Waves by David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Computational Eletromagnetics Series)
• Fundamentals of Spread Spectrum Modulation by Rodger Ziemer, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (Communications Series)
• Pragmatic Logic by William Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Digital Circuits and Systems Series)

Synthesis features lecture-sized e-books written by well-known authors on topics of interest to electrical, computer science, and biomedical engineering, and is intended for students & researchers looking for good overviews on advanced engineering topics. A new series on technology management and entrepreneurship has just been added.