• 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.

For now, you don’t need to change your bookmarks. http://scilib.ucsd.edu/ will redirect to the new S&E homepage, and http://libraries.ucsd.edu/ will redirect to the new UCSD Libraries homepage. Roger, the Databases and E-Journals, Sage (the e-resource directory), Reserves and other resources are still there.

As you start using the S&E Website, please keep in mind that we are still migrating and reorganizing content from the old website. Some pages, like the CoreChem page, are still in the old website but will be migrated shortly. And we’re still “tweaking” a number of pages, including fixing links and reformatting.

We welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions. Each page, in the lower-right corner, has a “Send Us Your Feedback” link you can use. You can also email us at science@ucsd.edu.

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.

From the search results, click Alert Me. Log in to your CSA profile–now called My Research (you can also create an account from here). In My Research, you can then set up your search alert to receive new citations by e-mail or RSS.

You can also get to My Research from any of the CSA databases by clicking Please log in to My Research. From this page you can create new alerts or manage existing alerts, and set default database and interface options for searching.

Until then, there are still some functioning ACS machines (10 PCs + 6 Macs) in S&E and some more in the Tunnel, plus our one productivity station–that first computer closest to our reference desk and left of the scanner. If you need Word or Excel functionality you can also use Google’s web-based Docs & Spreadsheets on the Infostations.

• RefGrab-It - for PC and Mac
  RefGrab-It works with your browser to capture bibliographic information from web pages. Under Tools in RefWorks, you’ll see a RefGrab-It option that will take you to a page with the IE and Firefox bookmarklets (just drag the appropriate link to your browser’s bookmark toolbar). Once you’ve imported the reference, you can add other fields like Date Accessed and Descriptors.

  Note: This bookmarklet opens up new browser windows for 1) the RefGrab-It page that reviews what’s been captured for the webpage and offers the option to import into RefWorks, and 2) the Import Completed page. If you click Import on that review page a second time, your reference will be imported into your RefWorks account again. Duplicate references can be located and deleted easily.

• RefShare Enhancements
  • Create an RSS Feed for Your Shared Folder or Database

  • Easier Linking to a Single Reference in a Shared Folder or Database
  • Custom Links to Groups of Records or Search Results in a Shared Folder or Database
• Other improvements:
  • EndNote 10 libraries can now be directly imported into RefWorks

  • The Term Assistant feature (used when entering or editing references) can now be disabled from the Tools, Customize area.

Using the scanner is pretty basic–place your item face-down on the glass and hit the scan button to start the process. There’s no OCR component, so text can only be scanned as an image. You can then move the scanned images to a folder on the desktop and then save them to your flash drive.

Saving the scanned images to a flash drive is free, or you can print to the local black/white printer for 10c/page with an Imprints card.

Instructions and system requirements are available, and you need to review these before downloading the needed software. Once installed, you’ll see additional printer options for B&W Printers - UCSD Libraries, and Color Printers - UCSD Libraries.

IMPORTANT
1. Windows only.
2. Read the disclaimer carefully before agreeing and continuing on to the next page to download the software to your laptop.
3. Read the instructions and FAQ’s carefully, as they will address bugs and other issues that we observed while downloading and testing out this software.
4. The software is free, but you will need a white Imprints card to release your print jobs. This is not tied to your ACS printing account. Black/white printing is 10 cents/page, and color printing is 50 cents/page. Color printers are available at the Biomedical Library and Social Sciences & Humanities Library.

What you need to know:
• In the browser, use File >> Print to bring up the print dialog menu. Select the color printer from the options. Enter a name and password for the print job like you would for something you’d send to the S&E infostation printer.
• The actual printer is located in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library in the west wing of Geisel Library. There’s a networked printing station that you can use to release the print job you’ve sent from any of the building’s Infostations.
• You still need a white Imprints printing card to release the print jobs, and the cost for color printing is $.50/page (vs. $.05/page with black/white printing).

Students using the ACS computers in the S&E Library will still use the color printer in 2095 (aka “Lab A”). The printer name is “color21.”

Key points:
• You must have a Web of Knowledge account, which you set up with an e-mail address and password. You can get to Web of Knowledge from Web of Science or Biosis Previews.
• You need to follow the steps to create and name your feed like you would for an e-mail alert–except you just don’t check the box for “Send Me E-mail Alerts”.
• To get the actual feed, click the to open up the feed in another browser window (don’t right-click to copy). Copy the URL that appears in the address bar of the new browser window and paste that into your RSS reader.

Like the e-mail alerts, these searches will be saved to your Web of Knowledge account.