a) April - December 2003
Reconfiguration of Four Collections: Chemistry, EMS, Geology, Physics

b) August 10 - September 19
Construction in Geology Building (see photos below/Young Hall

c) September 18 - September 24
LIBRARY IN GEOLOGY BUILDING WILL BE CLOSED for re-flooring, painting, and furniture movement

d) September 25
THE LIBRARY IN GEOLOGY BUILDING WILL OPEN ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

e) October 6-October 10
Shelving will be installed in approximately 80% of the Library in Young Hall.

f) December 12
LIBRARY IN KINSEY HALL WILL CLOSE permanently on December 12, 2003 at 5 pm

g) December 15 - January 2
Movement of Physics completely out of Kinsey Hall

BACKGROUND

The Science & Engineering Library (SEL) Reconfiguration Project is necessary to make space for the Physics Collection, which must move completely out of Kinsey Hall and merge, as much as possible, into the three remaining locations: Young Hall, Geology Building and Boelter Hall. In addition to reconfiguring the four collections, we are also making some construction changes in the Geology Building and Young Hall.
As you use the four libraries, you will probably see materials and equipment being moved, people checking items in the public and staff areas, book trucks, stacked shelving and construction areas cordoned off. Feel free to contact the Library with any questions: Elaine Adams, Marion Peters, Anthony Ragan, Terry Ryan, Charlen Vinetz or me.
Audrey Jackson
Head, UCLA Science & Engineering Library

Science & Engineering Library / Geology-Geophysics Collection

Science & Engineering Library / Chemistry Collection

July, 2003
Links for reference books

Links to e-ROS and other electronically available reference books are found on the Science & Engineering Library Web site. From the pulldown menu "Find Books, Journals, Conference Proceedings & More"; select "EBooks in Science & Engineering" or go directly to: http://www.library.ucla.edu/sel/subjects/ebook.htm

e-ROS (Electronic Reagents for Organic Synthesis) http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/eros/index.html
e-ROS is licensed by the California Digital Library (CDL) and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions etc. and allows sophisticated full text searches. Each entry highlights the various uses and characteristics of each reagent, with illustrative examples of its use and is preceded by valuable information concerning physical data, solubility, form supplied in, purification, and where relevant, preparative methods and with literature references to key review articles and seminal papers. More information about e-ROS Instructions for the installation of software and plug-ins for structure and reaction rearching on e-EROS are available at: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/eros/eros_plugin.html

Organic Syntheses http://www.orgsyn.org Details on system requirements and required ChemDraw Plugin available at: http://www.orgsyn.org/sysReq.html

A Web searchable version of "detailed experimental methods in a standard format for the synthesis of organic compounds from some 79 annual volumes and 9 collective volumes published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. OS compiles independently checked selected procedures and new reactions which, if carefully followed, permit the advanced research student or professional chemist skilled in the field to prepare compounds of research utility. Initiated in 1921 by Roger Adams of the University of Illinois, OS now joins the digital era by providing its content on a website freely available. The OS Board of Directors financed collaborations with DataTrace and CambridgeSoft, respectively, to digitize earlier, current and future volumes and create a Web collective version of Organic Syntheses in a fully searchable electronic format."

*International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology, 7 volumes and index (first electronic edition) http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=735

Originally published for the National Research Council, ICT offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Many tables have been "knovelized" to be interactive. The full text of the original print version is available in PDF format (full-text searchable), including the original index. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

*knovel Critical Tables http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=761
is a brand new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT has expanded the original 6,000 chemical compounds in the physical properties tables of International Critical Tables to more than 13,000 compounds. Using multiple sources, contains the most up-to-date chemical properties information available online. Tables in include Basic Physical Properties of Inorganic Compounds, Basic Physical Properties of Organic Compounds, Critical Properties and Acentric Factor, Enthalpy of Formation, Enthalpy of Vaporization, Entropy of Formation, Entropy of Gas, Gibbs Energy of Formation, Heat Capacity of Gas, Helmholtz Energy of Formation, Internal Energy of Formation, Basic Physical Properties of Common Solvents, and Safety Properties of Common Solvents. New tables will be added to kCTon a regular basis, setting the standard for online interactive chemical properties information.

Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=744

Compiled by renowned thermodynamicist, Frederick D. Rossini, and International Critical Tables editor F. Russell Bichowsky , this reference is a revision of the table of values for the heats of formation in the thermochemistry section in International Critical Tables. It includes 5,840 values of heats of formation and 350 values of heats of transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

Smithsonian Physical Tables (ninth revised edition) http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=736

Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. On knovel, the Smithsonian Physical Tables are now easy to navigate and full-text searchable (as are all references on knovel!). All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

For a quick introduction to using knovel resources, download the knovel Quick Reference Guide http://www.knovel.com/knovel/quickguide.pdf

May, 2003
New Melvyl-T Catalog Available The California Digital Library (CDL) has publicly launched the new version of its Melvyl Catalog. Melvyl is the library catalog of all campuses of the University of California libraries, containing records for books, journals, archives, audiovisuals, computer files, dissertations, government documents, maps, music scores, online resources, recordings, and video recordings. It also includes library holdings of the California Academy of Sciences, California Historical Society, California State Library, Center for Research Libraries, Graduate Theological Union, Hastings College of Law, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The new version of the Melvyl Catalog merges the holdings of the existing Melvyl Catalog and the California Periodicals database to simplify searching for users. Available in both Web-based and telnet interfaces, the new Melvyl offers users a variety of enhanced features and contains completely updated data for the holdings of all UC-system libraries. It can be accessed at http://melvyl.cdlib.org; the telnet version is at telnet://melvyl.cdlib.org. The two Melvyl systems will operate in parallel until August 2003, at which time the older system will be retired

Comparison of Melvyl and Melvyl-T Features

The chart below highlights some of the new features that are available in the new Melvyl catalog:

Linking

Request

CDL Profile

Downloading to citation management software

ProCite:
http://www.procite.com/support/pcconfig.asp
Melvyl Catalog Web
Melvyl Catalog Telnet

Reference Manager:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmfilters.asp
Melvyl Catalog Web
Melvyl Catalog Telnet

A Melvyl-T connection file has been created for EndNote and is attached to the email along with this document. This connection file will be available on the ISI ResearchSoft web site by July 1, 2003. We are awaiting word from ISI ResearchSoft about connection files for ProCite and Reference Manager.

SearchLight (cross-database searching)

June 2003
ISI Journal Citation Reports Now Available Online Via Web of Knowledge

Interested in seeing your favorite journal’s impact factor? Trying to evaluate where to send your research to be published? You can now access ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Journal Citation Reports^® (JCR) online!

JCR Web is a Web of Knowledge resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3,000 publishers in 60 nations. JCR Web shows the relationship between citing and cited journals in a clear, easy-to-use framework.

Each annual database contains the citation data from the JCR year indicated. For every journal covered, the following information is collected or calculated:

• Citation and Article Counts
• Impact Factor
• Immediacy Index
• Cited Half-Life
• Citing Half-Life
• Source Data Listing
• Citing Journal Listing
• Cited Journal Listing
• Subject Categories
• Publisher Information
• Journal Title Changes

March 2003
eScholarship and eRepository
eScholarship stimulates and facilitates innovation in scholarly communication in support of research and teaching. This includes creation, production, peer review, management, and dissemination of scholarly output. More information about e-Scholarship program hosted by the UC California Digital Library.

The eScholarship Repository offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating University of California research unit, center, or department. More information about the repository

June, 2002
ENVIROnetBASE: Search the complete text of over 70 engineering handbooks from CRC Press
Full text searching of CRC Press handbooks in the field of environmental science. Anything and everything the environmental professional or researcher needs is here. Facts, figures, charts, tables, illustrations, even formulas and rules of thumb, this database has it all. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. URL: www.environetbase.com

May 2002 Scientific American Archive Online

The UC Science & Engineering Librarians represented by Anna Gold of UC San Diego, worked with Dave Fisher of UCSD's Acquisitions Department to complete a Tier 2 negotiation with Macmillan for online access to Scientific American. All UC campuses participated in the acquisition. Beginning May 6, 2002 all UC users will have access to PDF versions of the complete editorial pages of the magazine published since January 1993.
The direct URL for the archive is: http://www.sciamarchive.org

April 2002
Current Contents and INSPEC now available on Ovid

The California Digital Library (CDL) is gradually moving all locally loaded CDL journal article databases, including BIOSIS, Current Contents, GeoRef, INSPEC, and MEDLINE, to new vendor platforms. While UCLA will continue to have access to these databases, the way these databases look and are searched is changing. On Thursday, April 11, Current Contents and INSPEC joined Compendex for searching using the Ovid interface. The CDL hosted versions of these databases will be discontinued in December, 2002. GeoRef and MEDLINE have already completed their transition, GeoRef using Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and MEDLINE/HealthStar using PubMed interfaces, respectively. MathSciNet, SciFinder® Scholar, and Web of Science will remain available from their current vendors.

Listed below are links to more information about the planned transitions. If you have any questions or concerns about the transition, please contact an SEL subject librarian or email sel-ref@library.ucla.edu

CDL-Hosted Journal Article Databases http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlhosteddatabases.html

Latest Status of the Melvyl and CDL-hosted (Journal Article) Databases Transition http://www.cdlib.org/news/databasestatus.html

SEL Subject Specialists
Aerospace Engineering -- Sharon Shafer (310)825-2614 sshafer@library.ucla.edu
Astronomy -- Elaine Adams (310)825-2649 ebadams@library.ucla.edu
Atmospheric Sciences -- Audrey Jackson (310)825-3398 ajackson@library.ucla.edu
Chemical Engineering -- Marion Peters (310)825-0190 mpeters@library.ucla.edu
Chemistry -- Marion Peters (310)825-0190 mpeters@library.ucla.edu
Civil Engineering -- Sharon Shafer (310)825-2614 sshafer@library.ucla.edu
Computer Science -- Anita Colby (310)825-3983 acolby@library.ucla.edu
Earth & Space Sciences -- Audrey Jackson (310)825-3398 ajackson@library.ucla.edu
Electrical Engineering -- Audrey Jackson (310)825-3398 ajackson@library.ucla.edu
Environmental Engineering -- Sharon Shafer (310)825-2614 sshafer@library.ucla.edu
Materials Science & Eng. -- Marion Peters (310)825-0190 mpeters@library.ucla.edu
Mechanical Engineering -- Sharon Shafer (310)825-2614 sshafer@library.ucla.edu
Mathematics -- Anita Colby (310)825-3983 acolby@library.ucla.edu
Physics -- Elaine Adams (310)825-2649 ebadams@library.ucla.edu

March 2002
SAE Digital Library Now Available Online
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Digital Library [Only works with IE 5.x or Netscape 6.1 and above]
http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=SAE:SAE2
SAE is a database of technical papers, magazine and journal articles, books, reports, and standards published by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Coverage: 1906 - present, full-text for Technical Papers 1998 - present.

February 2002
Bruin OnLine Proxy Server Update for IE Users
Here's an additional tip for Bruin Online proxy server IE users: Based on recent troubleshooting, the Biomedical Library reported in their February 2002 Update that if Internet Explorer (IE) is your web browser, you must use version 5.5 with Service Pack 2 or version 6. Older versions of IE have problems with page caching. This differs from the information currently posted on the BOL proxy server page http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/proxy/
The best recommendation is to download IE version 6. It's free and it shouldn't take too long if you have a LAN, DSL, or cable modem connection to the Internet. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp

February 2002
CHEMnetBASE - Chemistry Reference Books Online
The California Digital Library (CDL) has recently purchased perpetual access, with UC campuses sharing the annual access fees, for several chemistry reference books available via CHEMnetBASE.

CHEMnetBASE http://www.chemnetbase.com from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, includes the following resources:

• Combined Chemical Dictionary
  -- contains chemical, structural and bibliographic data on almost 450,000 compounds, and covers information from--
• Dictionary of Organic Compounds (Heilbron's) (240,000 records)
• Dictionary of Natural Products (155,000 records)
• Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (100,000 records)
• Dictionary of Pharmacological Agents (38,000 records)
• Dictionary of Analytical Reagents (14,000 records)

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
• Polymers: A Property Database
  -- contains physical properties for 1000 polymers of most interest to polymer chemists & technologists
• Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
  -- contains 25,000 most commonly cited compounds in the chemical literature
• Properties of Organic Compounds
  -- contains over 29,000 of the most commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures

January 2002
Ovid's version of the Compendex database is now available.
Ei Compendex Plus provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. The records in the database are drawn from over 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials. In the future, INSPEC will also be on the Ovid interface, allowing simultaneous searching of both Compendex and INSPEC.

December 2001
Effective 12/31/01, SilverPlatter's version of the Compendex database will no longer be available.
After 12/31, you will be able to use the Ei Village version of Compendex until the new OVID version of the interface is available (during the first week of January 2002).

October 2001
Research Project to Study Electronic Journal Usage
Do users prefer electronic to print access to their journals? The University of California libraries are embarking on a year-long research project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to examine this question. During this Collection Management Initiative, print volumes for selected titles will be relocated to the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF) for the duration of the project. Researchers will then track users' reactions, as they must rely either on the digital versions of selected journals, or page the print volumes from the SRLF. For more information about this initiative, see http://www.ucop.edu/cmi
The Science & Engineering Library will be the experimental library for the following titles. Print volumes of these titles will be stored in the SRLF and will be available for paging. Electronic access to these titles will continue as usual.

Data & Knowledge Engineering
Neural Networks
Parallel Computing
SIAM Journal on Computing

We will act as the control library for the following titles. Print volumes of these journals will remain in our stacks. These titles are also available electronically.

Information Processing Letters
Journal of Algorithms
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Journal Of Systems And Software
SIAM Journal of Optimization

If you have any questions or concerns about this project, please do let us know. Mike Randall, the UCLA Collection Management Initiative project coordinator, can be reached at 310-206-7813 or via e-mail at mhr@library.ucla.edu.

September 2001
Fall 2001- Noon Tours of the Library
The Science & Engineering Library is offering Orientation Tours the following times:
Tuesday, Sept. 25 - Friday, Sept. 28.......Noon
Monday, Oct. 1 - Friday, Oct. 5............Noon
Tours meet at the Circulation Desk, SEL/EMS Collection 8270 Boelter Hall

September, 2001
Trial access to Britannica Online Educational Subscription Service from Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
The product can be accessed at the following URL: http://search.eb.com/
The UCLA Library has the opportunity to participate in a California Consortium of Institutions and must decide whether to participate by mid-October.
Comments and feedback are needed by October 5, 2001 and should be sent to Lise Snyder, chair of DAAC (lsnyder@library.ucla.edu) and copy to Sharon E. Farb, Coordinator of Digital Acquisitions (farb@library.ucla.edu).
Background
Earlier this year Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. announced it would no longer offer the full-content of Encyclopedia Britannica on its free consumer website (www.britannica.com). What remains on the free site is an abbreviated version of the full general reference database. As of late July, 2001, full content is, again, being made available as a subscription service.
About Britannica Online Educational Service (from the publisher) Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Britannica Online can also be used to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated and reviewed by Britannica editors. Through this service, you can find more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by EB editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions and world histories from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
On Monday, September 17, Britannica will launch the newly enhanced Britannica Online. Some of the thfeaturesat will be added include:

• an integrated search that pulls both Encyclopedia Britannica as well as the Internet Guide and daily news archives
• the ability to email articles to other users
• a new database, Britannica Heritage, which explores articles, images and media from past editions of the encyclopedia.

August, 2001
American Institute of Physics Journals
After protracted negotiations with the American Institute of Physics, the CDL is pleased to announce it has secured a three-year contract with AIP (2001-2003). In addition to offering full text access UC-wide for all the AIP and Maik Nauka journals, AIP was able to negotiate access for the journals of the Acoustical Society of America, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Vacuum Society, International Centre for Diffraction Data (Powder Diffraction) and the Society of Rheology. The CDL, on behalf of the UC campuses, made a donation in support of Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO), a new entrepreneurial electronic journal, and fulltext access for that journal is also included.
Article level links are being added to citations in the CDL-hosted databases using the current CDL linking technology for all journal titles included in the AIP contract.
Access to all journals is available through AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS) located at http://ojps.aip.org/ .

August, 2001
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Online [ http://uclibs.org/PID/12130 ] is now available to all campuses, except UCR. It is being added to the CDL Wiley license and is funded by the campuses.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a reference work, international in scope and coverage, encompassing all the disciplines and current practice of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering around the world. Its 1000 major articles by 3,000 leaders from research and industrial organizations are well-illustrated with charts and figures and extensive bibliographies.
Subject areas include:

• Inorganic and organic chemicals
• Advanced materials
• Pharmaceuticals
• Polymers and plastics
• Metals and alloys
• Biotechnology and biotechnological products
• Food chemistry
• Process engineering and unit operations
• Analytical methods
• Environmental protection and more.

August, 2001
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology [ http://uclibs.org/PID/12129 ] is now available to all campuses, except UCR. It is being added to the CDL Wiley license and is funded by the campuses
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia features over 27,000 pages and 800 articles; this 27-volume encyclopedia includes: CAS registry numbers, over 5,000 photos, charts, graphs, figures and tables, in-depth up to-date information on regulations, patents and licensing.
In addition to updating traditional subjects, the Fourth Edition will include expanded coverage of biotechnology, materials science, computer technology, energy sources and conversion techniques, and environmental issues such as pollution control, toxicology, and recycling technology.
The Encyclopedia also includes miscellaneous topics such as:

• Instrumentation and quality control
• Information retrieval
• Maintenance
• Market research
• Material allocation and supply
• Legal issues
• Process development and design
• Product development and technical service
• Research and operations management
• Transportation of chemical products

August, 2001
American Mathematical Society Journals
Also as part of the EBSCO project, full-text access to all nine American Mathematical Society journals [ http://www.ams.org/journals ] is now available to all campuses. We do have an obligation to maintain subscriptions to the four primary AMS journals, although these can be electronic subscriptions. Campuses are free to cancel print.

July, 2001
Statistical Universe
All UCLA students, faculty and staff now have access to a new digital resource: Statistical Universe. Statistical Universe indexes and abstracts printed federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics.

Statistical Universe indexes statistics on population and demographics, business and financial activities, domestic and international trade, government programs, health, and politics. Statistical Universe lets you find:

All statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS American Statistics Index. Some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Index. Approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics.

Statistical Universe can be accessed via the Library's Home Page under Selected E-Resources by clicking on Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe at: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Or by clicking on the following urls:
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cis
general link for all Universe products)
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv (direct link)

UCLA has subscribed to all three of the following optional abstract modules:

• 1. American Statistical Index (ASI)
• 2. Statistical Reference Index (SRI)
• 3. International Index to Statistics (IIS)

For online help in how to get started click on the "how do I" button on the upper left corner for a useful faq on finding different types of statistics using Statistical Universe. Power Tables, a new feature introduced in 2000 provides provides an excellent place to begin research or obtain quick statistics on a particular topic.

July, 2001
Trial Access to Knovel Web site www.knovel.com will be available until August 15
Among the handbooks available for simultaneous searching are:
CRC Press

• Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
• Polymers Database

• Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook
• Lange's Handbook of Chemistry
• Yaws Chemical Properties Handbook

Hint: Follow the "path", located below the banner, to go back to previously viewed pages.

The Knovel platform offers molecular formula keyword searches using Hill System Order:
Molecular formulas are listed in Hill order. *Carbon first, Hydrogen second, and all remaining elements, including Deuterium and Tritium, in alphabetical order. *If no Carbon is present, put all elements in alphabetical order. *Indicate the number after each element symbol (ignore the fact that numbers are subscripts). *Salts of organic acids, or inorganic oxyacids are named as derivatives of the parent acid. Potassium sulfate is: Sulfuric acid, potassium salt (2:1)

Search example:
Find alcohols that have a melting point between 0 and 100 degrees C and have a boiling point greater than 200 degrees C.

From the Home page hit the SITE DATA SEARCH button on the top button bar.,br> Fill out the SITE DATA SEARCH:
ORGANIZE YOUR SEARCH: All subject areas
DATA SEARCH CRITERIA:
DEFINE 1st CRITERIA:
CATEGORY: All text fields
FIELD NAME: All text fields
OPERATOR: is (=)
KEYWORD: alcohol

DEFINE 2nd CRITERIA: (select AND radio button)
CATEGORY: physical constants
FIELD NAME: melting point
OPERATOR: is between (>=/<=)
NUMERIC RANGE: 0 - 100 C

DEFINE 3rd CRITERIA: (select AND radio button)
CATEGORY: physical constants
FIELD NAME: boiling point
OPERATOR: greater than or equal to (>=)
NUMERIC VALUE: 200 C

HIT SEARCH BUTTON.

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics AND two (2) McGraw-Hill handbooks appear with table data.

Hint: Follow the "path", located below the banner, to go back to the search results page and view the next handbook.

May, 2001
ENGnetBASE: Search the complete text of over 60 engineering handbooks from CRC Press
Full text searching of CRC Press handbooks in the fields of biomedical, environmental, electrical, communications, mechanical, structural, and ocean engineering. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. URL: www.engnetbase.com
Subjects: Aerospace Engineering | Chemistry | Biomedical Engineering | Chemical Engineering | Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Structural Engineering | Environmental Studies Types: Dictionaries | Data Sets | Encyclopedias | Electronic Texts

March, 2001
Access E-Resources from Anywhere Using BOL Proxy Server
Do you use a commercial cable, dialup or DSL service to access the internet? Now you can access all of the restricted full-text materials the library subscribes to without using Bruin OnLine dial-up internet service. Read more about it.

July, 2000
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics available online, 2000 Version CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics in now available online. The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics features all-inclusive tables and reference sections on everything from aqueous solubility of organic compounds to flash point data of common substances. Explore the very latest facts and figures; all the most frequently used data in science - including the periodic tables of the elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data. New and Updated Tables Include: o Atomic Masses and Abundances o Scientific Abbreviations and Symbols o Diamagnetic Susceptibility of Selected Organic Compounds o Spectroscopic Constants of Diatomic Molecules o Dielectric Strength of Insulating Materials o Carbohydrate Names and Symbols o Global Temperature Trends, 1866-1996 o Magnetic Susceptibility of the Elements and Inorganic Compounds o Critical Constants o Enthalpy of Vaporization o Acid-Base Indicators o Concentrative Properties of Aqueous Solutions: Density, Refractive Index, Freezing Point Depression, and Viscosity o Line Spectra of the Elements o Table of the Isotopes o Atmospheric Concentration of Carbon Dioxide, 1958-1996 o Threshold Limits for Airborne Contaminants o Electron Affinities...

July, 2000
Applied Science & Technology Full Text now available
Wilson General Science Abstracts Full Text
General Science Abstracts Full Text contains abstracting and indexing coverage for all 167 periodicals included in General Science Index as well as the full text of over 40 periodicals, offering instant access to information from publications such as: American Scientist; Astronomy; Conservationist; Discover; Ecologist; Environment; Geriatrics; Health; Issues in Science & Technology; Natural History; Public Health Reports; Wilderness; World Watch. Subjects: Biology; Botany; Chemistry; Environment; Mathematics; Medicine; Nutrition; Oceanography; Physics.
Coverage: Full Text from 1995; Abstracts from 1993; Indexing from 1984
Data Type: Bibliographic with abstracts and full text
Subjects: Biology   Botany  Chemistry   Environment   Mathematics   Medicine  Nutrition   Oceanography   Physics  

July, 2000
Update on Scholarly Publishing
From the June 16 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Seeking a Radical Change in the Role of Publishing"
Universities seek to fix a 'broken system' and to change the way professors are evaluated; nine principles to transform scholarly publishing . The report, "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing", is available at: http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html

2000 SEARCHLIGHT -- a tool for searching across many book, journal, and reference databases simultaneously. It facilitates "one-stop shopping", or it can be used to explore the most promising resources when working in an unfamiliar subject area. It has been customized for each campus to reflect resources available to that campus.

Feb 25, 2000
Web of Science (Science Citation Index) backfiles to 1975 now available
The CDL purchased access to Web of Science backfiles (science, social sciences, and arts & humanities) for all campuses back to 1975 (Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco have purchased backfiles from 1970- for science and social sciences). Access for all campuses has been activated but apparently ISI's software could not handle the 1975- date and has, on an interim basis only, activated access from 1970- for all campuses. ISI expects the problem to be fixed by the end of next week.

Feb 14, 2000
Chemical Abstracts & CASREACT via SciFinder Scholar now available!
UCLA students, faculty, and staff can search Chemical Abstracts (1967- ), Registry (chemical structure searching) and CASREACT from their personal workstations. SciFinder Scholar requires a downloaded client, for either Apple Macintosh or MS Windows. UCLA's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is providing a Web site for access to SciFinder Scholar's client software at: http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind A client needs to be installed once on a personal workstation for access to SciFinder Scholar.

Access to SciFinder Scholar from valid UC IP addresses is almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week--the system is unavailable from 3pm (PST) Saturday to 5am (PST) Sunday for maintenance activities. Users should logout upon completion of their searching, since UCLA shares a limited number of ports with other UC campuses. SciFinder Scholar's client software provides simple point and click access to the CAS databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CASREACT. No special training or knowledge of search command languages are required. Users may search more than 19 million citations to the chemistry literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Number, patent number, and CAS abstract number. More than 22 million chemical substances may be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Number, and formula. Reaction information for organic and organometallic reactions from the CASREACT database is included.

Additional details, including hardware and software requirements as well as search examples, are available from SciFinder Scholar at: http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind

Questions regarding SciFinder Scholar can be directed to UCLA's Campus Contact: Marion Peters mpeters@library.ucla.edu (310)825-0190

Nov 17, 1999
SEL Booksale at YRL Gifts/Bookstore
SEL/EMS received a large gift of books and we are currently processing it. Some of the books are duplicates and will be offered for sale. In many cases, the library already owns a copy of the book and there is also a copy held at the storage facility (SRLF). The duplicate books will be sold through the YRL Gifts/Bookstore and the prices will range between $1 - $6. The bookshop is open Tuesdays Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10am to 4pm, room 22480 YRL. The bookshop is located in Young Research Library on the second floor.

Sept 30, 1999
Why ORION2 Isn't Online
Question A: Why isn't ORION2 online, when you announced that it would be?

A: We had expected that we would be able to launch ORION2 on September 27 as publicly announced, but unfortunately, recent tests of the system's capacity contradicted the results of earlier testing and indicated that the system would not be stable enough to accommodate the volume of use we expected. Rather than putting the system online and have users experience frustrating delays or error messages, we decided to refer users to the California Digital Library's Melvyl Catalog and California Periodicals Database while the vendor is working to fix what we hope is a minor problem. In the meantime, we apologize for any inconvenience, and we appreciate your patience.

Question B: When will ORION2 be online?

A: We hope it will be online very soon, but we don't yet have an exact day or time (see answer to question A).

Question C: Why couldn't you leave ORION up?

A: ORION had a fixed and limited lifetime remaining, and this week is the latest the Library could wait to begin our transition off the old system. That transition involved moving records from ORION onto ORION2, which in addition to the catalog that users access also includes circulation functions. The Library has begun using those circulation functions as of September 27 to check materials in and out, but because ORION2 is a separate system from the old ORION, these circulation activities on the new system are not reflected on the old system. Therefore, circulation status of library materials and user account information is no longer current on ORION, so it would not be helpful to users to have it online any longer.

Question D: Can I do ORION Express and/or SRLF paging while ORION2 is down?

A: To page items from SRLF, consult the staff at the reference or circulation desks. You can place ORION Express requests through the CDL Request service, through the Request service on Melvyl via Telnet, or by filling out the form at http://oxpress.library.ucla.edu/index2.htm. (Please note that you must be a registered ORION Express user to utilize this document delivery service; for further information, please consult library staff or the Web page at http://www.library.ucla.edu/welcome/services/orionexpress/.)

Question E: How current are the UCLA Library holdings listed on Melvyl and the California Periodicals Database?

A: The Melvyl Catalog and the California Periodicals Database reflects current UCLA Library holdings, except for materials in process or on order.

Question F: Can I renew materials online while ORION2 is down?

A: You can renew materials by phone at 310/825-9188 (hours: M-Th 9 a.m.-10 p.m., F-Sa. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Su 1-9 p.m.) when ORION2 is down, but you cannot renew them online.

Question G: Can I place holds online while ORION2 is down?

A: Please check with circulation or reference staff to determine if the material you are searching for is checked out. If so, you can place a recall request at the circulation desk, or you can use the online form at http://www.library.ucla.edu/welcome/services/recall.htm.

Sept 1999
Your Bruin Card and Orion2
In Orion2, the library's new online catalog, you will be offered the following login options:

• login with your library card number
• login with your Bruin Card number (use this if you want to request from SRLF, etc.)
• login as guest

The Bruin Card number is the nine digits on the front of the card plus a tenth digit found on the back right-hand side of the card (usually 1 or 2). In some cases the tenth digit appears on the front of the card, seperated by a space from the first nine digits. You must enter all ten digits. Click here for information on how to get a Bruin Card

Guest users will have access to the library catalog and other information created by UCLA but may not have access to certain services and databases that have restricitons or fees for non-UCLA users.

Sept 1999
Digital Dissertations is now available
The Digital Dissertations database provides access to the full-text of all dissertations from University of California campuses since 1998. The first twenty-four pages from many other dissertations is also available. Also included, with more than 1.5 million entries, is the Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) database, the authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The Dissertation Abstracts and Digital Dissertations databases are produced by the Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company (formerly University Microfilms, UMI).

May 1999
Debut of the New Science & Engineering Library (SEL) website This site sports a new java navigation window and frames to facilitate site organization and navigation. Also, a "What's New" page has been added to track the exciting new developments in the rapidly changing world of information & libraries. There are new links to useful content such as an alphabetic list of the electronic journals as well as a link to an alphabetic list of science databases. The SEL website also received a new "look" with graphics. The banner is composed of selected images taken from the tile mosaic on the Mathematical Sciences Building on the UCLA campus. The mosaic, entitled "The History of Mathematics" was done by the widely acclaimed artist Joseph L. Young in 1968.

May 1999
NTIS database now available on the web SEL has just acquired web access to the NTIS database. The URL is http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbsel.cgi?username=ago21&access=ago2121&
The NTIS Database produced by the National Technical Information Service, is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from international government departments and other international organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries.

Major areas of coverage include:
• Administration & Management
• Aeronautics & Aerodynamics
• Agriculture
• Behavior & Society
• Business
• Chemistry
• Communications
• Computer Sciences
• Education
• Energy
• Engineering
• Environmental Sciences
• Health Care
• International Trade
• Library & Information Sciences
• Materials Sciences
• Mathematical Sciences
• Medicine
• Military Sciences
• Natural Resources & Earth Sciences
• Nuclear Science
• Physics
• Regulations
• Research Administration
• Technology
• Telecommunications
• Transportation

Spring 1999
Debut of the SEL Learning Center In Spring 1999, SEL opened the doors of its new Learning Center. The new facility houses 12 student workstations and permits live hands-on training in such web-based and other electronic resources, as COMPENDEX, MathSciNet, INSPEC, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, as well as Orion2, Melvyl Catalog, and the California Digital Library. SEL librarians will be happy to develop classes to highlight the databases, electronic journals, and websites that are relevant to particular areas of study and research. Interested faculty, TA's, and student organization reps should contact the librarian most involved in their field.

02/99
Web of ScienceTM is now available.
Citation Searching in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities Available Now through Web of Science Through the efforts of the California Digital Library, UCLA now has access to the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI's) Web of Science. Released in early 1997, Web of Science provides online access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Collectively, these multidisciplinary databases index more than 8,000 scholarly journals: The Science Citation Index Expanded indexes 5,300 journals in 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more titles than the print or CD-ROM version. SCI is updated with 17,000 new records every week. The Social Sciences Citation Index fully covers 1,700 journals, spanning 50 disciplines, and is updated with 2,800 new records every week. Relevant items from over 3,300 leading scientific journals are added on a selective basis. The Arts & Humanities Citation Index fully covers over 1,140 journals and is updated with 2,200 new records every week. Arts and humanities articles are selected from more than 6,800 leading science and social science journals.

UCLA will have access to the 1994-1998 files of all three or any combination of the databases. Like the print citation index products, Web of Science provides access through personal or corporate author, title, subject, and articles that cite a known work. In addition, Web of Science offers:
full-length, searchable author abstracts ability to search on all authors of an article, rather than only the first named author; links to the full-text of articles -- if the UCLA Library subscribes to the publisher's online journal service; an option to link to the chemical structural record available in the ISI Chemistry Server(SM); thorough and well-written help screens; ability to chose the time period to search, including all available years, specified years, latest four weeks, latest two weeks, or the most recent weekly update; limiting by language or the type of document; results sorting by number of times cited, relevance, date, first author, or source journal title; ability to use boolean logic and proximity operators; capacity to export citations directly to ProCite or Reference Manager .

Citation searching allows researchers to assess the impact of their research, and identify those who are citing their works. It is is a simple way to trace the development of an idea from the first time it is communicated in the literature to the present day. The Web interface makes it possible to locate items which share one or more cited references through a "Related Records" function.

Users can search the Web of Science in Full Search or Easy Search modes. Easy Search permits the user to search by: Topic - by looking for matches in the title, keywords, or abstract; Person - retrieving articles that the person has written, that cite a given person, or that are about the person; Place - retrieving articles published by persons working at a given institution or organization or in a specific geographic area. Full Search allows the user to search for articles by subject term, author name, journal title, author affiliation, as well as to search for articles that cite an author or article that is specified. If you have any questions about Web of Science, please contact a librarian at the reference desk at any library unit. Access Web of Science from any UCLA IP address at: http://www.webofscience.com

02/10/99
Aerospace Database is now available on the web.
The Aerospace Database 1986-Current provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodical literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.

                   Subject Coverage includes: 

                                   Aerodynamics 
                                   Aircraft Design and Instrumentation 
                                   Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 
                                   Communications and Navigation 
                                   Electronics and Electrical Engineering 
                                   Energy Production and Conversion 
                                   Environmental Pollution 
                                   Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer 
                                   Geophysics and Earth Resources 
                                   Lasers and Masers 
                                   Life Sciences 
                                   Materials 
                                   Mathematical and Computer Sciences 
                                   Mechanical Engineering 
                                   Meteorology, Climatology, and Oceanography 
                                   Physics: Solid State, Thermodynamics, Atomic and
                                   Molecular, Nuclear and 
                                   High-Energy, Optics, Acoustics, Plasmas 
                                   Propellants and Fuels 
                                   Quality Assurance and Reliability 
                                   Social Sciences 
                                   Space Sciences 
                                   Spacecraft Design and Systems Engineering 
                                   Structural Mechanics 

                              Dates of Coverage
                              1986 - current

                              Update Frequency
                              Monthly, with approximately 2,500 new records added

                              Size
                              Over 730,000 records as of February 1998

                              Print Equivalent International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA);
                              Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) (1986-1993)

With the steadily increasing number of science and engineering journals available electronically, UCLA science librarians decided that a one-stop shopping approach for access to these journals would be a real help to UCLA faculty and other researchers. The UCLA science web developers at the Biomedical and Science & Engineering libraries collaborated to create the E-Resources web site. The pages are linked also from the Digital Resources site on the UCLA Library home page as well as from the Biomedical Library and Science & Engineering Library web pages. Suggestions for additional full text electronic resources are welcomed by the Collection Development Librarians.

7/23/98
Search Engine Added to Library Web Site. An Infoseek search engine has been added to the UCLA Library Web site. The engine offers both simple and advanced searches. Simple searches utilize keywords or phrases and search only the UCLA Library Web site. Advanced searches offer additional options, including selecting the location of the keywords/phrases in the document; searching the UCLA Web site, the Gartner intraWeb, or the entire Web; and specifying the number and format of the responses. More detailed searching tips are included on the search Web site. The search engine can be accessed from the UCLA Library web site It's located at the end of the banner at the top of page.

4/23/98
Publish AND Perish. Research libraries are becoming less and less able to maintain access to research materials and scholarship at the levels we have enjoyed in the past. A Pew Higher Education Roundtable essay in Policy lays out the enormity of the problem, the forces causing this situation, and what action faculty, academic administrators, and librarians should take to halt the trend. An abstract of this paper is available. and includes a link to the full text. To read the full text, which is in a PDF file, you will need to have the Acrobat(r) Reader on your computer. You can access a free copy of the reader. UCLA faculty who would like a paper copy of this article can contact Elizabeth Sally, Administrative Assistant of the YRL Bibliographers Group, at Young Research Library.

10/1/97
The UCLA Library will no longer send overdue notices, beginning October 1, 1997. This policy change, approved by the Academic Senate Committee on Library, will save approximately $28,000 a year in postage, supplies, and staff time and help meet the Library's budget savings targets. Inventory lists of items with loan periods of a month or more will continue to be mailed to faculty borrowers, as will recall notices and replacement bills for items not returned or renewed on time. Borrowers should consult ORION through the BUS command to view their borrowing records and to renew books. For materials checked out from the few libraries which do not circulate materials on ORION, look at the due date slip in the material.