ProQuest downtime June 30-July 1

Research databases on the new ProQuest platform will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from Saturday, June 30, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. to Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 7:00 a.m. This outage will affect a number of our databases including the following (… more »
Jun 28, 2012 | Categories: Problems & Down Time | bquigley

Transportation Studies Library closed through July 27

Due to construction, the Institute of Transportation Studies Library will be closed through July 27. more »
Jun 27, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | bquigley

COS Funding Opportunities: Find grants, awards, fellowships and more

COS Funding Opportunities is a directory of available funds, grants, fellowships, awards and other types of funding throughout the world. Includes sponsors from the public and private sector; local, state and national governments; and societies corporat… more »
Jun 22, 2012 | Categories: New Resources, Featured Resource | msholinb

New ebooks in the Synthesis Digital Library series

  Synthesis Digital Library Update for May 2012 Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering by Charles X. Ling, University of Western Ontario, Canada; and Qiang Yang, Hong Kong U… more »
Jun 19, 2012 | Categories: New Resources | jmckenzie

Recent Acqusitions lists temporarily suspended

Due to the volume of new records currently being loaded into OskiCat through the HathiTrust catalog records project, we needed to temporarily suspend our Recent Acquisitions lists. These lists of new books and other new materials will again be updated r… more »
Jun 15, 2012 | Categories: Problems & Down Time | bquigley

HathiTrust digitized books in OskiCat

You may have noticed a lot more online books in OskiCat recently. The library has begun loading HathiTrust records for digitized versions of public domain items into our catalog. When the project is complete, there will be over a million new records in… more »
Jun 15, 2012 | Categories: New Resources | bquigley

Nature editor-in-chief says open access is inevitable

The Guardian published a very interesting article Friday on a speech by Nature Editor-in-Chief Philip Campbell, in which he called open access to research inevitable. In addition to making research more accessible to readers and scientists, open access… more »
Jun 11, 2012 | Categories: Scholarly Communication | bquigley

Bioscience Library open 1 pm - 5 pm, 6/11 - 6/15

Due to ongoing construction in our lobby area, the Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library will be open from 1 pm to 5 pm from June 11th through June 15th, 2012. This will allow us to reopen as soon as possible, but minimize the nois… more »
Jun 01, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | esmith

OSA's Optics ImageBank +

  OSA InfoBase is a core resource for journal articles on optic and photonics.  Premium InfoBase now includes the OPtics ImageBank and access to conference proceedings (FIO, CLEO and OFC). The Optics ImageBank includes more thanj 200,0… more »
Jun 01, 2012 | Categories: Featured Resource | skoskinen