PMC, formerly PubMed Central, is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, currently containing approximately 2.5 million articles.

PMC is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the Public Access Policy mandated by NIH and other research funding agencies. The repository includes material dating back prior to the NIH mandate, including some which date to the mid to late 1800s or early 1900s. A sampling of journals going back to volume 1 includes American Journal of Human Genetics (v. 1, 1949-),  Biophysical Journal (v. 1, 1960-), and Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society (v.1, 1865-).

Almost all the content of PMC is protected by U.S. and/or foreign copyright laws, although access is free for all materials. Respective copyright holders retain rights for reproduction, redistribution and reuse.

Synthesis Digital Library Update for August and September, 2012

• The Answer Machine, by Susan E. Feldman.
  (Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Series)
• Capstone Design Courses, Part II: Preparing Biomedical Engineers for the Real World, by Jay R. Goldberg, Marquette University.
  (Biomedical Engineering Series)
• Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Principles, Materials, and Applications, by Emil Ruvinov, Yulia Sapir, and Smadar Cohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
  (Tissue Engineering Series)
• Cyber Foraging: Bridging Mobile and Cloud Computing, by Jason Flinn, University of Michigan.
  (Mobile and Pervasive Computing Series)
• Distributed Computing by Oblivious Mobile Robots, by Paola Flocchini (University of Ottawa), Giuseppe Prencipe (University of Pisa, Italy), and Nicola Santoro (Carleton University).
  (Distributed Computing Theory Series)
• Energy-Efficient Scheduling under Delay Constraints for Wireless Networks, by Randall Berry (Northwestern University), Eytan Modiano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Murtaza Zafer (IBM Research).
  (Communication Networks Series)
• Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice, by Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Jordi Cabot (École des Mines de Nantes, France), Manuel Wimmer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria).
  (Software Engineering Series)
• Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts, by Michael Piotrowski, Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany.
  (Human Language Technologies Series)
• Signal Processing for Solar Array Monitoring, Fault Detection, and Optimization, by Mahesh Banavar, et al.
  (Power Electronics Series)

Today is Geologic Map Day! In honor of this celebration, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) have released a redesigned National Geologic Map Database. The National Geologic Map Database pulls together geologic maps from the USGS, state geological surveys, and other publishers to help users find geologic mapping of locations across the U.S.

The redesign upgrades both the interface and underlying infrastructure, utilizing the latest technologies to improve search and discovery. This includes the brand new MapView search.

Celebrate Homecoming by acquiring some good books and maps!

Date: Saturday, October 6
Time: 10:00 am to 2:30 pm

Book sale (303 Doe): Hunt for treasures in our selection of 3,000 books. Most are hardbound works from donated collections, covering virtually every subject collected by the University Library. Prices vary, but all are low. Don't miss this chance to add to your own library!

Map sale (190 Doe): Don't miss this special sale of nearly 3,000 duplicate and superseded maps priced at $1 each (or 25 maps for $20). The maps are mostly USGS topographic quadrangles, nautical and aeronautical charts, and a small assortment of other topographic, street, and tourist maps.

More tours and events can be found at the Homecoming 2012 website.