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LIBRARY UPDATE (Web Edition)
DECEMBER 2007Welcome to the PAMS LIBRARY UPDATE. PAMS is the acronym for the new Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library at University Park. PAMS Library Update provides information about the collections and services offered by the PAMS Library. It is distributed via e-mail to the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Statistics, and Chemical Engineering, and faculty in the University Libraries.
CONTENTS
Library Hours for the Break
Reminder: Renew Your Books
Important News from SciFinder Scholar
What Happened to Scientific American Online?
RSC Online Journals Enhancement
Why Can't We Get Science Online?
Spring Semester Course Reserves
Who Are We? PAMS Personnel
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nan Butkovich (njb2@psu.edu, 814/865-3716) or stop by my office in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library in 201 Davey Lab.
Hours for the branch libraries at University Park between the end of finals and the start of Spring Semester are as follows:
Sat., 22 Dec. 9am-5pm
Sun., 23 Dec. to Wed., 26 Dec. Closed
Thurs., 27 Dec. to Fri., 28 Dec. Noon-5pm
Sat., 29 Dec. to Tues., 1 Jan. Closed
Wed., 2 Jan. to Thurs. 3 Jan. 7:45am-5pm
Fri., 4 Jan. 1-5pm
Sat., 5 Jan. to Sun., 6 Jan. Closed
Mon., 7 Jan. to Fri., 11 Jan. 7:45am-5pm
Sat., 12 Jan. Closed
Sun., 13 Jan. Noon-10pm
Mon., 14 Jan. Resume regular scheduleHours for Pattee Library and Paterno Library as well as other campuses are located at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/hours/index.html.
If you haven’t already, please take a minute and renew your books. You can do this online by going to the Library Home Page at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/ and clicking on “My Library Account” on the gray menu line at the top of the page.
Check your list to be sure that everything got renewed. If you’ve maxed out the number of times you can renew online, you’ll need to bring the books back to your nearest Penn State Library to renew them.
Important News from SciFinder Scholar
Chemical Abstracts Service is phasing out support of several older versions of SciFinder Scholar. One of them apparently still has a few users at PSU. If any of your patrons are still using 1.0 Macintosh OS X, please be aware that this will no longer be supported. You can access the new versions of SciFinder Scholar at http://downloads.its.psu.edu. It’s listed under “Technical Applications”.
SciFinder Scholar needs some additional maintenance, so CAS has announced that they’re extending the normal downtime this weekend. SciFinder Scholar will be unavailable from Sat., 15 Dec. at 5pm to Sun., 16 Dec., at 1am.
Need older chemical information? The Chemical Abstracts portion of SciFinder Scholar now includes approximately 18,000 bibliographic citations from Chemisches Zentralblatt which were published between 1905-1906. Since CZ was originally published in German, the bibliographic information and the abstracts have been machine translated into English. (from CAS announcement).
What Happened to Scientific American online?
We do still have it, but the folks at Scientific American have put significant restrictions on the way in which we are allowed to link to it. We’re no longer allowed to link to the current volumes using “GET IT”, so the easiest way to access them is to go to the Databases by Title (A-Z List) at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/eres/PSU_azlist.html#azlist and scroll down to Scientific American Archive Online. This site has the content from 1993 to present. If you click on a blue “GET IT” button, you’ll get a link to the pre-1909 volumes.
RSC Online Journals Enhancement
The Royal Society of Chemistry has started adding a series of major enhancements to their online journals. According to the announcement, “the project uses:
• InChis (IUPAC’s International Chemical Identifier for compounds)
• OBO ontology terms (Open Biomedical Ontologies: a hierarchical classification of biomedical terms) such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the related Sequence Ontology (SO);
• Terms from the IUPAC Gold Book
• CML (Chemical Markup Language: a means to describe molecular information in a structured form)”For more information and to find out how to identify enhanced articles, go to http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/ProjectProspect/index.asp.
Why Can't We Get Science Online?
Several times recently I’ve been asked why we don’t have online access to Science. Unfortunately, the problem is money. The last offer we got from AAAS would have cost us well over $50,000 for a one year subscription in addition to retaining 23 print subscriptions.
If you’re looking for the electronic backfiles that we used to have access to, your choices are limited. AAAS has pulled its Science content from ProQuest, so you can no longer go there for articles dating from 2006 back to about 1990. AAAS has also stated that they will no longer contribute older backfiles to JSTOR, making 2002 the last year that’s available there. We do continue to have our print subscription.
Spring Semester Course Reserves
Teaching spring semester? Want to put material on reserve for your students? Send your list to Tamara Rapp at tlr24@psulias.psu.edu.
There are 5 full-time people in the PAMS Library. All of us have our offices in the PAMS Library at 201 Davey Lab. I’ll introduce us.
Nan Butkovich: I’m the Head of the PAMS Library and the subject selector and liaison for chemistry, physics, and astronomy. You can reach me at njb2@psulias.psu.edu or njb2@psu.edu or by phone at 814/865-3716.
John Meier: John’s a Science Librarian with subject and liaison responsibilities in mathematics and statistics. He’s also responsible for our patents and trademarks depository program. You can reach him at meier@psu.edu or by phone at 814/867-1448 (cell 412/606-5976).
Ann Thompson: Ann’s the Library Supervisor. If you’ve got questions about borrowing library materials or your library record, talk to her. Her office phone number is 814/865-3715, or you can e-mail her at annt@psu.edu.
Tamara Rapp: If you need to put material on reserve for your courses, contact Tamara. Her e-mail is tlr24@psulias.psu.edu. You can also reach her in her office by calling 814-865-6766
Doug McAnallen: Doug is our stacks and bindery manager. If you need to contact him, his office number is 814-863-8975, and his e-mail is dhm1@psulias.psu.edu.
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