CONTENTS
New Online Subscriptions: Status Report
REMINDER: Authorized Uses of SciFinder Scholar
Get It Service
Networked Printer Converted to Read Magnetic Stripe
REMINDER: Renew Your Books
REMINDER: Spring 2005 Course Reserves
Holiday and Break Hours
Construction Update
We are currently negotiating several new licenses for electronic publications that will be of interest to you. I’ve described the status of these below:
Annual Reviews: The negotiations are complete, and our electronic access will begin in January. However, when we start, we won’t have any of the back files; we’ll only have access to 2005 and forward. This includes all of the Annual Reviews titles.
Optical Society of America: Beginning in 2005 we’ll have electronic access to the following OSA titles: Journal of the Optical Society of America A & B, Applied Optics, and Optics Letters.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Beginning in 2005 we'll have access to the full digital archive (LOCUS) of SIAM journals - all 11 titles from 1952/inception to 1996. Their electronic editions continue to be available individually from 1997- to date.
Science of Synthesis: The license has been sent forward for approval. If there aren’t any problems that have to be negotiated, access should begin sometime in 2005.
Royal Society of Chemistry: I’m currently working on the license for the electronic archive.
Physics Abstracts: I am currently working on the Physics Abstracts back files (1898-1968).
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Chemical Abstracts Service has asked all the SciFinder Scholar Key Contact people to remind people within their institution of the use restrictions with SciFinder Scholar. Below is a quotation from the letter that they sent us:
…only current faculty, administrative staff, and registered students (including
part-time, post-doctoral and visiting students) are authorized to use SciFinder
Scholar, and their use is limited to academic research, teaching, and
publication purposes only.
…any commercial use of SciFinder Scholar is strictly prohibited. Thus,
patentability research and research performed with the intention of delivering
results outside of your university are not allowed. Likewise, the distribution
of CAS data by assignment, sale, sublicense, loan, or other means to an
unauthorized user is prohibited.
If you want more details concerning what constitutes authorized and prohibited use, they’re available during the log-in process. You have to agree to these conditions each time you log in, so if you haven’t read them before, please take a few moments to read them the next time you use SciFinder Scholar.
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As you use the various databases and electronic publications available through the LIAS system, you may have noticed a “GET IT!” button at the brief title or full citation screens in the databases. This is a new service that the Libraries has started to offer. When clicked, this button will open a new window that will show links to full-text, The CAT and other appropriate services.
We’re working to get as many of the databases linked with “Get it!”, although at the present time not all are. Some that are include all CSA databases, all Silverplatter databases, all ABC/CLIO databases, Blackwell Scientific, and the Proquest databases.
(Modified from e-mail announcements)
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The networked printer in the PAMS Library has been converted to read the magnetic stripes on our ID cards (old and new), departmental and research cards, and the new Visitor’s Cards. If you’re ID card has a magnetic stripe, you can add LionCash to it and use it in networked printers and most photocopy machines in the University Libraries.
To set up a personal debit account, you can either go to the ID+ office in the HUB or log on to www.idcard.psu.edu. The latter requires that you use a credit card; if you go to the ID+ office, you can use cash to add to your account.
The old LionCash (chip) dispensers have been removed from all library locations. Some nearby new Visitor Card dispensers have been installed in Pattee and Paterno Libraries, and the Laptop Library.
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Books that have been checked out on a semester loan are due on 16 Dec. 2004, unless you’ve already renewed them. If you haven’t renewed them and want to keep them another loan period, please go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/lending/ and click on “RENEW/VIEW MY ACCOUNT”. Follow the onscreen instructions to renew your books. Please remember to check your account after selecting RENEW so that you can be sure that everything was renewed successfully.
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Need to put some books on reserve for your students for spring semester? Now is a good time to turn the request forms in. That way we’ll have time to recall library copies if someone has them checked out and order new copies if we don’t have one available.
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The PAMS Library (and all other branch libraries at University Park) will operate on the following schedule during the upcoming holidays and breaks. For hours for Pattee Library, Paterno Library, or the Pollock Laptop Library, please go to the Libraries Hours page at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/hours/.
Thanksgiving Holiday, 23-28 Nov. 2004
Tues., 23 Nov. 7:45am-5:00pm
Wed., 24 Nov. 9:00am-5:00pm
Thurs., 25 Nov. All libraries closed
Fri., 26 Nov. Noon-5:00pm
Sat., 27 Nov. Noon-5:00pm
Sun., 28 Nov. Resume regular schedule
Fall Semester Study Days and Final Exams, 11-19 Dec. 2004
Sat., 11 Dec. 9:00am-9:00pm
Sun., 12 Dec. Noon-11:00pm
Mon.-Thurs.,13-16 Dec. 7:45am-11:00pm
Fri., 17 Dec. 7:45am-7:00pm
Sat., 18 Dec. 9:00am-5:00pm
Sun., 19 Dec. All libraries closed
December Holiday and Intersession, 19 Dec. 2004-9 Jan. 2005
Sun., 19 Dec. All libraries closed
Mon.-Wed., 20-22 Dec. 9:00am-5:00pm
Thurs.-Mon.,23-27 Dec. All libraries closed
Tues.-Thurs., 28-30 Dec. Noon-5:00pm
Fri.-Sun., 31 Dec.-2 Jan. All libraries closed
Mon.-Fri., 3-7 Jan. 9:00am-5:00pm
Sat., 8 Jan. Noon-5:00pm
Sun., 9 Jan. Noon-10:00pm
Mon., 10 Jan. Resume regular schedule
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Many of you have asked about the timeline for completion of this project. Here’s the latest that we’ve received:
Nov.-Dec.: Demolition in Phase II (This is the Chandlee side).
3 Jan.: Begin Phase II.
28 Feb.: Most of the Phase II construction will be complete.
2 Mar.: Install shelving and furnishings, move collections, vacate Phase 3 (Osmond side) space.
21 Mar.: Begin Phase III.
16 May: Install shelving and furnishings, move collections, vacate shelving in Phase I (public space on Pollock Rd. side)
1 June: Begin Phase IV, which includes final renovations to Phase I space.
29 June: Project complete.
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