Lancet publishers condemned over promotion of arms

Way to go Elsevier- do we need more reasons to dislike them? Maybe this was common knowledge, but I didn't know about it. It's ugly: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/media/pr234.htm

Let them Scan!

We now offer scanning at the Engineering Library! The HP scanner is hooked up to the "scanner workstation" in the patent area.The directions are the same for the microfiche/film scanner, the only difference is that you need to choose the HP scanner. The only problem I forsee is that the software is slow to start. Just be aware of this and warn users that it is not the speediest. Julie will update the directions on PC homepage and Chris will contact Adam to have us formally listed as a library that has a scanning capability. Thanks very much to everyone to get this on the equipment request and helped get it up an running!

You mean I didn't have to come to the library?

The good news is that people are reading the patent guide online before they come to do patent work. The bad news is that they might be confusing "A COMPLETE PATENT SEARCH CANNOT BE DONE VIA THE INTERNET USING KEYWORDS" with "You have to come to the library because you can't do this on your own computer at home." In the last few days, two people have quoted the former line when I tell them that Cassis is not up, but everything they need is on the USPTO.gov website. While I love the chance to explain the difference between keyword searching and using classifications, people don't seem to be pulling this out as a the salient point from our online guide. "Via the Internet" might be what's catching them. When I showed one person to the USPTO website, they said something like "but I can only get to this website from here, right?"

shifting reference from the beginning?

I started working in the TK-TL area, with all the orange books, but now I notice that there are a few chunks missing in the TD area. I guess we got some more of the indexes weeded. So do we start shifting in the TD area again? I don't really want to "finish" from TK on only to have to do everything again before the end of the week.

Printer queue issue returns- has been reported

It seems that our Access+ machines still are not defaulting to the Engineering Library printer. Architecture seems to be the common default choice. I reported this to Catalyst and hope that they can fix it once and for all! It is confusing for users when they think they sent something and then have to ask the question and resend.

British Library and U.S. Department of Energy partner in Science.world

Back from the shutdown of Pubscience in 2002, the DOE is trying again, this time in collaboration with the British Library. The new portal will have a view to the world's scientific research :http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6416210.html

Women made substantial advances in science and engineering

The Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology released a report showing that women have made substantial progress in earning degrees in science and engineering over the past four decades, reports Paul D. Thacker in Inside Higher Ed. Read more here.

Women made substantial advances in science and engineering

The Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology released a report showing that women have made substantial progress in earning degrees in science and engineering over the past four decades, reports Paul D. Thacker in Inside Higher Ed. Read more here.

Journal abbreviation resources

• I've used a list from the University of Queensland. It's "a list of about 5,400 biological journals, with BIOSIS abbreviations." Find it on the web at: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/endnote/biosciences.txt

• According to Katie Newman at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/j-abbrev.html, CSA's serials source list appears to go by the Biosis format. She has a link to http://md2.csa.com/ids70/serials_source_list.php?db=biolclust-set-c

• PubMed/NLM LocatorPlus - use the Journals tab. http://locatorplus.gov/

• http://www.library.ubc.ca/scieng/coden.html

• http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/help/A_abrvjt.html

• http://home.ncifcrf.gov/research/bja/ (not authoritative, but helps in a pinch)

• http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm - (but the link to BIOSIS on this site is dead)

• If you have EndNote, there are downloadable lists at this site: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/endnote/journal_terms.html

Gifts procedure

Hello everyone -- I am in the process of taking all the gift book items in the workroom downstairs to their new home in the mailroom (basement). I will attempt to chip away at this backlog in the coming months. If someone wants to donate books to the library try *very hard* to persuade them to go through central Gifts Processing. I know this is not always possible when people are standing in front of you with a box of books/journals. If you do accept any gift items it is YOUR responsibility to report them to Gifts AND take them to the basement, unbox them, and put them on the shelves. Once I hack through the backlog, we should all take turns analyzing and processing gift books. Lets try to keep the table in the workroom cleaned off for other purposes than long term gift book storage.... Thanks! --Chandra