Art into Science into Art

If you have an interest in how art and science can work in partnership and the place emerging technologies have in the cross-over between the disciplines, then take a look at Dialogue, the e-journal from Axis, which in the latest issue examines artists working within science and technology.

For this issue, Dialogue brought together artists and curators who have worked collaboratively with scientists and scientific institutions, giving them the opportunity to discuss their differing approaches to research, how best to gain access to scientific organisations and how their own experiences of scientific collaboration have informed their projects.

Axis is the national online resource for information about contemporary art and artists. To access Dialogue go to www.axisweb.org/dialogue

ScienceDirect: online access back to volume 1

We now have access to the ScienceDirect backfiles for Engineering & Technology and Materials Science. This means online access in perpetuity to influential Elsevier journals, dating back to volume 1.

See the Library's ScienceDirect information page to connect, or search the library catalogue for your journal title.

TRIAL: Inspec

We have access to Inspec via Engineering Village until 27th April 2007.

To access Inspec go to Engineering Village. The default search covers Inspec, Compendex and Referex (a collection of engineering e-books). Off-campus, login to Athens and then follow the link to Engineering Village.

Inspec is a leading bibliographic information database providing comprehensive coverage of scientific and technical literature in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering. Coverage is from 1969 to present. Engineering Village allows the combined searching of Inspec with Compendex giving the most complete coverage of published engineering literature available.

If you try out the Inspec database, please leave a comment.

TRIAL: Plagiarism and how to avoid it (e-learning course)

We have access to Plagiarism and how to avoid it, an e-learning course from Epigeum, until 12th April 2007.

To access this trial go to http://www.epigeum.co.uk/plagiarism/ (on-campus only).

If you try out this e-learning course, please leave a comment.

SciFinder Scholar orientation sessions - Friday 16th March

SciFinder Scholar provides online access to the Chemical Abstracts Service databases. It allows structure and reaction searching as well as bibliographic searching. Advanced search features allow users to retrieve the full text the articles and patents which they find in their searches where available.

Two sessions including a demonstration, with hands on practice if required, will run on Friday 16th March in the Wolfson Suite, Harold Cohen Library at:

10.30am - 12.00pm, repeated at
1.30pm - 3.00pm

If you would like to attend, please contact Clair Sharpe with preferred time.

Knovel Engineering: interactive e-books + equations

We now have access to the Knovel Engineering Collection. It's a collection of electronic books and databases which is not only full-text and fully searchable, but also contains interactive tables, graphs and equations which can be retrieved, manipulated and exported.

SciFinder e-Seminar: Using Research Topic Explore to Navigate the World's Scientific Literature

Save the date and register now! CAS is hosting an e-Seminar on March 14, 2007. It’s live, it’s interactive, and it’s focused on

SciFinder: Using Research Topic Explore to Navigate the World’s Scientific Literature

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 18.00-19.00 GMT

Rebroadcast date and times for the seminar will be:
March 20, 2007 at 10.00 GMT and 13.00 GMT

To register, visit: http://casevents.webex.com
After you register, you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing the teleconference phone numbers.

SciFinder: Using Research Topic Explore to Navigate the World’s Scientific Literature

In this session, you will learn to maximize SciFinder’s Research Topic Explore feature. This feature will help you find scientific information quickly and allow you to organize it to meet your research needs. You will learn more about:

· Understanding how SciFinder maximizes retrieval with built-in content intelligence

· Evaluating answer relevance, using Topic Candidates

Optimizing comprehensiveness and relevance enabling creative solutions to scientific problems

Learn from your desktop or gather your colleagues and share the e-Seminar demonstration in an auditorium or meeting room. You can submit questions at any time during the e-Seminar.

For system and other technical requirements needed to participate in this event, contact WebEx:
Phone: 916-463-8262 (worldwide)
E-mail: support@webex.com

SPIE Digital Library

We now have access to the complete SPIE Digital Library.

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics. It provides access to over 220,000 individual articles and technical papers from SPIE journals and conference proceedings from 1990 to present. More than 17,000 new articles are added annually.

The SPIE Digital Library contains full-text access to the following journals and proceedings:

• Proceedings of SPIE – from vol. 1200 (1990)
• Optical Engineering – from vol. 29 (1990)
• Journal of Electronic Imaging – from vol. 1 (1992)
• Journal of Biomedical Optics – from vol. 1 (1996)
• Journal of Micro Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS – from vol. 1 (2002)
• Journal of Applied Remote Sensing – from vol.1 (2007)
• Journal of Nanophotonics – from vol. 1 (2007)

Technology areas covered in the Proceedings of SPIE include:

• Astronomy and astronomical optics
• Biomedical optics and medical imaging
• Communications and information technologies
• Defence and industrial sensing
• Electronic imaging and processing
• Micro and nano technologies
• Optics and electro-optics

Go to SPIE Digital Library to search the complete collection.

TRIAL: Mary Ann Liebert e-journals

We have a trial of all Mary Ann Liebert e-journals until 28th August 2007.

Mary Ann Liebert publish more than 50 titles, primarily in biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery.

these journals will be added to the library catalogue soon, but in the meantime we have activated them in our OpenURL link resolver (Get Full Text) and you can access them by visiting Liebert Online.

If you use any of these journals, please leave a comment.

TRIAL: IOS Press e-journals

We have a trial of all IOS Press e-journals until 15th August 2007. IOS Press publish more than 70 titles, mainly in the sciences and medicine. See our catalogue records for a list of the journals available.

We currently subscribe to three IOS Press titles:

• Asymptotic Analysis
• Environmental Policy and Law
• Intelligent Data Analysis

We hope that this long term trial will allow us to gauge the usefulness of IOS Press's titles in direct comparison with our existing subscriptions.

If you use any of these journals, please leave a comment below.