News from the Science Library http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/ en Copyright 2009 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:55 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Brian Coppola is Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year Brian Coppola, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Read the full article in the University Record Update.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/11/brian_coppola_i.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/11/brian_coppola_i.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:55 -0500 Celebrating 150 years of Darwin! 2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, one of the most influential biologists of the 19th century, and the 150th anniversary of his landmark publication, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The Shapiro Science Library celebrates these events with a special book display on Darwin and the theory of evolution.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/11/celebrating_150.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/11/celebrating_150.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:40:43 -0500 Daniel Forger (Math) Quoted in New York Times From today's University Record Update:

Daniel Forger, an associate professor of mathematics, spoke with The New York Times about a software program he is helping to develop that could help people take actions to alleviate jet lag.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/11/daniel_forger_m.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/11/daniel_forger_m.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:02 -0500 ACS Symposium Series Now Online The University Library now has online access to the American Chemical Society Symposium Series. We have fulltext access to volumes in the ACS Symposium series dating to 1974, with coverage planned back to 1950. Access is active now at http://pubs.acs.org/series/symposium

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/acs_symposium_s.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/acs_symposium_s.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:10:28 -0500 Shapiro Library Screening Room Open for Business Our new Screening Room celebrated its grand opening on Tuesday, October 27, with movie-style refreshments and very interesting talks by historians Jonathan Marwil and Martin Pernick on their use of film in teaching.

The Screening Room features a multimedia projector and surround sound and supports a wide range of media formats. You can reserve it to screen films for courses, films you have created, and more.

Read more about the Screening Room. And watch for future events - like Halloween movies.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/today_grand_ope.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/today_grand_ope.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:03:19 -0500 MCard Copiers are Here! You can now use your MCard for all your photocopying in the Shapiro Science Library.

Still have an old copy card?
You can use it in Hatcher and other UM Libraries.

Read more at http://www.lib.umich.edu/copy-services/news/mcard-copying-update

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/mcard_copiers_a.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/mcard_copiers_a.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:49:14 -0500 Arun Agrawal (SNRE) Quoted in NewScientist From today's University Record Update:

"NewScientist quoted Arun Agrawal of the School of Natural Resources and Environment about a study he co-authored on forest ownership. It showed that local communities manage and protect natural resources better than governments do."

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/arun_agrawal_qu.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/arun_agrawal_qu.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:06 -0500 Congratulations to Faculty Award Winners! The Shapiro Science Library is glad to recognize and congratulate faculty members who have recently received the following awards:

Distinguished University Professorship
Rodney Ewing, Geological Sciences
William Fulton, Mathematics
John Vandermeer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Distinguished Faculty Achievement
Robert T. Kennedy, Chemistry

Faculty Recognition Award
Peter van Keken, Geological Sciences

These professors all have appointments in departments closely served by the Shapiro Science Library. A total of twenty six UM faculty members received these awards. Read the full story in the University Record.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/congratulations.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/10/congratulations.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:46:43 -0500 Print On Demand from MLibrary Textbook prices got you down? The library provides a Print On Demand option for tens of thousands of books at very reasonable prices. We've partnered with publishers and suppliers to bring you access to rare and out-of-print works, as well as modern texts. Some can be printed right here in the library using our Espresso Book Machine!

Check out these links for more information:

Espresso Book Machine

Scholarly Publishing Office: Print On Demand

Springer MyCopy service (look for the orange box in SpringerLink)

FAQ on the Agreement to Offer Book Reprints for Sale on Amazon.com

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/09/print_on_demand.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/09/print_on_demand.html Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:36:00 -0500 New Science Reference Ebooks The Science Library has recently purchasesd a number of major reference works and handbooks in electronic format. Although many are books we already own in print, you can now download individual book chapters from the convenience of your computer. For more new books see our Science Library New Books page.

Below is a full list of our new Ebook reference works with links to each electronic book:

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/09/new_science_ref.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/09/new_science_ref.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:48:30 -0500 Welcome Students, Faculty and Researchers! The Shapiro Science Library welcomes you to the start of a new academic year. Our print and online collections and our staff are here to support your work.

The Science Library has over 400,000 print volumes and subscribes to over 2000 journals; use Mirlyn to find them and to access electronic items. We subscribe to many online databases, which enable you to search for journal articles; access these via Search Tools.

Our reference desk is open Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM for drop in assistance. Students can schedule research consultations and subject specialist librarians offer expert assistance. We also offer instruction sessions for classes. And the UM libraries offer a wide variety of workshops, including the Digital Dissertation series for graduate students and other sessions tailored for faculty.

Contact us; we are here to help.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/09/welcome_student.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/09/welcome_student.html Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:04:30 -0500 New Science Librarian The Shapiro Science Library is pleased to welcome Lori Tschirhart as our new librarian for Geology and SNRE. Lori joins us from the Natural Sciences Library at the University of Washington. Lori holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Michigan State. Her office is room 3026E, Shapiro Science Library. Her phone number is 936-3079 and her email address is ltz@umich.edu.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/08/new_science_lib.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/08/new_science_lib.html Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:05:44 -0500 Scopus Database now Available Again All 3 UM campuses have access to Scopus database again at http://www.scopus.com or access it through SearchTools.

Scopus is an international multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences. Coverage includes journals, patents, and websites (18,000+ titles) from 5,000+ publishers.
It also searches some of the Arts and humanities CSA databases which include
* ARTBibliographies Modern, back to 1974
* DAAI: Design and Applied Art Index, back to 1973
* Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, back to 1962
* Sociological Abstracts, back to 1952
* World Wide Political Science Abstracts, back to 1975
* Social Service Abstracts, back to 1979
You can do cited reference searching, citation analysis, get h-factor for authors, journal analyzing, etc.

Access demos and tutorials online at http://www.info.scopus.com/setup/promo/

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/07/scopus_database.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/07/scopus_database.html Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:32 -0500 MLibrary Welcomes Michigan Debate Institute MLibrary Hosts Michigan Debate Institute

We are pleased to once again host high school students from the Michigan Debate Institute. This year's debate topic is Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.

Debate students will be working in the Shapiro Library from June 21 - August 8, from 1-5 PM daily.

For more information, see the library's announcement or the Michigan Debate Institute website.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/06/mlibrary_welcom.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/06/mlibrary_welcom.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:27:51 -0500 Not All Scientific Publishers are Raising Prices We all know that some publishers are raising the price of their science journals by double or triple digits. In contrast, other scientific publishers are responding to these tough economic times by freezing or even reducing journal subscription costs.


]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/06/not_all_publish.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/scilibnews/archives/2009/06/not_all_publish.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:38:00 -0500