DHPSE Library will no longer be issuing keys for Individual and Group rooms.

Rooms will still need to be booked using the Facilities Booking System. You may notice that the Facilities Booking Systems has been upgraded. Bookings may be made for these rooms up to one week in advance - the bookings page is released daily at 4pm. To facilitate equitable sharing of the rooms students may book a total of three sessions per week. Individual Rooms mays be booked for up to 3 hours and Group Rooms may be booked for up to 2 hours.

Please be aware that the single rooms are not secure areas they are study spaces therefore you will need to take responsibility for your belongings.

The Numdam website (Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques) offers open access to the metadata and articles published in French mathematical journals. For each journal title, all volumes published up to 2000 have been digitised. To date, 560 000 digitised pages and 27 000 articles are available. Articles are available online after a period of time called a moving wall. During this period (generally 5 years), they are available to journal subscribers only. To see which journals are available click on Collections where you will also see the time span covered.

The New Science Journalism Project (NSJ) is a new independent online environmental science magazine publishing news produced by students of media and science courses worldwide. The magazine itself is intended for everyone interested in environmental science news. The bottom line is to foster a space for professional communication of environmental science news in order to encourage the dissemination of valuable and researched environmental scientific information. Project is a global platform for university students to refine their science news publishing experience, to register and submit news.

Looking for Second Life locations with Scientific content? The Science Center Group in Second Life maintains a list of over 100 places you can visit. You will find the American Chemical Society, Institute of Physics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA, NOAA, Nature Publishing Group, and many others.

Science-Related Places in Second Life

Level 5 of the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library is once again open for postgraduate use. The offices and the small meeting room will remain temporarily unavailable.

The Don Carruthers eXchange Zone within the Dorothy Hill Research Centre is available for booking on the Facilities Booking System.

2008 data is now available on the Journal Citation Reports. The Journal Citation Reports are a major source of citation data on journals in the areas of science and social sciences. You can search the Journal Citation Reports by specific title or by subject category. To access the Journal Citation Reports go to the Library catalogue.

Content and analysis enhancements include:
* 350 titles+ with a Journal Impact Factor for the 1st time
* First ever update to new metrics: Five Year Impact Factors and Eigenfactor™ Metrics (available only in JCR® Web)
* Over 400 new titles in the Science and Social Sciences Editions
* More than 8,000 of the world’s most highly cited, peer-reviewed journals, including over 6,500 in the Science and over 1,900 in the Social Sciences Editions
* Journals from 3,300 publishers in approximately 227 disciplines, from 60 countries
* The largest time-trend analyses ever available

You can also take advantage of new functionality in JCR Web such as:
* Rank-in-Category Tables: Evaluate journals in the context of multiple categories
* Journal self-citations: See how self-citations affect Impact Factor
* Impact Factor boxplots: Visualize Impact Factor by journal category

The Library is running a ‘Search Patents’ workshop covering Derwent Innovations Index, Esp@cenet and Google Patents.

Thursday 25 June 2009, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library Training Room
You can book online or just turn up.

Patents are a valuable source of technical information for researchers. Patents can provide an insight into research directions and inventions described in the patent literature are often not located elsewhere. For further information on searching patents check the ‘How-to’ Patent Information guide.

EndNote workshops will be held in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library on:

Part 1
Thursday 23 July 2-3.30pm
Thursday 10 Sept 2-3.30pm

Part 2
Thursday 30 July 2–3.30pm
Thursday 17 Sept 2-3.30pm

In the workshop you will:

• Set up an EndNote library and import references from databases such as the Web of Science, EI Compendex, SciFinder or the databases you use.
• Use EndNote with Word to write papers and create bibliographies.

Bookings can be made online, please let us know if any queries.

Google Wave takes the functionality of email, instant messaging and apps, and rolls them all into a single open source tool. There is a full demo available with a few jaw dropping ah ha! moments.

create surveys and polls and analyse the results, all within email/IM process

What is WolframAlpha?
WolframAlpha is a data mining engine. It is very useful for finding answers to specific questions (ie. 2+4?) or comparing data sets on particular topics (e.g. boiling point of copper vs boiling point of silver).

How does it work?
WolframAlpha uses natural language recognition, rather than keyword searching (e.g. “what is the boiling point of copper?” instead of “Copper AND boiling point”). Unlike Google which indexes websites, WolframAlpha mines data directly from websites and databases. It displays the data in the way that will best answer the question (e.g. as a table or graph).

When should you use it?
WolframAlpha works best if you are looking for quick statistical, chemical or mathematical information. It does not work well for questions relating to humanities or arts topics.