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Are you looking for current, breaking news about environmental policy, energy, natural resources, or other related topics? If so, visit the website for E&E Publishing and read--

E&E Daily, Greenwire, Land Letter, or other newsletters from this publisher. CSU Libraries subscribes to this series of titles and the online newsletters may be searched by keyword and sorted by date. E&E Publishing

Articles posted this week include topics such as:
Wyo. gas plant sets high bar for CO2 sequestration
House Ag Chairman co-sponsors bit to block EPA regs
Cap-and-trade debate keeps coming bck to limits on power plants

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CSU Libraries Facebook Fans link

For other CSU LIbraries new visit the news section of the homepage

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Research Rocks-Tips & Tricks for Maximizing Natural Resources & Agricultural Library Research

Spring 2010 RESEARCH ROCKS SESSIONS are now scheduled! Sign up by email to reserve your space. All classes will cover the same material (key databases, impact factors, e-books, and more) so sign up for the class that fits your schedule. The one hour sessions are geared for graduate students or new researchers, but anyone is welcome to attend.

o Thursday February 4 from 2:30-3:30pm; Computer Lab 2, Room 165 Morgan Library
o Monday February 15 from 10-11am; Computer Lab 2, Room 165 Morgan Library
o Tuesday February 23 from 2-3pm; Computer Lab 2, Room 165 Morgan Library
o Thursday February 25 from 10-11am; Computer Lab 2, Room 165 Morgan Library

For more information or if you have questions, contact Allison Level 491-3918 or Allison.level AT colostate.edu.

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Forest health, mountain pine beetle activity in Colorado and Wyoming, legislation in support of mountain pine beetle mitigation, and more now available. The USFS & the Colorado State Forest Service announce the results of the forest health survey January 22, 2010.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/news/press-kits/2010/index.shtml

From the press release, "Survey results reveal that the bark beetle infestation affected about 524,000 new acres in 2009, bringing the total number of acres of infestation up to 3.6 million since the first signs of outbreak in 1996."

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Environment Abstracts is a new database now available from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The database includes journal articles on topics such as: renewable energy, green building design, sustainability, and more.

From the database description, "Environment Abstracts provides access to more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad. The database also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters. "

More databases in the sciences can be found from:
the CSU Libraries E-Resources and Databases page.

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The CSU Libraries provide access to hundreds of e-books from Springer. Springer eBooks just announced information for connecting the ebook content to your mobile device.

Search for Springer E-books from Discovery, the CSU Catalog or SpringerLink directly

From the Springer eProduct Newletter--
"The Springer eBooks can be easily used on mobile devices. Most suitable for the PDF files are the dedicated eBook readers such as the Sony Reader, the iLiad, BeBook, amazon kindle (DX) etc.
In 5 easy steps you can read SpringerLink content on your reader:

Find the content that you need
Download the PDF files of the chapters and articles
Connect your eReader to your computer
Save the PDFs on the reader, or use the dedicated software to sync the files
Read the Springer content on your eReader"

For more information contact Springer representative: Woulter van der Velde

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January 10-14, 2010 is national invasive species awareness week.
Website hosted by the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia

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The FAO is hosting a short survey designed to get an overview of the state of Open Access (OA) and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) within agricultural research.

The survey is available in English, French and Spanish at http://www.ciardring.net/en/survey-oa

The survey will be open until the end of January 2010. The results will be made available online in the CIARD Ring http://www.ciardring.net/ to give all participants the opportunity to take a look at and comment the results.

We would be grateful if you would take the time to complete this questionnaire. If you have any questions please contact Imma Subirats on imma.subirats@fao.org

(information for this post from: IAALD-L listserv)

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Prospector, the regional catalog will be down on Dec. 2 and Dec 9 for system upgrades. Prospector books will still be available for pick up on those days.

http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/2009/prospector/

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Are you looking for research by topic area? forestry, geology, water resources, and more...
There are new Web-based library guides by topic, geared for Colorado State University students and researchers.

List of natural resources research pages by topic

Here is an easier URL for NR Resources by Topic http://tinyurl.com/kv239z

You can also visit the Natural Resources Research page

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FALL 2009 RESEARCH ROCKS SESSIONS are now scheduled! Sign up by email to reserve your space. All classes will cover the same material (key databases, impact factors, e-books, and more)

o Tuesday, August 25 1pm; EIL 2 Morgan Library

o Wednesday September 2; 3pm EIL 2 Morgan Library

o Thursday September 3; 11:30am EIL2 Morgan Library

o Tuesday September 8; 2pm EIL 1 Morgan Library

Visit the Natural Resources Portal for more information

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The CSU Libraries have launched a new library search,

Discovery which searches the library catalog SAGE plus the Digital Repository and CSU Webpages.

visit: http://discovery.library.colostate.edu/

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