BANR tag:lib.colostate.edu,2008:/blogs/banr/16 2008-02-07T00:13:39Z Movable Type 3.2 BANR Blog on Hiatus Until August, 2008 tag:lib.colostate.edu,2008:/blogs/banr//16.259 2008-02-07T00:11:34Z 2008-02-07T00:13:39Z Due to a change in work assignments for Spring semester, the BANR Blog will not be updated until August, 2008. Thanks for your support of the project. We hope to resume postings in the Fall of 2008.... Allison Level Due to a change in work assignments for Spring semester, the BANR Blog will not be updated until August, 2008. Thanks for your support of the project. We hope to resume postings in the Fall of 2008.

]]> New Web of Science tag:lib.colostate.edu,2008:/blogs/banr//16.260 2008-02-05T00:14:14Z 2008-02-07T00:16:41Z The Web of Science Database has a new search interface and great new features. You have more options for searching and refining your search results. For handouts which describe some of the added benifits of the new interface visit: New... Allison Level The Web of Science Database has a new search interface and great new features. You have more options for searching and refining your search results. For handouts which describe some of the added benifits of the new interface visit: New Web of Science Tips and Tricks at http://lib.colostate.edu/instruction/workshops/wospdi.html.

]]> Changing Climates Book Display tag:lib.colostate.edu,2008:/blogs/banr//16.261 2008-01-30T00:17:22Z 2008-02-07T00:21:43Z CSU Morgan Library will support the Focus the Nation project by including a book display on changing climates. For more information visit the display in Morgan Library . CSU Focus the Nation events will be on January 30 and 31... Allison Level CSU Morgan Library will support the Focus the Nation project by including a book display on changing climates. For more information visit the display in Morgan Library . CSU Focus the Nation events will be on January 30 and 31 in Lory Student Center.

John Calderazzo, Co-Director of Changing Climates @ CSU said, "Focus the Nation is a jolt of energy that all of us need so we may consider the difficult issues around climate change. These two days of talks aimed at students will offer a great way to see the many approaches to climate change problems and solutions that are moving forward at CSU from the angle of so many different academic disciplines. It's good to remember that the core of the word 'universe' appears inside the word 'university,' meaning that a large research university like CSU is primed like almost nowhere else to look everywhere for solutions to one of the most vexing problems faced by the earth.""

SueEllen Campbell, Co-Director of Changing Climates @CSU, remarked, "You can learn a lot from listening to experts. But sometimes there's no substitute for books if you really want to understand a topic as multi-dimensional as climate change. We're lucky at CSU to have an excellent library for learning about the many aspects of this issue. And the more we understand, the better we can feel about taking action."

]]> BANR on Vacation Until January 22 tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.250 2007-12-17T17:00:09Z 2007-12-17T17:02:35Z Colorado State University is on semester break. The BANR Blog will be on vacation until the start of Spring semester on January 22, 2008. For information until then, visit some of the blogs and websites that we usually monitor. They... Allison Level Colorado State University is on semester break. The BANR Blog will be on vacation until the start of Spring semester on January 22, 2008. For information until then, visit some of the blogs and websites that we usually monitor. They are available under the: About BANR link.

]]> Greater Access to the NTIS Collection tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.249 2007-12-12T17:25:58Z 2007-12-12T17:31:08Z Greater Access to the NTIS Collection Now Available Search NTIS.GOV for titles from 1964 to present http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx NTIS is pleased to launch its improved search engine with features such as: Enhanced retrieval with search functionality for categories, collections, and source... Allison Level Greater Access to the NTIS Collection Now Available Search NTIS.GOV for titles from 1964 to present
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx

NTIS is pleased to launch its improved search engine with features such as: Enhanced retrieval with search functionality for categories, collections, and source agencies.

The NTIS search engine now more powerfully finds the information you need.

The Advanced Searching capabilities allows for an even greater
focus on appropriate content for your search.

Expanded access to the NTIS collection now includes the ability to
search, retrieve and select from over 3.0 million products.

==Improved access with new NTIS titles added each week.
==Customers are provided a Product File of related purchased titles
==Now you can find virtually any item in the NTIS collection and order many in your choice of format (downloads, printed copy, CD ROM or microfiche).
==Search Help has step by step instructions and graphics: http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx
==All search results include a brief product description and easy access to place your order online, quickly, easily and securely.


Information for this posting came from the STS-L LIstserv posted on 12-12-2007

]]> Science.Gov Celebrates 5th Anniversary tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.247 2007-12-07T18:17:10Z 2007-12-07T18:20:38Z Science.gov Celebrates 5th Anniversary Making Science More Accessible and Useful Oak Ridge, TN---The science gateway that makes science information more accessible and useful to researchers, teachers, and learners wherever they are located commemorated its 5th Anniversary today. "Science.gov has made... Allison Level Science.gov Celebrates 5th Anniversary
Making Science More Accessible and Useful

Oak Ridge, TN---The science gateway that makes science information more accessible and useful to researchers, teachers, and learners wherever they are located commemorated its 5th Anniversary today.

"Science.gov has made the nation's research and development easier to find and more useful and fun to explore," said Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director of the National Agricultural Library and co-chair of the Science.gov Alliance, the interagency group that created Science.gov.

Founded December 5, 2002, in response to the profound effect of the World Wide Web on science communications, Science.gov (www.science.gov) connected citizens to science as never before. Today, Science.gov Version 4.0 is available and searches more than 50 million pages of science information from thousands of Web sites as well as from deep Web databases inaccessible by Google and other popular search engines.

Information for this posting is quoted from the Science.gov press release
Media Contact
Cathey Daniels
865-576-9539
danielsc@osti.gov

]]> CHEMnetBASE New Database Available tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.241 2007-11-16T00:15:43Z 2007-11-16T00:19:25Z New Database: CHEMnetBASE (vendor: CRC Press): According to the vendor: "Comprising Chapman & Hall/CRC's premier chemistry references, this comprehensive and highly interactive resource allows you to search and extract essential data and tables." Our subscription includes: The CRC Handbook of... Allison Level New Database: CHEMnetBASE (vendor: CRC Press):
According to the vendor: "Comprising Chapman & Hall/CRC's premier chemistry references, this comprehensive and highly interactive resource allows you to search and extract essential data and tables."
Our subscription includes:
The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Combined Chemical Dictionary
Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
Dictionary of Drugs
Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
Dictionary of Natural Products
Dictionary of Organic Compounds
Properties of Organic Compounds

]]> Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists Survey Now Open tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.228 2007-10-26T21:14:15Z 2007-10-26T21:18:35Z Scientists have an increasing number of sources available for use when navigating the sea of information. What do you rely on as you develop expertise in your subject area? What do you see as trends for the future? Please participate... Allison Level Scientists have an increasing number of sources available for use when navigating the sea of information. What do you rely on as you develop expertise in your subject area? What do you see as trends for the future?

Please participate in the national information seeking behavior survey.

-- Go to the survey online
-- Survey will be open October 23-November 30, 2007
-- It will take about 10 minutes of your time
-- Complete the survey and then register for randomly drawn participant prizes

CSU is one of about 20 academic libraries supporting this national survey coordinated by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The CSU Libraries hope to use the results of this research behavior survey to better understand graduate students’ changing approaches to seeking out and using information.

Questions? Visit the CSU Libraries survey information or contact CSU PI, Allison Level: allison.level@colostate.edu | Ph.970.419.3918.

CSU participation is sponsored by the CSU Libraries. The national study is sponsored by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Information & Library Science, the UNC Libraries, the Center for Genome Sciences, and the Institute for Renaissance Computing.

]]> Expanded Access to ScienceDirect Journals tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.220 2007-10-11T20:29:55Z 2007-10-11T20:38:12Z CSU access to key scientific journals has been expanded with the addition of new collections in environmental sciences, energy, power, and other subject areas. Researchers may search via databases like Web of Science, then be seamlessly connected to full-text content... Allison Level CSU access to key scientific journals has been expanded with the addition of new collections in environmental sciences, energy, power, and other subject areas. Researchers may search via databases like Web of Science, then be seamlessly connected to full-text content of back-issues of many Science-Direct journals.

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, known as "the Alliance," consists of ten institutions representing twelve major libraries located in Colorado and Wyoming. The consortium has enabled CSU to purchase a wide array of electronic resources that CSU would not have otherwise been able to afford. This most recent purchase involved leveraging the monies each library had already spent on portions of backfile collections combined with a new monies provided by the University of Wyoming. Prior to this year, CSU had already purchased 22 of Elsevier's ScienceDirect journal backfile packages on its own. Now without CSU spending any additional funds, the deal helped expand access to backfile collections by 9 packages and includes 385 unique journal titles.

The newly added collections include:

* Energy and Power
* Environmental Sciences
* High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
* The Lancet
* Materials Science
* Medicine and Dentistry
* Nursing and Health Professions
* Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
* Physics General

Some text for this posting is quoted from the CSU Libraries Website news about Science Direct Backfiles.

]]> Citation Laureates and the Nobel Prize tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.213 2007-10-02T19:03:26Z 2007-10-02T23:03:02Z The Thompson ISI Nobel Prize site is projecting possible winners of the Nobel Prize. Quoting the website, "Thomson Scientific has developed a list of likely winners in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Those chosen are named Thomson Scientific Laureates —... Allison Level The Thompson ISI Nobel Prize site is projecting possible winners of the Nobel Prize. Quoting the website, "Thomson Scientific has developed a list of likely winners in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Those chosen are named Thomson Scientific Laureates — in recognition of the significant contribution their citations make to the navigation within the Web of Science".

How Citation Laureates are chosen http://scientific.thomson.com/nobel/essay/

]]> Changing Climates @ CSU tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.211 2007-09-28T16:34:52Z 2007-09-28T19:03:02Z The Changing Climates @ CSU colloquium provides programs on the Climate Change Problem: A High-Level Primer. Topics include Climate Change at Pingree Park, Biological and Ecological Effects, and the Human Costs. The Changing Climates website includes a list of network... Allison Level The Changing Climates @ CSU colloquium provides programs on the Climate Change Problem: A High-Level Primer. Topics include Climate Change at Pingree Park, Biological and Ecological Effects, and the Human Costs.

The Changing Climates website includes a list of network participants, teaching resources, and CSU courses that include climate change information. http://changingclimates.colostate.edu/Home.html

]]> Science Librarians and Scholarly Communication tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.209 2007-09-24T20:34:09Z 2007-09-24T20:37:50Z The Summer 2007 issue of ISTL (Issues in Science and Technology LIbrarianship) includes an article by Elizabeth C. Turtle and Martin P. Courtois on the importance of science librarians in the scholarly communication process. Quoting Turtle and Courtois, "It is... Allison Level The Summer 2007 issue of ISTL (Issues in Science and Technology LIbrarianship) includes an article by Elizabeth C. Turtle and Martin P. Courtois on the importance of science librarians in the scholarly communication process. Quoting Turtle and Courtois, "It is our view that the range of issues being addressed under the umbrella of scholarly communication offers tremendous opportunity to expand access to scientific information".

ISTL
http://www.istl.org/07-summer/

]]> RamWeb Email Addresses Used for Library Communications tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.205 2007-09-19T19:06:47Z 2007-09-19T19:13:34Z Is your current email address listed in RamWeb? The CSU Libraries now sends email communication to students, faculty, and staff via the email address that is on file with the University in their RamWeb account (https://ramweb.colostate.edu/index.aspx). You no longer have... Allison Level Is your current email address listed in RamWeb?

The CSU Libraries now sends email communication to students, faculty, and staff via the email address that is on file with the University in their RamWeb account (https://ramweb.colostate.edu/index.aspx). You no longer have to provide your email address to the Libraries when you register your PIN. The Libraries will automatically use the address on file via RamWeb. Be sure to update the email address listed in RamWeb .

]]> New Database: Index to American Botanical Literature tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.202 2007-09-12T20:06:41Z 2007-09-12T20:08:25Z Index to American Botanical Literature (vendor: NY Botanical Garden): According to NYBG, "The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany... Allison Level Index to American Botanical Literature (vendor: NY Botanical Garden): According to NYBG, "The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). The searchable database includes all those entries published in the Index since 1996, and thus includes botanical literature appearing since late 1995."

]]> The September Project tag:lib.colostate.edu,2007:/blogs/banr//16.200 2007-09-10T15:56:24Z 2007-09-10T15:59:42Z In commemoration of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, the Colorado State University Libraries is proud to take part in The September Project, a collection of over 520 libraries in all 50 states and 29 countries worldwide... Allison Level In commemoration of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, the Colorado State University Libraries is proud to take part in The September Project, a collection of over 520 libraries in all 50 states and 29 countries worldwide hosting events to celebrate freedom, democracy and active citizenship.

Visit Morgan Library's Democracy at Your Library display from Sept. 11 - Sept. 30 to get engaged:

-- Register to Vote
-- Research Ballot Issues and Candidates, http://lib.colostate.edu/research/election
-- Visit the Constitution Day Display (Sept. 10-21) to checkout books and learn about US founding documents on the first floor of Morgan Library across from the Loan & Reserve desk.
-- Checkout Books & Research Government Documents, http://lib.colostate.edu/research/docs
-- Exercise Your Right to Vote: Voice your opinion on library services and register to win prizes including a $50 gift certificate to the CSU bookstore. The drawing for the gift certificate will take place on September 30th.

More information about the September Project can be found at: http://lib.colostate.edu/about/news/september/

Information for this post is quoted from the Today@CSU article.

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