WRS: Environmental and Energy Resources Library

jryan1 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:28:34 +0000

From their website:
“eERL’s mission is to be the best possible online collection of environmental and energy sustainability resources for community college educators and for their students. The resources are also available for practitioners and the public.”

http://www.eerl.org/index.php

A clearinghouse for Environmental Science and Technology related websites and electronic resources.

Worldbook is now available

jryan1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:00:13 +0000

You can find it on our webpage under indexes and databases.

Check out these World Book Resources!

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbkids.html - World Book Kids

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbspanish.html - World Book Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbadvanced.html - World Book Advanced

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbreference.html - World Book Online Reference Center

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbdecouverte.html - L’Encyclopédie Découverte

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/wbdiscover.html - World Book Discover

PAWS and Moodle Downtime this Sunday

jryan1 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:11:47 +0000

To accommodate LSU ID project work, PAWS will not be available on Sunday, August 10, from 7:00 am until 11:00 am. In addition, all applications linked through PAWS will not be accessible during this time. These include the following database systems:

Accounts Payable

Advance Billing

Employee Time

Human Resources

Personal Access Web Services (PAWS)

Procurement

Registration

Security Access Maintenance

MAC / SAFARI USERS CANNOT ACCESS SCIENCE DIRECT ARTICLES

jryan1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:03:46 +0000

A problem with the current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader prevents Macs users with Safari from ScienceDirect PDF articles. ScienceDirect has reported this problem to Adobe and Safari. Until it is fixed:

* Hold the control button, click on the PDF link and select “download link to disk.” Save the file to the hard drive and view it from there.

* Use Mozilla Firefox instead of Safari, which does not seem to have this problem.

jryan1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:03:24 +0000

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings now available online

jryan1 — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:25:47 +0000

The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (http://icwdm.org) is pleased to announce that it has finished scanning and posting the first 16 volumes of the Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings, spanning 32 years, to its Digital Commons site http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm/

The Vertebrate Pest Conference is the longest running animal damage control conference in North America. These proceedings contain valuable information on the management of a variety of animal species that have had negative impacts on human health and safety. It is a veritable gold mine of information for researchers and practitioners.

New Science Direct Features

jryan1 — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:23:39 +0000

New to ScienceDirect are features that make the platform even more user friendly and deliver better, clearer results in fewer clicks.

Researchers like to quickly evaluate articles before reading them

Researchers can now use preview tabs that provide quick access to the important article assessment components: the abstract, figures/tables and references. These tabs are on the results page, the table of contents page and the article page.

Researchers have to scroll to the foot of articles to view reference information, which hinders reading

We’ve made it possible for researchers to view reference information within the body of a paper when their cursor moves over a reference marker.

Researchers want to access specific information quickly

A new navigation pane on the search results page provides a view of the research output on a subject by year, by content type or by journal/book titles with the most results. By using these filters researchers can refine their search results without having to return to the search form.

Once a researcher has evaluated and read an article, they often want to email it to their peers

A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including ‘Cited By’, ‘Download PDF’, ‘E-mail Article’ and more, into one easy-to-find location. Researchers can now take further action quickly and easily with little extra effort.

Researchers are interested to know how other experts rate articles they read

Due to be launched in phases over the coming months, the integration of article comments and ratings from Elsevier’s social collaboration site, 2collab enables researchers to evaluate papers according to colleague-driven comments and ratings of articles right on the article page.

Basic Petroleum Data Book

jryan1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:33:43 +0000

Basic Petroleum Data Book
American Petroleum Institute
Washington, DC: American Petroleum Institute: 2008
Call# Ref HD9561 .A7 B35

From API:”The Data Book is a compendium of U.S. and international petroleum statistics beginning, in most instances, in 1947.

The Data Book contains historical data on worldwide oil and natural gas reserves, exploration and drilling, production, refining, transportation, historical prices, product demand, imports, exports and environmental information. A glossary and a source list (names and telephone numbers) are also included in the nearly 600-page book.”

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 8: Environment

jryan1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:44 +0000

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 8: Environment
Ed. by Martin Melosi
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Call# Ref F209 .N47

From The University of North Carolina Press:
“From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have shaped human culture in the region–and the ways humans have shaped their environment. Articles examine how the South’s ecology, physiography, and climate have influenced southerners–not only as a daily fact of life but also as a metaphor for understanding culture and identity.

This volume includes ninety-eight essays that explore–both broadly and specifically–elements of the southern environment. Thematic overviews address subjects such as plants, animals, energy use and development, and natural disasters. Shorter topical entries feature familiar species such as the alligator, the ivory-billed woodpecker, kudzu, and the mockingbird. Also covered are important individuals in southern environmental history and prominent places in the landscape, such as the South’s national parks and seashores. New articles cover contemporary issues in land use and conservation, environmental protection, and the current status of the flora and fauna widely associated with the South.”

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography

jryan1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:12:53 +0000

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Ed. by Noretta Koertge
Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008
Call# Ref Q141 .N45

From Gale:
“Charles Scribner’s Sons releases the first major expansion of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, entitled The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, featuring more than 775 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all regions and historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature. More than 500 of the new articles are devoted to scientists deceased since 1980 and not previously treated in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography including Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Fred Hoyle, Mary Leakey, Konrad Lorenz, Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edward Teller. There are also more than 75 articles on figures overlooked in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (from Chrysippus to Kinsey) and 250 “postscript” commentaries on important careers that have inspired new research and interpretation (from Archimedes and Aristotle to Darwin, Einstein, and Oppenheimer).

The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography guarantees the permanent relevance of the original work and constitutes a huge expansion of its scope.

Selected biographies include:

Luis Walter Alvarez
Aristotle
Charles Babbage
Francis Bacon
Charles Robert Darwin
Albert Einstein
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Galileo Galilei
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Thomas Henry Huxley
Carl Gustav Jung
Isaac Newton
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Louis Pasteur
Jean Piaget
Claudine Picardet
Julia Bowman Robinson
Carl Sagan
Beatrice Tinsley
Alan Mathison Turing
And many more”