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Learn more about PubMed during a 15 min Library Xpress class tomorrow , March 14 at 10:00 am and again at 2:30 in 2001c Seamans Center Computer classroom.

See Business Library titles that have been recently borrowed and returned.  Materials appear in call-number order. Readers can discover which subjects are popular or used for research.

Click on a title for more information.

Updated March 12, 2013

ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications has begun to digitize the Supporting Information for nearly 50,000 articles published in ACS journals prior to 1996.

From Dave Martinsen – ACS Publications:

In August 2012, ACS Publications began a program to strategically re-invest in and upgrade its broadly subscribed ACS Legacy Archive – containing over 450,000 articles published since 1879. This included a conservation program to digitize Supporting Information for articles published prior to 1996 in ACS Journals. This project will add the SI for nearly 50,000 articles: in total it spans about 800,000 pages of searchable and indexed information.

This material has previously been available only in microform – and even then was accessible to only a fraction of the ACS Legacy Archives current installed base due to scattered/incomplete holdings, the overall decline of the microform format, or as Ben indicates, missing or damaged media.   We are in process of scanning, digitizing and OCRing the files: this material will be uploaded thoughout 2013 as it makes its way through ACS quality assurance processes.

There are 3 primary benefits to the scientific and library community from this project.  First it preserves and makes broadly accessible a significant amount of the 20th century’s primary research data.  Secondly, with indexed metadata and full text search of the actual content files, it vastly increases the materials’ discoverability and integration into the current research workflow.  Finally, there will be no additional charge to current subscribers or one time access licensees for access to this information:  access to supplementary information – both meta data and the complete information files, will be available at the Abstract level, requiring neither subscribed access nor authentication to access or download.

For more information, please see ACS Publications’ FAQs for Supporting Information.

         

Celebrate Pi Day!
on Thursday, March 14th
at 1:59 – 4:00 pm

In front of the Lichtenberger Engineering Library in the Student Commons.

 

There will be FREE apple pie bites, lemonade, and coffee as well as a trivia competitions every 15 minutes.

Pi, Greek letter, is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535…. Pi is used in many different fields and can be seen in our everyday lives. It may be seen in art, structural design, body mobility, navigation, and probability. To celebrate the versatility of this number, the Lichtenberger Engineering Library and the College of Engineering have joined together to bring you free pie bites. Join us for this fun event!

3/14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday!

Have you tried Scopus, our new database? The UI Libraries provide free access to Scopus, an excellent multidisciplinary citation database. Join us for a Scopus Workshop and learn advanced techniques that will help you conduct your research more efficiently and effectively.

Lunch @ the Sciences Library
Scopus Workshop
11:30am- 12:20pm, Wednesday, March 13th
102 SL (Sciences Library Classroom)

In this workshop you will learn how to:

• Access Scopus from off-campus;
• Use refine options to retrieve more relevant search results;
• Create reports to analyze your results;
• Save citations from Scopus to RefWorks, EndNote and other citation managers;
• Save searches and set up alerts to keep up with the literature in your field;
• Find the full-text of citations retrieved in Scopus;
• Get help when you need it!

This workshop is free and open to all UI students, faculty and staff. There is no need to register. You may bring your lunch if desired. Free coffee will be provided. If you have any questions, please contact Sara Scheib at sara-scheib@uiowa.edu or (319) 335-3024.

 

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the  medical literature and includes over 17 million bibliographic citations in life  sciences. This one hour session will introduce you to the basics of searching  PubMed and will also cover: using subject headings (MeSH headings), combining  searches, choosing limits, and saving, printing and emailing search results.

No time for class?  Ask your librarian for a private consult! We will also offer this workshop on Wednesday, April 24th.

Pontiac March 8th 1863

My Dear Children

When I left you, I little thought that I would be under the hand of disease so long; before I left you I did not feel well for several days although I said nothing, you probably have received Sammys last by this time.

I had a prosperous journey, but had to stop often and long, I was 6 hours in Indianappolis and was afraid I would, not reach Chicago that week, but fortunately did arive at 10 oclock 40 min Saturday night. When I paid my fair in Chicago to Pontiac I had just $7, out of $20, I did not get for half price any of the way, when I should have paid $5, I had to pay $6, and $8,50 instead of $3, what I had left I gave to Sammy to pay taxes, I went in the street car to Mrs T. Holmes, they were in bed, but T. rose and let me in I went to Sarah’s room and found her very sick with the jaundice Thomas had just recovered from the same disease, they saw our names in it Brigs house and were very sorry that we did not come directly there, I told her (M. Ann) the reason she said the children had the whooping cough, two years ago. Sarah hopes to see you when you return, she and Mary are making preparations to go to N.H. in May.

Mary when you come home be sure and start early in the week, because you may have to wait at each station a good while; if you stop in Layfayette you had better pay your fair to that place then you can come home any direction you please, but I think the best way is by Chicago. Mrs. Cotton expects to start tomorrow, I cannot send what I want to with either she or Mr. Cropsy I got a peck of russets to send you but I can only send a few with the hand kerchief and tobacco. Sammy is going to write to Frank, about renting the house, so I will say nothing about it.

Dr Capron has been here since this letter was commenced, and says that my hips are going to be as my neck was, I did not discover the swelling until today when Maggie was rubing them for me, I have not told you how I am affected when I came home I had a very severe pain in my back, then it went to my left limb, the gathering is at the lower end of my back bone on both hips.

Kiss little Frankie for and may heavens richest blessings rest on you all is my earnest prayer.

Your Aff Mother
N. Murphy

Pie, of course. Before you head out for Spring Break, stop by the UI Libraries on Thursday, March 14 for the celebration. Grab an apple tartlet at:

Art Library	9:15am & 1:45pm
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences	1:59pm until gone
Lichtenberger Engineering Library	1:59pm – 4:00pm
Main Library	1:59pm – 2:59pm
Pomerantz Business Library	10:00am until gone
Sciences Library	10:00am until gone

 

Think back to your high school geometry class; Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is approximately 3.14159, but has been calculated to over two trillion digits, it goes on infinitely without repeating or becoming a pattern. Science would not exist without Pi.  Mathematics, statistics, engineering, geography, geology, computer science, etc. all rely on Pi.

More information about Pi can be found at Wolfram MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Pi.html