In order to enhance our level of service to the Chemistry Department, the Sciences Library will be providing librarian office hours at the Chemistry Building. A librarian will be available in room E258 to answer your questions and assist you with your research starting this week and continuing until the end of the semester.
So stop by and meet your librarian. We’re here to help!
Please join the Sciences Library for:
Lunch @ the Library: Library 101
At 12:30-1:20pm on Wednesday, October 3rd in 102 SL (Sciences Library classroom)
You may bring your lunch. Coffee and cookies will be provided.
In this workshop, you will learn:
The Sciences Library has a new exhibit on display for September: the Science of the Civil War.
The exhibit features books from the UI Libraries collection and some great Civil War era artifacts, including:
The library would like to thank the Geoscience Department and Vera Jean Fitzgerald for loaning us these items.
Here’s an interesting news story:
“Strong winds and storm surge from Hurricane Isaac’s landfall forced the Mississippi River to flow backwards for nearly 24 hours on Tuesday, August 28.”
(http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3387&from=rss_home#.UD6pzaPwGuJ)
The Elsevier products ScienceDirect, Scopus, Hub, Applications, SciVal, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool will be unavailable for approximately 19 hours on Saturday, August 25, 2012 due to scheduled maintenance and updates.
Expected Downtime: 6:30am Saturday, August 25th – 1:30am, Sunday, August 26th (CDT).
According to Elsevier, the updates will result in the following changes:
“ScienceDirect: Effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for RSS feeds, image search, and other features.
Scopus: Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement.
Hub: Faster and friendlier search capability through several new features.”
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. During this downtime, you may find Web of Science to be useful as an alternative resource. Please contact the Sciences Library at lib-sciences@uiowa.edu or (319) 335-3083 if you have any questions.
From August 20 – December 14, 2012, the Sciences Library will be open:
Monday – Thursday: 9:00am – 9:00pm
Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: 1:00pm – 9:00pm
The Sciences Library will be CLOSED on September 1, 2, and 3 for Labor Day.
The University of Iowa Libraries has added a new abstract and citation database to its collection. Scopus is similar to our current database Web of Science (WOS). While it has fewer years of journal coverage than WOS, for more recent years, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and quality web sources. It’s subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics ; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Scopus is available to students, faculty and staff of the University of Iowa and can be accessed both on and off-campus at: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/scopus.
Scopus features include:
For more information about Scopus, please visit About Scopus. View tutorials and other information at Scopus Help. If you have questions or would like to arrange a demonstration of Scopus for yourself or your class, please contact the Sciences Library at 319-335-3083 or lib-sciences@uiowa.edu.
The University of Iowa Libraries has added a new reference database to its collection: AccessScience. AccessScience is available to students, faculty and staff of the University of Iowa and can be accessed both on and off-campus.
AccessScience (video demo) allows researchers to browse by topic or use keyword searching to find:
Other features include:
AccessScience is an excellent place for science & technology researchers to begin their search. It provides an authoritative general overview of science & technology topics and guides researchers to other relevant and reliable sources for further study. If you would like a demonstration of this new database, please contact the Sciences Library (335-3083).
Join Bill Fuhr from the Davenport Patent and Trademarks Resource Center for a Patent & Trademark Workshop. There will be two sessions:
Register at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/patent.html.
Workshop Description:
From June 5th – July 27, 2012, the Sciences Library will be open the following hours:
Monday – Thursday: 9:00am – 9:00pm
Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: 1:00pm – 9:00pm
We will also be CLOSED on Wednesday, July 4th, for Independence Day.