Engineering & Science Library
Newsletter - September 2012
In This Issue
- Hours
- Staff Activities
- Copyright
- Workshops
- Knovel University Challenge
- Cost of Knowledge
- Open Access Week
- Threatened Species
- Databases/Journals
- National Codes Review
- New Books/DVDs
Building/Circulation Desk
Mon-Thur: 8:00am-9:00pm
Fri: 8:00am-8:00pm
Sat: 10:00am-8:00pm
Sun: 10:00am-9:00pm
Reference Hours
Mon-Fri: 11:00-4:00pm
Remote Office Hours
BioSciences Complex,
Room 3240
Tue: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Chernoff Hall, 4th Floor Lounge
Tue: 10:30am - 12noon Thur: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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A selection process for a new Head of the Engineering & Science Library has begun. Morag Coyne will be interim head during the search
period.
Congratulations to Sharon Murphy who has been appointed Head, Academic
Services, and to Laurie Scott, who has been appointed AUL Academic Services.
Michael White completed his 2011-12 term as Chair of the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Engineering Education Association (ASEE). He also presented a paper titled Patent Classification Reform: Implications for Teaching, Learning and Using the Patent Literature at the 119th ASEE Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, June 10-13.
Nasser Saleh presented at the 40th annual conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science (CAIS) in Waterloo, ON. The session was titled: Collaborative Information Behaviour of Engineering Students
Sharon Murphy was a panelist at: Sink or Swim: Strategies for the Coming Deluge, at the Canadian Library Annual Conference in Ottawa, June.
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Copyright Clearance and Permissions
The Copyright Advisory Office is now offering a clearance service for both print handouts and for scanned copies of print materials. This is a new service and is the best way for you to be able to use scanned copies of materials on Learning Management Sites like Moodle, Medtech or Desire2Learn.
Copyright and the Classroom - Workshop
Mark Swartz, copyright specialist at Queen’s will be offering a copyright workshop on September 20th as part of the Teacher Development Workshop Series.
Registration available via Moodle.
Expanding Horizons
Workshops
Expanding Horizons is a series of workshops offered by the School of Graduate Studies. The Library will be offering several sessions this year
including:
- Research Resources at Queen’s Library
- Good Citation
Practices - Research Data Management
- Research Strategies Across Disciplines:
a Panel Discussion
Knovel University Challenge
Knovel University Challenge is back! Contestants must answer a set of engineering questions for a chance to win an iPad, Beats headphones and other prizes.
New this year is a weekly challenge in which students answer two questions for a chance to win a Western Digital HD TV Live Streaming Media Player.
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The Cost of Knowledge -
Faculty and Librarians Boycott Elsevier
Almost 13,000 researchers have added their names to a petition in protest against Elsevier's high subscription prices and open access restrictions. The online petition allows signers the option to refrain from publishing, refereeing, or doing editorial work through Elsevier. Some of the people are listed as being from Queen's including Nasser Saleh, Integrated Learning Librarian.
For more details see The Cost of Knowledge and Queen's Journal, September 14th.
Journal Publishing Reform
Journal Publishing Reform is a collection of links to information, opinion, activism, and other issues concerning the practices of research journal publishers (particularly in the mathematical sciences).
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Open Access Week
October 22-28, 2012
"Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or
copyright-holder". For more information see Open Access Week 2012.
Upcoming events will be posted on the library website.
Evolution of Science: Open Science and the Future of Publishing - video
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Scientists Identify 100
Most Threatened Species
For the first time ever, more than 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) have come together to identify 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet. A report , called Priceless or Worthless?, was released on September 11th and can be found on the Zoological Society of London website.
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Engineering Village's interface received a makeover to improve usability ( EV hosts Compendex, Inspec, GeoRef, GEOBASE and Referex.) Check here to see what’s new.
A new version of Web of Knowledge was released in August. See a list of enhancements.
New Journals
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is launching two new peer-reviewed open access journals, JAP Materials and APL Materials
The Electrochemical Society is launching three new journals in 2012. The ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (JSS) is a spin-off of the Society’s flagship journal, Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES). ECS Electrochemistry Letters (EEL) and ECS Solid State Letters (SSL) are new rapid-communication journals that will take the place of the ECS journal Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters
Fall 2012 Public Review Proposed Changes
to the 2010 National Codes
The Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC) invites interested parties to take part in the fall 2012 public review of proposed changes to the 2010 editions of the National Model Construction Codes. The review will run from September 24 to November 16, 2012 on the National Model Construction Codes website.
New Books/DVDs
The ballet of the planets : on the mathematical elegance of planetary motion QB361 B46 2012
The last great ape: a journey through Africa and a fight for the heart of the continent
QL737.P96 D76 2012
The violist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code
QH431 .K24 2012
Successful science communication : telling it like it is Q223 .S884 2011
Atoms in Intense Laser Fields, online from Knovel Books
Structural Integrity and Failure, online from Knovel Books