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Combined Science Library Proposal - Feedback Needed by Noon on Monday, March 12

In coordination with Land, Buildings & Real Estate, SULAIR has created a program proposal for a combined science library to be included in the developing program for the Old Chem building. This library would combine the collections of Falconer Biology Library, the Swain Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library, and the Mathematics & Statistics Library. Faculty, staff, postdocs, and students are welcome to review the proposal and send comments to Michael Newman, Falconer Biology Library. In order to be incorporated in our first round of planning, comments will need to be received by NOON on Monday, March 12th.

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Marine biology on display

Stanford Magazine Falconer Biology Library’s current display focuses on marine biology. The exhibit features “The Comeback Corals”, an article in the July/August, 2010, issue of Stanford Magazine, which describes Stanford professor Steve Palumbi’s research on corals in the South Pacific in relation to climate change. Included in the display are books on corals, marine ecology, and other marine biology topics from Falconer’s collection. On loan from the Miller Library at Hopkins Marine Station are a poster that outlines the history of ichthyology in California (which includes David Starr Jordan, of course!), an impressive model of a tuna, and archival tags that are used in Stanford professor Barbara Block's tuna research. Visit the Miller Library Web Site for more information about their collection of marine biology resources or use SearchWorks to find books and journals in Falconer Library or other libraries at Stanford.

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SCOPUS is now available

Recently the libraries added a subscription to SCOPUS. A link to this database can be found in the list of Databases by Subject

SCOPUS indexes journals and quality web sources in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Its coverage is worldwide, and it indexes literature as far back as 1823. Over 18,000 sources are indexed, including over 16,500 peer-reviewed journals. For journal articles published since 1996, cited references are indexed, making cited reference searching possible. Alerts allow users to receive weekly updates on topics of interest.


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CRISP replaced by RePORTER

The familiar CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) system has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool.

RePORTER is an upgraded version of CRISP that provides enhanced searching capabilities and access to the results (publications and patents) of both intramural and extramural projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It also links to related information in other databases such as the National Library of Medicine’s Medline. RePORTER provides access to records of projects funded each year from fiscal year 1985 to the present.


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SULAIR introduces xSearch

Recently Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) released xSearch for use by the Stanford community. Developed through a partnership with Deep Web Technologies, xSearch provides Stanford researchers and students with a single search option for multiple online resources. Searches may be limited to specific databases, or all available sources may be searched simultaneously. Search results are merged into one relevance ranked list, and are clustered by topic, author, source publication, publisher, and date. Custom searches using any selection of available databases can be created and re-used.

Users may also create alerts in order to be informed automatically of new items that match search criteria. Alerts are quick and easy to set up and are a particularly useful feature of xSearch because they can merge results from multiple databases. Results of alerts can be received via email or RSS.

Currently xSearch covers 28 databases, including all of the most important journal article indexing and abstracting databases in the life sciences. The list of databases can grow and change in response to user demand and patterns of use. These databases are now available:

ABI/Inform Global
Academic Search Premier
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
ADS (Astrophysical Data System) Abstracts Service
Aerospace & High Technology Database
American Chemical Society Journals
Annual Reviews
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
BIOSIS Previews
CAB Abstracts
COS Funding Opportunities
Current Index to Statistics
Derwent Innovations Index
Dissertations and Theses
Engineering Village
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
GeoRef
HighWire Press
IEEE Xplore
INSPEC
Knovel
Lexis Nexis Academic
MathSciNet
PsycINFO
PubMed
SCI-TECHnetBASE
Web of Science
Zoological Record


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Spiders and webs at Falconer Library

Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids To celebrate Halloween, the October display in Falconer Biology Library focuses on books about spiders and webs. The library has a large collection of books about spiders and other arthropods, including Ecophysiology of Spiders and The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids . The library also has a large collection of books about webs, including food webs and applications of the semantic web in life sciences, in addition to books about spider webs. Some of these are on display along with the books about spiders. Visit the library in October and see our seasonal display.

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New feature: tutorials and interactive guides

Falconer Biology Library’s home page now includes a link to a page of Tutorials and Interactive Guides . Brief videos created at Falconer demonstrate how to find journals in Socrates, how to find journals using the Ejournals page, and how to use BIOSIS Previews, the index to journal articles in the life sciences. Basic Subject Search in BIOSIS shows how to perform a subject search, how to view results, and how to use those results to improve and refine your search.

Our first videos were created by Kim Stuart, Falconer’s summer intern, and we hope to build on Kim’s work with additional tutorials.

In addition to providing links to videos created at Falconer, the Tutorials and Interactive Guides page lists other tutorials. These cover EndNote, PubMed, RefWorks, and some of the most frequently used journal article databases in biology. Send a message to Falconer Biology Library if you’d like to suggest additional tutorials to list on this page.

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Falconer Biology Library launches its new website

On July 1, 2009, Falconer Biology Library completed the final step in launching its new website by deleting links to the old site and redirecting old URLs to the new site. The process of planning, design, and development of the new site has taken nearly a year, and this work is a part of a larger effort to enhance and update websites across the science and engineering libraries at Stanford.

The new website was designed using Drupal, an open-source content management platform. Drupal is easier to use than our old platform and it gives us greater control over the appearance and features of the site. All content has been updated, new content has been added, and we plan to add more content in the future. Drupal also allows us to make our website content more dynamic, and our new homepage now changes weekly and highlights a new library acquisition.

A major feature of Falconer’s website is a collection of Research Guides . The Research Guides cover more than a dozen topics in biology and are designed to serve as a starting point for research. Through Research Guides, you can select a topic and identify databases, article resources, organizations, government agencies, encyclopedias, and other web resources that provide information on that topic.


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Access to LANL databases will be discontinued

After August 31, 2009, OPPIE, LANL’s database search system, will no longer be available to Stanford users. The subscription to OPPIE will be discontinued because all databases offered through LANL’s system are now available at Stanford through other platforms, primarily Web of Science/Web of Knowledge. In addition, Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to cease offering the OPPIE system in the near future.

If you use OPPIE, please contact Falconer Biology Library or your local library for help with the transition to other database platforms.

Databases in the Life Sciences is a list of databases that are available to Stanford users. Use this list to find alternatives to OPPIE. Note that in this list, Key Site is used to designate the most important databases.


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OskiCat replaces Pathfinder at UC Berkeley

On June 24, 2009, OskiCat replaced Pathfinder and GLADIS as the UC Berkeley library catalog. If you’ve used Pathfinder, OskiCat will look familiar but with OskiCat you can:
  • Find books and journals from more UCB campus libraries, including the Institutes of Governmental Studies and Transportation Studies Libraries and the Water Resources Center Archives.
  • Limit results to available items.
  • Limit results to online items.
  • View status of individual volumes and journal issues.
  • Save and e-mail your search results.
  • Export records to citation management software.
Melvyl remains as the catalog of all University of California libraries. The Research Libraries Cooperative Program (RLCP) allows Stanford faculty, academic staff, and graduate students to request research materials directly from the University of California at Berkeley or the University of Texas at Austin if these materials are not available at Stanford. For best results, check OskiCat to be sure the item you need is at UC Berkeley before submitting your RLCP request. For more information, see Interlibrary Services.

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