Are you new to EndNote, or are you an EndNote user who wants to sharpen your skills or learn about the features of the newest version of the software, Endnote X3? If so, please consider attending a free EndNote Basic Training session from Thomson-Reuters on February 23 on OSU’s Columbus campus.
Learn about:
* Building an EndNote Library, including creating a library, setting basic preferences, and the four ways of entering data.
* EndNote Cite While You Write in Word documents or in OpenOffice.
Sign up here, or e-mail Jessica Page with any questions.
February 3rd, 2010
Science Cafés are live events that involve a face-to-face conversation with a scientist about current science topics. Join Sheryl Barringer, Professor of Food Science and Technology and lover of good chocolate, for OSU’s next Science Café on February 3, 2010 at 6:30pm at the Gateway Film Center. More information is available at http://tinyurl.com/osusciencecafescicafe@osu.edu.
January 21st, 2010
Columbus-campus department libraries, including the Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Library, will be closed on Monday, January 18 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, January 19.
Thompson Library and the Science and Engineering Library will be open during their normal hours.
January 14th, 2010
Two new e-book titles with interactive content have been added to Knovel.
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November 24th, 2009
The FAES Library will close at 5pm on Wednesday, November 25. It will remain closed through Saturday, November 28 and will reopen on Sunday, November 29 at the usual time of 4pm.
November 19th, 2009
OhioLINK has set up trials for two Statewide Multidisciplinary Index, Abstract, and Reference Citation Database products.
1. Scopus is available for your review at http://www.scopus.com.
2. ISI Web of Knowledge is on trial at http://www.isiknowledge.com/. In addition to our usual ISI Web of Science content, other resources are available:
- Web of Science® with Conference Proceedings (1965-present)
- Derwent Innovations Index (1963-present)
- BIOSIS Previews® (1969-present)
- MEDLINE® (1950-present)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index™
- Science: *1990-present*
- Social Science & Humanities:*1990-present*
Please send comments to Amanda Maddock, maddock.31@osu.edu, by November 18.
November 13th, 2009
Columbus-campus department libraries, including the Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Library, will be closed on Wednesday, November 11 in honor of Veterans’ Day. Regular hours will resume on Thursday the 12th.
Thompson Library and the Science and Engineering Library will be open during their normal hours.
November 5th, 2009
News from TheScientist.com Posted by Bob Grant
Historically short-shrifted by federal funding bodies, academic agricultural research was recently promised redemption: a federal funding agency of its very own that will award competitive grants in a fashion similar to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But will the new agency, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), be able to put public-sector agricultural science on an equal footing with biomedical research? Read more
October 27th, 2009
October, 21, 10:30AM–12PM.
Thompson Library Room 165 (Columbus).
OARDC (Wooster) Research Services Room 130.
Via live streaming on the web.
Join a panel of scholars to discuss the impact of open access on the scholarly communications process.
October 15th, 2009
The Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) database is now available through the EBSCO interface rather than Ovid. You’ll have access to the same content, but we expect this interface will provide more reliable access and be more intuitive to use. Please contact a librarian if you have any questions.
October 2nd, 2009
Several new titles in Food Science have are now available from Knovel. These include:
Blackburn, C. d. W., & McClure, P. J. (Eds.). (2009). Foodborne Pathogens - Hazards, Risk Analysis and Control (2nd ed.): Woodhead Publishing.
ISBN: 978-1-84569-362-6
Blackburn, C. d. W. (Ed.). (2006). Food Spoilage Microorganisms: Woodhead Publishing.
ISBN: 978-1-85573-966-6
Fellows, P. (2009). Food Processing Technology - Principles and Practice (3rd ed.): Woodhead Publishing.
ISBN: 978-1-84569-216-2
Forrest, M. (2009). Food Contact Materials - Rubbers, Silicones, Coatings & Inks: Woodhead Publishing.
ISBN: 978-1-84735-414-3
Talbot, G. (Ed.). (2009). Science and Technology of Enrobed and Filled Chocolate, Confectionery and Bakery Products: Woodhead Publishing.
ISBN: 978-1-84569-390-9
September 18th, 2009
University Libraries will be reducing hours for several departmental library locations beginning Fall Quarter, 2009. Starting September 23, 2009, the Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Library will be open the following hours:
* Monday-Wednesday 8am-8pm
* Thursday-Friday 8am-5pm
* Saturday closed
* Sunday 4pm-8pm
September 18th, 2009
August 3, 2009
The renovation of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library is complete. The transformation of the library into a 21 century center for teaching, learning, and research was a decade in the making. With the three year construction phase finished, we are now celebrating its August opening. More…
August 14th, 2009
The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers. You choose the journals you’re most interested in and receive updates through your RSS feedreader. Also, individual citations can be exported to RefWorks.
- ticTOCs is easy to use, and it’s free.
- Find 12,571 scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from 437 publishers.
- View the latest TOC for each journal.
- Link to the full text of 375,517 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows).
- Export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders.
- Select and save journal titles to view future TOCs (Register to ensure your MyTOCs are permanently saved).
ticTOCS is a project of a consortium consisting of: the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute and funded by JISC.
July 7th, 2009
This is National Pollinator Week, a time to appreciate the essential contribution that pollinators make to our abundant food supply.
There are some events planned in Ohio and other states as part of this week-long celebration. Visit the Pollinator Partnership to see what’s happening here and elsewhere.
The Beekeeper, a blog by Kim Flottum, has some interesting information on bee-related issues.
June 22nd, 2009
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The day’s agenda is to:
Give a human face to environmental issues;
Empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development;
Promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues;
Advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
The theme for WED 2009 is ‘Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change’. It reflects the urgency for nations to agree on a new deal at the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen some 180 days later in the year, and the links with overcoming poverty and improved management of forests.
This year’s host is Mexico which reflects the growing role of the Latin American country in the fight against climate change, including its growing participation in the carbon markets.
Mexico is also a leading partner in UNEP’s Billion Tree Campaign. The country, with the support of its President and people, has spearheaded the pledging and planting of some 25 per cent of the trees under the campaign. Accounting for around 1.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the country is demonstrating its commitment to climate change on several fronts.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon states that the WED celebration will “further underline Mexico’s determination to manage natural resources and deal with the most demanding challenge of the 21st century – climate change.”
June 5th, 2009
From The Morung Express:
The 22nd day of the month of May is celebrated every year as the International day for biological diversity. It is a United Nations–sanctioned international holiday for the promotion of biodiversity issues. Biological diversity includes all life on earth and comprises of not only the plants and animals that we see but also the microscopic organisms that live in the soil, the bacteria in our digestive tracts, and the myriad biological processes that sustain life on earth.
Read more here!
May 21st, 2009
CABI today has announced free access to its specialist Global Health database – the definitive database for public health information – www.cabdirect.org/globalhealth
Simultaneously CABI has developed a Swine flu ‘dashboard’ that brings together up-to-the-minute information on the virus (http://www.netvibes.com/cabialerts).The ‘dashboard’ includes resources from CABI and critical advice from key health organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The Global Health database brings together global knowledge on every aspect of influenza since 1910. The knowledge it contains could provide a key weapon in health researchers’ response in understanding and controlling the virus.
Much of the data in Global Health is derived from publications that have long since vanished. They tell us a great deal about past pandemics, from rates and patterns of transmission, duration, timing of epidemiological peaks, geographical distribution of the disease, government preparedness and quarantine provisions through to effects on different age and social groups, severity in developing versus developed countries, symptoms, causes of mortality (secondary problems, especially pneumonia, were devastating in the Spanish flu) and mortality rates.
By opening the door to a wealth of historical information on past pandemics, the Global Health database has the potential to reveal vital clues in the international fight against swine flu (influenza A – H1N1).
May 5th, 2009
We’ve received a lot of questions about renewing OhioLINK books this week. You can renew your OhioLINK books online, up to four times, as long as another user has not requested the item. Renewals can be made within seven days of the book’s due date. Here’s how:
1. Log on to your library record/account from the OSU library’s Web site.
2. Click on # items currently checked out.
3. Select the items you want to renew.
4. Click on “renew selected items.”
CDs, DVDs and videos requested through OhioLINK may not be renewed.
Find answers to more frequently asked questions about OhioLINK online borrowing, including a video tutorial, here. Please contact your library if you have questions about renewing OhioLINK items.
Related FAQs:
FAQs: How Do I Borrow Books From OhioLINK?
FAQs: Where is that OhioLINK book?
Written by Candi Clevenger
April 2nd, 2009
The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, based in Sacramento, California, “seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.”
The site features essays written by farmworker strikers and volunteers from the 1960s through the 1980s — “first hand accounts by those who helped to build the farmworker movement.” Also included are poetry, manuscripts, photos, music, oral history, discussion and archives — all of which document Cesar Chavez and his farmworker movement 1962-1993.
Go to http://farmworkermovement.org for more information.
February 26th, 2009
Join us for an informal discussion about a scientific topic. Anyone is welcome, although seating may be limited. We will meet the first Wednesday of each month at The South Campus Gateway Landmark Movie Theater.
Food and drink are available for purchase at the Theatre.
Parking: Park in the Gateway parking ramp– it’s $1.00 for three hours
For more information on Science Cafe Columbus, and for instructions on joining our announcement list, please visit our website: http://library.osu.edu/sites/sel/sciencecafe.
Have ideas for Cafe topics, or want to volunteer to be a guest speaker? Email us at: scicafe@osu.edu
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Date: March 4, 2009 6:30 pm (doors open at 6 pm)
Speaker: William J. Mitsch, Distinguished Professor of Environment and Natural Resources (Wetland Ecology) and Director, Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park
Title: Protecting New Orleans from Hurricanes: Restoring the Ecosystem Services of Wetlands
Summary: Hurricane Katrina of late August 2005 caused major damage to many Gulf Coast communities and cities including New Orleans and even permanently damaged a presidential administration that did not understand the magnitude of damage that can occur when we leave our cities vulnerable. The vulnerability of New Orleans has been a slow but steady deterioration of its “wet suit” as 4900 km2 of wetlands have disappeared since 1900, at a rate as high as 100 km2/yr. This is mainly caused by the isolation of the Mississippi River Delta from the Mississippi River which has been almost completely leveed to enhance ship transportation and by thousands of km of drainage canals such as the recently abandoned Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO), a major canal dug to New Orleans in 1963 which killed thousands of hectares of forested wetlands that had, before that, also protected New Orleans from maritime storms. It is partially the funneling of the storm surge up MRGO (Mister GO) from Hurricane Katrina that led to the destruction of the deteriorating inner levee system and flooded the under sea-level New Orleans for 3 weeks. Ecological engineering approaches that rely principally on the energies of nature are the only economically reasonable way to restore the lost marshes that used to protect New Orleans. Several major river diversions that reconnect the river to its delta, thereby introducing river sediments to decrease the water depth and allow marsh plants to once again flourish are being attempted. Low-energy-cost restoration techniques that lead to sustainable protection of New Orleans must be emphasized–that is the role of ecological engineering.
About our speaker:
William J. Mitsch is Distinguished Professor of Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Science Graduate Program, and Ecological Engineering at The Ohio State University and Director of the University’s 20-hectare Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park.
Prior to arriving at Ohio State in 1986, he was on the faculties at Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Louisville. He received a B.S. in engineering at University of Notre Dame, and an M.E. (environmental engineering sciences) and Ph.D. (systems ecology) at University of Florida.
His research and teaching has focused on wetland biogeochemistry, wetland creation and restoration, ecological engineering, and ecosystem modeling. Dr. Mitsch has authored or co-authored over 400 papers, books, and other publications in ecological and environmental science. He has edited or co-authored 16 books including 4 editions of the standard wetlands textbook Wetlands (Mitsch and Gosselink, 2007), Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration (Mitsch and J?rgensen, 2004) and a forthcoming book Wetland Ecosystems (Mitsch et al. 2009). Dr. Mitsch gives an average of 15 invited lectures annually around the world.
Dr. Mitsch currently teaches wetland ecology and management and ecological restoration at Ohio State University. He has advised over 70 graduate students and post-docs and twelve are faculty at other universities such as University of Oklahoma, Texas A&M University, George Mason University, Auburn University, and Ohio State University. He is a frequent advisor to national (U.S. EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sea Grant, NOAA, National Research Council) and international (UNEP, Ramsar, SCOPE, MISTRA-Sweden, IPCC) organizations on wetland and water resource matters.
Dr Mitsch is a AAAS Fellow and has been a Fulbright Fellow to Denmark (1986-87) and Botswana (2007). He has had sponsored research from many state, Federal, and private agencies and foundations. He has been involved in international collaborations in many countries including Denmark, Sweden, Spain, France, Estonia, Iceland, Costa Rica, China, Korea, Botswana, Egypt, Jordan, New Zealand, and Australia.
Among his awards, Dr. Mitsch and his frequent collaborator Sven E. J?rgensen of Denmark received the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on August 19, 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden. He also received the National Wetland Research Award (1996) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Law Institute, a designation as a AAAS Fellow (1996) from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University (1998), CH2M-Hill Foundation National Award (2000), the Theodore M. Sperry Award (2005) for a career in ecosystem restoration from the Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER), and a SWS Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) from the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS). His Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at Ohio State University achieved the status of Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in June 2008 from the Ramsar Convention in Switzerland.
February 26th, 2009
While content in the Electronic Journal Center remains unavailable, OhioLINK is working diligently to provide access to the same content on each publisher’s Web site. Available publishers’ sites are listed here and we continue to update this list as needed. Project Muse has been added to the list today and their content is now available. Links to the listed publisher sites work for both on and off campus users.
Over the weekend OhioLINK staff were able to restore EJC content from 2008-2009 for most publishers, except Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell. We continue to work to restore the remaining EJC content as quickly as possible, but do not have all the reload processes in place yet nor the experience to provide a useful time line for full EJC restoration. We hope to be able to share a schedule in the near future.
Since we have a growing body of available content, we restored the alphabetical title links on the EJC home page. These links show only those journals that are currently available, for other journals or issues please continue to visit the publishers’ sites.
In addition, OSU Libraries has added access via the Online Journals List to journal titles from the publishers in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. OSU users may not have access to all journal titles or to all years. This is a temporary measure while OhioLINK restores the Electronic Journal Center content after a massive hardware failure.
February 17th, 2009
Beginning Wednesday afternoon, February 4, the OhioLINK computer disk storage system suffered a widespread, and supposedly not possible, multiple component failure affecting all major services with the exception of the OhioLINK Library Catalog. We have restored all services except the Electronic Journal Center (EJC). Restoration of the EJC remains under vigorous analysis, but unfortunately we know that any solution will not be immediate. In light of this, we are taking immediate steps to provide alternative access to the resources of the EJC through the various Web sites of the EJC journal publishers.
As noted on this page, we have immediate access to many EJC publisher sites and are working to expand access to the rest as quickly as possible. While the EJC is down, we will continue to improve this site to direct you to the proper publishers. We will also work to adjust our systems that link article citations to full text in the EJC by redirecting links to the publisher sites. We are examining every possibility to keep you connected to resources you need and to improve that connectivity as quickly as possible, while the EJC is not available.
We will keep you up to date through this Web page and the “New at OhioLINK” announcements at www.ohiolink.edu. Your local library will also always know the latest news.
The OhioLINK staff is sincerely sorry for this significant disruption in services. We remain committed, as we have since 1992, to providing high quality information resources on a consistent and reliable basis to the Ohio higher education community.
Sincerely,
Tom Sanville, Executive Director, tom@ohiolink.edu
February 8, 2009
February 10th, 2009
Join us for an informal discussion about a scientific topic. Anyone is welcome, although seating may be limited. We will meet the first Wednesday of each month at The South Campus Gateway Landmark Movie Theater.
The Next Cafe:
Date: February 4, 2009 6:30 pm (doors open at 6 pm)
Speaker: Jeffrey K. McKee, Departments of Anthropology and Evolution, Ecology, & Evolutionary Biology
Title: Darwin’s Prescient Insights on Human Evolution
Summary: The year 2009 marks two Darwinian anniversaries. It is the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809), as well as the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). OSU is marking these milestones with a number of events, including the February Science Cafe Columbus, in the month of Darwin’s birth.
Anthropologist Dr. Jeffrey McKee will present a conversational look at Darwin’s views on human evolution, a topic Darwin largely avoided until 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. It turns out that Darwin’s insights, devoid of much of a fossil record at the time, were remarkably predictive of what paleoanthropologists would later discover in Africa and beyond. The science has moved far beyond Darwin … some things he got wrong. But in this anniversary year, we’ll look at what he got right and why his insights were before their time.
About our speaker:
Jeffrey K. McKee is a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Evolution, Ecology, & Evolutionary Biology. He earned a B.A. from Miami University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University, St.Louis. McKee joined the faculty of OSU in 1996, after having spent a decade as a Senior Lecturer at The University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has led excavations at the South African fossil sites of Taung and Makapansgat. McKee is co-author of the textbook, Understanding Human Evolution, and has also published two popular science books, The Riddled Chain and Sparing Nature. He has recently been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. One of his proudest achievements is being part of the group who created Science Cafe Columbus.
Food and drink are available for purchase at the Theatre.
Parking: Park in the Gateway parking ramp– it’s $1.00 for three hours
For more information on Science Cafe Columbus, and for instructions on joining our announcement list, please visit our website: http://library.osu.edu/sites/sel/sciencecafe.
Have ideas for Cafe topics, or want to volunteer to be a guest speaker? Email us at: scicafe@osu.edu
January 14th, 2009
The OhioLINK version of MEDLINE will no longer be available after December 31, 2008. MEDLINE will remain available to the OhioLINK community in two versions — EBSCOhost MEDLINE and PubMed — through the OhioLINK list of databases. EBSCOhost MEDLINE is recommended for novices and anyone not familiar with PubMed.
Look for the FindIt button within PubMed citations to check the availability of online and print resources. You will need to access PubMed through the OhioLINK list of databases or your library’s Web site, rather than accessing the site directly, in order to see the FindIt button.
If you have questions about using EBSCOhost MEDLINE or PubMed please contact the OSU Libraries.
December 17th, 2008
Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation scientific literature awareness tool for working biologists. This revolutionary online research service comprehensively and systematically highlights and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a Faculty over 2000 of the world’s leading researchers.
The Faculty Members select, rate and comment on 1-2 of the most interesting papers they read each month, providing a consensus map of the latest scientific literature. With unique customization features and sophisticated searching facilities, users are kept up-to-date with evaluations of the current literature by the world’s top researchers.
Features
• My F1000: customize your own page to display the most recently selected papers in your fields of interest.
• Email alerts: tailored to your areas of interest and sent to you regularly.
• Advanced search: to run and store simple or sophisticated searches.
• Top 10s: the most viewed papers from the past month selected by the Faculty.
• Hidden Jewels: the most viewed papers from less obvious journals.
• Linking: each evaluation links to PubMed
November 20th, 2008
“Public health and agriculture are large and diverse fields, but both involve fundamental issues that affect everyone. Our health, our food system and our environment are all intricately - and intimately - connected. Yet, for those who want to understand these connections it can be difficult to simultaneously access information about agriculture and public health.
The Agriculture & Public Health Gateway is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. The Gateway provides a central place to access information about public health, agriculture, and the links between these two fields. It can be a useful resource for public health and agricultural professionals, advocacy and community organizations, policy makers, journalists, and educators.”
November 5th, 2008
The current issue of Wired Magazine presents a unique graphical perspective on the world food situation in an article “The Future of Food: How Science Will Solve the Next Global Crises.”
October 31st, 2008
7 October 2008, Rome - Biofuel policies and subsidies should be urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and ensure environmental sustainability, FAO said today in a new edition of its annual flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2008.
Read more from the FAO press release.
October 9th, 2008
There will be two RefWorks presentations on Wednesday, October 08, 2008. The first session is at 12noon, the second is at 5pm. Both sessions are in Science and Engineering Library Room 090.
This is a great opportunity to learn how to use RefWorks and anyone is invited to attend! We will cover everything from setting up an account to creating a bibliography and in-text citations. The presenter will be FAES Librarian, Eboni Francis.
October 8th, 2008
Are you new to the Wooster campus and to OSU? Do you have questions about using the Ohio State University library resources?
Then, you are welcome to attend the presentation “Getting Started @ the Library” on September 30 at 10:30 AM in 131 F Research Services Building, Computing and Statistical Services Training Room.
Pre-registration is requested by going to http://www.oardc.osu.edu/centernet/
The session will cover the basics of using the OSU library system:
- how to search the catalog
- how to request materials
- how to find electronic resources
- how to use interlibrary loan
- what you need to know about the OARDC Library
September 17th, 2008
OSU’s Dept. of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering has been ranked in the top 10 as one of the best undergraduate agricultural engineering programs in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. Read entire news release.
August 27th, 2008
The USDA Economics Research Service has issued a side-by-side comparison of the new farm bill with the previous legislation. “Summarized but substantive, it offers a time-saving reference to farm bill provisions. In addition to key provisions and details by Title, the side-by-side includes links to related ERS publications and to analyses of previous farm acts.”
August 25th, 2008
CAB Reviews is a full-text electronic resource that contains analyses and and information on the current research in the fields of animal science, veterinary medicine, applied plant sciences, agriculture, nutrition and food science, natural resources and environmental sciences. Here are some recent reviews:
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Boosting beneficial phytochemicals in vegetable crop plants.
Schijlen, E. G. W. M., Beekwilder, J., Hall, R. D., Meer, I. M. van der
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, 025, 21 pp.
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The role of landscape in insect ecology and its implications for agriculture.
Hunter, M. D.
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, 029, 12 pp.
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Carbon sequestration in soil
R.Lal
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, No. 030, 20 pp.
View the table of contents for other 2008 reviews.
July 1st, 2008
News from OhioLINK…
Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.
LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.
To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.
LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.
June 27th, 2008
An excerpt from examiner.com (Cleveland Edition):
Jun 3, 2008 6:22 PM By STEPHEN MAJORS, AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Map, News) - A potential casualty of the skyrocketing price of oil is something that doesn’t first come to mind: polymers, the materials that go into making everyday items like grocery bags, yogurt containers and baby bottles.
Ohio, the leading polymer producer in the country, is trying to maintain its dominance in the field by thinking ahead to an economy less dependent on oil - the predominant source of the polymers that make up countless products.
Read the rest of the story.
June 5th, 2008
A recent article in the Washington Post highlights the budget constraints affecting the National Agricultural Library. Essential services and collections are threatened by proposed cuts to the NAL budget; these cuts would also affect agricultural libraries at the state level which depend on this national library.
May 5th, 2008
The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and OSU Libraries are honored to host the 11th Biennial meeting of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN). The meeting, which will be held at the Shisler Conference Center in Wooster beginning Sunday, April 27 through Wednesday, April 30, carries the theme “Tradition in Transition: Information Fueling the Future of Agbiosciences.” Speakers include Dennis Keeney, senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Bruce Dale, editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining and head of the Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory at Michigan State University; Stephen Myers, Director of the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center; Ann Christy, professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU); Clive Edwards, OSU Professor of Entomology and director of the soil ecology program; Deborah Stinner, coordinator of OSU’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program; Randy James, Geauga County Extension Educator and author of Why Cows Learn Dutch; and David Kline, Amish farmer, author of several books, and editor of Farming Magazine. The closing speaker will be Tomas Lipinski, Co-Director and Associate Professor, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee. Complementing the plenary sessions will be contributed papers, panels and posters selected from proposals submitted by attendees. Numerous vendors will be exhibiting at the conference and providing generous support.
Following the conclusion of the USAIN meeting, partners participating in AgNIC will hold their annual meeting. AgNIC is a voluntary alliance and partnership of nearly 60 member institutions and organizations working to offer quick and reliable access to quality agricultural information and sources.
April 25th, 2008
The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., (OCLC) is looking for people willing to demonstrate and discuss how they conduct research for a paper, project or publication.
The one to two-hour in-person interviews will be held in Room 244A of the Sullivant Library, at the corner of North High Street and 15th Avenue, or the Prior Health Sciences Library at 376 W. 10th Ave. Interviews will be scheduled the weeks of April 7 and April 14.
Each session will take 1 to 2 hours.
Participants should be:
•Undergraduate or graduate students, or instructors
•Non-professionals in the library or database searching
Library employees, including student employees, are not eligible to participate.
Participants will be asked to comment while doing their own research at the library or their office. Participants will also need to bring a laptop capable of a wireless connection to the Internet. Comments will be recorded with the participant’s consent.
If you’re interested, please contact Mike Prasse, OCLC, at ulab@oclc.org.
April 2nd, 2008
Speaker: Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President, The Ohio State University
“Securing the Future: Envisioning the Role of Land-Grant Universities”
Date: April 15, 2008
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Blackwell Inn & Conference Center, The Ohio State University
We are pleased to announce that President E. Gordon Gee will give the 5th Annual Patterson Lecture. President Gee was instrumental in the establishment of Ohio State’s outreach and engagement efforts during his first term in office. He will share his insights on the current and future state of the 21st century engaged land-grant university.
Register online. Deadline: April 8. For information, call 614/688-3041, e-mail outreach@osu.edu, or visit the Office of Outreach and Engagement web site.
The James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture honors former Board of Trustee member Jim Patterson and the cause to which he is most committed, a vibrant University fulfilling its land-grant mission in an ever-changing world. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions in the 21st century and beyond. Mr. Patterson served on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and served as Chair of the Board 2002-2003.
March 12th, 2008
Staying up with your own field, much less with the other disciplines in agricultural and related sciences, is a challenging task. Subscribing to alert services, journal tables of contents and other automated information services are useful tools. The content specialists at CABI, the organization that produces the abstracting and indexing service CAB Direct, offer a new current awareness tool called “Hand picked…and carefully sorted.” This blog is written by specialists and highlights new research areas, interesting publications and what they call “signposts”– new information that we need to pay attention to. Recent topics include “nanotechnology in food” and “organic biofuels”. You can subscribe to this blog as an RSS feed.
March 6th, 2008
The 2008 OARDC Annual Research Conference will be held in Wooster on Thursday, April 17, 2008. The theme of the conference is “Recasting Our Agbioscience Research Agenda: Integrated Projects.”
A graduate student poster competition is being held in conjunction with the conference. Interested students should see the guidelines and deadlines for participation. Cash prizes will be awarded and the winners will be announced at the conference.
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to register for the conference by April 7.
February 14th, 2008
The OSU Libraries are pleased to offer “WorldCat Local,” Web access to the world’s richest database, listing over one billion items.
Basic features associated with WorldCat include:
- A simple search box
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Friendly, easy-to-use results display, including “faceted browsing”
- Searches for materials at OSU, OhioLINK (Ohio libraries shared catalog; includes 86 academic libraries not including OSU), and libraries worldwide
- Displays the availability of materials
- Allows requesting of materials
- Finds articles and provides links to full-text articles online
- Result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record
- Citation formatting options
See the “What’s this” link for more details about the features.
The main change you’ll see is the new search box on the library home page, now displaying search results from WorldCat Local. You can still search the OSU catalog via the OSCAR interface by clicking the link just below the box, named “Search OSU Catalog”.
Let us know what you think about WorldCat Local. Please complete the survey linked in the “what’s this” link near the search box and at the upper right hand corner of the pilot pages, called “Survey – Your voice counts!”
February 4th, 2008
The Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers to beware of several current e-mail and telephone scams that use the IRS name as a lure. The IRS expects such scams to continue through the end of tax return filing season and beyond.
The IRS cautioned taxpayers to be on the lookout for scams involving proposed advance payment checks. Although the government has not yet enacted an economic stimulus package in which the IRS would provide advance payments, known informally as rebates to many Americans, a scam which uses the proposed rebates as bait has already cropped up. read more…
January 31st, 2008
Plant Management Network announces the launch of its next-generation resource for those involved in soybean production and management. Focus on Soybean is an online-only web portal for growers, crop consultants, and researchers seeking information on producing healthy, high-yielding soybean crops. The central feature of the site is its educational webcasts. These currently include 15 narrated presentations totaling more than five hours of talks targeted toward consultants and producers. All are authored by university extension specialists recognized for their expertise and research related to soybean management practices.
January 11th, 2008
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