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FAES Library Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday

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

Trial of ISI Web of Knowledge and Elsevier Scopus products

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

FAES Library Closed Veterans’ Day

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

OSU Open Access Day 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

FAES Library hours to change

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

OSU’s Thompson Library Reopens

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

Farmworker Movement Documentation Project

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

Science Cafe Columbus presents: Protecting New Orleans from Hurricanes: Restoring the Ecosystem Services of Wetlands

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

Update on EJC

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

Important Message to the OhioLINK community of students, faculty, and staff

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

Science Cafe Columbus presents: Darwin’s Prescient Insights on Human Evolution

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

OhioLINK’s Version of MEDLINE Not Available After 12/31/08

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

RefWorks Training Offered in Columbus

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

Wooster campus library orientation opportunity

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

Getting Ready for a Big Test? Practice Online.

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

OSU Wooster Hosts National Ag Librarians Conference

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

Make $50 for two hours’ work

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

5th Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture

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

CABI helps you keep up with what’s new.

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

OARDC Annual Research Conference and Graduate Student Poster Competition

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

Help us test WorldCat Local

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
• 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

PMN Introduces Focus on Soybean

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

What Does Horticulture Have to do with Baseball?

From InfoFarm: the NAL Blog: I’ve been watching a lot of baseball lately (Go Tribe!), and in between pitches last night, I found myself thinking again about how the grounds crew cuts those designs into the stadium grass. Cleveland’s Jacobs Field showed only a simple checkerboard pattern, but earlier in the week, Fenway Park was sporting two perfect “sox,” looking as if they’d been hand-stitched into the infield. –more–

October 19th, 2007

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY LAUNCHES BLOG

Peter Young, Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) announces InfoFarm: The NAL Blog a new blog and invites partners and customers worldwide to join in a conversation with NAL staff on a wide range of topics. “We want to have a conversation, one that’s more like a chat on the front porch and less like a meeting in the boardroom. From the library side, we’ll share a bit about what we do, how our day went (professionally speaking, of course), some nifty thing we learned, or a compelling story in the news. In return, we hope to hear from you. Share your experiences with us as an institution, with your efforts to find information, or with your life and work in the world of agriculture, food, nutrition, animal care, the environment, whatever. The result, we believe, will be a mutually beneficial dialogue, a compelling exchange of ideas and maybe even an entertaining break in your day.”

October 19th, 2007

LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY OFFERS ONLINE PRACTICE TESTS

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.

October 15th, 2007

CFAES FACULTY TO BE RECOGNIZED

University Libraries, Academic Affairs and the Faculty Club will host the fifth annual Faculty Recognition Program reception from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday (10/18) at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge to honor all Ohio State faculty granted tenure or promotion in 2007/08. The reception is open to the university community and guests. Faculty honorees have the opportunity to select a book or a bound journal volume from the University Libraries’ collection to be book-plated in their name in recognition of their accomplishments. Honorees from CFAES, OAES and OSUE include Michael Boehm, Joshua Bomser, John Cardina, Gregory Davis, Charles Goebel, Gary Graham, Gregory La Barge, Jeffrey LeJeune, Lydia Medeiros, Richard Moore, Matthew Robers, Brian Roe, Hua Wang, and Steven Wu.

October 4th, 2007

ISI Access Now Back to 1965

The OSU Libraries has added new access to the backfiles of the ISI databases: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). For SCI and SSCI, database coverage now extends back to 1965; AHCI begins with 1975.

September 24th, 2007

Instant Message Research Help

Starting September 19, the Ohio State University Libraries are offering research assistance through Instant Messaging! Just add our screen name “ohiostaterefdesk” to your buddy list in AIM, Google Talk, MSN, or Yahoo. You can IM a Librarian Monday-Thursday from noon to midnight, Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. The FAES Librarians are also available via IM. See the blog to find out who’s online. For more information, see http://library.osu.edu/help/im.php

September 19th, 2007

NEW BLOG FROM CABI

FROM CABI:

Hand Picked and Carefully Sorted is the place where the content specialists who put together CAB Abstracts, (and many other wonderful research tools from CABI) try to highlight just some of the vast amount of research information that goes into the products that we make.

Hand picked… and carefully sorted is intended to be a signpost. We are using it for ourselves..and we hope that it will be useful to you as well.

August 23rd, 2007

NEW ELECTRONIC REFERENCE COLLECTION FROM OHIOLINK

The new Electronic Reference Collection is now available at: http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu.

This is a collection of over 500 e-books from Oxford University Press and Springer (with more titles coming soon!). The collection covers the following subject areas:

* American History
* American Law, Politics and Government
* Education
* Environment
* Ethnic Groups and Cultural Geography
* Family and Social Issues
* Folklore, Mythology, Literature
* Gender Issues
* International Issues
* Military History
* Popular Culture
* Religion
* Science, Technology, and Medicine
* World History

August 14th, 2007

FREE ARTICLE EXPRESS SERVICE!

Interlibrary Services is pleased to announce expansion of our FREE Article Express service; no more fees for articles that we scan from our own library collections (with the exception of HEA items). If it’s not already online, we’ll scan it for you!

Visit our new web pages to see details/limits and make requests!!

June 20th, 2007

Beyond Tang: Food in space

NASA’s Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its “hidden kitchen.” On the eve of NASA’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.

Read or listen to the rest of the story from NPR.

June 7th, 2007

Print subscription to Cell available at no cost.

Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell. As a benefit of the site license to Cell Online managed by the OSU Libraries, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with Ohio State is entitled to receive a print subscription - normally a $179 value - absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub

May 29th, 2007

BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal

Biotechnology for Biofuels will publish research on ways to improve plant and biological conversion systems for biomass fuel production.

BioMed Central, the world’s largest publisher of open access, peer-reviewed journals, is pleased to announce the impending launch of Biotechnology for Biofuels. The new journal is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology to improve plant and biological conversion systems for production of fuels from biomass. A peer-reviewed, open access journal, Biotechnology for Biofuels will begin accepting article submissions this summer. (more…)

May 23rd, 2007

INTERESTED IN IMPACT FACTORS? WANT TO KNOW WHO IS CITING YOUR WORK?

Wouldn’t it be nice to know who is citing your work, or other important work in your field of research? Finding and tracking the seminal highly cited work in your field is easy if you use the citation indexes in the Web of Science!

Don Sechler, a member of the Thomson Scientific/ISI customer education department, will be at the Prior Health Sciences Library to provide instruction on the navigation and uses of the Web of Science.

In the short training session you will learn how to search for your topic, papers that you have written, papers published by a company or university, and papers that have cited your work. You will learn how to search and navigate, how to do a cited reference search to find the number of papers that cited your work, and how to find journal impact factors. You will also learn to save search strategies, create citation alerts and to print, save, and export your results. How the databases are created, how the journals are selected, and ISI’s editorial policies will also be covered.

Sessions will be held on:

April 24, 2007
Session (1) 9-10:30am
Session (2) 1-2:30pm
Room 200 Prior Health Sciences Library
Register for ONE of the above sessions online at: http://library.med.ohio-state.edu or call 2-4796 or e-mail Rebecca.Ayers@osumc.edu

Brought to you by the Health Sciences Library & CKM

April 19th, 2007

James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture

4th Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture

Speaker: Martin C. Jischke, Purdue University

“Adapting Justin Morrill’s Vision to a New Century: The Imperative of Change for Land-Grant Universities”

May 7, 2007, 3-5pm, Huntington Club, Ohio Stadium

Register online. Deadline: May 1. 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.

April 6th, 2007

NEW AgECON SEARCH PAGE

The new version has JUST been released in beta!

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.

The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types such as books chapters and government documents are included. AgEcon Search will serve as the permanent archive for this literature and encourages authors and organizations to use this electronic library as the storehouse for additional appropriate scholarly electronic works.

AgEcon Search is co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Economics and the University Libraries at University of Minnesota and the American Agricultural Economics Association.

April 5th, 2007

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: THE MAINSTREAMING OF ORGANIC FOOD

Please note the upcoming presentation!!

Date: March 27th at 7 PM: Be Careful What You Wish For: The Mainstreaming of Organic Food

Location: Room 103 Kottman Hall and by video conference: Thorne Hall on the OSU Wooster Campus (2nd floor Conference Room).

Abstract: Organic food has grown into a $15 billion-a-year industry since the USDA established certification standards just over four years ago. What was once a “tiny movement to create a more ecologically sustainable, socially just and humane food system,” as Dr. Howard put it in a recent article, has become a sector of the food market occupied by the traditional multinational corporations that previously dominated the rest of the industry, either as a result of acquisition of organic pioneers or the creation of new product lines in compliance with the letter of the USDA Organic standards. On March 27, Dr. Howard will discus the impact this mainstreaming of the organic label has had on the vision of the original organic movement and the power of the consumer to further advance the organic ideal.

March 23rd, 2007

OARDC Annual Research Conference and Call for Posters

The 2007 OARDC Annual Research Conference will be held at The Blackwell, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, OH 43210, on Thursday, April 19, 2007. The theme of the conference is �Ohio�s Future in Renewable Energy and the Bioeconomy.�

The annual Graduate Student Research Project Poster Competition will be held in conjunction with the conference.

Go to the conference webpage for more information and to register for the conference and the poster competition

March 5th, 2007

RACHEL CARSON ONLINE BOOK CLUB BEGINS IN MARCH

Rachel Carson is considered by many to be the mother of modern-day ecology. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birth, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with the Friends of the National Conservation Training Center, will celebrate the achievements of its most notable employee by launching the Rachel Carson Online Book Club.

Beginning in March and continuing through November 2007, the online book club will focus on the life and work of Rachel Carson including her role as a female leader in science and government. Through the study of her writing, the Book Club will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion of current environmental issues in light of Carson’s legacy.

For more information on how to participate, view the book club Web site at: http://rcbookclub.blogspot.com

For more information on how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, please visit our website at http://www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/

February 27th, 2007

OSU UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PRIZE

Students:
Would you like to participate in a competition to produce an award-winning research project, working with an OSU librarian?

Faculty:
Will you inform your students about this opportunity and encourage them to submit their projects for evaluation?

If your answer is YES, here are some additional benefits to consider:

Recognition — The winning project team (author, the student’s instructor, and the collaborating librarian) will be acknowledged at an award ceremony. A prize of $1,000 will also be presented ($750 for the student author; $250 for the instructor).

Accessibility — The winning project will be submitted to the OSU Knowledge Bank repository, where it will have a permanent home and Web address. This site is also indexed by Google, so your project will be available to a worldwide audience.

Everyone wins - Even if you don’t win the top prize, we believe that the process will help you to produce a much better research product, which can certainly improve your course grade.

Please click here for information on how you can participate!

February 22nd, 2007

Science.gov version 4.0 released

Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results. Currently in its fourth generation, Science.gov provides search of more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites.

Science.gov 1.0 was launched in December 2002, providing for the first time wide public access and a unified search of the government�s vast stores of scientific and technical information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 16 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies. These agencies form the voluntary Science.gov Alliance.

In May 2004 Version 2.0 was launched, introducing real-time relevancy ranking to government science retrieval. This technology, funded by the Department of Energy, helps citizens sort through the government�s reservoirs of research and return results most likely to meet individual needs. An advanced search capability and other enhancements were added.

A free and convenient “Alert” service was released in February 2005, allowing citizens to receive e-mail alerts about the most current science developments in their areas of interest. Up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources can be delivered. Results are displayed in the Alert email and in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles edited.

Science.gov 3.0 took relevancy ranked search to a higher level of precision. Launched in November 2005, Version 3.0 provided more refined search queries of federal science databases. Science.gov 3.0 deploys a sophisticated method for ranking science query results by using a complex system of metadata elements, when available, including information within title, author, date, abstract and/or other keyword identifiers. In addition, greatly enhanced fielded searching and the extensive Boolean capabilities offer new search options for Science.gov users.

In February 2007, the Science.gov Alliance launched version 4.0, which allowed even further refinement of search queries. For the first time, patrons could search within their original results. In addition, the relevancy ranking algorithms became more sophisticated, providing ranking of the entire full text of documents on sites where searchable full text resides. Date of the document was priority-weighted for ranking purposes. A new feature allows patrons to share search results via e-mail with colleagues and friends.

February 20th, 2007

Faculty Recognition Program Honors FAES Faculty

University Libraries, the Office of Academic Affairs, and the Faculty Club will host the 4th annual Faculty Recognition Program Reception, February 6, 3:30-5 p.m. at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge, 181 S. Oval Drive, to honor all Ohio State University faculty granted tenure or promotion in 2006/07. The 136 honorees, including regular and clinical faculty from all OSU campuses, can select a book from the University Libraries’ collection to be book-plated in their name in recognition of their accomplishments. Books not owned will be purchased for the Libraries. Honorees can also include a statement on why the book was significant to them. A commemorative program listing the honorees, books selected, and personal statements will be available at the reception and upon request and become part of the University Libraries’ Knowledge Bank. The reception is open to the university community and guests. Welcoming comments will be provided by President Karen Holbrook.

Those being honored from the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences are: Alvarez, Valente B., Apsley, David K., Balasubramaniam, V.M., Basta, Nicholas T., Connors, James J., Delwiche, Jeannine F., Ferrari, Theresa M., Gardner, David S., Grewal, Parwinder S., Haab, Timothy C., Hooker, Neal H., James, Randall E., Jones, Michelle L., Kamoun, Sophien, Kelbaugh, Beverly, Mader, Sharon L., Martin, Jay F., McSpadden Gardener, Brian B., Pratt, Richard C., Rodewald, Amanda D., Sohngen, Brent L., Stockinger, Eric J., Vodovotz, Yael.

January 31st, 2007

FREE DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE IS EXPANDED

OSU faculty, staff, and students from the Columbus campus can now receive FREE electronic delivery of journal articles:

* not available at OSU (traditional ILL service)
* located at either off-campus location: OSU Book Depository or Ackerman Library
* located only at a regional campus library (ARD, ATI, LIM, MANS, MAR, NWK)

There is a $5 charge, payable by BuckID or 100W, for article requests filled from other on-campus OSU collections. For more details, visit the Interlibrary Services’ Article Express web page.

January 21st, 2007

NEW BOOKS IN FAES

Governing the transatlantic conflict over agricultural biotechnology : contending coalitions, trade liberalisation and standard setting / by Joseph Murphy and Les Levidow, 2006
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Taste, trade and technology : the development of the international meat industry since 1840 / by Richard Perren, 2006
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Pesticide selectivity, health and the environment / by Bill Carlile, 2006
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Fish diseases and disorders / Edited by P.T.K. Woo, 2006
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Perennial solutions : a grower’s guide to perennial production / by Paul Pilon, 2006
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Subtropical and dry climate plants / by Martyn Rix, 2006
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These books will be available for check-out at FAES at your convenience!

January 11th, 2007