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FAES Library Closed Veterans’ Day

Jessica Page — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:42 +0000

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.

Can USDA’s NIFA be ag’s NIH?

Constance Britton — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:39:21 +0000

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

OSU Open Access Day 2009

Constance Britton — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:10:22 +0000

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.

New interface: Food Science and Technology Abstracts

Jessica Page — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:36:50 +0000

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.

New Food Science e-books from Knovel

Jessica Page — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:08:08 +0000

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

FAES Library hours to change

Jessica Page — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:52:18 +0000

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

OSU’s Thompson Library Reopens

Constance Britton — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:40:35 +0000

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…

ticTOCS: a new tool to stay current

Constance Britton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:36:50 +0000

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.

It’s National Pollinator Week, June 22-28

Constance Britton — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:36:54 +0000

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 5th is World Environment Day

Constance Britton — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:16:12 +0000

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.”