Free printing in the Info Commons...

...and the fine print:

Available only on Stations 312 to 326. Instructions will be posted on the workstations.
There will also be signs at the new Release station and Xerox printer directing you to pick up your jobs. Write down any comments you have about the process. If there are any problems or concerns let a Navigator (in the dark blue t-shirts) know.

The free part of this message is temporary - we are testing the new print system.

PROLA Improved Search Interface

From the PAMnet (Special Libraries Association's Phys, Astron, Math division) email list:

APS is pleased to announce a substantially improved search interface for our Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA), available now at http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://prola.aps.org/. As always, APS's entire journal collection from 1893-present is searchable via PROLA's interface. New features include:

- A greatly improved interface for viewing, navigating, and refining search results
- Search result ranking by citation counts (as provided by publishers participating in CrossRef's Forward Linking program)
- Easy searching on articles chosen as PRL Editors' Suggestions, freely available through our 'Free To Read' program, or featured in Physical Review Focus
- Improved speed

Watch for more new features coming soon! Please send any feedback to prola@aps.org.

Best regards,
Mark

Mark Doyle
Assistant Director, Journal Information Systems
The American Physical Society

Faculty Technology Days May 2-4: You're Invited!

Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology

May 2 - 4, 2007

Libraries and Cultural Resources, the Teaching and Learning Centre and Information Technologies are pleased to present the annual Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology, May 2 - 4, 2007.

All Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to register and attend the free sessions. You are also invited to register for a complimentary lunch – a time to chat and reconnect with colleagues. All sessions will be held in the Education Block.
Whether you are interested in new resources, the latest in blended learning techniques, or refreshing yourself on the basics, there are sessions for you.

Research sessions will include citation tracking tools, EndNote and RefWorks a new web-based bibliographic software product, tips on getting started on your thesis and a DSpace update.

Specialized Resources sessions will include an introduction to the new classical music library, GIS data on the Internet, and finding Canadian legal information.

Technology sessions will provide an opportunity to catch up on what’s new plus a refresher on the basics of Blackboard, PowerPoint and Word collaboration tools.Plan to attend a PeopleSoft session on PER, the new PeopleSoft Faculty Centre or PeopleSoft Student Centre.

Instructional sessions will focus on enhancing inquiry based learning and instruction through the use of technology to develop blended learning approaches, develop assessment techniques and hear from your colleagues on how they have applied successful blended learning strategies in their course.

A three part session on starting, researching and writing your thesis will be of interest to graduate students.

New sessions of interest:
Hard play: digital game based learning and information literacy
Taylor Family Digital Library – a look forward
Psychology Instruction Project: bootstrapping blended learning with student instruction.
Podcasting – an overview of the Podcasting initiative.All sessions are free to Faculty and Graduate students

Registration deadline is May 1, 2007

Register Online at http://www.ucalgary.ca/ftd starting April 19, 2007
Phone registration: 220-8895

For further information contact:
Susan Beatty, Head, Information Commons
sdbeatty@ucalgary.ca Phone: 220-2629

Happy Late Birthday, Mr. Euler!

Yesterday (Sunday) was Euler's birthday...

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Euler.html
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~euler/

NPR Interviews: A Math Great Gets His Due

Sunday marks the 300th anniversary of Leonhard Euler's birth. Who was he? Only one of the top four mathematicians of all time. Math commentator Keith Devlin talks to Scott Simon about the life of this genius.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9585232

Links thanks to Gerry McKiernan, from the sts-l list.

Find tables, figures, graphs, charts etc. from scholarly research and technical literature - CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences

The library has just subscribed to a neat new product, CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences . So far, it seems to be more skewed to statistics than some of the other areas of mathematics.

It searches for tables, graphs, maps, images, etc. in the scholarly literature. For example, if you are looking for tilings, statistical tables, graphs of functions, and other visuals, you can use Illustrata.

The database is not in our Research Databases list yet, but it should be within the next month or so. Use this link in the meantime:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?
username=ucab&access=ucab282&db=objectsclust-nats-set-c

From CSA:
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is interdisciplinary, covering a wide variety of journals from all major areas such as: biology, earth sciences, environmental studies, medical sciences, agriculture, fish and fisheries, education, geography, veterinary science, food and food industries, pharmacy and pharmacology, meteorology, public health and safety, water resources, conservation and forests and forestry. CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. Coverage includes 1977 to current.

Project Euclid - new site announcement

From the Special Libraries Association's Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics email list:

Cornell University Library and the staff of the Center for Innovative Publishing and E-Publishing Technologies are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of Project Euclid
(http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://projecteuclid.org/),
our enterprise publishing service for mathematics and statistics literature.

The updated site offers enhanced functionality and a fresh new design. Powered by Cornell's publishing system, DPubS v.2, Project Euclid now supports on-line publication of a wider range of content types, including monographs and conference proceedings; improved searching via Lucene; publisher-driven customization options; and initiutive administrative tools. Later this year, Project Euclid will provide a set of tools to facilitate the peer review process for journals.

New to Project Euclid with this upgrade are the Notre Dame Lecture Series on Mathematics (1942--1990) and, by year's end, the entire run of the Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability (1946--1971). Both are available on an open access basis.

Forty-five journals and 42,000 articles from 30 partner publishers are available from Project Euclid. Seven new journals will be joining Project Euclid this year. Forthcoming this summer will be complete backfiles for the Tohoku Mathematical Journal and the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, the backfiles of the four flagship journals from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, links to the back issues of the Bulletin and Journal of the Association for Symbolic Logic on JSTOR, and, under special arrangements with the American Mathematical Society, the back volumes of the Bulletin of the AMS (1891-1991).


CONTACT:

Terry Ehling
Director, Center for Innovative Publishing
- and -
David Ruddy
Director, E-Publishing Technologies

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY 14853
euclid-l@cornell.edu