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

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

New Product: Scopus (Elsevier)

Scopus is Elsevier's uber-indexing tool, covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and a smattering of other general topics.

It also has citation tracking, much like Web of Science and Google Scholar

It will soon be on our Research Databases list, but in the meantime, access it via:http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.scopus.com

MathSciNet Gets a Facelift

MathSciNet's interface has recently gotten an overhaul. The functionality has not changed much, but the different functions are easier to access. Check it out:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/

This was new to me, so I thought I would point it out: under the "Other Tools" tab, there's a "Collaboration Distance" tab. Enter two authors and see the "shortest publications path" between the two.