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ESRI Virtual Campus Courses

Current faculty, students and staff members of the USF community are entitled to enroll in free online GIS courses offered through ESRI's Training and Education website (http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm).

Some of the available courses include: Introduction to ArcView 3.x, Introduction to VIsual Basic, and Cartographic Design Using ArcGIS. A complete listing of courses can be found at: http://asp.lib.usf.edu/STMNews/ESRI.htm

ESRI also offers ArcView Student Edition software (1-year timeout) to all USF faculty, staff, and students for their personal use free of charge.

Request ESRI online courses or ArcView Student Edition software by emailing a request to gis@lib.usf.edu

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Online Major Reference Works on Wiley InterScience provide convenient online access to a rich and comprehensive body of knowledge for researchers in the sciences, technology, medical, law and business disciplines. We are launching 12 new reference works between now and March 2008, starting with Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences and The Optics Encyclopedia

In order to give you a chance to try out these new titles, we are offering you the opportunity to take out a free 1 month trial to any of these titles.

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NOW AVAILABLE Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences This highly acclaimed reference work features: in-depth overviews of all nanoscale technologies and fabrication methods in materials engineering for the life sciences the complete range of synthetic methods, tools and techniques being developed towards medical, biological, and cybernetic applications a description of all the important facets of nanofabrication reviews of existing technologies as well as current developments information on tailor-made nanomaterials with widespread new opportunities and application fields in biology, medicine, and pharmacy Discover this work today at: www.interscience.wiley.com/mrw/ntls

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NOW AVAILABLE The Optics Encyclopedia With nearly 100 expert articles, this is both a comprehensive review as well as an introduction to the entire field. The contributions range from classical optics right up to the latest applications, including: IT and telecommunications Optical sensing and metrology Material processing Biomedicine Optical components and systems Laser design and technology Discover this work today at: www.interscience.wiley.com/mrw/optics

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COMING SOON

Watch for these Online Major Reference Works coming to Wiley InterScience in 2008:

TITLE	LAUNCH DATE
Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials	December 2007
Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials	December 2007
Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry	December 2007
Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering	December 2007
Corrosion Handbook	December 2007
Encyclopaedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability	March 2008
Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis	March 2008
Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips	March 2008
Protein Science Encyclopedia	March 2008
Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology	March 2008

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Other Online Reference Works available from Wiley InterScience

Wiley InterScience is also home to the well established and eminent, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry and Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.

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What is new at ISI Web of Knowledge?

An easy-to-use tabular format – Choose to search across all databases, an individual database, or additional  resources such as relevant websites and analytical and administrative tools.

All-database search – The new ISI Web of Knowledge takes a unique approach to the multi-database search. It uses one common vocabulary that recognizes the varying terms used by different databases and maps them to a unified subject classification. Which means that a search with ISI Web of Knowledge will find all relevant items that may have originally been categorized differently. Newer terms recognize older terms. And specialized terms from one database recognize specialized terms from another.

Refine your search – You can narrow down your results using categories meaningful to your search, including subject area, document type, author, language, and other terms that help you pinpoint the data you need.

Citation results and related records are clearly highlighted in individual full records, helping you use these powerful tools to find a wider variety of relevant articles.

Free access to EndNote Web, which is fully integrated into ISI Web of Knowledge. Organize, store and share your references online, speeding the research, writing and publishing process. EndNote Web helps users easily access and organize references online, search ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed® and hundreds of library OPACs directly, share EndNote Web folders with colleagues, and easily transfer files to EndNote on the desktop for further management.             

What’s next:

• Quarterly enhancements – ISI Web of Knowledge will continue to be enhanced every quarter. In October, you’ll see the addition of the fully functional Marked List, which allows you to easily print, export, save or download records, as well as enhancements to EndNote Web. We’ll keep you informed as each quarterly enhancement approaches.

• Helping you transition – Currently, you have dual access to the new and previous versions of ISI Web of Knowledge. As you and your users become more familiar with the new features and functionality, feel free to make the new ISI Web of Knowledge your primary portal by simply bookmarking http://newisiknowledge.com , or any homepage in the new interface.

New OvidSP Features

eTOCS 
Electronic Tables of Contents track changes in a specific journal’s table of contents. When eTOCs are delivered via RSS feed, they’re added to the Common Feed list and automatically downloaded to your computer. See below for a screenshot showing where to request an RSS feed of an eTOC.

AutoAlerts
Saved searches are delivered automatically whenever new articles that match your specific search criteria are available.

New Additions to the OvidSP Resource Center
Visit the OvidSP Resource Center (username: resourcecenter, password: ovidsp) for a new OvidSP fact sheet and Quick Reference Card that you can use to help users get up to speed on the new platform. 

Reminder - What Happens on October 25th?
Everything about your SilverPlatter access will remain as is. Simply contact your Ovid Account Representative or support@ovid.com to set up a trial of the new platform. Please keep in mind that, though we’re confident you’ll choose to move to OvidSP quickly, SilverPlatter will not retire until Q1 2009.

THANK YOU!

For participating in the Information Seeking Behavior of Science Researchers survey.

After we receive and analyze the results of the survey we will publish it here with our recommendations.  It is our hope that we will be able to improve and enhance library service to you. 

Rising Cost of Journals

Are publishers getting rich publishing your research? A Bear-Stearns evaluation of Reed-Elsevier (one of the world's largest publishers of scholarly journals) recently rated the company, which earns profits of almost 40% annually, "a stockholder's dream." Should private publishers be getting rich selling information generated by research that is funded by academic institutions and the public? What's happening and how does it affect scholars? This article looks at one university's experience.            Read on...

Check out the New PCs in the Faculty Research Suite

In the last few weeks, we've added some faculty PC workstations in the new Faculty Research Suite.  These include much of the standard software from Academic Computing (MS Office, Photoshop, etc.), but we'd certainly love to hear from you if there is more that's needed on these machines.  When you visit our new space on the 6th floor of the USF Tampa Library, please take a look and let us know what will help with your research.  Feel free to inquire as to specific software availabilities and we'll do everything we can to make it a part of our software selections.  Just email Matt Torrence (torrence@lib.usf.edu) with any questions or suggestions.

ISI Web of Knowledge - KnowledgeLink - October 2007 Newsletter

The October 2007 issue of KnowledgeLink, the monthly newsletter from ISI Web of Knowledge is now available.  Get the latest news and information on Web of Science, Biosis Previews, and EndNote! 

   http://thomsonscientific.com/news/newsletter/klag-oct-2007.html

CONGRATULATIONS

To this year's Distinguished University Professors

Santo Nicosia
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, College of Medicine

Nagarahan Ranganathan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Robert Weisberg
College of Marine Science

Distinguished University Health Professors

Michael Barber
Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine

Carol Bryant
Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health

Mary Evans
College of Nursing

Jeffrey Krischer
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine

Bruce Lindsey
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Medicine

Richard Lockey
Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatric, College of Medicine

Outstanding Research Achievement Award

Mohamed Eddaoudi
Chemistry

X. Peter Zhang
Chemistry

Hao Zheng
Computer Science and Engineering

Dennis Kyle
Global Health

Jonathan Wynn
Geology

Diana Roman
Geology

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award

Autar Kaw
Mechanical Engineering

Miguel Labrador
Computer Science & ENgineering

Kathleen Scott
Biology

Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award

William E. Lee, III
Chemical Engineering

George Nolas
Physics

Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award

Ravi Sankar
Electrical Engineering

Distinguished Service Award

Thomas E. Wade
Electrical Engineering

Emeritus & Retired Faculty Academic Affairs

Normal Blake
Marine Science

Darrel Bostow
Psychological & Social Foundations

Robert Carnahan
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Roger Crane
Mechanical Engineering

Michael Kovac
Electrical Engineering

John Lawrence
Biology

J. Anthony Llewellyn
Chemical Engineering

Arunava Mukherjea
Mathematics & Statistics

Douglas Nelson
Psychology

John Romeo
Biology