According to a press release from the AIAA, the society's website has suffered from an attack by an outside agency. We are assured that the AIAA is making every effort to restore normal service, and it is hoped that the problems will be resolved by Friday.
Dr. Doug Carroll, professor of interdisciplinary engineering, will discuss his book, "The Winning Solar Car," as well as solar car design and racing at noon on Thursday, July 24, in Room 204 of the library. Carroll has been the advisor to Missouri S&T's winning solar car team since 1992. Refreshments will be provided by the library.
Due to upgrades to its software, the MERLIN library catalog will be down 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 24. Full functionality will be restored after 11 a.m.
The transition from Web of Science to Scopus, announced in the library’s Spring newsletter, will be complete as of July 1, 2008. As of that date, the University of Missouri libraries will no longer provide access to Web of Science.
Earlier this year, the libraries of the University of Missouri system decided to acquire the Elsevier database Scopus as an alternative to the much more costly Web of Science. This transition will provide Missouri S&T researchers with access to a larger set of citation information, as Scopus’s coverage greatly exceeds that of Web of Science.
Like Web of Science, Scopus offers citation searching and tracking, demonstrating the influence of research articles and the relationships between current research and past work in a field. Cited references are available for articles from 1996 onward. Users are able to view all citations an article has received publications covered by Scopus and in many cases can view the citing articles by following links. Scopus also has features allowing users to track citations in patents and on select scientific websites.
An added benefit of the switch to Scopus for the UM System is the substantial cost savings for the system. The savings will be applied to funding other materials of value to researchers at the four campuses. The purchase of ScienceDirect, for example, will be financed using these funds.
Scopus does not address the arts and humanities. For these disciplines, the system libraries will provide access to OCLC’s AH Search, which uses the same information found in Web of Science’s Arts and Humanities Citation Index. AH Search covers an additional decade of research, with coverage beginning in 1980.
If you have questions or concerns about these new resources, please feel free to contact the Reference Desk at library@mst.edu.
The library has purchased a subscription to the SAE Digital Library, providing immediate electronic access to SAE technical reports published in the last ten years. Click here to check it out.
The elevator in Wilson Library will be out of service for repairs from June 3 until further notice. Patrons who are unable to use the stairs should see the Circulation Desk for assistance. If you have any questions, please call 341-4008.
Wilson Library will be closed on Sunday, June 1, due to the planned campuswide power outage announced by Physical Facilities. The library will resume its regular hours of 8 a.m. to midnight on Monday, June 2.