formerly University of Missouri-Rolla

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

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Wilson Library will have special hours for the Thanksgiving holiday. On Sunday through Wednesday, Nov. 22-Nov. 25, the library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 26, and Friday, Nov. 27. On Saturday, Nov. 28, the library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Normal service hours of 8 a.m. to midnight will resume on Sunday, Nov. 29.

OnePetro now fully available

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The library is now able to provide access to all of the content available through OnePetro.

OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. From one place, you can search and buy documents from many different professional societies, or similar organizations, that serve the oil and gas industry.

Access is available through the OnePetro link on the library's Databases & E-Resources page or by clicking here.

New laptops available for checkout

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The library has 15 new laptops available for checkout at the Circulation Desk, replacing the machines that had been used previously. Ten of the laptops are Dell E4300 laptops running Windows Vista, while the other five are Dell 2100 Netbooks running Windows XP. All of the new laptops are available for two-hour in-library use.

ScienceDirect, Scopus unavailable Saturday, September 19

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Publisher Elsevier has announced a planned service outage lasting from 7 AM until 8 PM on Saturday, September 19. This will affect the Scopus database and all journals hosted on ScienceDirect.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

The library will retain archival access to Inspec 1898-1968

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Due to past purchase of archival access to access, we will retain access to Inspec coverage of years 1898-1968. Coverage of later dates ends today.

2008 Journal Citation Reports now available

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The newest edition of Journal Citation Reports, providing impact factors for several high-profile journals, is now available in the library.
Elsevier, the publisher behind Scopus and the ScienceDirect journals, has informed us that they will experience a planned service outage from 1:30 PM through 9 PM on Saturday, August 29.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Metalib, SFX service down Friday night

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Ex Libris, the vendor powering several library services, will be down from 10 PM on Friday, August 28, through 6 AM on Saturday, August 29.

Services affected will include the Metalib metasearch enginer, the A-Z Electronic Journals list, and the SFX service connecting database citations to full-text articles.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Compendex changes

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Beginning September 1, all access to Compendex will be through Elsevier's Engineering Village platform. Access through Ovid will no longer be available.

This change should be of great benefit to the Missouri S&T community. With this change, we now provide access from 1884 to the present through a unified interface; before we had no access to records from the 1970s, and access was split across two different providers.

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.

Inspec database subscription cancelled

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Due to budget shortfalls at the UM system level, the Inspec database subscription has been cancelled. Missouri S&T users will no longer have access to the resource after August 31, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Maggie Trish at trishm@mst.edu or call 341-4014.