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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.

The library is now able to provide access to SPE and OTC papers through OnePetro. To limit your OnePetro search to only those papers, you must choose the Advanced search option at the top of the page and check only SPE and OTC from the list of societies.


We are also in the process of negotiating for access to all OnePetro content; if this succeeds, full access should begin in late fall.

In recognition of Independence Day, the library will be closed July 3-4, 2009. Normal hours will resume at 8 AM on Sunday, July 5.

The library has acquired electronic access to the Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology. This resource provides researchers and advanced students with timely and authoritative review-type information. The articles in WECB illuminate the crucial role of chemistry and chemical techniques in the life sciences and support the information needs of researchers in the field of chemical biology.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

Wilson Library will hold a book sale from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 30 in the lobby of the library. Prices will vary, but most paperbacks will be $.25, and most hardcovers will be $1.00. The library will also be selling some folio maps for $5. Come in and take a look!

The library has received trial access to the full-text version of Dissertation Abstracts. During this trial, which lasts through May 15, you will be able to download PDF versions of over 930,000 dissertations and theses to aid in your research. Dissertation Abstracts is linked from the library's Databases & E-resources page, or you can click here to check it out. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Purchased by the University of Missouri system, the Mergent Manual Archive provides electronic access to a complete run of the Moody's/Mergent manuals (with the exception of the municipal and government manual), giving information about the history of corporations in the United States. The database contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries. The documents include corporate histories, business descriptions, and financial statements

The manuals include:

Industrial Manual (1920-present)
Public Utility Manual (1914-present)
OTC Industrial Manual (1970-present)
OTC Unlisted Manual (1986-present)
Transportation Manual (1909-present)
International Manual (1981-present)
Bank and Finance Manual (1928-present)

February 12, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The library's current display looks at Lincoln's life and legacy in terms of slavery and race relations in the United States. If you're at the library, stop at the lobby display cases and take a look!

Wilson Library has a limited number of common federal tax forms in the lobby of the library. The State of Missouri has decided NOT to send paper tax forms to libraries this year. Additional tax forms and information can be accessed electronically at the following websites:

Federal Tax Forms (Internal Revenue Service): http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html

State Tax Forms (Missouri Department of Revenue): http://dor.mo.gov/tax/forms/

The Scholars' Mine Staff are asking the faculty to take this 5 minute survey on what materials to add to Scholars' Mine next. When the faculty advisory committee meets in the fall, we will use the survey responses to help us determine the next phase of additions

Survey:
https://itweb.mst.edu/auth-cgi-bin/cgiwrap/surveytool/display.pl?survey=144189