Missouri S&T Library Blog

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.

Posted by Richard Pickens at 01:59 PM | Permalink

Wilson Library has a limited number of common federal and state tax forms. The forms are available in the lobby of the library. Additional tax forms and information can be accessed electronically on the following websites.

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

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

Posted by David Hubbard at 12:00 PM | Permalink

In 1907, Curtis Laws Wilson Library was designated as a Federal
Depository of US government documents. The library is celebrating this
100th anniversary with a small exhibit of government documents,
including an 1882 U.S. Geological Survey color lithograph of the Grand
Canyon. As a member of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP),
Wilson Library acquires, maintains, and provides access to materials
distributed by the Government Printing Office (GPO). The library also
provides services supporting the use of those resources to both UMR
and the general public. Come on in and take a look!

Posted by David Hubbard at 08:05 AM | Permalink

The MERLIN system is being upgraded this Sunday with some new disk arrays at the system office which will necessitate downtime in the maintenance window from midnight-6 AM on Nov. 4. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted by John Seguin at 09:37 AM | Permalink

UMR IT will be performing maintenance on the Documentum content servers from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Thursday, October 4, 2007. Students attempting to submit a thesis or dissertation into the Scholars’ Mine research repository will be unable to do so during the maintenance window.

The Documentum content servers are unavailable between midnight and 1 a.m. daily for backup procedures.

For more information, please contact the UMR IT Help Desk at (573) 341-HELP or submit an online Help Request at http://help.mst.edu

Posted by MT Adimn at 04:46 PM | Permalink