Where did the Current Periodicals go?

As you may have realized, we have many fewer print journals now than we did in 1996. I choose this year somewhat arbitrarily, but it was also the beginning of the first ejournal "pilot" we had at UCR.  I believe we can say now that the pilot was a success.  I say this because there are only 3-4 researchers who still regularly come into the Science Library to see print journals.  We miss you.  However, your convenience is our primary goal and electronic journals are more convenient, take up no space, and do not require binding, maintenance or replacement.

This is a win-win situation.

In the last couple of years we have gotten to the point where we have too few current print journals to maintain a respectable "Current Periodicals" section.  The current periodicals will now mostly be sent up to live with their older counterparts on the 2nd and 3rd floors.  So new issues will reside, unbound, next to older ones. 

A very small subset of current periodicals was chosen to live on the "New Materials" shelves by the entry lounge.  These were chosen exclusively based on room usage statistics.  If you would like to nominate an unbound journal to come live in the new materials shelves, let me know.

ASME Digital collection Available for UCR

ASME Digital Collection

Eight campuses (UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD, and UCSB) began participation in a joint opportunity for access to the ASME Digital Collection (on the Silverchair platform).

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is the premier professional membership organization for more than 127,000 mechanical engineers and associated members worldwide.  ASME also conducts one of the world’s largest technical publishing operations in the world, offering thousands of titles including some of the profession’s most prestigious journals, conference papers and proceedings, and ASME Press books.   The entire collection can be searched via the ASME Digital Collection.

The ASME Digital Collection (http://library.ucr.edu/go/asme), previously known as The ASME Digital Library, is ASME’s repository of current and archival literature featuring:

ASME Journals Front File (2000- ),
including two new titles B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, and SB
ASME Journals Archive (1960-1999) D, I, LA, M, R, and SD
ASME Conference Proceedings (2008- ) B, D, I, LA, M, and R
ASME Conf. Proceedings Archive (2002-2007) D, I, LA, and R
ASME eBooks B, D, LA, and M

Links will begin showing up in our catalogs (Scotty and Melvyl) and in UC e-Links.

Best,

Your Librarian

Presentation Practice Room Available

The UCR Library is pleased to announce a new resource for students, and others, who are working on presentations.  Located at the Orbach Science Library, the Presentation Practice Room

is bookable through the study room reservation system.

The room has a large LCD flat screen monitor hooked to a stand up desktop computer on a podium. 

A remote presentation controller with a laser pointer can be checked out as well as whiteboard markers.  

The room is not ideally outfitted to be a classroom, or a group study room.  It is not advisable to attempt to move the podium or to try to hook up one's own computer. The Library is investigating other solutions for that form of collaborating. 

The room was substantially funded by a grant from the UCR Undergraduate Education office.