November 18, 2008
RSS feeds for new books now available
Have you ever wished that someone would tell you every time the Library gets a new book in your discipline? Check out our new RSS service!
The RSS feeds for new books are being refreshed every day. A rotating selection of the most recently-received books is shown in the right-hand column of the Library homepage. You can also limit the feed to a subject area.
For more information see "Getting Started with RSS"
November 13, 2008
The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive (From 1665)
Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Digital Journal Archive.
This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings. The Archive provides online access to all journal content, from Volume One, Issue One in March 1665 until the latest modern research published today ahead of print. And until February the archive is freely available to anyone on the internet to explore.
Spanning nearly 350 years of continuous publishing, the archive of 65,000 articles includes ground-breaking research and discovery from many renowned scientists including: Bohr, Boyle, Bragg, Cajal, Cavendish, Chandrasekhar, Crick, Dalton, Darwin, Davy, Dirac, Faraday, Fermi, Fleming, Florey, Fox Talbot, Franklin, Halley, Hawking, Heisenberg, Herschel, Hodgkin, Hooke, Huxley, Joule, Kelvin, Krebs, Liebnitz, Linnaeus, Lister, Mantell, Marconi, Maxwell, Newton, Pauling, Pavlov, Pepys, Priestley, Raman, Rutherford, Schrodinger, Turing, van Leeuwenhoek, Volta, Watt, Wren, and many, many more influential science thinkers up to the present day.
November 11, 2008
Databases: Off-Campus Access Restored
Off-Campus Access has been restored to Project Muse and "Find Text" links are now working in all OCLC databases from off-campus. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
November 7, 2008
Access Restored: Britannica Online
Access to Britannica Online has been restored after a brief interruption in service caused by a technical issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.