5/12/08: USC Libraries Interlibrary Loan has joined the RAPID Consortium! What does this mean to patrons? Faster delivery of articles from journals, periodicals, and other documents, many within 24 hours. RAPID is an organization of libraries from across the globe decidated to fast, cost-effective, and innovative resource sharing. For more information about RAPID, please visit their website by clicking here.
The Science Citation Index of Web of Science at USC Libraries e-resources is back till 1900!
April 10, 2008 — NorahI am pleased to announce that the Science Citation Index of Web of Science at USC Libraries e-resources is back till 1900! It means when searching the web of science, you can search the database from the the beginning of it. Please go ahead and give a try, and I believe you will enjoy your information research more than before.
If you would like to know more about the database, please contact me for your preferred time and I am more than happy to provide a training session for you.
Happy searching!
Chat with your S&E Librarians at nights!
January 16, 2008 — NorahFrom this week (Monday, Jan 14, 2008), USC S&E community users can chat with S&E Librarians during evenings.
The new chat services are Monday 7 -9 pm and Wednesday 6 – 8pm.
Please come to Ask-A-Librarian and chat about your library questions with your librarian at nights!
SPIE Digital Library goes live in the E-Resources!
January 8, 2008 — NorahI am pleased to announce that SPIE Digital Library (the e-collection of SPIE journals and conference proceedings) is now live in the E-resources!
The new addition is the SPIE proceedings collection. The SPIE proceedings collection goes back to 1990 “beginning with Volume 1200 with more than 17,000 new research papers added annually”, and current issues access starting two weeks after a conference. For more information, please check the e-resources.
Hope this subscription resource is of use to you!
AME Del.icio.us tags goes live!
September 14, 2007 — Norah
I am pleased to announce that AME Del.icio.us goes live NOW! Please feel free to check them and find your interested tags.
All of these are AME related Internet or web pages! Many more will be added in the coming future. It will be highly appreciated if you can give me your feedback.
And if you are new to tags (or Del.icio.us), please kindly check this article from Wikipedia. Here are top 3 reasons why you may want to try use Tags:
1. it is a free and on-line bookmarking system (where is an Internet, where are your bookmarks!)
2. it can be shared easily among everyone (and you can also find others’ good tags!)
3. it is a trend, like iPhone, Facebook
Have fun!
Welcome to the AMEUSC blog!
August 2, 2007 — NorahThis is the blog dedicated to the USC department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (AME) and all the USC AME & engineering information users!
