Nature Precedings.

Take a look at this new, free resource. The web-site describes it's aim:

"Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share documents,
including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers,
supplementary findings, and manuscripts."

The material in the developing archive is screened but not peer reviewed.
RSS feeds are available for subject divisions.

Read more: http://precedings.nature.com/about .

My November Russ Office Hours
(Room 404):
November 01, Thursday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
November 08. Thursday, closed
November 15, Thursday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
November 22, Thursday, closed
November 29, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Journal of Computer Science in Colleges
- now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center -

Published by the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges, distributed through the ACM. Description from CCSC: The Journal of Computer Science in Colleges contains the conference proceedings for each of the regional conferences sponsored by CCSC. It is distributed to faculty in over 200 colleges.

Sample issue.

My October Russ Office Hours
(Room 404):
October 04, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
October 11, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
October 18, Thursday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
October 23, Tuesday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm

DARTS (Depositary Access to Reports, Technical and Scientific)

The Paul Laurence Dunbar and Fordham Health Sciences Libraries offers access to DARTS as a U.S. GPO Depository . DARTS indexes NTIS (National Technical Information Service) materials. [Example: NASA Technical Reports.] Full text reports are available when provided by NTIS.

Access is restricted: library building computers only, ask an information desk staff member to enter an account and password. Sorry, no remote access.

Ergonomics: Major Writings --edited by, Neville Moray PLDL Ref TA166 .E693138 2005 (4 vols.) An excellent four volume reference of principle writings in ergonomics.

1. History and scope of human factors
2. Skill, displays, controls, and mental workload
3. Psychological mechanisms and models in ergonomics
4. Manual control, industrial processes, and automation

ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
- now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center, and the ACM Digital Library -

ACM describes the journal: SIGACCESS (formerly known as SIGCAPH) promotes the professional interests of computing personnel with physical disabilities and the application of computing and information technology in solving relevant disability problems. The SIG also strives to educate the public to support careers for the disabled.
Areas of Special Interest: Aids and services for the handicapped and/or disabled.

Sample issue.

Journal of Systems and Information Technology
- now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center -

MCB/Emerald describes the journal: The Journal of Systems and Information Technology (JSIT) publishes articles with a systemic perspective on information systems development, management, technology, and electronic commerce. Ethnographic, geneological, action research, case studies, and quantitative statistical surveys investigate social, political, and technical aspects of problems. Topics include: system e-commerce planning, hardware-software holistic solutions, integrated HCI, systems approaches to MIS, technology transfer, and the influence of politics and culture on IT e-business solutions.

Sample issue.

My September Russ Office Hours
(Room 404):
September 06, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
September 13, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
September 18, Tuesday, 9:00am to 11:00am
September 27, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Challenges and Realities
This book is available in the print Reference collection, 2nd floor, Dunbar Library.

Use Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining to get grounded in practical applications of data mining when only low quality data is available. Courses: CS405/605, CS499,699, CS701, CS705, CS711.

The Publisher describes the book's content: "This book provides a focal point for research and real-world data mining practitioners that advance knowledge discovery from low-quality data; it presents in-depth experiences and methodologies, providing theoretical and empirical guidance to users who have suffered from underlying low-quality data. Contributions also focus on interdisciplinary collaborations among data quality, data processing, data mining, data privacy, and data sharing."

Gamer's Night. -- @ the Library.

Contest: Unreal Tournament
Sep. 07, Friday, 6:30pm to 10:30pm

The University Libraries, CaTS, and Residence Services invite you to get your game on. We've got the equipment, you've got the skill. [...or if you've never played Unreal Tournament, bring some fun and good luck.] Free pizza, snacks, and soft-drinks! Show your WSU ID to get in.

Also offered: WSU Jeopardy, Family Feud.
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Announcing the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center!

OhioLINK does eBooks better. Advanced search features. Work with pages and chapters!

• Engineering = 900 books
  
• Computer Science = 1000 books

Use e-books: http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu
Learn how to search the e-books: http://www.ohiolink.edu/ostaff/ebchelp/helpmain.html

Contributing publishers: Springer, Oxford. (soon ABC-CLIO)
Other eBook options for engineers: Safari, NetLibrary.

note:These collections are available to OhioLINK members.

The Electronic Journal Center now contains Supplementary Objects.

Sometimes an electronic article is more than just text. Video, interactive diagrams and other supplementary material may complement the printed word. The OhioLINK EJC now contains links to supplementary material! (when provided by the publisher)

Check out this example from Experimental Cell Research:
http://journals.ohiolink.edu/ejc/article.cgi?issn=00144827&issue=v313i0013&article=2766_domgaraamoad

ACM Transactions on the WEB
- now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center -

ACM describes the journal: Transactions on the Web (TWEB) is a journal publishing refereed articles reporting the results of research on Web content, applications, use, and related enabling technologies. Topics in the scope of TWEB include but are not limited to the following: Browsers and Web Interfaces; Electronic Commerce; Electronic Publishing; Hypertext and Hypermedia; Semantic Web; Web Engineering; Web Services; and Service-Oriented Computing XML. Other related topics include: Accessibility; Business Services Education; Knowledge Management and Representation; Mobility and pervasive computing; Performance and scalability; Recommender systems; Searching, Indexing, Classification, Retrieval and Querying, Data Mining and Analysis; Security and Privacy; and User Interfaces.

Sample issue.

Bookmark articles with the newest feature of the OhioLINK EJC. Find an EJC article you want to bookmark. Select your favourite bookmark service from the icon bar at the bottom of the article's action block. Action blocks are located in the upper-right of each EJC article. Select your favourite:

• del.icio.us
• Google
• Bookmarks
• Connotea
• Digg
• reddit
• Spurl
• Windows Live Favorites

Read the instructions and see screen shots.

WSU and OhioLINK have purchased 2006 and 2007 Springer eBooks. We will be loading the books into a new electronic book center in upcoming months.

WSU faculty, staff, and students can use Springer eBooks now, temporarily, directly from SpringerLink: http://www.springerlink.com/

• Choose .pdf while viewing a list of search results.
• Choose Open: Entire document while reading a chapter abstract.

Choose the book [title] to unify the chapters in one search result list; emulate Table Of Content results for the printed work.

A SpringerLink search will mix journal content we own, journal content we don't own, book chapters we've bought, and those we haven't.

Indicates full-text pre-paid access. (Green is good; no green means no go) If you find something you need dated 2005 or earlier, consult the OhioLINK Catalog to see if a copy is available.

Please let me know if you find this collection useful.

My July Russ Office Hours
(Room 404):
July 05, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
July 12, Thursday, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
July 17, Thursday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
July 26, Thursday -- closed

When Google doesn't get it ... there are areas when a different search approach can save time. Searching for historical papers can be made more efficient by using these archives, listed by Mark Shelton at Brown University. Care to add any others?

• The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Historical Literature Scans
• DIEPER: Digitised European Periodicals
• Gottinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
• Gallica: la bibliotheque numerique

Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction

Available electronically to WSU faculty, staff and students through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Use the Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction to get quick perspectives on many topics within the field of human computer interaction (HCI) such as concepts, design, usability, evaluation, innovations, and applications of HCI in organizations. Identify principle authors in HCI. Courses: ISE451, HFE651, HFE753.

Scirus is a search engine for scientists and engineers. Results include journals, preferred websites, and other websites. The preferred web sites have been analyzed. Preferred websites are more highly relevant to professional or academic audiences.

Customize Scirus:create internal links to WSU full-text material - visit search preferences. Choose OhioLINK.

Scirus provides the ability to export or e-mail tagged search results.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.