Gamer's Night. -- @ the Library.

Contest: Unreal Tournament
Sep. 12, Friday, 6:00pm to 10:00pm

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: guitar hero, chess, dance revolution, and board games.
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RefWorks: updated features this week

• global edit feature improved
• non-English and multi-language bibliographies
• advanced search options enhanced
• increased file-size for attachments

Try RefWorks.

ITBM-RBM News - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

The French language publication offers topical interviews with biomedical technology sector personalities, a review of technical specifications, market analyses, news on equipment monitoring and maintenance, and spotlights innovative products.

Article submission information is available from the journal's website.

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ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

ACM TRETS focuses on FPGAs and other adaptable fabric approaches to the design and implementation of reconfigurable systems.

Article submission information is available from the journal's website.

Sample issue.

BioData Mining - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

BioMed Central describes the journal's content: BioData Mining publishes original articles on all aspects of data mining applied to high-dimensional biological and biomedical data, focusing on computational aspects of knowledge discovery from large-scale genetic, transcriptomic, genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data.

Article submission information is available from the journal's website.

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Citation Mapping. This new feature from Thomson/Reutors/ISI Web of Knowledge is gob-stopping cool!

Their press: "Citation Mapping • Be the first to see the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science® visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more! "

Use any ordinary ISI search. Arrive at an article you want to map; then choose Citation Map

Choose (forward, backward, or both).

Choose 1 or 2 generations.

Create. (The button is a buried at the bottom right.)

Map options include more than author-to-author displays.

Try this example:

1. appearance - order nodes by - subject category

2. appearance - colour code by - subject category

3. result: a colour coded representation of subject relevant citing and cited articles!

More journals now available electronically to WSU faculty, staff, and students:
Search our complete list of electronic journal titles.

• Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
• Chinese Journal of Biotechnology
• Chinese Journal of Chromatography
• Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• Journal of Bionic Engineering
• Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology
• Journal of Iron and Steel Research International
• Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics
• Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology
• Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing
• New Carbon Materials
• Particuology
• Rare Metals
• Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China

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Springer-Verlag recently celebrated the 5000th volume of the Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS) series. WSU members should look for LNCS volumes two ways.

1. SpringerLink: limited full-text access; search the entire series
2. OhioLINK Electronic Book Center: full-text access all found documents; partial series

The 5000th volume was titled, 25 Years of Model Checking, by Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis.

More journals now available electronically to WSU faculty, staff, and students:

• BioEnergy Research
• Energy Efficiency
• IRBM
  
• Logic and Analysis
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• NanoEthics
• Optimization Letters
• Sensing and Instrumentation for Food Quality and Safety
• Service Oriented Computing and Applications
• Signal, Image and Video Processing
• Swarm Intelligence
• Systems and Synthetic Biology

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Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

JOCCH publishes papers relating to the use of ICT in support of cultural heritage. Topics may include ICT used to classify, preserve, restore, archive, create or display digital artefacts.

Article submission information is available from the journal's website.

Sample issue.

Review of Symbolic Logic - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Created by the Association of Symbolic Logic and made available through Cambridge University Press, the Review of Symbolic Logic, publishes papers relating to philosophical and non-classical logics and their applications, history and philosophy of logic, and philosophy and methodology of mathematics.

Article submission information is available from the ASL journal's website.

Sample issue.

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published by the Association for Computer Machinery. Description: TACCESS is a quarterly peer reviewed journal that provides a technical forum for computing issues that impact the lives of people with disabilities: assistive system applications, use investigations.

Instructions to authors can be found on the journal's website.

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Journal of Robotic Surgery - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published by Springer. Description by Springer: The aim of the [Journal of Robotic Surgery] is to become the leading worldwide journal for publications of articles related to robotic surgery, encompassing surgical simulation and integrated imaging techniques.

Instructions to authors can be found on the journal's website.

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International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDEM) - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published by Springer. Description by Springer: IJIDEM examines the development, handling, and design of highly realistic, multi-sensorial virtual prototypes for improving decision-making in product design and manufacturing.

Instructions to authors can be found on the journal's website.

Sample issue.

Systems Engineering: Theory and Practice (SETP) - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published by Elsevier Science. Description by Elsevier: Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice (SETP) is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on systems science, management science, and information science.

Instructions to authors can be found on the journal's website.

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Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Science - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published by Elsevier Science. Description by Elsevier: The Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists publishing articles on recent research, new technology and techniques, professional practices, technologists' viewpoints as well as relevant book reviews.

Instructions to authors can be found on the journal's website.

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New Biotechnology - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published by Elsevier Science. Description by Elsevier: New Biotechnology is the official journal of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) and will be published bimonthly. It will cover both the science of biotechnology and its surrounding political, business and financial milieu. The journal will publish peer-reviewed basic research papers, authoritative reviews, feature articles and opinions in all areas of biotechnology.

Instructions to authors can be found on the journal's website.

Sample issue.

More journals now available electronically to WSU faculty, staff, and students:
Search our complete list of electronic journal titles.

• Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
• Biomolecular NMR Assignments
• Brain Imaging and Behavior
• Complex Analysis and Operator Theory

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NITS Product Search
Search government funded scientific, engineering, and technical reports. References include material made available through NTIS from 1964 to present. Specify keywords, topical category, collection, or agency. WSU constituents may order NTIS documents through their ILLiad accounts. ( Read more. )

Biotechnology for Biofuels - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Published through BMC Proceedings; BfB is an Open Access journal. Description by the editorial staff: Biotechnology and Biofuels focuses on technological and operational advances in the production of biofuels from biomass. Areas of concentration include: development of plants for biofuels production, plant deconstruction, pretreatment and fractionation, enzyme production and enzymatic conversion, fermentation and bioconversion, integrated system, process design and economics, and life cycle studies.

Article submission information is available from the journal's website.

Sample issue.