The OhioLINK Electronic Book Center has rolled out a new interface.
Changes include:

• new interface
• search groups of book collections
• search specialized collections individually

Collections relevant to engineers include Springer-Verlag publications (imprints 2007+), and Safari Books Online (professional trade manuals, handbooks, and code).

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Springer-Verlag describes the content: The Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing (JAMC) is a broad-based journal covering all branches of computational or applied mathematics including: numerical analysis, discrete optimization, linear and nonlinear programming, theory of computation, control theory, theory of algorithms, computational logic, applied combinatorics, coding theory, cryptographics, fuzzy theory with applications, differential equations with applications.

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

Sample issue.

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

A new journal from ACS, Applied Materials and Interfaces will publish articles on new materials, interfacial processors, and applications. Contributors will include chemists, engineers, physicists, and biologists.

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

Sample issue.

Energy for Sustainable Development - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

ESD is published four times yearly by Elsevier on behalf of the International Energy Initiative.
Article contents include interdisciplinary discussion, summaries of technical innovations, energy issues in developing countries, and critical reviews.

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

Sample issue.

Frontiers of Chemical Engineering in China - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Springer-Verlag describes the content: The journal aims to reflect worldwide advances in nearly all fields of chemical engineering. The journal publishes review articles, original research papers, and rapid communications by individual researcher and research groups. The journal covers nearly all main branches of chemical engineering.

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

Sample issue.

Back issues of the following journals are now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Journal of Phase Equilibria - (Springer-Verlag)
Journal of Thermal Spray Technology - (Springer-Verlag)
Metallurgical Transactions B - (Springer-Verlag)

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

• Bioethics Quarterly - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press, New York)
• Journal of Bioethics - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press, New York)
• Journal of Crystal and Molecular Structure - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers,New York)
• Journal of Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Research - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, New York)
• Journal of Engineering Physics - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, New York)
• Journal of Environmental Polymer Degradation - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, New York)
• Journal of Soviet Laser Research - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, New York)
• Journal of Systems Science and Complexity - (Springer US, Boston)
• Polymer Mechanics - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, New York)
• Soviet Materials Science - (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, New York)

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

• Annals of Biomedical Engineering (Kluwer)
  
• Applied Intelligence (Kluwer)
  
• Computer Science in Economics and Management (Kluwer)
  
• Cybernetics (Kluwer)
  
• International Journal of Computer & Information Science (Kluwer)
• Journal of Coatings Technology and Research (Springer)
  
• Journal of Engineering Thermophysics (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica)
• Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (SpringerVerlag)
  
• Materials and Stcutures (Kluwer)
  
• Metallurgical Transactions A (Kluwer)
  
• Optical and Quantum Electronics (Kluwer)
• Queueing Systems (Kluwer)
  
• Soviet Applied Mechanics (Spriger-Verlag)
• Soviet Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics (Kluwer)
  
• Transition Metal Chemistry (Kluwer)
  

20090921

Asian Journal of Control - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center. Sample issue.

20090910

The University Libraries new website: http://www.libraries.wright.edu/redesign/

We'll be rolling it out for Winter Quarter. Feedback wanted.

20090903

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

The publisher, MCB Press, describes the journal: The journal examines how current shared vision for the future is one of semantically-rich information and service oriented architecture for global information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML, Web services, RDF, OWL, of multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual information retrieval, and of distributed, mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Instructions for authors.

Sample issue.

20090901

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

• Annals of Biomedical Engineering (Kluwer)
  
• Applied Intelligence (Kluwer)
  
• Computer Science in Economics and Management (Kluwer)
  
• Cybernetics (Kluwer)
  
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• International Journal of Computer & Information Science (Kluwer)
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• Metallurgical Transactions A (Kluwer)
  
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• Soviet Applied Mechanics (Spriger-Verlag)
  
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More journals now available electronically to WSU faculty, staff, and students:

• Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (Springer)
  
• Biology of Metals (Springer-Verlag)
  
• Computers and Translation (Kluwer)
  
• International Journal of Automation and Computing (Institute of Automation and Computing/Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  
• International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (Springer-Verlag)
  
• International Journal of Fracture Mechanics (Kluwer)
  
• Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International (SP MAIK/Interperiodica)
  
• Journal in Computer Virology (Springer-Verlag)
  
• Journal of Thermal Analysis (Kluwer)
  
• Materials and Structures (Springer)
  
• Techtrends (Springer)
  

More journals now available electronically to WSU faculty, staff, and students:
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• Applied Mathematics-A Journal of Chinese Universities (SP Editorial Committee of Applied Mathematics - A Journal of ChineseUniversities, Heidelberg)
• Applied Spectroscopy (Optical Society of America)
• Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Chinese Science Bulletin (Science in China Press, Beijing)
  
• Fibers and Polymers (The Korean Fiber Society, Heidelberg)
  
• Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China (SP Higher Education Press, Heidelberg)
  
• Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering in China (SP Higher Education Press, Heidelberg)
  
• Geo-spatial Information Science (Wuhan University, Heidelberg)
  
• Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
  
• Intelligent Service Robotics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg)
  
• International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (Springer US, Boston)
• International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (MCB University Press)
  
• Journal of Biomedical Science (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht)
  
• Journal of Electronic Materials (Springer US, Boston)
  
• Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention (Springer US, Boston)
• Arkiv för Matematik (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht)
• Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (Springer US, Boston)
  
• Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering (SP Systems Engineering Society of China, Heidelberg)
• Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (Springer US, Boston)
  
• Journal of Wuhan University of Technology-Mater. Sci. Ed. (Wuhan University of Technology, Heidelberg)
  
• Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B (SP Zhejiang University Press, Heidelberg)
  
• Mechanics of Solids (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
  
• Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg)
  
• Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures (Ingenta / VSP)
  
• Opto-Electronics Review (SP Versita, Heidelberg)
  
• Optoelectronics, Instrumentation and Data Processing (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer US, Boston)
  
• Plasmonics (Springer US, Boston)
  
• Radiological Physics and Technology (Springer Japan, Japan)
  
• Science in China Series F: Information Sciences (Science in China Press, Beijing)
  
• Scientific and Technical Information Processing (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
  
• Solid Fuel Chemistry (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)

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

• Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (Springer)
• Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
  
• Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Journal of Electronics (China/SP Science Press, Heidelberg)
• Physics of Metals and Metallography (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)

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Steel in Translation - now available to WSU faculty staff and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Springer-Verlag describes the journal content: "The industrial engineering journal Steel in Translation covers theoretical and applied problems of ferrous metallurgy. It presents material translated from the two leading Russian ferrous metallurgical journals – Stal" and Izvestia VUZ Chernaya Metallurgiya."

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

Sample issue.

Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - now available to WSU faculty, staff, and students in the Electronic Journal Center.

Topics include: mathematical theory of pattern recognition, raw data representation, computer vision, image processing, machine learning, computer graphics, data and knowledge bases, neural nets, software, specialized computer architectures, applications, and related areas.

Article submission information is available from 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.

• Acta Mechanica Sinica (Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg)
• Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Central European Journal of Operations Research (Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg)
• e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (Springer-Verlag, Vienna)
• JOM (Springer US, Boston)
• Journal of Control Theory and Applications (Editorial Board of Control Theory and Applications, Heidelberg)
• Journal of Superhard Materials (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering (Springer US, Boston)
• Laser Physics (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Moscow University Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Moscow University Mechanics Bulletin (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Optoelectronics Letters (Tianjin University of Technology, Heidelberg)
• Radioelectronics and Communications Systems (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Springer-Verlag, Milan)
• Resonance (Springer-Verlag, India)
• Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Focus on Physics (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)

More journals now available electronically to WSU faculty, staff, and students:
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• Applied Magnetic Resonance (Springer-Verlag, Vienna)
• Automatic Control and Computer Sciences (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology (Elsevier Science)
• Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Analysis (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Journal of Friction and Wear (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Journal of Manufacturing Processes (Elsevier Science)
• La radiologia medica (Springer Milan, Milan)
• Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (Springer US, Boston)
• Neurochemical Journal (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Numerical Analysis and Applications (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Optical Review (Optical Society of Japan, Japan)
• Polymer Science Series C (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Research in Transportation Economics (Elsevier Science)
• Russian Electrical Engineering (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Russian Engineering Research (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Russian Mathematics (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Russian Metallurgy (Metally) (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)
• Surface Engineering and Applied Electrochemistry (Allerton Press, Inc., Heidelberg)
• Thermal Engineering (SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Dordrecht)

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.
Read more.

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.

Sample issue.

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.