Engineering Library - University of Notre Dame

It's National Library Week! Celebrate by reading an ebook from the libraries' collections! Find them at the following link:

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:19:00 +0000

http://www.library.nd.edu/srch-find/ebooks.shtml

Patent Law changes today! The change makes the distinction that the "first to file" is the owner vs.the "first to invent".

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:10:00 +0000

From the PatenlyO blog:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/03/the-new-law-effective-today-35-usc-102.html#comments

For the "Plain English" version see:
http://gigaom.com/2013/03/18/first-to-file-patent-law-starts-today-what-it-means-in-plain-english/

What are sinkholes? Want answers?

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:03:00 +0000

see the recent post from the USGS about sinkholes at:
http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/the-science-of-sinkholes/?from=title

Information access is crucial for creating and supporting engineers

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:49:00 +0000

Are you comtemplating how Open Access might contribute to fuller access to critical information for engineers? Read this story:
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1116

New IU course on data vizualization

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

begins on Jan. 22, 2013. http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/

Indiana University's Katy Börner, the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and an international leader in information visualization, will offer a free massive open online course on the topic beginning Jan. 22.
For more information: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/23675.html

Google Scholar Citations pitfalls

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:29:00 +0000

The Scholarly Kitchen is a blog put out by the Society for Scholarly Publishing that aims to keep its readers aware of new developments in publishing. A recent article entitled, "Gaming Google Scholar Citations, Made Simple and Easy" and ensuing comments provide interesting food for thought. Carol

Indiana State flyover will produce new GIS data!

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:02:00 +0000

In an announcement today from the Times Media Company: NWI.com, this data will be more detailed than Google Maps. Read the entire story at: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/lake-county-commissioners-ok-money-for-state-flyover-data/article_47da0ad6-8e83-51d0-b140-fb423f0346df.html

How "expert firms" influence investing in new products

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:01:00 +0000

Science News gives an example of how expert firms are influencing investment in new products in both of these recent articles:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6116/139.full
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6116/137.summary

Calling all geoscience faculty and students! This new article about Geosciences resources is beyond excellent!

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:49:00 +0000

http://www.istl.org/11-spring/internet.html

Video: the rescue of the crew of the Bounty

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:15:00 +0000

The Coast Guard rescue of the crew of the Tall Ship "Bounty" has been recorded.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Video+Rescue+Bounty+during+Hurricane+Sandy/7465313/story.html

The Bounty sank as the result of the high winds associated with hurricane Sandy. The Washington Post released this story today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coast-guard-monitors-tall-ship-in-distress-off-north-carolina-as-sandy-moves-toward-east-coast/2012/10/29/d3b3a36c-21a4-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html

News about Reaxys Xcelerate! Attn: Chemical Engineers!

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:42:00 +0000

Reaxys is beefing up content with a new version called Reaxys Xcelerate.
This new version is being developed especially for research intensive organizations. It includes substances, structures by chemical name or CAS registry number. It will be expanded to include journal articles.
Reaxys includes PubChem.
To view a demo and training videos that give more information about Reaxys, check them out at the following link:
http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com/products/Reaxys-Xcelerate

Geology and the Gettysburg Campaign

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:50:00 +0000

What were the interrelationships between the local Gettysburg area geology, the terrain, and the course of the Battle of Gettysburg? Find the answers at:
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/es5/es5.pdf

All Alone in the Night

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120305.html

Mississippi River Flows Backwards Due to Isaac

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:33:00 +0000

For more information and to see what happens where there is a storm surge, read the following posted by USGS.

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3387&from=rss_home#.UD6pzaPwGuJ

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:25:00 +0000

Academic publishing

Open sesame

When research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge.

From: May 1, 2012 Economist

Link to the Economist article

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:08:00 +0000

BMJ Group renews partnership with HighWire

STANFORD, CA, 30 April 2012 – The BMJ Group today announced the renewal of their long‐standing partnership with HighWire Press..."In recent years, BMJ Group has developed a reputation for being one of the most innovative and influential STM publishers," said Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at the BMJ Group.
For the full story, visit: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/BMJrenewsHW.pdf

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:56:00 +0000

Spending Panels Back Boosts for NSF, NASA, NIST Programs

by Jeffrey Mervis

The National Science Foundation and NASA got off to a strong start last week in the annual congressional budget race. Separate spending bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate would spare both agencies from the severe cuts forecast next year for most federal agencies in the wake of last summer's budget agreement between Congress and the White House and a budget resolution approved earlier this month by the House. And while legislators aren't expected to cross the finish line for the 2013 budget until after the November elections, an early lead can't hurt.

Full Story at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/336/6080/401?sa_campaign=Email/sntw/27-April-2012/10.1126/science.336.6080.401

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:07:00 +0000

ND researchers publish a review article about currentprogress in the development of compound semiconductor tunnel field-effect transistors(TFETs) for low-voltage, high performance logic applications.

Alan Seabaugh, Soo Doo Chae, Patrick Fay, Wan Sik Hwang, Tom Kosel, Rui Li, Qingmin Liu, Yeqing Lu, Tim Vasen, Mark Wistey, Grace (Huili) Xing, Guangle Zhou, and Qin Zhang

Congratulations from the Engineering Library!

New paper examines issues raised by Fukushima reactor accident // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:50:00 +0000

New paper examines issues raised by Fukushima reactor accident // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame

Predatory Publishers -- authors beware!

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:38:00 +0000

Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers

by Jeffrey Beall metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver who keeps a running list on his blog

noreply@blogger.com (brach) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:42:00 +0000

The Engineering Library is pleased to announce three new e-book collections!

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Synthesis Collection One | Synthesis Collection Two | Computer and Information Science Collection Two Synthesis is an information service for the educational community in engineering and computer science published by Morgan and Claypool. The collections ontain 50- to 200-page self-contained electronic documents, "lectures", which are organized into a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series. Each is authored by a prominent contributor to the field. New series and lectures are added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed..

Individual titles are in the Library’s Online catalog found on the Engineering Library homepage at: http://engineering.library.nd.edu/

New Engineering Books

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Check out new books in the Engineering Library

Happy Engineers Week 2012!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:48:00 +0000

The theme of Engineers Week 2012 is "Engineers turn dreams into reality." Here at the engineering library we are here to provide resources, tools, and information to help engineering students, faculty, and staff achieve their dreams. We provide a vast number of journals, books, databases, and documents to help current and future engineers create, innovate, learn, explore, research, and contribute to society. In celebration of Engineers Week, the library will give away ID holders to all Notre Dame College of Engineering students, faculty, and staff on Wednesday, February 22, 2012! Come stop by and say hi and let us know if there is anything we can help you find. Happy Engineers Week 2012!

Celebrating the Challenges of Science

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Science: It's Really, Really Hard, and that is something to celebrate

This NPR article from Adam Frank speaks directly about how hard science and math really are and why we should celebrate this fact. Enjoy!

New paper examines seawater’s effect on nuclear fuel // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:00 +0000

New paper examines seawater’s effect on nuclear fuel // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame