Mathematics and Statistics Library News

Open Education Resources (OER) Series

2021-10-11T13:00:00.030-06:00

This semester Libraries and Cultural Resources is partnering with the Taylor Institute to offer the Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop Series. When incorporated into your teaching, OERs decrease financial barriers and enhance student learning and engagement.

OERs are a hot topic for students at UCalgary and these workshops are catered towards faculty and instructors interested in learning more.

Sessions cover topics such as:

Introduction to OER
Copyright and Licensing for OER
Finding OER
Getting Started on Creating OER

Find out more or register for a session

Already familiar with OER? Check out the substantial funding available through the University of Calgary Teaching and Learning Grants to help facilitate the creation of OER projects.

New Interlibrary Loan (ILL) sign-on process

2021-07-19T13:54:00.002-06:00

Starting Tuesday, July 20, 2021, the Library's Interlibrary Loan sign-on will be via UCIT's sign-on page.

Note that only those with active IT user accounts will be able to sign on. Users must also have been issued a Unicard.

For those who requested items before the switch, the link in the ILL notification email will not work as expected. Instead, sign on and click “Completed Requests” to view ILL documents.

Journal Citation Reports are available!

2021-07-09T14:32:00.000-06:00

It takes six months to compile, but Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2021 edition is out.

What's new for 2021?

Expanded journal coverage

This year's release includes expanded coverage of the journal literature to reflect the full breadth of research covered in all the journals in the Web of Science Core Collection™ – including journals covered in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)™ and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)™.

A new metric

The Journal Citation Indicator is a field-normalized measurement of journal citation impact, providing a single journal-level metric that can be easily interpreted and compared across disciplines. It has been calculated for all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection – including those that do not have a Journal Impact Factor™.

A new visual experience

New graphics improve the user experience with simpler, more direct searching while providing a deeper look into the data – for example, a view of how a journal’s metrics have evolved over time.

Access JCR via UCalgary

Explore JCR training resources

"Follow by email" has been discontinued by FeedBurner/Blogger/Google

2021-07-07T15:03:00.008-06:00

If you have signed up for email alerts to this blog in the past, this service, previously provided by FeedBurner has been discontinued.

As a reminder, the sign-up looked something like this:

This blog will continue to function, as will its RSS feed, however, you will no longer receive email updates about new (albeit infrequent) posts.

2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Data Available

2012-06-28T13:11:00.002-06:00

Access the data here:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.isiknowledge.com/jcr

Library surplus book sale

2011-11-09T09:07:00.001-07:00

Libraries and Cultural Resources is offering surplus and duplicate items (in English and a few other languages) for sale at the

LIBRARY SURPLUS BOOK SALE
IN SUPPORT OF
THE UNITED WAY

Monday November 14th
10 AM - 3:30 PM

and

Tuesday November 15th
10 AM - 3:30 PM

in the
MAIN FLOOR FOYER of TFDL

PAPERBACKS: 50¢
HARDCOVERS: $1

Where are the books?

2011-07-25T09:18:00.005-06:00

A quick reminder that books on 3LB are being moved to either the HDL (High Density Library, a storage facility) or the TFDL. Until the TFDL opens, both HDL and TFDL books need to be requested via the catalogue. Here are a couple of examples:

As of July 25, movers were up to the mid-QD call number range in 3LB.

2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Data Available

2011-07-08T10:37:00.001-06:00

It always takes a half a year to compile, but the data is now available:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.isiknowledge.com/jcr

National Academies Press Makes its Reports Freely Available

2011-06-06T14:21:00.001-06:00

"... Effective June 2nd, PDFs of reports that are currently for sale on the National Academies Press (NAP) Website and PDFs associated with future reports ... will be offered free of charge to all Web visitors. ..."

http://notes.nap.edu/2011/06/02/more-than-4000-national-academies-press-pdfs-now-available-to-download-for-free

Wessex Institute of Technology papers published through 2009 available on Open Access basis in WIT Press e-library

2011-04-28T12:15:00.001-06:00

This is from their marketing department. WIT Press publishes some proceedings that cover mathematics and statistics.
One needs to register for a free account to be able to access the papers. I registered and the pdfs seem to download fine.
A more direct link is: http://library.witpress.com/

WIT Press has announced that, effective immediately, Wessex Institute of Technology papers in their e‑library published from 1993 through 2009 are available on an Open Access basis.

The Wessex Institute of Technology is making the papers Open Access in order to ensure the widest dissemination of papers presented at WIT Conferences.

The WIT Press e-library consists of six sets of Transactions containing papers presented at Wessex Institute of Technology conferences, as follows:

Biomedicine and Health
The Built Environment
Ecology and the Environment
Engineering Sciences
Information and Communication Technologies
Modelling and Simulation

A seventh set of Transactions, State of the Art in Science & Engineering, contains selected chapters from WIT Press books on the latest developments in various fields of science and engineering.

Please follow this link to the WIT Press website to see more information:

http://www.witpress.com/

Incorrect e-journal records

2011-03-22T11:37:00.000-06:00

For the next month or so, you might see e-journals for which there is no online access:

Records for these journals were sent to us in error (i.e. we shouldn't have electronic access to these journals anyway.) These records should be removed by mid-April, however, if you encounter any problem titles, please report them via http://library.ucalgary.ca/troubleshooting-feedback-form

2011-01-17T22:03:00.001-07:00

More about the "books"
Register

Winter 2011 and TFDL

2011-01-10T11:22:00.001-07:00

Welcome back!

Hopefully you all did well on your finals, and had a good break!

Over the break, library staff worked hard to get the new Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) ready for January 3. The Learning Commons, spanning the first two floors, is open, with new computers and workrooms.
Most of the "old" Info Commons computers in MacKimmie will slowly be decommissioned in the near future.

Visit the new Learning Commons - the TFDL is the black and white building next to MacKimmie. Or, have a look at these pics.

Book Sale for United Way

2010-10-28T08:42:00.002-06:00

The library is offering surplus and duplicate items for sale at the
LIBRARY SURPLUS BOOKSALE

IN SUPPORT OF
THE UNITED WAY

Tuesday and Thursday, NOVEMBER 2nd and 4th
9 AM - 3:30 PM
LIBRARY LINK (Library, ground floor)

PAPERBACKS: 50¢
HARDCOVERS: $1

Open Access Week Oct. 18-22

2010-10-12T11:54:00.001-06:00

Join Libraries and Cultural Resources for Open Access Week
October 18-22, 2010

The library will have talks and displays addressing open access. The schedule is available at:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/-faculty/open-access/open-access-week-2010
... including guest speaker Jean-Claude Guidon from Université de Montréal

What is Open Access? See 10 Key Things About Open Access and Open Access Week:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/news/news/10-key-things-about-open-access-and-open-access-week

Welcome back!

2010-09-14T18:01:00.001-06:00

Welcome back all!

Hopefully you had a good summer (and found some sun and warmth.) The first week of classes is well under way. Some news:

1. The TFDL is coming along: http://twitter.com/tfdl
2. New Alumni Service: your alumni card is your library card and it gives access to a suite of online resources - http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/information-alumni
3. Discover your library and win an iPod Touch! Complete a workbook to be entered into a draw for a 4th generation iPod Touch. It will take 15 - 20 minutes ... http://library.ucalgary.ca/news/news/discover-your-library-and-win-ipod-touch

AMS Research Journals Archive Available Free

2010-08-10T09:27:00.002-06:00

From the PAMnet email list.
(Note that the library has current electronic subscriptions available at http://library.ucalgary.ca/journals)

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has established a complete digital archive of its mathematical research journals. Over 34,000 articles are available from over 100 years of high-quality mathematical research in 'Journal of the AMS,' 'Mathematics of Computation,' 'Proceedings of the AMS,' 'Transactions of the AMS,' and 'Bulletin of the AMS.' All back issues, starting with each journal's inaugural issue through 2005, are now freely available in electronic format.

Researchers can browse the contents of each journal to find articles and authors in each volume and issue, and can search across the entire archive by journal or group of journals at: http://www.ams.org/joursearch. View the abstract, references (with links to MathSciNet), bibliographic information, Mathematics Subject Classifications for each article, or view a PDF of the full article.

Each journal is unique in its offering of articles, book reviews, and reports. AMS journals have consistently been managed by editors highly prominent in their fields.

The AMS makes the digitized archive of these important research journals freely available to all mathematicians through the generosity of an anonymous donor.

Lori Sprague
Manager, Sales Administration
American Mathematical Society
Providence, RI 02904
las@ams.org
401-455-4064

www.ams.org

PSA - Catalogue Outage

2010-05-04T09:18:00.002-06:00

The catalogue will be down on starting the morning of Thursday, May 6 to Tuesday the 11th for an update.
What does this mean for you?
1. We'll have our test catalogue up instead of the real-time version, so if it says a book is out, it might actually be in or vice-versa.
2. You won't be able to place holds or renew your books online. But you could renew before Thursday: http://sirsi1.lib.ucalgary.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/X/0/29/17/X/1
3. The updated catalogue will work on iPhones and other mobile devices.

More at: http://library.ucalgary.ca/news/news/library-catalogue-maintenance?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Math Dances: Imitating Data Visualization Techniques through Dance

2010-02-26T08:52:00.001-07:00

Since it's Friday:
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/02/math_dances_imitating_visualization_techniques_through_dance.html

(The blog has many other interesting visualizations.)
Thanks to Shawna Sadler for sending this link.

NY Times Blog - Series on Mathematics

2010-02-08T08:49:00.002-07:00

A series of 15 blog posts by Steven Strogatz, professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, about the elements of mathematics. For adults, and not meant to be remedial, "the goal is to give you a better feeling for what math is all about and why it’s so enthralling to those who get it. "

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/steven-strogatz/

Summon - try our new search tool

2009-11-09T09:28:00.000-07:00

We're excited to introduce you to Summon, a discovery tool that allows you to search across all the collections of Libraries and Cultural Resources (Library, Archives, Museum) along with scholarly material from thousands of publishers. Our intention is to allow you to discover previously-hidden local resources that may be relevant to your research.

We're labeling it as a beta because we know it's got a ways to go, and that's where you come in. Please use Summon for your searches, and let us know what you like about it, and where it still needs work.

Happy and fruitful searching!

What are the Odds?

2009-11-06T14:32:00.002-07:00

What are the odds of ...?

The Book of Odds has been added to the Mathematics & Statistics Subject Guide (http://libguides.ucalgary.ca/content.php?pid=63439)

Search by keyword, or by odds (i.e. if you're wondering what has a 1 in 10 chance of x.)

Unfortunately it's quite U.S.-centric, so, for example, searches for Calgary, chinook, blizzard (!) didn't bring up any results.

Library Booksale

2009-11-02T13:22:00.001-07:00

The library is offering surplus and duplicate items for sale at the
LIBRARY SURPLUS BOOKSALE
IN SUPPORT OF
THE UNITED WAY

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4TH
10 AM - 3 PM
LIBRARY LINK

PAPERBACKS: 50¢
HARDCOVERS: $1

Open Access Week - October 19-23

2009-10-09T14:03:00.003-06:00

http://www.openaccessweek.org/about-the-week/

The University of Calgary is a leader in Open Access movement. It was the first in North America to establish the Open Access Authors fund; it has an institutional repository, open digitization sites with primary source materials, a University Press that provides a full range of publishing options, and the Synergies project which assists social sciences and humanities journal to go online.

As an introduction to Open Access week
Andrew Waller (Serials Librarian) will review the current state of Open Access
Oct. 15, 2009
Information Commons Classroom B, MacKimmie Library
9-10 or 10-11 am
All are welcome

What are the real opportunities of Open Access?
Join Libraries and Cultural Resources for this presentation:
October 23, 2009
2pm
Cassio Rooms A+B
MacEwan Student Centre

Nobel Prize(s) Announced This Week

2009-10-06T08:49:00.005-06:00

Nobel Prize awards are being announced this week.

Physiology/Medicine was announced Monday; Physics was announced Tuesday. Chemistry is Wednesday. For more information on the prize winners and their discoveries or achievements:

http://nobelprize.org/

Thanks to the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a selection of papers of the 2009 Physics Nobel Laureates are now freely available:
http://www.aip.org/news/nobelprize2009.html