Lib4Math 2005-12-08T18:05:34Z News and announcements for the Mathematic Department from the Library. tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2005, felker Second Science Librarian Candidate 2005-12-08T18:05:34Z 2005-12-08T18:04:46+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.761 2005-12-08T18:04:46Z The second candidate for the Science Librarian position, Eric Resnis, will be here tomorrow, Friday Dec 9th, not thursday as I originally posted (mix-up on my part, sorry). There is scheduled time for the science faculty to meet with him... felker felkerk@wlu.edu The second candidate for the Science Librarian position, Eric Resnis, will be here tomorrow, Friday Dec 9th, not thursday as I originally posted (mix-up on my part, sorry). There is scheduled time for the science faculty to meet with him at 3:00PM in H202 at Telford Science Library. Sorry for the late notice, but I just got the information today myself.

]]> Science Librarian Candidates this week! 2005-12-05T20:27:52Z 2005-12-05T20:25:08+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.634 2005-12-05T20:25:08Z The library will be bringing in candidates for the now vacant science librarian position this week, beginning on the 5th. We have two candidates, and there is time scheduled for both to meet with faculty. The first candidate, Mary Abdoney,... felker felkerk@wlu.edu The library will be bringing in candidates for the now vacant science librarian position this week, beginning on the 5th. We have two candidates, and there is time scheduled for both to meet with faculty.

The first candidate, Mary Abdoney, will be here on Tuesday the 6th, and will be available to meet with faculty at 1:15PM in room H202 at Telford Science Library. The second candidate, Eric Resnis, will be here on thursday, but his schedule has not been finalized yet-I'll let you know when I have a time. Their application materials appear below.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Eric Resnis (word document)

Mary Abdoney (PDF file)

]]> RSS feeds from MathSciNet 2005-11-28T19:38:14Z 2005-11-28T19:19:10+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.627 2005-11-28T19:19:10Z I discovered today that MathSciNet is offering RSS feeds for every journal the database covers-you can sibscribe to these feeds and have descriptions and links to new articles from that journal delivered to your newsreader or aggregator. The feeds are... felker felkerk@wlu.edu I discovered today that MathSciNet is offering RSS feeds for every journal the database covers-you can sibscribe to these feeds and have descriptions and links to new articles from that journal delivered to your newsreader or aggregator.

The feeds are available on the bibliographic information page for each specific journal...why there isn't a master page with links to all of them, I don't know. Go to the journals database and look up the specific journal you are interested in, then click on the "RSS 2.0" link, and cut and paste that URL into your newsreader or aggregator. I don't recommend using the "RSS 1.0" link.

]]> Trial to NewspaperDirect PressDisplay 2005-11-09T15:24:04Z 2005-11-09T15:21:25+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.608 2005-11-09T15:21:25Z You guys may or may not want to know about this one-we have a temporary trial set up to Newspaper Direct Pres Display, a database of current general news publications. It's not focused on mathematics, but if you're at all... felker felkerk@wlu.edu You guys may or may not want to know about this one-we have a temporary trial set up to Newspaper Direct Pres Display, a database of current general news publications. It's not focused on mathematics, but if you're at all interested in reading national or international news online, you may want to take a look. As always, your comments are welcome.

The trial can be reached here: http://library.wlu.edu/details.asp?resID=748

]]> MathSciNet and WebBridge 2005-11-01T17:58:18Z 2005-11-01T17:52:18+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.603 2005-11-01T17:52:18Z Just to let you guys know-WebBridge is now working with MathSciNet. To use it, just go into MathSciNet and do a search as normal, then click on the "Web Bridge" button next to any article and you'll get a menu... felker felkerk@wlu.edu Just to let you guys know-WebBridge is now working with MathSciNet. To use it, just go into MathSciNet and do a search as normal, then click on the "Web Bridge" button next to any article and you'll get a menu steering you to the full text of the article if it's available. If it isn't, the menu has links to services like ILL so that you can order it. I am campaigning to get the button changed to say something like "get text" or "find article," but until that happy day...

]]> Announcing! 2005-10-11T04:07:56Z 2005-09-20T18:47:47+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.539 2005-09-20T18:47:47Z Announcing (trumpet blast) the creation of Lib4math, a blog on all things library-ish that pertain to the math department. Here I'll announce new acquisitions (databases, journals, other noteworthy stuff), new services, and other stuff that might help you in teaching... felker felkerk@wlu.edu Announcing (trumpet blast) the creation of Lib4math, a blog on all things library-ish that pertain to the math department. Here I'll announce new acquisitions (databases, journals, other noteworthy stuff), new services, and other stuff that might help you in teaching and research.

I'm doing this for a couple of reasons-first, the blog produces an RSS feed that you can subscribe to, so if you're using a newsreader or aggregator already, you can subscribe and receive library news that way. The blog also serves as a searchable archive of all the announcements I make, which is handy both for you ("Where was that database trial url again?") and for me ("Did I already announce that database trial, or did I forget?"). The blog allows commenting, and I get email notifications when comments are left, so you can use it to communicate with me as well.

Right now, you are all on a notification list and will receive an email "tickler" every time I update the blog. If you like, I can take you off this list, just leave a comment or send me an email. Don't worry, I'm not planning on making new posts every day, or even every week-just when there's something noteworthy to say.

Blogging is also available to you (and your students) for teaching and research. Just let me know and I'll set up an account for you.

]]> Journal contents Via RSS? 2005-10-11T04:07:56Z 2005-09-14T16:44:05+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.522 2005-09-14T16:44:05Z A far cleverer library technologist than I is working on a way to use RSS to syndicate tables of contents from journals. You would pick the journals you're interested in, and a feed listing the recent articles would appear in... felker felkerk@wlu.edu A far cleverer library technologist than I is working on a way to use RSS to syndicate tables of contents from journals. You would pick the journals you're interested in, and a feed listing the recent articles would appear in your newsreader. Egads! Holy no-more-reading-current-journals-in-paper, batman! Even better, it could work with our web-bridge product so that you could click on a link in the feed and be taken directly to the full-text of the article in one of our databases.

A demo is here:

http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker/rss.htm

The project is currently in beta mode, but I'm keeping a close eye on it...what do you think? Are you interested in this service?

]]> Journals list 2005-10-11T04:07:56Z 2005-09-14T16:39:52+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.521 2005-09-14T16:39:52Z I was recently asked by one of your faculty to try and assemble a list of mathematics journals available in the library-he said it might be useful to you. The list below is the closest I can get. It isn't... felker felkerk@wlu.edu I was recently asked by one of your faculty to try and assemble a list of mathematics journals available in the library-he said it might be useful to you.

The list below is the closest I can get. It isn't perfect-there may, indeed, be additional titles available that are not reflected here. This list was created using fund codes, and because of the way accounting works, we are very loosey-goosey about assigning them. Also, some journals may be cross-discipline, and they can only be assigned one code, so there may be a journal you would consider useful in mathematics that's been tagged as computer science or some other code, and so would not appear on this list.

Also, be aware that we may have access to full-text of other journals through large full-text electronic databases, which would not be reflected here. If you have the title of a specific journal in mind, you can always look for it in our Periodical finder:

http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?Id=wlun

This will tell you if we have access through some large database like Ebsco. I wish it had a math journals subject breakout, but currently it lumps math and computer science together. We have complained to the company that produces the list for us, but so far, they've made no move to change it.

So, with all those caveats, here is your list:

1. Acta mathematica.

2. Annals of mathematics.

3. The Annals of probability.

4. Applied mathematics and optimization.

5. Discrete mathematics.

6. The Fibonacci quarterly.

7. Historia mathematica.

8. Journal of combinatorial theory. Series A.

9. Journal of combinatorial theory. Series B.

10. Journal of differential geometry. (cancelled) W&L 1(1967)-62(2002).

11. Journal of recreational mathematics.

12. Journal of undergraduate mathematics. (cancelled) W&L 13(1981)-26(1994).

13. The Mathematical gazette.

14. The mathematical intelligencer.

15. Mathematics of computation.

16. The Mathematics teacher.

17. The [Pi]ME journal.

18. SIAM journal on discrete mathematics

19. SIAM journal on matrix analysis and applications.

20. SIAM review.

21. Statistical science : a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics.

22. Technometrics.

23. Journal of the American Mathematical Society

24. Mathematical reviews.

25. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

26. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

27. The American mathematical monthly : the official journal of the Mathematical
Association of America.

28. The College mathematics journal : an official publication of the Mathematical
Association of America.

29. Mathematics magazine.

30. Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society.

31. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

32. Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

33. Journal of operator theory.

34. Crux mathematicorum with mathematical mayhem.

35. Illinois journal of mathematics.

36. Indiana University mathematics journal.

37. Inventiones mathematicae.

38. Acta arithmetica.

39. Geometry and topology of submanifolds.

40. Representation theory : an electronic journal of the AMS.

41. Conformal geometry and dynamics: an electronic journal of the
AMS.

42. Geombinatorics / University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Center for
Excellence in Mathematical Education.

]]> the Scopus Cometh... 2005-10-11T04:07:56Z 2005-09-14T16:38:37+00:00 tag:bloggery.wlu.edu,2005:/math/45.520 2005-09-14T16:38:37Z That's right, we've acquired a trial to the Scopus database! Scopus is an ambitious project that aims to offer "one-stop-shopping" for journal literature in the sciences. UNLV, the institution i just came from, was a development partner for this database,... felker felkerk@wlu.edu That's right, we've acquired a trial to the Scopus database! Scopus is an ambitious project that aims to offer "one-stop-shopping" for journal literature in the sciences. UNLV, the institution i just came from, was a development partner for this database, and it was wildly popular there because of it's broad coverage, copious full-text, and ease of use. Please take this thing for a spin and let me know what you think...would it be useful to you and your students?

http://library.wlu.edu/details.asp?resid=721

]]>