The new LibX Caltech edition is a Firefox extension which will let you access the library’s resources directly from your browser.  In addition to a toolbar for searching the library catalog, it will also add a right-mouse context menu to let you search the catalog, connect to Caltech Connect, and reload the current page using the library’s proxy server (to allow for off-campus access to resources which require a Caltech IP address).

Nature Geoscience has been licensed and is now accessible on campus and through the library’s proxy server. Nature has completed their retrospective digitization efforts. The complete run of Nature, beginning with volume 1 in 1869, has been purchased. Nature Photonics, Nature Protocols, and Nature Physics are some of the other recently licensed titles from Nature Publishing Group.

The library has licensed the entire backfile of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, providing fulltext access beginning with volume 1 in 1956.

The Institute of Physics (IoP) has introduced a pair of bioengineering titles for 2006, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics and Biomedical Materials.

Caltech Libraries begin observing summer hours following Commencement, June 9. Millikan, Dabney, and Sherman Fairchild close at midnight until the beginning of the Fall term.