The lists of new books and journals added to the libraries’ collections during the month of December 2012 are now available. This month’s book list includes book cover images for many items, and links to Amazon to allow you to browse the books electronically. Please note that we provide no guarantee that Amazon has contracted with the publisher to allow viewers to browse specific books.

NASA ADS is reporting that their main server is down. Please connect to ADS via one of their mirror sites .

All CODA archives, including CaltechAUTHORS and CaltechTHESIS, are available and stable.  Please contact us if you notice any problems. Thank you for your patience while we performed the recent system upgrade.

The system upgrade on the CODA databases, including CaltechAUTHORS and CaltechTHESIS, continues over the holiday break (see previous message). As of Dec. 26th CaltechAUTHORS is still unavailable. Other CODA databases are available for searching but may be unstable through New Year’s day. All CODA databases are closed to new submissions until the system upgrade is complete.

CODA will be undergoing a major software upgrade over the holiday break. CaltechAUTHORS and CaltechTHESIS are expected to be unavailable from Sunday 12/23 through Tuesday 12/25. The smaller repositories (CaltechCONF, CaltechCampusPubs, CaltechOH (Oral Histories), CaltechLabNotes, and CaltechES (Engineering & Science)) will be unavailable for shorter periods during this same timeframe. In addition, all CODA repositories may be unstable through the end of the holiday break (1/1/2013), although they will be available for searching. All repositories will be closed to new submissions from Sunday 12/23 through Friday 12/28. If you are a graduate student and you absolutely must submit your thesis during this time, please email the CaltechTHESIS team (thesis AT library.caltech.edu) and we will make special arrangements.

Crystallographic Databases

Illustrative examples of searching for online crystal structure data are presented, including Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), Mineralogy Database, ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center, Beilstein/Gmelin, SciFinder Scholar, and more.

Wednesday, December 19

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

Register: http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php

The lists of new books and journals added to the libraries’ collections during the month of November 2012 are now available. This month’s book list includes book cover images for many items, and links to Amazon to allow you to browse the books electronically. Please note that we provide no guarantee that Amazon has contracted with the publisher to allow viewers to browse specific books.

On Thanksgiving day, 11/22/2012, all libraries will close at 1am and remain closed the rest of the day. On Friday, 11/23, SFL, Millikan and Dabney will be open from 9am to 6pm, with a Caltech ID required all day. On Saturday, 11/24, regular hours will resume at 9am for all libraries.

Life Sciences Information Resources

Covers various bibliographic databases to consider for interdisciplinary information retrieval related to life sciences, as well as options for automatically updating yourself on new literature on your topic, use of subheadings in PubMed/Medline, and other database functions and features.

Wednesday, November 14

2:00-3:00pm

Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328

Register: http://library.caltech.edu/forms/cls-classes.php

The Caltech Archives web site is now available again for off-campus users.