Darwin Exhibit
In connection with the UMaine Darwin commemoration (recognizing the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth) and this fall's semester-long Celebration of Darwin course, INT 289, Fogler staff have created an exhibit on the second floor of the Library.
The exhibit has two parts. One part represents recent acquisitions by Fogler of works by and about Darwin and works by modern scholars that develop, extend, and react to his ideas. The second part graphically represents the influence of On the Origin of Species by tracing the wide breadth of journals, organized by discipline, where the book has been cited.
The Fogler exhibit remains up throughout the fall semester and is on the second floor, outside the President's Room and near the Science and Engineering Center. The UMaine Celebration of Darwin page is at http://www2.umaine.edu/anthropology/Darwin1.html -- Added:11/5/2009
Article Linker Available in PubMed
Fogler Library has implemented the Article Linker button in the PubMed database, providing easy access to online articles, information about printed journal holdings, and interlibrary loan services. The button appears in "Abstract" and "AbstractPlus" displays if one connects to PubMed via the link on the library Indexes and Databases page http://library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp
For more information, please contact Nancy R. Curtis, 581-1679 nancy.curtis@umit.maine.edu. -- Added:11/5/2009
Databases From H.W. Wilson
Three retrospective databases from H.W. Wilson, covering literature from the late 19th to late 20th century, are now accessible through the library's web site at http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp
Book Review Digest Retrospective indexes reviews from 1905-1982; Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective covers journals and magazines from 1913-1983; and Readers' Guide Retrospective covers periodicals from 1890 to 1982. For assistance, please contact Reference at 581-1673 or Science & Engineering at 581-1691. -- Added:10/29/2009
Engineering Village
Engineering Village (EV) is the most comprehensive bibliographic database for engineering, applied physics and computer science research. Combing the Compendex and Inspec indexes, EV includes bibliographic data and abstracts on articles from over 5,000 journals, technical reports and conference proceedings from 1970 to the present. Our EV subscription provides free individual user accounts, allowing a researcher to have a personal login to the database and to tag article records, save searches, set up search alerts, and store article citations in folders. The database is updated weekly with new research articles. Call or e-mail your department's library liaison for more information and for detailed instructions. Fogler Library subject specialist page: http://www.library.umaine.edu/colldev/contacts.htm -- Added:10/29/2009
Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program
Patents are often an overlooked source of scientific, engineering, historical and genealogical information. Fogler Library has been designated as the Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) for the State of Maine since 1993, with the responsibility of assisting Maine residents to research U.S. patents and trademarks. We make available many electronic and print resources to accomplish this mission.
Online patent searching is available for 1976 to present http://www.uspto.gov, searchable by keyword, inventor, assignee, classification code, etc. Pre-1976 patent searches also available online using patent number or the Patent Classification System. Additionally, the 2nd floor Science and Engineering Center has a workstation provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for searching feature-rich, proprietary patent and trademark databases such as QPat, CASSIS and PubWEST. In-house databases offer additional benefits such as increased availability of full-text (keyword) searchable documents, foreign patent collections, customizable interfaces allowing for a more efficient, user-centered search environment, and the ability to save and export bibliographic data to other software such as MS Excel.
Also available are a full range of current reference books on patent law, examination procedures, inventor guidelines, the application process and marketing methods. These are located in the Science and Engineering Center near the patent and trademark workstation. Please contact Martin Wallace e-mail: martin.wallace@umit.maine.edu for assistance with using the databases, devising a search strategy, and obtaining patent and trademark information. Consult the Fogler Library web site for additional information: http://www.library.umaine.edu/patents/ -- Added:10/29/2009
British Periodicals
The British Periodicals database is accessible through the library's web site at www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp. British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Among the periodicals included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures - Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frances Power Cobbe, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Oliver Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson, Sir Roger L'Estrange, G. H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Edward Moore, John Morley, John Henry Newman, Margaret Oliphant, W. M. Rossetti, Sir Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett to name but a few. In addition to providing access to the original periodical versions of landmark texts like De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Cobbett's Rural Rides, Bagehot's The English Constitution, Gaskell's North and South and Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, the collection offers new ways of exploring the inaccessible, neglected or forgotten writings that formed their original contexts. A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
For assistance, please contact Mel Johnson: mel.johnson@umit.maine.edu or 207-581-3614, or Reference at 207-581-1673. -- Added:10/15/2009
Video Tutorial for E-Reserves
For help on accessing course E-Reserves through Fogler Library, view this new E-Reserves tutorial screencast. This short, 2 1/2 minute tutorial takes you step-by-step through the e-reserve process, starting from the library's homepage and ending with displaying online e-reserve material. http://library.umaine.edu/social/screencasts/ereserves/ereserves.htm -- Added:10/1/2009
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