Fogler Library, University of Maine - Library newsletter for faculty

FOGLER LIBRARY NEWS SERVICE
Publicizing events, collections, acquisitions and services at UMaine's library
-- Wednesday, February 21, 2006--

SUMMARY
1. Events
       A. Workshop on Citation Searching and Using Impact Factors in Web of Science
2. Announcements
      A. URSUS unavailable morning of Tuesday, March 6
3. Databases
     A. Online Current-awareness Resource -- news@nature.com -- Now Available
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1.   EVENTS
A. WORKSHOP ON CITATION SEARCHING AND USING IMPACT FACTORS
       Jim Bird (Head of Science and Engineering) and Cynthia Crosser (Social Science and Humanities Reference Librarian) will be teaching a workshop on citation searching in Web of Science and using impact factors in Journal Citation Report on February 27th from 9 - 10.30 am. in the library classroom. No fee. To register contact Gretchen Gfeller on First Class (gretchen.gfeller@umit.maine.edu) or phone 581-1696.

2. ANNOUNCEMENTS
A. URSUS UNAVAILABLE MORNING OF TUESDAY, MARCH 6
     The URSUS online library system will be unavailable on the morning of Tuesday, March 6 for scheduled maintenance (postponed from February 9). All URSUS modules, including the online catalog, telnet interface, and Millennium modules will be affected. The maintenance will begin at 5:00 AM, and we hope to restore service to the URSUS Server in the late morning or early afternoon. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
      Please note that with the differing vacation schedules of the universities represented in the URSUS consortium, as well as the public libraries, it was impossible to find a date before May on which every library would be closed. I was, however, able to schedule the migration to begin in the early morning in order to minimize the downtime during open hours for those libraries who will be open on this day. We will
work to complete the maintenance as quickly as possible.
-- Jonathan V. Williams, MLS, URSUS System Manager, University of Maine System jvwilliams@maine.edu (207) 262-7942

3. DATABASES
A. ONLINE CURRENT-AWARENESS RESOURCE -- NEWS@NATURE.COM -- NOW AVAILABLE
Newly accessible to UMaine students, staff, and faculty, "news@nature.com" is an online current-awareness resource from Nature Publishing Group made available through Fogler Library's affiliation with the Northeast Research Libraries consortium. Breaking news from Nature journals, as well as job listings, are posted before publication in print. Site features include personal registration and customized e-alerts, blogs, columns, live newsfeeds, and compilations of articles and news channels by topic (e.g. Islam and science, climate change, GM crops, x chromosome, biotechnology). Access via www.library.umaine.edu/ejournals/ (search for title news@nature.com). For assistance, please contact Jim Bird in the Science & Engineering Center at 581-1697 or jim.bird@umit.maine.edu.
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