New Collection: Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library

Stevens now has access to the General Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics Collection of lectures from Morgan & Claypool. This resource comprises a set of 50- to 100-page electronic books that survey important research topics, authored by prominent contributors to their respective fields. >>

E-book survey + chance to win and iPad

Students: take the ebrary e-book survey, and get entered to win an iPad. The survey is about your use of e-books, and it takes less than 20 minutes (though most questions are optional, so you can make it as quick as you like!)

Moodle resources for faculty

As of Summer II, Stevens will be replacing the WebCT course management system with Moodle. The library has a plethora of e-books on working with Moodle (and distance education in general.) You can access these e-books through our catalog via http://bit.ly/moodlebooks.

Hoboken public library welcomes students, faculty & staff

Did you know that as a Stevens student or faculty member you are eligible for a Hoboken Public Library card?

Hoboken Public Library, located on the corner of 5th Street and Park Avenue (across from Church Square Park), is a great place to check out popular reading, as well as video games, dvds, e-books and audiobooks.

Want to learn a foreign language or improve your English skills? Check out their Mango Languages collection!

HPL also hosts great lectures, workshops, movie viewings, book discussions and more! For a list of their upcoming events, see: http://hoboken.bccls.org/html/Events_adult.htm

For more information on how to apply for a card, click here, or check out the HPL website.

A New Tool to Support Your Work in Optics and Photonics

The library has recently acquired access to SPIE eBooks on the SPIE Digital Library. SPIE eBooks includes 120 significant titles from SPIE Press, including Field Guides, monographs and reference books, and Tutorial Texts in the field of optics and photonics, an area which encompasses multiple disciplines.

SPIE is one of the world’s foremost non-profit societies in the field of light research, publishing more than 17,000 new articles and conference proceedings each year as well as 15 to 20 books.
The areas covered in the SPIE Digital Library and SPIE eBooks include:

• Astronomy & Astronomical Optics
• Biomedical Optics and Imaging
• Communication and Information Technologies
• Defense and Industrial Sensing
• Electronic Imaging and Processing
• Micro- and Nano- Technologies
• Optics and Electro-Optics

We hope you find SPIE eBooks becomes an essential tool in your work; the library and SPIE would value your feedback. (You can always contact us at: library [at] stevens [dot] edu.)

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Free Trial

The library currently has a free trial to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) digital library. The database includes 24 online journals, as well as a multitude of e-books. You can access it from on campus from this url: http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/

(You can access it from off-campus using the Stevens VPN connection. Directions for doing so are here: http://www.stevens.edu/itwiki/w/index.php/VPN)

Decisions about permanent access to these journals and e-books will be based on usage during the trial (as well as budget).

New e-books in Psychology and Ocean Sciences

The Stevens community may now access two major reference works online from Elsevier: the Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (2nd ed.).

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (2004; electronic ed., 2008) encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. It is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. Each entry provides a clear definition of the topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasizes major areas of application.

The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (2008) contains more than 500 articles on the subject, with improved coverage of climate, remote sensing, and data modeling. Over 30% of the content is new or has been updated from the first edition.

Both of these resources may be accessed through either ScienceDirect or the library’s online catalog.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics updated

The latest web version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now online, including a new Structure searching feature. You can now search the handbook by chemical structure with a download-able Java Applet for drawing your structure query. Search over 10,000 compounds!

What else is new?

Now reflecting the content of the 90th print edition, the new web version adds tables covering 11 new topics:

Structures and functions of common drugs
Chemical constituents of human blood
Proton nmr shifts for solvents
Apparent Equilibrium Constants for Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions
Phase Transitions in the Solid Elements at Atmospheric Pressure
Thermoelectric Properties of Metals and Semiconductors
Thermophysical Properties of Stainless Steel 310
Description of the IUPAC chemical identifier (InChI)
International recommendations on the expression of uncertainty of measurements
Major world earthquakes, 850AD to 2008
Nobel prize winners in Physics and Chemistry

And some of the most heavily used tables have been extensively revised and updated:

Nuclear moments for nmr spectroscopy
Mass spectral peaks for organic solvents
Properties of refrigerants
Interstellar molecules
Aqueous Solubility and Henry's Law Constants of Organic Compounds
Properties of the Solar System
Satellites of the Planets
Threshold Limits for Airborne Contaminants
Speed of Sound in Dry Air

Free e-book: Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets

In a new book from MIT Press, Peter Cowhey (UCSD and now the Senior Counselor at USTR) and Jonathan Aronson (USC) discuss why global information and communication markets matter, why change is needed, and what should be done. For more info, or to download the pdf version of the book (available for free under a creative commons license) see here: http://globalinfoandtelecom.org/book/

(Source: BoingBoing)

New Resources Available!

The library is happy to announce the availability of the following new online reference titles:

• Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
• Encyclopedia of Global Change
• The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

You can also find and access them through the Stevens Library Catalog.