NTRS Expansion

The NASA Technical Reports Server has added four non-NASA archives to its advanced search screen. These include:
Aeronautical Research Council (UK) -- the British counterpart of NACA
arXiv Physics Eprint Server
BioMed Central
Energy Citation Database (OSTI) -- the original core of the discontinued PubScience database

A&A and MNRAS access

Online access to Astronomy & Astrophysics has been restored.

Online access to the most recent issues of MNRAS remains unavailable. However, access is available for articles from 1999 to one year ago through the "Full Text (off-campus access)" link on the library's journals page.

Transit of Venus

For a good website about this summer's Transit of Venus, visit transitofvenus.org.

Voyager downtime

The Hamilton Library network will be periodically unavailable from 11:15 p.m. on Thursday, February 19th until 2:30 a.m. on Friday, February 20th. This means that you will not be able to access the book catalog or any online journals.

Online access problems

Online access is currently unavailable for Astronomy & Astrophysics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The problems are being investigated and we will let you know when access is restored. Please continue to let us know about problems you encounter.

Interesting Reading

Science's Essays on Science and Society is a monthly feature of "the views of individuals from inside or outside the scientific community as they explore the interface between science and the wider society."

This monthly series continues the weekly viewpoints on science and society that Science published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of AAAS.

Although the main page has links only to the full text in HTML, a pdf version can be downloaded from the full text page, as well as from the summary page.

New Books

These books are now available for browsing on the new books shelf:
2005 Astronomical Almanac
Astrobiology: Origins from the Big-Bang to Civilisation
Chicago Guide to Communicating Science
Cold Universe

This book is on the Class Reserve shelf:
Modern Cosmology by Scott Dodelson

Design of Optical Systems

The University of Wisconsin is holding a course called "The Design of Optical Systems" in Las Vegas from March 29 - April 2. Several copies of the flyer are in the "Meetings" folder atop the newsletter case in the library.

The flyer also lists several upcoming courses.

Kluwer downtime

All Kluwer Online Journals sites will be undergoing maintenance on Sunday 15 February from 10-11 AM (HST). Be aware that some of our full-text access does come through the Kluwer sites. If you have trouble accessing a journal, please wait a little while and then try again. As always, if the problem persists, please email us at library@...

New Computer Books

The library has received a donation of older computer books (Thanks, IRTF!) that will be bypassing the new books area and going straight to their regular homes.

The first two are both O'Reilly publications:

1. Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System (Volume 2 of the series)
2. X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual OSF/Motif 1.1 Edition for X11, Release 5 (Volume 4 of the series)

They can be found in the QA 76.76 area and are available to be checked out.

More titles will be announced soon....

CFHT User's Meeting

The 7th CFHT User's Meeting was announced this week. The preliminary program is scheduled to be posted March 1. Visit the website at http://www.astrosci.ca/cfht2004/

Site Feed

This blog now includes a feed for use by an aggregator (I use Bloglines). Click on the "Site Feed" link over there on the right, then use that URL to subscribe.

If you want to know more about rss feeds, aggregators, site syndication, etc., stop by the library to see Amy. I don't know a whole lot, but I can fill you in on the basics and point you in the right direction.