Reviewing the preprints

The growing importance of preprints has generated some worries about the lack of refereeing, previously supplied by the good efforts of journal editors. Now there’s a blog that seeks to remedy this.

PhysComments Comments on arXiv papers (founded 1st December 2004)

"Our site automatically analyses recently published preprints and tries to contact appropriate authors to review them. The idea is basically similar to the Mathematical Reviews, a service that sadly does not exist in Physics, but we concentrate on more immediate answers to prepublication. Initial coverage for this analysis is hep-*, astr-ph, math-ph and gr-qc."

further comment on the Cosmic Variance blog:
arxiv.org Joins the Blogosphere!

FAQs

Have questions? Get answers! Click on the new FAQs link on the IfA Library's homepage and learn all about how to find materials, how to register and renew -- online, how to borrow materials from various libraries (IfA, UH Manoa, other UH campuses, mainland sources), how to access journals electronically, and more... It's a work in progress, so check back periodically for new information about library services.

New Items in Manoa!

Adaptive optics in astronomy. CD-ROM, v.26 SPIE
QB86 .A33 2002

SPIE 2479 - Telescope control systems
QB 88 T32 1995

SPIE 3112 - Telescope control systems II
QB 88 T322 1997

New Books in Manoa!

Bad astronomy : misconceptions and misuses revealed, from astrology to the moon landing 'hoax'
Philip Plait
QB 44.3 .P58 2002

The Formation of Stars
Steven W. Stahler
QB 806 .S735 2004


Detection of light : from the ultraviolet to the submillimeter, 2nd ed.
George Rieke
QC 787 .P46 R54 2003
[On Class Reserve]

New Books in Manoa!

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series

325. The Solar-B mission and the forefront of solar physics
QB 520 .S64 2003

328. Binary radio pulsars
QB 843 .B56 2005

329. Nearby large-scale structures and the zone of avoidance
QB 991 .N42 2004

331. Extra-planar gas
QB 856 .E87 2004

334. 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs
QB 843 .W5 E95 2004

335. The light-time effect in astrophysics
QB 833 .L53 2004

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Data reduction and error analysis for the physical sciences
Philip Bevington
QA 278 .B48 2003
[On Class Reserve]

Einstein simplified : cartoons on science
Sidney Harris
NC 1429 .H33315 A4 2004

New in Hilo

Three newly acquired computer books:

First Book of Visual C++
Bronson, Gary J.
QA 76.73 .C153 B765 2000

Introduction to C++
Dench, David
QA 76.73 .C153 D46 1994

Problem Solving with C++: the Object of Programming
Savitch, Walter J.
QA 76.73 .C153 S29 2001

IfA Newsletter

The latest Na Kilo Hoku, all about the spectacular success of the Deep Impact mission, is now available.

CNN article

Subaru Telescope, and Mauna Kea visits in general, received nice coverage in this CNN article.

New Books in Manoa!

Comets II
Festou, M.C.. ed., et al.
QB 721 .C42 2004

Growing black holes : accretion in a cosmological context proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM joint astronomy conference held in Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004.
QB 843 .B55 M63 2004

New Item in Manoa!

Dissertation:

A 0.6 to 4.1 um Spectroscopic Study of Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs by Michael C. Cushing [QB 1000.1 .C87 2004]