Date: 4 June 2004
ScienceDirect & OSA Back Issues; New Virtual Journals
** OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (OSA) journals to which the UW subscribes
are now available electronically back to their earliest volumes. OPTICS
LETTERS goes back to Volume 1, 1977: http://ol.osa.org/browse.cfm.
** ELSEVIER/ScienceDirect continues to ask a one-time fee of $109,000 for
electronic access to their pre-1995 phys/astro journals, which the Library
cannot afford. There is no option for an annual access fee (such as APS &
OSA have). Therefore, UW access to full articles on ScienceDirect is still
*BACK ONLY TO 1995*.
The ScienceDirect web pages show a list of "available" volumes, but only
those issues (post-1994) with a green symbol are truly available online to
UW. Please remember, however, that many of the pre-1995 issues are
available in print -- check by title in the Libraries Online Catalog for
location. Use the "Request" button on the Catalog record to obtain issues
in storage. For more information, and a list of UW ScienceDirect journals, go
to: http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/SciDirect.htm.
** VIRTUAL JOURNALS. The following new AIP/APS virtual journals
have links from the UW Online Catalog or the Physics Library e-journal
page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/Physics/ejourn.html.
> Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity
> http://www.vjsuper.org/super/
> Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
> http://www.vjbio.org/bio/
> Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
> http://www.vjnano.org/nano/
> Virtual Journal of Quantum Information
> http://www.vjquantuminfo.org/quantuminfo/
> Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
> http://www.vjultrafast.org/ultrafast/
Date: 14 May 2004
Subject: Missing Books List
The latest list of books known to be missing from the Physics-Astronomy Library
is posted at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/missing2004.html.
Please check offices, labs, and home for these (and any other) books or journal
volumes which have disappeared from the Library without being checked out.
You may return them anonymously to the Book Drop in the Main Lobby of the
Physics-Astronomy Building.
Date: 15 Apr 2004
Subject: Access Restored to Electronic Journals
Electronic access to full articles for OSA journals such as OPTICS LETTERS
has finally been restored. Access to some APS journals has also been
restored after a brief shut-off. Access was shut down by both publishers due to "an
excessive number of downloads" in a short period, which violated the
licensing contracts the UW Libraries signed for electronic access.
The UW Libraries spends millions of dollars for contracts with vendors and
publishers to provide users with electronic resources. Almost all the
electronic licenses prohibit systematic or substantial downloading or printing.
An "excessive number" may be the equivalent of only the number of
articles in one complete journal volume. If license terms are violated by
anyone using a UW IP address, licensors have the right to suspend access
FOR THE ENTIRE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY, as happened in these cases.
If you need to download or print more than a few articles in a short
period of time, such as for promotion or tenure considerations, please
contact the relevant publisher(s) beforehand for permission.
The Libraries’ Electronic Resources Usage Guidelines can be found at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/cms/usageguidelines.html
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004
Subject: Winter Quarter 2004 Library News
** Summit Catalog**.
You can now borrow books from 26 academic
libraries in Oregon and Washington via the new Summit Catalog. Access
Summit directly -- or from the "UW Libraries Catalog" or "Databases &
Catalogs" on the Information Gateway -- and click "Request Item" to have
it sent to the UW library of your choice.
**UWorld Express: Automated Interlibrary Loan Requests**.
If the book you need isn't available through the Summit Catalog, or you need an
article from a journal or conference not available in print or online at
the UW, try UWorld Express. UW faculty, staff, and students can now
request documents from libraries around the world, and monitor and change
requests online. Books can be delivered to your UW campus library or
articles to your desktop via pdf on the Web. Use your UW NetID to log in.
**Fish-Ocean Library Winter 2004 Newsletter ** has articles on:
--Accessing UW-subscribed Electronic journals and databases anywhere
--Alerting services on ScienceDirect, Current Contents, & Inspec
**Engineering Library Winter Quarter 2004 Newsletter**
--Library database searching class schedules
--Journal location reorganization in the Engineering Library
Date: September 30, 2003.
Subject: Serials Review 2003
The 2003 Proposed Serials Cancellation list is now available at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/cancel2003.html.
Comment deadline October 17.
Date: September 4, 2003
The Orbis Cascade Alliance Catalog
"Request" function is now working. Meanwhile, the Orbis Cascade Catalog
has been given the shorter name "SUMMIT". SUMMIT combines information from
26 academic libraries in Oregon and Washington into a single unified catalog,
which will allow individuals from member institutions to easily request books
via the Web from other member institutions. Oregon library catalog holdings
are already on the combined catalog, and continuing throughout the summer,
holdings for the following Washington state members are being added:
Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University,
The Evergreen State College, University of Washington, Washington State
University, and Western Washington University.
Date: 9 May 2003
Subject: Electronic Access to pre-1995 Elsevier, Kluwer & IOP Articles
The Question: Why can't you obtain full text electronic access to older
issues of journals through Elsevier's ScienceDirect (e.g. Nucl Instr &
Methods), or through IOP (e.g. JoP) or Kluwer (e.g. J Stat Phys)?
SCIENCE DIRECT: Pre-1995 issues of physics & astronomy journals appeared
last fall, for Elsevier titles, and for those publishers taken over by
Elsevier (North Holland, Pergamon, and Academic Press). Elsevier allowed
full electronic access for a few months, then shut it off without notice.
Now we have full access *ONLY* to subscribed journals for the years
covered by our original ScienceDirect contract -- back to 1995 in most
cases. The "transactional balance" we were given in the contract for access
to unsubscribed journals ran out sometime last fall. For exact dates and
links for physics e-journals which *are* available to UW users,
go to: http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/ejourn.html.
Can we regain electronic access to the older ScienceDirect issues? --Not
anytime soon! Most astronomy publishers give their backfiles to ADS
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu) and physics society publishers like APS either
charge nothing extra for backfile access to current subscribers, or a
small annual fee. However, Elsevier is NOT even allowing an annual fee
option. Instead, we must pay a one-time fee of $109,000(!) for all their
phys/astro backfiles, or purchase one of their subfiles, "Physics General"
($74K) or "High Energy/Nuclear Physics & Astronomy" ($35K).
Our most heavily used titles are divided between the two subfiles, and
even the subfile prices are way beyond our current budget. We have also
been told we must *cut* at least another 10% from our journal budget for
2003/04 to meet overall budget cuts and journal cost inflation. Meanwhile,
most of the journal backfiles are available in print in the Library or
from storage. So for now, you must continue to use the library's print
volumes, or order (through Interlibrary Borrowing) the ones we don't have:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/uworld/getarticles.html.
IOP: We are working to obtain online access, for a small annual fee, to
all their back issues, which were added to their website in early 2003.
KLUWER: All Kluwer titles require an extra 20% for electronic access.
Kluwer also does not offer a discount for switching from print to
electronic-only, and has no reliable archive, so we haven't switched.
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Pamela Yorks, Head E-mail: yorks@u.washington.edu
Physics-Astronomy Library Phone: (206) 543-2988, 616-2750
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Date: 7 Feb 2003
Subject: NEW ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SOURCES -- AccessScience, ICT, kCT
** Electronic access (UW restricted) is also now available to four
important physical sciences reference sources through Knovel.com. The new
references allow users to quickly locate key information about the
properties of chemical compounds.
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and
Technology. ICT offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and
other key properties. Many tables are interactive. The full text of the
original print version is available in PDF format and full-text
searchable, including the original index. (Print: Q199 .N32 Reference).
http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?SpaceID=10093&BookID=735.
knovel Critical Tables. kCT is a brand new reference featuring tables
of properties for commonly used chemical compounds. kCT has expanded the
original 6,000 compounds in the physical properties tables of ICT to more
than 13,000 compounds. New tables will be added on a regular basis.
http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?SpaceID=10093&BookID=761.
Thermochemistry of Chemical Substances. This is a revision of the
table of values for the heats of formation in the thermochemistry section
in ICT. It includes 5,840 values of heats of formation and 350 values of
heats of transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction.
http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?SpaceID=10093&BookID=744.
Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition). The 901 tables
concentrate on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data of
general interest to scientists and engineers. It is full-text searchable
and with hyperlinked index entries. (Print: QC61 .S6 1954 Reference)
http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?SpaceID=10093&BookID=736.
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003
Subject: NATURE MATERIALS now available online at UW
By request of several faculty, and through subscription money from special
"New Program" funding for nanotechnology, the new journal NATURE MATERIALS
is now available online to UW faculty, staff and students by way of the
Libraries Catalog (by title) or directly at: http://www.nature.com/nmat/
Journal description from http://www.nature.com/nmat/about:
"Nature Materials is a monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at
bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of
materials science and engineering. Materials research is a diverse and
fast-growing discipline, which has moved from a largely applied,
engineering focus to a position where it has an increasing impact on other
classical disciplines such as physics, chemistry and biology."
"Topics will include:
Bio-inspired, biomedical and biomolecular materials
Electronic materials and molecular electronics
Engineering & structural materials (metals, alloys, ceramics, composites)
Nanoscale materials and processes
Organic and soft materials (glasses, colloids, liquid crystals, polymers)
Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials
Superconducting materials
Surfaces and thin films ...."
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Pamela Yorks, Librarian E-mail: yorks@u.washington.edu
Physics-Astronomy Library http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
** COMPLETE BACKFILES for many journals are now available online**
APS: Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) (http://prola.aps.org/)
-- PR from V.1 (1893); PRL from V.1 (1958);
Rev. Mod. Phys. from V.1 (1928). Now includes external linking to
INSPEC, SPIN, and SLAC's SPIRES HEP database for all PROLA content.
JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/browse?config=jstor#General+Science)
has several "General Science" journals back to V.1, including:
--Royal Society of London:
Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical & Engin.
Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sci.
--Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
--Science
NASA Astrophysics Data System: ADS (http://adswww.harvard.edu/)
has backfiles of over 30 journals in astronomy & astrophysics, plus
has recently scanned and put online over 140 books, including:
--Lunar and Planetary Institute Technical Reports and Contributions
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Pamela Yorks, Librarian E-mail: yorks@u.washington.edu
Physics-Astronomy Library http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002
Off-campus Online Access / Journal alerting services
*** Will you be trying to access UW-restricted online databases or journal
articles from off-campus this summer?
For detailed help, go to "Connecting to the Libraries" at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/connect.html. There is information
on how to use the Libraries' "proxy server" if you are using an Internet
Service Provider such as AT&T or AOL, or info on the UW Internet
Connectivity Kit if you are connecting directly by phone modem.
*** In addition, did you know there are several alerting services
which can provide you with automatic email notices of new books
or journal articles in your subject area, or tables of contents
of your favorite journals? Here are a few of the possibilities:
ZEPHYR, the UW Libraries' notification service, provides an individualized
citation list matching your pre-selected interest profile, covering the Libraries
Catalog (monthly) for new books received, and Current Contents database (weekly)
for new journal articles. http://www.lib.washington.edu/services/delivery/zeph.html
A weekly listing of new books in the Physics-Astronomy Library is now
at:http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/newbooks/nbindex.htm
NATURE PHYSICS PORTAL provides early notification of new physics/astro
research published in that week's online Nature (before it arrives in print),
as well as highlights of research published elsewhere, including Phys Rev
Letters and ApJ. You must sign up individually for passworded access to
full text articles, but it's free to subscribing institutions.
http://physics.nature.com/
ELSEVIER's ScienceDirect has a "Personalisation and Alerting Service"
for subject search, journal issue, and citation alerts for their journals,
including: New Astronomy, Nuclear Instruments & Methods, Nuclear Physics,
Physics Letters, Physics Reports, and Surface Science.
http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/user/user-tips/personalisation
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Pamela Yorks, Librarian E-mail: yorks@u.washington.edu
Physics-Astronomy Library http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics
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Date: Fri, 3 May 2002
ONLINE JOURNAL ACCESS; SCIENCEXPRESS; PHYSICS TODAY; AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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Are you uncertain about which journals are available online, or how to
obtain articles if the UW doesn't subscribe to a particular journal?
** ONLINE ACCESS TO FULL TEXT of refereed journal articles in most
cases is available ONLY IF the Library pays for a subscription.
For links to selected Physics/Astronomy journals available
online through the UW, go to the Library e-journals web page:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/Physics/ejourn.html, or search
the online catalog http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search~
for a particular journal by that journal's full title.
** IF THE LIBRARY CANCELS a journal or series, we no longer have online
access. We cancelled our AIP Conference Proceedings subscription
several years ago (due to very low use of some volumes), so we do
not have full online access to articles from that series.
** TO OBTAIN ARTICLES from journals or conference series to which we do NOT
subscribe, UW faculty and students may request photocopies of up to five
articles per week, at no cost to you, via the Science Libraries Article
Request Form (http://www.lib.washington.edu/engineering/docdel.html).
In most cases the articles will arrive within two working days.
** SCIENCE and PHYSICS TODAY have a new twist. Although the UW
Libraries pay large fees for institutional online access to
SCIENCE, you must be an "individual" member of AAAS for full
pass worded access to their "SCIENCExpress" articles. These
show up online several weeks before publication in SCIENCE
(http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.shtml). A sample
article from SCIENCExpress ("A Cyclic Model of the Universe",
dated April 25) is posted on the Library bulletin board. You must
also now be a individual member of an AIP society such as APS to
have full online access to all PHYSICS TODAY articles.
If you have any further questions, please call me (3-2988) or send
email to: phylib@u.washington.edu
Pamela Yorks, Head Physics-Astronomy Library University of Washington
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002
Important Information About Online Journal Access
-------------------------------------------------
Last week the Libraries received an email from the American Institute of
Physics (AIP) stating that someone using a UW IP address had been
"systematically and programmatically downloading" articles--in this case,
6,400 articles--from journals made available online by AIP. Because this
type of activity is prohibited by the licensing agreement we signed with
AIP, access from that UW IP address, which was one of the Libraries' proxy
servers for off-campus access, was suspended by AIP.
After the individual involved was identified and informed of their
violations, AIP restored online access through the Libraries' proxy
server. However, they have informed us that IF ANY FURTHER "SYSTEMATIC
DOWNLOADING" OCCURS BY ANYONE FROM THE UW, ONLINE ACCESS WILL BE SUSPENDED
FROM THE ENTIRE IP RANGE OF OUR INSTITUTION, both on-campus and proxy
service. The UW would then lose online access to all journals made
available through AIP, including PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, APPLIED PHYSICS
LETTERS, and AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS.
Since some of you may not have been aware that "systematic and
programmatic downloading" of articles is prohibited by our license
agreement, I am bringing this to your attention so we can avoid any
further loss of online access to AIP journals. Almost all publishers have
similar clauses in the licensing agreements we sign for online access to
their products. In addition, downloading of large numbers of articles may
also be in violation of U.S. Copyright law. Using an automated method of
downloading may inadvertently lead to these types of violations.
The terms of the AIP license agreement can be found at:
ftp://ftp.aip.org/aipdocs/forms/subinst.pdf. Particularly relevant are
the "prohibitions on certain uses" on page 3 of the agreement.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at .
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Pamela Yorks, Librarian E-mail: yorks@u.washington.edu
Physics-Astronomy Library http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001
Subject: Physics-Astronomy Library Post-Earthquake Status
February 28, 2001 earthquake images
The Physics-Astronomy Library was opened for regular hours starting
Thursday morning. By mid-day March 2 all but a few truckloads of books--
out of the 5000 we estimate fell from the shelves-- are back in order.
We do have two areas in the stacks and one area in Reference which have
been closed off due to unstable shelving, but most of those books are now
on trucks or study carrels nearby, so are still accessible.
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Pamela Yorks, Librarian E-mail: yorks@u.washington.edu
Physics-Astronomy Library http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics
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