New Government Docs related to Natural Sciences

GODORT of Michigan Wiki

Here is a link to new and notable government documents for January 2012, passed along to library faculty by the Government Documents Librarian at Waldo Library. From the 80+ titles in the list, here are the natural science-related documents:

• Deforestation and greenhouse gases. Washington, D.C.: Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, 2012.
• Final Rule, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revising the Listing of the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) in the Western Great Lakes (dated December 28, 2011).
• Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program Online Database.  Michigan DEQ.
• Responding to climate change in national forests: a guidebook for developing adaptation options. Portland, OR: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2011.
• Seismic-hazard maps for the conterminous United States, 2008. Reston, VA: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2011.
  

The links to and descriptions of these six government documents, and the dozens of others on the January 2012 list, were posted on the wiki of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of Michigan.  The wiki, produced by the Reference, Documents & Maps Librarian at Northern Michigan University, is intended to be a resource for government documents and other types of librarians, although it is a helpful resource for other researchers.

It is also a reminder that natural-sciences information resources aren't limited to journal articles.  Reports, maps, and statistics sets are a few of the info sources produced by the U.S. Government, and can be a helpful source for a research project.  

To find a government document that meets your needs, contact Government Documents here in Waldo Library or contact me.
 

Interlibrary Loan Down Thurs, Dec 15

Alert on Interlibrary Loan log on page.

The Libraries' Interlibrary Loan services will be down for maintenance on Thurs, Dec 15 from 7am through the mid afternoon. There is currently a notice on the Interlibrary Loan log on page alerting people to this (image at right).

If you have any questions about this break in service, feel free to get in touch with me.

SciVerse *NOT* Down December 10

As of Dec 8, the Dec 10 SciVerse outage has been postponed until early 2012. According to Elsevier, many people expressed concern about the timing of the outage in its impact on end-of-year research, exams, and other activities. 

They will notify us later about the timing and duration of the outage, and I'll pass along their information as soon as I hear anything.

I've just heard from out electronic serials librarian that SciVerse will be unavailable from 7:30AM EST - 8:30PM EST on Saturday, December 10th.  SciVerse is an integrated hub that is used to access Science Direct and Scopus. Direct access to these products should be unaffected."


So users will not be able to access the SciVerse hub during this time, but will be able to access the article databases Science Direct and Scopus.  It being the end of the semester, and end-of-the-semester research projects due, this could be a impede some last minute research. 

If anyone has questions about accessing article databases or journals in light of this service alert, feel free to email me or call me (269-387-5242), or contact the Science Reference staff.

New Nature Physics Subscription

We now subscribe to the journal Nature Physics, and our subscription includes full text articles starting from volume 1 issue 1 (2005) to the present. If you are on campus, you can access the journal either by going to the Nature Physics website or via the Libraries website.  If you are off campus, you will need to use the Libraries website to access full-text articles.  If you try to access content from the journal website, the site won't recognize that you're part of the WMU Libraries' subscription and won't allow you access.

Here's a quick demo (about 40 seconds long) of how to access the journal via the Libraries website:

How to access Nature Physics from Libraries website.