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.

Climate Change Books Reviewed in "Science Express"

In this week's Science Express*, an essay review by philosopher Philip Kitcher highlights eight books about climate change. Kitcher's review is a worthwhile read, as are the actual books themselves, all published in 2009 0r 2010:

• Climate Change Science and Policy, by Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti.
• The climate solutions consensus, by David E. Blockstein and Leo A.W. Wiegman. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: QC903 .B54 2010
• The Lomborg deception : setting the record straight about global warming, by Howard Friel; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: Q175.37 .F75 2010
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming / Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway Erik Conway.
• Politics of climate change, by Anthony Giddens.
• Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate, by Stephen H. Schneider.
• Storms of my grandchildren : the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity, by James Hansen ; illustrations by Makiko Sato. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: QC981.8.G56 H365 2009
• Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, by Mike Hulme. Waldo Library, General Stacks Call Number: QC981.8.C5 H825 2009

The library currently owns four of the books (those with the title hyperlinked to its library catalog record). As for the other four that we don't own, I placed an order for them today. :-)

If you know of any other books that they library should add to its holdings -- on climate change or any topic in the natural sciences -- feel free to place a request or contact me directly.

* Note: Science Express is an online feature of Science Magazine in which the editors of Science select each week several papers for online publication *four to six weeks* before they appear in print. You can access the current week's Science Express articles at the Science Express web page.


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List of journals by subject and discipline

Did you know that you can view of list of journals that the library subscribes to, arranged by subject or discipline? You can, and here's how...

1. Go to the main page of the library's web site
2. Click the "Journals" tab -- the third tab atop the outlined box about in the middle of the page
3. In this outlined box, click the "Journals organized by research discipline" link -- this opens a web page titled "A - Z List of Journals, Magazines and Newspapers at WMU."
4. In the "Category" menu on this web page, select one of seventeen subject areas, and then a subcategories within that area.
5. Click the big red button marked "Go."
6. A list of the journal titles appears below the menu of subject areas!

On top of that, each of the journal titles is hotlinked to a list of (a) the volumes the library has in print and (b) a link to access the journal electronically (if available).

And as always, you can always contact me or contact the library for help with this.