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Web of Science have made their new book citation index available on a trial basis for 3 months from 7th May. You can search it along with the rest of Web of Science or select it from the options at the bottom of the search screen.

The database will make it easier to search for book chapters, to see bibliographies from books and to see citation patterns. There is a search tool at http://wokinfo.com/mbl/ which allows you to check if the books you are interested in are covered by the service.

Web of Science upgraded over the weekend. More complete citations have been added to WOS to improve cited reference searching. More titles and urls are included and you can search by article title as well as journal title. For example, to search for:

A practical approach to the determination of the crystallography of grain-boundaries” by Valerie Randle and Brian Ralph, Journal of Materials Science, Volume 21 Number 11 (November 1986): pages 3823 – 3828

 You can enter part of the title as below:

As always, it is best to include a minimum of information in a cited reference search as this allows you to pick up miscitations. When you look at the cited references for any search result, they will now often be more complete and can be exported to reference software or e-mail.

Other improvements include left truncation, so that you can search for *hydroxylation to pick up dihydroxylation or aminohydroxylation for example and the ability in advanced search to restrict to a particular subject area. More details in a video clip at: www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/newfeat_wok5_6_en

Tues. 1st May 12 – 1

PC Room 3 in the Library

DigiMap gives online access to Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain. This session will teach you how to access a ready-made map through Digimap ROAM and create your own map using DigiMap CARTO using boundary data available in the database. DigiMap data can also be downloaded for GIS and CAD software – we can show you how to download the data but not how to work with these types of software as they are not available to ISS.

Please book by e-mailing i.glen@swansea.ac.uk

In the Library catalogue – try a keyword search for your subject then use the filters on the left under Location to restrict to theses.

Ask for help at the information desk or from your subject librarian if you cannot find what you need. Swansea postgraduate theses are kept in a locked store in the library and can only be used in the library building. Staff at the information desk can fetch them for you.

British university theses

The Index to Theses database will allow you to search for British theses. A guide is available on our web pages. You will have to request these theses via inter-library loan. However, it is also worth checking Ethos – this is a project by the British Library to digitise British theses and some are already freely available.

US and other countries

Dissertations and theses is a database covering the US with some entries from other countries. A guide to it is available on our web site.

The two main changes are:

1. IEEE Account (personal account) user name change: After the launch, individuals signing in with an IEEE Account user name (the personal account user name which is used to set individual preferences) will be prompted to change their current user name to their e-mail address. Institutional user names and access are not affected and will remain the same.
2. Saved Searches and Search History will be deleted: All current saved searches and search history records will be DELETED with this release. We encourage all users to copy and paste their saved searches into a document so they can recreate the search after launch. Table of Contents alerts are not affected and will remain active.

New features incorporated into IEEE Xplore with this release include:

• Enhanced and more streamlined abstract page
• Enhanced browsing by title with the inclusion of refinements
• More prominent institutional branding
• New placement of sign-in links for personal accounts and institutional accounts
• New and improved IEEE personal account registration process
• New citation diagram
• And more

Learn more about the new features at www.ieee.org/newieeexplore

A new digitisation project is making all of Einstein’s archives from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem available online. 2000 documents have already been released, including postcards, research notes and unseen letters. As well as his academic research, the collection documents his social life and views, including opinions on African-American rights and the Arab-Jewish conflict. More on this story can be found in the Guardian and the archive itself can be found at http://alberteinstein.info/

MathSciNet is now available off campus using our proxy server. You can look up the database name in our library catalogue to find the correct link, connect to it from our A-Z list of databases or bookmark the MathSciNet link here.

The Swansea Science Café offers opportunities for anyone to find out more about new, exciting and topical areas of science. Designed to be informal and entertaining, entry is free and talks start at 7:30 pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Molecular Gastronomy: the science of taste and flavour

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Prof. Peter Barham, Bristol University

Wednesday 21st March at 7:30pm

What gives food its flavour?

What makes some foods taste really good while others can be mediocre or even disgusting?

How far can science go it answering these (and other) questions that are so important for domestic cooks and chefs alike?

In this demonstration lecture I will try to answer these and other questions. Through a series of demonstrations and tastings you will discover that we actually use all our senses to assess the food we eat:

• we use our eyes to see the colour, shape and size,
• our ears to hear any sizzling, or crackling, etc.
• our hands to feel the texture,
• our tongues to sense the taste,
• our noses to sense the aroma
• and all the nerves in our mouths to assess the “mouthfeel”

In practice, we. integrate all these sensations into what we call the “flavour” and then decide whether or not we like it. We will also see how collaborations between scientists and chefs are opening up new worlds of novel (and delicious) food and taste combinations.

The official UK launch of a website of historic maps,  Historic Maps Online, has taken place this week. Never before has there been such a large single searchable collection of historic maps online.    It is possible to search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window.  You can search by date alone or narrow by date.  At present the date coverage is between the 1570s and the 1950s. 

The site provides access to collections at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Moravian Library in the Czech Republic and the David Rumsey Collection in California.   Later this year other collections will be added from the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Library, Harvard University, the New York Public Library and several major European libraries.

You can find it at www.oldmapsonline.org. Further information about the project is also available.

IEEE Explore is a useful full text resource for electrical engineering, communications and computer science . It contains almost 3 million documents published by the IEEE and IET. 

There will be an introduction to this database at 12 o clock on Monday 5^th March in PC Room 3 in the library. Come along for some tips on how to get the best out of this database. Just drop in.