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Kaye and Laby Online contains the entire 16th edition (1995) of Kaye and Laby's Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants. It is freely available from the UK's National Physical Laboratory, and includes important physical and chemical property data. Kaye and Laby Online is searchable, or may be browsed.
Due to essential site maintenance, resources from Wiley InterScience may not be available on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 4 am EDT. This service interruption may last up to one hour.
ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 8:00 am through 9:00 pm EDT.
The New York State Library (NYSL) is a great resource, especially for items that the UAlbany Libraries do not own or provide. You should always check our holding in the Minerva catalog, before trying the New York State Library. The New York State Library is a research library located on Madison Avenue in Albany; it is in the Cultural Education Center across from the Empire State Plaza. New York residents (18-years-old and older) and State government employees may borrow materials and access online resources (journals and databases). Library users (in person and online) need a NYSL borrower's card. NY residents can apply for a borrower's card here; State employees can apply here. To see if NYSL has what you are looking for, check their catalog or their electronic resources listings.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has created a new social network called AIP UniPHY. The purpose of AIP UniPHY is to link physical scientists. Scientists can share global connections that occur through similar publications. Membership is free, but registration is required.
As announced here last month, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has registered its 50 millionth substance. It is a novel arylmethylidene heterocycle with analgesic properties (CAS Registry Number 1181081-51-5). Additional information is available here.
Chemical Abstracts (and other CAS print products) will no longer be available in print format after January 1, 2010. UAlbany canceled Chemical Abstracts (print format) in 2000 when our subscription to SciFinder Scholar was initiated. It's the end of an era. More information is available here.
Beginning today and running through October 30, 2009, the University at Albany has a trial of the Springer ebook collection. The collection contains over 30,000 ebooks, including monographs, book series, and reference works. The trial is set up to recognize the University’s IP range; no password is required. During the trial, the ebook collection is not available off campus, unless you have the University’s VPN client running.
The Springer ebook collection is available here. Or, you can access it via http://www.springerlink.com/ (click on books, book series, or reference works in the middle of the page).
The ebook collection is divided into 13 subject collections, including:
biomedical and life science
chemistry and materials science
computer science
earth and environmental science
mathematics and statistics
physics and astronomy
professional and applied computing.
The University at Albany has signed on to the SCOAP3 expression of interest. SCOAP3 is the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. The goal of SCOAP3 is to provide open access in the field of high-energy physics. For more information, please see the SCOAP3 Website.