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CAS e-seminar

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Save the date and register now! CAS is hosting an e-Seminar on October 11, 2006 It’s live, it’s interactive, and it’s focused on SciFinder®: Exploring Chemical Properties and Finding New Ways to Enhance Your Search Results _________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:00 – 3:00 PM U.S. Eastern Standard Time (19:00-20:00 GMT) To register, visit: http://casevents.webex.com After you register, you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing the teleconference phone numbers. _________________________________________________________________________ SciFinder®: Exploring Chemical Properties and Finding New Ways to Enhance Your Search Results Learn how predicted and experimental property data can help you find relevant research answers quickly. Join us at the upcoming e-Seminar to explore: The wide variety of chemical property data now available in SciFinder Tips and strategies using chemical property data to enhance searching Case...
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SciFinder

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SciFinder is available in the library computer lab. Click Start/Programs/General to access. Campus affiliated patrons wanting to use SciFinder Scholar elsewhere may check out a cd with the software. This software may be copied onto any pc on the campus LAN, or any of the campus supplied tablets. The software will not work on a “student supplied” computer and can not be used off campus (even on a tablet.) The dorms are considered off campus because they have a different internet setup.
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This week Sept. 17-23

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1977 - The "Voyager I" spacecraft (launched on Sep 5, 1977 from cape Canaveral, FL) snapped the first photograph showing the earth and moon together. ("Voyager I" is further away from Earth than any other man-made object.) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=voyager 1991 - Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist, Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. The body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall and had weighed about 50 kg (110 pounds), is the oldest mummified human body ever found intact -- some 5000 years old. And his few remaining scalp hairs provided the earliest archaeological evidence of haircutting. And, if that’s not enough, Ötzi was found to have a number of ‘points’ tattooed on his body, 80% of which are considered valid modern acupucture points and dates acupuncture back to at least 3300 B.C. Find more about Otzi at Wilson's Applied...
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The Knovel University Challenge Returns!

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A new version of the Knovel University Challenge kicks off its fall season on Sept. 13th and will run through Nov. 13th. The University Challenge provides students the opportunity to master their research and analysis skills while competing for 15 prizes. This year’s winners will receive an iPod Shuffle, a 30G Apple Video iPod or a $500 Grand Prize. The University Challenge, now in its second season, is open to students of hard sciences, mathematics and technology-related courses of study at universities with access to Knovel Library or Knovel K-Essentials. The University Challenge introduces young minds to next-generation research methods being used by many Fortune 1000 companies. The success of last spring's contest brought over 800 entries from 17 countries. The purpose is to inspire students to pursue careers in the fields of science, engineering and mathematics while offering a practical "real world" educational experience. To participate in the fall Knovel Universit...
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Regent's Library Initiative -- Knovel

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Devereaux Library pleased to announce the first of the "Regents" databases. Many of you have inquired about the availability of Scitech eBooks. Knovel Corporation is one of the newest vendors offering access to nearly 700 engineering and scientific references, handbooks, standards, and databases. Knovel expands the traditional eBook paradigm by adding the ability to interactively manipulate and search for content across this entire collection. Using your browser (Internet Explorer recommended), the Knovel site is only a click away at http://www.knovel.com/ . We arranged to have our campus IPs authenticated so you will never be asked for a Login sequence to "open" a book. (Coming soon to the dorms as well) MORE THAN JUST E-BOOKS Users can use keyword and/or data searches. The new chemical structure searching feature even allows users to even draw the chemical compound before searching. Knovel's core technology is unique in that it aggregates text together with da...
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Web of Science trial extended

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Thomson Scientific is augmenting the Sciences portion of our Web of Science offer to South Dakota universities by adding of our version of Medline and 5 years of the Social Science Citation Index at no additional cost. This is in addition to our plans to provide Endnote Web at no additional cost. We believe these significant modifications to our offer will allow South Dakota schools to build a high-quality electronic research environment based on the market-leading ISI Web of Knowledge platform. South Dakota researchers will now benefit from seamlessly harvesting literature across a deeper pool of disciplines, accessing full-text links (for entitled content), and capturing references for storage or sharing. To better approximate the environment South Dakota universities will receive in a Web of Science acquisition, I am reauthorizing the present Web of Science trial to include the resources listed above. [Please note, while EndNote Web will be included in our offer, EndNote Web is not ...
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Urban Lions

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KNBN http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14662305/ reported Monday that another lion was found inside city limits. Want to know more about urban lions? A great book on urban lions, The beast in the garden : a modern parable of man and nature is available in the library. For other books search the subject Puma using the "Find in a library" feature on our homepage, http://library.sdsmt.edu/ For journal articles search EbscoHost or ProQuest also available on the library homepage.
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Coming Soon

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This past legislative session $482,632 was appropriated by the South Dakota Legislature to help meet the increasing costs of library media. University librarians have been working with faculty to identify electronic resources that will enhance research and scholarly activities throughout the state. Watch this space for announcments as resources become available.
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