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Engineering Resilience Solutions from Earthquake Engineering to Extreme Events 1997-2007: A Decade of Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Reslience
(2008-12)
This publication was developed to celebrate the accomplishments of MCEER during its funding as part of the Earthquake Engineering Research Centers (EERC) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). It provides an ...
Percentile-Based Journal Impact Factors: A Neglected Collection Development Metric
(Association of College and Research Libraries * Science and Technology Section, 2009-04)
Various normalization techniques to transform journal impact factors (JIFs) into a standard scale or range of values have been reported a number of times in the literature, but have seldom been part of collection development ...
Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals: A Practical Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and Librarians. [Revised]
(Routledge, 2011-08-17)
Free Internet resources that provide a significant amount of physical property information are critically reviewed. These free Web sites cannot totally replace classic print sources and online subscription databases. ...
On-Site Reference Services and Outreach: Setting Up Shop Where Our Patrons Live
(2004-06-08)
Electronic, full-text resources and on-line forms have become ever more established in
most organizations. As a result, foot traffic in libraries has significantly decreased leading to
fewer opportunities for personal ...
Model Project Page
(University Libraries, 2013-02-14)
Open Data, Open Properties, Open Everything?
(2012-06-14)
A general overview of open data in the field of chemistry. It particularly emphasizes open property, crystallographic, and spectral data.
Fall 2008
(University Libraries, 2013-02-18)
Turning Educational Standards/Recommendations into Information Fluency Courses: A Case Study
(2006-06-13)
In October, 2005, the American Physical Society/American Association of Physics Teachers Joint Task Force on Graduate Education released a report in October 2005 recommending that physics departments "require communications ...
Evaluating Journals/Databases: Saving Money: Old and New Tools
(2008-05-22)
The presentation reviews what metrics and considerations go into journal and database evaluation, especially cancellation decisions, in light of tight or declining library budget. Cost per use is becoming the dominant ...