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-DATABASE TRIAL:  RefWorks  (On Campus Only)    Trial ends November 15, 2003.  Let us know what you think of RefWorks.  
Send comments to: nelsona@uta.edu.

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to:

• Create a personal database of collected citations.
• Import references from text files or online databases.
• Export references into papers and bibliographies.
• Automatically format references to the proper citation style.

A Quick Start Guide (196 kb - PDF) is available, as well as an online demo and a tutorial.

Users need to create an account to use this trial. To create an account: 

    1.  Go to from an IP authenticated computer
    2.  Click on Sign Up for an Individual Account
    3.  Enter the appropriate information and click on Register. 

-DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Access to DOAJ publications is free, and all articles must meet rigorous criteria.

-CHAT ONLINE:  QuestionPoint: a Web-based electronic reference service at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries provides "chat sessions" with reference staff .  This service is available Monday-Thursday 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, excluding University Holidays.  

-INTERLIBRARY LOAN ONLINE - UTA Interlibrary Loan Online: a web-based system that lets you manage your Interlibrary Loan transactions from wherever you have access to the internet and a web browser.

Engineering News:   For specific library news relevant to Engineering subject areas, click on the department:

About the IEEE

The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society with more than 380,000 members in approximately 150 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, and has developed more than 900 active industry standards. The organization also sponsors or cosponsors more than 300 international technical conferences each year. Additional information is available at www.ieee.org.

Science News:
For specific library news relevant to Science subject areas, click on the department:

New Books and Journals:      

For a list of circulating books recently received in SEL click here:  Selected list

For a list of new reference books in SEL click here:  Reference list

For a list of new journals click here:  New Journals list

Exhibits:      Current exhibit:    Solar Activity

Congratulations:

"Students in various engineering disciplines will form teams Nov.12-14 in a challenge to find solutions to real-world problems in aircraft design and manufacturing. The challenge, presented by engineers from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, will involve almost 400 students in the UTA College of Engineering. Student teams will have about 45 minutes to evaluate a problem and develop a solution. Each team will then present their solution for review and judging by their peers, followed by Lockheed Martin engineers who will tell how they solved the problem. This is the fourth year that Lockheed Martin has challenged students at UTA."    [UTA Today 11/12/03]

Database Information:   For a list of new databases or database trials click here:  New databases

Internet Sites:

The Goddard Space Flight Center Library

Nobel e-Museum - List of current Nobel Prize announcements for 2003.

The Wilbur & Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress
The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Included in the collection are correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives. The Wright Brothers' letters to aviation pioneer and mentor Octave Chanute, from the Octave Chanute Papers, were also selected for this online collection. The Wright Papers span the years 1881 to 1952 but largely cover 1900 to 1940. This online presentation includes the famous glass-plate negative of the "First Flight" at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, as well as diaries and letters in which Wilbur and Orville Wright recount their work that led to that day.

Notes:  Central News, Instruction Info, Circulation & Reference Info, Staff News, etc...

Previous Issues:

December 2001