Current Earth Sciences Library News, No. 506, 9th March 2013 

Careers

The Careers page a new look on a new site

The success of the Careers event last November was a clear indication that there is a very real appetite for more and better information about careers and prospects for earth scientists. To this end we have created a new web site which aims to meet this need. Access it from the link on the admissions page or directly from here. There are currently three pages;

It's hoped, with help, that we can build on this small start and create an informative, engaging and useful resource for all members of the department. So please get in touch  - with comments, contributions, suggestions, critiques or information - if you'd like something featured on any part of the web site.

eBooks rise again 

In an effort to urge greater engagement with eBooks the library eBooks web page has undergone a revamp. The work isn't quite finished yet but you a visit to the page will give you access to over 60 eBooks of some relevance to Earth Sciences. Including, Introduction to seismology, Mathematical modeling of earth's dynamical system and How to build a habitable planet, which were all requested by members of the Teaching Staff.

The books are in alphabetical author order. There's also a pdf with the books arranged, as best as possible, by subject area nad with links built into each cover image - note this part of the project is not entirely complete.

Access these from the cam domain or by using your Raven log in.

Book due back, shelf check and Great Annual Easter Egg (and cheese & crackers) Hunt

All items borrowed from the library are due back by 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday 13th March. Courtesy emails will be sent out on Tuesday. Renewing items is as simple as replying to the email you've been sent, and is our preferred method. DON'T attempt to renew on-line, it just won't work. Shelf check will happen on Thursday14th March after which at 3.00 p.m. the Great Annual Easter Egg and cheese & crackers) Hunt will begin. Note only Part IIs, Part IIIs and research students may attend. 

Something to look at:

A geological time spiral - see larger image here

 

And, the very important history of Dinosaurs featured in stamps - Scientific American blog post

 

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Publications Brand New to eprint

Gallardo, M. C. and Romero, F. J. and Manchado, J. and Olalla, J. M. M. and Planes, A. and Vives, E. and Salje, E. K. H. and Romero, R. and Stipcich, M. (2013) Calorimetric Study of Avalanche Criticality in the Martensitic Phase Transition of Cu~6~7~.~6~4Zn~1~6~.~7~1Al~1~5~.~6~5. In: European Symposium on Martensitic Transformations ESOMAT 2012.

Hewitt, Duncan R. and Neufeld, Jerome A. and Lister, John R. (2013) Convective shutdown in a porous medium at high Rayleigh number. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 719 . pp. 551-586. ISSN 0022-1120, ESSN: 1469-7645

Hu, Xiufang and Jeans, Christopher and Dickson, Tony (2012) Geochemical and stable isotope patterns of calcite cementation in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk, Uk: Direct evidence from calcite-filled vugs in brachiopods. Acta Geologica Polonica, 62 (2). pp. 143-172. ISSN 0001-5709

Huppert, Herbert E. and Neufeld, Jerome A. and Strandkvist, Charlotte (2013) The competition between gravity and flow focusing in two-layered porous media. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 720 . pp. 5-14. ISSN 0022-1120, ESSN: 1469-7645

Langer, Gerald (2013) Palaeontology: Plankton in a greenhouse world. Nature Geoscience, 6 (3). pp. 164-165. ISSN 1752-0894, 1752-0908

Meunier, Patrick and Uchida, Taro and Hovius, Niels (2013) Landslide patterns reveal the sources of large earthquakes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 363 . pp. 27-33. ISSN 0012-821X

Pollitt, David A. and Anthonissen, Erik and Saller, Arthur H. and BouDagher-Fadel, Marcelle K. and Dickson, J. A. D. (2012) Abrupt early Eocene global climatic change as a control of carbonate facies and diagenesis: a new record of the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Umm er Radhuma Formation, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Terra Nova, 24 (6). pp. 487-498. ISSN 0954-4879, ESSN: 1365-3121

Sardar, Kripasindhu and Hong, Jiawang and Catalan, Gustau and Biswas, P. K. and Lees, Martin R. and Walton, Richard I. and Scott, James F. and Redfern, Simon A. T. (2012) Structural, spectroscopic, magnetic and electrical characterization of Ca-doped polycrystalline bismuth ferrite, Bi1−xCaxFeO3−x/2 (x ≤ 0.1). Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 24 (4). 045905. ISSN 0953-8984, ESSN: 1361-648X

Wexler, Jason S. and Trinh, Philippe H. and Berthet, Helene and Quennouz, Nawal and du Roure, Olivia and Huppert, Herbert E. and Linder, Anke and Stone, Howard A. (2013) Bending of elastic fibres in viscous flows: the influence of confinement. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 720 . pp. 517-544. ISSN 0022-1120, ESSN: 1469-7645

Yang, Jie and Ortega-Hernández, Javier and Butterfield, Nicholas J. and Zhang, Xi-guang (2013) Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods. Nature, 494 (7438). pp. 468-471. ISSN 0028-0836

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Library Times for the Vacation

Monday to Friday open at 8.45 a.m. and close at 5.00 p.m.

If you are a non-departmental visitor please be aware that the front door is locked at lunch time between 1.00 and 2.00 p.m.

Loan Periods for Borrowed Library Items

 

The Different Item types are:


Useful extras

Anyone using Thunderbird as their client might want to investigate adding the Lightning calendar extension to their set up. Find out more about the project, including how to download and install from here

Other add-ons for Mozilla products such as Firefox can be found here

Remote access to the University network 

Ever felt frustrated by not being able to access something just because you're working from home, or in the field or at a conference?

There is a way to get beyond this state in one acronym: VPDN

What does it do?

Here's my description: It's like you were sitting at your desk but you aren't.

The best way to explain it is that it makes other computers think you are within the cam domain, and therefore you are able to access all the resources you could from your desk, for example AGU journals.

Without exception everyone that I know who has it wouldn't be without it. There is a little bit of a down side to it in that it can require a little bit of technical fiddling with your computer but I've found our own computing chaps to be very helpful and able to solve any problems that crop up. Don't be put off!

Here's the computing service's description:

The VPDN (Virtual Private Dial-up Network) service provides an encrypted, and therefore secure, connection via an external ISP to facilities that are restricted to computers on the CUDN (cam-only facilities).

The bandwidth available will be that of the external network which, depending on the means of connection, may be much higher than that on the Magpie dial-up service. The user authentication and subsequent traffic will be encrypted and will provide a secure connection even over insecure intermediate networks. Like Magpie, this service is only available to staff and students of the University.

To register for VDPN fill in this form

To learn more about VPDN go to this page


Part II Projects Map on Google

This is a little project that has evolved over the last two or three weeks, it's not quite finished but may be of interest to some:

Part II Projects on a map



(RE)Introducing Zotero

 

 

This video introduction was created for Zotero and is shown undera CreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 UnportedLicence

  

What is it?

Zotero is a citation manager which works with the Mozilla Firefox browser and allows you to collect and store references from all over the web. You can search for and save citations from almost anything that you can access on the web: Scopus, Newton - the University Library Catalogue, journal pages, book pages for instance from the Open Library, or even save whole web pages

Zotero works as an extension, or add-on, to the firefox browser and therefore can be installed on as many machines as one wishes

Zotero's latest release is 2.0 and allows you to synchronise your citation libraries/databases over the Internet should you wish to

I've got EndNote (or other citation software) and I'm familiar with it why should I switch? 

How do I get it?

If you're little uncertain about entrusting a new piece of software, you could download the older stand-alone version which doesn't allow for synchronisation, you can find all versions on the Zotero web site: www.zotero.org and video tutorials about all aspects of Zotero available at: http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials

Another Library Widget from the UL - I've addedd this one to the Resources page

This little widget allows users to check on the status of their library account. Access is via library/university card or via Raven; which is handy if you don't happen to have your card with you. As mentioned above the link is on the resources page, and beneath the links for Newton.

Library Buckaroo

 

 

We're still twittering

Very exciting news: we're been put on someone's list. Don't know what it means but we feel it can only mean we're on the cusp of exploding in the twitterati.

All the cutting edge librarianship and action packed cataloguing adventures of the library can still be found here: http://twitter.com/EarthLib

Important things from previous Library News:

New scanning facilities (very exciting!):

We are now able to scan materials & documents via the photocopier and save them to a number of formats, e.g. pdf, jpg ...  

Exciting news from the BGS

In case any of you missed the big annoucenment the British Geological Survey is now offering OpenGeoscience:

"A free service where you can view maps, download photographs and other information.Use OpenGeoscience material free-of-charge for non-commercial private study, research and educational activities"

See a short Youtube video exploring some of the data and features available from here

Also well worth mentioning is the one geology site 

"OneGeology is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world and a flagship project of the 'International Year of Planet Earth'. Its aim is to create dynamic geological map data of the world available via the web."

Check out the portal sitewhere you can load any number of layers from all of the continents -with of course varying degrees of scale.They've also got a Youtubevideo, here

 

SedLog: a shareware program for drawing graphic logs and log data manipulation

Co-authored by Helen Smyth (now at CASP) SedLog is a free multi-platform software for creating graphicsediment logs. Is designed by geologists for geologists. Download your copy from: http://www.sedlog.com/

 

Off campus Access to Electronic resources

Here a little, quick, digest of how to now access online journals and databases off campus.

When you wish to access any of the electronic resources provided bythe University Library or the department you need to go through eitherthe department links which can be found on the Resources page or via the eresources@cambridge links provided by the UL.

If you try to access a journal via another route, for instance usingpublishers' web sites, or a bookmark you previously saved to yourbrowser you will most likely be met with a refusal of access.

Access is now via Shibboleth, or via a local proxy server; this in thecase of publishers not yet having established support for Shibboleth.If given a choice of access routes do not go through Athens. Either wayyou will need to enter your Raven ISd and password in order to gainaccess.

For anyone interested you can find out more about Shibboleth from here

Mini troubleshooting guide - mainly for people having problems accessing Web of Science

The best way is to start from zero:

 

Accessions:

For a list of NEW BOOKS & MAPS etc added to the collection see: http://tinyurl.com/7rgwn

For a list of NEW JOURNAL ISSUES added to the collection in the last month see:here 

Earth Sciences eprints -  Updatesdirect to your inbox via RSS and Atom feeds

What's an RSS orAtom feed?

A feed is amechanism which notifies you when a web page or site has been updatedwithout you having to be on or visit the page or site itself. Youcan find out more about feeds from here 

Oneof the features of our new publications database is that it allowsyou to have near instant notification of any additions made. Simplygo to the publications home page and add one of the three  [feed]Atom [feed]RSS1.0  [feed]RSS2.0 feed links to your feed reader or aggregator - if you don't have a reader, remember Thunderbird can deal with  RSS. Click on this link forinstructions on setting up an RSS account and subscribing to feeds in Thunderbird.

 

Contacting The Library - Important Reminder

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Last updated on 09-Mar-13 15:09