In accordance with Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 ), the NIH voluntary Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-05-022) is now mandatory. The new policy is effective April 7, 2008. An information session about the NIH Public Access Policy is being held for CALS: (more…)
Steenbock Library reminds you that course reserve requests must be submitted by December 20, 2007 to guarantee that everything will be available for your students by the first day of spring semester classes. Requests submitted after that date will be processed in the order received. In general, items requested between Dec. 21 and February 1 will be processed in about two weeks. When the “rush” lets up in about the third week of the semester, turnaround time is shorter. (more…)
The Dissertation Calculator, available on the website of the campus Center for Instructional Materials & Computing, enables graduate students to enter start and anticipated completion dates to generate a step-by-step dissertation plan of action. (more…)
Steenbock Library is offering a workshop on Managing Your Citations with EndNote and EndNote Web on Wednesday November 28th, Noon– 1:30 p.m. in Room 105 Steenbock Library. (more…)
Thomson ISI, the company behind Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports, has just released Essential Science Indicators Special Topic: Stem Cells. According to this international analysis, UW Madison ranks 7th in the “Institutions” category when the data is sorted by total number of citations to its stem cell research articles. (more…)
Do you use Wileys Current Protocols for your research? If so, please take a look at a new online product purchased by Steenbock Library, Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. (more…)
Journal prices continue to increase rapidly, but Steenbock library does not receive an annual increase to its acquisitions budget. Therefore we must reduce our anticipated journal expenditures for next year by about $45,000. To do this, we plan to discontinue about 70 print subscriptions for which the publishers online version is available to you. This will save us about $22,000 annually. (more…)
Want to help your students find and use the best information for their assignments and papers? Steenbock Library may be able to help. Librarians working together with faculty and instructors can create tailored library sessions, library course pages and tutorials that will help your students 1) Access needed information effectively and efficiently; 2) Evaluate information and its sources critically; and 3) Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose. (more…)
Steenbock library offers many drop-in workshops in the next few weeks to help you work more efficiently. They are open to everyone in the UW community-faculty, staff and students. You’re invited to attend, or to recommend them to new students or others who may be interested. (more…)
Did you miss the August 10th deadline for sending your list of course reserves to Steenbock Library? If so, youre not alone! You can still send in your list, and the sooner you do so, the sooner materials will be available for your students.