ScienceDirect Outage, March 7-8

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12.5 hours from 5pm Saturday, March 7 to 6:30am Sunday, March 8. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Waste-Less Wednesday in the Library

Wednesday, Feb. 25th, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Sustainability Office

On Wednesday, February 25th, the library will turn off all printers, including printers in staff offices, for 8.5 hours, for just one day. In support of the Campus Energy Challenge and Recyclemania efforts, we want to call attention to the amount of printing that is done just in the library. The Sustainability Office has heard increasing concerns about the amount of printing that is done in the library and across campus and will be sharing tips on how to reduce printing. This event is a kickoff for a month-long focus on printing across campus.

During the day library and ITS staff will offer tips on saving pdfs to network accounts and demonstrate ways of highlighting and note-taking online.

Over the noon hour we invite community members to join us in the Harmon Room for a bagless "brown bag" lunch discussion. Suzanne Hansen and Terri Fishel will lead a discussion on issues related to printing reduction in the library. Together, we hope to generate new ideas and awareness for ways to print less often.

Access to Publicly Funded Research Threatened

New Powerful Research Databases at Mac!

Macalester students, faculty and staff now have access to the following powerful research databases:

• Cambridge Histories Online


• Dictionary of Literary Biography


• Eighteenth Century Collections Online


• Something About the Author


• Times Digital Archive

Each of these databases provide unique research or primary source materials, not available freely on the web. Please let us know if you have any questions. These and other resources can be found in the A-Z List of E-Resources.

Webcast: Harvard Open Access Policy

Webcast Thursday, February 5
In February, 2008, arts and sciences faculty at Harvard adopted a policy granting the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make their scholarly articles available to the public.

Thursday's webcast in the Harmon Room provides an opportunity to learn more about why they did this and how it helps the spread of knowledge.

Time: 3pm
Date: February 5, 2009
Location: Harmon Room, DeWitt Wallace Library

CLICnet System Upgrade, Means Downtime for CLICnet and WorldCat Local

On January 13, Tuesday, CLICnet will be undergoing a system upgrade. This means CLICnet will not be available all day on the 13th. This will also affect our WorldCat Local and neither system will be available for searching or placing holds. You will be able to search our journal holdings using the Journal Finder. If you have questions, please use one of the options to contact us from our AskUs page. We apologize for the inconvenience.

SPOTLIGHT

Have you ever used AccessScience?

A great place to start a research project, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive overviews on a range of issues. For example, check out this article on a particle trap written by Stephen Chu. Mr. Chu is President-Elect Barack Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy.

This and other resources can be found in the A-Z List of E-Resources.