Pfeiffer Physics Library News
September, 2011
** News **
- The Physics Library will be closed on Monday, September 5,
2011 for Labor Day.
-
Fall Semester Hours
Monday - Thursday, 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Closed Saturdays and Sundays - The Classic Catalog has new features!
- QR (quick response) codes like this
have been added to every full bibliographic record display. Scan the QR code on a laptop or desktop computer with a smartphone scanning app, and the phone will jump to that record in our mobile catalog. It’s a direct link to the catalog record that library users with a smartphone can take with them to the stacks or add to their saved list in the mobile catalog.
- My Lists to keep track of library titles of interest (such as books you haven’t read or movies you haven’t watched
or even gift lists!). Look for the
or 
buttons, click, and follow the catalog prompts. For
more information, see Create Personal Reading Lists. - A catalog link to item status information. Click on Status
in the item summary box to open WU Libraries Catalog
Status Messages to see what a status means and what you can do about it.
- QR (quick response) codes like this
- Printing and Scanning in the Library - We have instructional videos and other materials on the new procedures for
printing, copying, and scanning in the Libraries. These can be found at
http://library.wustl.edu/about/techinfo/computing-training.html.
- The University Libraries are pleased to announce our fall 2011 workshop schedule. Visit
http://wulibraries.doattend.com to register for a workshop or view an up-to-date
list of offerings. While registration is not required, doing so will guarantee your seat.
- Nature
Communications is now available online due to a Becker subscription.
- arXiv at 20 - In an article in Nature,
Paul Ginsparg, founder of the preprint server, reflects on two decades of sharing results rapidly online — and on the future
of scholarly communication.
- Physical Review X Publishes First Five Papers - The American Physical Society (APS)
presented the first five papers that were published in their new, open access journal, Physical Review X. APS is very encouraged
by the topical spread of these first published papers. It ranges from the well-established field of atomic, molecular and optical
physics to the still relatively new, broad and very active field that explores magnetism or spins at microscopic level. It also
extends into the interdisciplinary area: In the paper by Belik et al., statistical physics is applied to understand epidemic
spreading; and in another by Benmore and Weber, experimental techniques such as acoustic levitation and x-ray scattering are used
to obtain and characterize normally hard-to-make amorphous forms of pharmaceutical drugs.
- iPeerReview - AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics, has released a new app, iPeerReview. The new
app allows authors and reviewers to use their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices to access a broad range of information on papers
submitted to any of AIP's journals in Peer X-Press, AIP's manuscript submission and review system. This gives authors and reviewers
fast, convenient access to their papers during the review process. Once logged in, users can perform a number of activities related
to their papers. They can access a list of all active and completed papers, view the status history of a paper, view and save a
paper in PDF format, email a paper, and link to a paper on AIP's Scitation platform if it is in production or to Peer X-Press
if it is under review. To download the app, search for
iPeerReview in the iTunes App Store or
visit AIP Labs.
**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**
Note: If you want more information on any of these, please search the Library Catalog by title, keywords or author.Advances in imaging and electron physics. TK7800 .A37 v.167 Convective heat and mass transfer / S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan. QC327 .G48 2011 Discovering the essential universe / Neil F. Comins. QB43.3 .C658 2009 An indispensable truth : how fusion power can save the planet / Francis F. Chen. QC303 .C44 2011 Interpreting quantum theories : the art of the possible / Laura Ruetsche. QC174.12 .R848 2011 Introduction to relativistic statistical mechanics : classical and quantum / Rémi Hakim. QC174.86.C6 H35 2011 Isotopic and elemental compositions of stardust and protosolar dust grains in primitive meteorites / by Maitrayee Bose. LD5791.8.PhD2011 B67 Lattice boltzmann method : fundamentals and engineering applications with computer codes / A. A. Mohamad. QC175.2 .M64 2011 Physics of continuous matter : exotic and everyday phenomena in the macroscopic world / B. Lautrup. QC173.7 .L38 2011 What is life? : the intellectual pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. QC16.S265 W4313 2011
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