What's New? 2006-2007 Archive

Current news and new resources

June 27, 2007:IEEE Xplore will be unavailable from 3:00pm-4:00pm EDT today, June 27, 2007, due to scheduled maintenance.

June 14th, 2007:Alumnus Donates Unique Photo Collection of WPI's Navy V-12 Program. More...

June 11th, 2007: Gordon @ 40: Photo gallery, interviews with library staff and WPI students, and share your memories. More...

June 5th, 2007: Service Alert: Sunday, 10 June 2007, between 3-5 p.m. our FullTextFinder & Journals Search will be unavailable due to maintenance.

May 25th, 2007: IEEE Xplore will be unavailable 2-3pm on 30 May due to maintenance.

May 18th, 2007: Submit a Photo: reAction: Angles of WPI Project Centers: Student photographers are invited to submit a framed photograph taken while at a WPI Project Center by June 1. Best of Show prizes of $100, $50, and $25 will be awarded. More...

May 2nd, 2007: New Electronic Resource: Search Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia for articles on a variety of scientific topics including chemistry, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and physics.

May 1st, 2007: New Subscription: Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas including science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles range from Acta Crystallographica to Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures to Development and Change and coverage for some titles extends back 100+years.

April 27th, 2007: WPI Archivist Rodney Obien along with Professors Kent Ljungquist and Jim Hanlan recently edited and published The History of Woodbury and Company. More...

April 27th, 2007: A Bleak House at Gordon? Sort of. Robert Googins, UCONN Professor of Law, donates collection Dicken's materials to the Special Collections of Gordon Library at WPI. More...

April 27th, 2007: Chris Drouin's essay "Stifled Society: Social Commentary in Number IV of The Pickwick Papers" was selected as the Fellman Prize winner. More...

April 26th, 2007: Student Art Competition 2007 Winners announced. More...

April 23rd, 2007: April is Jazz Appreciation Month. Stop by the library to see the display.

April 13th, 2007: April is National Poetry Month. Submit your own original library haiku. Listen to haiku by Greg Roberts.

April 9th, 2007: National Library Week 2007 - Come Together is April 15-21, 2007: Book signings, haiku contest, and more.

April 6th, 2007: WPI is celebrating National Student Employee Appreciation Week April 8 - 14. We appreciate all library student employees for their significant contributions to the library.

March 27th, 2007: Is the free web really free? Even when searching Google from off campus, you should set up proxy to access library subscriptions.

Marth 15th, 2007: New electronic resource: We now have access to American Men and Women in Science, a biographical dictionary.

March 15th, 2007: Check out the D Term @Gordon Library Newsletter: New logo, new staff, new books, new databases and more.

March 12th, 2007: WINNER: Brianne O’Neill won the $50.00 Barnes and Noble Gift Card for participating in our recent web site survey. Congratulations Brianne! Thanks to all who gave their feedback.

March 5th, 2007: NEW SUBSCRIPTION: Lecture Notes in Computer Science now accessible via Springerlink book series from 1997 to the present. Connect ...

March 5th, 2007: NEW SUBSCRIPTION: We now subscribe to the Optics and Electro-Optics (OEO) Segment of the SPIE Digital Library via Scitation. Connect ...

February 23rd, 2007: Podcast - Transactions of the Yada Yada: The Mysterious, Elusive Conference Proceeding. Listen More...

February 23rd, 2007: ILL Book Renewal Form: use our new submit a renewal request form for Interlibrary Loan books you wish to keep longer. To renew books you've checked out from the WPI Library, continue use Your Account within the library catalog. More...

February 23rd, 2007: See our new listing of databases to search for Conferences, Meetings, Proceedings, & Symposia papers.

February 13th, 2007: Web Conferencing in the Tech Suites: two kits are now available for checkout. More

February 13th, 2007: Podcast: Grey Literature, Grey Water. Listen | More

February 6th, 2007: ebrary electronic books will be unavailable at times between 4-8pm on Wed. Feb. 7, 2007 for maintenance.

February 5th, 2007: TAX TIME: Tax Forms and Instructions are online.

February 1st, 2007: Podcast: Listen to a brief interview with artist Lora Brueck about her Stones of Ireland exhibit in the Gladwin Gallery of the Library. For more info or to subscribe, please visit our Podcasts section.

January 12, 2007: New Subscription: Computing Reviews used by technology professionals worldwide to identify the best new articles and books in all areas of computer science.

January 12, 2007: January @ Gordon Newsletter

January 3, 2007: We now have access to the current and past full text archive of 12 online journals from the American Society for Microbiology, including Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Virology, and others.

January 2, 2007: Happy 2007! Start off the new year by learning more about RSS feeds and how they can save you time. Browse RSS Feeds: Fast and Customized Alerts to learn more.

December 12, 2006: Looking for RefWorks, Knovel, or how to do an APA citation? Use Search on lower left and choose Library Site to find resources and research tips.

December 12, 2006: What are the best science books of all time? Visit Discover Magazine online or the display in the library lobby, to find out. Don't agree? Post a comment.

November 21, 2006: Library Printing Update: You can print from any computer in the library to the print release station near the Reference Desk or to the Movie Lab for color printouts. Anyone who's already setup their laptop to print will have to update their printer settings as the server name has changed. More...

November 16, 2006: Native American Code Talkers: Who were the code talkers of WWI and WWII? For a bit of interesting history stop by the library to see the display cases near the main entrance.

November 13, 2006: The Journals List, FullTextFinder, and the EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service will be unavailable on Sunday, November 19, 2006, from 7 A.M. to 2 P.M. EST. EBSCO Information Services is shutting down its computer facilties at that time for system maintenance.

November 7, 2006: Trying to find regional news coverage? Want to dig up more information on a private company who's lined you up for an interview? Try NewsVoyager to track down newspapers by state and city. For more news links, check our News, Weather, & Time reference web sites.

November 1, 2006: Get a Boston Public Library eCard to access an incredible array of electronic resources covering 25 different subject areas from architecture to genealogy to history and science. Also access OverDrive downloadable audio and video. All Massachusetts residents, students and people employed in the Commonwealth are eligible. eCards will expire in 6 months when the BPL will evaluate the program.

October 26, 2006: Read the October @Gordon Library Newsletter for the latest updates.

October 24, 2006: Today's Consumers Trust Traditional Media Sources the Most according to a study by LexisNexis, when people need news on a "major event ... their trust mostly remains with traditional media, such as professional journalists at mainstream newspapers, magazines, television and radio, versus emerging media sources created by citizen journalists." For more information on how to evaluate the news you follow, check out our Evaluating Sources tips.

October 16-17, 2006: Library Catalog will be unavailable on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 17-18 for an upgrade. Please consult WorldCat or check with a librarian to locate library materials during this downtime.

October 6, 2006: Historical Statistics of the United States will not be available on Sunday, October 8, between 01:30pm and 7:30pm, due to server maintainance.

October 5, 2006: Not sure how to connect to library databases and electronic resources from off campus? View our quick clip (less than 2 minutes) and learn how to set up proxy within Internet Explorer.

October 4, 2006: Saturday, 7 October, the Library Journals Search (A-to-Z) and EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service (EJS) will be unavailable from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m., due to maintenance.

October 3, 2006: LOL - Library Open Late: Tuesday & Wednesday Oct. 10-11 the library will be open until 2 a.m.

September 29, 2006: Your best search engine? A librarian!

September 29, 2006: How deep is your research? Enter the invisible web by searching library databases

September 26, 2006: Celebrate your freedom to read during Banned Books Week. Check out the 10 Most Challenged in 2005. What's your favorite banned book?

September 26, 2006: According Nielsen Norman Group "3% of searchers use quote marks to search an exact phrase" despite the fact that this simple technique will zone into better results. See Search Alternatives and Beyond for information on "What’s Your Search Missing" and sign up for our Advanced Web Searching workshop.

September 20, 2006: Six new collaborative workstations are available in the library, with large monitors, and two PC now have dual monitors. More...

September 19, 2006: Ay, me hearties. We celebrated Pirate Day with a treasure hunt for all who dared, people came, searched the Journals list for the Journal of Pirate Studies, and some lucky mates won prizes. Alas, the ship has sailed, and the treasure has been found and plundered.

September 16, 2006: IEEE Xplore will be unavailable most of Saturday, September 16, 2006, for a major system upgrade.

August 25, 2006: @Gordon Library September newsletter (PDF): New resources and we've upgraded our appearance at the WPI Library. @Gordon Archive

August 25, 2006: Wall Street Journal - ProQuest Newspapers: Full text of the newspaper offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics.

July 31, 2006: ASM Materials Information: New resource! Search ASM Handbooks Online, the Alloy Center Online, Micrograph Center Online, and Failure Analysis Center Online. AMS stands for American Society for Metals, but is now known as ASM International. Search Tips

July 31, 2006: ENVIROnetBASE: New resource! Search CRC environmental handbooks online. How it Works Browse 200+ titles

July 31, 2006: NetLibrary 4.0 - New Look & Feel: Netlibrary, one of our online book vendors will be rolling out a newly improved web site today. About 4.0 (PDF)

July 6, 2006: Historical Statistics of the United States: Data, charts, and statistics on topics such as population, work and welfare, economy, governance and international relations. More

July 6, 2006: World Development Indicators: World Bank country data on various topics which can be downloaded into a spreadsheet. Full text of eBook

June 2006: Refworks: a new bibliographic database & citation management tool. Create a database of your references then output them into many formats. More...

June 2006: MLA International Bibliography: now Covers 1926 to the present. More...

June 2006: Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation: Online edition contains 250+ articles including latest developments in medical devices, including nanotechnology, fiber optics, and signal processing. | Browse contents by: Title | Subject

June 2006: Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide Online: Provides access to reports on trends, developments, scientific advancements, and company activities medical and healthcare segments, including the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology sectors. More...

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