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No Argument Here!

May 15th, 2012 by Robert Heyer-Gray

RSC eBooks

May 15th, 2012 by Cory Craig

RSC eBooks are now available!

UC Davis now has access to the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBook Collection.
This collection of over 1000 books, published by RSC between 1968 and 2012, are now available as digital content to UC Davis faculty, students, and staff.

Search the collection or see a full list of all 1,000+ titles available.

Law Library: call first, renovation underway

May 14th, 2012 by Cory Craig

Need to visit the UC Davis Law Library?

As of May 18th, access might be temporarily limited due to a planned renovation project.
If you need to visit the Law Library, or to contact Law Library staff, please call: 752-3327 first.

Synthesis Digital Library Update for March 2012

May 2nd, 2012 by Robert Heyer-Gray

The following new titles were published in March. 

Thanks!

April 5th, 2012 by Robert Heyer-Gray

An unsolicited suggestion from a contented PSE user:

Synthesis Update from Morgan & Claypool Publishers

April 3rd, 2012 by Robert Heyer-Gray

Synthesis Digital Library Update for February 2012

The following new titles were published in February. 

MORE Textbooks on Reserves in Shields Library

March 20th, 2012 by Robert Heyer-Gray

The Provost’s office generously supplemented the Library’s Reserves budget for Spring Quarter 2012, allowing the library to add multiple copies of some of the most heavily used and most expensive textbooks required for the following classes:

BIS101
Sanders, Mark Frederick, and John L. Bowman. Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Boston: Benjamin Cummings, 2012.

CHE002A, B, C
Petrucci, Ralph H. General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications. New York: Learning Solutions, 2011.

CHE008A
Bruice, Paula Yurkanis. Essential Organic Chemistry. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2010.

CHE118A, B, C
Vollhardt, K. Peter C., and Neil Eric Schore. Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2011.

ENG017
Nilsson, James William, and Susan A. Riedel. Electric Circuits. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2011.

LIN001
Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina M. Hyams. An Introduction to Language. Boston, Mass: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2011.

MAT016A, B, C
Larson, Ron, and Bruce Edwards. Math 16 for UC Davis (CUSTOM edition of Calculus: An Applied Approach). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2009.

MAT017A, B, C
Neuhauser, Claudia. Calculus for Biology and Medicine. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2011.

MAT021A, B, C
Weir, Maurice D., Joel Hass, and George B. Thomas. Thomas’ Calculus: Early Transcendentals. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010.

STA100
Samuels, Myra L., Jeffrey A. Witmer, and Andrew A. Schaffner. Statistics for the Life Sciences. Boston: Prentice Hall/Pearson, 2012.

Finals Hours

March 20th, 2012 by Phoebe Ayers

Good luck with finals! This week (finals week) the library will be open:

  • 8:00am-10:00pm — Tuesday Mar. 20-Friday Mar. 23
  • 10:00am-6:00pm — Saturday, Mar. 24
  • 1:00pm-5:00pm — Sunday, Mar. 25

Shields library is open longer hours:

  • 7:30am-2:00am — Tuesday Mar. 20-Thursday Mar. 22
  • 7:30am-1:00am — Friday Mar. 23
  • 8:00am-6:00pm — Saturday Mar. 24

Don’t forget to contact us if you need any research help!

SciFinder and Mac OS X Lion: possible problems

January 26th, 2012 by Cory Craig

Some problems have been reported with the use of SciFinder on the Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) operating system. The nature of the problems can vary. Please contact the CAS Customer Center (http://www.cas.org/support/custcare.html) for solutions.

Synthesis Update from Morgan & Claypool Publishers

December 21st, 2011 by Robert Heyer-Gray

Synthesis Digital Library Update for November 2011

The following new titles were published in November.