Popular Science Reading – October 2019
With the start of the new academic year, here are some recent additions for the popular science collection. You can find these and the rest of the ~600 books on the …
With the start of the new academic year, here are some recent additions for the popular science collection. You can find these and the rest of the ~600 books on the …
Fall may just be getting underway, but there were some important developments this summer regarding access to and publishing in scholarly journals. Here are the most important things to know. …
As part of the next phase of the Geisel Library Revitalization Initiative (GLRI), the UC San Diego Library is moving toward a single service point to make it easier for …
In this post, we’ll highlight other representations of the periodic system. “Developing a Modern Periodic Table: From Spirals to the Stars” highlights a few of these representations, including a 3D …
The first name that comes to mind is most likely Marie Skłodowska Curie, for her pioneering research in radioactivity, her co-discovery of the elements radium and polonium, and her Nobel Prizes. …
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today, …
As you may know, the University of California (UC) has been out of contract with the publisher Elsevier since January but, so far, the publisher has continued to provide access …
Need some summer reading? Start with some of our latest popular science books. You can find these and the rest of the ~500 books on the main (2nd) floor in …
Melvyl, the UC San Diego Library’s connection to library collections worldwide, is getting a new and improved look and feel on Wednesday, June 26! Melvyl is a library collections discovery …
Here we’ll highlight some articles and posts about Julius Lothar Meyer, whose first table of the elements was published five years before Mendeleev’s. Yet it’s Mendeleev’s name that is most …