Georgia Tech Library News

The Georgia Tech Library announces Flash in the Pan 2007, an animation challenge. The contest is open to all current Georgia Tech undergraduate and graduate students.

Prizes include a free Wacom tablet, Adobe software packages, and more. Guest judges include industry professionals from Homestar Runner, Adobe, Turner/Cartoon Network, and Marvel & Darkhorse comics.

Check out the contest website for complete contest details.

The Library is hosting a week of events to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution (September 17th, 1787). Check the Library Calendar for events like voter registration, presentations on wiretapping, and screenings of a documentary on the Constitution.

View the flyer | View the Constitution Day Q&As

9/14/07 7:08 pm: FindIt is now back up and functioning properly.

FindIt is currently down, affecting the eJournals search page and linking to eJournals from within sources such as databases and GIL.

An update will be posted once the problem has been resolved.

Thanks for your patience.

Due to site maintenance, Royal Society of Chemistry journals will be unavailable from 4:00 pm EDT on Saturday, 9/1 to 12:00 noon on Sunday, 9/2. Please be aware in case you experience problems or receive questions about RSC title access during this time.

SciFinder Scholar 2007 Windows and Mac clients are now available for downloading from the Library web page. Clients are compatible with Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4.

SciFinder Scholar 2007 new features include: [more info]

• Categorize your reference answer set
• Combine answer sets
• Export commercial chemical records into Excel answer sets
• Explore from substance displays
• Print structures in a grid layout

UPDATE: Webauth is now back up, so access to electronic journals and databases has been restored.

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4:45 pm: Due to a power outage at OIT, Webauth is currently down, so users are currently unable to authenticate for access to the library’s electronic journals and databases.

OIT expects to have the problem remedied shortly. An update will be posted when access has been restored.

Please see below regarding a problem with FirstSearch databases and WorldCat.

——- Original Message ——–
Subject: [Galileo] FirstSearch and WorldCat Concurrent User Messages
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:51:52 -0400
From: Katie Gohn <katie.gohn@usg.edu>
To: GALILEO Users <galileo@mailbox.gsu.edu>

Katie
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Katie Gohn
GALILEO Support Services

ProQuest databases will be unavailable from 10:00 pm this Saturday night (7/21) to 10:00 am this Sunday morning (7/22).

Affected databases of greatest interest to GT users are

ABI Inform
Research Library
ProQuest Newspapers
Dissertation Abstracts
Hoover’s Company Capsules

See below for full details.

——- Original Message ——–
Subject: [Galileo] ProQuest and SIRS databases unavailable Saturday, 7-21 to Sunday, 7-22
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:29:25 -0400
From: Katie Gohn <katie.gohn@usg.edu>
To: GALILEO Users <galileo@mailbox.gsu.edu>

Dear GALILEO Users,

ProQuest has scheduled a twelve-hour system maintenance beginning
Saturday, July 21, 2007, at 10:00 PM to Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:00
AM. During this maintenance, access to ProQuest databases available
through GALILEO will be unavailable. These include:

-ProQuest Platform
(ABI Inform, Research Library, ProQuest Newspapers, Dissertation
Abstracts, and Hoover’s Company Capsules)
-SIRS Platform
(SIRS Researcher and Discoverer, Discoverer WebFind, SKS WebSelect, and
SIRS Interactive Citizenship)

ProQuest has scheduled this maintenance to install many new and exciting
enhancements to their interfaces and products. See the note from
ProQuest below for details on these enhancements.

If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO’s
Contact Us feature or contact OIIT Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/status/. Information about the GALILEO
mailing list is available at:

http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/news/list.phtml

Please encourage others at your institution to subscribe.

Thanks,

Katie
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Katie Gohn
GALILEO Support Services

FindIt functionality may be limited tomorrow night/early Saturday morning, due to network maintenance, 11pm-7am.

Please be aware in case you experience problems or receive questions about the eJournal/A-Z list results or FindIt buttons/links not working properly during this time.

Full details below….

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: [Galileo] UGA Network Maintenance, June 29, 2007
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:58:45 -0400
From: Dave Falke <dave.falke@usg.edu>
To: Galileo@mailbox.gsu.edu

Dear GALILEO Users,

PeachNet has scheduled network maintenance at the University of Georgia on [Friday] June 29, 2007, 11:00 p.m., until Saturday, June 30, 2007, 7:00 [a.m.]

Due to this maintenance, certain portions of GALILEO may become unavailable briefly and intermittently, including:
- Georgia Library Catalogs page, GALILEO Help, including Quick Help, and About GALILEO
- SFX/Find IT services hosted at UGA (sites affected: University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Agnes Scott University, University of West Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia)
- Digital Library of Georgia databases and other GALILEO locally hosted databases
- GALILEO Usage Statistics Reporting Tool

If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO’s Contact Us feature or contact OIIT Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at: http://www.usg.edu/galileo/status/. Information about the GALILEO mailing list is available at http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/news/list.phtml

Please encourage others at your institution to subscribe.

Thanks,
Dave

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Dave Falke
GALILEO Support Services

Full-text, extensive collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of Congress. It contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide range of subjects, dating back to 1789. More than 300,000 documents (11 million pages) from 1789 to 1969 are included in this digital collection of the Serial Set.