April 11, 2006

See and Hear Birds of North America Online

Access to the pictures and sounds of more than 700 species of birds is now possible using the online Birds of North America. This collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Academy of Natural Sciences has an 18-volume print counterpart, completed in 2002. The online edition includes new additions since then.

The database can be searched by bird name or by topic word and can also be browsed using either a taxonomic group or alphabetical name. Bibliographies are included in these life histories and the birds covered are those who nest in the U.S. or Canada. Many details of birds are included.

Explore this resource for information such as the singing territorial male house wren, the call of a female rufous-sided towhee, or pictures of a cliff swallow at its nest or a female scarlet tanager bathing. An account of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker is found in its video clips.

At Kline Science Library a pair of headphones may be checked out and used at the assistive technology workstation in the reading room. Access Birds of North America at http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA.

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March 17, 2006

Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry online

The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry presents articles in alphabetical order, but the content has been slightly reorganized to allow browsing of the following subject areas: Main Group Elements; Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Solid State, Materials, Nanomaterials and Catalysis; and General Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Methods.


This tool also provides keyword searching across all entries.


Access the
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry.

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September 29, 2005

Electronic Materials Information Service (EMIS) Datareviews series

September 29, 2005

Electronic materials property data available online

The library provides full text access to a variety of engineering reference books through the Knovel service. If you need information about properties of materials you may be interested in the following new additions. We also have the print versions of most of these books in the library.


Access Knovel at http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/My_Books.jsp


Knovel is pleased to announce the release of the entire Electronic Materials Information Service (EMIS) Datareviews series, published by IEE. This series offers guidance on the most appropriate materials to
use for particular applications, based entirely on input from experts in the field. According to the Engineering Science and Education Journal, "There is a great deal of factual information in this [series] that cannot be obtained easily from other sources. The authors are all renowned scientists from the world's most important research facilities in both the public and industrial sectors."


The titles that comprise the EMIS Datareviews series include:


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November 15, 2004

Online books listing

Online Books

Thousands of e-books are now available to the Yale community. To search for selected science e-books go to: http://http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/engebooks.html

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Safari (computing book)

Safari Online Books

Safari Tech Books is a collection of full text online books on subjects in computing and information technology. The collection currently includes 125 titles published mainly by O'Reilly. Example titles include:


Database Design for Mere Mortals
C++ Primer Plus, 4th Edition
Programming Perl, 3rd Edition

Access Safari

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