November 9, 2009 – February 12, 2010

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s revolutionary book, On the Origin of Species, the University Libraries and the Buffalo & Erie County present Darwin: The Origin of Influence, a collaborative exhibition of rare books and archival materials which examines Darwin’s personal and scientific precedents and reveals his influence on post-Origin literary works.

Darwin: The Origin of Influence offers an opportunity to explore and understand Darwin’s research and discoveries while providing a glimpse into his life and those who influenced him. The exhibition also reveals Darwin’s broad impact on society and culture as manifested in creative literature appearing in the latter 19th century and continuing today.

• Choose a Topic
• Find Books (and other materials)
• Find Articles (from Databases and E-Journals)
• Find Scholarly Information

Become familiar with other aspects of research, such as citation styles or evaluating resources by using the Research Tips Site Index to go directly to that particular page.

The Genomics Revolution and Personalized Medicine
Dr. Daniel A. Brazeau, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Friday, November 20, 2009, 6-9pm
Austin Flint Main Reading Room
Health Sciences Library, South Campus

Progam information and reservation form available.

Exhibit opening with program and reception

DATE: October 23, 2009 from 4PM-7PM
LOCATION  Special Collections Research Room
420 Capen Hall, North Campus

The exhibit and its opening program/reception are free and open to the public.

Buffalo native Spain Rodriguez is a pioneering underground comix giant,  known for his explicit and politically explosive art. Best known for his anarchistic comic character, Trashman, a superhero of the working classes, his work portrays a dystopian future America. The exhibit features extensive original artwork loaned by the artist, photographs of the Road Vultures motorcycle gang in 1960s Buffalo, and a retrospective of his underground comix.

Exhibit Opening Program:

4:00PM – Presentations:

• “Big Bitch and Wonder Woman Mudwrestle in Heaven: Graphic Femininity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation.” Cait Keegan, Ph.D. candidate,  American Studies.
• “A Tragic Overview of Underground Comix.” Tim Bryant, Ph.D. candidate,  English.

5:15PM – Introduction by Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor.

5:30PM – Question & Answer session with Spain Rodriguez moderated by Michael R. Lavin, University Libraries.

A reception will follow lasting until 7:00PM.

For more information see the News Release from the UB News Center or contact Michael Lavin.

More of a visual learner? Take a look at this video: Open Access 101.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) created Open Access Week to “to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public.” This year’s Open Access Week is supported by SPARC, The Public Library of Science, Students for Free Culture, Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook, Open Access Directory, and Electronic Information for Libraries.

You can find out more by visiting the UB Libraries Scholarly Communication web page on Open Access, picking up a handout at any of the UB Libraries Reference Desks and reading the Electronic Highways column in this week’s Reporter.

List of Cancellations (HTML)

Decisions were made following consultation with appropriate and associated schools and individual faculty.  Such cuts are necessitated by the inability of the Libraries’ acquisitions budget to cover the rising costs of scholarly information and by the need to cull lesser-used materials in order to buy new items that are in high demand.  This list is multidisciplinary and arranged in alphabetical order by title.  While it does not come easily or naturally to us to cancel subscriptions, we feel that we have been able to work our way through a difficult budgetary year doing only minimal damage to the collections on which you depend.  Further, we are confident that efficient interlibrary loan and purchase-on-demand capabilities that have been greatly enhanced in recent years by computer technologies allow us to compensate quickly when you need something we do not own. On behalf of the Libraries, I would like to thank you for your continuing support, cooperation, and input.  If you have questions or concerns regarding individual titles, please contact Austin Booth habooth@buffalo.edu, 645-2814 ext 422.

Stephen Roberts, Associate Vice President for University Libraries

Although the web version does not require any special software, the vendor does require individual registration. This quick and simple process is described at our UB/CAS SciFinder Registration Site at <http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/scifinder-web.html>. Your UB email address must be used during registration.

Please note Chemical Abstracts Service has stopped development work on the special client access program that we have used since 2000.  Compelling reasons for this migration include the ability to save searches and run them against new records as they are added to the database (Keep me posted), and increased security.

Please contact our chemistry/physics librarian, A. Ben Wagner at <abwagner@buffalo.ed> with any questions or concerns. For more information about SciFinder Web, see http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=438

UB Alert H1N1 Information
http://emergency.buffalo.edu/h1n1.php

Center for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/

Influenza Evidence-Based Information Portal
http://www.ebscohost.com/flu/