The 26th ed. (2009) of the American Men and Women of Science profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.

The National Technical Reports Library provides indexing and access to a collection of more than two million historical and current government technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service. Over 500,000 documents are available in full-text format.

Nanoscale is a new peer reviewed journal publishing experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology.  Nanoscale is a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing and leading nanoscience research centre, the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) in Beijing, China. – Publisher’s blurb.

Transportation Letters is a quarterly journal that publishes high-quality peer review and min-review papers as well as technical notes and book reviews on the state of the art in transportation research. The focus of Transportation Letters is on analytical and empirical findings, methodological papers, and theoretical and conceptual insights across all areas of research. – Publisher’s blurb.

Topic areas include, but are not limited to, applications in: aerospace systems, gas turbines, biotechnology, defense systems, electronic and photonic equipment, energy systems, manufacturing, refrigeration and air conditioning, homeland security systems, micro- and nanoscale devices, petrochemical processing, medical systems, energy efficiency, sustainability, and combustion systems. – Publisher’s blurb.

Acoustics Today contains tutorials, technical articles about and related to acoustics, and articles that expand upon presentations made at the Society’s biannual meetings. There are comments from the Society’s officers and short pieces highlighting the Society’s Technical Committees, Standards and Education Committees and Regional Chapters program. – Publisher’s blurb.

Northwestern University now has expanded access to portion of Web of Science.   The Science Citation Index has now been expanded to include coverage from 1945-154 (bringing coverage to 1945 to the present).  The coverage of the Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science has been expanded to include backfiles for 1990-2000.

Northwestern University now has access to all the title in the Elsevier ScienceDirect backfile package – Physical and Analytical Chemistry.   Access to the individual title is available through the Library’s ER, and will shortly be in NUcat.   Titles can also be accessed directly at ScienceDirect from campus computers.

The titles and coverage are:

Provides readers with relevant theoretical frameworks and latest technical and institutional solutions for transcoding multimedia in mobile and wireless networks. Addresses the transcoding of all multimedia elements including video, audio and text, while addressing both practical and theoretical problems in the field. – Publisher’s blurb.

Mobile Multimedia Communications captures defining research on all aspects and implications of the accelerated progress of mobile multimedia technologies. Topics include fundamental network infrastructures, modern communication features such as wireless and mobile multimedia protocols, personal communication systems, mobility and resource management, and security and privacy issues. – Publisher’s blurb.