Mercer Library would like to officially welcome all patrons back for the Spring 2005 Semester.  It looks to be an exciting spring, as classes in Bull Run Hall are in full swing and departments are getting settled into their new quarters.  Mercer Library has been preparing for the start of classes by processing new titles, shifting of all Reference and Circulating materials, and an inventory of all library owned items.  The Reference staff has been hard at work developing additional library instruction sessions.  In addition, Mercer Library has seen growth, both in head count numbers, and in document fulfillment requests, including Interlibrary Loan materials, WRLC requests, and InterCampus Lending.  Please stop by to utilize all these resources and more this semester!

The first snowflakes have fallen on campus, the wind is clanging bells, and the pond is frozen!  Yes, it's time to prepare for the winter weather!  The Prince William Campus is located to the west of the Fairfax Campus, and therefore may see more inclement weather.  It is always a good idea to be cautious of the road conditions and the weather forecasts.  In addition to watching local news reports, don't forget to review GMU's Procedure 2207.  The University's main information line, (703) 993-1000 is kept up to date with all closings and cancellations.  Keep warm & safe this winter!
 

Mercer Library Hours
SPRING SEMESTER 2005
 

January 24 - May 7
Monday - Thursday	8:00am - 10:00pm
Friday	8:00am - 7:00pm
Saturday	9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday	Noon - 5:00pm

Not sure how to find and use library information resources?  This class will acquaint you with the basic elements of the research process and introduce you to the GMU library system, available electronic resources, and how to organize and evaluate information.

Classes are held in the Mercer Library (Occoquan Bldg.), Rm. 104J.  If your schedule does not allow you to attend the class you want, please call 993-8348 to arrange an individual appointment.  Classes are approximately 90 minutes long.
 

• Wednesday, February 9, 3:00-4:30pm
• Thursday, February 17, 12:00-1:30pm
• Monday, February 21, 1:30-3:00pm

• Administration of Justice
• Biological Sciences
• Education
• Information Technology and Engineering
• Recreation & Health
• Tourism

 Alpert, Geoffrey P. and Roger G. Dunham.
Understanding police use of force : offers, suspects, and reciprocity.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8080.A6 U53 2004
 

Coston, Charisse Tia Maria, 1958-
Victimizing vulnerable groups : images of unique high-risk crime targets.
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6250.25.V523 2004
 

Culver, Leigh, 1971-
Adapting police services to new immigration.
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV7936.P8 C844 2004
 

Gardner, Ross M.
Practical crime scene processing and investigation.
Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8073.G32 2005
 

King, Gilbert, 1962-
Dirty bomb : weapon of mass disruption.
New York, NY : Chamberlain Bros., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6431.K56 2004
 

Rostow, Cary D. and Robert D. Davis.
A handbook for psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations in law enforcement.
New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press : Haworth Reference Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV7936.P75 R68 200
 

Shoham, Shlomo G. and Paul Knepper, ed.
Tradition and innovation in crime and criminal justice.
Willowdale, Ont. : de Sitter Publications, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV7131.18 I85 v.8
 

Cabibbo, Andrea and Richard P. Grant, and Manuela Helmer-Citterich, ed.
The internet for cell and molecular biologists.
Wymondham : Horizon Scientific, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH585.5.D38 I57 2004
 

Cooper, Geoffrey M. and Robert E. Hausman.
The cell : a molecular approach.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press ; Sunderland, Mass. : Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH581.2.C66 2004 c.2
 

Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
Biotechnology and the future of society : challenges and opportunities.
Abu Dhabi : Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TP248.14.B565 2004
 

Goldman, Robert D. and David Spector, ed.
Live cell imaging : a laboratory manual.
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH583.2.L485 2005
 

Pollack, Gerald H.
Cells, gels and the engines of life : a new, unifying approach to cell function.
Seattle, WA : Ebner & Sons, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH631.P65 2001
 

Scott, Doug, 1944-
The enduring wilderness.
Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH76.S396 2004
 

Stewart, C. Neal.
Genetically modified planet : environmental impacts of genetically engineering plants.
New York : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
SB123.57.S74 2004
 

Strauss, Steve H. and H.D. (Toby) Bradshaw, ed.
The bioengineered forest : challenges for science and society.
Washington, DC : Resources For the Future, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
SD387.B55 B56 2004
 

Cox, Carole, 1943-
Teaching language arts : a student- and response- centered classroom.
Boston : Pearson Allyn and Bacon, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1576.C755 2005
 

Jensen, Mary M.
Introduction to emotional and behavioral disorders : recognizing and managing problems in the classroom.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC4165.J45 2005
 

Peacock, Alan.
Eco-literacy for primary schools.
Stoke on Trent, UK ; Sterling, VA : Trentham, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GE70.P433 2004
 

Probst, Robert E.
Response & analysis : teaching literature in secondary school.
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
PN70.P76 2004
 

Sousa, David A.
How the brain learns to read.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1573.S7845 2005
 

Wilson, Darlene Anderson, 1935-
Strategies for classroom management, K-6 : making magic happen.
Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Education, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB3013.W545 2004
 

Wood, Julie M.
Literacy online : new tools for struggling readers and writers.
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1576.7.W66 2004
 

LaVan, David A., ed.
Micro- and nonsystems : symposium held December 1-3, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Warrendale, PA : Materials Research Society, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK7875.M45 2004
 

Romberg, Thomas A.
Standards-based mathematics assessment in middle school : rethinking classroom practice.
New York : Teachers College Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA13.S7 2004
 

Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia.
Biostatistics and epidemiology : a primer for health and biomedical professionals.
New York : Springer-Verlag, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA652.2.M3.W37 2004
 

Aitchison, Cara.
Gender and leisure : social and cultural perspectives.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV183.A48 2003
 

Crawford, Garry.
Consuming sport : fans, sport and culture.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G715.C73 2004
 

Kaptein, Ad and John Weinman, ed.
Health psychology.
Malden, Mass. : BPS Blackwell, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
R726.7.H433 2004
 

McKelvey, G. Richard, 1935-
All bat, no glove : a history of the designated hitter.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV869.2.M34 2004
 

Modeste, Naomi N. and Teri S. Tamayose, ed.
Dictionary of public health promotion and education : terms and concepts.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA440.5.M634 2004
 

Rew, Lynn.
Adolescent health : a multidisciplinary approach to theory, research, and intervention.
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RJ102.R49 2005
 

Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler.
Paradise laborers : hotel work in the global economy.
Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HD8039.H8 A35 2004
 

Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
Deconstructing travel : cultural perspectives on tourism.
Walnut Creek : Altamira Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 B435 2004
 

Cohen, Erik.
Contemporary tourism: diversity and change.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 C494 2004
 

Hopper, Kim and Ernest Cook.
The Trust for Public Land's conservation finance handbook : how communities are paying for parks and land conservation.
San Francisco, Calif. : Trust for Public Land, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
SB486.F54 H677 2004
 

Pritchard, Morgan, ed.
Destination branding : creating the unique destination proposition.
Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 D4778 2004
 

Ritchie, Brent W. and Daryl Adair.
Sport tourism : interrelationships, impacts and issues.
Clevedon, England ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Channel View Publications, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 S6285 2004
 

Van Der Wagen, Lynn and Brenda R. Carlos.
Event management : for tourism, cultural, business, and sporting events.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GT3403.V38 2005 

Public Library of Science

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians who have initiated an open access scientific publishing venture. PLOS journals are managed by professional editors and the contributing authors are experts in their scientific fields. Currently, two peer-reviewed journals are available: PLOS Biology, which began in October 2003, and PLOS Medicine, which began in October 2004. These online journals provide full-text, searchable archives of high-impact, original research articles, essays ands case reports written by international scientists and scholars. All articles are available for immediate, unrestricted open access, without limitations on subsequent use. PLOS Biology also offers an e-mail content alert service of new research articles which are published weekly. Researchers can access this new database through the Databases heading on the GMU Libraries HomePage, alphabetically or under the heading General Science.
 

University Libraries Online Access to Cell Press Journals

University Libraries announces online access to Cell, a major journal on developments in moledular biology, and to seven other premier journals of the Cell Press collection, including: Cancer Cell, Chemistry & Biology, Current Biology, Immunity, Neuron, Molecular Cell, and Structure.  The University Libraries' subscription offers access to the current and archived full-text and PDF files of the Cell Press journal articles.  Users may either search individual journals or search all available issues across multiple Cell Press journals.  Access is available to all Mason users through the E-journal Finder as well as the Mason Catalog located on the Libraries' website (http://library.gmu.edu).

In addition, Cell Press is providing free access to the online archive of the Cell Press collection beginning this month.  Of interest to the worldwide biomedical research community, the free archive includes content that is 12 months old (or older) and is available on both ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) and on the Cell Press journal sites (http://www.cellpress.com).

For more information, please contact Victoria Shelton, Life Science Liaison Librarian, at vshelton@gmu.edu or 993-8347.

EI Compendex

From the Libraries' website, we now have access to the engineering database, EI Compendex (Engineering Village 2) from Elsevier.  The link to EI Compendex has been added to the Database Wizard, both to the alphabetical and subject (Engineering and Technology) lists.  The database from Elsevier offers many enhanced services and features.  With the Compendex database from Elsevier, we have access to 18 additional years of coverage, going back to 1969.  The EV2 interface search features include Quick SEarch, Expert Search, eBook Search, and Thesaurus.

LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News

LexisNexis has launched a free online resource called LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News (http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/), which provides updated news stories on the Bush administration, notable political figures, Iraq, and more from over 4,000 U.S. and International news sources.  Special coverage on the Tsumani Disaster is currently featured on the site.  This site is the successor of their popular Campaign 2004 site, which provided news and information on Election 2004 candidates and issues surrounding the election.