Swain Library News

Google Books rolled out a handful of new features in June. A new toolbar option allows you to embed a preview in any of your websites or blogs — all with a simple HTML snippet. For public domain and partner books, Google Books shows more context around search terms, including an image from the part of the page on which it appears. A new thumbnail view button in the toolbar provides an overview (above) of all the pages in a public-domain book or in a magazine. Other features include a contents drop-down menu and plain-text mode, page turn button and animation, and improved book overview page.

New Features of ICSD Web

• New and extended information about ICSD including complete Help information.
• Enhanced search functionality: easy to use and intuitive search interface.
• Easy analysis of large and complex data sets.
• Simple and powerful query management: load, modify and save queries.
• Personalization/User Profiles for IP access based accounts.

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Streaming Audio Available from Stanford’s Music Library

• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Database of Recorded American Music
• Naxos Music Library Jazz
• Naxos Music Library
• Smithsonian Global Sound

Fans of Rock and Roll Music should check out Wolfgang’s Vault

The Internet Archive also has more than 65,000 live concerts archived on their site

Common Chemistry™ from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a web resource that contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest. Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Registry Number® of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of information. The CAS Registry Number is the universally recognized unique identifier of chemical substances and is often found on packaging and on articles of commerce.

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Bytesize Science

Watch the latest episode to find out how scientists are developing “super paper” that is stronger than cast iron and which may someday lead to a new kind of bullet proof vest.
Source: E-lements of Communication by ACS.

If you’re unable to join the Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium, featuring Nobel Prize winners Jean-Marie Lehn and Richard Schrock, you can still participate on-line.

The virtual conference gives you access to real-time web-casts of selected presentations and posters over the three days of the Symposium. You can also visit virtual exhibitor booths, take part in scheduled chat sessions and network with other online delegates.

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Access all the chemical hazard information you need for your workplace and the environment in one convenient location.

Databases in the collection include: CHEMINFO, CESARS, CHRIS, DSL/NDSL (Domestic Substance List, HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), New Jersey Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets, NIOSH Pocket Guide, Transport TDG, Transport 49CFR.

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Federal R&D Project Summaries

Search across scientific databases of federal research and development project summaries. With a single query, discover what is happening in the Federal R&D community.
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The testing ground for the Journal of the American Chemical Society website

JACS Beta presents, encourages, and facilitates innovations and new approaches to the presentation of chemical and related research to further communication and understanding as emerging fields and disciplines blend at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, and beyond.
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