Swain Library News

The Largest Collection of Expert Evaluated Organic Synthetic Methods in the World Available Online

Science of Synthesis provides highly evaluated chemical information from leading experts in a concise and selective manner. It contains comprehensive coverage of the whole field of organic chemistry based on all published and readily available sources from the early 1800s until the year of publication.

Clear and systematic, Science of Synthesis provides practical solutions and offers a route through the mass of information available in the primary literature. This one-stop reference tool is:

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Reaxys is based on the combined content of CrossFire Beilstein (Organic Chemistry), Crossfire Gmelin (Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry), and the Patent Chemistry Database. Searchable via a web interface, Reaxys contains an extensive repository of experimentally validated data that chemists need including structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties. Users can get relevant data not found elsewhere, drawn from source publications carefully selected for their importance and relevance to synthetic chemists.

Features include:

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Unauthorized access to SciFinder Scholar and other licensed resources has increased substantially in recent months at U.S. universities, including Stanford.

Compromised SUNet IDs and proxy servers appear to be the primary routes being used for illegally accessing licensed content.

• Users are strongly encouraged to change their password regularly (at least once every three months) to limit possible abuse of passwords that may have been compromised without the user’s knowledge. Passwords should be chosen so that they are not easily guessable; e.g., not be based on the user’s name or birth date.
• If you have set up proxy access to your computer, please make sure that access to it is secure.

  As you may know, it was possible to search SciFinder Scholar via CDSERVER. This afternoon I had SciFinder removed from the list of resources available on CDSERVER to help address unauthorized access. The MDL Crossfire Commander client software was also removed from CDSERVER (due to licensing language that prohibits the software from being networked). Both SciFinder and Crossfire are available on- and off-campus through web interfaces.

  Please see: Swain’s Databases page

Thank you very much for your support and efforts to help keep digital resources licensed by the Stanford Libraries available to the campus community. When access to resources becomes compromised, providers may block access to an individual or the entire campus and sometimes it takes weeks before access is restored.

Please feel free to contact the librarian if you have any questions or would like to discuss further.

Invitation for Younger Chemists to Participate in a Focus Group

Three focus groups will be held at the Swain Library next Monday, March 9th, at 10:30 am, 1:30 pm, and 3:30 pm.  Each session will last an hour and snacks will be provided. Please let me know by noon Friday (3/6) if you are interested in attending a session. Dave Martinsen who works in Strategic Planning and Analysis in ACS Publications will be leading these sessions.

ACS is investigating emerging technologies on the Internet and their potential applications in the journal publication and delivery environment. As part of this study, ACS is looking at the strategies that younger chemists employ when navigating and using chemical literature on the Web, as well as other technologies they are using to carry out their scientific research.

Many thanks for considering this request.  I hope that some of you have time to attend.

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WorldWideScience.org now searches 52 databases and portals from 56 countries. The three latest resources are Sri Lanka Journals Online, Indonesia Journals Online, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN Document Server.

WorldWideScience.org is intended to accelerate international scientific progress by serving as a single, sophisticated point of access for diverse scientific resources and expertise from nations around the world.
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About: The NTIS National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) guarantees libraries and technical information professionals easy access and perpetual availability to the full text of documents from the National Technical Information Service’s comprehensive collection of federally-funded technical reports.

The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. The NTRL offers access to these authenticated government technical reports to libraries and technical information users.

Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors

Text below is from Chemical & Engineering News > Science & Technology > Digital Briefs
February 2, 2009, Volume 87, Number 05, p. 32

“Chemists, chemistry students, and science writers, rejoice! The free Chemistry Dictionary for Word Processors v2.0 is now available for download at www.chemistry-blog.com/dictionary.
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Text below is from ACS LiveWire Vol. 10, Issue 2: February 2009

As a service to the scientific research community and in keeping with our commitment to the rapid dissemination of scientific information, ACS Publications has introduced a pilot program in which authors publishing in four select journals may choose to publish “Just Accepted” manuscripts within 3 days of acceptance.

Authors publishing new research in ACS Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, Journal of Proteome Research, and Molecular Pharmaceutics may elect to have their accepted, unredacted manuscript published online as a “Just Accepted” manuscript. “Just Accepted” manuscripts appear in full as PDF documents accompanied by an HTML abstract and are accessible to all readers.
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The Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) are unique hybrid publications that combine the most powerful features of online reference works and review journals, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research and education. From nanotechnology to climate change, the WIREs reflect the diversity and collaborative nature of modern science.

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The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

About Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities^TM
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