Graphical abstracts of new synthetic advances
Methods in Organic Synthesis (MOS) is an alerting service covering the most important current developments in organic synthesis. It is designed with the synthetic organic chemist in mind, providing informative reaction schemes and covering new reactions and new methods.
The information is available in a printed publication containing around 200 new reaction schemes each month as a text-searchable web database. The service covers such topics as:
Graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis research
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions is available as a monthly, printed bulletin containing around 200 graphical abstracts each month, indexed by reaction under study and by catalytic method.
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions online contains all items published in the print publication since its launch in January 2002. Access is free to those subscribing to the print publication at the full, institutional rate. Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions offers:
The Materials Module of Mercury provides software for aiding the discovery of new pharmaceutical crystal forms. It utilizes the unique information about crystal packing in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) as a knowledge base for identifying and analyzing crystal-packing motifs. The module enables novel motif searches and analyses of the CSD that are applicable to problems such as:
ChemgaPedia is the most comprehensive curricular encyclopedia for chemistry. The German version features more than 15,000 pages with 25,000 media elements, 900 exercises as well as 3,500 glossary and biography entries for the following subjects: chemistry, biology, pharmacy, mathematics, and physics. The translation of the entire content is still in process. More than 100 learning units are currently available in English. See: ChemgaPedia overview
ChemgaPedia is the centerpiece of CHEMGAROO Educational Systems by FIZ CHEMIE Berlin.
Trial access to ISI’s Essential Science Indicators
Trial access allows 5 simultaneous users only, so ISI recommends log-off after use. An annual subscription would cost about $16,000 per year. Is it worth the money?
Which interface you prefer for searching Chemical Abstracts Online: SciFinder on the web or SciFinder Scholar?
Please send comments to graceb@stanford.edu by February 25, 2008.
I was so excited about structure searching being integrated into the Web of Science that I sent out a note about this before I had actually tried it. To make a long story short, unless we subscribe to Index Chemicus and/or Current Chemical Reactions, we cannot do structure searching in the Web of Science.
Even though we are unable to search Index Chemicus or Current Chemical Reactions, we are able to view brief records from these two databases through the DiscoveryGate interface. The brief record format includes the journal citation.
RecycleMania is a friendly competition among college and university recycling programs in the United States that provides the campus community with a fun, proactive activity in waste reduction. Over a 10-week period, campuses compete in different contests to see which institution can collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate.
In August 2007, the University of California recently released a survey of UC faculty on their attitudes and practices regarding scholarly communication. The survey results suggested that while faculty express a need for change in current scholarly communications systems, they have been slow in changing their personal strategies and have chosen traditional publishing behaviors. The survey results also reveal faculty attitudes and behaviors towards tenure and review processes, copyright, university policies related to scholarly communication, and more. More information and download the entire report.
Source: The Charleston Report — September/October 2007, page 3.
Includes over 7 million authors and over 17 million publications from nearly 900 repositories.
ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge. These are the valuable sources for the ScientificCommons.org project. The ScientificCommons.org project makes it possible to access the largely distributed sources with their vast amount of scientific publications via just one common interface. ScientificCommons.org identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transparent and visible to anyone across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries.
Core functions and aims of the project for now and the future are to provide the identification of repositories, the indexing of full-text documents, the extraction of author relationships and personalization services.
