Swain Library News

Germ Stories, by Arthur Kornberg

Over the years, Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg regaled his children and grandchildren with rhyming tales of the tiny beasties in the germ parade. Arthur’s poems and stories are now available for all in this beautifully rendered children’s picture book. Germ Stories will bring the microscopic world to life for the very youngest readers and grown ups alike with its richly imaginative narrations and its vividly rendered art and color photos.

All SULAIR libraries’ winter intersession and closure hours

Limited Services (Selected Details):

• Library Services: Circulation desks will be open for borrowing only. Searches for missing items, reference services and the processing of document delivery, interlibrary loans, holds, recalls, and course reserves will resume on Jan 3.
• Socrates: Due to major upgrade to Socrates (installing Unicode), many services delivered via Socrates will be unavailable.
  • Dec 21 – Jan 2: Socrates will be available for searching only. Request links for recalls, paging, etc. in Socrates will be unavailable.
  • From Dec 21–25, the Availability Status of items in Socrates will NOT be updated. Items which are available may appear as Checked Out, and some Checked Out items may appear as available. The Availability Status of all items will be updated on Dec 26.
• Document Delivery Services: while users can continue to submit requests, none will be processed from Dec 13 – Jan 2. Users should expect a delay in receiving requested materials. (This is also true for Interlibrary Borrowing and Research Library Cooperative Program Requests.)
• Paging Items from Storage: Paging Items from Stanford Auxiliary Libraries — no items will be paged Dec 21- Jan 2.
• Library Privileges Desk at Green: Library Privileges Desk and Loan Desk at Green will be open Dec 26–28, 31 and Jan 2 from 8am–5pm.

For more details, please see: Winter Closure Hours 2007–2008

• Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology (v. 1, 1971)–
• Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry (v. 55, 2000)–
• Advances in Catalysis (v. 45, 2000)–
• Advances in Chemical Engineering (v. 26, 2001)–
• Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry (v. 76, 2000)–
• Advances in Inorganic Chemistry (v. 50, 2000)–
• Advances in Organometallic Chemistry (v. 46, 2000)–
• Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry (v. 35, 2000)–
• Advances in Polymer Science (v. 1, 1958)–
• Advances in Protein Chemistry (v. 55, 2001)–
• Advances in Quantum Chemistry (v. 37, 2000)–
• Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology (v. 54, 2000)–
• Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry (v. 1, 2005)–
• Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry (v. 35, 2000)–
• Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy (v. 41, 2000)–
• Biotechnology Annual Review (v. 5, 2000)–
• Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry (v. 28, 1991)–
• New Comprehensive Biochemistry (v. 35, 2002)–
• Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science (v. 73, 1987)–
• Progress in Medicinal Chemistry (v. 41, 2003)–
• Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology (v. 64, 2000)–
• Progress in the Chemistry of Natural Organic Products (v. 88, 2007)–
• Springer Handbook of Enzymes (v. 25, 29; 2006)–
• Springer Series in Chemical Physics (v. 78, 2005)–
• Structure & Bonding (v. 8, 1970)–
• Topics in Current Chemistry (v. 1, 1949)–
• Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry (v. 1, 2006)–
• Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (v. 1, 2006)–
• Topics in Organometallic Chemistry (v. 1, 1998)–

Swain Library has updated its webpage on Off-Campus Access to Stanford Library Resources. The new page includes detailed instructions on how to use Citrix for off-campus access to databases such as SciFinder Scholar, Beilstein/Gmelin via Crossfire, Cambridge Structural Database, NIST Surface Structure Database (NIST SSD), and CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index).

Connotea is a free online reference management and social bookmarking service (see article at doi:10.1045/april2005-lund), that recognises and stores DOI names, enabling bookmarking a DOI name directly. Connotea will convert the DOI name to a web link and retrieve the citation information for that DOI name from CrossRef. The Connotea bookmarklet also allows users to highlight and bookmark a DOI name from within an article web page.

Swain Library has created a webpage about Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). The DOI system aims to assign permanent, unchanging identifiers to online content.

Swain Library will be operating under abbreviated hours during the Thanksgiving Break:

http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/

The 88th edition of the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now available online. In addition to the new and updated tables, it offers a foreword by Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate, and 59 tables that were previously in older editions of the Handbook.

The new web edition contains tables covering 5 new topics:

• Properties of Ionic Liquids
• Solubilities of Hydrocarbons in Sea Water
• Solubility of Organic Compounds in Superheated Water
• Nutritive Value of Foods
• Properties of Organic Semiconductors

And 7 of the most heavily used tables have been extensively revised and updated:

• Critical Constants
• Heats of Vaporization
• Aqueous Solubility of Organic Compounds
• Thermodynamic Properties of Air
• Dipole Moments of Molecules
• Bond Dissociation Energies
• Properties of Fundamental Particles

10 more tables have been made interactive and are now searchable by name, formula, and numerical properties.

Two new sections:

• Tables that were previously removed from older print editions for reasons of space — Appendix C
• Subject index giving you the same easy browsability as the print — Section 20

http://www.refworks.com/refworks/

A read-only RefWorks account lets you view items placed on reserve at Swain. Items are not added in real time, hence the designation “classic.”

To view items for a course:

• Go to “Folders” menu bar, choose “View” and then select course number
• To see current circulation status for an individual item, click on “Find It at Stanford” button

To create bibliography:

• Click on “Biblography” in menu bar
• Accept output style “Journal of Biological Chemistry”
• Leave radio button in “Format a Bibliography” from a “List of References”
• Choose type of file to create (e.g. HTML, Word) and then click on radio button for “References from Folder” and choose course number
• Press “Create Bibliography” button

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Except for Chemistry and Biology and the Tetrahedron Package, print subscriptions for all of Swain’s Elsevier journals were converted from “print plus online” to “online-only” subscriptions, effective January 2008. Freed funds are being used to provide online access to the titles below. Online holdings below are available now. Swain’s Journal List will be updated soon to reflect these changes.

Analytica Chimica Acta (v.1, 1947)–

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (v.244, 1969)–

European Polymer Journal (v.1, 1965)–

International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (v.176, 1998)–

Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (v.1, 1971)–

Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (v.1, 1957)–

Polyhedron (v.1, 1982)–

Topics in Catalysis (v.1, 1994)–