Swain Library News

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

New, Important – Read Online Version for Free!

Publishers Description:
As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data; standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation; restrictions on data sharing that reduce the ability of researchers to verify results and build on previous research; and huge increases in the amount of data being generated, creating severe challenges in preserving that data for long-term use.

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InfoTherm — the World’s Biggest (Single) Database with Thermophysical Data

Should Swain license this database? Please send comments to graceb@stanford.edu

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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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Take a sneak peak at resources about periodic tables compiled in support of National Chemistry Week 2009. Andrea Twiss-Brooks, Chemistry Librarian at University of Chicago, compiled the list of books and videos, and Grace Baysinger, Swain Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Librarian, compiled the list of online resources.

MOPAC2009™ is a general-purpose semi-empirical quantum mechanics package for the study of chemical properties and reactions in gas, solution, or solid-state. This premier molecular computation application features a number of widely-used, semi-empirical methods and allows you to compute properties and perform energy minimizations, optimize to transition states, and compute properties. It supports MOPAC sparkles, has an improved user interface, and provides faster calculations.

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CambridgeSoft is pleased to announce the new feature-packed release of ChemBioOffice 2010, featuring ChemBioDraw 12 and STATISTICA! ChemBioOffice 2010’s three core applications — ChemBioDraw, ChemBio3D and ChemBioViz — remain the heart of the ChemBioOffice Ultra 2010 suite. Among the new developments in each are:

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Tufte, Edward R. Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006.

Swain Library P93.5 .T84 2006

Montgomery, Scott L. The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Swain Library T10.5 .M65 2003

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Save money by getting your posters printed at the Meyer Library. Prints are $50 each and must be prepaid for at the Tech Desk using the Stanford CardPlan.

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