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Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) has renewed its campus-wide site license to ChemBioOffice Ultra 2008 (Windows). ChemBioDraw is also available in a Mac version. This ultimate chemistry & biology suite is designed to meet the needs of both chemists and biologists. ChemBioOffice 2008 includes ChemBioDraw Ultra 11.0, MestReC Std, ChemScript Pro 11.0, ChemBio3D Ultra 11.0, Chem3D interfaces to Schrödinger’s Jaguar and Gaussian, GAMESS Pro 11.0, ChemFinder Ultra 11.0, with support for Oracle, ChemBioViz Ultra 11.0, BioAssay Ultra 11.0, Inventory Ultra 11.0, E-Notebook Ultra 11.0, ChemDraw/Excel, and CombiChem/Excel, the ChemDraw and Chem3D ActiveX Pro Plugins & Controls, as well as a collection of databases: ChemINDEX (Index, RXN, NCI & AIDS) and 1-year subscriptions to ChemACX and ePub. ChemBioOffice Ultra 2008 adds the BioAssay and Inventory applications, ChemBioViz, ChemFinder support for the CS Oracle Cartridge, and a 1-year subscription to ChemACX to the ChemOffice Ultra 2008 suite. *(W = Windows Only)
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In Fall 2008, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases were enhanced with content from Wiley reaction collections. These evaluated collections represent respected reference works, and inclusion of these reactions offer access to important older reaction information, along with links to Wiley InterScience full-text articles that describe these reactions in depth.
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Library Planning Process Established by Faculty Senate

On November 13, 2008, Stanford’s Faculty Senate voted to initiate a planning process for the libraries. A team is now being established to undertake this two-year process, which will focus on the recommendations put forward by the Committee on Libraries’s (C-LIB) Subcommittee on Digital Information Technologies in the Research Library Environment at Stanford. That subcommittee was convened in 2007 to review issues arising from the impending demolition of Meyer library, particularly the impact on collections written in non-Roman characters.
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There will be one more orientation tour this year for graduate students, faculty, and postdocs in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering who want to have access to the Swain Library when it is closed. No advance signup is required. Just show up at Swain’s circulation desk at:

Thursday, December 18, 3–4 p.m.

Related information:

• After-hours access policies
• 2008 Intersession and Winter Closure Hours for Swain
• Off-Campus Access Instructions for e-Resources
• Web Form to Report Connection Problems for e-Resources

Please remember to turn off lights and close all windows after accessing/using Swain library if you are the last person leaving the library.

Many thanks for your help in keeping energy costs down and in keeping the library safe.