Swain Library News

Due to an increase in SUNet IDs being stolen and then used to gain illegal access to library resources and software licensed by Swain, it has become necessary to require users to physically come into the Swain Library and show their Stanford ID in order to get a code or license key. Products affected include:

• ACD Spectral/Physical Properties Software
• Beilstein Crossfire
• Cambridge Structural Database
• DIADEM/DIPPR 801 Database

Exceptions:

• PyMOL only uses IP address to authenticate users.
• SciFinder Scholar site.prf files are available on the server when you download the client software.

We also ask that you do not redistribute passwords or license keys to others.

Are you applying for tenure, promotion or a new job? Do you want to include evidence of the impact of your research? Is your work cited in journals which are not ISI listed? Then you might want to try Publish or Perish, designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.

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Google Books rolled out a handful of new features in June. A new toolbar option allows you to embed a preview in any of your websites or blogs — all with a simple HTML snippet. For public domain and partner books, Google Books shows more context around search terms, including an image from the part of the page on which it appears. A new thumbnail view button in the toolbar provides an overview (above) of all the pages in a public-domain book or in a magazine. Other features include a contents drop-down menu and plain-text mode, page turn button and animation, and improved book overview page.

Chapter 1 — Writing a Scientific Paper (2nd Edition)
This chapter is a general guide to writing a scientific paper. Specific guidelines for text length, preparation of figures and tables, and instructions on how to submit your paper differ from journal to journal and publisher to publisher.

Chapter 14 — References (3rd Edition)
This chapter presents style conventions for citing references within a manuscript and for listing complete reference citations. Many of the references in the examples were created to illustrate a style point under discussion; they may not be real references.

Magnetic Resonance Online Texts

This well-organized and very thorough website was developed by the physicist Stanislav Sykora with the aim of providing free online texts, theses, and course materials on the subjects of magnetic resonance (MR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear-magnetic resonance (NMR) and other related topics. The amount of material on the site is impressive. At the top of the page are links to an “MR Blog”, as well as to “MR Links” and the “Site Plan & SEARCH”. The NMR/MRI Extras section on the right side of the page is particularly useful for visitors interested in all things about MR. Its links to “Events” provides an up-to-date list of symposia, conferences, and meetings, along with links to the events’ sites. The “Societies” link offers at least 50 groups about MR, some of which are country-based, and others that are region- or application-based. [KMG]
Source of Information: The Scout Report, July 17, 2009

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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