Swain Library will have reduced hours of operation during the week of Thanksgiving.

Please note that Swain’s carpet and floors will be cleaned on Tuesday, November 24th beginning at 6:00 p.m., so the library will not be accessible to after-hours users.

Hours for all of the Stanford Libraries during November 21–29 (pdf)

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Print jobs are billed in one of three ways (see below). It costs 10 cents per page to print and 13 cents per page to photocopy.

1. For everyone, but primarily for individuals not affiliated with Stanford

   You need to purchase a copy card. The card itself costs $1. Additional funds must be deposited onto the card to be available for printing. Select the printer called “ChemLib-KioskPrinter.” This printer is located on the right side when you enter the Swain Library.

   Please note that Swain’s cash-to-card dispenser machine does not accept any “new” bills (Green and Engineering Libraries dispenser machines will accept new bills). Please bring crisp $1 bills to add money to a dispenser card as Swain does not have any cash on hand to make change.

   How to Print
   After sending a document to “ChemLib-KioskPrinter,” go to the “release station” that is located next to this printer and then choose your job, swipe your copy card, and verify the charge. The printer will then print the job, and upon successful completion, your card will be debited the appropriate amount.

2. Exclusively for students

   While students can also print using copy cards as described in Option 1 above, a more convenient option is to use the Stanford Card Plan. The Card Plan is also the only option if you need to print to a printer in the
   residence computer clusters. For printing, please see Print Release section.

   Please note that after you apply, it takes 24–48 hours before your Stanford Card Plan account is activated.

3. Exclusively for faculty and staff

   While faculty and staff can also print by using a copy card as described in Option 1 above, a more convenient option is to use the special debit plan for printing and photocopying that is available only to faculty and staff. This plan is tied to your Stanford ID. You can transfer funds onto your Stanford ID card at the cash-to-card machines. For printing, please see Print Release section.

How to Use Print Release (Web Based Service, SUNet Authentication Required)

After sending a document to print to any one of the three black and white printers or the color printer at Swain, please go to http://printing.stanford.edu/ and if prompted, enter your SUNet ID and password. Choose the printer to which you sent the job. You will be asked to verify that you wish to print. The printer will then print the job, and upon successful completion, your Card Plan will be charged the appropriate amount.

At printers that have release stations, you can also print by choosing your job at the release station, swiping your Stanford ID card, and verifying the job.

More Information

• Printing in the Libraries
• Printing Information (from Residential Computing, SUNet ID Required to View)
• StanfordCardPlan

The Engineering Library is sponsoring a lunch-time workshop on how to link electronic content into your Coursework or CCNet class site. All faculty and teaching assistants are welcome to attend. The workshop will be offered Monday, 9/28, from 12 noon to 1 pm and will be held in Conference Room 105 in Y2E2 across from the Coupa Café. Refreshments provided.

Description: This workshop will give an overview of the options within CourseWork and CCNet for linking to licensed content for required or supplemental course reading. Examples of e-books, e-book chapters and journal articles will be covered.

The Engineering Library also offers 1-on-1 consultations for linking content to course management systems.

To sign-up, send email with your name and preferred workshop date to: engreference[at]stanford[dot]edu

2) Cross Search: Using Cross Discipline Research Tools for Enhanced Searching

Please bring your lunch and join us for the second in a series of workshops being offered by the Engineering Library. Comprehensive searching of multiple databases in related disciplines uncovers articles, books and reports critical to your research. Search examples using ISI Web of Science and the new Stanford Libraries Cross Search tool. Email alerts for subject, title, and authors will also be covered.

All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend.

Date: Monday, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, or 10/26
Time: Noon–1pm
Where: Y2E2 Conference Room 105 (across from the Coupa Café)

To sign-up, send email with your name and preferred workshop date to: engreference[at]stanford[dot]edu. Cookies will be provided.

Graduate students and postdocs are eligible for 24-hour access to the library but must attend an orientation tour.

For more details about who’s eligible for 24-hour access, please see Swain’s After Hours Access page.

Please send RSVP to graceb[at]stanford[dot]edu to sign up for a session.

New Students: The Information Center invites new students (and their parents) to tour Green Library, explore world class library collections, and find out how the library can support your research needs. All tours will last for 50 minutes.

Graduate Students: New graduate students are invited to come to Green Library for an online demo of the amazing array of library resources, as well as a librarian-led tour of the building. Each demo/tour will last an hour.

For information about tours at all of the Stanford University Libraries, please see the SULAIR library tours schedule.

These sessions will be for all interested graduate students and will cover the wide variety of science and engineering sources available online and the branch libraries in the sciences. It will include demos of databases, e-journals, e-books and Q&A time. This event is being coordinated so that information won’t be repeated at sessions held earlier that same day at the Green Library. This event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with other libraries and collections related to their major field. The Swain Librarian will be participating in this event. These sessions will be held at the Engineering Library, 2nd Floor, Terman Engineering Center on:

The Swain Library will be offering orientation tours in September and October at these times:

24-Hour Access to the Swain Library

Stanford faculty, as well as Stanford Chemistry and Chemical Engineering graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scholars are eligible for 24 hour access to the library. Graduate students and postdocs from other departments are eligible for after hours access to the Library if they have a current Stanford ID and a letter from their faculty advisor indicating a need for 24 hour access to Swain materials. Undergraduate Chemistry and Chemical Engineering students who require access because of their work in a lab group may be eligible for 24-hour access to the Swain Library. If Green Privileges issued the ID card, a $25 refundable card deposit is collected. In addition, everyone must complete an orientation tour to the library.

For more information about hours access to Swain, please see Swain’s After Hours Access page.

For multi-library users, two other libraries on main campus also have after-hours access.

• Falconer Biology Library — After Hours Access
• Physics Library — After Hours Access

The OPPIE platform has enabled users to search Biosis, Engineering Index, Inspec, and the three citation databases SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts & Humanities. FlashPoint searched the databases on OPPIE plus MathSciNet and PubMet.

Access is ending from developments both at Stanford and at LANL.

• With budget pressures increasing, the Libraries’ review of databases found the once innovative multi-database search tools from LANL have declined in service value.
• LANL development on the OPPIE interface has been halted and external partners such as Stanford were informed that database services would cease.

Below are alternative ways to access the resources that were available via OPPIE and FlashPoint:

Web of Knowledge

Search Web of Science, Derwent Innovations Index, Biosis, CAB Abstracts, Inspec, Medline, and Zoological Record at one time.

Web of Science

Biosis

Engineering Index

Inspec

MathSciNet

PubMed

Please note that efforts are underway to provide cross-searching of multiple resources at one time by Fall Quarter. The “SULAIR Cross Searching” service will include all of the resources that have been available from LANL plus additional resources. 

Again, my apologies for the short notice. Many thanks for your patience and support! Stay tuned for more news…