About: “AccessEngineering delivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation, and features content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. AccessEngineering offers the widest and deepest repository of fully searchable engineering content available online — from the authors and industry-leading titles engineers have trusted and depended on for years.

Focused around 14 major areas of engineering, AccessEngineering features a new taxonomy book view offering comprehensive coverage and faster title-by-title access to our engineering collection in the following subject areas: Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Communications, Construction, Electrical, Energy, Environmental, Green/Sustainable, Industrial, Material Science, Mechanical, Nanotechnology, and Optical.

In addition, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering is embedded on all search pages. Search and generate results from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, which contains more than 18,000 entries containing synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, and a pronunciation guide are included for each term.

For nearly a century, McGraw-Hill has provided the engineering community with the authoritative and up-to-date references their practice demands. With AccessEngineering, they continue this tradition by offering a selection of more than 250 engineering books delivered right to their desktop, providing essential information that meets the needs of research professionals.”

Source: AccessEngineering: About

AIP is happy to let you know that live links are now in place for references in all AIP journal articles going back to the very first issue of each. This final stage of an ambitious initiative brings the total of linkable references to the backfiles of AIP journals (see list below) to nearly 4,000,000. The initiative incorporates reference links that extend as far back as 1930 — the year AIP published the debut issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.

• Applied Physics Letters
• Biomicrofluidics
• Chaos
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Chemical Physics
• Journal of Mathematical Physics
• Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
• Low Temperature Physics
• Journal of Physical & Chemical Reference Data
• Physics of Fluids
• Physics of Plasmas
• Review of Scientific Instruments

Linking to a vastly greater volume of scientific literature and to A&I services — such as ISI, CrossRef, Inspec, PubMed, arXiv, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and Dialog — provides researchers with expanded access to logically related articles and allows them to easily move from a reference to the abstract of a cited journal article. Quite often, these articles are located on a different server and are published by a different publisher.

One important byproduct of the project is that once these links became operational, AIP was able to send the reference sections to CrossRef to register the metadata and have Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) assigned. CrossRef, acting as a type of digital switchboard and effecting links through DOIs, enabled AIP to establish inbound and outbound links with a wide range of other publishing platforms.

Source: AIP Library Matters, Winter 2010

Ridley, D. D. (2009). Information retrieval: SciFinder. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.

Access via SearchWorks Record

Publisher’s Description

“SciFinder® is rapidly becoming a preferred means to access scientific information in industry and universities worldwide. It accesses databases which span the chemical, engineering, life, medical, and physical sciences, including five Chemical Abstract Service databases and the National Library of Medicine bibliographic database Medline®. No other single information access tool has such breadth of coverage for scientific journal and patent documents.

Information Retrieval: SciFinder®, 2nd Edition is an essential guide explaining how to get the best out of SciFinder. It discusses the 50+ options in SciFinder® including topic, bibliographic, and chemical substance explore options, and post-processing options Analyze, Refine, and Categorize. The book:

• Summarizes the databases and explains how to take advantage of the unique search and analysis options
• Explains selected algorithms behind the operation of SciFinder® and why it helps to understand them
• Discusses why it is important, and how to apply scientific method to information retrieval
• Describes how to search for chemical structures and chemical reactions

This second edition of Information Retrieval: SciFinder® has been fully revised and updated to incorporate the latest functionality and content of SciFinder®. Written by a scientist for scientists, this book will increase your research creativity and productivity and is an essential resource for anyone needing scientific information in academia or industry.”

• Graphical representation of the 3D structure: full colour representation of the overall fold in form of a ribbon plot including the metal active site(s), ball-and-stick representation of the metal active site(s).
• Presents the functional class: enzyme, electron transfer protein, metal storage, metal transport, transcription factor, etc.
• Occurrence: names the organism(s), organ(s) and cell compartments where the metalloprotein occurs.
• Biological function: discusses in a broad biological context the known or putative biological function of the metalloprotein.
• Amino Acid sequence information: lists the references known for both the particular and related proteins.
• Spectroscopic data: reviews relevant properties obtained from the whole spectrum of spectroscopic techniques.
• Functional derivatives: examines the 3D structures of modified metalloproteins to offer essential information for understanding their function.
• Metal content and co-factors: states the nature of the protein’s metal(s), the content, the nature and content of other co-factors like heme, cobalamine, etc. Includes the method(s) of determination of the metal(s) or co-factor(s).
• Protein production, purification and molecular characterization: reports on the production of the protein by recombinant techniques, growth of bacteria or fungi taken from special parts of a plant or animal.
• Comparative information: identifies classes allowing comparisons between the same and different metalloproteins.

Trial access to Organic Reactions has been made available for Volumes 25–74, 1977–2009.

Publisher’s Description about Organic Reactions:

“Organic Reactions is a comprehensive collection of important synthetic reactions, together with a critical discussion of the reaction and tables that organize all published examples of the topic reactions. Chapters that focus on reactions of current interest are solicited by the board of editors from leading chemists worldwide. The publication process entails a comprehensive peer-review process, ensuring the high quality and attention to detail for which this series is noted. Organic Reactions currently consists of over 140,000 reactions, and will continue to grow annually.

Organic Reactions is the definitive resource for synthetic transformations, with an emphasis on preparative aspects. Comprehensive coverage of all examples of a given reaction is provided in tabular form. In addition to providing reaction scope, stereochemical aspects, and side reactions, a selection of representative experimental conditions are given. All chapters represent the highest standard for accuracy and reliability from internationally acclaimed authors and editors.”

If you think that we should have an online subscription to Organic Reactions, please send Grace Baysinger (graceb@stanford.edu) an email message. Thanks!

The annual Horizon Report is a collaborative effort between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). Each year, the report identifies and describes six areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in higher education within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2010 are:

Time to adoption: One Year or Less

• Mobile Computing
• Open Content

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years

• Electronic Books
• Simple Augmented Reality

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years

• Gesture-based Computing
• Visual Data Analysis

Each section of the report provides live Web links to examples and additional readings. The findings for the 2010 Report resulted from the work of the 47-person Advisory Board, with experts from ten countries.

A new journal for findings of exceptional significance from across the chemical sciences. Chemical Science is now accepting manuscripts.

Polymer Chemistry — New in 2010
Editor-in Chief : Professor David Haddleton, University of Warwick

A new peer-reviewed journal publishing advances in polymer chemistry encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas. Polymer Chemistry will provide a showcase for the ongoing efforts driving polymer chemistry, highlighting the creativity of the field and previously inaccessible applications.

MedChemComm — New in Fall 2009
Co-Editor-in-Chief: Dr Anthony Wood, Pfizer, UK and
Co-Editor-in-Chief: Professor Greg Verdine, Harvard University, USA

A new, peer-reviewed journal publishing medicinal chemistry research, including new studies related to biologically-active chemical or biochemical entities that can act as pharmacological agents with therapeutic potential or relevance.

JCE is now copublished by ACS Publications and the ACS Division of Chemical Education. The First Issue for 2010 is available on the ACS Pubs Web Site. The JCE Archive going back to volume one is also available on the ACS Pubs Web site.

The Journal of Chemical Education is the official journal of the ACS Division of Chemical Education and is the world’s premier chemical education journal publishing peer-reviewed articles and related information as a resource to those in the field of chemical education and to those institutions that serve them.

ACS Chemical Neuroscience — New in 2010
Editor-in-Chief: Craig W. Lindsley

Publishes high-quality research articles and reviews that showcase chemical, quantitative biological, biophysical and bioengineering approaches to the understanding of the nervous system and to the development of new treatments for neurological disorders.

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters — New in 2010
Editor-in-Chief: Dennis C. Liotta

The new international journal for urgent research, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters will keep the world informed of important experimental and theoretical results in all aspects of pure and applied medicinal chemistry and their applications to pharmacology.

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters — New in 2010
Editor-in-Chief: George C. Schatz

All new letters from the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, B, and C will be combined into a single, all-electronic journal highlighting the most urgent research results in physical chemistry.

All ACS Symposium Series content is browsable by publication year as well as by sponsoring division, discoverable alongside journal content in search results, and accessible via related content recommendations at the abstract/article level for ACS Journals.

About the ACS Symposium Series
The ACS Symposium Series contains high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia. Each chapter is carefully authored by an expert in the field, and the collection of chapters edited by an internationally recognized leader in the field. The series covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others.

About the Advances in Chemistry Series
Founded by the American Chemical Society in 1949, the Advances in Chemistry series was the predecessor to the ACS Symposium Series. This high-quality, peer-reviewed book series was instituted to provide the research community with an avenue to publish content and special topics that was beyond the scope of the Society’s existing journals.

About the ACS Symposium Series Archive
Dating from the first Advances in Chemistry series title in 1950 and the first ACS Symposium Series title in 1974, the ACS Symposium Series Archives is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary series with more than 1,200 books and 19,000 chapters. The 2009 Edition and each year moving forward of the ACS Symposium Series also covers chemistry and all interfacing areas of science with 30 new titles annually added on a title by title basis including 450+ chapters of peer reviewed research presented in a comprehensive, review-type format.

2009 Book Titles in the ACS Symposium Series
Advances in Human Vector Control
African Natural Plant Products: New Discoveries and Challenges in Chemistry and Quantity
Asymmetric Synthesis and Applications of α-Amino Acids
Atmospheric Aerosols
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Chemical Evolution II: From Origins of Life to Modern Society
Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization: Progress in ATRP
Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization: Progress in RAFT, DT, NMP & OMRP
Environmental Application of Nanoscale and Microscale Reactive Particles
Fire and Polymers V
Fluorinated Heterocycles
Gas-Expanded Liquids and Near-Critical Media
Green Chemistry Education
Intentional and Unintentional Contaminants of Food and Feed
Ionic Liquids: From Knowledge to Application
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Sourcebook, Vol. 2
Micro/Nano Encapsulation of Active Food Ingredients
Model Cellulosic Surfaces
Mycotoxin Prevention and Control in Agriculture
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense
Nanotechnology Applications in Coatings
Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education
New Membranes and Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment
Pesticides in Household, Structural and Residential Pest Management
Polymer Degradation and Performance
Polysaccharide Materials: Performance by Design
Smart Coatings II
The Future of the Chemical Industry
Turfgrass: Pesticide Exposure Assessment and Predictive Modeling Tools
Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

Trailblazing will offer unprecedented public access to the most influential, inspiring and intriguing papers published by the Royal Society over the last 350 years including the world-famous Philosophical Transactions (Phil. Trans.), the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the world. Leading scientists and historians have chosen 60 articles from amongst the 60,000 published since the journal first began in 1665. Trailblazing will make the original manuscripts available online for the first time alongside fascinating insights from modern-day experts who are continuing the work of scientific giants such as Newton, Hooke, Faraday and Franklin and making vital new breakthroughs of their own in areas such as genetics, physics, climate change and medicine.

Highlights include:

• The gruesome account of an early blood transfusion (1666)
• Captain James Cook’s explanation of how he protected his crew from scurvy aboard HMS Resolution (1776)
• Stephen Hawking’s early writing on black holes (1970)
• Benjamin Franklin’s account of flying a kite in a storm to identify the electrical nature of lightning — the Philadelphia Experiment (1752)
• Sir Isaac Newton’s landmark paper on the nature of light and colour (1672)
• A scientific study of a young Mozart confirming him as a musical child genius (1770)
• The Yorkshire cave discovery of the fossilized remains of elephant, tiger, bear and hyena heralding the study of deep time (1822)”

Source: Royal Society: Past, present, future