Swain Library News

“The Sounds of Science is a small group of graduate students and recent alumni of UC Berkeley that share a common love of science and music. Our aim is to promote awareness of science to the community of all ages through fun music videos available free on the internet.”

Safety song
Safety comes first! Bokor monster learns that while science is fun, it’s important to be aware of the many hazards in the lab.

Nanosong
What a wonderful surprise!: when certain things get really really small, they behave much differently than they normally would. Glory sings about what it means to be nano, and some of the applications of nano-sized materials.

Science of Synthesis Webinars Training Schedule

Are you getting the most benefit from the Science of Synthesis online reference work in synthetic methodology? Learn about the powerful search and navigation capabilities available in Science of Synthesis and how this toolbox of evaluated synthetic methods can save you time and help you work more efficiently.

What you’ll learn…
Locating critically evaluated synthetic methods and full experimental procedures for a functional group transformation using:

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This year’s NCW theme celebrated the Periodic Table of the Elements. To view more resources on periodic tables, go to the Resources for NCW 2009 site or see Swain’s Periodic Tables page.

National Chemistry Week

October 18–24, 2009

It’s not too late to celebrate!

Mark your calendar: This year’s National Chemistry Week (NCW) celebration will be October 18–24, 2009, and the NCW theme this year is “Chemistry — It’s Elemental,” in recognition of the 140th anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

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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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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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