Swain Library News » Uncategorized http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog News from the Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:42:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Local Harvest http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/11/20/local-harvest/ http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/11/20/local-harvest/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:29 +0000 admin http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/?p=1949 Local Harvest ]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/11/20/local-harvest/feed/ 0 The Sounds of Science http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/10/23/the-sounds-of-science/ http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/10/23/the-sounds-of-science/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:03:25 +0000 admin http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/?p=1905 The Sounds of Science

“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.

]]> http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/10/23/the-sounds-of-science/feed/ 0 Science of Synthesis Webinars Training Schedule for Nov. and Dec. http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/10/23/science-of-synthesis-webinars-training-schedule-for-nov-and-dec/ http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2009/10/23/science-of-synthesis-webinars-training-schedule-for-nov-and-dec/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:21:36 +0000 admin http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/?p=1827 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:

  • Browsing in Science of Synthesis
  • Reaction search
  • Full-text and name reaction search
  • Structure and Reaction Search (including atom mapping, chemoselective searches and more)
  • Searching within the references and locating citations to Science of Synthesis

Who should attend?
Synthetic organic chemists, chemical information managers and chemistry librarians

Duration: 1 hour
Fee: Complimentary

The webinar is available at two different times for your convenience:

  • Wednesday, November 04, 2009, 7–8AM Pacific Standard Time
  • Monday, December 07, 10–11AM Pacific Standard Time

Online tutorials and pre-recorded sessions are also available.

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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.

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October 18–24, 2009

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It’s not too late to celebrate!

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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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Library Hours

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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.

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics:

  • Total number of papers
  • Total number of citations
  • Average number of citations per paper
  • Average number of citations per author
  • Average number of papers per author
  • Average number of citations per year
  • Hirsch’s h-index and related parameters
  • Egghe’s g-index
  • The contemporary h-index
  • The age-weighted citation rate
  • Two variations of individual h-indices
  • An analysis of the number of authors per paper.

Available for Windows and Linux platforms

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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.

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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.

New for MOPAC2009™, The MOZYME function. This is a linear-scaling SCF technique suitable for modeling
proteins:

  • Optimize systems of up to 15,000 atoms, e.g. proteins
  • NEW PM6 parameterization from experimental & ab initio
  • More accurate heats of formation and geometries
  • ALL main group elements & transition metals
  • Serious errors from PM3 and AM1 corrected
  • Crystals, surfaces & polymers with periodic boundaries

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only).

FREE to academics. Request License Key.

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