http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog News from the Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:23:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Swain’s new book list for May 2008 is now available: Swain Library monthly new book list http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/06/03/new-book-list-for-may-2008/ Swain’s new book list for April 2008 is now available: Swain Library monthly new book list http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/05/01/new-book-list-for-april-2008/ To update their infrastructure, all content on the the Royal Society of Chemistry’s web site will be unavailable on: Monday, 28th April Tuesday, 6th May Monday, 12th May http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/24/rsc-web-site-unavailable-428-56-and-512/ Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar 2007 for Mac OS X, released in June 2007, was found to be incompatible with Apple Intel powered computers using Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), released in October 2007. A workaround is now available. This is a “quick fix” pending further ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/24/scifinder-scholar-and-web-version-of-scifinder-mac-version-info-plus-comparison-chart/ “The American Chemical Society observes Earth Day with the Chemists Celebrate Earth Day (CCED) program. ACS offers a suite of events, contests and educational resources that can be used by ACS members, chemical educators, and chemistry enthusiasts to illustrate the positive role that chemistry plays in the world. Learn more ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/23/chemists-celebrate-earth-day-tuesday-april-22-2008/ Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/23/google-sites/ One new feature that RSC has just introduced is a structure and sub-structure searching function to help you find relevant articles by drawing your own molecule using ChemAxon’s MarvinSketch or pasting in a ChemDraw or ISIS/Draw file. They’ve also widened the compound identifiers to include groups and relationships via the ChEBI ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/23/rsc-journals-search-for-structures-in-articles/ Covering the years 1974-2006, SPRESIweb 2.6 version developed by InfoChem is an integrated scientific database containing over 6.1 million molecules, 3.85 million reactions, and 28 million factual data entries that were extracted from 636,000 references, and 164,000 patents. For more details: SPRESIweb description (pdf). Users can identify which substances contained in ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/23/spresiweb-26/ Swain’s new book list for March 2008 is now available: Swain Library monthly new book list http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/04/01/new-book-list-for-march-2008/ Stanford Engineering Puzzle Stephen Quake is a physicist-turned-bioengineer with a strong interest in the dynamics of single molecules. This interest has led him to develop microfluidic chips, circuits of silicone pipes, valves and chambers. These devices are called “labs on a chip” because they allow for complex biology experiments to be ... http://www.stanford.edu/group/swain/cgi-bin/blog/2008/03/17/stanford-engineering-puzzle/