Swain Library News

National Chemistry Week

October 18–24, 2009

It’s not too late to celebrate!

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.

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I am very pleased to announce that Blandine Clausing will start work as Swain’s Library Specialist on Monday, October 26, 2009. Blandine is replacing Jonathan Hoffer who resigned in August to attend graduate school at UC-Davis. Blandine brings a wealth of experience to our position as she has worked as the Serials Specialist at the Engineering Library since 1993. At Swain, she will be the key contact for course reserves. Her duties will also include handling serials, acquisitions, circulation, web pages and last but not least assisting users at the circulation desk.

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.

“SpringerImages provides a new way to access hard-to-find scientific content of the utmost value to researchers: images.”

Is this a resource that you think Stanford should acquire? If yes, please send comments to graceb(at)stanford(dot)edu.

Now available via the web as a campus-wide site license, the NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Database gives easy access to the energies of many photoelectron and Auger-electron spectral lines. Resulting from a critical evaluation of the published literature, the database contains over 29,000 line positions, chemical shifts, doublet splittings, and energy separations of photoelectron and Auger-electron lines. A highly interactive program allows the user to search by element, line type, line energy, and many other variables. Users can easily identify unknown measured lines by matching to previous measurements.

Advances in Chemical Physics is an international forum for the review and critical evaluation of the science that has propelled every area of the discipline. Each volume contains discussions of aspects of the state of diverse subjects in chemical physics and related fields, with chapters written by top researchers in the field from around the world.

The series now comprises more than 130 volumes covering the period from the mid 1960s to the present. Collectively, they represent the history of modern chemical physics. Discussions of all areas of chemical physics, with extensions to biophysics and soft matter physics can be found in these volumes.

Edited by such eminent scientists as Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and National Medal of Science Winner Stuart Rice, this series has played a key role in defining the field.

Available via a campus-wide site license, ICSD, the most comprehensive database on fully determined inorganic crystal structures, is now available as an enhanced WWW application, providing easy access from anywhere around the world. After 2 years of development by FIZ Karlsruhe, the new web version was designed to meet both the increased requirements of the ISCD user community (user friendly Interface, easy to navigate, up-to date retrieval interface and export of data) and the requirements of modern software development.

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Published in 2008 and available online in 2009, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III (CHEC-III) is a 15-volume reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in heterocyclic ring systems. Stanford has purchased the online version of this key resource. Since publishing in 1984, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry (CHEC) has become the standard work on the subject, indispensable to all serious readers in the interdisciplinary areas where heterocycles are employed. CHEC-III builds on and complements the material in CHEC and CHEC-II and is designed to be used both alone and in conjunction with these two works. Written by leading scientists who have evaluated and summarized the most important data published over the last decade, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III will be an invaluable addition to the reference library of those working with heterocyclic ring systems.

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I am very pleased to announce that we have purchased the RSC eBook Collection. Swain’s endowed funds (David M. Mason, Ethel G. & Albert H. Reinert, and R. Arthur & Juliette Tiernan), cash donations to Swain (including one from Stanford Chemistry Professor Steven G. Boxer), as well as supplemental funding from the Provost to the Stanford University Libraries for buying e-books enabled Swain to purchase this collection of core resources.

The RSC eBook Collection that contains the full-text of over 800 books spanning 40 years of high-quality, chemical science books. Continually updated, this eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as PDFs. Excellent search engines, powered by Google, enable you to quickly retrieve the data you want. Please note that our license agreement allows users to download a small portion of a book (e.g. a chapter), but not an entire book. Access is not available yet through our library catalog so you must go to RSC’s web site in order to discover and view items of interest.