Swain Library News

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.

Updated monthly, Reaxys is a web-based system for searching the world’s most extensive collection of organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistry data. Reaxys enables you to search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Expert chemists carefully select journals and patents so that only high-quality, experimental data are included in Reaxys.

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SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! You can explore one single source for scientific information in journals and patent literature from around the world.

With SciFinder, you can be more creative and productive in your research process. SciFinder is easy-to-use and offers:

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If you missed the recent 238th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC, we’ve got great news for you: You can now view 150 of the top oral presentations from the Washington national meeting online! These high-quality presentations feature PowerPoint slides synched with audio; you can also jump directly to a particular slide in a presentation.

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1) Linking Electronic Resources to Class Sites in CourseWork and CCNet

The Engineering Library is sponsoring a lunch-time workshop on how to link electronic content into your Coursework or CCNet class site. All faculty and teaching assistants are welcome to attend. The workshop will be offered Monday, 9/28, from 12 noon to 1 pm and will be held in Conference Room 105 in Y2E2 across from the Coupa Café. Refreshments provided.

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Graduate students and postdocs are eligible for 24-hour access to the library but must attend an orientation tour.

For more details about who’s eligible for 24-hour access, please see Swain’s After Hours Access page.

Please send RSVP to graceb[at]stanford[dot]edu to sign up for a session.

Green Library is the largest library on campus, and is home to the main humanities and social sciences collection, the Information Center, the Media Microtext Center, Special Collections and University Archives, and many other central library services and resources. The Library Privileges Desk is located at the Green Library.

New Students: The Information Center invites new students (and their parents) to tour Green Library, explore world class library collections, and find out how the library can support your research needs. All tours will last for 50 minutes.

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These sessions will be for all interested graduate students and will cover the wide variety of science and engineering sources available online and the branch libraries in the sciences. It will include demos of databases, e-journals, e-books and Q&A time. This event is being coordinated so that information won’t be repeated at sessions held earlier that same day at the Green Library. This event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with other libraries and collections related to their major field. The Swain Librarian will be participating in this event. These sessions will be held at the Engineering Library, 2nd Floor, Terman Engineering Center on: