Friday 8 August 2008

Planned downtime - ejournals, databases and Searcher

Monday 11th August - planned downtime will affect access to all of our e-journals, databases and Searcher from the library's webpages and possibly from some other University links, eg WebCT. This downtime is from 12-2pm but the services should be considered 'at risk' for the rest of the day as well.

This is to allow the new version of ezproxy (the current authentication system used by most databases/e-journals) to be implemented.

Monday 4 August 2008

Book Reviews

Chemistry Biology Pharmacy Information Center at ETH Zürich provides

RSS feed for book reviews:
http://www.clicaps.ethz.ch/fmi/xsl/bookreviews_rss_en.xsl (english) http://www.clicaps.ethz.ch/fmi/xsl/bookreviews_rss_de.xsl (german)

Book reviews are taken from more than 60 e-journals and are added if a title is in the information centre's catalogue.

Reviews may be missed if:
"- we missed the book when it was published
- we did not buy it because it does not fit in our collection policy (Chemistry, Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences and related fields)
- the book received a bad review, so we do not buy it
- book is republished material from other works we own

Normally, we have the book before the book review appears, so the RSS entry is "on time", e.g. within the same day (or next workday) the e-journal issue appeared (except if I'm in holidays).
Sometimes the book is acquired after the review appeared, then the RSS entry appears when we catalog the book."


Taken from CHMINF-L list:

CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html
Search the CHMINF-L archives at:
https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l
Sponsors of CHMINF-L:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/chminfsupport.htm

Friday 1 August 2008

SciFinder - exploring reactions using built-in links

SciFinder Solutions has been updated with a new search tip about exploring reactions in SciFinder with built-in links.

Visit
http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/sfsolutions/index.html

Provisional Recommendations from IUPAC

The following Provisional Recommendations are now available on the IUPAC web site:

Glossary of Terms Used in Ecotoxicology
http://iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract08/nordberg_311208.html

Thermochemistry of Chemical Reactions: I. Terminology and Symbols
http://iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract08/ribeiro-da-silva_311208.html

The public comment period will end 31 December 2008.


Taken From:

CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html
Search the CHMINF-L archives at:
https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l
Sponsors of CHMINF-L:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/chminfsupport.htm