Academic Communication Survey - Amazon vouchers

on behalf of Publishing Directions (UK) Ltd and JISC.

Dear Chemistry Researcher,

We would like to ask for your help - we need your input and perspective as a researcher in order to better understand how you communicate with your academic colleagues, particularly in using digital methods. We would like to understand more about how you locate, evaluate, organise, manage, transform, communicate and re-use research information in your field.

We would like to ask you to take 15 minutes to fill in a brief online survey.

Your input will provide vital insight into understanding methods of scholarly communications in the fields of chemistry and will help us to plan advocacy programmes to encourage the take up of new methodologies and technologies to improve the access to, use and re-use of content by UK academics in this field.

The survey is part of a study project undertaken by Publishing Directions (UK) Ltd (www.publishingdirections.co.uk) on behalf of JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee (www.jisc.ac.uk).

WHERE IS THE SURVEY?:
The survey will be live online from 30th January - 13th February. You can access it here (www.rsc.org/advocacy), which redirects to a survey on http://www.surveymonkey.com/. Any answers you provide will be treated as strictly confidential and shared only with JISC in an aggregated format.

In order to thank you for your time, you will be given the opportunity to enter a Prize Draw, with prizes of 5 £40 Amazon vouchers to be won.

If you have any queries about the survey, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With thanks,
Dr William Town.
bill.town --at-- kilmorie.com

Physical Sciences Centre Bulletin

February Bulletin from the Physical Sciences Centre; information about forthcoming Centre events, news and developments from the Centre and any other related news, every month. available on the website:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/publications/ebulletin

Contents include:
1.iii) Higher Education Academy Scotland travel fund for academic staff: call for applications
2. Higher Education Academy Student Competition
3. Publication of the latest New Directions
and various calls for papers.

Two seminars in the University of Glasgow's Learning & Teaching Centre seminar series

1) Accessibility - attitude of mind or adaptive computing?
Presented by Alan Crombie, Open University
Friday 13th February 2009, 14:00-16:00

2) The nature of student engagement and why it matters so much
Presented by Colin Bryson, Newcastle University
Wednesday 4th March 2009, 12:00-14:00

The seminars are being held at the
Learning & Teaching Centre,
Southpark House,
64 Southpark Avenue,
Glasgow G12 8LB

For more information, abstracts and speaker biographies, please go to:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/seminarsworkshopsandsymposia/seminarsworkshopsforstaff/

Seminars are free of charge and open to all.

Predictive ADME and Toxicology workshop week

Predictive ADME and Toxicology workshop week at Oxford University 27 – 31 July 2009. A hands-on case study approach using a variety of methods applied to ADME and Tox datasets and endpoints.

More information on program can be found at:

Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/

Pdf: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/files/echeminfoadmetprogramoxford09-1.pdf

Web: http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_oxfordadmet09

A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic participants, who may be working in any area of research related to predictive ADME and toxicology.

To apply for the bursary please send, by 20th Feb 09, an email to echeminfo-[at]- douglasconnect.com with:
a) description of your research (ca. 500 words);
b) your training needs (ca. 500 words),
c) your CV

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CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html

CrossFire downtime 17th February 07:00

The Mimas CrossFire service will not be available for a period of up to two hours from 7 a.m. GMT on Tuesday 17 February, because of required disk maintenance.

MIMAS would like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused.

Gmelin - content figures

The latest quarterly update to the Gmelin database, 2008/04, has now been loaded.

Statistics for the new Gmelin database are as follows:

Number of compounds: 2,641,161
Number of reactions: 2,012,733
Number of citations: 1,375,716

find out more at Databases relevant to Chemistry

IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING FOR THE 21st CENTURY LEARNER

17th Improving Student Learning Symposium hosted by the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD)

7-9 September 2009, Imperial College, London

CALL FOR PAPERS

We hope that the theme for this symposium - 'for the 21st Century Learner' - will challenge contributors to consider the rapidly changing landscape of university education - technology, massification, increased diversity of students and globalisation etc.

Please submit your paper proposal online at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/isl/isl2009/callforpapers.html. The closing date for submissions is 28 February 2009, and authors will be notified by the end of March whether their paper has been selected for presentation.

Improving Student Learning symposium (ISL) is supported by the Higher Education Academy.