Friday, 4 September 2009

SciFinder e-seminar - Exploring What’s New with SciFinder

Exploring What’s New with SciFinder®!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
18:00 – 19:00 GMT

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
18:00 GMT

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
11:00 GMT & 14:00 GMT

To register, visit: http://casevents.webex.com

* Learn how to limit reaction searches by a specific solvent or group of solvents and get similar reactions based on reaction centers
* Explore substance property enhancements such as refine substances by physical property values
* Introduce new collaboration tools for sharing information with SciFinder users within your research site
* Discover new content such as 13C-NMR Spectra for 25 million substances
* Share new performance and usability enhancements

Fifth Joint Sheffield Conference on Chemoinformatics - July 2010

13th - 15th July 2010.
University of Sheffield

The conference is being sponsored by the Chemical Structure Association Trust and the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society.

The call for papers will be announced in the autumn and further details will be placed at http://cisrg.shef.ac.uk/shef2010/

Beilstein update

The latest update of the Beilstein database, 2009/03, was made available on Thursday 3rd September.

Statistics for the new Beilstein database are as follows:

Number of compounds: 11,196,514
Number of citations: 2,239,376
Number of reactions: 22,732,872

There are no changes to the DST files from the previous version, 2009/02.

Monday, 31 August 2009

CambridgeSoft's Seminar - Munich

September 28, 2009

"The meeting will include presentations on the current use of E-Notebook and other enterprise and desktop solutions, opportunities to discuss challenges and solutions with colleagues who have faced similar situations, and sessions allowing you to converse directly with the CambridgeSoft team regarding current products and solutions."

Free for "qualified industry professionals". Registration required.

For additional information at
http://www.cambridgesoft.com/seminars/Default.aspx?eventid=248

use of ChemTube3D

Enhancing the value of interactive 3D chemistry (iChem3D)

iChem3D
ChemTube3D

iChem3D is a JISC funded project that sets out to investigate the use of ChemTube3D an interactive, freely available, resource providing 3D simulations and animations modelling the structure and reactivity of organic molecules.

Team at UoLiverpool is researching the current use and investigating the development of a range of learning designs to be used in blended self-directed learning.

Currently they are investigating the use of ChemTube3D to establish the types of visitors using the resource and also how it is used and would like to hear how ChemTube3D is used by students, teachers or professional chemists.

Contact details for Kirsty Barnes, Research Associate

William Dick Memorial Lecture

Professor Richard Leakey will deliver this year's lecture.

Friday 18 September 2009, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Assembly Hall, New College

Ticketed event.

RIN newsletter

The Research Information Network (RIN) August newsletter includes:

Keeping Research Data Safe 2 project which is inviting people to contribute to the data survey, if they have research datasets and associated cost information.

The RCUK Public Engagement with Research Team has announced the dates for the 2010 scheme aimed at supporting public engagement activities in National Science and Engineering Week 2010 (12-21 March). All seven Research Councils are involved in supporting the scheme, providing access for funds of up to £2,000 per project.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has published its annual higher education National Student Survey (NSS)

Also, Events and training courses which include

"Text mining hands-on course and training seminar", 5-6 October 2009, Cambridge,

"Vitae national research staff conference", 5 November 2009, London. "This national conference will enable attendees to consider the research environment and examine issues that impact on research staff across institutional and disciplinary barriers..."