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.

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

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

CALL FOR PAPERS: eScience for Cheminformatics and Drug Discovery

2008 Workshop

Abstracts of papers for presentation at the eScience for Cheminformatics and Drug Discovery Workshop 2008 now being accepted. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008) in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12 2008.

More information can be found on the conference website at http://cheminfo.informatics.indiana.edu/eScience2008/ .

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

Data sheets and employability sheets available to order

The Higher Education Academy, Physical Sciences Centre publishes physics and chemistry sheets containing useful data and equations for students and student employability handouts for physics, chemistry and forensic science.

If you would like multiple copies of these to give to your students, please e-mail the Centre, psc@hull.ac.uk, stating which of the handouts you require and how many.

In order for these to be delivered to you by the end of September, please let us know the numbers you require by 24th August.

Below are the links to electronic versions of the all the handouts. Please note the equation sheets are in the process of being re-designed. The link to the chemistry sheet gives an idea of how the final versions will look:

Chemistry equation sheet
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/ps/documents/chem_eqn_2008.pdf

Physics equation sheet
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/ps/documents/physeqns_2007.pdf

Chemistry student employability handout
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/ps/documents/chemistry_student_profile.pdf

Physics student employability handout
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/ps/documents/physics_student_profile.pdf

Forensic Science employability handout
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/ps/documents/fs_employability_sheet.pdf

The maths stats and OR network also produce some fact and formulae sheets. Details are available here: http://www.mathstore.ac.uk/index.php?pid=41

National e-Science Centre News – July 2008

Find the July 2008 NeSC newsletter at:

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/July08.pdf

In this month’s newsletter:

* Articles about secure electronic voting and research in climate change modelling
* The latest news from NGS
* A reminder about AHM 2008
* A call for theme topics from the e-Science Institute
* An announcement about the second Grid Computing Now! competition
* Congratulations to Professors Richard Kenway, Ed Seidel and Peter Coveney, and to Dr Shantenu Jha! See inside NeSC News to find out about their achievements.