Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter-Mar/Apr 2006
CHEMISTRY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
March/April (Spring) 2006
CONTENTS:
1a. New electronic resources, journals and book series volumes.
1b. CD-ROMs formerly on the CLS NT Network now available for check-out.
2. BLOG for New 'Chemistry' Library Books and Special Journal Issues.
3. Open Access Authoring @ Caltech
4.. SciFinder Scholar update
5. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry (Zewail and Hochstrasser articles)
6. ACS Journal Article Citation Manager Functionality.
7. How to become a creative scientist [Physics World (2005), 18(12), 54-55]
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1a. New electronic resources: journals, books and book series volumes
Faculty of 1000 Biology (Biochemistry to Structural Biology)
http://www.f1000biology.com
Faculty of 1000 Biology is a literature awareness tool that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences. Selection is based on the recommendations of a 'faculty' of well over 1000 selected leading researchers including: David J. Anderson, Frances Arnold, Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Dianne Newman, Jose Luis Riechmann, Paul Sternberg, Kai Zinn.
Biogeosciences (BG) & Biogeosciences Discussions (BGD)
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/bg/bg.html
Langford, C.H. and Gray, H.B.
Ligand substitution processes
W.A. Benjamin, 1965
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1966.001
Journal of RNAi and gene silencing : an international journal of RNA and gene targeting research.
http://libpubmedia.co.uk/RNAiJ/RNAiJHome.htm
Wolfram, S.
New Kind of Science
Wolfram Media, 2002
http://www.wolframscience.com/thebook.html
Roberts, John D.
An introduction to the analysis of spin-spin splitting in high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectra
W.A. Benjamin, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.002
Roberts, John D., 1918-
Notes on molecular orbital calculations
W. A. Benjamin, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.001
Roberts, John D
Nuclear magnetic resonance; applications to organic chemistry
McGraw-Hill, 1959
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1959.001
Structure and Bonding
v.122 - Single-Molecule Magnets and Related Phenomena
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=km84j46v55qp
v.121 - Non-Covalent Multi-Porphyrin Assemblies
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=52q2v7j058u7v781
v.120 - Recent Developments in Mercury Science
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=l3137161q248
Thomas Register (Online only as Thomas Net from 2006+)
http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html
1b. CD-ROMs formerly on the CLS NT Network, now available for check-out.
Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams
SFL CIRC RESERVE TN690 .B528 1996
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes
MIL RESERVE QP609.P78 H36 2004
The CD-ROM contains the full text with enhancements, including links to the MEROPS database and PubMed. Most illustrations on the CD-ROM are in color, and the text is fully searchable. There is a special search function for the scissile bonds in substrate structures that allows the reader to locate a peptidase with a given specificity.
Physical properties of polymers handbook
SFL CIRC RESERVE TA455.P58 P475 1996
NIST critically selected stability constants of metal complexes database
SFL CIRC RESERVE QD503 .N57 2004
Powder diffraction file
SFL CIRC RESERVE Laptop #1
Table of integrals, series, and products [Gradshteyn & Ryzhik]
SFL CIRC RESERVE QA55 .G6613 1996
2. BLOG for New 'Chemistry' Library Books and Special Journal Issues.
New 'chemistry' library book and special journal issue lists are added, each month since January 2006, to the Caltech 'Chemistry' New Books blog at
http://chemnewbooks.blogspot.com
3. Open Access Authoring @ Caltech
Browse a running list of research papers, books, editorial appointments, and other news about open access scholarship by Caltech researchers.
http://oacaltech.blogspot.com/
4. SciFinder Scholar Update
Since March 2005, over 2 million substances in REGISTRY have been enriched with nearly 5 million references or "tags" that point to additional experimental property data. The tagged properties can be spectra***, charts, graphs, large tables, or numeric values and have bibliographic references to the original source documents. Tags will continue to be added, on an on-going basis, as new references containing property data are identified.
***Spectra currently available only for Windows client (e.g. library workstations).
CAS has added spectral data for about 150,000 compounds in SciFinder Scholar. There are 28,000 IR, 19,000 Mass Spec, and 142,000 13C NMR from Wiley and Japan's SDBS. The actual spectra are available, not just links to articles with spectral data. The spectra are currently NOT in the Mac version, but will be available in the next OS release scheduled for this summer.
To view the spectra, first retrieve the record for the compound by using the “locate” button. Click on the microscope icon to open the full record for your compound and then scroll down to the hyperlink labeled “Experimental Properties.”
5. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2006, v. 57
There is a nice juxtaposition of Robin Hochstrasser's retrospective " ON A RESEARCH ROLLERCOASTER WITH FRIENDS" and his former student Ahmed Zewail's review " 4D ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, AND MICROSCOPY" in the 2006 volume of Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/physchem
6. ACS Journal Article Citation Manager Functionality.
A new link "Download to Citation Manager" is at the top of each article's abstract page. Users have the choice of downloading citations into BibTeX, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager applications.
7. How to become a creative scientist [Physics World (2005), 18(12), 54-55]
This short essay suggests that … "to nurture a creative attitude", one should:
1. Liven up your working environment … images on the walls
2. Break habitual patterns … take a different route to the lab
3. Extend your attention span … take breaks at different times
4. Broaden your horizons … read unrelated journals
5. Speak to non-specialists … and describe your research in metaphorical terms
6. Harness your brain power … visualize doing things before doing them
7. Play with ideas … try combining ideas that appear to be unrelated
8. Get physical … develop a daily physical routine -- like going to the library!
9. Record your thoughts … keep a daily journal and review it
10. Read books … like Brain Power and The Mind's Eye
March/April (Spring) 2006
CONTENTS:
1a. New electronic resources, journals and book series volumes.
1b. CD-ROMs formerly on the CLS NT Network now available for check-out.
2. BLOG for New 'Chemistry' Library Books and Special Journal Issues.
3. Open Access Authoring @ Caltech
4.. SciFinder Scholar update
5. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry (Zewail and Hochstrasser articles)
6. ACS Journal Article Citation Manager Functionality.
7. How to become a creative scientist [Physics World (2005), 18(12), 54-55]
--------------
1a. New electronic resources: journals, books and book series volumes
Faculty of 1000 Biology (Biochemistry to Structural Biology)
http://www.f1000biology.com
Faculty of 1000 Biology is a literature awareness tool that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences. Selection is based on the recommendations of a 'faculty' of well over 1000 selected leading researchers including: David J. Anderson, Frances Arnold, Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, Elliot M. Meyerowitz, Dianne Newman, Jose Luis Riechmann, Paul Sternberg, Kai Zinn.
Biogeosciences (BG) & Biogeosciences Discussions (BGD)
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/bg/bg.html
Langford, C.H. and Gray, H.B.
Ligand substitution processes
W.A. Benjamin, 1965
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1966.001
Journal of RNAi and gene silencing : an international journal of RNA and gene targeting research.
http://libpubmedia.co.uk/RNAiJ/RNAiJHome.htm
Wolfram, S.
New Kind of Science
Wolfram Media, 2002
http://www.wolframscience.com/thebook.html
Roberts, John D.
An introduction to the analysis of spin-spin splitting in high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectra
W.A. Benjamin, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.002
Roberts, John D., 1918-
Notes on molecular orbital calculations
W. A. Benjamin, 1961
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1961.001
Roberts, John D
Nuclear magnetic resonance; applications to organic chemistry
McGraw-Hill, 1959
http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1959.001
Structure and Bonding
v.122 - Single-Molecule Magnets and Related Phenomena
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=km84j46v55qp
v.121 - Non-Covalent Multi-Porphyrin Assemblies
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=52q2v7j058u7v781
v.120 - Recent Developments in Mercury Science
http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=l3137161q248
Thomas Register (Online only as Thomas Net from 2006+)
http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html
1b. CD-ROMs formerly on the CLS NT Network, now available for check-out.
Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams
SFL CIRC RESERVE TN690 .B528 1996
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes
MIL RESERVE QP609.P78 H36 2004
The CD-ROM contains the full text with enhancements, including links to the MEROPS database and PubMed. Most illustrations on the CD-ROM are in color, and the text is fully searchable. There is a special search function for the scissile bonds in substrate structures that allows the reader to locate a peptidase with a given specificity.
Physical properties of polymers handbook
SFL CIRC RESERVE TA455.P58 P475 1996
NIST critically selected stability constants of metal complexes database
SFL CIRC RESERVE QD503 .N57 2004
Powder diffraction file
SFL CIRC RESERVE Laptop #1
Table of integrals, series, and products [Gradshteyn & Ryzhik]
SFL CIRC RESERVE QA55 .G6613 1996
2. BLOG for New 'Chemistry' Library Books and Special Journal Issues.
New 'chemistry' library book and special journal issue lists are added, each month since January 2006, to the Caltech 'Chemistry' New Books blog at
http://chemnewbooks.blogspot.com
3. Open Access Authoring @ Caltech
Browse a running list of research papers, books, editorial appointments, and other news about open access scholarship by Caltech researchers.
http://oacaltech.blogspot.com/
4. SciFinder Scholar Update
Since March 2005, over 2 million substances in REGISTRY have been enriched with nearly 5 million references or "tags" that point to additional experimental property data. The tagged properties can be spectra***, charts, graphs, large tables, or numeric values and have bibliographic references to the original source documents. Tags will continue to be added, on an on-going basis, as new references containing property data are identified.
***Spectra currently available only for Windows client (e.g. library workstations).
CAS has added spectral data for about 150,000 compounds in SciFinder Scholar. There are 28,000 IR, 19,000 Mass Spec, and 142,000 13C NMR from Wiley and Japan's SDBS. The actual spectra are available, not just links to articles with spectral data. The spectra are currently NOT in the Mac version, but will be available in the next OS release scheduled for this summer.
To view the spectra, first retrieve the record for the compound by using the “locate” button. Click on the microscope icon to open the full record for your compound and then scroll down to the hyperlink labeled “Experimental Properties.”
5. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2006, v. 57
There is a nice juxtaposition of Robin Hochstrasser's retrospective " ON A RESEARCH ROLLERCOASTER WITH FRIENDS" and his former student Ahmed Zewail's review " 4D ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DIFFRACTION, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, AND MICROSCOPY" in the 2006 volume of Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/physchem
6. ACS Journal Article Citation Manager Functionality.
A new link "Download to Citation Manager" is at the top of each article's abstract page. Users have the choice of downloading citations into BibTeX, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager applications.
7. How to become a creative scientist [Physics World (2005), 18(12), 54-55]
This short essay suggests that … "to nurture a creative attitude", one should:
1. Liven up your working environment … images on the walls
2. Break habitual patterns … take a different route to the lab
3. Extend your attention span … take breaks at different times
4. Broaden your horizons … read unrelated journals
5. Speak to non-specialists … and describe your research in metaphorical terms
6. Harness your brain power … visualize doing things before doing them
7. Play with ideas … try combining ideas that appear to be unrelated
8. Get physical … develop a daily physical routine -- like going to the library!
9. Record your thoughts … keep a daily journal and review it
10. Read books … like Brain Power and The Mind's Eye
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