Caltech Chemistry Library Newsletter - Spring 2007
Chemistry Library Newsletter
Spring 2007
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***Color Printer in the SFL Library (only accessible from library workstations)
http://library.caltech.edu/help/printing.htm
Limit of 100 pages/term for free and then $0.40/side.
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1. New Databases (iHOP, ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams, Vapor Phase IR Spectra
2. New Journals, Books (ACS Author Choide, ACS Nano, Gold Book, J. Visualized Experiments
3. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar Update (additional pre-1900 information)
4. Covalent and van der Waals radii (Cambridge Structural Database)
1. New Databases
iHOP (Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins)
The freely accessible iHOP service provides summary information on more than 80,000 genes, from 1,500 organisms by automatically extracting key sentences from over 12M PubMed documents.
Full news release at: http://www.sloankettering.edu/gerstner/html/73407.cfm
Database at: http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/
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ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
http://www.asminternational.org/asmenterprise/apd/default.aspx
The Alloy Phase Diagram Center currently features more than 8,000 binary diagrams and 2,000 ternary diagrams. A second release, scheduled for September 2007, will feature 10,000 binaries and more than 20,000 ternaries.
Clicking the Explore tab displays a list of elements. Clicking an element name, and then 'binary' or 'ternary', displays a list of alloy systems for that element. Selecting a system displays a thumbnail diagram and related data. Clicking on the system title, pulls up an enlargable diagram and a full data set (bibliographic & experimental data, crystal and reaction data, and melting points and allotropic transformations)
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Vapor Phase Infrared Spectral Library (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
http://library.caltech.edu/password/ (which gives the password)
Quantitative vapor-phase infrared spectra of pure chemicals, created for both laboratory and remote-sensing applications. A spectral resolution of ~0.1 cm-1 was selected to avoid degrading sharp spectral features, while also realizing that atmospheric broadening typically limits line widths to 0.1 cm-1.
https://secure2.pnl.gov/nsd/NSD.nsf/Welcome?OpenForm
Click on either 'Browse CAS Numbers' or 'Browse Compound Names'
To retrieve a specta, click 'Add to Cart' corresponding to the compound name or CAS RN.
On the next screen, click 'Checkout'
Click 'Login with Existing Account' and enter login/password [http://library.caltech.edu/password/]
Then check-off ASCII and click 'Download Selections'
Click on the compound name and, in the dialog box, click either 'Open' or 'Save'
On the next screen, double click the compound folder and double click the compound name folder
The next screen will display a number of files, with the PDFs displaying spectra at different temperatures.
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New Journals, Books
1. ACS News …
ACS AuthorChoice allows unrestricted web access to your published ACS article—at the time of publication—for a one–time fixed payment, provided by you or your funding agency. Contributing authors who are ACS members and/or are affiliated with an ACS subscribing institution receive significant discounts. This policy also allows you to post copies of published articles on your personal website and institutional repositories for non–commercial scholarly purposes.
At Caltech but not an ACS member - $2000
At Caltech and an ACS member - $1000
This new program is in addition to the ACS Articles on Request policy, which provides (free of charge) to all contributing authors a unique URL, within the ACS website, that they may e-mail to colleagues or post on external websites. The ACS Articles on Request policy is limited to 50 downloads within the first year, and unlimited access via the same author-directed links 12 months after publication.
ACS Author Choice
http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/
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2. ACS Nano
Paul S. Weiss (Penn State) is the editor of ACS Nano, a monthly journal about Nanoscale Science and Technology that will begin publication in third-quarter 2007.
ACS Nano will include full-length research articles, perspectives, and editorial commentary. Its scope will complement the Nano Letters. ACS Nano will be featured within a community-oriented website.
Areas of interest will range from synthesis and assembly to functional devices and nanolithography, including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and engineering. Editorial features will report on issues and thoughts in the field, including "conversations" with key scientists and public figures.
Full news release at: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nano_editor/
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3. IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology - the Gold Book (Electronic Version)
http://goldbook.iupac.org/
A browsable, searchable, interactive version of the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, informally known as the Gold Book. It provides both alphabetical and thematic (i.e. chemistry, math-physics, general) indexes, as well as an extensive listing of IUPAC source publications.
Mousing over underlined linear structures displays the 2-dimensional structure of the molecule. Each entry contains interactive maps of narrower and broader terms.
All ring-containing structures (327) in the Gold Book were split to individual rings (97) and these were organized in a comprehensive ring index.
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Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
http://www.jove.com/index.stt
An online journal publishing visualized (video-based) biological research studies, which aims to solve difficult problems in the contemporary life science research, namely:
Low transparency and reproducibility of biological experiments, and
Time-consuming learning of experimental techniques
Video-based visualization of biological techniques and procedures provide effective solutions to these problem. Each video-article will include step-by-step instructions on an experiment, a demonstration of equipment and reagents, and a short discussion by experts describing possible technical problems and modifications.
There is NO fee for authors to publish their video articles. Video-articles published in JoVE will be freely available to the scientific community.
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3. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar Update (additional pre-1900 information)
SciFinder Scholar has added 10,000 records for U.S. chemical patents from 1900-1906 and nearly 8,700 for U.S. patent records from 1890-1899. Data from both the 1878-1906 issues of J. Chem. Soc., Transactions and the 1890-1906 issues of the Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts have been loaded as well. These additions are relevant to both research and patenting efforts. The JCS Abstracts provide extended abstracts of 'foreign' publications
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4. Covalent Radii and van der Waals Radii
Four listings of the elements (by name, symbol, period and group) .
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/csd/radii/table.php4
Courtesy of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
Spring 2007
-----
***Color Printer in the SFL Library (only accessible from library workstations)
http://library.caltech.edu/help/printing.htm
Limit of 100 pages/term for free and then $0.40/side.
-----
1. New Databases (iHOP, ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams, Vapor Phase IR Spectra
2. New Journals, Books (ACS Author Choide, ACS Nano, Gold Book, J. Visualized Experiments
3. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar Update (additional pre-1900 information)
4. Covalent and van der Waals radii (Cambridge Structural Database)
1. New Databases
iHOP (Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins)
The freely accessible iHOP service provides summary information on more than 80,000 genes, from 1,500 organisms by automatically extracting key sentences from over 12M PubMed documents.
Full news release at: http://www.sloankettering.edu/gerstner/html/73407.cfm
Database at: http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/
==========
ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
http://www.asminternational.org/asmenterprise/apd/default.aspx
The Alloy Phase Diagram Center currently features more than 8,000 binary diagrams and 2,000 ternary diagrams. A second release, scheduled for September 2007, will feature 10,000 binaries and more than 20,000 ternaries.
Clicking the Explore tab displays a list of elements. Clicking an element name, and then 'binary' or 'ternary', displays a list of alloy systems for that element. Selecting a system displays a thumbnail diagram and related data. Clicking on the system title, pulls up an enlargable diagram and a full data set (bibliographic & experimental data, crystal and reaction data, and melting points and allotropic transformations)
==========
Vapor Phase Infrared Spectral Library (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
http://library.caltech.edu/password/ (which gives the password)
Quantitative vapor-phase infrared spectra of pure chemicals, created for both laboratory and remote-sensing applications. A spectral resolution of ~0.1 cm-1 was selected to avoid degrading sharp spectral features, while also realizing that atmospheric broadening typically limits line widths to 0.1 cm-1.
https://secure2.pnl.gov/nsd/NSD.nsf/Welcome?OpenForm
Click on either 'Browse CAS Numbers' or 'Browse Compound Names'
To retrieve a specta, click 'Add to Cart' corresponding to the compound name or CAS RN.
On the next screen, click 'Checkout'
Click 'Login with Existing Account' and enter login/password [http://library.caltech.edu/password/]
Then check-off ASCII and click 'Download Selections'
Click on the compound name and, in the dialog box, click either 'Open' or 'Save'
On the next screen, double click the compound folder and double click the compound name folder
The next screen will display a number of files, with the PDFs displaying spectra at different temperatures.
======
======
New Journals, Books
1. ACS News …
ACS AuthorChoice allows unrestricted web access to your published ACS article—at the time of publication—for a one–time fixed payment, provided by you or your funding agency. Contributing authors who are ACS members and/or are affiliated with an ACS subscribing institution receive significant discounts. This policy also allows you to post copies of published articles on your personal website and institutional repositories for non–commercial scholarly purposes.
At Caltech but not an ACS member - $2000
At Caltech and an ACS member - $1000
This new program is in addition to the ACS Articles on Request policy, which provides (free of charge) to all contributing authors a unique URL, within the ACS website, that they may e-mail to colleagues or post on external websites. The ACS Articles on Request policy is limited to 50 downloads within the first year, and unlimited access via the same author-directed links 12 months after publication.
ACS Author Choice
http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/
===
2. ACS Nano
Paul S. Weiss (Penn State) is the editor of ACS Nano, a monthly journal about Nanoscale Science and Technology that will begin publication in third-quarter 2007.
ACS Nano will include full-length research articles, perspectives, and editorial commentary. Its scope will complement the Nano Letters. ACS Nano will be featured within a community-oriented website.
Areas of interest will range from synthesis and assembly to functional devices and nanolithography, including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and engineering. Editorial features will report on issues and thoughts in the field, including "conversations" with key scientists and public figures.
Full news release at: http://pubs.acs.org/pressrelease/nano_editor/
===
3. IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology - the Gold Book (Electronic Version)
http://goldbook.iupac.org/
A browsable, searchable, interactive version of the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, informally known as the Gold Book. It provides both alphabetical and thematic (i.e. chemistry, math-physics, general) indexes, as well as an extensive listing of IUPAC source publications.
Mousing over underlined linear structures displays the 2-dimensional structure of the molecule. Each entry contains interactive maps of narrower and broader terms.
All ring-containing structures (327) in the Gold Book were split to individual rings (97) and these were organized in a comprehensive ring index.
===
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
http://www.jove.com/index.stt
An online journal publishing visualized (video-based) biological research studies, which aims to solve difficult problems in the contemporary life science research, namely:
Low transparency and reproducibility of biological experiments, and
Time-consuming learning of experimental techniques
Video-based visualization of biological techniques and procedures provide effective solutions to these problem. Each video-article will include step-by-step instructions on an experiment, a demonstration of equipment and reagents, and a short discussion by experts describing possible technical problems and modifications.
There is NO fee for authors to publish their video articles. Video-articles published in JoVE will be freely available to the scientific community.
=======
3. Chemical Abstracts / SciFinder Scholar Update (additional pre-1900 information)
SciFinder Scholar has added 10,000 records for U.S. chemical patents from 1900-1906 and nearly 8,700 for U.S. patent records from 1890-1899. Data from both the 1878-1906 issues of J. Chem. Soc., Transactions and the 1890-1906 issues of the Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts have been loaded as well. These additions are relevant to both research and patenting efforts. The JCS Abstracts provide extended abstracts of 'foreign' publications
======
4. Covalent Radii and van der Waals Radii
Four listings of the elements (by name, symbol, period and group) .
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/csd/radii/table.php4
Courtesy of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
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