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April 1999
Contents
- CAS Online, CASREACT and Crossfire Training for April 1999
- CAS Online Feedback Needed
- Grace Baysinger Out May 1-13
- Serials Cancellation Project-Comments Due by May 15th
- Using EndNote Version 3 to Search Selected Databases at Stanford
- University Chemistry Departments-Link on the Web
- Test Access to ISI's Chemistry Server
- Royal Society of Chemistry Journals via the Web
- MDL and Synopsys Academic Databases Coming Soon
- Noteworthy Acquisitions
- Digital Libraries Symposium at Spring 1999 National ACS Meeting
CAS Online, CASREACT and Crossfire Training for April 1999
The following workshops are available to Stanford students, faculty, and staff:
- Introduction to Searching CAS Online for ESL Users
Monday, April 19, 9am-1pm, Swain Computer Room
- Introduction to Searching CAS Online
Wednesday, April 21, 9:30-noon, Swain Computer Room
- Structure Searcing in CAS Online
Thursday, April 22, 2-4pm, Swain Computer Room
- Search CASREACT
Friday, April 23, 2-4pm, Swain Computer Room
- Introduction to Searching Beilstein/Gmelin via Crossfire
Monday, April 26, 1-3:30pm, Swain Computer Room
To register for a workshop, please email the following information to
Grace Baysinger
(graceb@stanford.edu),
listing “Workshop Registration” as the subject of the message:
Name, Stanford ID, Status, Dept, Lab Group, Email Address, Phone Number,
and Anticipated Date of Departure from Stanford.
CAS Online Feedback Needed
I'm in the process of renegotiating our contracts to Chemical Abstracts
Online expire which expire on May 31st. It would be helpful to have feedback
about your preferred method for searching CAS: printed, command mode via
Folio/STN Express, or SciFinder Scholar. Are there things that you are able
to do using one interface or version but not in another? Please send me any
comments that you have by Friday, April 23rd
(graceb@stanford.edu).
Many thanks in advance!
Grace Baysinger Out May 1-13
I will be out from May 1-13th. For reference help, start with Swain staff
and if they are unable to help, then contact Stella Ota
(sota@sulmail).
Stella will also be available to help with database search requests. I won't
be checking email until I return. :o)
Serials Cancellation Project – Comments Due by May 15th
If you haven't already done so, please send me comments about Swain titles
being considered for cancellation
(graceb@stanford.edu).
Please note that Swain's list of candidate titles include: Science, Nature,
and Journal of the American Chemical Society. These titles are on the list
because Swain currently has two subscriptions for each title. A list of
titles being considered for cancellation by all of Stanford's Science and
Engineering Libraries is available at:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/serg/collections/cancellations/index.html
Printed copies of titles Swain is considering for cancellation are also
available on the table below the picture of Dr. Swain (on left right after
you enter the Library). Many thanks to those who have sent me comments. They
will be considered carefully in making a final decision on which titles to
cancel.
Using EndNote Version 3 to Search Selected Databases at Stanford
You can now use a Z39.50 client program, such as EndNote Version 3, to
connect to these restricted databases:
- Stanford on-line catalog (Socrates/Socrates II)
- ABI/Inform
- Engineering Index
- ERIC
- ERIC Thesaurus
- Inspec
- PsychInfo
This service is currently available only if you are using a computer
connected directly to the Stanford University Network (SUNet), including
computers dialing in to the Stanford modem pool. It is not available if you
connect through off-campus service providers (NetCom, America OnLine, etc.).
For more information, please see:
http://library.stanford.edu/webhelp/zaccess.html
University Chemistry Departments-Link on the Web
Chuck Huber, UCSB Chemistry Librarian, has developed a comprehensive web
page containing links to university chemistry department home pages located
both within and outside of the U.S. There are now 101 nations represented.
See:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/docs/chemuniv.html
Test Access to ISI's Chemistry Server
Stanford University has test access to the ISI Chemistry server through
Tuesday, May 4, 1999. The ISI Chemistry server is very similar in content to
the CASREACT database. One possibility might be to switch from CASREACT to
ISI's Chemistry Server for accessing current chemical reaction data.
I am interested in having people test it out who have had training in how
to search structures and reactions in CAS Online/CASREACT. Structure/reaction
functions work the same as they do in STN Express, the major difference is
that the structure/reaction module has been converted to a plug-in for
Netscape/Internet Explorer.
Please contact me if you want to be a tester
(graceb@stanford.edu).
About ISI's Chemistry Server
Chemistry Server provides you with access to the important reaction data
reported in the leading chemical journals and in patent literature. Chemistry
Server indexes and abstracts new synthetic methodology featuring:
- New reagents
- New catalysts
- Synthons and or synthetically important compounds
- Natural products
- Stereoselective and stereospecific reactions
- Chemoselective reactions
- New protecting groups
- New uses of old reagents
- Compounds previously difficult or impossible to obtain
- Biologically active compounds
- Regioselective and regiospecific reactions
Coverage consists of over 350 international journals in all areas of
chemistry, including organic chemistry, agrochemistry, and pharmaceutical
science, as well as new synthetic methods reported in patent literature.
Multistep Reactions: The Chemistry Server database contains both single
and multistep reaction schemes. For new synthetic methods which have multiple
steps, intermediate products are presented, and each step is searched
separately. For in-situ reactions, some consolidation of reactions occurs
without affecting the clarity, the mapping, or the highlighting of reacting
centers. Intermediate products are not shown, although all reagents are
provided. Likewise, for trivial chemistry, standard reactions sequences are
consolidated, but all reagents are included.
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals via the Web
I am very pleased to announce that RSC's journals are now available via IP
authentication on the web. Titles we have access to include:
MDL and Synopsys Academic Databases Coming Soon
Sometime within the next month, a number of new chemical substance and
chemical reaction databases will be available to Stanford students, faculty,
and staff. Provided by MDL Information Systems, Inc. and Synopsys, files
include:
- Available Chemicals Directory: Supplier and price information for
240,000 compounds from over 500 catalogs
- Molecule databases: MDL Drug Data Report-3D, National Cancer
Institute Database-3D
- Reaction databases: Biocatalysis, BIOSTER, ChemInform Reaction
Library, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry, Derwent Journal of
Synthetic Methods, Metabolite, Metabolism, Methods in Organic
Synthesis, Organic Syntheses, Protecting Groups, Reference Library of
Synthetic Methodology, and Solid-Phase Synthesis
See
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/databases/mdl/index.html
for more details.
Noteworthy Acquisitions
- Comprehensive natural products chemistry / editors-in-chief,
Sir Derek Barton, Koji Nakanishi ; executive editor, Otto Meth-Cohn.
1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1999. 9 v.
Swain Chem & Chem Eng Reference QD415 .C63 1999
Contents notes:
- v. 1. Polyketides and other secondary metabolites including
fatty acids and their derivatives / volume editor, Ushio Sankawa
- v. 2. Isoprenoids including carotenoids and steroids / volume
editor, David E. Cane
- v. 3. Carbohydrates and their derivatives including tannins,
cellulose, and related lignins / volume editor, B. Mario Pinto
- v. 4. Amino acids, peptides, porphyrins, and alkaloids / volume
editor, Jeffery W. Kelly
- v. 5. Enzymes, enzyme mechanisms, proteins, and aspects of NO
chemistry / volume editor, C. Dale Poulter
- v. 6. Prebiotic chemistry, molecular fossils, nucleosides, and
RNA / volume editors, Dieter Söll, Susumu Nishimura, Peter B. Moore
- v. 7. DNA and aspects of molecular biology / volume editor,
Eric T. Kool
- v. 8. Miscellaneous natural products including marine natural
products, pheromones, plant hormones, and aspects of ecology /
volume editor, Kenji Mori
- v. 9. Cumulative indexes.
For more detailed description of contents see:
http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/0/0/3/8/5/
- Web site source book, 1999 : a guide to major U.S. businesses,
organizations, agencies, institutions, and other information
resources on the world Wide Web.
4th ed. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, Inc., c1999. 1810 p. ; 26 cm.
Swain Chem & Chem Eng Permanent Reserve ZA4226 .W42 1999
Notes: “Containing Web site addresses,
mailing addresses, electronic mail addresses, and telephone, fax,
and toll free numbers for important U.S. businesses, industries, and
professions; associations, societies, and foundations; educational
and research institutions; embassies, consulates, and missions;
government and political offices and agencies; elected officials;
and other information resources. Arranged alphabetically by name and
with a classified section arranged by organization
type.”--t.p.
Digital Libraries Symposium at Spring 1999 National ACS Meeting
The ACS Chemical Information Division held a symposium on Digital
Libraries at the last ACS Meeting. I thought you might be interested in
reading web version for two of the presentations: the keynote address and the
Library Without Walls Project at Los Alamos National Library.
DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN OVERVIEW. Donald J.
Waters, Director, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and
Information Resources, 205 Church Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT,
06510-1805
Emerging digital libraries already support research and learning in a
variety of disciplines. High-quality, cost-effective support requires
continuing development of a variety of features of digital libraries. This
presentation will provide an overview from the perspective of the Digital
Library Federation of the organizational, economic, and technical
developments planned and underway. HTML version of this presentation:
http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfpresent.htm
LIBRARY WITHOUT WALLS PROJECT – THE FIRST 3 GENERATIONS. Frances L.
Knudson, Richard E. Luce, Doris K. Ford, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O.
Box 1663, MS-P362, Los Alamos, NM, 87545
The Library Without Walls (LWW) Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research Library has existed for 4 years. We will discuss the successes and
challenges of the three generations of LWW products. The first generation
included delivery of scientific databases via the web to the researchers'
desktop and digitization of Los Alamos technical reports. The second
generation centers on searching the databases simultaneously as one
mega-database; enhancing the search capabilities to deliver a truly
multidisciplinary product to the researcher. The third generation will focus
on techniques to aid the researcher in processing scientific information.
Techniques will include data mining and visualization. HTML version of this
presentation:
http://lib-www.lanl.gov/public/
Grace Baysinger
Head Librarian & Bibliographer, Swain Library of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/index.html
Head, Science and Engineering Libraries Resource Group
