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August 1999
Contents
- Swain Library Hours
- After Hours Access at Swain: Migrating from Keys to Smart ID Cards
- “Stanford.You” Web Site
- Direct Delivery of SAL Materials to Swain
- Database Training Schedule for August and September
- CAS Online Searching Goes Back to 1907
- SciFinder Scholar Now Has Full-Text Links to HighWire Journals
- Journal Citation Reports (New Resource)
- ISI Ranking of Chemistry Departments
- ACS Fall 1999 Meeting: Web Guides to New Orleans & CINF Programs
- Electronic Journals Available at Stanford
- Swain Journals Update: Titles Cancelled, Most Expensive Titles and Overflow Shelving for Newly Bound Volumes
- Alerting Services
- Chemical Demonstrations: Library Resources
- Web Sites of Potential Interest
- Swain Librarian News & Vacation Plans
Swain Library Hours
| Intersession (begins Aug. 16) |
1-5 pm Monday-Friday |
| Floors Stripped/Waxed (Aug. 19) |
No access after 5 pm |
| Holiday (Labor Day, Sept. 6) |
Closed |
| Sept. 20-21 |
9am-5pm |
| Fall (begins Sept. 22) |
9am-10pm Monday-Thursday,
9am-5pm Friday, 1-5pm Saturday,
1-10pm Sunday |
Library orientations are held every Wednesday at 3pm if you need after
hours access. Hours for all of the Stanford Libraries:
http://library.stanford.edu/libraries_collections/hours_locations.html
After Hours Access at Swain: Migrating from Keys to Smart ID Cards
The more curious among you have been asking about the changes on the Swain
door...yes, something is happening. It will only effect those of you who
currently have keys to Swain. We are also ordering new cards for ALL
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering faculty. For faculty who have not had key
access to Swain, you will need to have Carol Bickler show you how to check
out materials after hours (no tour will be required) when you swap out your
ID card. Carol Bickler
(cbickler@stanford.edu)
will be the main Swain contact for the new ID cards.
We will be switching from keys to cards for after-hours access later this
month or early next month. This will involve swapping current ID's for new
proximity ID's which you will run by the scanner attached to the left of the
interior lobby door. The advantage to the library system is that when people
leave Stanford, the expired ID card will no longer give access to the library.
The downside is that as soon at the new cards are created, your old Stanford
ID card dies.
Here's the scoop on getting new ID's:
- STUDENTS: will have to pick up their new ID's at the Stanford Card
Office, 1st floor of Old Union which is open weekdays 8am to 5pm.
While our preference would be to let students pick up new ID's at
Swain, there is some issue of student privacy which prevents an
intermediary from getting the cards.
- FACULTY: new ID cards will be made for ALL faculty in Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering as well as faculty from other departments who
have after hours access to Swain. Faculty will be able to swap their
ID's at the Swain Library. Faculty who do not have keys to Swain will
be given brief instructions on how to check out books when the
library is closed.
- STAFF: who now have after hours access will be able to swap their
ID's at the Swain Library.
The upside of all of this is you will get your $3 deposit back, we will
announce dates later in the month to handle the money transactions. The other
change which will occur is that when the library closes everyone will need to
leave. Then each of you will scan your card to re-enter. After card access
goes into effect, Swain will be rekeyed.
“Stanford.You” Web Site
The Stanford.You web site
(http://stanfordyou.stanford.edu/main/home)
contains information about you that is known to Stanford University business systems and
infrastructure. This site lets you view and change the information published in Stanford
directories, view your essential indentification information, and view and change your SUNet
services settings (e.g. passwords, email forwarding).
Direct Delivery of SAL Materials to Swain
Users can now request that materials housed in SAL, Stanford's Auxillary Library, be
delivered directly to the following libraries: Art, Falconer, Biology, Swain Chemistry/Chemical
Engineering, Branner Earth Sciences, Cubberley Education, Engineering, Math and Computer
Sciences, Music, and Physics. Delivery to Green will continue as well.
This new service feature is only available through the web version of Socrates
(http://library.stanford.edu/socrates).
A “Request paging from SAL” form is linked to Socrates records for items stored in
SAL. Choose the library location you want to have an item delivered to when filling out the form.
The delivery schedule is:
- Delivery to Green Library: Requests submitted before 1:00 pm will usually
be available after 4:30 pm on the same day.
- Delivery to all other participating libraries:
- requests submitted before 1 pm Monday-Thursday will usually be available for pickup
the next day
- requests placed after 1 pm on Thursday will be available for pickup on the following
Monday after 4:30 pm
- requests submitted after 1 pm on Friday or any time on Saturday or Sunday will be
available on the following Tuesday after 4:30 pm
Database Training Schedule for August and September
Make the most out of the time you spend searching the literature by investing in yourself.
Sign up today for a database searching workshop. See the following URL for the list of
classes and registration information:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/caswrksh.html
CAS Online Searching Goes Back to 1907
Using CAS Online via Folio, you can now search the CAOLD file by title, keywords, author names,
and patent asignees back to 1907.
With this additional data you now have access to:
- Over 3 million records
- Close to 800,000 patents
- 65 volumes of printed Chemical Abstracts
- 370,000 PAGE images with abstracts
- Research on many famous discoveries
- Extensive backfile coverage of many current topics
When you find your answers, use the PAGE format in the DISPLAY command to view or print the
page image from printed CA where the hit occurred. For example, to view volume/abstract or
accession number 65:20778D you would enter:
D ACC 65:20778D PAGE
D ACC 65:20778D NEXT PAGE (if abstract continues on next page)
For more details, please see this URL:
CAOLD is New!
Note that training is required in order to use CAS Online via Folio.
SciFinder Scholar Now Has Full-Text Links to HighWire Journals
I am very pleased to let you know about a new collaborative effort between the American
Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) division and Stanford University's HighWire
Press which will significantly expand researchers' ability to identify relevant scientific
literature and access full-text articles on the Web.
The ChemPort Connection provides the channel that integrates CAS electronic search services,
the massive CAS databases, and a rapidly growing set of full-text journals and patent documents
on the Web in a robust research environment. The agreement with HighWire Press will ulitmately
increase the set of participating journals to well over 700. Among the well respected HighWire
publications already available through the ChemPort Connection are the British Medical Journal,
FASEB Journal, and Journal of Biological Chemistry.
The ChemPort Connection is at the center of the new desktop research environment being
developed through the cooperation of ACS publications, CAS, the other STN International partner
organizations in Germany and Japan and other prestigious scientific publishers. As a standard
feature of CAS search tools, including SciFinder, SciFinder Scholar, STN Express with Discover!,
STN Easy, and the new STN on the Web, the ChemPort Connection enables researchers who have found
relevant document references in CAS databases to view or acquire the associated articles in the
publishers' full-text journals or patent documents at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
and esp@cenet, the European Patent office Web site.
For complete press release, please see this URL:
CAS and HighWire Press Announce Cooperation
Journal Citation Reports (New Resource)
Stanford now has a site license for
Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information, JCR provides a systematic and objective
means of determining the relative importance of science and social science journals within their
subject categories. JCR contains impact factor, number of times cited, and the cited half-life
for nearly 5,000 science and 1,700 social science journals.
With the JCR, you will be able to answer many important questions about the current literature,
such as:
- What journals are most frequently cited?
- What journals have the highest impact?
- What are the hottest journals?
- What are the largest journals?
Practical ways you can use JCR include:
- AUTHORS: identify journals in which to publish, confirm the status of journals in which
they have published, and identify journals relevant to their research
- EDITORS: assess effectiveness of editoral policies and objectives, and track the standing
of their journals
For more information about JCR, please see this URL:
http://www.isinet.com/products/citation/jcr.html
ISI Ranking of Chemistry Departments
Produced by ISI, the August 2, 1999 issue of a web newsletter called
What's Hot in Research (http://www.isinet.com/hot/research/research.html)
contains an article titled
“Chemistry: High-Impact Universities, 1994-98” (http://www.isinet.com/hot/research/19990802/a.html).
Stanford is ranked 5th.
ACS Fall 1999 Meeting: Web Guides to New Orleans & CINF Programs
Getting ready to go to the ACS Meeting in New Orleans? Here's some web sites to help you
make the most of your visit:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~atbrooks/CINF/new_orleans_links.html
ACS Meetings offer many opportunities to explore and learn new things. While off your regular
path, programs offered by the ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF) may be of high value
to you. Program topics include: combinatorial chemistry, management of reactions information for
the synthetic chemist, numeric chemical information, and electronic laboratory notebook systems.
Joining CINF as your second ACS Division may provide a strategic advantage over colleagues.
You can learn about new resources and powerful search techniques that can save you many hours
of extra work. CINF also has great receptions that are limited to members only. For example, the
Welcoming Reception in New Orleans will be a steamboat ride. The CINF home page is available at:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~atbrooks/CINF
Electronic Journals Available at Stanford
Consult Socrates
(http://library.stanford.edu/socrates)
or go to the library's e-journal pages
(http://library.stanford.edu/collect/ejourns.html)
to see what titles are available via the web.
Efforts are underway to get web access to selected journals published by Annual Reviews,
Cambridge University Press, Kluwer (incl. ESCOM), and Wiley. Many thanks for your patience!!
Swain Journals Update: Titles Cancelled, Most Expensive Titles and Overflow Shelving for Newly Bound Volumes
In June 1999, the Science and Engineering Libraries finalized the list of journal titles to
be cancelled at the end of 1999. For more details about the cancellation project as well as the
final list of titles to be cancelled at the end of 1999, please see this URL:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/serg/collections/cancellations/index.html
To better understand economic tensions Sci-Tech-Med libraries are facing, please read a
summary of the discussions of a subcommittee of the Stanford Academic Council Committee on
Libraries (C-LIB) had in May.
Crisis in Scholarly Publishing
As you may know, chemistry and physics journals have the highest average price per title of
all the various disciplines. Here's the top 25 subscriptions (including package plans) at Swain.
Note that while the subscription costs are high, heavy use makes the cost per use lower than less
expensive subscriptions.
| Title-Publisher |
1999 Price |
American Chemical Society Package Plan
(26 titles)(incl. Web Editions)-ACS |
$34,757 |
Tetrahedron Package Plan
(5 titles)-Elsevier |
$22,161 |
| J. Applied Polymer Science-Wiley |
$10,802 |
| J. Chromatography.Sections A & B-Elsevier |
$10,296 |
J. Molecular Structure
(incl. Theochem)-Elsevier |
$9,370 |
Royal Society of Chemistry Package Plan
(A1; 18 titles)-RCS |
$9,340 |
| Surface Science-Elsevier |
$9,234 |
| Chemical Physics Letters-Elsevier |
$8,368 |
| J. Polymer Science. Parts A-D-Wiley |
$7,947 |
| J. Electroanalytical Chemistry-Elsevier |
$7,901 |
| J. Organometallic Chemistry-Elsevier |
$7,572 |
German Chemical Society Package Plan
(5 titles)-VCH-Wiley |
$6,410 |
| Thermochimica Acta-Elsevier |
$6,118 |
| Analytica Chimica Acta-Elsevier |
$5,867 |
| Inorganica Chimica Acta-Elsevier |
$5,840 |
| Applied Catalysis. Parts A & B-Elsevier |
$5,457 |
| J. Photochem. Photobiol. Parts A-B-Elsevier |
$5,439 |
| International Journal of Quantum Chem.-Wiley |
$5,429 |
| Chemical Physics-Elsevier |
$5,125 |
| Biopolymers-Wiley |
$5,092 |
| Colloids and Surfaces. Parts A & B-Elsevier |
$5,014 |
| Carbohydrate Research-Elsevier |
$4,868 |
| Physical Review B-American Physical Society |
$4,817 |
| J. Membrane Science-Elsevier |
$4,574 |
Overflow Shelving: Other important news I want to share with you about journals
is that Swain has run out of room to shelve most newly bound volumes in their proper place.
We have placed these volumes on “overflow shelving” in the hall as you enter
the open journal stacks. As these are nearly full, this fall we will begin placing materials
in the center of tables. We appreciate your patience in dealing with overcrowded stacks.
After a decade of the west stacks being closed, the Green Library is finally moving materials
from storage back into Green. Once SAL space is freed up, Swain will be able to send lesser
used materials to storage.
Alerting Services
There are several databases and journal services that allow you to be notified when new
items of interest are published. Services include:
Chemical Demonstrations: Library Resources
Scouting for demonstrations to use during Fall Quarter? Here's some key resources that
you can use:
- Chemical demonstrations: a handbook for teachers of chemistry /
Bassam A. Shakhashiri. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press,
1983-
- LOCATION: Chem & Chem Eng Library Permanent Reserves v. 1-4,
Chem & Chem Eng Library v. 1-3
- Chemical demonstrations: a sourcebook for teachers / Lee R. Summerlin,
James L. Ealy, Jr. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society,
1988-
- LOCATION: Chem & Chem Eng Library QD43.S77 1988B v. 1-2
- Classic chemistry demonstrations: one hundred tried and tested
experiments / compiled by Ted Lister; edited by Catherine O'Driscoll
and Neville Reed; designed by Imogen Bertin. London: Education
Division, The Royal Society of Chemistry, c1995.
- LOCATION: Chem & Chem Eng Library QD43.C53 1995 F1
- The Journal of Chemical Education (JCE) contains many articles on
demonstrations. To look for demonstrations of interest, go to the
JCE Index Online Search page (http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Search/index.html).
Web Sites of Potential Interest
Swain Librarian News & Vacation Plans
Last but not least in this extra long issue, I wanted to let you know that
I've added another “hat” to my collection. In addition to being
the Head of Swain, as of August 1st I have also accepted a two year
appointment as the Head of Stanford's Science and Engineering Libraries. I
look forward to working with you in this new capacity.
FYI, I will be gone to the ACS Meeting from August 20-26 and will be on
vacation from August 27-September 6. I will be reading email while on vacation,
but plan to work as little as possible during this end of summer break.
Cheers!!
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
