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December 1997

Contents

1. Swain Library Intersession and Holiday Hours
2. Noteworthy New Books
3. Selected Database Searching Statistics for October 1997
4. Crossfire Use Statistics for October 1997: The Top 10 Academic Institutions in the U.S.
5. Biographical Information on the Web
6. Reference Titles Published on CD-ROM Now Available on “Kiosk” Workstations in the Science and Engineering Libraries
7. More Access to the World's Largest Chemical Handbooks

Swain Library Intersession and Holiday Hours

Weekends	Closed
December 15-19th, 22nd, 23rd	1pm - 5pm
December 24th, 25th, 26th	Closed
December 31st; January 1st, 2nd	Closed
Monday, January 5th	9am-5pm
Tuesday, January 6th	resume regular hours

Noteworthy New Books

Djerassi, Carl.

MENACHEM'S SEED (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1997)
LOCATION: Chem & Chem Eng PS3554 .J47 M46 1997

Frankel, Felice and George M. Whitesides.

ON THE SURFACE OF THINGS (San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1997)
LOCATION: Chem & Chem Eng QC173.4 .S94 F73 1997

Kennedy, Donald.

ACADEMIC DUTY (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997)
LOCATION: Chem & Chem Eng LA227.4 .K465 1997

Selected Database Searching Statistics for October 1997

For your statistical information, here's the number of online sessions run in the major science databases at Stanford last month. For comparison, I've also included the number of online sessions run in Socrates (Stanford's online catalog), our most heavily used file on campus.

Database	Online Sessions
BIOSIS	1949
CAS ONLINE	239*
CROSSFIRE (BEILSTEIN & GMELIN)	1457**
EI/COMPENDEX	1151
INSPEC	3503
MEDLINE	1677
SCISEARCH	7195
SOCRATES	49959

* Excludes use of CAS on Swain workstations #11 and #12.

** Based on use from two accounts (old one for first week in Oct and new one for last 3 weeks in Oct).

Crossfire Use Statistics for October 1997: The Top 10 Academic Institutions in the U.S.

Due to Chem 130/132 students, we use Crossfire more than any other institution in the country during October.

Count of User ID	Full Institution Name
1457	Stanford University (Beilstein/Abstracts/Gmelin)*
887	Michigan State University (Minerva)
875	Indiana University (Minerva)
705	Penn State (Minerva)
616	UC Berkeley (Minerva)
582	University of Wisconsin-Madison (Minerva)
488	Harvard (Beilstein)
464	University of Illinois at Chicago (Minerva)
458	University of Pennsylvania (Beilstein)
446	University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (Beilstein)

* Includes 183 uses from “old” account used during the first week of October. For the complete listing, see http://minerva.library.wisc.edu/

Biographical Information on the Web

A list of obituaries and biographical notes published in:

• Angewandte Chemie (1888-1995)
• Chemische Berichte (1918-1995)
• Helvetica Chimica Acta (1918-1992)
• Liebigs Annalen (1975-1995)

are available on the web at: http://www.vchgroup.de/vch/journals/2005/biog_notes1.html

Reference Titles Published on CD-ROM Now Available on “Kiosk” Workstations in the Science and Engineering Libraries

In addition to searching Socrates and Internet resources, “Kiosk” workstations in the Science and Engineernig (SERG) Libraries now provide access to nine titles published on CD-ROM. Previously, these titles were available only in one SERG Library. The CD-ROMs are in the graphical interface supplied by the producer. Window NT and CD-Net software are being used to manage access. Titles available include:

• Chapman & Hall Chemical Dictionaries
• Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
• Natural Products
• Organic Compounds
• Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Publications
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
• Merck Index
• NTIS (National Technical Information Service) Index
• Phase Equilibria Diagrams for Ceramists
• Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia

More details on each title and search tips are available at: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/sergkiosk/kioskcd.html

More Access to the World's Largest Chemical Handbooks

An unlimited number of current Stanford students, faculty, and staff can now use the Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Via Crossfire.

Abstracts for papers published from 1980-present in Beilstein are now available too. Select the database BS97xxAB to search the abstract text.

See http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/databases/crossfire/index.html for links to tutorials, FTP instrucutions of search software, and new setup instructions for accessing Crossfire via our new host, the University of Wisconsin.

Workshops are held regularly to help users amke efficient use of Crossfire. The workshop schedule is available at this URL: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/caswrksh.html

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