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June 2000
Contents
- Selected Press Releases
- Reminder: CAS Online Via Folio Replaced by SciFinder Scholar
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics-Web Site License Now Available
- SPRESI: InfoChem Structure and Reaction Databases
- New Electronic Journals at Stanford
- Molecular Structures in DIPPR
- Selected Web Resources
Selected Press Releases
ACS Journals: New feature added to ACS Web Editions — Reference Linking
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/reflink/citation_promo.html
Subscribers to ACS Web Editions are now able to link from references in
journal articles directly to abstract and bibliographic information at
Chemical Abstract Service
Beilstein Database: Journals Covered in the Beilstein Database Increases
http://www.beilstein.com/support/journal.html
With the release of CrossFire EcoPharm Database the amount of journals
covered within the Beilstein database will rise from 110 to around 180
journals.
Beilstein Informationssysteme Announces First New Data Update of CrossFire Gmelin
http://www.beilstein.com/press/gmelin-2.html
Efforts are underway to fill the current data gap in the database (from 1995
to 1999) within the next four years and to provide recent literature coverage
- a substantial investment of time and resources. The companies expect to
almost double the number of Gmelin compounds to over 2 million by 2003.
Beilstein — New Beilstein Data Structure: More Data, Earlier Access
http://www.beilstein.com/bbrief/99_2/developments.html
Beilstein's new data structure includes an entirely new subject area, new
topics, and new fields. But more importantly, the data is better organized
and easier to navigate.
CAS Introduces Citations, Further Expands Linking Capability of CAS Databases
http://www.cas.org/New1/citations2.html
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) now will include 20 million citations in CAS
databases greatly increasing researchers' ability to follow online research
pathways from database records, to full-text documents, to the related
documents they cite.
CAS Triples Number of Electronic Journal Links Offered Through ChemPort: SciTech Journals Now Approach 1,900
http://www.cas.org/New1/chemport5.html
With the newly added publications from major publishers — the American
Physical Society and Institute of Physics — along with EBSCO, a leading
subscription service, ChemPort connects users of CAS information products to
a total of 1,887 journals on the Web. Records in CAS databases are linked to
the associated full-text journal articles plus patents. Go to this URL to see
the complete list of journals available via ChemPort:
http://www.chemport.org/html/english/journals_list.html.
ChemPort is now one of the most extensive resource linking chemical journals,
patents, and databases on the web. For more details, see:
http://www.cas.org/New1/chemport4.html
CAS Will Cover “Preprints” on the Web
http://www.cas.org/New1/preprints.html
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has begun to abstract and index preprints, a
new class of research report distributed on the Web in advance of or in lieu
of formal publication. CAS will monitor preprint servers in chemistry-related
fields and begin indexing preprints posted in the year 2000. Abstracts and
indexing for preprints will be accessible through all CAS electronic search
services, including SciFinder Scholar. Preprints will be distinguished from
journal articles and other documents by a special field code.
Reminder: CAS Online Via Folio Replaced by SciFinder Scholar
Effective June 1, 2000, CAS Online and CASREACT are no longer available
through Folio. For information about using these files via SciFinder Scholar,
please see:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/databases/scifi/index.html
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics-Web Site License Now Available
http://www.knovel.com/knovel/Databook/default.htm?WCI=BrowseBook&WCE=34&WCU=1
This latest edition of the world’s most popular scientific reference book, the CRC Handbook
of Chemistry and Physics contains the most frequently used data in science, including the periodic
table of the elements, basic constants and units, thermodynamic and spectroscopic data; electric,
magnetic, thermal and structural properties of solids, key data from nuclear science, astronomy and
geophysics; and up-to-date health and safety information. Features of the web version include:
- Printable PDFs: Displayed exactly like that of the printed version
- Interactive tables: Tabular data is displayed in tables that can be selected, searched and sorted
- Keyword searching available from every page
- Advanced searching facilities
- Hit highlighting
- Hot-linked chemical structures
- New easy to use navigation
- Faster download times
SPRESI: InfoChem Structure and Reaction Databases
http://www.spresi.de/
Consists of a web search engine for two databases: the SPRESI structural
database which at present contains about 4 million organic and organometallic
compounds and data, 700,000 stereoisomers and over 3 million journal article
references taken from the worldwide literature of the period 1975–1995, and:
the SPRESI reaction database which currently includes some 3 million chemical
reactions of which 400,000 are abstracted from patents. It also covers the
literature period 1975–1995. Agreement has been reached with VINITI to
update the databases with data from 1996 onwards on an annual basis. Since
many of the reactions are variations of the same type of reaction, InfoChem
has developed a sophisticated selection concept based on the identification
of all the different individual reaction types included in this file.
The SPRESI structural database can be searched with the well known
retrival sofware from DAYLIGHT (DAYLIGHT Chemical Information Systems, Inc.)
while reaction information can be accessed using InfoChem’s powerful
Synthesis Tree Search (STS)and Reaction Type Searching (RTS) software. The
Java applet used for query input has been developed by Peter Ertl. Note: it
is possible to click on any structure displayed in a reaction scheme and then
run a search on it.
New Electronic Journals at Stanford
Newly available electronic journals by title/publisher/vendor are below:
Acta Crystallographica: Sections A–D
http://agate.iucr.org/iucr-top/journals/acta/
Elsevier Web Editions in the Stanford University Libraries (Latest 9 months)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions
The latest 9 months for subscriptions in the Stanford University Libraries
and the Business Library are now available. The Lane Medical Library also has
test access to Elsevier journals which includes all years available online.
JSTOR — General Science Journals Now Available
http://www.jstor.org/jstor/
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical
Sciences 1980–1989
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences
1980–1989
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1980–1995
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
1980–1989
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 1980–1989
- Science 1980–1989
Wiley Interscience Journals
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/
We have Basic Access (1 simultaneous user per title). Please be sure to
logoff when you are finished using a title so that it is available for
others.
About Accessing Electronic Journals at Stanford
The Stanford University Libraries as well as the Coordinate Libraries
(Medical, Business, Law, etc) have web pages up listing electronic journals.
Here's e-journal pages for the
Stanford University Libraries,
Lane Medical Library,
and the
Business Library.
Most electronic journals available at Stanford are also cataloged in
Socrates. Due to some processing backlogs, a title may be listed in Socrates
but not yet listed on an Electronic Journals page. So, if you do not find a
title you are looking for be sure to search Socrates. If you are still unable
to locate it, please contact Grace Baysinger
(graceb@stanford.edu)
to find out if anything is “in the works.”
Molecular Structures in DIPPR
The DIPPR 801 Database website now displays the molecular structure of
each compound in a 2D or 3D view. This is done by clicking on the Structural
Formula link on the Constants page for each compound. Viewing the 3D
structure may require a free Chime plug-in
About the DIPPR Database
The DIPPR 801 database of physical and thermodynamic properties of pure
chemicals consists of experimental data and correlations of
temperature-dependent properties for over 1,600 pure chemicals. Collected
data have been evaluated, correlated, and checked for thermodynamic
consistency. From this site, you can view data sets, DIPPR-approved property
constants and regressed correlation coefficients for temperature-dependent
properties, as well as calculate temperature-dependent properties in any set
of units.
Selected Web Resources
The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
http://www.abbreviations.com/jas.asp#Chemistry
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry of Web resources
that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Stanford Only)
http://galenet.gale.com/
Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than
12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of
current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and
historical figures throughout the world.
Computer Based Training: Knowledge When You Need It (Stanford Only)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss-customer/ip/cbt/
Derwent Innovations Index (Derwent World Patents Index and Derwent
Patents Citation Index, via ISI's Web of Science) (Stanford Only)
http://dii.derwent.com/
The Derwent Innovations Index is the world's most comprehensive database of
international patent information. For more information, please see
http://dii.derwent.com/help/hd_toc.htm
Directory of Science Education Websites
http://avel.edu.au/sci-tech/dosew.html
Compiled by Stephanie Bianchi, a librarian at the NSF.
EndNote Tip Sheets
http://www.endnote.com/help/ENtips.htm
The tip sheets that follow are designed to help explain the key components of
the software. The material is ideal for both end users and librarians.
Sci/Tech News Links
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/help/subjectguides/general/industry/industrynews.html
Silicon Valley Web Directory
http://www.GoCee.com/valley/
Subject Links to Web Sites
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/help/webdirs/subject.html
This Week in the History of Chemistry
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/%7Egiunta/week.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
