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November 1997
Contents
- Electronic Access Needed to ACS Journals?
- SciSearch – More Years Now Available
- Scanning Workstation at Swain – Adobe Acrobat Now Available
- Training Schedule for CAS Online
- Beilstein and Gmelin via Crossfire – Important Changes
- LabVIEW for Macintosh/Power Macintosh Version 4.0 Now Available
Electronic Access Needed to ACS Journals?
The American Chemical Society has announced 1998 prices for
their Journal Package. Price options are:
| Print only (includes one free C subnet) |
$26,839 |
| Site License for only the electronic version |
$37,483 |
| Both print & site license for electronic version |
$42,236 |
I'm interested in getting your comments on whether or not to pursue access to the
electronic versions of the ACS titles. Nearly all ACS journals are available via the
web. Many are available for free until the end of the year so try them out if you
haven't already done so (go to Publications section of the ACS web page:
http://www.acs.org/).
I'm interested in knowing which format(s) you prefer to use for ACS journals: the
print and/or the electronic versions. If you think the electronic format is important
to get, would you be willing to sacrifice the print copy of titles held by Swain that
are available electronically on the campus in order to pay for the additional charges?
Or, would you be willing to have lesser used, unique titles that are expensive
cancelled instead to cover increased ACS costs.
Please send comments to Grace Baysinger
(graceb@stanford.edu).
Many thanks in advance!
SciSearch – More Years Now Available
SciSearch now covers 1974-present. SciSearch is the computerized version of
Science Citation Index, Current Contents, and some speciality Citation indexes.
SCI is updated weekly and is available as a
web searchable database from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
FYI, the Physics Library has the most complete set of the printed version of
Science Citation Index (1945-1996).
Scanning Workstation at Swain – Adobe Acrobat Now Available
Adobe Acrobat, Version 3.0, is now available on Workstation #14 in the back alcove
of the Swain Library. Use Acrobat Exchange to to create your own PDF documents. A
tutorial is also on how to use the suite of products included in Adobe Acrobat.
Manuals are also on Reserve. The workstation also has a color scanner. In addition to
DeskScan II and HP Scanjet, other scanning software programs that Swain has on #14
includes:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Art tool that allows creation of painted images, edit scanned images, and
import rendered 3-D visualizations. (Version 3.0)
- Kekule
- Can scan printed structure diagrams and automatically convert the images
into editable structure diagrams and connection table formats. The on-screen
images that result from scanning can be integrated with text using word
processing software. (Version 1.1)
- OmniPage Pro
- Page recognition software for personal computers which will “recognize”
virtually any scanned page, separate text from graphics and convert almost any
font to ACII format for editing with a word processor. (Version 6.0)
- Un-Scan-It Gel
- An automated digitizing system which can be used as a densitometer to digitize
electrophoresis gels and convert the image into a more useful data format, or to
convert hard copy graphs and figures to digital (x,y) data at full scanner
resolution, which can then be exported into almost any spreadsheet or graphics
program. (Version 3.1)
Training Schedule for CAS Online
The Fall Quarter schedule for workshops on how to use CAS Online, Beilstein,
and Gmelin is available at this URL:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/caswrksh.html
More more CAS Introductory Workshop will be held on Thursday, November 6,
from 7-9pm in the Braun Auditorium. Please send your name, Stanford ID Number:
Status, Department, Lab Group, Email Address, Phone Number, and Anticipated
Departure Date from Stanford to Grace Baysinger to register for a session. Her
email address is:
graceb@stanford.edu.
Beilstein and Gmelin via Crossfire - Important Changes
An unlimited number of users can now use the Beilstein Handbook of Organic
Chemistry and the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
via Crossfire. See this URL for detailed information.
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/collections/databases/crossfire/index.html
The current method we are using to access Crossfire will change on November
1st. Instead of going directly to Beilstein Information Systems, we will access
Crossfire via the University of Wisconsin. If you have been searching Crossfire
from your lab or personal workstation you will need to make some changes.
Specifically, you will need to change:
Connections settings (listed under Options menu bar).
| TCP/IP Address or Host Name: |
beilstein.library.wisc.edu |
| Path to Crossfire Server: |
/xfire/bin |
| Crossfire Root Directory: |
/xfire |
| TPORT: |
6010 |
| TCP/IP Communications Product: |
MS Windows Socket (Windows) |
| MacTCP (Macintosh) |
Telnet should be checked. Open VMS Alpha Server and Capture Session should be unchecked.
Mac users: you also need to replace current Crossfire preference file with a new one. Go to
local Crossfire FTP site (see URL above) and download MacPrefs.sit.bin file. Place file in
preferences folder and restart your computer.
PC users: check Xfmb.ini file. Change tport to 6010 if it is 23.
LabVIEW for Macintosh/Power Macintosh Version 4.0 Now Available
LabView is a graphical programming system for data acquisition and control,
data analysis, and data presentation. It offers a method in which you can
create virtual instruments. Using LabView, students are able to prototype
experiments before attempting to do them in the lab.
LabView is available on the Residential Computer server for distributed use.
Five people may use LabView at one time. See this URL for instructions on how
to copy it to your lab or personal computer (note computer must be connected to
the campus network).
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/server.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
