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November 1998

Contents

1. Thanksgiving Holiday Hours at Swain
2. Swain Books “Missing in Action”
3. Recent Stanford Dissertations Available as Free PDF Files
4. Digital Dissertations and Submitting Manuscripts to ACS
5. Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Images Collections
6. National Academy Press Books Online
7. Ovid Biomedical Databases and E-Journals
8. Academic Universe: Web Interface to Lexis-Nexis Databases

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours at Swain

The Swain Library will have the following hours over the T-Day Holiday:

Wednesday	Nov. 25	9am-5pm
Thursday-Friday	Nov. 26-27	closed
Saturday	Nov. 28	1-5pm
Sunday	Nov. 29	1-10pm

Swain Books “Missing in Action”

These heavily used books were removed from Swain without being checked out. If you have them or know where they are, please return them to Swain, no questions asked. Thanks!

• Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action (Silverman)
• Theory of Unimolecular Reactions (Wendell)
• The Chemistry Classroom (Herron)
• Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Cotton)
• Guidelines for Preparing Proposals (Meador)
• Plant Design & Economics for Chemical Engineers (Peters)
• Chemistry, Science of Change (Oxtoby)
• Palladium Reagents & Catalysts (Tsuji)
• Biophysical Chemistry (Cantor)
• Advanced Problems in Organic Reaction Mechanisms (McKillop)
• Molecular Electronic Structures (Ballhausen)

Recent Stanford Dissertations Available as Free PDF Files

Stanford users now have free access to full text PDF versions of Stanford dissertations from 1997 to the present. This service is available via UMI's Current Research@service at: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/stanford/main

Note: UMI's implementation requires a series of less than intuitive steps. Instructions are provided on SUL/AIR's Dissertations and Theses Web page at: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/econ/dissertations.html#Section1A

Digital Dissertations and Submitting Manuscripts to ACS

Heads-up on an American Chemical Society (ACS) policy that you may not be aware of:

If a paper has been published in an ACS publication, ACS grants automatic permission to students to include the paper in their thesis or dissertation, with appropriate credit, of course. If a manuscript is being considered or is in press, the manuscript (or portions thereof) may be included in the thesis in print and microform formats only, but not in any electronic format of the thesis or dissertation, until after the paper has been published.

To read this ACS policy:

1. go to http://pubs.acs.org/
2. Click on Select a Title, such as Journal of the American Chemical Society.
3. When you're on a particular journal's homepage, look for “Current Issue” just beneath it, click on the copyright notice, which will take you to the copyright information that is posted, including our policy on theses and dissertations.

If you'd have any questions or comments, please let me know (Grace Baysinger, graceb@stanford.edu) and I'll get in touch with Barbara Polansky, ACS' expert on copyright. Thanks!

Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Images Collections

Just over 2000 images from RSC's Library and Information Centre's (LIC's) historical collections have now been scanned into digital form and are available at: http://www.rsc.org/lic/imagesintro.htm

The LIC's full images collection comprises about 8,000 images including original prints, individual photographs, glass lantern slides, photomicrographs and illustrations from books, dating from the present-day back to the sixteenth century. The mainstay of it is the “Cribb Collection”, with about 433 items ranging from 1538-1890, which contains portraits of famous scientists, cartoons and caricatures. The items that have been digitized are the most noteworthy images in the collection, and hence the most used and in need of protection. The RSC has the copyright for all of the images so far digitized; further images will be digitized as the project continues.

To find an image of interest, choose “Searchable” (first option). A recommended general strategy is to use the Subject field for the primary search term and the General or Free Text field to enter the terms “view image.” For example:

Subject:	Dewar
Free Text:	view image
Subject:	cartoon
Free Text:	view image

Note score box and choose items that contain all three search terms. View full record by clicking on file icon. In the full text record click on the hypertext link called “View this image” to see the image stored in the historical images database.

Images have a copyright notice superimposed on them but are still fascinating viewing, and the (unmarred) images are available for sale for publication purposes.

National Academy Press Books Online

See: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/

The full-text of more than a 1,000 books is available for free online at the National Academy Press web site. They're available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

The National Academy Press (NAP) was created by the National Academy of Sciences to publish the reports issued by the Academy and by the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under the charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences by the U.S. Congress in 1863. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. The institutions represented by NAP are unique in that they attract the nation's leading experts in every field to serve on their blue ribbon panels and committees.

Ovid Biomedical Databases and E-Journals

The Lane Medical Library is providing campus-wide access to 92 full-text journals (including Nature). The journals are linked directly to Medline and other databases such as Biosis Previews and BioethicsLine. To use Ovid, go to: http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.html

Anyone with a SUNet ID or from a Stanford IP address will have access to these journals and databases.

Academic Universe: Web Interface to Lexis-Nexis Databases

When you've got a moment, check out Academic Universe (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe). For example, it includes:

Biographical Information:	includes American Men and Women of Science and all of the Marquis' Who's Who
Reference Directories:	includes Eventline, a directory listing when conferences will be held.

Academic Universe also includes full-text access to many other resources such as newspapers and trade journals.

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