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October 1997
Contents
- Important Circulation Policy Changes
- New Books Received (and Stolen) at Swain
- Key URLs: Getting the Most out of the Stanford Libraries
- New CD-ROMs at Swain
- Principal Faculty Advisor Added to Catalog Records of Stanford Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Theses
- New Interface and Tagged Display Format for SciSearch (in Test Mode Now)
- Library Workshops
Important Circulation Policy Changes
README README README README README README README README
Begining this quarter, all library notices to students will be sent via e-mail.
(Faculty and staff have made a choice as to what format notices are sent.) So
please verify that your e-mail address is registered officially in “who-is”
so you can receive overdue notices. Handouts are available at Swain explaining how
you can update your address information.
If materials are not returned by the due date, 15 days later you are billed for
the book. There is a $5 nonrefundable billing charge for EACH billed item. This can
add up in a hurry, so please renew your materials promptly. Materials can be renewed
twice via e-mail, on the third renewal the books need to come back to Swain to be
re-charged.
Recalls must be returned within 7 days of notice or a $3 per day fee will accrue.
Library privileges can be blocked for reasons including unpaid library bills,
registration holds or invalid address. Student privilges are blocked when library
fines, fees, or bills reach $50, faculty privileges at $300. Library notices returned
because of a bad address (whether paper or email) will result in a block of the user's
record until such time as a good address has been provided.
It is your responsibility to maintain current information in the database so you
will receive Library information promptly. Please update AXESS or Prism when you
change your address. Visiting Scholars can update addresses only by going to the
privileges desk at Green Library.
Note: These changes are not limited to Swain, all SUL libraries will be operating
under these policies. We just wanted to give you some advance warning before bills are
generated. More detailed information is available in handouts at the Swain loan desk.
New Books Received (and Stolen) at Swain
Swain's newly received books are displayed on the New Book Shelf every Tuesday.
The New Book Shelf is located on the left side of the center aisle (near Chemical
Abstracts). It is possible to place a hold on an item so that you can check it out
after it has been on display for a week. Bring the book to the circulation desk
when we are open in order to reserve it. Monthly compilations of newly received
items are listed on the web at this URL:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/about/newandnote/newbook/index.html
In the last couple of months an increasing number of new items have been removed
from the New Book Shelf and taken from Swain without being checked out. Not only is
this action rude to colleagues but it is also wasteful of Swain staff time and forces
us to purchase the same item twice rather than buying new titles. Because many titles
are going out of print a short time after they are published, increasingly we are
unable to get replacments. So, please check out items and return all items you have
unofficially borrowed from the Swain Library.
Because of theft, we have also been forced to put unbound issues of the Angewandte
Chemie and Chemical Reviews on reserve too.
Key URLs: Getting the Most out of the Stanford Libraries
New CD-ROMs at Swain
Derwent Journal of Synthetic Methods on CD-ROM
Contains key references to novel synthetic methods from the world-wide patent
and scientific literature. The strict selection criteria ensure that only new or
the most synthetically useful modifications of known methods are abstracted. In
addition, all references are cross-referenced to relevant prior art and other
similar reactions. CD is on reserve. Check out for use on PC in Swain's reference
room)
Database of Palladium Chemistry: Reactions, Catalytic Cycles and Chemical Parameters on CD-ROM.
This database contains 3500 reactions and 85 types of mechanism as well as
parameters related to them. This means that searches can be done from the point of
view of the reagents, reaction products, substructures or underlying mechanism.
Searches can also be carried out on associated data such as author name, yield,
solvent, and catalyst ligand for each reaction. Compiled at the Rhone-Poulenc
Rorer, France. One to five users can search this networked CD-ROM from any PC in
Swain's computer room or the PC in the book reading area.
Principal Faculty Advisor Added to Catalog Records of Stanford Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Theses
Using two interns from the Foothill College Library Intern Program, the Swain
Library has added the principal faculty advisor for virtually all Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering theses (we still have a handful of theses whose catalog
records have problems we are working on). It is only possible to search by the
Advisor’s name in Socrates II. The best search strategy to use is to put in the
advisor’s last name in the “Full Record” field and to choose Special
Collections (Green) in the “Library” field. (Special collections holds
the archival copy of theses for campus.)
New Interface and Tagged Display Format for SciSearch (in Test Mode Now)
The search interface for SciSearch is being revised and a tagged display
format is being added. Please check it out and send comments and suggestions to
sci@krypton.
Stanford has contracted with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to get
SciSearch via the web:
http://bighorn.lanl.gov:6001/stanford/sci.html.
SciSearch includes both Science Citation Index and Current Contents and is
updated weekly. Our service includes Alerts, a weekly updating service where
new citations of interest are emailed to you. In order to qualify for the
Alerts service your email address must end in “stanford.edu.”
Currently, we have access to data compiled from 1985 to the present but
we are in the process of acquiring 1974-1984. These earlier years should be
available by the end of the Quarter.
Library Workshops
The workshop schedule for Searching Chemical Abstracts Online, Structure
Searching in the CAS Registry File Using STN Express, Searching CASREACT,
Searching the Beilstein and Gmelin Handbooks via Crossfire, Searching SciSearch,
Searching the Internet Using Netscape, and Searching with Socrates II will be
available at this URL:
http://sul3.stanford.edu:8004/jwciii/owa/wn.draw_new#training
Flyers advertising workshops will also be available in the Swain Library.
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
