Tuesday, June 20, 2006

No more CA Student Edition

As of this summer, UMass Amherst no longer offers access to the Chemical Abstracts-Student Edition database. However, ALL of the material that was indexed in Chem Abstracts-Student Edition is also available via SciFinder Scholar. SciFinder also offers much more:
  • indexing, abstracts, and links to full text for ALL of the journals covered by Chemical Abstracts (not just the couple of hundred journals that were indexed in Student Edition)

  • Indexing and abstracts for hundreds of conference proceedings, reports, and books in chemistry and related fields.

  • Seamless inclusion & integration of CAS Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, CHEMCATS, and MEDLINE databases
A couple of important things to note about SciFinder Scholar:
  • SciFinder is only available from computers that are connected directly to the UMass network. This means you must be on campus or dial in to OIT's modem pool in order to access SciFinder. We are looking for way to extend access to users who are off campus.

  • To use SciFinder, you need to download a piece of client software onto your computer. The client is available for Windows and Mac OS X, and can be downloaded from the library's SciFinder Scholar page. Your computer must be connected to the UMass network (on campus) in order to download the client software.
If you have any questions at all about downloading, installing, or using SciFinder Scholar, please contact us!

For those who prefer print, you can always come in and browse the bound volumes and indexes of Chemical Abstracts from 1907-2003 in ISEL (3rd floor).

Thursday, April 20, 2006

New edition of CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics available online!

Did you know that you can access the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics online through the UMass Amherst libraries?

Our online subscription has just been updated to the most recent (86th) edition of the handbook. Changes include:
- Includes seven important new tables and extensive updates and expansion of 20 others

- Incorporates substantial revisions to the Bond Dissociation Energy and Standard Transformed Gibbs Energy of Formation for Important Biochemical Species tables

- Updates the valuable Sources of Physical and Chemical Data appendix

New tables!

1. Vapor Pressure of the Metallic Elements
2. Electrical Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions
3. Proton Affinities
4. Electron Inelastic Mean Free Paths
5. Selected Properties of Semiconductor Solid Solutions
6. Vapor Pressures (Solvent Activities) for Binary Polymer Solutions
7. Density of Sulfuric Acid
To access the online version of the CRC Handbook, just visit the UMass Libraries homepage, click Databases, and navigate to C for CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

Enjoy!

Monday, March 27, 2006

Structure and Bonding now online, 1999-present

The UMass Libraries have just added online access to the journal Structure and Bonding from 1999-present. Enjoy!

Friday, March 24, 2006

Upgrade now to SciFinder Scholar 2006!

CAS has announced that as of April 1, older versions of SciFinder Scholar will no longer be supported. That means that all you SciFinder users out there need to upgrade (if you haven't yet) to the latest version.

Nota bene! To download the SciFinder Scholar client, you must be connected to the internet with a UMass Amherst IP address. This means either an on-campus connection, or dialing in via OIT. You will not be able to download via a connection through your home ISP or by using a UMass proxy service.

The latest downloads are available from the library's SciFinder Scholar page.

Please contact dbhelp@library.umass.edu if you have any questions about downloading or installing SciFinder Scholar software.

ACS Podcasting

The American Chemical Society is starting to make podcasts available on its website. So far, interviews with some of the organizers of the Annual Meeting have been posted (subscribe to feed here, view list of available audio files here). There's also an interview with the editorial team of the journal ACS Chemical Biology (no feed yet, but file available here).

According to ACS, we should "look for information about these podcasts coming soon to the ACS Publications homepage."

Monday, February 20, 2006

Open access chemistry journals from Hindawi

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is providing open access to more of its journal offerings. The following chemistry-related titles are now (or will soon be) freely available from Hindawi:

Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
Fulltext v1+ (2003+)
http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=BCA
Print ISSN: 1565-3633 | Online ISSN: 1687-479X

EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Forthcoming
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bsb/
Print ISSN: 1687-4145 | Online ISSN: 1687-4153

International Journal of Photoenergy
Fulltext v1-7 (1999-2005), (2006+)
http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=IJP
ISSN: 1110-662X

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Fulltext v1-2 (2001-2002), (2003+)
http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=JBB
Print ISSN: 1110-7243 | Online ISSN: 1110-7251

Journal of Nanomaterials
Forthcoming
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/
Print ISSN: 1687-4110 | Online ISSN: 1687-4129

PPAR Research
Forthcoming
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ppar/
Print ISSN: 1687-4757 | Online ISSN: 1687-4765

(via George Porter, CHMINF-L)

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Best Sellers in Chemistry, 2005

Which chemistry books were flying off the shelves last year? YBP Library Services has released the following list of chemistry best-sellers for January-November, 2005. Titles owned by UMass libraries have clickable links that will bring you to their library catalog records. Think we should own a title on this list? Let us know! Happy reading.

Best Sellers in Chemistry, January–November, 2005, as compiled by YBP Library Services

1. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Ed. by David R. Lide
CRC Press
2005. ISBN 0849304865. $139.95

2. Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry
Seager, Spencer L.
Brooks/Cole
2004. ISBN 053439969x. $137.95

3. World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
Jackson, Joe
Viking
2005. ISBN 0670034347. $27.95

4. Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Bell, Madison Smartt
W.W. Norton
2005. ISBN 0393051552. $22.95

5. Crystals: Growth, Morphology, and Perfection
Sunagawa, Ichiro
Cambridge U. Press
2005. ISBN 0521841895. $95.00

6. Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare
Charles, Daniel
Ecco
2005. ISBN 0060562722. $24.95

7. Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
Ball, Philip
Royal Society Chemistry
2005. ISBN 0854046747. $39.95

8. Modern Raman Spectroscopy: A Practical Approach
Ewen Smith, et al.
John Wiley
2005. ISBN 0471496685. $90.00

9. Vocabulary and Concepts of Organic Chemistry
Milton Orchin, et al.
John Wiley
2005. ISBN 047168028. $132.00

10. Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers
Barford, William
Clarendon/Oxford
2005. ISBN 0198526806. $112.50

11. Photocatalytic Reaction Engineering
De Lasa, Hugo I.
Springer
2005. ISBN 0387234500. $119.00

12. Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century
Ed. by Dennis H. Rouvray
Institute of Physics Publications
2004. ISBN 0863802923. $68.00

13. Optical Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Life Sciences
Schmidt, Werner
Wiley-VCH
2005. ISBN 3527299114. $65.00

14. Data Analysis for Chemistry: An Introductory Guide for Students and Laboratory Scientists
Hibbert, D. B.
Oxford U. Press
2006. ISBN 0195162102. $44.50

15. Valency and Bonding: A Natural Bond Orbital Donor-Acceptor Perspective
Weinhold, Frank
Cambridge U. Press
2005. ISBN 0521831288. $100.00

16. Energy Dissipation in Molecular Systems
Tramer, A.
Springer
2005. ISBN 3540250506. $79.95

17. Artificial Enzymes
Ed. by Ronald Breslow
Wiley-VCH
2005. ISBN 3527311653. $99.95

18. Molecular Orbitals of Transition Metal Complexes
Jean, Yves
Trans. by Colin Marsden
Oxford University Press
2005. ISBN 0198530935. $94.50

19. Chemometrics and Chemoinformatics
Ed. by Barry K. Lavine
American Chemical Society
2005. ISBN 0841238588. $99.50

20. Kinetics of Catalytic Reactions
Vannice, M. Albert.
Springer
2005. ISBN 0387246495. $99.00

Sunday, February 05, 2006

New e-journal content @ UMass Libraries

The full text of the following e-journals is newly available through the UMass library catalog; enjoy!

Carbohydrate polymers (1998-)
Catalysis today (1998-)
Clinica chimica acta (1998-)