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-)