90th edition of CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics now online

The latest web version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics is now available online, updating the previous edition. Eleven new topics are included:

• Structures and functions of common drugs
  
• Chemical constituents of human blood
  
• Proton nmr shifts for solvents
  
• Apparent Equilibrium Constants for Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions
  
• Phase Transitions in the Solid Elements at Atmospheric Pressure
  
• Thermoelectric Properties of Metals and Semiconductors
  
• Thermophysical Properties of Stainless Steel 310
  
• Description of the IUPAC chemical identifier (InChI)
  
• International recommendations on the expression of uncertainty of measurements
  
• Major world earthquakes, 850AD to 2008
  
• Nobel prize winners in Physics and Chemistry
  

Popular tables have been extensively revised and updated including mass spectral peaks for organic solvents, properties of refrigerants, aqueous solubility and Henry's Law Constants of Organic Compounds and more.

New Online Science Books Added

New online books have been added to our growing collection of scientific titles on Wiley Interscience. Check out the new ones below, listed in the ELLeN Library catalog, or browse the entire list.
There are unlimited concurrent seats, 24/7 access and pdf printing. If you have any problems accessing these titles, please contact the Library.

• Peptides as drugs: discovery and development
  
• Emerging technology platforms for stem cells
  
• Strategies for organic drug synthesis and design, 2nd ed.
  
• Multi-step enzyme catalysis:biotransformations and chemoenzymatic synthesis
  
• Biophysical analysis of membrane proteins: investigating structure and function
  
• Thomas' hematopoietic cell transplantation, 4th ed.
  
• Handbook of RNA biochemistry
  
• The Aptamer handbook
  
• Introduction to macromolecular crystallography
  
• Basic gas chromatography, 2nd ed.
  
• Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, 2nd ed.
  

New Online Computer Books Added

New online computer books have been added to the Library's collection. Check out the new titles listed below as well as about 200 titles in everything from desktop office applications to programming to presentation skills. There are a limited number of concurrent seats so if you cannot access, try again in a little while.

• The Little Mac Book, Snow Leopard Edition
  
• Linux in a Nutshell, 6th ed.
  
• Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 5th ed.
  
• Microsoft Windows 7 Unveiled: Exposing the Latest Features and Functions That Set Windows 7 Apart from Its Predecessors
• Windows 7: Up and Running
  
• Microsoft Windows 7 In Depth
  
• How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5
  
• Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, 2nd ed.
  

PubMed Redesign

You may have noticed that PubMed looks a little different. The site went through a redesign to simplify the interface and make it easier to use. The same functionalities are still in place, they just may have moved. Read the announcement and see all the changes here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

Some changes to note:

• The main search box now appears at the very top of the page.
  
• Search Limits, History and the Details tab have been moved under "Advanced Search" at the top of the page.
  
• Sign in to MyNCBI along the top right.
  
• Tools and resources previously found along the left-hand side menu are now in three columns in the middle of the page.
  
• The Single Citation Matcher is under the category "PubMed Tools".
  
• There is a simplified Abstract format, combining the old AbstractPlus and Citation formats.
  
• The SFX@TSRI button remains in the right hand column of the abstract.
  

NIH Public Access Policy - Publisher Database

Check out the Library's new publisher policies database to assist you in complying with the NIH Public Access Policy. We've started with the top 100 journals TSRI authors publish in.

If you are unfamiliar with the NIH Public Access Policy and are submitting papers funded by NIH, please see the Library's informational websiteor go directly to NIH's site.

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.

Science Translational Medicine now live

The newest offering from the publishers of Science, Science Translational Medicine is an interdisciplinary journal that aims to "promote human health by providing a forum for communication and cross-fertilization among basic, translational, and clinical research practitioners and trainees from all relevant established and emerging disciplines."

A free trial is being run from October 7, 2009 to January 7, 2010.

New Online Computer Books Added

New titles and new editions of online computer books have been added to our Safari collection. We have a limited number of concurrent users, so if you cannot access, try again at a later time.
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/

• Unix in a Nutshell, 4th ed.
  
• Learning Perl, 5th ed.
  
• Regular expressions cookbook
  
• PHP5 CMS framework development : expert insight and practical guidance to creating an efficient, flexible and robust framework for a PHP5-based content management system
  
• Advanced Microsoft Content management server development: working with the Publishing API, placeholders, search, web services, RSS, and SharePoint integration
  
• Photoshop CS4 down & dirty tricks
  
• CSS : the missing manual, 2nd ed.
  
• Illustrator CS4 for Windows and Macintosh : Visual Quickstart Guide
  
• Windows SharePoint services: installation and configuration.
  

SpringerImages free trial & more!

Check out the Library's Free Trials page to see the latest free trials.

• SpringerImages, a collection of over 1.6 million photos, graphs and tables is on trial until October 30, 2009.


• Arthritis Research & Therapy - access the complete journal until September 30, 2009.


• Biophysical Reviews has open access until September 30, 2009.

Check out these free resources and send any comments our way!

ScienceDirect down for maintenance

Journals from ScienceDirect will be unavailable Saturday, August 29th from approximately 11:30 am to 7:00 pm due to scheduled publisher maintenance.

SciVal Funding Trial

The publisher Elsevier has asked Scripps to be a Beta test site for their new SciVal Funding database over the next six months, until December 31, 2009. Kresge Library staff encourage you to take advantage of this limited opportunity to access SciVal Funding at:

http://cert2-funding.scival.com/

A potentially valuable feature of this product is the ability to generate targeted recommendations of funding opportunities based on your individual profile. In addition, you can search by general topic as well as find awarded grants to identify research performance at both an individual and institutional level.

Library staff have already reported to Elsevier a problem with the advanced search feature under "Find Awarded Grants": searching by institution yields zero results. Until this is corrected, the Quick Search for Awarded Grants (in the upper right hand corner) can be used to search by institution.

SciVal Funding is similar to (and would be a competitor to) the IRIS Funding Opportunities database currently provided by the Library at:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/iris/

The Library's Grant Information page provides additional information about IRIS and other grant-related web sites at:

http://www.scripps.edu/library/grants.html

The Library welcomes any feeback on this trial product, email helplibscripps.edu

Wiley Online Books Added

We've added a number of new online books to our collection. Please search for them by title in our Library catalog, ELLeN:

• Pharmacokinetic profiling in drug research


• Mass Spectrometry in Medicinal Chemistry


• Pharmacokinetic optimization in drug research


• HPLC for pharmaceutical scientists


• Enzyme Systems that metabolize drugs and other xenobiotics


• Pharmacokinetics and metabolism in drug design


• Drug discovery and development, vol.


• Human drug metabolism


• Drug bioavailability


• Directed molecular evolution of proteins

New Online Reference Works

The Kresge Library is pleased to announce online access to two major reference works: Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II and Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III. There are unlimited concurrent users and 24/7 access.

Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II content comprises of drug research, covering major therapeutic classes and targets, research strategy and organization, high-throughput technologies, computer-assisted design, ADME and case histories. Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III comprises of applications in organometallic chemistry with a strong organic synthesis focus, and provides an overview of developments in this field as well as future trends.

We hope you will find the online access to these resources useful in your research and coursework.

The NeuroNetwork

The NeuroNetwork is a free professional networking site devoted to the study of the brain. The site's debut is today, and includes news, a blog, forums, groups, events and a section for videos. Members receive free access to some journal articles. You can create virtual groups for your lab or based on interests.

New Metrics in JCR

Journal Citation Reports (JCR®) has added several additional journal metrics. JCR now reports the 5-Year Impact Factor. Because some fields have a longer lag in citation rate, the normal 2-Year Impact Factor may not capture the true influence for some journals.

JCR has also added the Eigenfactor™ Score and the Article Influence™ Score for 2007 and 2008 data sets. The Eigenfactor is similar to the 5-Year Impact Factor except that the Eigenfactor excludes self-citations, and includes citations to journals in science and social science. The Article Influence determines the average influence of individual articles in a journal, and is normalized, with a mean score of 1.00. Scores higher than 1.00 show above average influence. More information about these scores can be found at http://www.eigenfactor.org.

To account for journal self-citations, JCR now includes an adjusted Impact Factor, which excludes self-citations. To view the details of self-citations and the adjusted Impact Factor, click on the specific journal title in the result list.

100,000 Articles Requested

The Library recently surpassed 100,000 articles requested through its ILLiad interlibrary loan service. We had a Library open house on July 1st with cake to celebrate. About 50 people came to help us celebrate, learn about ILLiad and to congratulate our interlibrary loan staff for a job well done.

The Library started using the ILLiad interlibrary loan software in 2002 for requests for books and articles needed for your research here at TSRI. ILLiad allows users to track their requests and to receive articles electronically. You do have to register once in order to use this service and it is open to TSRI employees, faculty, and students.

If you have any questions about the ILLiad interlibrary loan service, please contact the Library at 4-8705.

JACS Journal Club

The Journal of the American Chemical Society,has launched the JACS Journal Club,where the lab-based journal club goes global. Students, postdocs, and faculty can ask questions and comment on current research reported in the ACS flagship journal. "Five things you need to know" is the discussion area where authors share what does and doesn't work in their experiments, and you can add comments or tips of your own. The JACS Journal Club is part of JACS Beta,an experimental website that explores different and innovative ways to share chemical research.

New Google Search Options

When you do a search in Google, you will now be presented with a "Show options" link. Clicking on this allows you to view your search results in new and useful ways. Refine your results by video, forums or reviews. You can also refine your results by time period. Want to know if there was any mention of "heterocycles" in the last 24 hours, last week or last year? Google now has links to do just that.



What is the wonder wheel?

The wonder wheel is a visual tool that shows you related and connected terms to your search terms, which allows further discovery.

The timeline feature

The timeline feature shows you how many search results are found year by year. Click on a particular decade in the timeline and Google brings up results that reference that year.

For more info on Google's new search options and to watch a short video, check out the Google blog.

Keep Up-to-Date with Podcasts

Keep even more up-to-date on science news by listening to podcasts! Many of the major science journals have weekly or monthly podcasts where they highlight content from the journal, interview scientists and report on what's happening in the scientific community. The NIH has a bimonthly Research Radio podcast covering the lastest research findings. There's even lecture podcasts from universities like Stanford, MIT and UC Berkeley available for free from iTunes U.


You can listen or sign up to the RSS feed for these podcasts through iTunes(for both mac and pc), or other free podcasting software such as Odeo or Juice or by going directly to each website. An advantage of using iTunes or other software is that you can consolidate and update your podcasts in one central place.

Listen to them online, or even better, put them on your ipod or mp3 player. Even listen to them in your car during your commute by hooking up your ipod or mp3 player to your car stereo.

Podcast resources

• Science podcast
  
• Cell podcast
  
• PNAS podcast
  
• Nature podcast
  
• Nature ChemPod
  
• iTunes U - you have to download iTunes (free) to access iTunes U
  

Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs added

The Kresge Library now has online access to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs. One of the oldest journals in this field in the U.S., it publishes peer-reviewed studies on the use, abuse, and dependence on alcohol and illegal drugs. Online access begins in 1990 and goes through the current issue.

The Lancet H1N1 Flu Resource Centre

The journal, Lancet, has announced a free H1N1 Flu Resource Centre website. It compiles relevant content from Elsevier journals and societies, grouped by topic. Complimentary access to the full-text pdf's are being made available. Additional content includes links and resources, a podcast and media coverage of the H1N1 flu. John McConnell, editor of the Lancet Infectious Diseases:

"Healthcare professionals will have immediate access to timely, accurate information aggregated from diverse online resources and journals. The global medical community will benefit from this resource."

New Online Computer Books

The Library has added new online computer books. Our online computer books collection through Safari has titles ranging from Microsoft desktop applications to graphics to biotechnology and nanotechnology innovations. We have a limited number of concurrent users, so if you cannot access, try again at a later time.
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/

• Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Classroom in a Book
  
• Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4
  
• Apple Training Series: iLife '09
  
• Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4
  
• Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques
  
• Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript
  
• Learning SQL, 2nd Edition
  
• MySQL®, Fourth Edition
  
• High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition
  
• Google™ Docs 4 Everyone
  
• iPod: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition
  
• Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step
  
• Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, Second Edition
  

Journal Access Problems Resolved

Update: All the journals listed below have been restored to full access:

• ChemBioChem
  
• Chemistry: An Asian Journal
  
• Protein Science
  
• Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry
  
• Biotechnology Progress
  

Journal Access Problems

There have been a number of access problems recently. Always contact the Library to let us know if you cannot access a journal that we subscribe to by emailing us at helplib@scripps.edu.

Current access problems:

• ChemBioChem - current issues only
  
• Chemistry: An Asian Journal - current issues only
  
• Protein Science - current issues only
  
• Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry
  
• Biotechnology Progress
  

The Library has contacted the publisher of these journals to restore access as soon as possible. However, different publishers have different response times. We apologize for any inconvenience.

New access to Anticancer Research

Check out the new online access to Anticancer Research, an "independent international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the rapid publication of high quality original articles and reviews on all aspects of experimental and clinical oncology". Access is available from January 2004 to the present.

New Online Books

There's a new batch of Wiley Interscience online books available to TSRI including three from the Novartis Foundation Symposium series:

Defining Optimal Immunotherapies for Type I Diabetes

Genetic Effects on Environmental Vulnerability to Disease

Novel and Re-emerging Respiratory Viral Diseases

Other titles include:

Modern Arene Chemistry

Iron Catalysis in Organic Chemistry

Pathway Analysis for Drug Discovery

Asymmetric Phase Transfer Catalysis

Modern Alkaloids: Structure, Isolation, Synthesis and Biology

Biology of Sensory Systems

Access all of these titles through ELLeN, Kresge Library's online catalog

Streamlined Article Delivery

The Kresge Library knows saving time is important, so we've made it quicker and easier to access your requested articles from ILLiad. No longer will you have to take the extra step of logging into your account to access your article. You can open the pdf right from the Library's email message. We've placed a link right at the top of the email for your convenience.

ILLiad is the Kresge Library's web-based interlibrary loan service. It allows you to place and track requests for journal articles and books not available at the Kresge Library, using a web browser. Sign up today at http://scripps.hosts.atlas-sys.com/illiad/logon.html

Questions or comments? Please contact the Kresge Library at x8705 or helplib@scripps.edu

PMCID's and the NIH Public Access Policy

To comply with the NIH's Public Access Policy, a PMCID number is required in NIH grant applications, proposals and progress reports for any paper "authored by you or arose from your NIH funds (even if you are not an author)" http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm#c8.

One way to find the PMCID number is to use PubMed Central's PMID : PMCID Converter available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pmctopmid .

If you already have the PMID from a PubMed search (it may appear as the
Accession Number in your EndNote library), the above converter will
provide you with the corresponding PMCID to include in your grant.

If you do not have the PMID number, you can look up PMCID's in PubMed. It will be listed in the lower right corner of the AbstractPlus view. A PMCID number will be assigned as soon as an article has successfully been submitted to PMC. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm#c9

If you have questions about the NIH Public Access Policy, the Library's
web site outlining the key points is available at: http://www.scripps.edu/library/nihpolicy.html.

The NIH Public Access Policy web site is available at: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm

You may contact NIH with your questions about compliance by sending an email to PublicAccess@nih.gov - response time is usually within 24 to 48 hours.

AuthorMapper

AuthorMapper is a free online tool for visualizing scientific research.  Search results allow you to discover other researchers, institutions and journals in a particular subject area. Graphs, timelines, and other visual aids are also featured. The site searches the Springer Journal collection which numbers around 1900 titles, so while not comprehensive it is an interesting application from the second largest science publisher.

Here's a sample search using the subject "polymer sciences" and the institution "The Scripps Research Institute".
Under search results you have four clickable tabs: articles, authors, institutions and journals.   Along the left-hand side a keyword cloud appears (top keyword = structural proteomics) as well as a graph of the years published (top year = 2007), top published authors (most published = Peter Wright) , and journals (top journal = Journal of Biomolecular NMR).

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Free in March

All Royal Society of Chemistry journals will be free online from March 2nd to March 30th. Access will be for the years 1997 to the present. The Library subscribes to some, but not all journals from this publisher so take this opportunity to check out such titles as:

• CrystEngComm


• Green Chemistry


• Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry


• Journal of Materials Chemistry


• Lab on a Chip


• Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences


• Soft Matter

RSC also has a couple of new introductory journals free online in 2009: Integrative Biology (a journal of quantitative biosciences from nano to macro) and Metallomics (a journal covering the research fields related to biometals).

Please send any comments or questions to the Kresge Library at 4-8705 or helplib@scripps.edu.

Chemistry Dictionary for Microsoft Office and Open Office

Don't you hate it when you are typing up a paper, and MS Word says that you misspelled diol, methylene, or pyrene? It makes you want to ignore the spell checker altogether! One solution is to download the free chemistry dictionary, written by an organic chemist, from

http://www.chemistry-blog.com/dictionary/.

It takes just a minute, is compatible for MS Office (Windows or mac) and Open Office (Windows or Linux) and next time you are typing tolualdehyde or phenanthrene, you won't get those squiggly red lines under all your words.

New Journals for 2009

The Kresge Library has added the following online journals for 2009:

• Cell Host & Microbe
  


• Cell Stem Cell
  


• Molecular & Cellular Proteomics


• Autophagy


• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces


• Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Wiley Journals Downtime on February 7

Due to essential system maintenance, journal access from Wiley InterScience will be subject to interruptions and periods of downtime from 12:00pm to 12:00am on February 7, 2009. If you cannot access a Wiley journal during this time, please try again later.

Online Computer Books Added

The Library has added the following updated computer books to its online Safari collection:

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How To's: 100 Essential Techniques
  
• Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual
  
• Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book
  
• Adobe Illustrator CS4 How To's: 100 Essential Techniques
  
• Linux Adminstration Handbook, 2nd edition
  
• Learning Javascript, 2nd edition
  

Go to ELLeN, the Library's catalog to look up individual titles.

Oxford University Press Journal Package

The Kresge Library is excited to announce an online journal package from Oxford University Press. An additional 95 scientific and medical journals have been added to the library's collection with access back to 1996.

Highly requested journals that TSRI now has online access to include:


• Alcohol and Alcoholism
  
• American Journal of Epidemiology
  
• Annals of Oncology
  
• Cerebral Cortex
  
• Chemical Senses
  
• Human Reproduction
  
• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  
• Journal of Experimental Botany
  
• Molecular Biology & Evolution
  
• Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  
• Rheumatology
  
• Toxicological Sciences
  

If you have any questions or comments about the new journal package, please contact the Kresge Library at 4-8705 or helplib@scripps.edu.

SciFinder Web

The Kresge Library is pleased to announce the availability of the web version of SciFinder. To access SciFinder on the web, you must first create a username/password account here. After you register, you are ready to get started with SciFinder Web. Access is restricted to the Scripps Research network, including VPN.

You can now set up "Keep Me Posted" alerts, previously only available to corporate customers. This allows you to set up reaction, substructure, and research topic alerts. More information on setting up Keep Me Posted alerts can be found at the Chemical Abstracts Service website.

There are a few adjustments to make full use of the web version of SciFinder. To enable structure searching, you will need to download a Java plugin for your web browser. If you have Java enabled, but do not have the SciFinder web plugin installed, your browser should prompt you to install it the first time you use the structure editor. More information is available at: http://www.cas.org/misc/downloads/jreplugin.html. To access full-text of journal articles, you may have to change your browser settings to allow pop up windows for scifinder.cas.org in order to see ChemPort options for full-text.

If you have questions about the web version of SciFinder, or any other library resources, please contact Aileen Chang of the Kresge Library at helplib@scripps.edu.