February 20, 2009

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:

February 6, 2009

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.