New Books - Fall

 New books added to the Library collection this Fall:

E-books

Chemical Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogues

Glycochemical Synthesis: Strategies and Applications

Print Books

The Academic Job Search Handbook

Annual register of grant support, 2017

Carbocation chemistry : applications in organic synthesis

Carotenoids in nature : biosynthesis, regulation and function (Sub-cellular biochemistry, v. 79)

The chemical bond II : 100 years old and getting stronger (Structure and bonding, v. 170)

Designing Your Life

An Introduction to Genetic Analysis 

Knock 'em Dead 2017: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

MicroRNAs as Tools in Biopharmaceutical Production

Modified Nucleic Acids in Biology and Medicine

Molecular Cell Biology, 8th edition

Next Gen PhD

Principles of Virology 

Regulation of Gene Expression in the Tumor Environment

Strengths Based Leadership

Turning Points: Changing Your Career from Science to Patent Law

Scientific Phone Apps

 
Scientific Phone Apps and Mobile Devices is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on research and science oriented mobile apps and add-on sensors.

Check out the article, "The world of biomedical apps: their uses, limitations, and potential" for a review of many scientific apps.

Science Immunology Trial Access

Institution-wide trial access has been activated for Science Immunology, the newest title from AAAS. Its mission is “to facilitate understanding of the immune system by showcasing innovative advances in the expanding field of immunology, drawing from studies in all organisms and model systems including humans."

The trial runs through the end of the year.

Other AAAS journals the Library subscribes to:

• Science 
• Science Advances
• Science Signaling
• Science Translational Medicine
• Science Archive : Please note that the older issues of Science published before 1997 are available on a separate platform (not the main Science website), at the link provided.

New Computer Books Online

Biostatistics by Example Using SAS Studio

Excel 2016 For Dummies

Grid Layout in CSS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

Learning Perl, 7th Edition

Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Perl, 2nd ed.

Microsoft Word 2016 Step by StepExcel 2016 For Dummies

My Office® 2016 for Mac

My PowerPoint® 2016

The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Fourth Edition

PHP and MySQL® Web Development, Fifth Edition

Spark for Data Science

Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

ChemSearch Challenge

Join the ChemSearch Challenge and compete with thousands of chemists from research, education and industry fields to see who can achieve the fastest route to finding answers.

Reaxys is hosting a multi-week online competition for chemists to solve practical chemistry research problems. Players with the fastest time and most accurate answers will be that week's winner. You can win money for charity and make a name for yourself, all while learning something in the process.

The ChemSearch Challenge starts October 17th.

Register for the ChemSearch Challenge

Cell Press Figure360

Figure360 is an "author-narrated animation of select figures in Cell Press primary research and review journals: a short, digestible synopsis puts the figure in context and helps you zoom in on the most important take-home message in a matter of minutes." Here is the list of Figure360 videos.

New Books - Summer

Print Books

Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students

A Systems Biology Approach to Study Metabolic Syndrome

Atomic Evidence - Seeing the Molecular Basis of Life 

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants

Bioconjugate Techniques

Carbohydrates Chemistry: Proven Synthetic Methods, Volume 3

Carbohydrates in Drug Design and Discovery

Cell Death Techniques: A Laboratory Manual

Chemical and Biomedical Physics: A Systematic Approach to Experiments, Evaluation, and Modeling

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce Your Stress, and Lead by Example

Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care

Extending R

Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders

Foye's Principal of Medicinal Chemistry

Generating Middle Range Theory: From Evidence to Practice

Harpers Illustrated Biochemistry

Immunology: A Short Course

Janeway's Immunobiology

Jawetz Melnick & Adelbergs Medical Microbiology

Knock' em Dead Social Networking: For Job Search and Professional Success

Laboratory Protocols in Applied Life Science

Leading and Managing in Nursing 

Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done

LinkedIn For Dummies

Medical Physiology

Merck Veterinary Manual

MKSAP 17

Molecular Biology of Assemblies and Machines

Molecular Biology: Structure and Dynamics of Genomes and Proteomes

Next Gen PhD: A guide to career paths in science

Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy

The PhD Handbook for the Academic Job Search 

Proteomic Profiling and Analytical Chemistry

Resumes for Dummies

The science writers' handbook : everything you need to know to pitch, publish, and prosper in the digital age

The Scientist's guide to writing: How to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career

What color is your parachute? Guide to rethinking resumes: write a winning resume and cover letter and land your dream interview

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology

Winning Answers to 500 Interview Questions

Online Books

Data Science in R : A Case Studies Approach to Computational Reasoning and Problem Solving

New Books

E-books 

Access 2016 Bible

Big Data Analytics with Spark: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Spark for Large-Scale Data Processing, Machine Learning, and Graph Analytics, and High-Velocity Data Stream Processing

Claudins: methods and protocols (OCLC #740822181)
 
Copper-catalyzed asymmetric Synthesis

Environmental Experience and Plasticity of the Developing Brain

Excel 2016 All-in-One For Dummies

Excel Data Analysis For Dummies

LinkedIn In 30 Minutes, 2nd Edition

Mastering Python

Microsoft® Office 365 For Dummies®

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Step by Step

Office 2016 All-In-One For Dummies

OS X El Capitan: The Missing Manual

Perl by Example, Fifth Edition   

Preparation of Compounds Labeled with Tritium and Carbon-14

R Programming for Bioinformatics

Spark for Python Developers

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2016 

Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition

Print Books

101 great answers to the toughest interview questions, 25th ed.

The academic job search handbook, 5th ed.

Arabidopsis thaliana : cultivation, life cycle and functional genomics

B cell receptor signaling (Current Topics in Microbiology & Immunology,v.393)
 

Carbohydrate chemistry : proven synthetic methods

CRISPR-Cas : a laboratory manual

Development and brain systems in autism

Electrophysiology : basics, modern approaches and applications

Flow chemistry 1 : Fundamentals

Graduate research : a guide for students in the sciences

Natural killer cells (Current Topics in Microbiology & Immunology, v.395)

Neurobiology of mental illness

The professor is in : the essential guide to turning your Ph.D. into a job

Proteases : structure and function

Elements electronic lab notebook

The latest version of ChemOffice Professional 15.1 includes access to a cloud-based electronic laboratory notebook called Elements. Elements allows scientists to easily capture and organize scientific data and collaborate with colleagues. Read more about Elements here: http://www.cambridgesoft.com/literature/PDF/Elements.pdf.

How to access Elements

If you have already downloaded ChemOffice:

You can access Elements from the top menu by going to File > Cloud > Browse Elements (or Upload to Elements).

Or go directly to Elements.

*You will need to sign in with your ChemOffice username and password when prompted.

If you have not downloaded ChemOffice:   

You can still use Elements e-notebook. While on campus, go to the SciStore download site and follow the prompts to register and choose Elements from the list of downloads available. You’ll sign in with the username and password you just created.

Getting help

These vendor-created guides are available while logged into Elements:

Getting Started Video

User Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Lasergene 13 now available

What's New in Lasergene 13?

• De novo transcriptome assembly for any size data set on a desktop computer
•  Automatic mRNA annotation using RefSeq
•  Enhanced template search for structure prediction
•  Integrated Variant Annotation Database for functional analysis of mutations
•  Customizable sequence labels for alignments

 Lasergene training videos

 Lasergene training guides

To download Lasergene and more information, please visit the Library's Lasergene guide.

F1000 Reproducibility Channel

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) Research, in response to growing concerns about irreproducible science, has launched the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness Channel as a place to publish replication attempts - positive or negative.

"The Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel is a platform for open and transparent publication of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies in biomedical research. The channel is open to all scientists from both academia and industry and provides a centralized space for researchers to start an open dialogue, thereby helping to improve the reproducibility of studies. "

With NIH's revised grant instructions to enhance the reproducibility of research findings, this is a timely new resource.

Tips for Publishing Your Research

The American Chemical Society has compiled many resources to help you successfully publish your research.

Master the Art of Scientific Publication is a collection of 20 editorials published in ACS journals that "summarize the key steps involved in writing an effective paper, journal submission, review processes, and post-publication efforts."

• How to Make Your Next Paper Scientifically Effective
• Your Research Results Look Compelling, but Are They Reliable?
• Getting your Submission Right and Avoiding Rejection 

Publishing Your Research 101 is a series of videos that "helps authors and reviewers understand how to get a manuscript accepted, respond to reviewer comments, navigate ethical considerations, and improve their manuscript submission process experience."

•  Episode 1 - How to Write a Paper to Communicate Your Research: an interview with Professor George M. Whitesides from Harvard University who has published nearly 600 papers with ACS Publications, and over 1100 articles overall, and has served on the advisory boards of nine peer-reviewed journals.
• Episode 8 – Tips for English as a Second Language Speakers: This episode focuses on the special challenges faced by speakers of English as a Second language. While the editors emphasize the fact that writing a good scientific article difficult in any language, it is especially difficult for non-native English speakers. Editors discuss the strategies they used to become proficient in writing in English and also describe the techniques they use now to help their students.
  

   

   

Illustrating Ebola by TSRI scientist

 "The Wellcome Image Awards recognise the creators of the most informative, striking and technically excellent images that communicate significant aspects of biomedical science."
TSRI's Professor Goodsell is the overall winner of the 2016 Wellcome Image Award for his painting of the Ebola virus.

Science of Synthesis Update

C—H Activation Volumes Now Online!

The two new Science of Synthesis volumes on "Catalytic Transformations via C—H Activation" are edited by TSRI's Jin-Quan Yu and include updates on the synthesis of silyl hydrides, vinylsilanes, fluoroarenes, chloroarenes, and bromoarenes, the chemistry of hypervalent iodoarenes and iodonium salts, as well as arylphosphine oxides and heteroatom derivatives.

New Journals for 2016

The Library has added several new and highly requested journals available to institute faculty, students and staff. The new publications include:

• Diabetes
• Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
• Genome Research
• Entire list of journals from Bentham Publishers, including Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Current HIV Research, The Natural Products Journal and others
• Chemistry Select, a new freely available, open-access journal

New Books - Winter

Print and Online books added to the Library collection this Winter:

Online Books Added:

Bioactive Natural Products : Chemistry and Biology

Bioorganometallic Chemistry: Applications in Drug Discovery Biocatalysis, and Imaging

Cooperative catalysis : designing efficient catalysts for synthesis

TSRI Author: Dr. Noodleman (Chapter 13) Electronic Structure, Bonding, Spin Coupling, and Energetics of Polynuclear Iron–Sulfur Clusters – A Broken Symmetry Density Functional Theory Perspective  in the book: Spin States in Biochemistry and Inorganic Chemistry: Influence on Structure and Reactivity

Nucleic acids from A to Z : a concise encyclopedia

Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book

Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book

Print Books Added:

Anthropic awareness : the human aspects of scientific thinking in NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry

Antibody-drug Conjugates The 21st Century Magic Bullets for Cancer

The ASAM principles of addiction medicine

BIOS Instant Notes in Neuroscience

DNA methylation and complex human disease

Epstein Barr virus

The future of the history of chemical information: ACS symposium series, v.1164

Grad school essentials : a crash course in scholarly skills

Handbook of hormones : comparative endocrinology for basic and clinical research

Horizontal gene transfer in microorganisms

Inflammatory diseases of blood vessels

Membrane Hydration

Membrane potential imaging in the nervous system and heart

Nonlinear dynamics and chaos : with applications to physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering

Principles of virology

Process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL): ACS symposium series, v. 994

"So what are you going to do with that?" : finding careers outside academia, 3rd ed.

Statistics : informed decisions using data

Viral hemorrhagic fevers

Visualizing the invisible : imaging techniques for the structural biologist

Cancer Research Resources webinar

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is hosting a free webinar titled, "Resources for Cancer Research" on March 2, 2016, at 10:00 am PST.

This workshop provides an overview of NCBI molecular resources for cancer researchers. In the first part of the Webinar you will learn to more effectively use the Entrez text-based search system and the BLAST sequence similarity search tool to find data relevant to cancer research including sequence, variation, gene and expression information. The second part of the presentation will focus on accessing large-scale genomics datasets. You will learn how to search for, access and download DNA-seq, RNA-seq, Epigenomics and Metagenomics datasets and how to access the tools and APIs at NCBI that can be used to extract relevant subsets of that data for cancer research. 

To register: Go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3717666889216708353

Reaxys Webinar: In-silico phenotypic screening

Are you using phenotypic screening as a way to discover new drugs or would you like to know more about this approach?

Reaxys is hosting a free webinar entitled, "Building an in-silico Phenotypic Screening Approach with Reaxys" on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 8:00am PST.

Senior Product Manager Olivier Barberan will cover the following:

• Outline the steps to take when building this approach in Reaxys.
• Demonstrate how pharmacological targets involved in cell based assay can be easily identified in Reaxys with their mechanisms of action.

Register for the free webinar here.

Reaxys (Beilstein) provides worldwide coverage of the literature relating to the preparations and properties of organic compounds. Reaxys is searchable in multiple ways, including chemical structure, formula, and physical property parameters. Reaxys indexes periodicals, books, dissertations, and patents dated 1800 to the present. It also includes a chemical reactions database.

Think. Check. Submit.

With so many new journals being published each year, how do you know if you can trust a particular journal with your article? The Think, Check, Submit campaign has released a simple checklist to help you with this decision. It includes asking such questions as:

• Is it easy to contact the publisher? 
• Are articles indexed in major databases?
• Have you heard of any of the editorial board members?
• http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Watch this 2-minute video to find out more:

How to Publish in Nature

Take this opportunity to find out what it takes to publish in Nature, or a Nature-branded journal. The Chief Editor of Nature Plants is hosting a free webinar on February 3, 2016 at 8:30am PST. The webinar agenda:  How to get published in a Nature Publishing Group journal Article selection and working with authors Aims and scope of Nature Plants Opportunity to ask questions to the Chief Editor of Nature Plants  Register for this webinar here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5314272120621661697