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.