Grants database webinar April 16

The grants database the Library subscribes to, Grant Forward, is hosting a one-hour webinar on how to find grants on April 16, 2015 from 12:30-1:30 PST. It is a free webinar, but you do need to register here to attend.

To learn more about Grant Forward and other grant resources available to you, visit the Library's Grants subject guide.

SciFinder Seminar 3/31/15

The Kresge Library will host a SciFinder seminar on Tuesday, March 31, at 1:30 PM, in the Beckman building’s Keck Amphitheater on the California campus. Representatives from Chemical Abstracts Services will provide updates on SciFinder’s key features and recent enhancements as well as news from the American Chemical Society’s recent meeting in Denver.

The seminar will include a demonstration of ChemBioDraw Ultra, from which TSRI scientists may now launch a SciFinder session.

Following the formal presentation, the speakers will be available for additional questions. Attendees may bring laptops to the event for help with specific search examples or problematic structure queries.

The Scripps Florida SciFinder seminar is scheduled for August.

For more information on SciFinder as well as tips and tutorials, check out the Library's SciFinder Guide.

New Journals 2015

The Library was able to obtain access to a number of new journal titles in 2015 through various package and consortial arrangements:

• ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
• ACS Infectious Diseases
• Coordination Chemistry Reviews
• Current Opinion in Virology
• Journal of Biotechnology
• Journal of Proteomics

Plus, there are new Open Access options for two highly requested titles:

• RSC’s Chemical Science - will be open access and freely accessible to everyone from 2015 going forwards. RSC is also waiving the open access article processing charge for the years 2015 and 2016.
• Nature Communications -is transitioning to open access in 2015 with many articles available for free this year, but not all. By 2016 all new articles in this journal will be open access and therefore freely available to everyone.

Computer Ebooks

Did you know the Kresge Library has a large computer ebook collection? You can see the full list of titles under our Custom Collection. We have the ability to add titles easily, so if you search the site and see a book you'd like access to, just send the Library an email with the details and we should be able to add it that same day. We have 2 seats, so that means only 2 people can be using the collection at the same time. If you get a "session unavailable" message, just try back later. It's usually not an issue (but may be for a while after this post).

Here are some recent additions to the collection:

Bioinformatics with R Cookbook

Bioinformatics for Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications

CSS3: The Missing Manual, 3rd ed.

High Performance MySQL, 3rd ed.

Java™ in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Covering Java 8), 7th ed.

Java in a Nutshell, 6th ed.

jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Learning Java, 4th ed.

Learning Perl, 6th ed.

Mastering Perl, 2nd ed.

Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology

OS X Mavericks: The Missing Manual

Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd ed.

PHP and MySQL® For Dummies®, 4th ed.

PHP Cookbook, 3rd ed.

PHP for Absolute Beginners

Programming Perl, 4th ed.

Programming PHP, 3rd ed.

Programming Python, 4th ed.

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, 7th ed.

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 Hours, 5th ed, Video Enhanced Edition

Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, 5th ed.

Using Office 365: With Windows 8

Organic Chemistry I For Dummies, 2nd ed.

New Books -Winter

Check out these new books added to the Library's collection:

Alan Turing : his work and impact

Bioactive proteins and peptides as functional foods and nutraceuticals

C-c bond activation

Development of the nervous system

Drugs, addiction, and the brain

Electronic effects in organic chemistry

Endogenous ADP-ribosylation

From molecules to networks : an introduction to cellular and molecular neuroscience

Gold clusters, colloids and nanoparticles I

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, 3rd ed. -online book

The IACUC handbook, 3rd ed.

Influenza pathogenesis and control

Interleukin-10 in health and disease

Introduction to bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology

Isotope labeling in biomolecular NMR

Knock 'em dead : the ultimate job search guide, 2015

Knock 'em dead cover letters : cover letters and strategies to get the job you want

Knock 'em dead resumes

Leptospira and leptospirosis

Linus Pauling : selected scientific papers, vols I & II

Microbicides for prevention of HIV infection

Molecular machines and motors : recent advances and perspectives

Mutant p53 and MDM2 in cancer

Neurobiology of chemical communication

Organo-di-metallic compounds (or reagents) : synergistic effects and synthetic

Oxford textbook of stroke and cerebrovascular disease

Polyarenes I

Polyarenes II

Physiology of behavior

The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates

Ruthenium in catalysis

Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers

Transcriptional control of lineage differentiation in immune cells

ChemTexts - a textbook journal of chemistry

Introducing a hybrid peer-reviewed textbook/journal, ChemTexts. It was conceived in response to the long publishing time current academic textbooks take to get to market, as well as the inability to add new and updated information to them quickly. ChemTexts will be free for 2015-2016.

Some of the first "lectures" in this textbook journal include:

Crossing the bridge between thermodynamics and electrochemistry. From the potential of the cell reaction to the electrode potential

First-order differential equations in chemistry

Library catalog down, Jan.2-3

Our library catalog (http://scripps-libraries.worldcat.org/) will be unavailable from 9:00 pm (EST) Friday, January 2nd, until noon Saturday, January 3rd. This is due to our vendor, OCLC, performing hardware maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.