Science of Synthesis Update

Science of Synthesis (SoS) has released a new update.

New features include:

• Enhanced text search functionality
• Better Structure/Reaction Searching and Retrieval
• DOI's to increase linking to literature

Science of Synthesis has 4 short tutorials to introduce you to the new features. 

Science of Synthesis was written by chemists for chemists and "provides a critical review of the synthetic methodology developed from the early 1800s to-date for the entire field of organic and organometallic chemistry."

Here's a quick overview of SoS.

GrantForward webinar

GrantForward is holding a free one-hour webinar on How to Use GrantForward as a Researcher, on September 22, 2015 at 1:00pm PST.

Topics to be covered include:

• creating an account
• simple searches and advanced filters
• exporting grants
• saving searches  
• creating a researcher profile

RSVP for the webinar

The GrantForward funding database is available via the Library's institutional subscription. It contains over 9000 active federal and private funding opportunities. Search for fellowships, travel grants, early career investigator funding and more. If you can't make this webinar, GrantForward offers other online tutorials to be accessed anytime.

OVID platform- no access Oct.1st

As of Oct. 1, 2015,  the Library will no longer be providing access to Agricola and Medline via the OVID platform.  These databases are not going away – you will still be able to access them from other platforms, just not on the OVID platform.

Medline is available:

1. via PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's native interface for Medline
2. through SciFinder 
3. or through Web of Science, in the "All Databases” search tab 

Agricola is available free from the National Agricultural Library at http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/.

If you have set up email alerts in OVID, you will be able to access them until Sept. 30, 2015.  Library staff can assist you with re-creating these alerts in any of the Medline databases listed above. Or, for more information on creating search alerts, see the library guide at http://library.scripps.edu/keepingup.

For questions or assistance, contact Library staff.

New Books - Summer

Antiangiogenic agents in cancer therapy

Autophagy in health and disease

Biostatistical analysis

The care and feeding of an IACUC : the organization and management of an institutional animal care and use committee

Chemistry : the molecular nature of matter and change

Chemistry of hazardous materials

Chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction

The craft of scientific presentations : critical steps to succeed and critical errors to avoid

Current occupational & environmental medicine

Developmental biology

Enjoy writing your science thesis or dissertation! : a step-by-step guide to planning and writing a thesis or dissertation for undergraduate and graduate science students

Essentials of licensing intellectual property

The fine art of small talk : how to start a conversation, keep it going, build networking skills, and leave a positive impression

The grant application writer's workbook: National Institutes of Health version

Handbook of neurochemistry and molecular neurobiology. Brain energetics : integration of molecular and cellular processes

How many subjects? : statistical power analysis in research

The immunoassay handbook : theory and applications of ligand binding, ELISA, and related techniques

In search of cell history : the evolution of life's building blocks

Introduction to protein-DNA interactions : structure, thermodynamics, and bioinformatics

An introduction to statistical learning : with applications in R

Introduction to the practice of statistics

Intuitive biostatistics : a nonmathematical guide to statistical thinking, 3rd ed.

Life in Our Phage World : a centennial field guide to the Earth's most diverse inhabitants

The matter factory : a history of the chemical laboratory

Membrane structural biology : with biochemical and biophysical foundations

The mouse nervous system

Muscle : fundamental biology and mechanisms of disease

Niedermeyer's electroencephalography : basic principles, clinical applications, and related fields

Parkinson's disease & movement disorders

The portable MBA

Recent developments in biomolecular NMR

Scientific writing and communication : papers, proposals, and presentations

The start-up of you

Talk like TED : the 9 public speaking secrets of the world's top minds

Tandem mass spectrometry of lipids : molecular analysis of complex lipids

Total synthesis of natural products : at the frontiers of organic chemistry

Writing the doctoral dissertation : a systematic approach



Online Books Added:

Access 2013 Bible 

Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry

Autophagy, infection, and the immune response

Bioinformatics Data Skills 

Biostatistics Decoded

Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications

Chemistry of Bioconjugates: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications

Circadian medicine

Excel 2013 Bible

Foundations of Web Design: Introduction to HTML & CSS

Idiot's Guides: Digital Photography

Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition

Modern nucleophilic aromatic substitution

Modern Synthetic Methods in Carbohydrate Chemistry: From Monosaccharides to Complex Glycoconjugates

OS X Yosemite For Dummies

Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: Kinetics and Mechanism

Take Control of Pages

Using Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

Elsevier Downtime Aug.1st

All of Elsevier's online products will be down for routine maintenance on Saturday, August 1st for approximately 4.5 hours, starting at 3:00 p.m. PST. This includes journals on their ScienceDirect platform as well as the Reaxys database.

Science: Promoting an Open Research Culture

An article published today in the journal Science, Promoting an Open Research Culture, spells out some guidelines for publishing scientific studies. They aim to bring more transparency, openness and reproducibility to the results of scientific research.

Written in part by Dr. Marcia McNutt, editor in chief of Science as well as thirty other scientists, the guidelines come out of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee that met late in 2014.

The article goes on to say that the academic promotion system does not reward open practices and that collective action is needed across scientific disciplines to make changes.

See the TOP guidelines and standards here.

ACS Mobile Journals

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that institutional journal subscribers can now access the full text of their ACS journals on mobile devices.  They're calling it ACS2Go.

To access ACS journals off campus on mobile devices you first need to pair up your device while on campus.  After you do this, you can access the full-text for 120 days. Just repeat the process
again for extended access. It's available for Apple, Android and Blackberry devices.

Follow these steps:

1. Go to http://pubs.acs.org on your mobile device while ON CAMPUS connected to the TSRI network.
2. It will ask you to "install ACS2Go" on your device using the download button, and to add it to your home screen.
3. You can then browse or search for journals or content while off campus and off the TSRI network for up to 120 days. 
4. You can renew the 120 days indefinitely by accessing this site again from on campus.