From the good folks at the Royal Society of Chemistry comes the Chemical Biology Virtual Journal. The Chemical Biology Virtual Journal provides an easy-to-use point of access to chemical biology literature in RSC publications. Articles are taken from more than fifteen of the RSC’s journals, with a selection of the primary research articles being free of charge for one month following publication in an issue.

Rather than producing a “niche” journal with limited appeal, RSC is providing this real service for a field with many new advances in a variety of areas. Good for them!

Publisher Copyright Policies
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher’s copyright transfer agreement. You can search the site by journal name or through the publisher listing. This service is a development of the original publishers’ listings produced by the ROMEO project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving).

SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.

The good folks at Thomson ISI have just released an upgrade to their Web of Science database. It has a slightly new look to the results page and the limits to the analysis and sort features have essentially disappeared!

You will notice a new box at the beginning of your results list with options to “Refine” your search by Subject Categories, Sourch Titles, Document Types, Authors, and Publication Years and more. When you select one of these “Refinements” you will get a listing with the number of hits for each. Then you can select from the sorted options. Cool! AND you can continue to refine your results and for more options, you can use the analyse tool. NOW you can analyse sets upto 100,000 records. This is wonderful news.

Hurray to ISI!

I just love this stuff…

Have you had a look at the “new” Beilstein? We now have access to web-like version of this database which should make searching this valuable resource a whole lot easier. You will need to use the client interface MDL CrossFire Commander 7.0. The database has a new look and search mechanism.

But even better news! We also have access to the entire range of literature in the Beilstein database. That means organic chemistry literature back to 1771!! Just remember that the database only has abstracts beginning in 1980 and the bibliographic entries for the really early publications are very spare (i.e. only last names for authors).

For a Guick User Guide, go to: http://www.mdl.com/index.jsp
You have to register (it’s free–but it’s Elsevier) to download the MDL CrossFire Commander 7.0 Quick User Guide

If you need to download MDL CrossFire Commander 7.0 go to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/dbinfo/beilstein.html
for downloading instructions.