When doing a literature search have you come across a full-text PDF and you want to keep track of the pdf and its proper bibliographic information in RefWorks? Well, now you can. The link below leads to the document with instructions on how to link from you RefWorks account to the pdf file.

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From February 2007 electronic RSC journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the “semantic web”. Readers will be able to click on named compounds and scientific concepts in an electronic journal article to download structures, understand topics, or link through to electronic databases; compounds and ontology terms will be published as RSS feeds enabling automated discovery of relevant research.

HTML articles with Prospect View have a “toolbox” that is a combination of navigator, glossary and “highlighter”. The “highlighter” function shows/hides IUPAC Gold book terms, ontology terms and compounds in the article. Click on any of those terms to get the respective Gold book definition, ontology definition, and for compounds, synonyms, SMILES and InChI codes.

Here is an example:
http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/ArticleLinking.asp?JournalCode=CC&Year=2007&ManuscriptID=b612035k&Iss=1
Just click on the “Tool Box” to open your options. Click on the “Show Gold Book” and “Show Compounds” links to activate these features.

The film biography “Forgotten Genius,” about the life and career of pioneering African American chemist Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975) is a production of the WGBH television program NOVA, supported in part by the American Chemical Society (C&EN, Oct. 2, 2006, page 52). The program describes Julian’s struggle with racism and his breakthrough research on drugs to treat glaucoma and rheumatoid arthritis.

The documentary film will air nationally on Feb. 6, at 8:00 PM on PBS.

Be sure to catch it or set up your recording devices.