Drexelchemistry http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/ News, events and resources from the Drexel University Libraries related to chemistry. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 27 May 2008 11:24:54 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Electronic Chemistry Books Recently Added Dean's Analytical Chemical Handbook

Biosorbents for Metal Ions

Tensor properties of solids: equilibrium tensor properties of solids

Tensor properties of solids: transport properties of solids

]]> Dean's Analytical Chemical Handbook Biosorbents for Metal Ions Tensor properties of solids: equilibrium tensor properties of solids Tensor properties of solids: transport properties of solids... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/05/electronic_chemistry_books_rec.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/05/electronic_chemistry_books_rec.html Tue, 27 May 2008 11:24:54 -0500 Chemists Measure Chilli Sauce Hotness With Nanotubes Indispensable in hot kitchens: the nanotube

Oxford chemists have found a way of using carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as a cheap, disposable sensor for use in the food industry.

Professor Richard Compton and his team at Oxford University have developed a sensitive technique to measure the levels of capsaicinoids, the substances that make chillies hot, in samples of chilli sauce. They report their findings in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal The Analyst.

Royal Society of Chemistry (2008, May 8). Chemists Measure Chilli Sauce Hotness With Nanotubes. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/05/080506115604.htm

]]> Indispensable in hot kitchens: the nanotube Oxford chemists have found a way of using carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/05/chemists_measure_chilli_sauce.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/05/chemists_measure_chilli_sauce.html Thu, 15 May 2008 08:04:32 -0500 SciFinder Scholar on the Web! Breaking NEWS!!! SciFinder Scholar is now on the Web. No longer do you need to download the interface software. We have established our account that is protected by password. We will run both the web and interface connections for awhile probably til the end of Spring Term.

To logon to the web version to to: http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/restricted/scifinderscholarweb.html

Feedback on usability on the new web version would be appreciated.

]]> Breaking NEWS!!! SciFinder Scholar is now on the Web. No longer do you need to download the interface software. We have established our account that is protected by password. We... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/05/scifinder_scholar_on_the_web.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/05/scifinder_scholar_on_the_web.html Tue, 06 May 2008 07:51:22 -0500 Collaboration Networking There has been a lot action recently on electronic collaboration among academics, mostly through the sciences, but that just may be due to my monitoring the sciences more than other disciplines. Within the last few months publishers have offered researchers networking options, mimicking many social networking sites on the Internet.

Here are a couple of articles that report on researcher collaboration:

Scientists’ collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital
Barry Bozeman,a and Elizabeth Corley,b
a School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
b School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0603, USA
Scientific and Technical Human Capital: Science Careers and Networks as Knowledge Assets
Volume 33, Issue 4, May 2004, Pages 599-616

This one is a little dated, but the methodology and results are interesting:
On the Determinants of Scientists' Collaboration
NAMATIÉ TRAORÉ and RÉJEAN LANDRY Laval University
Science Communication, Vol. 19, No. 2, 124-140 (1997)


Here are a few websites that offer researcher collaboration venues:

Nature
http://network.nature.com/

Elsevier
http://www.2collab.com/

ACS
http://exchange.chemistry.org/cms/

ISI Web of Knowledge
http://isiwebofknowledge.com/researcherid/

BiomedExperts
http://www.biomedexperts.com/

Jean-Claude Brandley Useful Chemistry Blog+
http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/

]]> There has been a lot action recently on electronic collaboration among academics, mostly through the sciences, but that just may be due to my monitoring the sciences more than other... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/04/collaboration_networking.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/04/collaboration_networking.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:49:25 -0500 New Electronic Chemistry Books Added to the Catalog Femtosecond beam science [electronic resource] / edited by Mitsuru Uesaka. QD716.L37 F46 2005eb

Organic syntheses based on name reactions [electronic resource] / A. Hassner and C. Stumer. QD262 .H324 2002eb

Computer modeling of chemical reactions in enzymes and solutions [electronic resource] / Arieh Warshel. QP601 .W357 1997eb

Inorganic materials chemistry desk reference. [electronic resource] TP200 .S26 2005

]]> Femtosecond beam science [electronic resource] / edited by Mitsuru Uesaka. QD716.L37 F46 2005eb Organic syntheses based on name reactions [electronic resource] / A. Hassner and C. Stumer. QD262 .H324 2002eb... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/02/new_electronic_chemistry_books.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/02/new_electronic_chemistry_books.html Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:23:52 -0500 Bio-Rad Trial We have just commenced a trial of the online Bio-Rad Database (formerly known as Sadtler spectra database). Remember the huge binders on the third floor? Now you can download your unknown spectra and match it to known spectra. This trial is for Drexel affiliated students, staff and faculty. Go to: www.knowitallanyware.com click on the agree statement. The next screen will offer a simple search, but the advance search option will allow you to download spectra as a search option.

Trial will end March 30, 2008. Have fun!

]]> We have just commenced a trial of the online Bio-Rad Database (formerly known as Sadtler spectra database). Remember the huge binders on the third floor? Now you can download your... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/01/biorad_trial.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2008/01/biorad_trial.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:10:28 -0500 Color-Changing Gel What would you do with a gel that dramatically changes color 2025645huhnn.gif
in response to heat, water and salt? As this ScienCentral News video explains, the uses could range from color-changing clothes to monitoring food safety.

Check it out!

]]> What would you do with a gel that dramatically changes color in response to heat, water and salt? As this ScienCentral News video explains, the uses could range from color-changing... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/12/colorchanging_gel.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/12/colorchanging_gel.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:56:17 -0500 New Online Back Issues for Chemistry Journals! As we continue to replace the print bound journal and index collections at Hagerty with available electronic journal coverage, we have purchased more electronic content and indexes available to the entire University community. We now own the electronic backfiles to 549 journals not previously accessible online to Drexel Libraries. These include a major acquisition in chemistry: Springer Link Historical Archives: Chemistry and Materials Science.

The backfiles consist of full-text PDFs and usually go back to the journal’s first issue. All of these titles are now available via the catalog and electronic journals list. Please see the following pages for the individual journal titles included in each collection:

  • American Institute of Physics Digital Archive
  • Springer Link Historical Archives Chemistry and Materials Science
  • Springer Link Historical Archives Computer Sciences
  • Springer Link Historical Archives Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Springer Link Historical Archives Engineering
  • Springer Link Historical Archives Mathematics
  • Springer Link Historical Archives Physics and Astronomy
    • ]]>     As we continue to replace the print bound journal and index collections at Hagerty with available electronic journal coverage, we have purchased more electronic content and indexes available to the... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/11/new_online_back_issues_for_che.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/11/new_online_back_issues_for_che.html Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:48:14 -0500     Chemistry Goes Social! Chemistry.org/exchange is user-driven scientific content: you can share, vote, and comment on articles and news among a global community.

    Chemistry.org/exchange is a scientific community: create a profile, assign tags (keywords) to your account, and find and network with other registered users. I have a profile here.

    Chemistry.org/exchange is an article repository: start a library of scientific research that's important to you--publications you've authored, or articles that furthers your research. There are some very interesting articles such at the one Longest-Lived Animal Found--Clam, 405

    ]]>     Chemistry.org/exchange is user-driven scientific content: you can share, vote, and comment on articles and news among a global community. Chemistry.org/exchange is a scientific community: create a profile, assign tags (keywords)... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/11/chemistry_goes_social.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/11/chemistry_goes_social.html Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:31:22 -0500     "New Technologies in Instruction and Training" In June this year I presented a poster at the annual conference of the Special Libraries Association. The session was sponsored by the Chemistry and the Physics Astronomy Mathematics Divisions of SLA. This year the theme of the poster session was "New Technologies in Instruction and Training". Since Drexel University librarians reach out to students and faculty in a variety of ways, we found the example of train routes to be an appropriate metaphor. Thus we chose a "map" similar to the local train routes. We have had a lot of fun expanding on this metaphor.

    The Chemistry Division is providing a web version of the entire session at their web site: http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem/

    We are poster 13. But check out some of the others. There are useful tidbits to be gleaned for us all.
    Enjoy!

    ]]>     In June this year I presented a poster at the annual conference of the Special Libraries Association. The session was sponsored by the Chemistry and the Physics Astronomy Mathematics Divisions... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/10/new_technologies_in_instructio.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/10/new_technologies_in_instructio.html Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:09:04 -0500     Publish and Perish: The Future Fate of Not-for-Profit Society–sponsored Journals? Kevin A. Roth, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, has published in the October issue an editorial about some of the changes coming to his journal.

    An excerpt:
    The Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (JHC) is the official journal of The Histochemical Society (HCS), a not-for-profit organization devoted to the study of cell and tissue biology with molecular and morphological techniques (http://www.histochemicalsociety.org). The JHC publishes both in print and online. Our print publication began in 1953, and we began publishing online in 1997 through Stanford University's HighWire Press. As a not-for-profit–sponsored scientific journal, we price our institutional subscriptions at a level compatible with our goal of making the JHC accessible to the general scientific community at a reasonable cost to their respective institutions.

    He continues...
    The single largest expense incurred in publishing the JHC is printing the journal. Although eliminating the JHC print version and moving to online-only publication would produce an immediate and dramatic cost savings, we feel there are legitimate and significant reasons not to completely abandon the print version of the journal at this time. Fortunately, there is a third option. Beginning in January 2009, the JHC will implement "print on demand."

    For the full text of this editorial go to: http://www.jhc.org/cgi/content/full/55/10/981

    This is not an isolated case, society-sponsored journals are facing considerable strains across the board. Does your professional society produce a journal? How is it doing?

    ]]>     Kevin A. Roth, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, has published in the October issue an editorial about some of the changes coming to his journal. An excerpt: The... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/09/publish_and_perish_the_future.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/09/publish_and_perish_the_future.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:29:21 -0500     Some Recently Added Electronic Books Mossbauer analysis of the atomic and magnetic structure of alloys

    Visualizing chemistry : the progress and promise of advanced chemical imaging

    Biological, social, and organizational components of success for women in academic science and engineering

    Start with a story: the case study method of teaching college science

    ]]>     Mossbauer analysis of the atomic and magnetic structure of alloys Visualizing chemistry : the progress and promise of advanced chemical imaging Biological, social, and organizational components of success for women... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/some_recently_added_electronic.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/some_recently_added_electronic.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:52:44 -0500     Global Science Gateway The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, have opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals. The gateway, WorldWideScience.org, gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals not easily accessible through popular search technology such as that deployed by Google, Yahoo! and many other commercial search engines.

    Results cover a wide range of resources and currently there is no linking to Drexel holdings. However, for picking up that rare item that just could fit the bill, this resource is worth keeping in mind.

    ]]>     The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, have opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals. The... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/global_science_gateway.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/global_science_gateway.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:58:24 -0500     Chemical Abstracts Service Hits 100! In 2007, CAS celebrates its 100th year of serving chemists and other scientists around the world.

    Read all about it in:
    Chemical & Engineering News, June 11 2007, Vol. 85, Number 24
    Special issue features CAS' 100th Anniversary

    This is the original logo for CAS:
    CA%20emblem.jpg

    ]]>     In 2007, CAS celebrates its 100th year of serving chemists and other scientists around the world. Read all about it in: Chemical & Engineering News, June 11 2007, Vol. 85,... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/chemical_abstracts_service_hit_1.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/chemical_abstracts_service_hit_1.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:02:38 -0500     The World of Undergraduate Education Last week's issue of Science devoted much of it's content to The World of Undergraduate Education

    A sampling of some of the articles:

    Keeping Score
    This map offers basic information on five important components of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in the countries profiled in this special issue.

    AUSTRALIA:
    'A Crisis in Student Quantity and Quality'
    John Bohannon
    MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--Kath Handasyde enlists native species, assertive Americans, and anything else on hand to rekindle a passion for science among undergrads.

    UNITED STATES:
    'This Is the Front Line … Where I Can Really Make a Difference'
    Elizabeth Culotta
    AKRON, OHIO--Lisa Park and her colleagues take on creationism and other antiscientific attitudes in the classroom--and in the voting booth.

    UNITED KINGDOM:
    'Much of What We Were Doing Didn't Work'
    Daniel Clery
    LEICESTER, U.K.--Derek Raine sees integrated sciences as a potential savior for disciplines facing declining student interest and a dwindling number of departments.

    FRANCE:
    Opening Up to the Rest of the World
    Martin Enserink
    BORDEAUX, FRANCE--Antoine de Daruvar injects the real world into his bioinformatics classroom in an attempt to reinvigorate higher education.

    BRAZIL:
    'I Do Not Make a Distinction Between Teaching and Research'
    Marcelo Leite
    RECIFE, BRAZIL--Antônio Carlos Pavão combines the ideal with the practical to bring science to the masses and create the next generation of scientists.

    and more can be found at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol317/issue5834/news-summaries.dtl

    ]]>     Last week's issue of Science devoted much of it's content to The World of Undergraduate Education A sampling of some of the articles: Keeping Score This map offers basic information... http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/the_world_of_undergraduate_edu.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelchemistry/2007/07/the_world_of_undergraduate_edu.html Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:53:14 -0500