http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ A newsletter on chemistry collections, library services, and knowledge management en-us http://tomkeays.com/contact/ 2007-04-17T12:15:40-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol7_no1_spring_2007.php 4349@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.7, No.1 (Spring 2007) 2007-04-17T12:15:40-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol7_no1_spring_2007.php The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has recently produced a 6-page pamphlet about the rights teachers and teaching assistants have to share with their classes the intellectual property produced by others. "Know Your Copy Rights: What You Can Do" provides tips and guidelines for when articles, video, music, images, and other intellectual property can be shared with students under the banner of "fair use". Among the topics covered in the brochure are: fair use, the advantages of linking to instead of copying works, and special provisions for displaying or performing works in classes. It also includes a handy one-page chart that highlights 24 situations when various categories of works can be used. The Know Your Copy Rights website provides a number of similar advocacy services for faculty. In addition, the Syracuse University Library provides a comprehensive Copyright resources section on its website. (Via Scholarly Communication)... 4344@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.7, No.1 (Spring 2007) 2007-02-23T09:54:19-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/.php Thursday, October 12, 11 am - 3 pm Schine Student Center Room 304 (adjacent to the Panasci Lounge on the second floor) Find a better way to meet your information needs. Discover desktop access to the latest in online research tools and services brought to you by Syracuse University Library and SUNY-ESF Moon Library. Live demonstrations of our online books, journals, databases, handbooks, and encyclopedias by representatives from: 11:00-11:20 Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 11:30-11:50 ScienceDirect 12:00-12:20 Engineering Village II 12:30-12:50 IEEE 1:00-1:20 ISI Web of Knowledge 1:30-1:50 Knovel Library 2:00-2:20 CAB Direct For more information: http://library.syr.edu/information/scitechlib/info_fair_2006.html... 3847@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ 2006-10-09T12:00:12-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol6_no2_fall_2006.php Your students could win an iPod or a $500 Visa Gift Card! Knovel, a supplier of electronic books for the Syracuse University Library, is again having its University Challenge quiz. Last spring, Dave Caley, an engineering student at Syracuse University, was one of the four winners of an iPod. This fall students in the hard sciences, mathematics and technology-related courses of study are invited to take a 5-question quiz and use Knovel to find the answers. The prizes will be iPod Shuffles, 30G VideoApple iPods, and a $500 Grand Prize. It is like an open-book quiz: click the link at www.info.knovel.com/ipod to enter and use Knovel to find the answers. Students who answer all five questions correctly will be entered into a random drawing for the prizes. The deadline for entering is Monday, November 13.... 3703@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.6, No.2 (Fall 2006) 2006-09-14T10:22:16-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol6_no2_fall_2006.php 3675@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.6, No.2 (Fall 2006) 2006-09-07T15:41:09-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol6_no1_spring_2006.php 3193@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.6, No.1 (Spring 2006) 2006-05-26T09:35:00-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol6_no1_spring_2006.php 3124@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.6, No.1 (Spring 2006) 2006-05-10T12:43:43-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol6_no1_spring_2006.php I don't know how many of you use IM. I use it on occasion and it occurred to me that it might be an alternative way for people to contact me. My AIM screen name is "tomkeays". I've put an icon on my library contact page similar to the one in this entry. If I'm online, it will appear. Give it a try.... 3194@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.6, No.1 (Spring 2006) 2006-04-15T12:08:10-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol6_no1_spring_2006.php Chemistry World, the Royal Society of Chemistry's news magazine, posed the following question for its "Your views..." column in the February 2006 issue 3(2):27 (subscription required): How should chemists respond to open access publishing? The respondents (four so far) have made these points: open access presents no real change to standards as long as peer review remains in place commercial publishing of printed chemical journals represent money taken out of the chemistry 'pot' commercial publishers have not passed along the tremendous production cost savings realized through word-processing, email, computer-typesetting, digital digital distribution commercial publishers stand accused of not keeping faith with their customers because subscription costs have increased at a rate far outstripping inflation recovering publication costs in an open access system could be accomplished through a redistribution of existing library budgets -- although there is a concern about whether the requirement to meet publication cost may lead authors to question whether they can afford to publish a particular piece of work (whether the funds come from the author directly or from the author's university, there will likely not be a limitless budget for publishing) there should be concern about archival permanance and vulnerabilities of single servers [my note: this is true of both commercial publications and open access] (Via Open Access News)... 2730@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.6, No.1 (Spring 2006) 2006-02-27T16:19:25-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol5_no3_fall_2005.php I am very happy to announce that new versions of SciFinder Scholar are now available. SciFinder Scholar 2006 is a major upgrade for the Windows platform with improved search tools. SciFinder Scholar 2006 for Windows requires Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, or NT 4.0. A web browser is needed to access full text via ChemPort, online Help, and Internet resources within the Tools menu. Plug-ins must be installed in the Netscape and Firefox plug-ins and components folders for some features in ChemPort, e.g., Reference Linking. The plug-in is installed automatically during the SciFinder Scholar 2006 installation. Java and Javascript must be enabled and cookies must be accepted for some features in Chemport. SciFinder Scholar OS X is the long-awaited version for Macintosh OS X. You should see improved performance and fewer problems with retrieving full-text of articles via ChemPort. SciFinder Scholar OS X requires Macintosh OS X operating system 10.2 or newer. A web browser is needed to access full text via ChemPort, online Help, and Internet resources within the Tools menu. Java and Javascript must be enabled and cookies must be accepted for some features in Chemport. Visit the Library's SciFinder Scholar webpage to download the new software and users manuals: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/scifinder/index.html... 2236@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.5, No.3 (Fall 2005) 2005-12-09T14:19:10-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol5_no3_fall_2005.php The Library has set up a trial to the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, through September 18, 2005. To access this free trial, please visit www.hbcponline.com. Click on the "Login" link and input the following when prompted: Username: syracuse Password: syracuse Let me know if you think this is a product we should subscribe to. Tom Keays / htkeays@syr.edu / 315-443-9769... 1663@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.5, No.3 (Fall 2005) 2005-08-22T09:45:45-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol5_no3_fall_2005.php Wednesday, August 31, 2005 from 2:00-3:30 (1.5 hours) 1916 Room (Bird Library) Are you interested in discovering who is citing your work or the work of others? Learn how to use the Web of Knowledge to utilize your research time more efficiently. This seminar covers: The publication selection process Using the search interfaces for topic, author, source title, and address searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching How to expand your literature search using the unique Related Records search How to use cited reference searching to navigate the literature and discover who is citing your research and the research of others E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results Saving a search history so you can use it later to find new information Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates... 1563@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.5, No.3 (Fall 2005) 2005-07-26T10:42:37-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol5_no2_summer_2005.php 1562@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.5, No.2 (Summer 2005) 2005-07-19T09:20:01-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol5_no2_summer_2005.php David Flaxbart reported in the CHMINF-L listserv: Has anyone noticed the significant changes in Chemical Market Reporter? As of the March 28 issue, CMR has gone to a slick-magazine format. More importantly, the Chemical Prices section no longer appears. The CMR web site (http://www.chemicalmarketreporter.com/) provides access to this and other information only by registering with a subscription number, then logging in with a username and password. Obviously, this is not a viable solution for library users who have used CMR for years to obtain current chemical pricing information. I see no information on their web site about institutional web subscriptions, either. CMR has just become much less useful for a library, and the publisher probably did not stop to consider this when redesigning the magazine. It's also unclear how Schnell, the longtime publisher, is related to ICIS, the new publisher. For sure a bonehead move. For more information, see the extended commentary on this that appeared in the scitech library question blog.... 1501@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.5, No.2 (Summer 2005) 2005-07-01T12:02:49-05:00 http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/vol5_no2_summer_2005.php The newest Public Library of Science journal, PLoS Computational Biology, was launched this week. The journal is published in partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The lead editorial describes the scope of this new journal. What motivates us to start a new journal at this time? Computation, driven in part by the influx of large amounts of data at all biological scales, has become a central feature of research and discovery in the life sciences. This work tends to be published either in methods journals that are not read by experimentalists or in one of the numerous journals reporting novel biology, each of which publishes only small amounts of computational research. Hence, the impact of this research is diluted. PLoS Computational Biology provides a home for important biological research driven by computation -- a place where computational biologists can find the best work produced by their colleagues, and where the broader biological community can see the myriad ways computation is advancing our understanding of biological systems. (Via PAMNET)... 1500@http://www.tomkeays.com/chemistry/news/ Vol.5, No.2 (Summer 2005) 2005-07-01T11:54:40-05:00