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Did you know?

• In 2003, there were 117,693 abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) procedures performed in the U.S.
• More than 44,000,000 people in the U.S. provide care (without pay) to someone aged 18 or older.
• 62% of adults have used alternative medicine, and 45% of adults have used prayer as an alternative therpy.
• In the year 2000, there were about 1,313,000 induced abortions in the U.S.
• 58% of Americans support the right to die; this is up from 38% in 1977.

If you are interested in statistics like these or other health care data, you may want to consult a new reference book, American Health: Demographics and Spending of Health Care Consumers. It is available in the Science Library reference section, call number: RA 445 A442 2005.

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ChemSpider can be used to search, aggregate, and data mine publicly available chemical information, including data from PubChem. It can be searched by exact structure, substructure, and similarily structure as well as by chemical names and molecular formula, and limited by properties. ChemSpider has been enhanced with calculated properties from ACD Labs. Currently, it searches over 10,000,000 compounds.

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This Bibliography, compiled by Steven Rockey of the Cornell University Mathematics Library, lists mathematics books that undergraduates and non-mathematicians may find accessible. Check the Minerva catalog for UAlbany availability.

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The following American Institute of Physics (AIP) journals now have enhanced references for all content published from 1991 through 1998. This will allow you to click on references and follow links to the cited articles. This function is already available for AIP’s content from 1999 to the present.

Applied Physics Letters
Journal of Applied Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Review of Scientific Instruments

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Compiled by Steven Rockey of the Cornell University Mathematics Library, this Bibliography is a comprehensive listing of collected works and correspondence of mathematicians. It is alphabetically arranged by author.

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The Science Library will offer extended hours during the Spring final exam period. The hours will be extended Tuesday to Thursday, May 8-10 and Sunday to Wedneday, May 13-16. On these days the Science Library will be open until 1:00 AM.

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Access to Safari Tech Books Online is now available for the University at Albany community. Our Safari collection contains about 150 online books on a variety of computing, programming, and information technology subjects from publishers like O'Reilly, Addison Wesley, Sams, Prentice Hall, Que, Microsoft Press, and Peachpit Press. Our collection can be searched on the Safari Web site by selecting "my content" in the search area, or individual books can be accessed using Minerva.

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JSTOR has added the following title: Epidemiology (Health & General Sciences Collection), Vols. 3 – 12, 1992-2001.

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Prebiotic Chemistry: From Simple Amphiphiles to Protocell Models, edited by Peter Walde, has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for March. Prebiotic Chemistry is volume 259 of the Topics in Current Chemistry series. All books in this series, received by the UAlbany Libraries, now come in "online only" format. I failed to announce February's Electronic Book of the Month; it was Mathematics into the Twenty-First Century, edited by Felix E. Browder. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.

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The following books authored or co-authored by Harry B. Gray are now being offered in the Caltech Library System's Open Access Series:

• Ballhausen, Carl J. and Gray, Harry B.
  Molecular Electronic Structures: An Introduction, 1980.
• Ballhausen, Carl A. and Gray, Harry B.
  Molecular Orbital Theory: An Introductory Lecture Note and Reprint Volume, 1965.
• Dence, Joseph B. and Gray, Harry B. and Hammond, George S. Chemical Dynamics, 1968.



• Gray, Harry B. Electrons and Chemical Bonding, 1965.
• Langford, Cooper H. and Gray, Harry B. Ligand Substitution Processes, 1966.

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Ever wonder ... what's the maximum weight of a giraffe? how fast your fingernails grow? the amount of energy you consume while sleeping? how much saliva you produce each day? You can find the answers to these and many other questions in Amazing Numbers in Biology by Rainer Flindt. It can be fond in the Science Library reference section at QH 310 F4413 2006. The answers to these questions can be found on pages 2, 214, 224, and 236 respectively.

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ScienceDirect will not be available on Sunday, March 11, 2007, beginning 1:00 AM EST. The downtime will be used to make adjustments for Daylight Savings Time, and may last up to 7 hours.

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Effective April 1, 2007, the contract between SUNY and BioMedCentral (BMC) will expire. The contract was negotiated by the SUNY Council on Access and Collections (SCAC), and supported by a two-year grant from the Joint Labor/Management Committee of United University Professions, the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations, and a subsidy from the SUNY University and Health Science Center Libraries. The contract enrolled all SUNY four-year colleges, and university and health science centers as BMC members. During the membership period which ran from April 2005 to March 2007, SUNY faculty and researchers were entitled to submit an unlimited number of research papers to BMC open access journals without incurring article processing fees. Instead, the cost was covered by a $12,500 per year membership fee. Forty-five articles were published under these terms yielding a cost per article of approximately $555.00.

The contract was not renewed because a change in the pricing model used by BMC would lead to significantly higher costs (over $1,200 per article) without any benefits for a consortial arrangement.

Please note that this will NOT affect our access to the journals on BioMedCentral.

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CAS is hosting an e-Seminar on March 14, 2007 focused on "SciFinder: Using Research Topic Explore to Navigate the World’s Scientific Literature." It will be available 2:00 to 3:00 PM EDT, and wiil be rebroadcast March 20, 2007 at 6:00 AM EDT and 9:00 AM EDT.

To register, visit: http://casevents.webex.com/. After you register, you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing the teleconference phone numbers.

For technical questions, please contact WebEx at 866-779-3239, or by e-mail at support@webex.com.

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From the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemistry World Blog covers everything chemistry, including news, opinion, and discussion about the chemical sciences.

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Curly Arrow is blog "devoted to the discussion of all aspects of synthetic organic chemistry and related sciences."

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ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, March 3rd for approximately 9 hours starting at 6:30 AM EST.

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