Science Resources

The CAS databases, which the UAlbany Community can access via SciFinder Scholar, have recently been enhanced wtih the following:

• Indian patent applications from the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks have been added. Coverage is retroactive to December 4, 2004.
• Bibliographic and abstract information has been added for 14,500 additional U.S. patent records from 1870-1889.
• More than 270,000 additional reactions from more than 17,000 documents from 1992-1999 have been added .
• More than 1.2 million new commercial source records have been added. These include approximately 500,000 new small molecules.
• The New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals (NZIoC) is a list of chemicals that may be used as components in formulated products, manufactured in, or imported into New Zealand. All non-confidential NZIoC substances are now included. These substances are identified with On NZIoC in the Inventory Status field.

From SciFinder Solutions.

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An online news magazine from the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, Chemical Science "provides a snapshot of the latest developments across the chemical sciences, as reported in RSC journals."

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Sams Teach Yourself Programming with Java™ in 24 Hours (4th Edition) by Rogers Cadenhead has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for May. This book is part of the Safari Tech Books Online collection that is available to the UAlbany community. This collection contains about 150 online books on a variety of computing, programming, and information technology subjects. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.

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To celebrate its 200th anniversary, the Geological Society (London) has opened of its Lyell Collection of published material to all. The Lyell Collection represents one of the largest integrated collections on Earth science, and includes the Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Special Publications, Memoirs, and other key book series. The Lyell Collection is only available May 17 through June 18, 2007.

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The backfile of the Biological Abstracts database now extends back to 1993, and the number of simultaneous users has been increased to 10.

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PhysMath Central, BioMed Central's platform for physics and mathematics, has launched its first journal: PMC Physics A. PMC Physics A is open access, and will cover particle, high-energy and nuclear physics, cosmology, gravity, astroparticle physics, and instrumentation and data analysis. It is now open for submissions. There are no author publication charges for articles submitted before June 30, 2007.

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CAS is hosting an e-Seminar on May 16, 2007, 2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT, entitled SciFinder: Get Reactions for Your Research Needs. The e-Seminar will be re-broadcast on May 20, 2007 at 6:00 am EDT and 9:00 am EDT (13.00 GMT). SciFinder Scholar reaction searching will be covered.

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

For system and other technical requirements needed to participate in this event, contact WebEx:
Phone: 866-779-3239
E-mail: support@webex.com

General questions can be handled by CAS Customer Care:
Phone: 800-753-4227
E-mail: help@cas.org

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From the Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory (CICC) at Indiana University, ChemBioGrid: Chemistry Databases on the Web lists and describes many major chemistry and biology databases and resources on the Web. It is classified into these categories: general; 2D structure; specific classes of compounds; drug-related; disease-related; physical properties, spectra, etc.; toxcity and environmental; biomolecules; metabolic pathways; Web services-enabled biosciences; commercial; and miscellaneous. There is also an alphabetical list of databases (resources) that is annotated.

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∑quPlus lists important equations in mathematics and science in the following categories: algebra, calculus, chemistry, geometry, physics, signal processing, statistics, and trigonometry. The equations are available as an image, and in LaTeX and MathType formats.

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Biointerphases is a new open access journal published by the American Vacuum Society and hosted on AIP's Scitation platform. "Biointerphases will include all topics relevant to the study and understanding of interfaces and confined phases in biomaterial science and biophysics." It will publish "original articles, reviews, a 'myth and reality' section addressing controversial models and experiments, editorial commentarly, letters to the editor, perspectives on evolving research, reports on interdisciplinary research programs, and opinionated essays." There is a general author a fee of $800, but reduced rates are available. For additional author information, please see http://www.biointerphases.org/author.html.

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Created by a Harvard University mathematics faculty member, Mathematics in Movies contains movie clips in which mathematics appears. My favorite, so far, is "Ma and Pa Kettle." Towards the bottom of the page, there are also links to other math in movies Web sites.

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The OpenScience Project contains a directory of open source scientific software. It lists resources under several categories including: chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, forensics, life sciences, mathematics (including statistics), nanotechnology, and physics. A search engine is also provided.

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ARKIVOC (Archive for Organic Chemistry) is another chemistry open access initiative. The archives of ARKIVOC are freely available back to the year 2000. It is peer-reviewed and publishes original papers of interest to organic chemists (including bio-organic and organometallic chemists). Accounts and reviews are also published, but communications are not.

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The Chemistry Central Journal is a new online open access initiative of BioMed Central and Chemistry Central. It is both peer-reviewed and open access. "Chemistry Central supports PubMed Central and other digital repositories, and encourages self-archiving by authors. All research articles published by, or in cooperation with, Chemistry Central are archived without delay in PubMed Central and several other international archives. Chemistry Central also allows authors to immediately deposit the official, final version of their published article in any suitable digital repository. Several institutions that are research funders have introduced official policies requesting or requiring their authors to deposit the articles they publish in a central archive. Chemistry Central fully supports these deposition policies and is compliant with them." UAlbany researchers should consider publishing in Chemistry Central Journal or similar iniatiatives. Why publish in open access journals? See: "The Research Impact of Open Access Journal Articles."

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