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Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) announced that SciFinder Scholar now contains the largest collection of predicted proton NMR spectra (also called 1H-NMR). SciFinder Scholar users can access more than 23,800,000 spectra. These spectra augment the 1.9 billion predicted and experimental properties already available. The proton NMR spectra is being made available through an agreement between CAS and ACD/Labs.
Due to site maintenance, there may be an interruption in the online service for Wiley journals on Saturday, December 27, 2008. The service interruption is scheduled to begin at 9 AM and may last from 2 to 6 hours.
I've selected the following as the top 10 Science Resources for 2008. These are my favorites. There were so many great resources, that the list grew to 15; so you get a bonus of 5. They are in the chronological order that they appeared in Science Resources. Links are provided to the original blog post.
Programmers at Work
Bytesize Science
International Field Guides
Online Journals from the New York State Library
High-Energy Physics Labs Join to Build a New Scientific Information System
Fora.tv: Tech & Science
FreeBookCentre.net and Computer Programming Ebook Collection
National Science Foundation: Multimedia Gallery: Video
ScienceBlogs
Free Chemistry Drawing Programs
SciFinder Podcasts
Decoder for Biochimica et Biopysica Acta
ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents Service
The Periodic Table of Videos
As part of the University Energy Savings Initiative, the Science Library will be closed December 20, 2008 through January 4, 2009. When the Science Library reopens at 8 AM on January 5, 2009, it will be heated to 63 to 65 degrees F, hot water will be available, and interior lighting will be turned on as needed. The Science Library will return to normal conditions on January 20, 2009.
While it is closed, materials from the Science Library will be paged. Please use UA Delivery to request materials. Book requests will be paged and held at the University Library for you to pick up. Journal articles will be scanned, and made available electronically.
There will be no interruption to Interlibrary Loan and UA Delivery electronic article delivery services during this period. However, due to seasonal shutdowns in many research libraries, ILL article turnaround time may in some cases be slower than normal.
New Journal of Physics celebrates its 10th anniversary. For the past 10 years, NJP has been providing permanently free access to peer-reviewed research covering all areas of physics. During this time, over 1,500 articles have been published, and there have been over 2,000,000 downloads. More interesting facts and figures about NJP are available here and here.
From the American Physical Society (APS), Physical Review Focus is a free online resource that provides brief articles based on selected research papers from the Physical Review family of journals. The articles are written so they are accessible to students as well as researchers from all fields of physics. Videos and links to the original article are also included.
ticTOCs: Journal Tables of Contents Service is a table of contents service developed by a consortium of United Kingdom universities and information providers. ticTOCs is free and covers over 11,000 journals from over 400 publishers. Tables of contents can be accessed by searching by journal title; links are provided to the full text. Users can also register and use MyTOCs to create and permanently save a set of journals titles for future use. It is also possible to export TOC RSS feeds to feedreaders.
From the University of Nottingham, The Periodic Table of Videos is a collection of short, informative videos about each of the elements in the Periodic Table of the Elements.
From Time magazine's The Top 10 Everything of 2008, the Top 10 Scientific Discoievers lists and describes some of the most important discoveries of 2008. Also, check out these science/technology lists: Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs and Top 10 Gadgets.
Symyx is offering to academic and personal users a no-fee version of Symyx Draw, an all-purpose structure drawing program. Information about Symyx Draw along with downloading instructions is available at http://www.symyx.com/getdraw. A video demonstration is available here.
On November 21, 2008, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registered its 40 millionth substance. The substance is an azulenobenzofuran derivative, and it was assigned the CAS registry number 1073662-18-6. It was described in the journal article:
Oh, C.H.; Lee, J.H.; Lee, S.J.; Kim, J.I.; Hong, C.S. Intramolecular Huisgen-Type Cyclization of Platinum-Bound Pyrylium Ions with Alkenes and Subsequent Insertion into a Benzylic C-H Bond. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 7505-7507.
The CAS registry system is world's largest and most authoritative collection of disclosed chemical substance information, and is available via SciFinder Scholar.
The November 2008 (vol. 41, no. 11) issue of Computer is a special issue featuring several articles on e-Science.