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Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is offering a free version of CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index). CASSI can be used to determine journal titles and abbreviations used by CAS in products like SciFinder Scholar. Additional information like CODEN, ISBN, and publisher is also furnished. More information about CASSI is available here.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prizes to four teams for creating innovations in a range of applications. The Gordon Bell Prizes recognize outstanding achievements in high-performance computing. Information about the winning teams is available here.
The Science Library will be closed December 23, 2009 through January 3, 2010, and will reopen on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 8:00 AM. Science Library hours are available here. During the closure, materials from the Science Library will be paged daily. To use this service, please check with the University Library Circulation Department (442-3569).
What are the new titles recently cataloged in the Minerva catalog? One way to find out is to come the Science Library and peruse the "new book" shelves opposite the Circulation Desk on the first floor. Another way would be to use the Minverva catalog. Log into Minerva, and simply click the New Titles tab. This will provide you with all of the materials cataloged in the previous month. This list is divided by broad subjects. If you click on Q (science), R (medicine), S (agriculture), and T (technology), this will provide you with the new titles in the Science Library. The entire list as well as the individual broad subjects have RSS feeds. Paste the RSS feed URL into your RSS aggregator (Bloglines, Google, etc.), and the list will be automatically sent.
Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley InterScience resources may be interrupted on Monday, December 21, 2009 at 4:00 am EST. The downtime may last up to 1 hour.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has added information from the Philippines Intellectual Property Office to its patent coverage. Coverage goes back to 2007. CAS now includes chemical patent information from 60 patent authorities. A list of patent authorities covered by CAS (with years covered) is available here.
The American Institute of Physics has launched its next-generation hosting platform, Scitation C3. Scitation C3 has an XML infrastructure and includes features like full-text HTML rendering, the ability to enlarge tables and figures, faceted results, real-time institutional mapping, and an upgraded tables of contents service. More information is available here.