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The University at Albany Library has converted from the client version of SciFinder Scholar to the Web-based SciFinder. SciFinder is available to UAlbany students, faculty, and staff, however, to use SciFinder, registration is required. Registration instructions are available here. Once registration is completed, SciFinder is available here.
The American Physical Society (APS) is providing free access to their journals to U.S. public libraries. This includes access to over 400,000 scientific research papers from 1893 to the present. Libraries can obtain access by accepting a simple online site license and by providing valid IP addresses for their public-use computers. Libraries can sign up here.
The IEEE CS Conference Website provides a full calendar of IEEE CS conferences, upcoming deadlines, and conference speakers. It also includes links to organizer tools, publishing services, conference publications, and a conference search engine.
devcheatsheets.com lists cheat sheets for developers by category: programming & scripting languages, markup languages, query languages, libraries & frameworks, operating systems, version control, servers, databases, ORM, blogs, Websites, text editors, applications, security, networking, math, and others. The cheat sheets can be searched, or sorted and browsed by tags, sources, or the entire list.
In order to improve performance, the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library will not be available from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT) on Monday, August 2, 2010.
Chemical Abstracts Service (via SciFinder) increases its patent coverage by adding patent and patent family information from the Costa Rica Registry of Industrial Properties. Coverage of the Argentina National Institute of Industrial Properties was also expanded. 61 worldwide patent authorities are now in the system. Additional information is available here.
Elsevier introduces a new ScienceDirect discovery tool for chemistry. Beginning with two journals, authors can choose to submit MOL (structure) files of important compounds cited in their articles. Elsevier will convert the MOL files into InChI (International Chemical Identifier) keys and use them as article descriptors. This will increase the aritcle's "discoverabilty" by the ScienceDirect search engine as well as by Web search engines. Additional information is available here.
The University at Albany community will have free access to these AIP journals through 2011:
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy: Launched in 2009, it is a multidisciplinary online journal drawing from a diverse range of fields such as geothermal energy, bioenergy, solar and wind power, energy storage, and transportation. Peer-reviewed articles cover the science, rather than the policy, behind these emerging energy sources.
Biomicrofluidics: Originally launched as an open-access journal in 2007, it rapidly disseminates novel microfluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical, biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications. With the elimination of open access fees, access to Biomicrofluidics will now be completely free in 2011.
APL: Organic Electronics and Photonics: An AIP spotlight journal, it includes the subset of articles from Applied Physics Letters that directly deal with organic electronics and photonics. Content is published online daily, and collected into monthly online-only issues.
Please note that these journals are not available via the Minerva catalog.