Do you need articles on a topic related to energy? We will look at industry and market research for the energy field using S&P NetAdvantage, Business Monitor, Lux Research, and Alternative Energy eTrack. We will also evaluate and search several interdisciplinary energy-related databases including Scopus, Engineering Village and One Petro and explore how to use geographic information system (GIS) data to visualize energy research.

Monday, May 21, 2012
2-3 pm
Branner Earth Sciences Library, Mitchell Building 2nd floor, Teaching Corner

The class will be team-taught by:
Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager, Branner Library
Mihoko Hosoi, Librarian, Stanford Graduate School of Business Library
Hannah Winkler, Earth Sciences Libarian, Branner Library

April 2012: The latest update of SciFinder debuts features that boost search convenience. The new features include direct searching of substance properties, converting CAS Registry Numbers® to structures, and convenient preview of substance and reference answer sets with Quick View.

Property Search
SciFinder now enables users to search substances by individual experimental or predicted property. Researchers can target substances with a particular property value or range of values in the CAS REGISTRYSM, which contains more than 66 million substances characterized by 3.6 billion experimental and predicted properties.

Convert CAS Registry Number to Structure
Structure searching has been made easier by the convenience of inputting a CAS Registry Number to the structure editor. As an alternative to drawing a structure, a CAS Registry Number is entered by using the Add to Editor function.

Preview Substance and Reference Answer Sets with Quick View Quick View icon
From multiple locations in SciFinder, users can preview additional details about a substance or reference through use of Quick View. Working with answer sets is more efficient and convenient since Quick View is presented as a pop-up screen, enabling the user to remain in their current view.

Substance Quick View
Hover over an individual compound in a substance answer set and click the magnifying glass icon to see a substance Quick View, which contains additional information such as synonyms, molecular formula, and source of registration.

To see how these new features work, please see What's New in the Web Version of SciFinder

Selected Presentations from the 243rd ACS National Meeting that was held in San Diego, March 25-29, 2012 are now available online.

Meeting Theme: Chemistry of Life
Advancements in basic and applied research towards understanding the chemistry of life, both at the molecular and macroscopic levels.

More than 450 oral presentations captured for you

• Focused on advancing chemistry and communicating chemistry
• Organized by 30 Technical Divisions and 6 ACS Committees
• Listen, learn and share – at your convenience

The Stanford Business Library recently set up a trial of the Freedonia Focus Report Collection. Stanford’s trial will run through Friday, April 27th and includes access to the U.S., World and (industry specific) Country Reports that are currently available, over 700 titles in 15 countries. Please send comments to graceb@stanford.edu by April 30, 2012.

The Focus Report Collection is an online, subscription based product that provides insight and analysis into over 700 business and industry topics. Each 18–25 page report includes concise and valuable information on market size, product and market forecasts, industry composition, market leaders, regulatory issues and business trends. The database is useful in a variety of academic disciplines including business and commerce, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, food and nutrition, agriculture, energy, earth sciences, technology and for those involved in the commercialization of products and services.

Approximately 65% of the collection addresses topics in these categories:

• Automotive/Other Transportation
• Chemicals
• Construction/Building Materials
• Electronics
• Energy
• Food, Agriculture, Tobacco
• Industrial/Manufacturing
• Packaging
• Plastics
• Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences

The remaining 35% of the reports cover:

• Consumer Products
• Service Industries

About The Freedonia Group: The Freedonia Group is a leading international industry market research company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with offices in Beijing, China. We have been providing clients with the data and analysis needed to make informed business decisions for over 25 years. Freedonia Group research is used by business, financial and industry decision-makers worldwide. In fact over 90% of the global industrial 1000 in more than 50 countries use the Freedonia Group for strategic planning. Our in house team of research analysts and economists are routinely quoted in leading trade publications and journals including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Economist. We are now offering access to the exact same research that is used by business planners in the corporate world to students and professors throughout your university.

As part of its mandate to provide information useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSE) prepares about 30 reports a year, including Science and Engineering Indicators for the National Science Board and Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. 2012 editions were published for both of these reports.

Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) is first and foremost a volume of record comprising the major high-quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise. SEI is factual and policy neutral. It does not offer policy options, and it does not make policy recommendations. SEI employs a variety of presentation styles — tables, figures, narrative text, bulleted text, Web-based links, highlights, introductions, conclusions, reference lists — to make the data accessible to readers with different information needs and different information-processing preferences.

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering provides statistical information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. A formal report, now in the form of a digest, is issued every 2 years.

Encyclopedia of Radicals in Chemistry, Biology, and Materials

This Encyclopedia offers for the first time a description of free radicals within an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary context, connecting structural characteristics and chemical properties to their applications in different areas of chemistry and related disciplines, including topical areas such as:

- Alzheimer’s disease and antioxidants in food within medicine and life sciences
- Synthesis and catalysis, combustion and atmospheric chemistry within chemistry
- Ageing and signalling in biological processes

Covering not only basic concepts and chemical synthesis, the Encyclopedia also covers various aspects concerning the role of free radicals in materials and life sciences. Offering the reader a balanced contribution of topics related to free radicals, for example, their role in proteomics, genomics and lipidomics as well as their enormous potential in synthesis and technology.

The chapters are thematically structured within four areas: Basic Concepts & Methodologies, Synthetic Strategies & Applications, Chemical Biology, Polymers & Materials, to help chemists and life science researchers gain a wider and deeper understanding of free radicals and allow them to apply free radicals in their own research.

Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips

This book includes:

- Large selection of color illustrations
- The most up-to-date information in a rapidly changing field
- Outstanding editors and authors
- There are 85 chapters and a further 10 part introductions, the latter written by the Editors

Biosensors and biochips are part of the huge and rapidly evolving areas of biomolecular and bioanalytical sciences. The market for biosensors and biochips is interdisciplinary and growing and has applications in a number of core research areas. With contributions from experts in the field, the Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips provides an essential reference, underpinning many of the applications used in medical diagnostics, environmental control and pharmaceutical and food industries. It presents an invaluable addition for those in both academia and industry. The content of the Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips is structured in the following subject areas:

Part I: Introduction to biosensor and biochip technologies
Part II: Biological and molecular recognitions systems
Part III: The biology – materials interface: interfacial science and receptor integration
Part IV: Transducer technologies for biosensors and bio-array technologies
Part V: Miniaturized, micro-engineered and particle systems
Part VI: Array technologies
Part VII: Data analysis, conditioning and presentation
Part VIII: Areas and examples of biosensor applications
Part IX: Commercialization, business and regulatory issues
Part X: Future implications, trends and perspectives

Supramolecular Chemistry: From Molecules to Nanomaterials

Presenting over 150 tutorial articles and spanning over 10 comprehensive sections, this new resource covers:

- Concepts
- Techniques
- Molecular recognition
- Supramolecular reactivity
- Supramolecular aspects of chemical biology
- Self processes
- Supramolecular devices
- Supramolecular materials chemistry
- Soft matter
- Nanotechnology

Supramolecular chemistry is ‘chemistry beyond the molecule’. While traditional chemistry focuses on the bonds that hold atoms together in a molecule, supramolecular chemistry examines the weaker interactions that hold groups of molecules together. Important concepts that have been demonstrated by supramolecular chemistry include molecular self-assembly, folding, molecular recognition, host-guest chemistry, mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures, and dynamic covalent chemistry. The importance of supramolecular chemistry was established by the 1987 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which was awarded to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Maria Lehn, and Charles J. Pedersen in recognition of their work in the field. The past decade has seen dramatic developments in the field, with supramolecular chemistry leaving its roots in classical host guest chemistry and expanding into exciting areas of materials chemistry and nanoscience with many real and potential applications. Supramolecular findings are evolving our understanding of the way chemical concepts at the molecular level build up into materials and systems with fascinating, emergent properties on the nanoscale.

Source: Above descriptions are from the publisher's website.

The 2012 release of CSD is now available for downloading from a server. Software available includes the CSD System, SuperStar, and DASH. SuperStar predicts Protein-Ligand Interactions. DASH solves structure from Powder Diffraction Data. We also have a site license for WebCSD which is updated weekly.

Access: CSD software must be installed and can only be used on-campus. For off-campus access, please use WebCSD or CSD via CDSERVER.

License Key: The license key is based on your IP address. To get the license key, please bring your Stanford ID and your IP address to Swain’s circulation desk and ask for Aparna Sharma or Grace Baysinger during regular business hours.

Educational Use: Read a summary about the Cambridge Structural Database System in Research and Education (pdf). View presentations from the ACS Symposium on the Applications of Small-molecule Crystal Structure Information in Chemical Education.

More details and to download software: Cambridge Structural Database at Stanford

Image Credits: From CCDC — Conquest (CSD Search Interface) and IsoStar.

Be one of 15 Ph.D. students selected to participate in the SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry program. Interact with peers from around the world during an all-expense-paid week at the CAS campus in Columbus, Ohio, August 12–18, 2012.

Share your insights on chemical information and learn from your peers as you go behind-the-scenes with expert CAS scientists and SciFinder engineers.

You’ll also have the opportunity to visit leading research organizations in Columbus, such as The Ohio State University, Battelle Memorial Institute and TechColumbus. At the end of the week, we’ll fly you to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to attend the 244th ACS National Meeting & Exposition.

Eligible applicants are current doctoral candidates enrolled in a Ph.D. chemistry program through December 31, 2012. To apply, students must submit an application by May 4, 2012. Details are available at the SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry website.

Apply today for the 2012 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry program!

We are very pleased to announce that the Course Reserve Catalog has been updated and integrated into SearchWorks. You can see it now by going to the SearchWorks homepage or to the new Course Reserves landing page.

Students can now search or browse by Course ID, Description or Instructor. As they type their search term, the results list updates to include only relevant courses or instructors. For example, search CHEM or CHEMENG to browse a list of all the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering courses that have items on reserve.

To send feedback on the new Course Reserve Catalog, use the feedback form in SearchWorks.