Crerar Library News

New England Journal of Medicine - all issues online

The Library now has the New England Journal of Medicine available online beginning with volume 1, issue 1 (1812).

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Transition to SciFinder on the web

Chemical Abstracts Service is discontinuing all access to SciFinder via the desktop client software as of June 30, 2011.  University of Chicago access will be managed as follows: 

• Effective March 1, 2011, the option to download the DESKTOP client will no longer be available.
• All users are strongly encouraged to set up their WEB account   and begin using SciFinder on the web as soon as possible. 
• Allocation of available seats (concurrent sessions) will be shifted gradually from the DESKTOP client to WEB version, with all seats being allocated to the web by June 1, 2011

 Features of the web version include:

• the ability to save searches and automatically run them against all new records added to the database (Keep me posted/current awareness)
• similarity search on reactions, not just substances
• sort features including sorting substance records by number of literature references
• export physical property data to Microsoft® Excel®
• add comments to specific references for sharing information and insights with colleagues
• retains search history for previous 10 search sessions
• off campus access via the proxy server

If you have questions about SciFinder on the web, please contact Andrea Twiss-Brooks [email protected]

    

Digital versions of large architectural works

Several oversized, heavily illustrated works of architectural and historical interest from the John Crerar Library collection are  being digitized by the University of Chicago Library.  The first of these works is now available for the first time in digital format.  Baukunst des Mittelalters is a 19th century collection of illustrations by Johannes Otzen of German cathedrals and other structures from the Middle Ages.  This digital work is now available for view at http://a2.lib.uchicago.edu/pip.php?/pres/2011/pres2011-0010.pdf .  Additional titles will be available as work on them is completed.

The full bibliographic record (including author, full title, publisher and date of publication) is also available:  http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8262334  

This digitization work is generously supported by the John Crerar Foundation.

Search Images on Science.gov

Search thousands of photographs and other images from US government agencies  databases like NBII Life, NIX NASA Image Exchange, NOAA Photo Library.  Available photos  include weather and space images, images of shore and coastal seas and of thousands of plant and animal  species. 

http://scigovimage.deepwebaccess.com/scigovimage/    

Royal Society of Chemistry e-books now available

The Library has recently added the entire current and backfile collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry e-books.  Records will be added to the Library catalog and Lens over the next few weeks, but you may also access the e-books collection at RSC e-books search page.  This collection contains more than 800 titles, including the Science of Chocolate (pictured left).

Aluka - new database

Aluka's African Plants collection includes scientific data contributed by more than 50 institutions in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Plant species are represented by high-resolution digital images of type specimens provided by participating herbaria. It is searchable and browsable by taxon, plant name author, repository, use (food, medicine, phytochemistry, etc.), and more.

Find more botany and plant science databases with the Database Finder.

Springer Protocols

Springer Protocols is an electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods as well as from Laboratory Handbooks, Springer Protocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of time tested, easily reproducible, step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab.

Springer E-books Now Available

The University of Chicago Library is pleased to provide electronic access to most Springer-Verlag books published in 2005 and 2006 and to new 2007 titles as they become available online.

We are planning to include records for these books in the Library's on-line catalog.  However, we are experiencing some problems with loading the records. 

In the meantime, you can access these titles directly on the Springer search page.  On that page, you can seach by keyword;  then limit your search results by choosing books in the right hand column under Content Type.  If we have full text access to the book, you will see a green box just to the left of the entry.

If you have any questions, please contact your bibliographer:

Barbara Kern - [email protected], 702-8717 
Astronomy/Astrophysics and Technology Bibliographer, Reference Librarian

Christa Modschiedler - [email protected], 702-8759
Biomedical Bibliographer, Reference Librarian

Brenda Rice - [email protected], 702-8774
Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science Bibliographer, Reference Librarian

Andrea Twiss-Brooks - [email protected], 702-8777 
Chemistry/Physics/Geophysical Sciences/History of Science and Medicine Bibliographer, Reference Librarian

Two New E-Journals

Now available on in the library's collection of e-journals are current and past issues of  New Scientist and Palaeoworld.    

New journal available online

Geotechnique, a journal covering soil and rock mechanics, engineering geology and environmental geotechnics, is available online:

http://www.atypon-link.com/TELF/loi/geot

The title is also listed in the library catalog, as well as in the e-journals list.