SciFinder Scholar allows unlimited usage

April 24th, 2012 Posted in eResource News
Apr, 24 2012
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The UML subscription to Scifinder Scholar from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is now available for unlimited simultaneous user logins for all UML students, faculty, and staff.

Prior to this upgrade to CAS’s new Academic Unlimited Access Program, simultaneous usage was restricted to five users at any one time. Now any number of users can access the resource simultaneous 24/7.

Scifinder Scholar (SFS) provides citations, abstracts, and detailed chemical indexing for over 12,000 journals in chemistry and related fields.  Material covered reaches back into the late 1800’s.  SFS also provides the complete Medline database, with similar indexing.  SFS offers a current alerting service, and its Chemport service will connect you to the full text articles, if UML has a subscription to the title.

All new users of Scifinder Scholar must register for their own individual accounts, using their uml email address.  CAS will send a confirming email which must be answered before your account is activated. For further instructional information about registering, please visit this SciFinder Scholar Research Guide.

Access to SciFinder Scholar is available from the Library’s home web page alphabet index list as well as from most science-related database subject pages.

For any questions about SFS use, email or call (x 3209) Marion Muskiewicz, Science Librarian.

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Reaxys chemical database trial

April 14th, 2011 Posted in Trial eResources
Apr, 14 2011
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Elsevier is providing UMass Lowell with a one month free trial to their Reaxys database. The trial is available from April 14 to May 14, 2011.

Reaxys is a unique web-based chemistry workflow solution which integrates searches for reaction and substance data with synthesis planning and chemical sourcing. It contains historical data dating back to 1771 and coverage of important current journal and patents within chemistry. The data excerpted from the journals and patents meets carefully controlled selection criteria – namely that all organic, inorganic and organometallic properties and data are excerpted only if they have a structure, experimental fact and a credible citation.

The reaction and substance data within Reaxys is experimentally validated – not calculated – so that less time is spent interrogating results. Its synthesis planner supports the evaluation of alternative synthetic routes and allows chemists to identify and combine selected reaction steps. Sophisticated relevance ranking algorithms combine with filtering tools help prevent chemists from reading irrelevant articles and pursuing unsubstantiated references.

Enhanced interoperability between Reaxys and ScienceDirect further improves the discoverability and visualization of chemical structures. To further improve discoverability and usefulness of the chemistry, authors submitting articles to selected journals are invited to contribute structure (MOL) files of their key compounds. These structure files will be used to visually display all the key compounds referenced in the article in a single scrollable list and will contain direct links to Reaxys, straight from ScienceDirect. It is already possible to access the full-text literature from Reaxys; now Reaxys content is available from ScienceDirect, completing the circle. Furthermore compound identifiers (InChI keys) will be added to the structures, making both the article and its key compounds more discoverable through mainstream search engines like Google.

More information is available here:

Access to this trial is available through the library’s New Database Trials and Subscriptions webpage.

Please post comments concerning any aspect of this trial; it aids significantly in our decision-making process.

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Handbook of Chemistry & Physics 90th Edition

April 6th, 2010 Posted in eResource News
Apr, 06 2010
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The content of the 90th Edition, 2009-2010, of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now available online.

The new 90th edition adds several new tables including Structure and Functions of Common Drugs, Solubility Parameters of Polymers, Major World Earthquakes, and Equilibrium Constants of Selected Enzyme Reactions. It adds major updates to several others, including Threshold Limits for Airborne Contaminants, Mass Spectral Peaks of Common Organic Solvents, and Properties of the Solar System. It also adds a table of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry and Physics.

Structure/Property Search

Also new is the ability to search the handbook by chemical structure. Simply download the  Marvin Sketch Java Applet from ChemAxon and then begin drawing your structure query.

You can search over 10,000 compounds by drawing a Chemical Structure, or by completing the Chemical Properties section. To perform a more complex search, you may combine a Chemical Structure with the parameters set in the Chemical Properties section.

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New web version of the Dictionary of Organic Compounds

April 6th, 2010 Posted in eResource News
Apr, 06 2010
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Chapman & Hall/CRC Publishers has released its latest web version of the Dictionary of Organic Compounds (DOC) is now available on the CHEMnetBASE website .

What’s new?

In addition to updated data and 5,000 new compounds since the last update, this new version also has an upgraded structure searching applet called MarvinSketch that provides full compatibility with Mac OSX, giving Mac users structure-search capabilities for the first time.

Take a tour

The new features of DOC are highlighted in this online tour.

CHEMnetBASE

CHEMnetBASE is a web-based compilation of well-known and well-respected chemistry reference books produced by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. The information offers quick access to chemical and physical property data. Resources included are the Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD), Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Polymers: A Property Database, and Properties of Organic Compounds (POC).

 

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CRC Dictionary of Drugs releases its latest version

February 12th, 2010 Posted in eResource News
Feb, 12 2010
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The latest web version of the Chapman & Hall/CRC Dictionary of Drugs (DOD) is now available.

The DOD is a subset of  the Chapman & Hall/CRC Combinded Chemical Dictionary  availabe in the CHEMnetBASE .

In addition to updated data on the latest drugs and pharmacological tools, the new version of the DOD  also has an upgraded structure searching applet from ChemAxon. MarvinSketch is powerful and intuitive and also provides full compatibility with Mac OSX, giving our Mac customers structure search capabilities for the first time.

 The new features of DOD are highlighted in this tour.

The Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD) Web Version is a chemical database containing over 500,000 substances which are formerly available from the following products:

  • Dictionary of Carbohydrates
  • Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
  • Dictionary of Natural Products
  • Dictionary of Organic Compounds
  • Dictionary of Drugs (formerly PharmaSource)

The information contained on the chemical database includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables.

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CRC Handbook 90th Edition now available

November 12th, 2009 Posted in eResource News
Nov, 12 2009
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The latest web version of the new Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Online is now available. Try out the new edition by linking to it from the library’s Chemistry electronic resources subject page.

The CRC edition now allows users to search the handbook by chemical structure. Simply download the intuitive Marvin Sketch Java Applet from ChemAxon and then draw your structure query. Search over 10,000 compounds!

the new web version also adds tables covering 11 new topics:

  • Structures and functions of common drugs
  • Chemical constituents of human blood
  • Proton nmr shifts for solvents
  • Apparent Equilibrium Constants for Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions
  • Phase Transitions in the Solid Elements at Atmospheric Pressure
  • Thermoelectric Properties of Metals and Semiconductors
  • Thermophysical Properties of Stainless Steel 310
  • Description of the IUPAC chemical identifier (InChI)
  • International recommendations on the expression of uncertainty of measurements
  • Major world earthquakes, 850AD to 2008
  • Nobel prize winners in Physics and Chemistry

    • And some of the most heavily used tables have been extensively revised and updated.

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