Library Hours for the Break
Reminder: Renew Your Books
Important News from SciFinder Scholar
What Happened to Scientific American Online?
RSC Online Journals Enhancement
Why Can't We Get Science Online?
Spring Semester Course Reserves
Hours for the branch libraries at University Park between the end of finals and the start of Spring Semester are as follows:
Sat., 22 Dec. 9am-5pm
Sun., 23 Dec. to Wed., 26 Dec. Closed
Thurs., 27 Dec. to Fri., 28 Dec. Noon-5pm
Sat., 29 Dec. to Tues., 1 Jan. Closed
Wed., 2 Jan. to Thurs. 3 Jan. 7:45am-5pm
Fri., 4 Jan. 1-5pm
Sat., 5 Jan. to Sun., 6 Jan. Closed
Mon., 7 Jan. to Fri., 11 Jan. 7:45am-5pm
Sat., 12 Jan. Closed
Sun., 13 Jan. Noon-10pm
Mon., 14 Jan. Resume regular schedule
Hours for Pattee Library and Paterno Library as well as other campuses are located at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/hours/index.html.
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If you haven’t already, please take a minute and renew your books. You can do this online by going to the Library Home Page at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/ and clicking on “My Library Account” on the gray menu line at the top of the page.
Check your list to be sure that everything got renewed. If you’ve maxed out the number of times you can renew online, you’ll need to bring the books back to your nearest Penn State Library to renew them.
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Chemical Abstracts Service is phasing out support of several older versions of SciFinder Scholar. One of them apparently still has a few users at PSU. If any of your patrons are still using 1.0 Macintosh OS X, please be aware that this will no longer be supported. You can access the new versions of SciFinder Scholar at http://downloads.its.psu.edu. It’s listed under “Technical Applications”.
SciFinder Scholar needs some additional maintenance, so CAS has announced that they’re extending the normal downtime this weekend. SciFinder Scholar will be unavailable from Sat., 15 Dec. at 5pm to Sun., 16 Dec., at 1am.
Need older chemical information? The Chemical Abstracts portion of SciFinder Scholar now includes approximately 18,000 bibliographic citations from Chemisches Zentralblatt which were published between 1905-1906. Since CZ was originally published in German, the bibliographic information and the abstracts have been machine translated into English. (from CAS announcement).
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We do still have it, but the folks at Scientific American have put significant restrictions on the way in which we are allowed to link to it. We’re no longer allowed to link to the current volumes using “GET IT”, so the easiest way to access them is to go to the Databases by Title (A-Z List) at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/eres/PSU_azlist.html#azlist and scroll down to Scientific American Archive Online. This site has the content from 1993 to present. If you click on a blue “GET IT” button, you’ll get a link to the pre-1909 volumes.
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The Royal Society of Chemistry has started adding a series of major enhancements to their online journals. According to the announcement, “the project uses:
• InChis (IUPAC’s International Chemical Identifier for compounds)
• OBO ontology terms (Open Biomedical Ontologies: a hierarchical classification of biomedical terms) such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the related Sequence Ontology (SO);
• Terms from the IUPAC Gold Book
• CML (Chemical Markup Language: a means to describe molecular information in a structured form)”
For more information and to find out how to identify enhanced articles, go to http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/ProjectProspect/index.asp.
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Several times recently I’ve been asked why we don’t have online access to Science. Unfortunately, the problem is money. The last offer we got from AAAS would have cost us well over $50,000 for a one year subscription in addition to retaining 23 print subscriptions.
If you’re looking for the electronic backfiles that we used to have access to, your choices are limited. AAAS has pulled its Science content from ProQuest, so you can no longer go there for articles dating from 2006 back to about 1990. AAAS has also stated that they will no longer contribute older backfiles to JSTOR, making 2002 the last year that’s available there. We do continue to have our print subscription.
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Teaching spring semester? Want to put material on reserve for your students? Send your list to Tamara Rapp at tlr24@psulias.psu.edu.
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