Science Library Updates

Immediate release from Association of College and Research Libraries Science and Technology Section:

The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC) is now included in PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov ), the world's largest digital archive of freely available full-text journal literature. PubMed Central hosts over 200 journals, mainly in the life sciences and medicine. BJOC is one of the first chemistry journals to be accepted for inclusion in the database, which will bring its articles to the attention of an enormous worldwide readership of biomedical scientists.

BJOC is published by the Beilstein-Institut, a name synonymous with quality in organic chemistry for two centuries, in co-operation with BioMed Central, the leading global publisher of open access journals. As one of the first open access journals in chemistry, BJOC allows readers free access to all content immediately upon publication. BJOC has no publication charges, is fully refereed and offers rapid publication. Authors may submit their articles online to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Jonathan Clayden of the University of Manchester, UK. (www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc ).

Dr Martin Hicks, Director of the Beilstein-Institut, said 'Our objective in publishing BJOC is to serve organic chemists worldwide by providing a high quality journal that serves their needs as authors and readers, without being a financial burden to their institutes. We are delighted that inclusion in PubMed Central will bring the high quality articles published in BJOC to the attention of the growing number of biomedical researchers with an interest in organic chemistry and chemical biology.'

About the Beilstein-Institut
The Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften (Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences) is a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Beilstein-Institut pursues its purpose in particular in chemistry and its related areas and disciplines, especially information and communication. The Beilstein-Institut is owner and producer of the Beilstein Database, the world's largest and most comprehensive structure and factual database in the area of organic chemistry. The Beilstein-Institut also hosts workshops and symposia; free access to the proceedings is available on the web site:
www.beilstein-institut.de

About BioMed Central
BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent online publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed research. This commitment is based on the view that immediate free access to research and the ability to freely archive and reuse published information is essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science. BioMed Central currently publishes over 150 journals. BioMed Central provides Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry with website hosting, online submission, electronic peer review and publication services.

For more information, please contact:

For Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry: bjoc-info@beilstein-institut.de
http://www.beilstein-journals.org/

For BioMed Central
Grace Baynes
BioMed Central
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 9988

Posted by Mary Abdoney at 1:05 PM | Permalink

Everyone has seen those GoogleEarth maps on websites, in classrooms, and even on the national news. If you have ArcGIS data that you'd like to see shared among GoogleEarth users (mainly consumers and laypersons) check out Arc2Earth.

From the website:

. . . if most of your spatial data resides in traditional GIS formats (shapefiles, coverages, ArcSDE) it becomes very tedious to translate these values by hand. Likewise, most of this data probably resides in projections other then what Google Earth expects. Finally, ESRI's ArcMap is an excellent cartographic authoring environment that many in the GIS community are used to working with. Arc2Earth was built to remedy these problems and to make it as easy as possible to translate all of the information inside an MXD file into KML. While not perfect, Google Earth does not support much of the rich cartographic styles in ArcGIS, Arc2Earth will translate as much information as possible including Labeling, Renderers, Graphics and Layouts.

Arc2Earth is a little pricey, but definitely something worth looking at. This is the wave of things to come.

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Changes to the Annie web catalog are underway, and a sneak preview is available at http://annie.wlu.edu:2082/. There are more search options than with the current version, such as selecting multiple material types and locations.

Please take a moment to try it out.

Posted by Mary Abdoney at 10:30 AM | Permalink

There is a SciFinder Scholar e-Seminar, "Exploring Structure Similarity" that will be presented on March 24. (There is another scheduled to be presented on April 4.) The 1-hour seminar will focus on the newest feature of SciFinder, similarity structure searching:

• Why similarity structure searching can enhance your research process
• How SciFinder has implemented the Tanimoto structure similarity search algorithm
• How similarity searching functions in SciFinder
• How to use variation with control by combining similarity searching with substructure searching

We could register for this e-Seminar as a group, then use one of the smart classrooms on campus to "attend" the class. This would also be a wonderful opportunity for your students to become more familiar with SciFinder Scholar and learn some of the new features.

Please let me know if this is something you are interested in by sending me an email or calling me at ext. 8647. Also, please let me know if the April 4 date would work better for you. I will register for whichever date is convenient for the most people, but I will look into registering for both.

To learn more, this link should take you to the description page: https://casevents.webex.com/casevents/mywebex/default.php?Rnd4970=0.20401115760241306

If not, go to casevents.webex.com.

If you have questions, please let me know.

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