Swain Library News

Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) has renewed its campus-wide site license to ChemBioOffice Ultra 2008 (Windows). ChemBioDraw is also available in a Mac version. This ultimate chemistry & biology suite is designed to meet the needs of both chemists and biologists. ChemBioOffice 2008 includes ChemBioDraw Ultra 11.0, MestReC Std, ChemScript Pro 11.0, ChemBio3D Ultra 11.0, Chem3D interfaces to Schrödinger’s Jaguar and Gaussian, GAMESS Pro 11.0, ChemFinder Ultra 11.0, with support for Oracle, ChemBioViz Ultra 11.0, BioAssay Ultra 11.0, Inventory Ultra 11.0, E-Notebook Ultra 11.0, ChemDraw/Excel, and CombiChem/Excel, the ChemDraw and Chem3D ActiveX Pro Plugins & Controls, as well as a collection of databases: ChemINDEX (Index, RXN, NCI & AIDS) and 1-year subscriptions to ChemACX and ePub. ChemBioOffice Ultra 2008 adds the BioAssay and Inventory applications, ChemBioViz, ChemFinder support for the CS Oracle Cartridge, and a 1-year subscription to ChemACX to the ChemOffice Ultra 2008 suite. *(W = Windows Only)
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There will be one more orientation tour this year for graduate students, faculty, and postdocs in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering who want to have access to the Swain Library when it is closed. No advance signup is required. Just show up at Swain’s circulation desk at:

Thursday, December 18, 3–4 p.m.

Related information:

• After-hours access policies
• 2008 Intersession and Winter Closure Hours for Swain
• Off-Campus Access Instructions for e-Resources
• Web Form to Report Connection Problems for e-Resources

Please remember to turn off lights and close all windows after accessing/using Swain library if you are the last person leaving the library.

Many thanks for your help in keeping energy costs down and in keeping the library safe.

Thanksgiving hours at other Stanford Libraries

Don’t pay for articles that aren’t available at Stanford — get them for free by using Stanford Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan Service.

Articles are usually delivered as PDFs. You can view the status of outstanding requests.

Interlibrary Borrowing obtains materials that are not available at Stanford University and are needed to support the teaching, learning, research, and other University-related work of Stanford faculty, students, staff and visiting scholars. To obtain materials for personal use, please contact your local public library. For more details and options, please see Interlibrary Services: Document Delivery Request Forms.

This contest is open to current students at Stanford. You have until (midnight) Monday, December 1st to submit your answers and contact information (full name, school name, email address) via the contest widget.

Licensed resources are for the non-profit educational use of Stanford University. Use of these resources is governed by copyright law and individual license agreements. Systematic downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information is prohibited.

As you may not be aware of what constitutes systematic downloading or retaining substantial portions, here are a few examples:

Please note that exceeding the limits result in you being blocked and sometimes the entire campus being blocked from using all resources from an individual information provider.

When the terms of an agreement are exceeded, the Libraries are contacted by the information provider and asked to investigate why a breach occurred and what will be to insure that it won’t happen again before they restore access.

Many thanks for your cooperation! Please contact me if you have any questions about the terms of use for a particular resource.

Efforts are underway to update Swain’s web pages. A protype of what the top level pages might look like was created with the center area in a 2-column format. As an alternative for the center area, we also mocked up the Quick Links page in a 1-column format. Do you prefer 2-column or 1-column format for center region?

To help insure that Swain’s pages meet your needs, please send comments and suggestions to graceb@stanford.edu. Many thanks in advance for your input!

Upon request, ACS will submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript version to the NIH Manuscript Submission system on behalf of authors, after editorial acceptance by an ACS journal, for public availability 12 months after publication. This publishing service is provided free of charge to ACS members. For more details, please see: Information for ACS Authors about the NIH Public Access Policy Mandate