Archive for the ‘Web tools’ Category

The Alchemy Web Site

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The Alchemy Web Site

The Alchemy Web Site

“This site contains nearly 400 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 2500 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 3000 images, over 250 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy.

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Watch BBC Documentary “Chemistry: A Volatile History” on YouTube

Friday, February 19th, 2010
YouTube: Chemistry: A Volatile History

“The explosive story of chemistry is the story of the building blocks that make up our entire world — the elements. From fiery phosphorous to the pure untarnished lustre of gold and the dazzle of violent, violet potassium, everything is made of elements — the earth we walk on, the air we breathe, even us. Yet for centuries this world was largely unknown, and completely misunderstood.

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AccessEngineering: Site-Licensed for Stanford

Friday, February 19th, 2010
AccessEngineering

About:AccessEngineering delivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation, and features content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. AccessEngineering offers the widest and deepest repository of fully searchable engineering content available online — from the authors and industry-leading titles engineers have trusted and depended on for years.

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Links to References from All AIP Journals Back to Volume 1, Issue 1

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Now you can access links spanning 80 years of seminal physics research

AIP is happy to let you know that live links are now in place for references in all AIP journal articles going back to the very first issue of each. This final stage of an ambitious initiative brings the total of linkable references to the backfiles of AIP journals (see list below) to nearly 4,000,000. The initiative incorporates reference links that extend as far back as 1930 — the year AIP published the debut issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.

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GrantsNet from AAAS

Friday, February 19th, 2010

AAAS GrantsNet

AAAS GrantsNet

Funding Tools

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Looking for Images for a Presentation?

Friday, February 5th, 2010
Looking for Images for a Presentation?

Lane Medical Library Image Sources Collection

Lane Library Image Sources
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European Bioinformatics Institute

Friday, February 5th, 2010
European Bioinformatics Institute

An excellent description of the resources available from the European Bioinformatics Institute is published in Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, Vol. 38, Database issue D17-D25.

The EBI site contains a wide array of databases and tools. It also is a site that contains 3D Rotatable Structures. Enter a substance name in the search box at the top of the page and get a summarized view of information available. To see 3D images, choose the Macromolecular Structures section of results. Select which record you want to see and then click on View in PDBsum. Visualization options and tools are on left side. See search example below on Taxol.
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NIST Data Gateway: A Treasure Trove in the Digital Stacks

Friday, February 5th, 2010
NIST Data Gateway

The NIST Data Gateway provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data. These data cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. The Gateway includes links to selected free online NIST databases as well as to information on NIST databases available for purchase.

  • Search by specific keywords, properties, and substances across a collection of NIST scientific and technical databases. You will get a list of databases most likely to contain the information you need.
  • Another feature of the Gateway is a search for articles published in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (JPCRD). Links are provided to free, online versions of many articles.

Enviro-Health Links — Nanotechnology: Resources on Nanotechnology and the Environment

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Enviro-Health Links — Nanotechnology provides links to materials on nanotechnology uses and environmental concerns. Also included are links to databases, maps, regulations and policy, and TOXNET and PubMed searches. Provided by: The National Library of Medicine Division of Specialized Information Services.

Lane Library Workshop on Proteome Database (Feb. 5)

Monday, February 1st, 2010

BIOBASE Corporation will host software training for the PROTEOME databases available to
Stanford University researchers. Learn how to use the PROTEOME databases for systems
biology, biomarker, drug target discovery, and high-throughput data analysis, or simply to gain valuable, literature derived information on your favorite gene or protein. This training is suitable for beginner PROTEOME users, or for more experienced users who wish to have a refresher.

See the Lane Library announcement for more information.

Also see Lane’s Schedule of Workshops and Webcasts
Includes Using EndNote to Manage Information, Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations, Finding Funding, Using PubMed, Power searching in Web of Science, plus more.