Library Website Redesign

Help us redesign our website to better meet your needs. Take a 15 minute survey on how you currently use and would propose to improve the library website, and be entered to win a $100 gift certificate to Best Buy.

http://svy.mk/tfdlsurvey

Bulletin for the History of Chemistry freely available (from the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry)

The ACS Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) is providing free access to back issues of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry.  The current 3 years are still exclusively available to division members.

 

Access to earlier issues is freely available at http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/bull-index.php

New SciFinder Features

http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/new.html 
New features include relevance ranking, more MS and NMR data, and bioactivity and target indicators in substance detail displays and in substance analyze options.

Also, a schedule of SciFinder online classes:

Go to http://casevents.webex.com and select Training Center > SciFinder > Upcoming.

Anyone with a valid SciFinder login can register for a class.

Access to free RSC content

Starting January 5, RSC will open up some of their content to the public. For information on exactly what content, see:
http://blogs.rsc.org/rscpublishing/2011/12/19/freeaccessupdates

2012 Reaxys PhD Prize

http://prize.reaxys.com

"...for original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry, which demonstrates excellence in methodology and approach by a candidate currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD after January 1, 2011."

ACS Members get limited access to ACS journals, outside of library subscriptions

As of January, ACS members can access 25 articles from ACS Journals, ACS Symposium Series e-books, and C&EN Archives without charge. (J. Chem. Ed. and J. Natural Products not included.) This is useful for publications for which the library does not subscribe.


For more info:
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=343&content_id=CNBP_028598&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=62a0fefd-2f19-45cd-9aab-cf89abb82dce

Library surplus book sale

Libraries and Cultural Resources is offering surplus and duplicate items (in English and a few other languages) for sale at the

LIBRARY SURPLUS BOOK SALE
IN SUPPORT OF
THE UNITED WAY

Monday November 14th
10 AM - 3:30 PM

and

Tuesday November 15th
10 AM - 3:30 PM

in the
MAIN FLOOR FOYER of TFDL

PAPERBACKS: 50¢
HARDCOVERS: $1