Quick Reminder: Library Hours During Intersession

Spring Intersession hours start today and go to May 13.

In general, we'll be open till 7:30am - 6:00pm weekdays and 10:00am - 6:00 pm weekends, however, hours are slightly different for the Circulation and Info Commons Help Desk. Full hours are available here:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/hours2

Faculty Technology Days - May 5-7

Faculty Technology Days 2009

Teaching and Learning with Technology

For Faculty and Graduate Students

May 5-7, 2009

www.ucalgary.ca/ftd2009

Registration ends April 30, 2009

Libraries and Cultural Resources, the Teaching and Learning Centre and Information Technologies are pleased to present the annual Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology, May 5-7, 2009. This 3 day event is open to all faculty and graduate students. There is no charge to attend Faculty Technology Days.

Tom Hickerson, Vice-Provost (Libraries and Cultural Resources and University Librarian), will kick-off FTD with a session on Convergence of Knowledge and Culture: our Design for the Future: the Taylor Family Digital Library. Tom will discuss how the Taylor Family Digital Library (scheduled to open in fall 2010) will bring together libraries, archives, museums, and the university press for the benefit of scholars. It will be a 21st century research facility in the heart of campus which will house a "collection of the future" integrating access to traditional print, museum, and archival materials. Come hear about the strategic plans and learn how the Taylor Library will embody a new campus prototype for learning, teaching and conducting research. There will be time for questions.

For a complete list of sessions check out the website at www.ucalgary.ca/ftd2009.

Journal of Cheminformatics - first articles published

The Journal of Cheminformatics is a new open access journal from Chemistry Central (affiliated with BioMedCentral, for which the library has a subscription.) It publishes peer-reviewed research in cheminformatics and molecular modelling.

Right now, it looks like there are only 3 articles, but the first issue came out in 2009, so hopefully there will be more.

Access it at: http://www.jcheminf.com

SciFinder: R-Group Problem Fixed

This was sent from the CHMINF list today:

CAS is pleased to announce that a recent functional problem related to some substructure searching with R-groups has been corrected in SciFinder. We would like to thank Dr. Engelbert Zass for identifying the error and assisting CAS to correct the problem. We regret any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Crystal Poole Bradley
CAS

Link to the original post of the problem:
http://ucalgarychemlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2009/03/scifinder-problem-with-certain-r-group.html

Scopus Visit

Faculty and students are invited to an event hosted by Elsevier/Scopus. It is a come-and-go event where one can ask our Elsevier reps questions about Scopus. Lunch will be provided.

The coordinates:

Tuesday, April 7
MacKimmie Library Tower, Room 909 ("MLT909")
12:30-2:30 pm

Topics may include:
- General Scopus overview
- Focus on A&H content (but feel free to ask about Sci/Tech content!)
- Marketing ideas & usage

PSA - Scopus, ScienceDirect Scheduled Outage Saturday, April 4

...Enjoy your Saturday afternoon/evening instead!
Local times for the outage are 3 p.m. - midnight

Email from Elsevier:

On Saturday, 4 April, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately nine hours starting at 10:00 p.m. UTC/GMT (6:00 p.m. EDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience,
Regards,
The Elsevier Team.