Tuesday, June 21, 2011

RSC links its publications to ChemSpider using Utopia Documents

An explanatory video and sample document is at the bottom of this page:
http://blogs.rsc.org/technical/2011/06/21/utopia-documents-highlights-rsc-publishings-semantic-chemistry

Note that these features are available in 2008-2010 articles (for now) and that RSC will be retiring the terms "RSC Prospect" and "Project Prospect".

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Elements 114 and 116 Added to Periodic Table

From the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/08/science/AP-SCI-New-Elements.html?_r=2&hpw

Ken Moody was the scientist interviewed for this story. A short list of his research is available here.

The lab's webpage for Element 114 is available here. (Not sure why it doesn't mention 116)

Monday, June 06, 2011

National Academies Press Makes its Reports Freely Available

"... Effective June 2nd, PDFs of reports that are currently for sale on the National Academies Press (NAP) Website and PDFs associated with future reports ... will be offered free of charge to all Web visitors. ..."

http://notes.nap.edu/2011/06/02/more-than-4000-national-academies-press-pdfs-now-available-to-download-for-free