SciFinder Web version Thursday, 29 January 2009 8:26 pm
Posted by Dongmei in chemistry, databases.Tags: chemistry, databases, SciFinder_Web_version
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It’s finally here at College of Charleston, are you excited? From now on you don’t need to install the client software any more.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Register for a user name and password using SciFinder Registration first before you use this new Web version!
Note: Use the following link to find out How to Register to Use SciFinder: http://library.cofc.edu/scholar/HowToRegisterToUseSciFinder.pdf.
Only people with CofC email can create a user name and password.
2. SciFinder Web Version (use the user name and password that you registered to log in)
The client version will cease to work on Apr. 17, 2009. So try out the Web version now.
(The links are on the library databases page underneath the old SciFinder Scholar (library only) link. It’s also on the Chem Libguide)
Besides all the features that you love in the client version, CAS promises that the Web version has more features you will become to love and is easy to use.
CHEMnetBASE trial Thursday, 29 January 2009 7:50 pm
Posted by Dongmei in chemistry, databases.Tags: chemistry, CHEMnetBase, databases, reference, trial
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We have this chemistry reference database on trial right now. It includes the following chemistry resources:
- Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD)
- Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds (also included in CCD)
- Dictionary of Drugs (Formerly Pharmasource; also included in CCD)
- Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (also included in CCD)
- Dictionary of Natural Products (also included in CCD)
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds (also included in CCD)
- The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (NEW EDITION!)
- Polymers: A Property Database
- Properties of Organic Compounds
- Dictionary of Marine Natural Products (NEW!)
- Dictionary of Food Compounds (NEW!)
- Dictionary of Carbohydrates
(NEW!)
If you’d like to try this online resource out, go to our trial databases (demos) page (http://library.cofc.edu/search_collection/demo.php) to get the user name and password for the trial. The trial ends February 11, 2009.
Microsoft told users to switch browsers due to flaw in IE Wednesday, 17 December 2008 3:44 pm
Posted by Dongmei in featured IT of the week.Tags: IE_flaw
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If you haven’t switched to Firefox (or other better Web browsers), you should!
Microsoft is releasing a patch for the Internet Explorer flaw which has affected more than 2m computers worldwide. (The flaw lets hackers gain access to your computer and your personal data if you visit certain web sites that have been infected with the malicious code.) The patch should be available on the Microsoft Update website at 6pm GMT today.
Read more on the Guardian Web site (or other major news sites):
Microsoft to release patch for IE flaw
Periodic Table of Videos Friday, 12 September 2008 11:48 am
Posted by Dongmei in Internet Resources, Web 2.0, chemistry, videos.Tags: chemistry, elements, periodic_table, videos, YouTube
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I have this email sitting in my “attention” folder (a folder for important emails that I don’t have time to go to right away) for quite some time, yesterday I finally have some time to go to check it out.
It’s about a video series made by a team in Univ of Nottingham, UK and directed by BBC video journalist Brady Haran. They are quite cool. They are small video clips illustrating each of the 118 elements. Besides the usual fact about each element (such as atomic number), each video has interesting stories behind each element and experiments to showcase its physical and chemical properties.
If you haven’t checked out these, maybe you should. It would be helpful for an introductory chemistry course.
The videos are available at this web site:http://www.periodicvideos.com/, also available on YouTube (www.youtube.com/periodicvideos).
