ACS Nanotation

ACS has just launched a new nanotechnology site, ACS Nanotation, to be the premiere destination for nanoscience and nanotechnology news, highlights, and community. This looks like an expansion of what ACS has been doing with their ACS Chemical Biology site.

Along with a wiki and podcasts, ACS Nanotation also features:

• Nano Highlights from ACS journals (including Nano Letters and the new ACS Nano), with links to the articles
• Nano Picks, reviews of recent articles
• NanoTube, where registered users can post videos introducing their articles, tutorials on nanoscience, etc.
• Ask the Scientist

INSPEC on OvidSP (New Interface)

Ovid has just released a new interface for INSPEC….OvidSP, which you can access through our existing platform. Once you’re in INSPEC, click Try OvidSP! at the top of the page.

Features:
• Search Options: Basic, Find Citation, Search Tools, Search Fields, and “Classic” Ovid Syntax
• Truncation with using the asterisk (*), now consistent with more of the other S&E databases.
• Option to search “related terms”
• Additional sorting options for your results
• View abstracts within the results display, without going to another page
• RSS feeds for search alerts (you’ll need to use or set up your personal INSPEC/OVID account)
• Narrow results to view top subjects, authors and journals

S&E Opens Sunday 10am-11:45pm (10/28)

S&E will open on Sunday 10am-11:45pm with regular weekend services, including Circulation, Reserves, and access to group study rooms. There might also be a few reference librarians lurking about to provide assistance, as well.

Full services, including Reference and Interlibrary Loan, will resume Monday.

Geisel Building Open for On-Campus Students

The Geisel Library building will be open Thurs-Sun from 10am-6pm for ON-CAMPUS STUDENTS ONLY. This is just to provide a central study and social space for the students who live on campus, until classes resume Monday.

1. S&E will remain closed until Monday
2. The building will be open, but no services will be available. No reference, circulation, interlibrary loan, or reserves.

Physics Research Workshop (10/26)

The “Jump Start Your Physics Research” workshops for Oct 26 have been canceled due to the campus closing this week. We’ll contact participants about rescheduling.

S&E Library Closed Rest of Week

UCSD has canceled classes because of poor air quality from the county fires.

The S&E Library will also be closed through at least Friday (and probably the weekend), but e-reference service will be available. Send us a message at Ask a Librarian and we’ll respond back within a few hours. You can also reach a UC Librarian through our chat service, and we’ll also try to monitor our IM account (ucsdscieng for AOL/Y)

Looking for fire info? Watch your local tv stations on the air or on the web - see the LA and SD news links at www.ucsd.edu/news.html . The Union Tribune site (signonsandiego.com) also has signon radio for local info. The LA Times has a Google interactive fire map updated frequently with the SoCal region’s fire stats.

What Makes Teeth Cut (DVR Alert)

On Saturday, Oct 20 at 7pm PST, the History Channel will run an encore of Modern Marvels: World’s Sharpest. Among the featured researchers: Materials Science & Engineering professor Marc Meyers and his “detailed studies of shark and piranha teeth and other cutting surfaces found in nature as part of his research on biomimetics.”

[h/t: JSE]

S&E Library Workshops

The S&E Library workshop calendar, with descriptions and registration form, is now online. We have our very popular Patents workshop, plus some new workshops: Jump Start Your Engineering Research and Jump Start Your Physics Research.

If you are interested in RefWorks, EndNote or EndNote Web, the Biomedical Library is offering workshops on all of these (the Oct 11 EndNote Web workshop will be taught at S&E). If these dates and times don’t work for you, please contact Teri Vogel to schedule an individual consultation.

ChemDraw @ UCSD!!

Are you a UCSD affiliate (faculty/staff/student) and need ChemDraw? Well, we have it.

UCSD now has a sitewide license for ChemBioOffice Ultra, paid for by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Science & Engineering Library. The license includes software to download and install on your computer, as well as access to some online databases.

• ChemBioOffice for Windows, a productivity software suite that includes ChemBioDraw (formerly ChemDraw)
• ChemBioDraw for Mac, which doesn’t have a lot of the extra software included with the Windows version, but it has the key ChemDraw piece
• Access to the following online databases: ChemINDEX (chemical property data), ChemACX (chemical suppliers and prices), Ashgate Drugs (basic info on 7,900 common drugs), and 2 NCI databases (DTP AIDS Antiviral and Human Tumor Cell Line Screens)

Installation and support information are on the S&E Library Website at http://scilib.ucsd.edu/corechem/chemoffice.html. Important things to remember:

1. Start the ACS form at http://software.ucsd.edu/productfiles/chemoffice.php. Enter your name/dept/status/email. This will take you to the UCSD site license page at CambridgeSoft to continue the registration process.
2. If you don’t already have a CambridgeSoft account based on your UCSD email address, you’ll need to create an account during this process in order to download the software AND use the databases.

PBS WIRED Science interviews Paul Kedrosky

UCSD’s von Liebig Center Executive Director Paul Kedrosky was featured on the new PBS show WIRED Science airing Wednesday, October 3rd, at 8:00 pm on PBS. He talked about research funded from the center including a bouncing alloy, hopping robots, facial recognition, and LED advances. View the video at PBS Wired Science.

WIRED Science combines reportage from WIRED with stories developed by the show’s producers to create a next-generation science and technology series - on air, online and in the classroom. This week’s episode also had a segment Dangerous Science on old and new chemistry sets for children with chemists talking about their first chemistry set. The program suggests that the decrease in students majoring in chemistry may be due to the removal of some of the fun, but slightly hazardous chemicals found in those classic sets of the 50’s and 60’s. WIRED Science has a weekly challenge for readers to submit experiments and pictures - this week’s theme is chemistry experiments.

We Want Your Chemistry Experiment! Once upon a time, home chemistry sets came equipped with all kinds of stuff you could combine to create hilarious stenches and entertaining explosions. Their modern counterparts, though, have been deliberately enfeebled by lawsuit-leery toymakers. But we know that intrepid, scientifically-minded types like you haven’t let that stop you from conducting chemistry experiments in your basements and garages. We want to hear about them.

For this week’s WiSci Challenge, tell us the most exciting, unexpected and just plain fun things you’ve figured out how to do - safely, of course - with chemicals in your home.