Chemistry articles come alive

The Royal Society of Chemistry is working on a project to enhance the content of their journal articles.  Project Prospect allows you to highlight IUPAC Gold Book terms in the text and view the Gold Book entries. You can also highlight compounds and view synonyms, SMILES and InCHI data, structure diagrams and details of other RSC articles mentioning the same compound. 

This icon indicates articles offering these enhanced features -

Have a look at some of the features available by opening up a sample article (choose Prospect View) and listen to someone from the Royal Society of Chemistry guide you through it.

Find out more about Project Prospect on the RSC website.  Access to the fulltext of all RSC journals (1841- ) is available from the library website.

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

Free chapters from 700 chemistry books online

   

700 Royal Society of Chemistry books are now available online in the RSC eBook collection. The titles won’t be in our catalogue as the library doesn’t subscribe to the collection.  However, you can search the collection (and browse by title, series or subject area)  and view the tables of contents and the full-text of the first chapters. Access beyond this is by subscription, so send any feedback you have to the library.

You can link direct to fulltext of free chapters e.g. “Synthetic materials in Medicine” [chapter 1 of The Chemistry of medical and dental materials by J.W. Nicholson] making  them ideal for linking to from VISION courses.

Keep up to date with new content and featues of the eBook collection by signing up for free email alerts

Marion Kennedy
Subject Librarian

Final reminder – books due back today – Friday 29 February

Undergraduates, Masters & Diploma students

All Standard Loan books which you have borrowed this term are due for return by Friday 29 February.

If you wish to keep them for longer, you can renew them at any time before the deadline by logging on to your Library record (via Patron functions) in the catalogue. Simply select the books you want to renew, and then click on the “Renew Items” button. Remember – you cannot renew a book if someone else has reserved it, if you have any overdue books, or if you have more than £2.00 outstanding in unpaid fines.

All Standard Loan books borrowed or renewed now are due for return in the first week of next term – by Friday 18 April.

If you need help renewing your books, or of you have any questions about borrowing, contact the Service Desks in the Riccarton or Galashiels Libraries.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

New books in the Library – 27th February

Added to the library recently were books on urban culture, classical number theory, nuclear physics and several other topics.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Some choice titles include the 2nd edition of The craft of research, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams, and another copy of the 5th edition of Managing quality, edited by Barrie G. Dale, Ton van der Wiele and Jos van Iwaarden. Both have been added to Riccarton Library. You can search inside Managing quality at Amazon, and there’s an introduction to, and reviews of, The craft of research available at Google Book Search.

A copy of A passion for lingerie, by Jo Glanville-Blackburn has been added to the Galashiels Library.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Please let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for titles to be purchased for the library.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Reminder – books due back next Friday

Undergraduates, Masters & Diploma students

All Standard Loan books which you have borrowed this term are due for return no later than Friday 29 February.

If you wish to keep them for longer, you can renew them at any time before the deadline by logging on to your Library record (via Patron functions) in the catalogue. Simply select the books you want to renew, and then click on the “Renew Items” button. Remember – you cannot renew a book if someone else has reserved it, if you have any overdue books, or if you have more than £2.00 outstanding in unpaid fines.

All Standard Loan books borrowed or renewed now are due for return in the first week of next term – by Friday 18 April 2008.

If you need help renewing your books, or of you have any questions about borrowing, contact the Service Desks in the Riccarton or Galashiels Libraries.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

New books in the Library – 19th February

Added to the library recently were books on structural analysis, project management, reliability assessment and several other topics.

Some choice titles include The green building revolution, by Jerry Yudelson, and the 4th edition of Research methods for business students, by Mark Saunders. Both have been added to Riccarton Library. You can search inside Research methods for business students at Amazon.

A copy of the 5th edition of Managing quality, edited by Barrie G. Dale, Ton van der Wiele and Jos van Iwaarden has been added to the Galashiels Library. You can search inside this book at Amazon.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Please let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for titles to be purchased for the library.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Standard Loans due back 29 February

Reminder to all Undergraduates, Masters & Diploma students & External Borrowers

Any Standard Loan books which you’ve borrowed since Christmas are due for return or renewal by Friday 29 February

If you want to keep them for longer, you can renew them at any time before the deadline by logging on to your Library record (via Patron functions) in the catalogue. Simply select the books you want to renew, and then click on the “Renew Items” button.

Remember – You cannot renew your books through the computer if you have any overdue items, or if you have unpaid fines of more than £2.00.

If you need help renewing your books, please contact the Service Desk in Riccarton or Martindale Libraries.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

New books in the Library – 12th February

Added to the library recently were books on attachment theory, relativistic quantum chemistry, e-business and several other topics.

Some choice titles include Electroweak theory, by E.A. Paschos (you can search inside this book at Amazon), and Stochastic control in insurance, by Hanspeter Schmidli. Both have been added to Riccarton Library.

A copy of Environmental aspects of textile dyeing, edited by R.M. Christie, has been added to the Galashiels Library.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Final week for eBook survey

The national survey on eBook use, which the Library is participating in, closes at midnight on Friday 15 February.

Please do take a few minutes to complete the survey this week as a high response rate will make it much more useful. The survey is open to any member of the university, be they an undergraduate, a professor or support staff. To date there have been 17,745 responses to the user survey from staff and students from universities all around the country.

By participating in the survey you will be given the opportunity to enter a prize draw, with the chance to win £200 in Amazon vouchers. To complete the survey Click here

You can access the titles made available through the Library’s participation in the  JISC E-Books Observatory Project, and find out more about the Library holdings, at the Library eBooks page. 

Iain Young
Resources Manager

Around the blogs – some more

Here are a few more things found recently on various blogs. Previous posts are available here and here.

1. Packrat Librarian writes about “25 technologies to watch” – this is a report of a presentation given by Stephen Abrams, an expert on such matters.

2. Talking of Stephen Abrams, here is his blog entry about the recent BL JISC report on Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. The report generated quite a lot of comments on various blogs. Here is what one librarian, Peter Godwin, wrote.

3. Funding opportunity RSS feeds was the title of a blog entry I wrote elsewhere, a couple of weeks ago. It includes links to some useful sources of funding news, which you can monitor by subscribing to them via a service such as Bloglines. If you know of other funding opportunity RSS feeds, please drop me an email.

4. In the KnowledgeLink Newsletter from Thomson, I noticed a post about ResearcherID.com.
“ResearcherID.com is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. Each researcher listed is allocated a unique identifier number which expressly associates them with their published works, regardless of any possible nomenclature confusion or institutional affiliation changes. These unique identifiers enable everyone who accesses ResearcherID.com to easily find a specific author’s work, avoiding the common problem of author misidentification.“

5. Two major new studies on biofuels emissions have been mentioned in several blogs recently. Here’s the report from NewScientist.

6. Dave Bradley writes about work-life balance in his Sciencebase blog.

7. Smashing Magazine is very informative. Here’s a post about 15 stunning cutting-edge gadgets and technologies.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian