Chemistry Library News

MFA required for off-campus access to library resources starting May 18

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:18:00 -0600

As of May 18^th, MFA (multi-factor authentication) will be required when signing on to access online library resources (databases, articles, ebooks, etc.) from off-campus. This change is part of the University IT’s updated sign-on security requirements.

Any links to online library resources in reading lists, D2L or tools like EndNote do not have to be updated.

Open Educational Resources Workshop Series

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:51:00 -0700

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021: Benjamin List and David MacMillan's work from publisher Thieme freely available till November 30

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Fri, 8 Oct 2021 12:30:00 -0600

The publisher, Thieme, has made some of Nobel Prize laureates Benjamin List and David MacMillan's work freely available until November 30:

Freely accessible articles by Benjamin List and David MacMillan
Direct link to asymmetric organocatalysis in Science of Synthesis (free access only until November 30).
David MacMillan’s contribution in Science of Synthesis (free access only until November 30)

New Interlibrary Loan (ILL) sign-on process

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:46:00 -0600

Starting Tuesday, July 20, 2021, the Library's Interlibrary Loan sign-on will be via UCIT's sign-on page.

Note that only those with active IT user accounts will be able to sign on. Users must also have been issued a Unicard.

For those who requested items before the switch, the link in the ILL notification email will not work as expected. Instead, sign on and click “Completed Requests” to view ILL documents.

Session & video: Introduction to Open Educational Resources

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:38:00 -0600

This short introductory session will provide a brief introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs): what they are, how they can help meet your teaching and learning goals, and how they can benefit students. The session will also outline supports and resources at the University of Calgary for instructors who are seeking OERs that are appropriate for their classes. After this brief introduction, we'll open the floor to participants, so please come with any questions you have about integrating open resources into your classroom.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021, 12:00pm - 12:30pm Register

Journal Citation Reports are available!

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:32:00 -0600

It takes six months to compile, but Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2021 edition is out.

What's new for 2021?

Expanded journal coverage

This year's release includes expanded coverage of the journal literature to reflect the full breadth of research covered in all the journals in the Web of Science Core Collection™ – including journals covered in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)™ and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)™.

A new metric

The Journal Citation Indicator is a field-normalized measurement of journal citation impact, providing a single journal-level metric that can be easily interpreted and compared across disciplines. It has been calculated for all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection – including those that do not have a Journal Impact Factor™.

A new visual experience

New graphics improve the user experience with simpler, more direct searching while providing a deeper look into the data – for example, a view of how a journal’s metrics have evolved over time.

Access JCR via UCalgary

Explore JCR training resources

Update on Open Access Discounts for UCalgary authors

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Thu, 8 Jul 2021 15:27:00 -0600

Elsevier. University of Calgary-affiliated authors are eligible for a 20% discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for both hybrid and gold open access journals starting January 2021 (i.e., articles submitted on or after January 1, 2021). Cell Press, Lancet and some other society-owned journals are excluded.

SAGE. We are participating in two Open Access programs with SAGE:

A "read and publish" deal with most "hybrid" open access journals (called SAGE Choice Journals) for the period 2021 to 2023. This allows University of Calgary authors publishing in all but 12 SAGE hybrid open access journals to publish papers open access at no cost to the individual.
A 40% discount on article publishing charges for select "gold" open access journals.

Taylor & Francis. 25% discount in T&F Open Select journals.

More details on these deals, including information on how to claim discounts, which journals are included/excluded, contact information, and more are available on the library's Scholarly Communication Guide, OA Publishing Discounts page.

Also new on the page is a helpful visual guide from SAGE on navigating their OA portal.

"Follow by email" has been discontinued by FeedBurner/Blogger/Google

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Wed, 7 Jul 2021 14:48:00 -0600

If you have signed up for email alerts to this blog in the past, this service, previously provided by FeedBurner has been discontinued.

As a reminder, the sign-up looked something like this:

This blog will continue to function, as will its RSS feed, however, you will no longer receive email updates about new (albeit infrequent) posts.

Introduction to Open Educational Resources

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 7 Jun 2021 16:28:00 -0600

Wednesday June 16, 2021, 12:00-12:30 pm. Register via https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3605465

Workshop - Reading List Tool: How It Can Help You as an Instructor

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:47:00 -0700

Copyright clearance from within the tool
Analytics (what are students reading?)
Students can comment on the readings individually
Ability to add to course readings during term (and see if there is auto copyright clearance)

The library is holding a workshop on the Reading List Tool.

Reading List Tool: How It Can Help You as an Instructor

By the end of the workshop, participants will:
•    Create a course reading list using the Reading List Tool.
•    Add references from the library, and from the web.
•    Review analytics to understand how your readings are being used
Session facilitated by: Susan Beatty and Marc Stoeckle

January 28, 2-3pm
https://conted.ucalgary.ca/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=59317582&expandSectionId=59317807&parentSite=TI
Registration Required

“Connection is Not Private” error messages

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:23:00 -0700

Several technical issues are giving this error, and library staff are working to troubleshoot. In the meantime, some things to get past this error include:

Use private/incognito mode, or open the link in a private/incognito window or tab
Clear browser saved data (cache, cookies, history, logins)
Try opening the link in a different browser
Update the browser to the most recent version
Clear HSTS settings from browsers

If none of the above work, AND the issue is with a UCalgary domain webpage, contact UCIT

If none of the above work, AND the issue is with a library resource, email the library the following information:

The specific error message (copy and paste the page, including any error messages in the "Advanced" section)
The URL you are trying to access
The browser and version used to access the URL
Type of internet (home, UCalgary)

Reading list tool workshop - Friday, November 13, 11AM

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 9 Nov 2020 18:04:00 -0700

For those who haven’t been able to attend our previous Reading List workshops, there is one more this Friday at 11!

Reading List Tool Session and Drop-in Q&A

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:16:00 -0600

The library has licensed a course reading list tool (brand name “Leganto”). It was “soft-launched” over the summer and is now available in D2L to help you create and reuse reading lists and clear your course reserve readings with the Copyright Office. Some benefits of the tool are:
-          Copyright clearance from within the tool
-          Analytics (what are students reading?)
-          Students can comment on the readings individually
-          Ability to add to course readings during term (and see if there is auto copyright clearance)

The library is holding a workshop and two drop-in sessions on the Reading List Tool.

Reading List Tool: How It Can Help You

Oct 22, 11am-12pm
https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3573555
Registration Required

Reading List Tool: Q&A for Faculty/Instructors

Oct 29, 9-10:30am
https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3585680

Oct 29, 4-5:30pm
https://workrooms.ucalgary.ca/event/3585681

No registration required – Zoom link provided on the workshop page.

American Chemical Society partners with leading Societies to support ChemRxiv™

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:30:00 -0600

"The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community.
...
Authors working across all fields of chemistry are able to post their findings to the server ahead of formal peer review and publication. The service is free of charge, features a streamlined portal for direct and easy submission, and supports a wide variety of file formats.
..."

More:

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2018/march/acs-partners-with-leading-societies-to-support-chemrxiv.html

BenchSci an "antibody search platform"

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:00:00 -0600

BenchSci, a relatively new site (launched July 2017), indexes antibody use in scientific journals, including things like the techniques and tissues involved. It is free, though an institutional email is necessary to sign up for an account; they would like for it to remain free to all academic members. BenchSci is based out of Toronto.

BenchSci is still working with publishers, including Cell Press, to index more content. However, it currently includes SpringerNature, and Wiley, among others, and include many Open Access publications.

The following blurb is from BenchSci:

BenchSci is a free online platform designed to help scientists find antibodies from publications. Their proprietary machine-learning algorithm was trained by PhD-level scientists to identify and understand the usage of commercial antibodies in the research literature.

When searching for a specific protein target, BenchSci curates published data in the form of figures to simplify the literature search process. The figures can then be filtered by specific experimental contexts cited in the paper such as techniques, tissue, cell lines, and more, to help users pinpoint antibodies that have been published under experimental conditions matching their study interest.

For more information about BenchSci, please refer to this article: https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies

To learn how to navigate BenchSci, please watch this short video: https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4

For further inquiries or feedback, contact Maurice Shen, PhD, the Head of Academic Relations at BenchSci, at maurice@benchsci.com

ACS Publications articles now display Altmetric Attention Scores

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:14:00 -0700

The scores will be available across all of ACS' "portfolio of 50 peer-reviewed research journals."
http://axial.acs.org/2016/12/16/acs-altmetric-scores/

More about Altmetric

Chemistry: Four elements added to periodic table

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 4 Jan 2016 08:57:00 -0700

Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35220823

ScienceDirect to discontinue support for IE8 and older

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Fri, 9 Oct 2015 09:38:00 -0600

Just in case you're using IE8 or older, support ends Jan 12, 2016. (The current version is IE11). See this message for details.

How has the Internet changed chemistry?

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:51:00 -0600

See this C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) special issue: http://internet.cenmag.org/

OnePetro not linking to full-text

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:37:00 -0700

Our subscription to OnePetro (database of technical documents and articles on oil & gas exploration and production) is currently "wonky". The database can still be searched, however, links to full-text have disappeared. Our Collections folks are looking into it.

(Link to OnePetro)

Database Access Problems

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Fri, 2 Jan 2015 14:39:00 -0700

The main library search box is down, as is the link to databases. IT hopes to be able to have a look next week.

To search for books, use this alternative link:
http://ucalgary.summon.serialssolutions.com

To access databases, use this A-Z list:

http://libguides.ucalgary.ca/aecontent.php?pid=616654&sid=5099453

SciFinder: http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/loggedin/scifinder.html

Reaxys: http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/login?url=https://www.reaxys.com

When asked for "Library Authentication", use your barcode (first 9 digits on the back of your card) and your UCID (without leading zeroes). IT authentication is not working at this time.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Chemistry World (Royal Society of Chemistry) & Scientific American announce content sharing

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:32:00 -0600

"...selected cutting edge chemistry content from Chemistry World will appear on the Scientific American website."
http://www.rsc.org/aboutus/news/pressreleases/2014/chemistry-world-scientific-american.asp

New SciFinder "Need to Know" Videos

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Fri, 2 May 2014 14:03:00 -0600

New on the SciFinder training site are short (~3min) videos including:

Input Structures Using the Drawing Editor
Search for Specific Reactions or Reaction Type
Search for a Specific Topic
Search by Author Name
Save and Combine Search Results

All videos are available at: http://www.cas.org/training/scifinder

New Product: Standards from ISO, CGSB, CSA

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:11:00 -0600

Standards from ISO, CSA and CGSB are now available online to UofC students, faculty and staff, via TechStreet at
http://subscriptions.techstreet.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/

PhD students and PDFs: SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry 2014 - Call for Submissions

jennifer.lee@ucalgary.ca (Jennifer Lee) — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:37:00 -0600

Apply for an all-expenses-paid trip to the SciFinder Future Leaders program in Columbus, OH, and then to the 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco:
http://www.cas.org/products/scifinder/futureleaders