Chemistry
Tuesday 29 March 2025
- Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Updating Policy - :: Excerpted from a post on CHMINF-L, David R Lide, Editor-in-Chief, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, explains the policy of updating HCP: Each annual edition provides an opportunity to add new material, update/expand existing tables, and correct errors. Certainly,... (08:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 22 March 2026
- Beilstein Launches Open Access Journal on Organic Chemistry - :: George Porter sent word about the following new open access journal for organic chemistry:San Diego, CA.: The prestigious Beilstein-Institut today announced the launch of the first major Open Access journal for organic chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will... (13:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 7 March 2026
- ACS Broadens Article Access - :: From Chemical & Engineering News, March 7, 2005, v83 n10, p10: "ACS Broadens Article Access - Conditions set for free availability one year after publication" The American Chemical Society is broadening access to research articles published in its scholarly... (10:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 14 February 2026
- Royal Society of Chemistry Announces Three New Book Series - :: From a post on CHMINF-L:2005 sees exciting times for RSC book publishing, with the launch of three new series. Firstly, Biomolecular Sciences is a new series of research level books, covering the areas of structural biology, chemical biology, informatics,... (09:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 4 February 2026
- Combined Chemical Dictionary Expands Its Content - :: The Combined Chemical Dictionary, available via CHEMnetBASE, expanded its content today. From an e-mail from Dr Fiona Macdonald, Publisher, Chemistry, Taylor and Francis Books:Changes include:Addition of 5,900 new compounds Now contains 188,000 natural products, 46,000 drugs, 276,000 organic compounds... (13:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 January 2026
- The Literature of Chemistry: Recommended Titles for Undergraduate Library Collections - :: On CHMINF-L, Gary Wiggins posted information about a new book by Judith Douville, who is the Science & Technology Editor for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. The book is called The Literature of Chemistry: Recommended Titles for Undergraduate... (08:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 15 December 2025
- ACS Division of Chemical Information - Highlights from 228th Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2004, Of Interest to Librarians - :: The 228th ACS National Meeting was held in Philadelphia in August, 2004. A selection of slide presentations from some of the 98(!) sessions of the Division of Chemical Information are available for viewing on the web site. On the... (13:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Monday 6 December 2025
- "Chemical Information Instruction" web conference now open - The SLA Chemistry Division and the ACS CINF Division cosponsored web conference, "Chemical Information Instruction," is now open for registration and participation. Links to the full text of the presentations are provided on the main conference page and at the... (09:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 29 November 2025
- SLA Chem Div - ACS CINF Web Conference - Chemical Information Instruction - :: On CHMINF-L, William Armstrong posted the following about a forthcoming web conference on chemical information instruction:The SLA Chemistry Division and the ACS CINF Division will be co-sponsoring a web conference to be held during the first full week of... (14:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 November 2025
- November ASC LiveWire Available - :: The latest issue of ACS's LiveWire, #5.9, November 2005, is available.... (08:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 14 October 2025
- Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science - :: On PAMNET, A Ben Wagner asks the following regarding the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series:Here at the University at Buffalo, we are considering investing in electronic access to entire Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science that includes... (15:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 6 October 2025
- Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing - How It Compares to Kirk-Othmer and Ullmann's - :: In mid-2005, Dekker will publish, in print and online, the Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing, a five volume set. Like many others, I have been curious to know the differences and overlap between this encyclopedia and the two related major... (09:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 29 September 2025
- Chemistry and Science News Feeds - :: UK science writer David Bradley has created an RSS/XML chemistry and science news feed, linking together various news sites, including Reactive Reports Chemistry Webzine, Spectral Lines, Spotlight, and Sciencebase. Writing on CHMINF-L, Bradley noted:You can preview the content at... (16:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Monday 20 September 2025
- News Items of Interest from Information Today - Amazon Launches A9.com Search Site A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site builds on a beta test version the company introduced in April 2004 that offered Google... (10:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 13 September 2025
- Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry - :: As posted to CHMINF-L:A new academic year starts and the directory Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry returns to active living. All links and comments had been verified in August 2004. It was a surprise to me that less than... (13:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 24 August 2025
- Real-Time Document Request™ (RDR™) Ranking Establishes New Method of Evaluating Scientific Journals - :: Press Release: CAS Science Spotlight Ratings Show Journals' Significance for Scientists Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - Recording how often a journal's contents are cited in scientific literature has long been the conventional way of measuring the importance of specific... (13:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 23 August 2025
- CAS Extends Access to Additional Research from Early 20th Century - :: As posted to CHMINF-L. CAS Extends Access to Additional Research from Early 20th Century CA Databases Add More Than 7,000 Publication Records back to 1900 Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - CAS has expanded its "Scientific Century" project by making... (10:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 18 August 2025
- Chemistry Style Manual - :: As noted by Michael Engel on CHMINF-L: The Chemistry Style Manual, 2d ed, revised, 2004, by Professor Kieran F Lim, published by Deakin University, Australia. You may download one copy to your desktop. Copyright notice information is on p.... (09:15 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 28 July 2025
- Classic Chemistry Book - Free Online Via U Cal Press - George Porter notes the following on CHMINF-L:University of California Press, following the pioneering lead of the National Academy Press, has released 400+ books for public consumption. I've mentioned both of these excellent resources in the past. What sparked my interest... (08:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 July 2025
- Statistical Analysis of RTECS® Database - :: From a recent posting on CHMINF-L:I recently prepared a detailed statistical analysis of the RTECS(®) database -- Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances. The analysis includes detailed statistics about coverage of the 158,000+ chemicals included in the database... (10:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 21 July 2025
- The Future of Chemistry - :: Dana Roth wrote the following in a recent post to CHMINF-L (with a slight editorial change):Peter Golitz' editorial in the latest web issue of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. mentions George Whitesides' seminal essay on the future of chemistry. This... (09:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Saturday 3 July 2025
- SLA Chemistry Division Presents First Web Conference - :: Dana Roth sent the following information about a fascinating new development from the Chemistry Division of SLA: the first annual Web Conference.In keeping with its goal of bringing the SLA Annual Conference experience to its members who are not... (08:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 23 June 2025
- Thoughts on Mastering the Chemical Literature - Dana Roth posted the following on CHMINF-L yesterday, an excerpt from an interview with photochemisty Nick Turro, in which Turro talks about mastering the chemical literature. Turro's comments are timely and encouraging, and speak directly to the importance of information... (12:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 21 June 2025
- Engineering Information Releases Enhanced ChemVillageTM - :: HOBOKEN, N.J. 18 June 2025 - Elsevier Engineering Information (www.ei.org) announces the latest release of the ChemVillage™ discovery platform, enhancing the way users access chemistry content. With focus on applied chemistry research, ChemVillage™ offers access to high quality text-based... (11:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 15 June 2025
- A Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge - :: The Handbook of Chemoinformatics: From Data to Knowledge, edited by Johann Gasteiger, is available as a four-volume set from Wiley. A very detailed review of the book is available, written by M Karthikeyan of the Digital Information Resource Center,... (13:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 May 2025
- Electrochemical Journals, AIP's Scitation, Cost-Effectiveness - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: Nearly 40 years ago, in my first library job, I overheard The Electrochemical Society (ECS) disparaged as a 'Neanderthal' society, which might explain the initial popularity of the commercially published Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (JEC), Electrochimica Acta (ECA) and... (16:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 5 May 2025
- PSIGate Offers RSS Feeds - :: Teri Vogel notes the following in an e-mail:PSIGate has recently added RSS feeds for the new records they add to their collection. There are feeds for each subject (astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, policy and materials), plus a feed... (16:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 4 May 2025
- Geochemical Transactions - :: The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released Geochemical Transactions (2000-2003) for free fulltext access [via George Porter, STS-L].... (09:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 20 April 2025
- New Products and Services - :: Wiley has released a new database called Organic Reactions:Organic Reactions is a comprehensive database of important synthetic reactions, together with a critical discussion of the reaction and tables that organize all published examples of the topic reactions. Chapters that... (10:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 April 2025
- More on Chemistry Journals - :: Dana Roth offers this follow-up to his commentary about Helvetica Chimica Acta:It was very refreshing to see the lead editorial, in the January 2004 issuelof the Australian Journal of Chemistry, discuss their view of the future as an Australasian... (08:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 31 March 2025
- Helvetica Chimica Acta - Commentary - :: In a recent advertising insert promoting the journal, Chemistry & Biodiversity, an apparent twig of Helvetica Chimica Acta, the claim was made that HCA was "one of the best ... full-paper primary-literature chemistry journals in the world." This claim... (11:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 26 March 2025
- Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data - Access via NIST - :: NIST is offering access to selected articles from the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, via its Data Gateway:Another feature of the Gateway is a search for articles published in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data... (14:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Chemical Prices - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - :: Here at the U of Alberta, we have a number of chemical engineering design classes, in which students work in groups for the duration of the course, designing chemical plants and products. Most often, they require chemical prices, among... (13:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 5 February 2026
- Oil Properties Database - :: I received a query from a chemical engineering student yesterday, who was looking for assay information on a grade of oil called Lloydminster blend. The information he had suggested that a series of assay articles had appeared in Oil... (22:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 January 2026
- ACS President Weighs In On Soaring Journal Prices and Open Access - :: ACS President Charles P Casey is featured in the 5 Jan 2026 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. His column, Challenges for Chemists, Chemistry, and ACS, addresses a number of issues, including rising costs of journals, and the open... (11:22 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 11 December 2025
- b/ITE, Hazardous Chemical Db - :: The latest issue (Nov/Dec 03) of b/ITE, the bulletin of the Information Technology Division of SLA, has appeared, and has a nifty section on RSS. :: Two publications, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, and International... (11:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 8 December 2025
- Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th ed - Review of the online version - Courtesy of Dana Roth at CalTech, a review of the new online version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics:- Substance search has 5 pre-selected search fields: name (with left/right truncation), MF (Hill order), CAS RN, common formula (e.g.... (11:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 5 December 2025
- Max Planck Research Awards 2003 Presented - :: "As part of the efforts to promote international cooperation in science, the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented the Max Planck Research Award for 2003 on November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM to 12 scientists... (11:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 18 November 2025
- Searching SciFinder Scholar with CAS Registry Numbers - :: We are new to SciFinder Scholar at the University of Alberta. You need JavaScript to see my email address of the Millikan Library at CalTech, in Pasadena CA, has been using it for some time, and shares his thoughts... (12:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)