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ChemMobi, A free APP from RSC! It’s National Chemistry Week!

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“Chem­istry: There’s An App For That

National Chem­istry Week, Oct. 16–22: There’s an App for that. Chemists on the go can check the safety of cos­metic ingre­di­ents, scroll through mil­lions of chem­i­cal struc­tures and mol­e­c­u­lar for­mu­las, and model liq­uid chro­matog­ra­phy flow rates.”

Pro­vided by the Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry and Symyx Technologies.

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Sub­mit­ted by Anne Lan­g­ley, Oct. 18, 2011

2011 — International Year of Chemistry — see ACS Calendar

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“ACS launches online cal­en­dar to mark Inter­na­tional Year of Chem­istry — 04 Jan 2011

The Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety (ACS) began a global, year-long obser­vance of the Inter­na­tional Year of Chem­istry 2011 (IYC 2011) by launch­ing an online cal­en­dar that serves as a vir­tual time machine, trans­port­ing the pub­lic back to some of the epic events and great intel­lects that shaped mod­ern soci­ety through the magic of chemistry.

Called 365: Chem­istry for Life, the cal­en­dar links almost 250 days of the year to events — tri­umphal and triv­ial — in chem­istry, health, med­i­cine, energy, the envi­ron­ment and related fields. They range from Jan­u­ary 1 — which in 1907 saw the debut of the data­base that has fos­tered unprece­dented sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery — to Decem­ber 31 and a sci­en­tific law about those New Year’s toasts with cham­pagne. A mouse-click on the days in between revis­its Joseph Priestley’s dis­cov­ery of oxy­gen; the first suc­cess­ful treat­ment of dia­betes with insulin; George Wash­ing­ton Carver’s dis­cov­ery of hun­dreds of new uses for crops like peanuts; Marie Curie’s land­mark research on radioac­tiv­ity and much more.

ACS will hold a con­test dur­ing the first quar­ter of 2011 in which vis­i­tors to the site can sug­gest top­ics for grayed-out dates — or bet­ter top­ics for active dates. The con­tents of filled-in dates are mere sug­ges­tions and not nec­es­sar­ily the final word. Indi­vid­u­als whose top­ics are accepted for inclu­sion in the cal­en­dar will be eli­gi­ble for a draw­ing with prizes that include an iPad, an iPod Touch and an iPod nano.

The 63rd Gen­eral Assem­bly of the United Nations pro­claimed 2011 as the Inter­na­tional Year of Chem­istry, envi­sion­ing a world­wide cel­e­bra­tion of the achieve­ments of chem­istry and its con­tri­bu­tions to the well-being of humankind. Also being cel­e­brated in 2011 is the cen­ten­nial of the award­ing of the Nobel Prize in Chem­istry to Marie Curie for her work on radioac­tiv­ity, and the 100th anniver­sary of the found­ing of the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Chem­i­cal Societies.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

Chemical Abstracts Service and FIZ Karlsruhe strengthen partnership

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“Sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion ser­vices provider FIZ Karl­sruhe, Ger­many, and Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS), a divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, recently signed an agree­ment to fur­ther strengthen a part­ner­ship that began in 1983 with the foun­da­tion of STN Inter­na­tional. STN Inter­na­tional is an online ser­vice for patent and research information.”

“Begin­ning Jan­u­ary 2010, a team of sci­en­tists at FIZ Karl­sruhe will per­form value-added index­ing of selected lit­er­a­ture doc­u­ments, accord­ing to the con­ven­tions used by CAS to make the infor­ma­tion acces­si­ble within the CAS databases.”

“FIZ Karl­sruhe joins a global net­work of sci­en­tists whose exper­tise con­tributes to CAS data­base build­ing. Teams of sci­en­tists in Ohio, India, China, Japan and else­where con­sti­tute the prin­ci­pal con­trib­u­tors to this more than 100 year-old resource.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Oct 21, 2009

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has access to this Chem­i­cal Abstracts data­base via SciFinder Web– for­merly SciFinder Scholar.  To reg­is­ter to use Chem­i­cal Abstracts Web, con­tact Julie Arn­heim, ( Chem­istry Librar­ian) 

 

Common Chemistry — a web-based, free resource from Chemical Abstracts Service

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 CAS launches free web-based resource for non-chemists - 15 May 2009

 Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS), a divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, has launched a new, free, web-based resource called Com­mon Chem­istry. This resource is help­ful to non-chemists and oth­ers who might know either a chem­i­cal name or a CAS Reg­istry Num­ber of a com­mon every­day chem­i­cal and want to pair both pieces of information.

Com­mon Chem­istry con­tains nearly 7,800 chem­i­cals of wide­spread and gen­eral inter­est, as well as all 118 ele­ments from the peri­odic table. With the excep­tion of some of the ele­ments, all other sub­stances in this col­lec­tion were deemed of wide­spread inter­est by hav­ing been cited 1,000 or more times in the CAS databases.

While not intended to be a com­pre­hen­sive CAS Reg­istry Num­ber (CAS RN) lookup ser­vice, Com­mon Chem­istry does pro­vide access to infor­ma­tion on chem­i­cals of gen­eral inter­est. The CAS Reg­istry Num­ber is recog­nised through­out the world as the most com­monly used, unique iden­ti­fier of chem­i­cal sub­stances. The full CAS REGISTRYSM data­base con­tains more than 46 mil­lion organic and inor­ganic sub­stances. Research dis­cov­ery and patent tools such as SciFinder and STN allow users to search the entire database.

Click here

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter &  CAS.

Note:  Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library sub­scribes to the com­plete CAS Chem­i­cal Abstracts and Reg­istry data­base — avail­able as SciFinder Scholar.

 

40 millionth chemical substance — CAS

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US CAS reg­is­ters 40 mil­lionth sub­stance - 04 Dec 2008

Chem­i­cal data­base provider Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS) has announced that CAS Reg­istry now includes 40 mil­lion organic and inor­ganic sub­stances. The CAS Reg­istry is one the most com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tions of chem­i­cal sub­stances and the CAS Reg­istry Num­ber is the recog­nised global stan­dard for chem­i­cal sub­stance iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. More than 100 mil­lion CAS Reg­istry Num­bers have been assigned to organic and inor­ganic sub­stances and biosequences.

The 40 mil­lionth sub­stance was iden­ti­fied by CAS sci­en­tists in a jour­nal arti­cle pub­lished in Ange­wandte Chemie Inter­na­tional Edi­tion. The arti­cle describes a novel method for the syn­the­sis of poly­cyclic sub­stances with ‘a cen­tral seven-membered car­bo­cy­cle’, includ­ing the 40 mil­lionth substance.

A divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, CAS pro­vides the world’s largest and most cur­rent col­lec­tion of chem­i­cal and related sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion, includ­ing the author­i­ta­tive data­base of chem­i­cal sub­stances, the CAS REGISTRY. CAS com­bines these data­bases with advanced search and analy­sis tech­nolo­gies to deliver com­plete, cross-linked and effec­tive dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion envi­ron­ment for sci­en­tific research and dis­cov­ery, includ­ing such prod­ucts as SciFinder, STN, STN Express and STN AnaV­istTM, among others.

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Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter Dec. 4, 2008

AuthorChoice — the ACS model for open access publishing

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Links to the jour­nals and descrip­tion of the pro­gram:   http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/articles/index.html

The fol­low­ing edi­to­r­ial was pro­moted  yes­ter­day on the CHMINF listserv –

by Kitty Porter, Steven­son Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing Library, Van­der­bilt University

Author­Choice: a great way to get your papers read.
LJ Mar­nett — Chem Res Tox­i­col, 2007 — ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chem Res Tox­i­col. 2007 Sep;20(9):1235–6. Click here to read Author­Choice:
a great way to get your papers read. Mar­nett LJ. Pub­li­ca­tion …
Web Search — All 4 versions

(Bib­li­o­graphic data & links, here, thanks to Google!)

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library sub­scribes to all of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety jour­nals, and they are all indexed by SciFinder Scholar (Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice) with full text links where available.